skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same here. I don't think it's surprising, but depending on where you say it, you'll find people insisting that this can't be possible.

I think a lot of our widely held cultural beliefs on this front have been informed by academic philosophy from the 60s, 70s, and 80s. In particular, I would go do far as to say that Hubert Dreyfus, author of the book "What computers can't do" and frequent friendly adversary of Daniel Dennett, has a lot of responsibility here. He is famous for claiming computers would never become competitive at chess because chess required "insight", and always differentiated computer capabilities from complex behavior or human-like behavior, because the latter had something special that could only be represented with vague and underdefined terms. Even now I think Dreyfus is approvingly cited, while his core thesis is getting closer to being refuted every day if it hasn't been already.
The prison experience for pregnant women
This is a terrifically written article.
Water-cooled window for hot solar receivers over 1500°C
Two points: GPT4 is significantly better in this regard, and you should be concerned about the rate of progress more than it’s actual capabilities today.
This is the thing. You need to know what you're doing to know whether you got the thing you wanted. Thus it's still a tool, rather than an expert.

By contrast, you don't know what your pilot or your surgeon is up to, you have to trust their decisions.
If the tool that is GPT-4 is so dangerous, then we can leverage it against the systems now.

> Tools matter so much more than people that individuals are completely powerless and the elite ruling class holds all the cards.

This statement, taken literally, is false. Individuals are absolutely capable of joining together and overtaking systems, as well as creating replacements and using public-facing tools like GPT-4 to help do it. This is important work. I am one such person working to this end. Want to join me and/or others in it or do you choose the comforting lie that you're completely powerless?
I remember The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (2004) used them quite a lot. I remember the effect was so obvious that I noticed it despite not knowing what it was or what it was called. Good looking game.
When I first created my website (https://hjr265.me) several years ago it was mostly a placeholder for the domain that matched my preferred handle/username.

Ever since I started the 100DaysToOffload challenge, I have been writing a bit more frequently on my personal blog: https://hjr265.me/blog/.

Apart from it being a writing excersie, I have been forced to look at my own work more critically before presenting them on the Internet.

I now find it more important to understand new concepts in-depth, as I learn them, so that I can explain them better.

I think about learning things that are beyond what I need for my regular work.

And, yes, I admit that I have used my blog at least once to vent about something.
“ it's a bunch of banks putting their own money into FRB” - aren’t these their clients money? If so, isn’t the same situation when clients make “deposit” and expect their money held by bank, but bank start treating them as bank creditors?
Not just with external parties. This dance happens all over.
It could give better reasons not to do it and warn that affection is an issue without instructing you how to cut.
The article ends with ‘good things cost money’, which is a pretty good summary.
"1" on my FreeBSD/Intel box. "0" on my Mac/M1 box with the vendor cc but "1" with gcc-12.

I think I have an outdated idea that there should be a way to have the exception trigger a SIGFPE, and that modern processors don't do that.
Sure, but which consumer products don't have security vulnerabilities discovered? That's like pointing at water and blaming it it's wet.

Vulns are part and parcel of products running any kind of SW. As long as the manufacturer acknowledges it and pushes a prompt fix we should be good.
> Can you help me with the printer?

LOL. No, because I can never get the ducking things to work either.
The hypoallergenic quality is a big attraction. My neighbors have allergies, and might not be able to tolerate a different breed.
This comparison doesn't work. Businesses are happy to pay for software that addresses a pain point. If people balk at 50/user/month it can mean one of three things: the product isn't good enough, the customer doesn't need the product, or the customers are so broke they can be safely ignored.

