skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also highly suggestible. If the input was interpreted wrongly, it can deviate from a set goal. Garbage in => garbage out.

Example:

>> If I'm feeling a little horse, where am I?

>> If you're feeling a little horse, you might be experiencing a sore throat or hoarseness in your voice. This is a common symptom of many respiratory illnesses, such as the common cold, flu, or bronchitis, as well as other conditions that affect the throat and vocal cords, such as acid reflux, allergies, or overuse of the voice. It's important to stay hydrated and rest your voice if you're experiencing hoarseness, and to seek medical attention if your symptoms persist or worsen over time.
Is is a snow day from their life or is it that their life hasn't or isn't going the way they expected but they perceive everyone else to be living fulfilling lives... and they would like to see that end?
Satellite powered by 48 AA batteries and a $20 MCU attacks space junk problem
Even with a senior resume I have found the pipeline extremely difficult to make it through as well. Initial phone screens used to be a formality, and I almost always passed the initial coding interviews, but not anymore. Will almost certainly have to accept a significant cut to my base salary. Was lucky enough to be laid off by a Globotech type so got a decent severance with six months of COBRA but it's rough.

Always thought they'd be a little scared to proletarianize the people who know how all the tech infra works but maybe I was wrong!
LLMs have already been connected to robotics. It's not that hard. The hardware is lagging the intelligence for sure though.

https://innermonologue.github.io/
https://ai.googleblog.com/2023/03/palm-e-embodied-multimodal...
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/group/autonomous-sy...
I learned with kids that everything is better is you say "Just".

"US military is missing just six nuclear weapons.
It seems the aliens are already here, so not much need for SETI anymore.

More seriously though, it appears there was some unresolved difficulty in searching and analyzing the data returned from the network, to the point the scientists working on it gradually threw in the towel and moved on to other projects.

https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85996

https://einsteinathome.org/content/can-we-run-setihome-has-a...

So long SETI, and thanks for all the fish and decentralized computing fun. Your legacy will long outlive you.
Likely need a better explanation that self funding is possible so it must exist already. Building self funding algorithms might be artificial life, maybe, but without significant explanation what you mean by AGI and how its even remotely feasible boils down to thin air; to me at least.
I think a lot of the reason people reject political correctness/"wokeness" is because it gives the appearance of empathy and sensitivity while at the same time not acknowledging others' humanity. It's an artificial substitute to real empathy.

It might be a bit of a regional thing, as the US and Canada don't have the same pisstake culture we have in Australia/NZ/SA/Britain, but speaking from experience I can assure you that there is nothing more dehumanising than someone using politically correct language to describe the particular minority I happen to be a part of in an academic way, or refusing to make jokes at my expense because they're "too offensive".
All starlink satellites are LEO, just varying degrees of it. They release the satellites from the second stage deliberately quite low, because it's more efficient in total weight carried by second stage, and more efficient in specific impulse to spend weight in kilograms of propellant tankage on the satellite for ion/hall effect type thrusters (specific impulses of 2000 ISP and greater) than to place N additional kg of fuel on the second stage to release them all in a higher orbit.

At the release altitude they're above the vast majority of the earth's atmosphere and solar panels + ion thruster burning prograde are sufficient to raise their altitudes to the intended operational orbit.
What's scary, this article, or considering how much has been lost by other countries (Soviet Union, China, ..)
I have a problem with one of my stock broker accounts-it has the wrong address on it. It is my old address I lived at years ago, before I opened this particular account-I never set it, but I think it somehow got stuck deep in their computer systems from one of my other accounts and got applied to this new account when I opened it. Anyway, go to the website, I see the wrong address - yet click the “edit” button to change it, and the edit screen has the right one, and won’t let me change it to the right one because it is already set.

I call up the call centre - agent says he can see the same problem but he doesn’t have access to do anything about it. He told me to print out a paper change of address form to change my address from my current address to my current address, sign it, scan it (he emphasised it had to be signed pen to paper, and the form even says that), and email it in. I’m hoping that fixes it.
Sure, U-Haul. It's $19.95/day and $1.39/mile. Last time I rented one the automated "don't have to talk to anyone" app I couldn't figure out, but it took less than 120 seconds to navigate the in person exchange to get the key.

You don't need a pickup truck to go camping (they're actually not terribly useful for that) or yard sale shopping. Like seriously it's https://van.life not truck life.
> Could they have been delivered to another nation in a clandestine way and reported missing to cover that loss?

If you assume an very slow conspiracy that started in 1950 when the US was denying nuclear technology to the UK despite them helping to develop it during WWII, lasted nearly twenty years to transfer 6 weapons, and involved staging a bunch of accidents and murdering US servicemembers to give it plausibility, sure.

But, realistically, no, this is bad even as conspiracy theories go.

> To me it seems viable and probably if my hypothesis is correct there's a country that became a nuclear power soon after we stopped losing them

The nearest after that would be India, and its not particularly close.
are we just making things up now?
It does seem like the existence of e.g. readily accessible constructors for std::ranges::transform_view is a mistake.

