skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand what's going on here.

The SFC blog post doesn't mention any specific program but, in the article in The Register, the SFC director is quoted talking about Linux in particular. But Linux is just GPLv2, so doesn't have an anti-Tivoisation [1] clause. In other words, you're free to put it on hardware in binary form (even after modifying it) and sell that hardware, and you're under no obligation to give away the source code to it or any of your own software.

On the other hand, I'm sure the director of the SFC knows a lot more about this situation than I do, so I'm sure that there's something I'm missing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization
If billions of people chose to do nothing but barbecue and watch TV for their entire lives because we automated the entire economy, I would be 100% okay with that.
The dark web is the document-based web. Sites built for Tor Browser have to assume JavaScript is disabled. So they have to rely on server-side rendering, old-school HTML forms, HTML meta refresh, etc.

Surprisingly, one thing that seems to work just fine in this environment is (even modern versions of) phpBB. Lot of phpBB dark web forums.

Also surprisingly, this doesn’t preclude polish or some level of app-like stateful interactivity, because CSS still works. You just have to think differently about how you use it.
Here's an idea... maybe, just maybe the fed shouldn't inject the economy with a bunch of money no one earned????

It's almost like printing money out of thin air and sticking it in to people's bank accounts, means everyone suddenly has more money and then businesses raise prices to level everything out. WEIRD.

I'm glad we saved all the wfh white collar workers. They totally needed money on top of the money they were making from the job they didn't lose during the pandemic.
Refreshing to see a nuanced opinion piece on the recent developments in AI.
In the US and UK currently. Title should be modified IMHO
This is where we are at right now. Even 128k tokens would not cut it for what we want to do. Currently experimenting with fine-tunes on the base models and seeing some promising progress.

I suspect that the chat models will never be opened for tuning due to all of the moderation and security concerns.

My strategy will be to go into the DIY dark forest if we can't get curie or davinci to start behaving as expected.
OpenAI didn’t conduct the bar exam study, Casetext and Stanford did (gotta read those footnotes). The questions were from after the knowledge cutoff and passed the contamination check.
The negative impact is the shock and horror on people’s faces when seeing the subject in person after having interacted with the avatar for some time. Some people may call that positive impact though
I cannot think of a legitimate basis to discriminate by country.
So Ukraine is causing inflation now? That's a new one.
> This Google Account isn’t supported

> Bard does not currently support Google Workspace accounts or when our systems indicate you may be under 18

OpenAI takes my Google Workspace Account just fine. Nice job Google. Locking out a user who is on a >$25 enterprise plan with you.

Why is every interaction with Google so stupid? Why can that multi-billion dollar company not deliver any good software?
Seems like it isn't supported in Canada, that's interesting!

"Bard isn’t currently supported in your country. Stay tuned!"
maybe different beauty standards, from my life in China I remember men keeping fairly long nails before trimming them and many keep one fingernail like on pinky extra long to use as tool (you don't wanna know the most common use)

for me it's 2-2.5 weeks before it become uncomfortable to type on keyboard or use touch screen, dirtyness is not really an issue, just wash hands/nails properly (it probably helps to do office job from home instead manual labor)
Oil rigs would be so different
It's because companies had an excuse ready and people were desperate. Normally when companies jack up prices too fast people get offended and stop paying, but the pandemic left people needing for things to feel normal and they were desperate for the things they had been denied. That combined with the supply chain problems, which gave companies their first excuse, meant that people spent themselves into record amounts of household debit, but they didn't blame the higher prices on the companies.

Then as inflation increased, companies used that as an excuse too. "We have to raise prices because of inflation! It's not our fault your wages aren't keeping up!" and people believed it even as companies were making money hand over fist and pulling in record profits.
That is a misconception, the GPLv2 also provides users the right to modify, rebuild and reinstall software on their devices.

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/mar/25/install-gplv2/
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/jul/23/tivoization-and-t...

However, with both GPLv2 and GPLv3, a vendor of an aggregation of copyleft and proprietary software can legally cause the the proprietary software to stop working when the copyleft software is modified. I think this hasn't been tested in court though, but the license as they are written both allow this. This would essentially brick your car/tractor until you rewrote that proprietary software from scratch.

https://events19.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017...
Clearly contaminated benchmarks are not very useful, but I do not understand the assertion that we should care about "Qualitative studies of professionals using AI" over "Comparison on real world tasks". I've looked through these benchmarks in details, and I've come to the conclusion that real world performance is all that matters. Everything else is either incredibly subjective or designed to beat a particular prior model.
> I think that in life the small things matter a lot.