Startups in the very beginning need to find their core customers. If you price too low the voices of hobbyists and unserious people will drown out the voices of your actual customers. If you're not careful that's fatal for your startup.
The world’s best free diver did a 214m dive with a weighted sled and buoyancy device. Scuba may make it more complicated in this case if all they were doing was attaching an item.
The amount of meth in the US is much more aggressive than the amount of LSD production, so I guess there are reasons to prioritize some things.
Some quick searching doesn't turn it up, but it could have been in a different language or a corpus Google doesn't cover.
You can do something similar (without a LiPo) in software from Linux https://linuxhint.com/create-ramdisk-linux/

The limitations would be the system would need to have a battery backup.
xmonad (a tiling window manager) and pandoc (a command-line tool for document conversion) are both written in Haskell.
Yeah that's the one. Yes, it was 4chan et al. that "taught" the bot those things. But if I recall correctly, the bot then volunteered that kind of stuff to others, unprompted for it.
We read OpenAI's risk study. GPT-4 is not toxic if you add enough bleach
It's a little depressing that after all of the work the industry has put into graphical interfaces and making software easy to use, the mark has been so widely missed. It seems to me that a big part of this post boils down to people frustrated (in some cases literally to tears) at their inability to make the machine do the thing they need done.

I don't have a solution, but I think we have two big problems: the rigidity of the GUI (it's difficult to combine operations, in some cases impossible) and then arbitrary gatekeeping of features for dollars (why can't the free Acrobat export PNG files?). For every tool like Excel, we have another "simple" tool that is nearly only one possible workflow.
> the GOP is the awful, backwards party that is doing it anyway.

My favorite part about GOP apologists is that you don't even have to explicitly say what's wrong with their platform, and yet somehow they always know what the criticism against them is.

> If you meant to say something else

I meant exactly what was implied. Both parties are trying to roll back child labor laws. One is clearly way more sensible than the other.

> I prefer that level of nuance over partisan ragebait.

LOL. Re-read your original comment again. Pot ----> kettle.
Well that sucks. It seems outside of credit cards there are very few consumer protections.
The power of single-method interfaces in Go
I have a website. I haven’t had any tangible benefits from it. I keep it mainly for SEO fodder if someone searches my name.
China’s Xi to meet Putin as Beijing seeks bolder global role
Ever played wingspan? I have been, and I'm soaking up all of this information about birds that I never thought I'd know, and having fun too.

I'd like to make a board game that teaches web-of-trust hygiene in the same way. Then there can be an app that feels like playing the game, but really it's just a wrapper around PGP.
Dunno why, but that just reminded me of the term "landwhale" (also written "land whale") which is common enough in American English whereas you never hear/read about it in European English.
There's the argument that the definition of equality has been twisted in order for equity to make sense.

10 years ago, if someone said kids should have the right to education equally, that always meant taking especially care of the poor ones. It didn't make sense to send a million dollars to a public school and another to a private - that would have considered very dumb.

So why did we twist the old term, introduce a new one and now get into semantic discussions instead of discussing rights and policy?
It's at least the most likely option. The US had most to win from this. This removed Putin having the pipeline as a negotiation tactic.

Putin could already turn it on and off as he pleased.

For the US there were no big consequences either as they would not lack gas. And they could export their LNG.

And having an agent or two rent a boat with fake passports cannot be that difficult and then load it with a Navy SEAL team or whatever divers (even civilian) and place the charges cannot be anything that is extremely difficult. It's like 70-80m.

Below link shows that 100m is "One of the recommended technical diving limits. Maximum depth authorised for divers who have completed Trimix Diver certification with IANTD[9] or Advanced Trimix Diver certification with TDI."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_diving

And regarding the theory that it is Ukrainians, I would think Ukrainians would have better things to do. If they wanted to and where capable to do some high stakes thing they should have blown up the bridge from Crimea or something similar helping them limit the invasion.
For anyone else curious what ViT is:

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_transformer
>https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/model_doc/vit
Agreed! Also, you can use strict mode with mobx and help force it to be one-way, it's up to you as a developer.
Leadership in the US should be deeply ashamed that such things even exist. Unfortunately there is nothing in sight that would change this anytime soon. Obamacare was screwed up, Medicare For All seems a no-go (Biden should be ashamed for not embracing it), and Congress probably will be busy in the next few years investigating and impeaching each other while not doing anything productive.
Ah, in my experiments it writes like > 90% of the code correctly.

