skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Teaching kids how to communicate by, for example, writing a book report or an essay is not "busy work". I feel very lucky that I had good teachers that focused on the basics of writing. I remember at the time not liking some of it at all (I had one teacher who made us diagram sentences endlessly), but as an adult I'm really grateful I had that education.
Its not quite that simple. Some of the things that Rust gets right are subtle, but typically punted by many other languages. Documentation containing fully working examples due to thos examples being run by doctests, for example, is kinda rare.

Here is another more subtle but important example: flexible API for error conversion, powerful language features and macros together enable the language, in conjunction with libraries like https://docs.rs/anyhow/latest/anyhow/ which gets you the best of all worlds in error handling: concise `?` operator for writing error handling code, eas to add additional message context (using `with_context` from anyhohw), differentiating between functions that can and cannot throw in the types (Result<T>), and the ability to get exception style backtraces from Result, too (that last one seems to be rare)

Another subtle QoL which is often overlooked when implementing macros: `compile_error!` (and soon even more powerful diagnostic API). With that, macros can report custom errors back to the programmer via the compiler and language service, rather than becoming an incomprehensible mess. For example, the peg parser macro will mark errors with infinite left-recursive rules that don't have caching set up with custom error messages.
FYI: prisoners dilemma is an interesting game theory experiment where you do better if everyone cooperates. You do better than your "opponent" if you don't. The wikipedia explains it well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma
That doesn't justify eliminating a small player in the space by a well-established giant while trying to frame the move as non-anti-competitive.
This is incorrect. such coordination was possible and did happen, only in the opposite direction.

A relatively small group of VC firms effectively did coordinate the depositors very effectively to organize except it was to take money out

Saying coordination wasn’t possible is therefore incorrect. And had it not occurred, getting people to keep their money in would have been a moot point, the whole thing a non issue.
It's an OK C++ joke, but not great. I could certainly give the author a few pointers...
The US government would speak from a place of greater credibility if their sabre-rattling on "security" grounds didn't line up oh-so-perfectly with commercial concerns.

Huawei and ZTE were selling cheaper, good enough kit that was appealing enough that Western telecoms would buy it.

TikTok is succeeding in markets where Facebook and Twitter are foundering.

Various "let's deny them chips/equipment" activity might protect Taiwan, but it also serves to hamstring their economic development.

Being able to pull the "security" card is a great way to allow the existing players to remove a huge headache without being inherently more competitive.

If we're worried about mapping/surveilance of high value targets, those places should be no-phones as a whole in the first place. If you don't have enough organizational discipline to prevent soldiers from livestreaming their equipment, perhaps you need to be addressing that rather than whack-a-moling platforms.

If you're concerned about CPC propaganda, the answer is in parenting and education. Kids need to learn intelligent media consumption, whether it's "The toy is never as good as in the TV commercial" or "Check the credentials and sponsors of the news sources your friends are pushing, and devalue accordingly."
Whenever people complain that this or that photo are postprocsessed/edited (not "straight of our camera"), I always tell them that postprocessing already exists decades before Photoshop. Those were what Ansel Adams and friends did hours in the darkroom.
Why Do Workers (Not) Take Breaks?
Why would OpenAI have any need to cater to your morals?
It was recently increased to and there was a huge lobbying effort with many places pretending they will go out of business.

Edit: Depends on business size.

https://www.revenue.nsw.gov.au/taxes-duties-levies-royalties...
Wait, they're trying to say that this was all the fault of the depositors? No, sorry. While I often find it hard to empathize with wealthy tech bros, I don't have much trouble at all imagining myself doing the same thing.
I'm not depressed:)

Software dev. If computer steal my computer job, I have plenty of other physical skills.

Specialisation is for insects.
Shrug just complete the square.
I have already informed you that you are incorrect and given you direction to go brush up your reading skills. That was not an invitation for backtalk.

