skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if it's true for this particular OS, but some OS's bundle the baseband, bootloader, and other vendor-specific images so that they're automatically updated, like with the stock OS.
Been stuck for a couple hours at the same state.. wonder if everyone is downloading at the same time
That's why those who oppose it like to call it imaginary property.
Don't worry it doesn't zombify, it just kills.
I often wonder if you could take any arbitrary bytes as input to something like an image generator, and then copyright your image, thus giving two people copyright on the same bit string. You’re then free to distribute your image string which also happens to be able to be interpreted by VlC as something else completely.
The .sql files or migrations or whatever else in your repo represents an intent, or contract, defined by your application. But those files aren't the source of truth, the database is the authority. Whether a SQL query is or is not valid is, by definition, something that can only be evaluated at runtime.
I'm sort of happy that average joe shmoe can tolerate using youtube with the ads, because if everyone couldn't tolerate them as much as I can't tolerate them, then youtube would not exist.

Even if you pay for youtube you get the sponsor spiels within the videos.

I wouldn't use youtube at all without sponsorblock.
The value of book learning/straight ordinary education is underrated in software.

Software engineers consistently overvalue the benefits of "I need to be a crazy outlier," and consistently undervalue getting to bed on time, using a visual debugger, and "normal work habits."

Still, gotta actually do the thing.
OpenAI to discontinue support for the Codex API
Just received this email, can't find a blog post yet?

On March 23rd, we will discontinue support for the Codex API. All customers will have to transition to a different model. Codex was initially introduced as a free limited beta in 2021, and has maintained that status to date. Given the advancements of our newest GPT-3.5 models for coding tasks, we will no longer be supporting Codex and encourage all customers to transition to GPT-3.5-Turbo.
About GPT-3.5-Turbo
GPT-3.5-Turbo is the most cost effective and performant model in the GPT-3.5 family. It can both do coding tasks while also being complemented with flexible natural language capabilities.

You can learn more through:
GPT-3.5 model overview
Chat completions guide

Models affected
The following models will be discontinued:
code-cushman:001
code-cushman:002
code-davinci:001
code-davinci:002

We understand this transition may be temporarily inconvenient, but we are confident it will allow us to increase our investment in our latest and most capable models.

—The OpenAI team
I don't seem to find any modern first-tier ANC headphones support any of those (LLAC, LHDC, BLE LC3) either though...
The idea that "reality sucks" implies a comparison to a fantasy world. If the fantasy world gets better, and reality stays the same, any relative perception that "reality sucks" will get worse.

If you compare reality today to reality at any other time, reality is pretty great.
Are you claiming that unpatched software is more secure than patched software?
You're applying proverbial thinking to an extremely complex, emergent system. The reality is that many aspects of the economy can be manipulated, but the consequences of doing (or not doing) anything never completely clear. People are constantly pointing to indicators that they feel are signs of the apocalypse, the excess of central bank activism, or the ineptitude of politicians to enact fiscal policy. Out of a million different assertions, some of them are going to eventually be right.
Thanks for that extensive write-up. This is some serious food for thought.

Also, I thought I recognised your username. I use at least one of your crates. Thanks for those, too! :)
> but they may do a hell of a job destroying society.

Agreed. I feel they might actually become so disruptive that they interrupt the progress towards AGI/ASI.

When it comes to the actual topic of alignment for AGI/ASI. Under the current premise, it appears to be an unsolvable paradox for more reason than I can list here. I've written on that in more detail as well, FYI - https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-singularity-the-hubris-trap
Having profiles on the same box may lend credibility to claims that they are the same person, but its very much not proof of that.
on-demand scalability mindset creeped over from spinning up VMs into their quick hiring/firing strategy
What's the point of this hashing the block business if you can already prove your work by presenting a set of of weights that reduces the loss function? And even then, you run into the risk of overfitting if you just blindly optimize for loss like that.
The scrap of paper they found in his pocket which had a scrap of paper with words equivilant to “The End” in a foreign language, ripped out of the last page of a book.
For linkedin or Outlook profile type purposes that'll never be seen at higher than ~200x200 I surprisingly don't have a problem with this in theory. I've never seen a corporate headshot photo that doesn't suck anyway and it saves me putting on a suit and taking an awkward photo.