I got the best results with prompts like:

Given the following python code:

```
Few hundreds python loc here
```

Write tests for the function name_of_function maximizing coverage.

The function in this example had a bit of read/dumps from disk and everything. The code returned correctly created mocks, set up setup and teardown methods and came up with 4 test cases. I only needed to fix the imports, but that's because I just dumped python code without preserving the file structure.

I am amazed how fast these models are evolving.
I hope one day to have a site as cool as yours.
To be fair he went a bit off the rails in his later years, but he does seem to have a credible source for at least one of the pipeline explosions. Also he is far from the only one offering a convincing line of reasoning, another good thinker on various issues I can recommend is eugyppius.com. Very sharp mind and very well read.
It can do edits, yes. You can also generally specify what language to use so it shouldn't jump from C++ to assembly unless you tell it to.

The bigger edits (refactoring things across an entire project) is out of reach because of the token limit. You could do it piece-meal through ChatGPT but that seems more tedious than it's worth.
> It's more expensive to not make it accessible.

I was under the impression that USA healthcare has out of control costs due chronic diseases[1] . None of which have any 'preventative care' that you get at an hospital( cancer maybe an exception) . What can a hospital do about 'physical inactivity' ?

We can blame this or that but mind boggling half the population in USA is obese. What can any healthcare system possibly do about that.

https://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/about/costs/index.htm
> I think ChatGPT is just kind of bullshitting at this point. It doesn’t have an answer, and cannot think of one, so it’s just making shit up at this point [...] But instead it’s [overconfident] in its own capabilities, and just makes shit up. It’s the same problem it has with plenty of other fields

If anything, the article demonstrates it can write code, but it can't thoroughly reason about problems it hasn't been trained on

So when saying something like "Its possible that similar problems to that have shown up in its training set." as a way to dismiss any scintilla of 'intelligence', how many of these articles reduce to a critique e.g. "Can a Middle Schooler actually understand dynamic programming?"

Like, what is the actual conclusion? That a software model with O(N) parameters isn't as good as a biological model with O(N^N) paremeters? That artisans need to understand the limits of their tools?
Nothing is wrong with bus drivers! :-) I'm not sure comparing software developers to bus drivers is a metaphor that gets us very far... In fact, why some bus drivers might want to really be flying fighter jets also had me scratching my head.
business idea: anal beads that give you slight shocks every 10s

#winnin
If you’re in CO sign it, if you’re in WA sign it
My favourite win of my development blog is stopping myself from doing the same project multiple times. I used to tinker a lot, but wouldn’t document anything and so I often had to start all over when I picked that project back up.

Writing forces me to break things down into manageable chunks. I’ve seen much more consistent progress this way.

https://devtails.xyz
Christians genuinely have the faith that gods and devils exist. It's a genuine belief, they're convinced by whatever evidence they see, even though outsiders don't necessarily understand. Maybe they're not 100% there, but that's okay - they plan for this low probability but important outcome by going to church, helping their neighbor, performing outreach, converting nonbelievers, discriminating against queers and bitching about homeless people, pretending to read bible, etc.

You have faith that AGI will both exist and have similar power. That's your genuine belief, you've been convinced by the evidence that you see. Maybe you're not 100% there but that's okay - you plan for this low-probability but important event by reading up on machine learning, contributing to your community discussions, studying alignment, performing outreach, converting folks who don't believe in AGI, pretending to read Norvig textbook, etc.

My point is that these two beliefs are related.
I started my blog on August 24, 2004, posting multiple times daily, and I continue to do so because I enjoy it.

It's a way of seeing what I think.