Which part of this do you not understand?
Thanks for your interest! Most of the existing stable diffusion demos rely on a server behind to run the image generation. It means you need to host your own GPU server to support these workloads. It is hard to have the demo run purely on web browser, because stable diffusion usually has heavy computation and memory consumption.

The web stable diffusion directly puts stable diffusion model in your browser, and it runs directly through client GPU on users’ laptop. This means there is no queueing time for the server’s response. It also means more opportunities for client server co-optimizations, since essentially the “client” and “server” are both the single laptop. The web stable diffusion is also friendly for personalization and privacy. Since everything runs only on the client side and no interaction with server is needed, you can imagine to have your own style stable diffusion deployed and demonstrated on the web without sharing the model to anyone else, and you can also run with personalized model input (e.g., the text prompt in this case) without letting others know.

Thanks for your interest again! And we are happy to hear your feedback on your experiences and the functionalities you would like us to add in the future.
Wow, sad. The only thing a bank run can be on is on "DEMAND" deposits. If you have a savings account or negotiate a similar thing then no bank run possible. A bank checking (called Demand Deposits) are to be fulfilled on DEMAND.

How dare customers demand their demand deposits. how rude, right?

All the bank had to do was upsell their customers into savings accounts and then no bank run is possible.
We have the most automation and AI we have ever had right now, and roughly the lowest unemployment.
And yet they were coordinated enough to tip off their mates to pull out.

In previous generations the industrial titans had a sense of nobless oblige, or at least pretended to; they knew their lucrative position came with responsibilities, and in times of crisis they would step up to do their share. Whereas when a crisis hits Silicon Valley, apparently you look after number 1 and when you reach out to the government it's not to ask how you can help but to ask them to bail you out.
Fate/Zero: Fusing Attentions for Zero-Shot Text-Based Video Editing
The "catastrophe" scenario only seems likely if AIs are somehow claiming vast resources for themselves, such as all the world's electricity production. Otherwise, there's nothing to stop humans having the same level of production of goods and services that we have currently, and perhaps it could even be achieved with less effort if the AIs can be assigned some of the work.
Who is talking about the last year? What films used direct unreal output for final frames at all?
> How do you think they were feeling on Friday?

What does Friday matter? Friday was when the cynics would rejoice in righteous indignation. Monday was when responsible people were redeemed; when society through its government recognized that the real moral dilemma here was whether or not to vindicate the cynics.

There is a solution to the Prisoner's Dilemma, and it's called civilization, known in the modern era as institutional government. Like their communist cousins, die-hard libertarians should be forced to live in truly libertarian countries (i.e. those with extremely weak governmental institutions where wealth is safeguarded primarily through a web of private arrangements) and only then be allowed to opine on what's rational. For some reason libertarians can't often be found in those countries; not by choice, at least; and certainly they don't park their wealth there.
I'm curious what you two thought I meant when I said "Kessler half-life".

Did you not think I was talking about decay?

There's also two ways to think about it. What's the chance that we make a permanent wall of debris, and what's the odds that we take out everything in LEO and then have to wait months to get back to or from ISS.
By uploading it into the GPT model?
Sounds dangerous.
I tried a new Lisp dialect on it, my own hobby language. It could cope well given explanations initially, but with some degradation after a while. The full transcript went to 84kB, so it must be doing some kind of intelligent summarization behind the scenes to stay as coherent as it did, right? (The standard context window is supposed to be 8k tokens.)

(https://gist.github.com/darius/b463c7089358fe138a6c29286fe2d... paste in painful-to-read format if anyone's really curious. In three parts: intro to language; I ask it to code symbolic differentiation; then a metacircular interpreter.)
LTE? I feel like that’s the wrong acronym.
How will they know they have fixed everything?

If they have fixed everything, what’s the benefit if banning people who thought up exploits?
It's one joke Martin. What could it cost, ten dollars?
Lesswrongers, eh?
I don't think I agree with this as a mark of "shame". Were these companies wrong to pull money out of SVB when they (correctly) thought the bank might be insolvent or headed for trouble?