+1 to this, especially small, durable things that you use often. I currently regret buying certain kitchen instruments for function over form. I've known since I bought them that they kind of looked bland, but they did the job, functionally and at a good price. Now that I've had to use them for more than 10 years, I sometimes wish that they'd break down so that I could justify to myself a new purchase.
To add further, these parlor tricks are nothing new. Watson won Jeopardy in 2011, and never produced anything useful. Doing well on the SAT is just another slight-of-hand trick to distract us from the fact that it doesn't really do anything beyond aggregate online information.
While everyone is debating whether this is impressive or dumb, if it's a leap forward in technology or just a rehashing of old ideas with more data, if we should really care that much about it passing the bar exam or if it's all just a parlor trick, people around the world are starting to use this as a tool and getting real results, becoming more productive, and building stuff... Seems like the proof is in the pudding!
>rendering programmers

How many months will it take for 'regular' programmer with 5 years experience to say have the skills of say a 5 years of a rendering programmer ?

What is the pay range for rendering programmer with 5 years of experience?
That's an optimistic view and I'd be happy if it came to fruition.

I'm not sure modern cities work for that though.

It is pure guessing at this point.
> My country is the USA.

You would prefer companies know your citizenship and immigration status, somehow verify that, and tie their services to it? And that would somehow preserve your privacy better than geolocation?
Lessons Learned Building Products Powered by Generative AI
On topic of the driver's test analogy: I've known people who have passed the test and still said, "I'm don't yet feel ready to drive during rush hour or in downtown Toronto." And then at some point in the future they then recognize that they are ready and wade into trickier situations.

I wonder how self-aware these systems can be? Could ChatGPT be expected to say things like, "I can pass a state bar exam but I'm not ready to be a lawyer because..."
Open-assistant.io is what you want.
They've gotten more than 100k RLHF training dataset and is actively tuning up a Chat model based on GPT-NeoX (?) from what I've heard.
I'm not saying these are bad, but they don't look at all like photos to me. More like digital paintings made from photographs.
Yeah, I suspect folk who reside in perfectly civilized countries without any geopolitical hindrances to be locked out for a long while--which, given Google's usual inability to reach out across Europe, may mean we'll only have access when it's about to be cancelled.
I appreciate the honesty about problems with Bard and LLM in general
It's at https://bard.google.com - I tried to join the waitlist but this is yet another Google service where Google Workspaces accounts simply don't work.

Back to GPT-4 then!
According to ChatGPT ;)

Where does the word bard come from?

> The word "bard" comes from the Scottish Gaelic word "bard", which means a poet or storyteller. The term was also used in medieval Ireland and Wales to refer to poets and musicians who were highly respected members of their society. In ancient times, bards were considered to be the keepers of history and tradition, and their songs and stories were often used to pass down knowledge and wisdom from one generation to the next. The word "bard" is also related to the Old Irish word "bárd", which means a poet or singer.
You’re an old fuddy duddy. There’s a lot of interesting stuff going on. But I think the hyper pop segment led by 100 gecs is the most interesting of it all if you want to take a look at what the kids are doing.
GPT4 as the foundation for your next startup?
As always, the weasel word carries the weight.

They couldn't even confidently say, "improved", or "made easier".

Don't get me wrong: I'm glad they are at least responsible enough to dodge those lies. I just wish they would put less effort into being "the news", and more effort into accurately describing the features of their model to the general public.
"Bard does not currently support Google Workspace accounts [...]"

Guess I won't try it then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The magnitude of the claim is contradicted by the lack of circumstantial evidence.

If the difference was that stark aren't there old timers talking about how the old whale oil stuff was so good and why don't people find gallons of it saved here and there the same way you find lead paint or R12 refrigerant? Why isn't there some body of tribal knowledge saying that transmissions sucked in the 70s like we have for engines?

I don't doubt for a minute that the government would ham-fistedly ban something without a viable alternative and that the textbook engineer types would crunch numbers on the replacement and conclude that "it'll be fine with no changes to our hardware, run it" leading to a higher failure rate, but 8x failure (or even 5x failure rate, to account for increased number of automatic transmissions out there) rate? That's absurd.

I'd love to read the source for the claim but it's a paper version of a trade publication...
He can fund those who do though.
Yep I don't understand how anyone can stand using clippers. Maybe with degraded dexterity or something but good nail scissors seem so much better.
It's more a supply / demand issue than anything to do with mortgages. When an essential good's (housing) demand outstrips supply, all surplus goes to $0 to reach the clearing price for that supply.

Ex: In SF there were a lot of good big tech jobs paying $200k-$1m / yr. A vast majority of those wage increases accrued into the hands of landlords. Mortgages allow buyers to borrow against projected future earnings, allowing each buyer an affordable price compared to one who doesn't mortgage, but when everyone does it the benefits get nullified.
its pretty impressive how role of private banks in managing the money supply is never examined. When government is creating new money its always wrong, and when banks create new money its always okay.