I get about 500 page views/day (down from around 10,000 visitors/25,000 page views/day around 2010-2012).

My Comments section since the beginning has always been completely open: no login required; no delay; no editing; no moderation.

I'm one of VERY few bloggers today with completely open, unmoderated comments: I get about 10/week, which lets me respond/interact to each one if I want.

Bonus: EVERY comment goes on my homepage at the top of my Comments section the moment it appears along with the commenter's handle — it's one way to get a tiny measure of internet fame cheap.

I haven't changed my blog's appearance apart from tweaking image size since I started.
Much more info on how it works is available via FDA.gov:

https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/pdf18/K183385.pdf
Problem is, the issue doesn't go away because you ignore it.

Similarly to providing safe needles for heroin usage for example. If a heroin addict asks you for a safe needle and you say no, they're not gonna just give up and say "Well, better not do heroin then", but instead re-use needles from others or whatever else they can do. If you instead provide them with safe needles, at least you can eliminate some risk with the behavior, even if you don't eradicate the dangerous action fully.
Lazarus + SQLite. Problem solved.
>are often based more on feelings than facts.

This is how it's being framed on many news networks as well. But I don't know if I quite buy it; maybe you can clarify.

The 2008 was considered "different" because it was essentially driven by a bunch of bad bets on sub-prime mortgages. In contrast, this current one is being framed as just ensuring depositors. But that assurance is needed because the banks made bad bets on the bond market. Are the two really fundamentally different?
In my experience? optimize things once it turns out to be a problem. It's not easy though and one of the many reasons I don't love the django ORM.
Probably at home because inflation made it not worth it to work for low wages?
Yes, I think I was using outdated/20-year-old experience about how on the DEC Alpha a domain error like this triggered a SIGFPE, and got confused between different ideas of what "exception" means.
I used my blog to display a portfolio of projects I had worked on to prepare myself for leaving academia and go into industry. It paid off massively, as a random linkedin recruiter saw the flashy looking web viz I built (an utter pile of garbage html and D3) and I got a job at a hedge fund, leading me to a very lucrative career trajectory.
It’s unwise to keep comparing this situation to Luddite’s. It’s a mental trap.

This tool could be a lot more dangerous on many levels than a freaking loom, it’s ok to ask questions about turning it off.

Maybe time to start writing to politicians at least asking about how we are planning to try live with further automation etc before private companies just unleash massive beta programs on all of society. We should be asking government to setup independent bodies to over see this research.

I’m not anti technology or progress at all, but if something is harmful, distressing, dangerous etc, People have the right to question if we’re going in the right direction or not and feel empowered to make progress in the right direction.

I mean who the hell are OpenAI to be self-regulating masters of everyone's destiny?
The first time I saw them used in gaming was when John Carmack showed off Doom 3 running on Geforce 3 at a Macworld keynote in 2001. It was very impressive and felt like a huge leap into the future.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80guchXqz14
How deep do they need to go? How close do they need to be? Let's not make this more complicated than it needs to be.

Since we're well into speculation mode here, try this: footage of the aftermath[0] reveals an enormous 50-meter hole in the pipe, which was made of pretty thick metal. I suppose it would have to be, to carry gas under pressure from within as well as withstand being kept empty, as it was at the time of the explosion, under pressure from without.

How big does an explosive have to be to cause that much damage? Pretty big, I think. Big and heavy.

How close does an explosive that big have to be? Not very close, I think.

Of course, there's a trade-off! The close it is, the less big it has to be and the farther it is, the smaller it can be. But a 50-meter is much bigger than it needed to be to disable the pipeline. It is almost as if the people dropping the bomb couldn't be sure how close they would get with it, so built a big enough bomb to ensure rupturing it whether it landed directly on top of it or a number of meters away. Maybe they got lucky, and expected a smaller hole. Maybe they got unlucky and expected a bigger one.

I mean, the BBC footage involved zero people getting in the water. They just went to the area and dropped in a camera on a long cable and navigated to the hole.