Are we celebrating those who left their money in, despite the warnings, when they could have potentially lost it all if the government didn't step in and make an unprecedented promise to honor the deposits? Would that have been "heroic" in some way? I personally don't think so, that seems more like stupidity if the potential consequence is your company losing all it's money and going bankrupt for outside reasons.

SVB as an institution sponsored lobbyists to lobby against regulations meant to keep banks stable, then without those regulations they failed to self-regulate properly and failed massively. That is IMO pretty shameful. But I don't blame any clients of theirs for taking money out when they saw a potential instability. They did not create that instability; that instability created the bank run.
Good luck changing it!
I am still running the February update on my Pixel 6. When I check for updates, I don't see one.
Once the run started then VCs who had not previously had a negative stance on SVB may have done right by their startups, but yeah not the ones who actually started it in the first place.
I hope someone builds a chatGPT equivalent that would answer the spam calls. That would be a neat use case with lot of potential.
It stinks that people keep meaning “M1/M2” macbook when they say “macbook.”
China's answer to ChatGPT? Baidu shares tumble as Ernie Bot disappoints
I disagree here. Both of them (or all of them) are interacting with energy. One can certainly say that human civilization and all of this complexity was built from sunshine. Human labor and intelligence is just an artifact. We believe its our own hard work and intelligence because we are full of ourselves.
Do you have a source for the insurance premiums being higher? I really doubt that is true but Spacex may offer a discount for previously-flown boosters which acts as an incentive.
Banks don't have to issue demand deposit accounts if they want to invest your money while you "loan it to them".

How rude for the contractual obligation of a bank be asked to uphold their end of the deal. thats rude and racist. customers at that bank were real jerks.
You might want to have another look at the Fed balance sheet this week: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL

Months of work undone by loaning to banks which made risky investments betting against high interest rates.

Any uptick on this graph is equal to printing money which causes inflation. They can wait it out while we collectively pay the cost of this increased money supply.
You people really won't believe the leopard is real until it tears out your jugular, will you?

Comments like this are better proof than anything that humans will be trivial to replace.
Build a different model architecture where the system prompt is a different head than the user prompt and is always equally weighted.

Maybe.
> We know how LLMs work and they auto-complete text.

This isn't true. See eg[1]

It seems to be a common misconception that the training objective "predict the next word" implies something about the capabilities of a LLM.

As [1[] shows, instead they perform very sophisticated calculations on their compressed knowledge representation to try to generate acceptable text. These capabilities can be accessed for other purposes too.

[1] "Why Can GPT Learn In-Context? Language Models Secretly Perform Gradient Descent as Meta-Optimizers" https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.10559
This has changed considerably. Chase remodeled most of their existing branches so they have like, 1 teller, and 2 or 3 people sitting at desks for other transactions. That's it. The days where your usual branch had a line of like 15 tellers are long gone. Out here in southern california, I think they also closed many of their branches in the past few years.

But looking back further - ohhhhhh yeah dude. Oh yeah. Totally. For a brief period my mom worked at a BofA facility that _processed paper checks_. Like they had a whole big office for it. That's completely 100% gone now. The checks get scanned at the point of entry (cash registers, teller counters, etc) and then shredded.
It’s not clear psychological safety is actually attainable. They could end up banning the entire field.
Why didn't more SVB depositors take advantage of the SVB offering for sweeping cash funds into insured accounts?

https://prospect.org/economy/2023-03-13-silicon-valley-bank-...