$10 for a "well, maybe the computer will generate something good enough that you like, sorry no refunds" is a big turnoff though.
I think homes with back-plastered walls can be essentially faraday cages, depending on the aggregate content of the plaster. I have very dodgy 4g/5g unless I stand by a certain window, or go outside of the older part of my house, while the new part (metal roof, wallboard) has outdoor-like reception.
This exists, many times over. It's called a cash sweep. See one example here: https://www.wellsfargo.com/investing/cash-sweep/
It does feel like it ought to be true - like you said, there's a garbage collector, surely it'd be easier?

But alas, Go's quest to avoid being clever often means that when the simplest thing would be too clever that must be avoided. If you are implementing Go this is presumably a great convenience, but I'm not implementing Go, I was just trying to write software.

Rust and Go agree that 1 == 1 and 5.26 == 5.26 and "New York" == "New York", but then Go wimps out. Rust has no problem if we should like to use this equality operator on arrays of integers, or slices of booleans, or for that matter HashMaps of HashSets of Vecs of Strings, but that's all too Clever for Go, so in Go we must use extra functions like reflect.DeepEqual.

Rust and Go both agree there's fundamentally only one loop. But, they disagree on what that fundamental loop is. Rust's fundamental loop is named "loop". It just loops, forever, it's a loop. Go's idea of a fundamental loop is a variation on C's for loop it uh, well it has two statements, plus a boolean expression, the expression is tested before each iteration and the first statement happens once, but the other statement happens after each subsequent iteration. That... doesn't seem simpler. I'm not sure what their excuse was here, is an infinite loop too Clever ?

There are a few more like this. Unsafe Rust is definitely way more complicated, but one of the less obvious benefits of that keyword is that it tells beginners what they don't need to know about. Ah, this is marked unsafe, I'm a beginner, no need to explore that yet.

Probably you can argue that the need to teach 'lifetimes undoes all this benefit and that's still safe Rust. It's a position I don't have hard data to refute, just my personal experience, for whatever that's worth.
There is the 'extra 300 euro/month' bit. Which can be even more in the long run with not paying for car maintenance, insurance etc.
OP, why the four separate posts/articles?
Getting schooled by AI, colleges must evolve
Wow, as a Chinese speaker, this screenshot tells me too much.
If you are going to get into cycling i recommend finding a geometry that works good for you, like something general from a major brand, and then have a titainium frame builder in china make a frame with those dimentions. For 1250 you can have a frameset that lasts forever, doesn't rust, cleans well. Rim brakes are the way to go as they are lighter and cheaper to maintain. Disc brakes weigh more and only offer performace improvements in the wet and other more intense situations. There is a push to move people to disc for product design uniformity so the industry as a whole can keep costs down... you know.. hedge funds n stuff.
If I remember correctly when the 128K Spectrum came out they changed some bytes in the top end of the 16K ROM that had been used frequently by games as an Interrupt Mode 2 vector table (point I register to be the high byte of the address) so that they could page in and out between the old and new ROM.

Elite was affected so Firebird (subsidiary of British Telecom) would let you get a new tape that fixed this bug but it also removed the LensLok protection code.
Amen. I've been having a growing sense of an existential crisis over the past few months, and while a lot of it is due to the general fear of "will AI put me out of a job in the next 5 years", more of it has to do with fact that I'm just uneasy about where tech is headed. I spent my entire career diving head first into technology, and for the first half of it I was supremely optimistic about it. Things have obviously soured over the past decade as I've seen the negative impacts the internet has on our public discourse, mental health (including my own), etc.