Nor is there ever a proposed formula for what the 'correct' money supply should be.

The big critics seem to only be able to come up with Gold standard/bitcoin.

They do not propose how money supply should expand when GDP grows.

They also never talk about relationship between velocity of money and interest rate, and the fact that if velocity of money is low, then the debt of everyone in the economy pile up to infinity, and cause collapse.

They do not address the perverse incentives we have to park vast amounts of money unproductively, instead of investment in the real economy.
Wow, so when the OP goes "oooh these are so luxurious" at $13, you hit us with £65 (~$80) for nail clippers?! Yowza.
about 5 months late, and not public. not looking that great.
basically not all countries speak english as a first language, so it wouldn't make sense to put it in all countries. secondly, staggered rollout is pretty common
I just tested at fingerprint.com using mullvad.

Brave browser, no VPN, they recorded one visit, one IP.

Brave browser, no VPN, incognito, they recorded two visits, one IP.

Brave browser, with VPN, incognito, recorded three visits, two IPs.

I'm pretty impressed / surprised. A fresh incognito session, through a VPN, still matched the same fingerprint. Especially surprising since TFA indicates Brave randomizes the fingerprint. I even changed my fingerprint block setting to "strict, may break sites" and it's still recording the same visitor ID from Brave, even with incognito.
Hopefully this can relieve some of the demand on ChatGPT. Ever since GPT-4 was released they've been having a hard time keeping services available.
A bunch of dudes cooped up for months at a time. It's no wonder they
immediately thought of spunk.
+1 for Castro. I can't believe more podcast apps haven't caught on to how handy the email-like metaphor is for managing episodes.

I want to listen to some, but not all episodes that come in via my various feeds, so having an "inbox" of sorts from which I can either download or discard shows seems like the only reasonable way to handle things IMHO. I don't understand apps that just download everything or, like Overcast, mess around with playlists.
> It and its accompanying propaganda is one of my prized possessions, sitting on a shelf

I bought a Klein mug and agree wholeheartedly. Both the mug itself, and the propoganda is on the \shelf of cool stuff\.
I'm all filled up on anti-Russian sentiment for about 10-15 years, thanks.

We don't need any more headlines about "beating the Russians" right now. Especially not from cogs of The Machine like Berkeley.
It says at the top in the title [Flagged]
Probably a big risk considering few entities are more sure of what country you are in.
It's a valid Quartz scheduler task where it starts with the seconds. But right, I shouldn't have asked ChatGPT about cron when it's actually quartz - and indeed with the changed prompt it will describe it correctly.

Edit: actually almost correctly: " - '3' represents the day of the week on which the task will be executed. In this case, the value is 3, which represents Wednesday (Sunday is 1, Monday is 2, and so on)."
> spike in timber prices is only possible if other prices fall.

This isn't true. If there's less stuff being made then prices go up and people get to buy fewer things. Which is roughly what happened during covid.
The difference is the impact of contaminated datasets. Exam boards tend to reuse questions, either verbatim or slightly modified. This is not such a problem for assessing humans, because it is easier for a human to learn the material than to learn 25 years of prior exams. Clearly that is not the case for current LLMs.
OpenAI suffering from..”success”, can't handle the pressure
It says it doesn't support my personal Google Workspace account, my corporate one, nor my Gmail account. I'm starting to think maybe they aren't ready for us to try it out after all...
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bard

Most commonly associated with William Shakespeare.
Everyone in charge are already extremely wealthy. They have zero skin in the game. J. Powell, 50MM. Yellen, 20MM. There is no ability for them to empathize with a regular taxpayer. Whatever happens their lifestyle will not be impacted one bit.

You have to ask: what drives someone in this position.

And this is a question that only the 200k ultra high net individuals (30mm+) in the world can answer.

I think people stop chasing material possessions and start chasing prestige and power. These people don’t interact with the average joe much so they don’t really care about their opinion, unless you are a populist like Trump for eg. They care about their family friends and peers. So I think it creates a broey kind of culture where you want your peers to be happy with the job you are doing. If you are in finance you want the bankers to be happy. Your political party to be happy etc.

I think it becomes more about making and keeping friends. This stage for life without need for material possessions is all about people and relationships and power.

You just have to imagine yourself with infinite wealth but no friends. You would quickly run out of things to spend it on, and you would just want people to love and respect you.
It's the third time this month I see a mention of this book, and every time it seems interesting. I'll try to read it soon!
I'm always fascinated to understand the "why" when something is allowed in the U.S. but not Canada. Especially so when it's also allowed in the U.K. We're basically a perfect (I'm sarcastically winking here) mix of those two countries!

I'm guessing it's purely regulatory?
Study authors describe it as "predominant".