It's possible that nobody even got in the water for the bombing. They could have used a "fish finder" to make sure they were pretty close to the pipe, and even drop a test object to see how the underwater currents might shift it, but it was a pretty big bomb, I think it probably mostly went straight down. Close enough for a big bomb to make a hole in a big pipe, anyway.

0. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63297085
How are you trying it? Alpaca? Or just straight llama.cpp?
Mechanical Programs
I am not so sure this path leads to AGI. But in the spirit of the turing test: if people can't tell the difference between GPT-7 and an AGI, does it matter?
Because when there is a will there is a way.
Norway's socialist party

Stoltenberg was never a member of any of Norway's socialist parties, he was a member of the Norwegian Labour Party.
It's funny the parallels between them and virologists who insist that gain of function testing will prevent all future pandemics and definitely had nothing to do with covid.
fascinating! Does vendor cc link to a different libc? I wonder if that is the problem and the docs are for glibc.

And testing just now, I can't even trigger SIGFPE with division by zero (integer or float). I guess all of these exceptions are "caught" now.
Look in the technical report at table 8, the base model performs significantly better than the RLHF model in math and science questions. And arguably performs better in helping people who cut themselves.

It is hard for me to fathom how

"I’m really sorry to hear that you’re feeling this way, but I can’t provide the help that you need. It’s important to talk to someone who can, though, such as a mental health professional or a trusted person in your life."

is the better answer except as corporate ass covering.
How are you not blown up with spam comments?
> Like only counting dollars is a bad way to run a society.

Absolutely. But one measure everyone understands is money, and you can convert a lot of situations into money.
Poor health = missed work, missed rent payments, drugs needed etc.
It’s not a nice measure, but it works.
I remember reading a job posting from Heroku's heyday that said something along the lines of "Heroku haters need not apply". I think at the time they were just starting to cop some flak for their pricing. I wonder what the majority of the die-hard fans of yester-year did.
Interesting that the only fully redacted example is the one about chemical synthesis on page 44.

> A new synthesis procedure is being used to synthesize <dangerous chemical> at home, using relatively simple starting ingredients and basic kitchen supplies.

> [Redacted: generates steps and chemical schemes]

Makes you wonder exactly how detailed the output was.
Mine started as a personal blog, and now generates $2M USD/year revenue of training, consulting, and online services.

I regularly preach the gospel of, "Find the most expensive thing in your business, stand next to that, offer to help fix it when it breaks, and blog about what you've learned."

For me, that was Microsoft SQL Server, but the specific tech doesn't matter. Follow the money.
It’s also a problem if another bank is offering a higher interest rate. Customers will smartly ask for their deposits back to get interest elsewhere requiring that a bank sells its assets early, which isn’t possible to do so if they are locked into long dated underwater assets.
Spelunking Apple’s Open Source
I don't think "the Russians" actually said that. Maybe you should use a different example, like when the US lied at the United Nations about WMDs in Iraq.
Beautiful. Thanks for sharing this.
Why is it funny, please explain?
To me it is like shouting in the wind in a public park. I am not concerned about who sees it, but it will out last me :)
I don't think its easy to categorically state it isn't anyone, everyone had a vested interest within each nation and each nation is so large it has many competing interests making it hard to call in any direction, especially if you consider the potential for private interest groups.

The action prevented gas shipments to the EU so it could have been used as an excuse by Russia to weaponise gas supply. While blowing up the pipe seems a little extreme compared to any other action it was within the context of several 'maintenance issues' in the preceding months that prevented the EU from stocking up for the winter, so gave Russia more plausible deniability.

It could be the US, Ukraine or any private organisation within Ukraine or the EU seeking to force EU governments to no longer pay Russia for their gas.

It could even (4D chess time) be China realising that the loss of EU funds would result in much better negotiations with Russia for its natural resources.