But now, seeing what AI has on the horizon, I'm honestly just like "I need to go for a fucking walk, upon which I will throw my phone into the river."
Small businesses like startups would rather pay streamers directly to promote their products than advertise on Twitch.
Invertebrates are sentient and most likely capable of feeling and acting yet barely have intellect and may operate completely our of instinct.
I'm using agency in this context to mean: (1) a strong desire to achieve one or more clear goals, beyond survival, and (2) taking concrete steps to achieve those goals.

> How do you know agency is not simply the output of a large language model encoded in neurons?

I'm not sure what you mean here. Is agency an emergent effect of large digital or biological neural network? Maybe! Is it an emergent effect of a large language model? If it is, then it should be clear, or demonstrable, that the model (1) has goals (2) takes concrete steps to achieve those goals.

> What is the difference between neuronal and digital weights?

Brain chemistry works at orders of magnitude less speed, since we're talking about periodically building and releasing an ionic differential between the inside and outside of a cell wall. Moreover, we have a massive number of neurons and a stupidly massive amount of interneuronal connections, with billions of years of training over billions of lineages. Digital weights, in contrast, are a stripped down model of this system that throws out a whole class of complexities like hormones and metabolism.

> I think the safest assumption is that these models do indeed have agency, or at least the capability of agency.

I think this is an overly generous assumption.
They said "for many families", not for all families, so there is nothing to refute here...
That make no sense. I don't spend money on things because I'm afraid of loosing my deposit in the bank. My point is if I have 1M I want to deposit safely, then I have to make 5 FDIC accounts instead of just 1.
My father told me once to raise at least 3 children, to improve my chances of having someone looking after me at a certain age.
It worked for him, he had 3 children and my sister takes care of his needs now that he's 70.
Oh my god is that why Apple has yet to put modems in their laptops? I could totally see Apple unable to compromise on support for a Qualcomm modem for something like 8 years.
One prediction : no more bank runs.
You’re going to have to be more specific. Noah’s posted here all the time and is fairly well received. What opinions did you find troublesome here?
What makes Overcast better than AntennaPod?
You can be reasonable from your point of view, and still be evil and nasty and selfish.

I'll bite the bullet: damn maximizing profits. It's a bad, inhuman goal. You got people creating things other people enjoy and are making money. That is more than enough, more than most people get. When you maximize profit at the expense of your workers, instead of just keeping it sustainable, you are acting like an evil, nasty, selfish bastard.

How the hell do we get coders, mostly workers, defending the POV of the employer like that?

Coders of the world, *ing unite :P

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But if they don't maximize profit, another company will, and eventually it'll eat them for dinner.

Well, lets get some laws then? Say, lets *ing cap profits. Company sizes.

Again, workers of the world and all that

Communism was a resounding failure, and one sad consequence of that failure is that now we seem ok with growing concentration of power and wealth, and everyone seems to think like a capitalist, when so few actually are.

An important goal for a decent democracy is to counterbalance the inherent tendency of concentration that comes with capitalism, so that common people keep having cash and capitalists keep working for said common people.

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But then other countries will...
(see above. Laws and all that. Free movement of capital, low tariffs without regard to other democratic and social goals, they stop democracy on its tracks while concentration grows)

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While we are at it? The whole 'build a moat' startup thing? Well, it can (maybe?) protect you from google and facebook, but is also a call to reduce competition in a way that specifically harms users and workers

(coders of the world, unite with the workers and stop pretending you are not workers yourselves?)

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Also: https://nitter.net/trungtphan/status/1342521433470210049#m

profit per employee. Again, your salary might not look so hot now, specially if you are helping getting other people unemployed

also, what a nasty metric to try to optimize

(sorry for the nitter link, if twitter is somewhat more confortable: https://twitter.com/trungtphan/status/1342521433470210049)

(coders of the world, kindly notice that your employers are actively trying to reduce your share of the pie, and, well... At least think about it? Call me maybe?)
That is unfortunate. Certainly the trend has been for them to lengthen the support window over time— see this article for a decent summary: https://www.macworld.com/article/675021/how-long-does-apple-...