> Importantly, SVB was part of the network of cash sweep banks; it had an offer on its website about it. But according to Adam Levitin, there were only $469 million in reciprocal deposits, which is where cash sweep would show up. In other words, almost nobody banking at SVB used them.
You still haven't stepped away from historical induction -- your argument still depends on this time not being radically different than last time. There are good reasons -- presented everywhere, right now -- to suppose that this time is substantively different. Sundar Pichai called the invention of AI the most important thing humanity has worked on -- more important than fire, or the alphabet -- and I share his view. It's out there, commonly, in the intellectual wild; you cannot, on pain of being unconvincing, simply ignore it. "Big, if true," and it very well might be. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqd516M0Y5A

I propose that you invest in a more convincing line of argument. The burden of proof lies heavy upon you.

Secondly -- for the life of me -- I don't see how we got from "prosperity doesn't come from jobs that are little more than make-work" (a claim, by the way, that Keynes would take exception to) to the view that automating most of the intellectual work on the planet will have nugatory impact, or that we'll all just vy to become celebrated Twitch streamers or influencers or whatever (assuming that synthetic influencers don't take off -- oh, wait, they did: https://www.synthesia.io/glossary/ai-influencer)

Even were you correct (and Keynes wrong), the instantaneous conversion of meaningful labour --- journalism, counselling, engineering -- into, as you say, "make-work" (the position I infer you are taking) would have tremendous cost.

Need I invoke Rawls here on widely-distributed self-respect/self-esteem? It's actually one of the prerequisites, he notes, for a stable civilization; https://academic.oup.com/book/32571/chapter-abstract/2703665...

At minimum, the psychological impact of such a transition would make the developed world's COVID hangover look like a day at the zoo.

Finally, the Parable of the Broken Window specifically refers to destructive work. Non-productive work is not covered. https://finshots.in/archive/dig-holes-and-get-paid-to-fill-t.... And that is to say nothing about how economic fruits are distributed -- a whole other matter, upon which, I again infer, you have no further comment.
A lightbulb is clearly a new invention when all you have are oil lamps.

You can retrospectively say we've always had a device that creates light from heat, like this 'new' lightbulb and metaphysically you'd be correct.

But the properties and design of a lightbulb are different to an oil lamp. That's new enough to be called original and Thomas Edison (and whoever else helped him) are the originators of the lightbulb design and they made it real.

An original thought? Probably not, an original object, yes. Very much so.
What's the problem with that? It doesn't have a security clearance.
These are just different degrees of “bad”:

1. “I see something that makes it hard to work on this code”

2. “I don’t understand what the code is doing and touching anything breaks everything.”
I guess it depends on your definition of "senior", but I don't see why language choice should affect it this much, given that much of what makes seniors senior is not knowledge of specific tech, but experience with software engineering as a process.
How high is your bar?
If we put a giant sunshade at the Laplace point between Venus and the sun, we can cool Venus a lot. In principle we can cool it all the way to the cosmic background radiation temperature (about 2.7 Kelvin). But we don't need to. If we cool it only "slightly" we can get it to the point where CO2 freezes (about -78 degrees Celsius). Since 96.5% of the atmosphere on Venus is CO2, this results in a memorable snow event, that could probably last for a few months/years. After which, the pressure on Venus will be about the same as the pressure on Earth. The chemical composition will also be about the same (most of the remaining 3.5% of the Venusian atmosphere is Nitrogen). The temperature will about as low as the lowest in Antarctica (last year the it was -76 deg Celsius there). Of course there wouldn't be any oxygen, but one would be able to walk around with an oxygen mask and just very thick clothes, like the ones people use in Antarctica.
Men still commit far more suicides than women when you condition on method of suicide e.g. intentional overdose.
Somewhat off topic but this is what turns me off about Jarvis / Friday during rewatches of any MCU properties. So unrealistic to have quippy AI be useful in the midst of combat.

Also: I just realised that the Avengers would never happen if Stark just realised that launching Jarvis as a product would take the world by storm :D
Don't Copy That Floppy (1992)
But some Pixel phones haven't gotten the March 2023 security update yet, per the article.
On Friday I was feeling that Circle/USDC was wrong that those who initiated transfers on Thursday should have them completed even if others with uninsured (above $250K) lost theirs.