Relevant quote: "In contrast, we argue that the US COVID-19 inflation is predominantly a sellers’ inflation that derives from microeconomic origins, namely the ability of firms with market power to hike prices."
> I love the idea of never having to work another day in my life, but, lets be honest here, UBI is never going to happen.

The system will collapse on itself if most are jobless. You can't sell products if no one can afford them.

My biggest grip with UBI is it just redefines zero. The better solution would be to do away with capital entirely, have people democratically vote on what services they want, and then conscript if there aren't enough volunteers/robots/AI to provide those services. There seems to be this tendency to forget that labor is what matters, not capital. Capital is a means of exploiting labor, but if labor can be automated or democratically voted for than no one is exploited.
The value of Bitcoin would not fluctuate wildly if it were the default currency. You're not even attempting to argue in good faith or imagine how things could be different.

What you call "angsty" is what I call "rational". I see you're happy to continue experiencing these crises which are, in fact, happening.

Also, I don't think you know what grifterism means, if that's even a word.
Doesn't matter, they'll discontinue it as soon as enough people start relying on it.
At my last job, non tech, one of the most popular products I was selling in the decade and a half that I worked there went from $.99 to $2.49. My pay stay the same or went down slightly every year.
Yesterday I was at the store and saw another popular product priced at $5.69. It was $4.29 when I left a year ago.

The life and times of a Fortune 50 company.
> You can't maximize a window or make it take up half the screen

Yeah, the first thing I do when I get a new Mac is to install some tools to make the experience less annoying.

AltTab: https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/

Rectangle: https://rectangleapp.com/

Dato: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dato/id1470584107

Caffeine: https://www.caffeine-app.net/

Paragon NTFS Driver (free for Seagate disks): https://www.seagate.com/support/software/paragon/

--

In my own experience, I found out GNOME 40+ to be more polished UI-wise than MacOS. I was really surprised when I installed Fedora Silverblue the first time. And also I'm a bit upset that MacOS seems to have stalled, and when Apple adds changes is to make it look more and more like iOS.
Don't worry it does that for basically all signups right now. Weird hug of death variant I suspect.
The idea that the GPL is also a contract (that also benefits third-parties) is being tested in California. So far the federal court (which hears copyright cases) agreed to send the case back to state court (which hears contract cases).

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html
Disabling JavaScript does not stop fingerprinting either. HTTP headers are sufficient to construct unique user identifiers. Passing that data via API to a FaaS provider would enable cross site tracking that's invisible to the visitor.

Edit: The required FaaS implementation is trivial too. I could launch an endpoint that performs exactly this function in 30-60 minutes.
Most professional mathematicians work at universities. Even at well-ranked R1s, professors spend a non-trivial amount of time teaching and advising. The ones who do spend a massive amount of time doing mathematics are the least likely to be impact by GPT-like technology because of the nature of their mathematics.

And, more to the point, mathematicians are often doing that work because they enjoy it. Even in the best case for GPT, with respect to most professional mathematicians, you've done the equivalent of automating away their Sudoku/Crossword time.

You might be able to replace some graduate student labor or post-doc labor, but a huge reason for doing that labor in the first place is to train new mathematicians... it's like the grad school version of automating a second grader's multiplication table: you can do it, and you are "automating" the second grader's labor, but you've kinda missed the point...

I wonder how many of the other categories are similar, where the tasks that are being automated are sort of pointless or even counter-productive to automate. Because automating those tasks disrupts the learning process between the professional and their customer, and that learning process is actually the primary product. Legal secretaries and accountants in particular come to mind. Even a lot of web dev work.
I have some experience with these and 40km/h (just under 25mph) is roughly half what some will do [0][1] and with full-suspension you wouldn't necessary be catapulted with a small bump.

But when going above bicycle speeds, I do tend to wear increased safety gear. My biggest concern is always being t-boned by a car.

[0] https://varlascooter.com/products/varla-eagle-one-dual-motor...
[1] https://fluidfreeride.com/pages/nami-burn-e
Awesome. I didn't know this! Thanks.
Yes, better enforcement.
Gpt is very good for utility type work like snippets of code, command line interface parameters and some quick explanations. It’s zero to one in that regard but anything more complex or high stakes, you really need verify a lot which diminishes that use case people are hyping about
Why would you want to use Google's VPN? They will log everything that you do.
“Bard is not available in your country”

Why do they even limit access depending on the country? It’s a chatbot, not a financial service.
I don’t think it is that serious of an issue:

- The API is likely to be simple (JSON in and out, or something similar). Those devs already know they domain well.

- The Rust compiler enforces only valid programs, so you won’t get runtime errors for things you would in dynamic languages.

- This leaves just getting the logic right, which the developers know how to do in general, and Rust is a c-like language so it’s familiar.
Schrems II?