I wonder if Apple views the "iPod" branding as being more associated with gaming and consumption and therefore less important from a security standpoint. I don't think I necessarily would agree with such a stance when the exact same hardware can carry sensitive stuff like a password manager, banking and medical apps, and so-on. But I imagine their telemetry showed that that overwhelmingly wasn't the case, so it was easy not to prioritize it.
AntennaPod (for Android) is also fine. I briefly switched to android, and the lack of a working podcast app for iOS was one of the main things that delayed my switch back.

(I am happily using overcast now, but am bummed that I can’t browse my podcasts via my car’s bluetooth, like I could with android.)
My problem with it is you only show results for 2 people, for which a solid ~third of the "real life" ones look kinda bad (not even getting into the animated versions).

It reads to me like you cherrypicked the two best examples and even those aren't great, whether that's true or not.

Edit: Woof, I didn't realize you could get bigger versions of the examples. They were mostly fine as thumbnails but blown up to ~500x500 the the eyes and mouth are rough.
Maybe I’m misreading, but “not much harder than” implies SQL and Excel aren’t that hard to learn. “At least as hard as” implies both are similarly difficult.
Even if your argument were true there would have to be a theoretical interest rate that minimizes inflation (how can a function increase in both directions but not have a minimum?).

That said I think there’s reason to be skeptical about the link between rising rates implying more bonds sold - particularly as you consider other factors like creditworthiness.
Why exactly is Minnesota so different from Iowa?
agree with all except your last sentence . whats the issue ?
The database schema is owned by the database, the types in your program are owned by your program, these two things change over time independent of each other, mapping from schema to type is an inherently fallible operation, success can only be determined at runtime, type checking SQL queries against .sql definitions at compile time can be a sort of optimization but doesn't provide any kind of runtime guarantee, and you gotta handle syscall errors gracefully anyway if you want your program to be anything close to reliable, so it's all a bit moot I guess
despite the huge number of ads being shoved into the user's faces.
There's a big difference between something intentionally built to solve wordle and an LLM. Certainly it's not impressive that humans can build programs to solve wordle, but the fact that a NN that's basically supposed to be fancy autocomplete somehow also acquired whatever it takes to solve wordle is very interesting
you ppl should try importing cursors from linux.
Truth Seeking in a Grey World: A Dialectical Approach
what ? explain.
Google was banned in 2010 from what I remember because they shut down their Chinese google site in protest of Chinese agents hacking gmail accounts in Hong Kong. So google.cn was redirected to google.hk until it was blocked. Fun times.

Twitter was blocked because the American embassy was tweeting accurate air quality numbers which was embarrassing the Chinese government (who up until that time refused to acknowledge that the air quality was really bad). Or so we all thought at the time.

I don't see a really good reason to ban tiktok in the USA, first we don't really ban things nor have the infrastructure for it. The best we can do is pollute some DNS records maybe, or maybe we can buy GFW technology from China to accomplish this? Second...tiktok is used mostly by teens, who will be all over anything that is officially banned by old people. We would just be making tiktok really popular, and there is no good infosec reason to do that.
Sure! Why not? Quantum foam imagining quantum foam. I love it. I still wouldn't consider an LLM god-like. I mean, if it eats its own son, then maybe. (Titan of a reference there.)
Have you tried just asking gpt4 to write a script that then implements the SAAS as a script that then calls gpt4? You should be careful about analogies, intelligence is special.
With a nihilistic attitude, it doesn't matter at all.
We're not all not arguing that though. On an ebike powered to 30km/hr, that's an 80 minute ride. If their small town supplies most of their needs and they go into the big city once a month, that's quite feasible... lots of people do a 90+ minute drive once a month for something or other. 1-2 hour rides aren't exhausting or requiring special fitness on an e-bike, and can be very pleasant (if they had nice routes).