From their article:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.circle.com/blog/an-update-o...

> We have reason to believe that under applicable FDIC policy, transfers initiated prior to a bank entering receivership would have otherwise been processed normally.

In other words it shouldn't be entirely dependent on whether they were in the bank run. Earlier transfers, yeah.

In a bank run situation people were rushing to the bank and tying up the phone lines. Panicking shouldn't be encouraged to such a degree as to make millions of dollars depend on it.

The amount recoverable ended up not depending on whether an SVB customer attempted a late withdrawal. And that's good. I would have expected it even if depositors had to settle for a portion of their funds.
Also don’t overlook that this is a “solely a prompt”; real non-trivial workflows for systems like SD (MJ I’ve used less) are different than “solely a prompt” and may or may not result in the same result even at the Copyright Office level.
Doesn't that just raise more questions? That's a whole lot more to put up with.
Not on MTK chipsets, or at least the older ones I'm familiar with:

https://github.com/varunchitre15/MT6589_kernel_source/blob/m...

Look at the enable_mem_access_protection function.
All true, but here are some counterpoints:

Recipients of a robotext can choose to delay the moment of interruption. They can wait until a more convenient moment to read a text, and determine whether it was spam or not. Recipients of a robocall have to deal with the interruption immediately. They can potentially delay to voicemail, but that isn't a guarantee.

Because of this, the expectation of robocalls is enough to put the act of answering any unknown caller past the threshold of reasonable effort. Being interrupted by a robocall is likely enough that I don't answer calls from any unsaved numbers; unless I'm expecting an unavoidable call (something employment or healthcare related), in which case I am held captive: forced to answer every spam call the moment it rings.

In that situation, not only must I answer the spam calls, but I must also be prepared each time to answer the important call I am waiting for! This is incredibly stressful, especially since I have ADHD and struggle to prepare for, and to keep myself prepared for, a phone conversation.

Both types of spam are serious problems, but it's robocalls that cause me the most stress and general harm.
Seems to be very useful! Thanks for making it!
What exactly did SVB do for startups that other banks could not?
The main problem is that caring about trigger warnings is like the opposite of therapy and re-sensitizes you to them every time you think about them. It's not a good strategy.
It does… or at least the human doesn’t.. it’s motion activated
And I could add a couple of references.
You're right, I conflated the two in my head. The jobs they listed are jobs associated with minimum wage, or close to it, in my mind.
> I'm not worried about AI taking over the world and more than I'm worried about a nuclear weapon unilaterally declaring itself president for life.

I am not at all worried about AI taking over the world. However, I am tremendously worried about a single actor achieving AGI with enough of a lead over others, and then using AGI to take over the world to everyone else's detriment.

Once AGI is developed, collective and speed superintelligences are a nearly-instant step away, as long as one already has the requisite hardware infrastructure.

To adapt your nuclear weapon analogy, had the United States decided to go full-evil in 1945, they could have forcibly stopped all other nuclear development activity and exerted full control over the world. Permanently. Nuclear weapons can't conquer, but the people who control them certainly can decide to.

If we really wanted to, we already have the cryptographic tools to deal with disinformation. It's not the unsolvable problem everyone likes to whine about.
"applied annually"

plus, solving 16% of the shortage of housing supply would be bigger than any other intervention at scale: it would probably force downward pricing in rent and sales overall.

https://sfstandard.com/public-health/homelessness/ending-hom...

...Ending unsheltered homelessness would require vast increases in housing, shelter and prevention services, according to the report from the city’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing and homelessness consultancy firm Focus Strategies.

That would cost the city another $1.45 billion over three years. And it would take over $410 million each year after that to keep the programs running. ...
People tend to overuse Effect, this article explains it well

https://react.dev/learn/you-might-not-need-an-effect