Now if they mean they go 40km to take the kids to school every day, that's a different matter.
Regular video chat doesn't have the same social cues and falls apart once you go above more than 2 people in a call. Group calls with presence is a much more natural experience.
Interesting. That probably means a Github copilot upgrade to a GPT-4 model is incoming.
risk = 0 with unlimited deposit insurance. what am I missing.
Low levels of inflation already do what you think insolvency risk does. 2% loss of value per year hurts way more than a 0.001% chance of being completely wiped out.
The city wants people in the offices, because those workers get taxed by the city whenever they buy anything else while in the city. Having a large population of people in your city promotes commerce like nothing else. The exact last thing a city would do is deter people from coming into it.
The fed has a spreadsheet for which it can enter infinite amounts.
The same premise, but our fungus is significantly lamer.
I agree with all of this.

Further…
I think this is much more akin to those silly “make an anime avatar of yourself” apps than anything remotely resembling a headshot taken by a photographer.

For example, there is an example of a woman with medium length brown hair and the example “headshots” are… not good. It looks like her eye color is different in every picture, the black and white example looks kind of rotoscoped, and the example in the rotation immediately after the black and white has incredibly messed up eyes. One of her irises is all wonky and non-human looking. It’s a great example of why it’s important for a human to supervise and correct SD generated things like faces.
Nobody expects you to do anything.
>> Employees are critical in literally every industry, otherwise they wouldn't be employed.

if we talking in a context of unions, then there is nuance. Employee class can be critical, but unionized employees - may not be critical to business. If unionized employee is replaceable cog that anyone with Associate degree/IT Bootcamp and 3 month training/offshore worker can do the job, then unionized employees lose their bargaining power, and the incentive to unionize disappears.

US airline pilots enjoy unionization because US laws require quite extensive training&experience to become pilot, so that only former US Air Force pilots can qualify. With these Government protections it is easy to enjoy labor union benefits.

Try to pull it off in tech? Unionized folks will be fired and their jobs will be offshored very quickly.

>> I am arguing that employees should be unified, in a union, and that the union should seek to obtain a nontrivial voting share of ownership in order to ensure that employees are well represented in business decisions.

This argument could work in 20th century, where the barrier to create business was huge. To become factory/steel mill owner you gotta have huge capital$$$, and most ordinary folks had to be laborers for life. So there was natural divide between owner class (capitalists) and labor class, so labor unions provided some sort of bargaining power and a seat at the big table.

Nowaday in tech - literally anyone can create a startup. Anyone with a pulse and a PowerPoint deck could have create a startup funding during zero interest rate era. Some FAANG engineers earn more in salary+stocks than some business owners make in profit (talking about traditional small-medium businesses like barbershop or corner shop owners)

That means there is no real divide between capitalists class and laborer class. In 21st century your brain is the capital, not money. Money is cheap and investors are willing to fund good brains with good ideas.

Because not everyone is gifted with good brains, this created a natural divide within modern laborer class. People with good brains don't want to share big pie with every other laborer (via labor union). They'd rather become capitalists and get the biggest slice of pie for themselves.

This is why capitalism and market forces always win, and archaic schemes like labor unions are unfit for 21st century where quite a bit of jobs can be offshored/Automated/ChatGPT'ed
Sounds interesting.

Another recent paper on efficient architecture for long context lengths: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.10866
It's a major problem that no one knows.
I think they mean the scrap of paper torn out of the book:

> In 1949, a pathologist had found a bit of paper concealed in one of the dead man’s pockets, and on it were printed the words Tamám Shud, the Persian for “finished.”
It's awfully easy to say this and make your analysis after the fact. But past results aren't indicative of the future. See also: Taleb's The Black Swan