I'm not convinced it's worthwhile for the standard to insist they can be constructed from outside the views implementation at all, but certainly there's no reason to leave the constructor where programmers will use it by mistake.
Interestingly, there is an update published just 10 days ago that seems to be a more permanent end to the project than the OP: https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85996
Alas, I have done this many times. I'm still alive, so I suppose fortune has smiled on me.
Why not cut out the middleman and just give each child an AI slave to answer questions and do their work for them.
I see 4 possibilities for us engineers:

1. The current DL-based approaches to ML hit some local optimum and progress stalls. We all keep our jobs as programmers, although I hope this doesn't happen.

2. Programmers end up undergoing a shift in work, in which they move from producers of code to primarily analyzers of ML-produced code. We still keep our jobs but hopefully productivity massively increases.

3. ML-produced code has such high quality that programmers become completely obsolete. We lose our jobs, but many people retrain to become ML specialists and it's not too much of an inconvenience.

4. ML-produced code has such high quality that programmers AND ML specialists become obsolete. That is, a model is produced that is capable of designing, implementing, and executing a process that results in a more capable model. All humans lose their jobs and we enter into the asymptotic era, the singularity.

I'm personally planning for a scenario between 2 and 3. It's gradually gonna shift towards 3 over time. I'd also say it's not even worth planning for scenario 4.
Can you elaborate? Also, how is GPT4 different for your usecase compared to GPT3.5?
How long do these incidents take to be declassified?

There could be more recent accidents that aren’t publicly known.
Hey, I’m sure Anurag has a more definitive answer here, but I saw him mention on Twitter that it’s on the calendar for this summer.
Splitting seawater could provide an endless source of green hydrogen
San Quentin being a state-run prison, that would be who exactly, the governor of California?
That's a plot element in "The Sum of All Fears"...how the US delivered weapons-grade plutonium to Israel in 1968.
If one reviews the historical total number of B-36 and B-52 crashes and their causes, the continual operation of "alert" aircraft by SAC back in the cold war era was really quite risky.
I would imagine that the vast majority of people working at a place like vice don't understand the distinction between soft and hard sciences, don't care about the distinction, or are bitter about the distinction.
Los Alamos Taps Seagate to Put Compute on Spinning Rust
Maybe they were paid for it. Maybe they were threatened or blackmailed for it. Maybe they feel a political, religious, or ethnic loyalty to another country. Plenty of people in the US are more than happy to do things that run counter to the US' interests. The entire American military-industrial complex directly benefits from the US being more in danger because it means they get more money.
It's a two man crusade now :) Also, love your blog posts, keep up the good work!
But have you asked GPT yet to write a Python script to ask GPT to write a Python script to ...
I did this.
Automated the open/close of the door based on sunrise/sunset.
Large water container, with automated heat tape for cold weather.
Large food container built into the wall that I only fill monthly.
Automated heat tape in the egg box where they roll out, so they don't freeze.
Fan in the window that turns on when its hot inside the coop.
Automated light in the coop that turns on morning/evening.
Python Package to Summarize Long Text with OpenAI
Thanks, familiar with both the organizations, but possible others are not. If I had to make a guess if there was someone that would know, it would be Google’s former CEO:

- https://www.nscai.gov/commissioners/commissioner-bio/

They published a “final report” back in 2021:

- https://www.nscai.gov/2021-final-report/

Runner up would be Elon, given in my opinion, literally everything he does potentially has a national security spin.
What happened to antitrust enforcement, anyway?
That's an interesting idea actually!

Ledger (and some other hardware wallets) solve this with a few buttons and a display, but that's pretty unergonomic for longer key inputs. They're mainly advertised for crypto purposes, but at least Ledger's implementation seems decent and is usable for e.g. SSH keys and OpenPGP as well.

It does the job if you only very rarely import keys, though – and in modern (asymmetric cryptography based) systems, you ideally import exactly one secret key and do the rest with public/private key cryptography derived from it, rather than having to do the tamper-evident envelope shenanigans with every partner you share keys with.
Local news tends to be way more actionable. City council meetings are attended by like... Thirty people? Max? I've shown up to ones where there are more people on the council than in the gallery. It's very easy to get your voice heard if you're in a crowd the size of a small classroom. And the impact is direct! They were going to accept the suburb negotiation for allocation of service renumeration based on assessed value rather than service quantity consumed! I voiced my opposition, as did several others; the motion was eventually decided against.

But if you're not reading your local paper, you might not even have known. Of course all three of mine are INCREDIBLY partisan, which is great because they're partisan in different ways :)
But the real question is how many bananas is that?

> "We are well above the 20,000 picocuries per liter EPA standard," Clark said. In water directly below the plant, the picocurie-per-liter count was in the millions.

Let's say 10,000,000Ci/liter = 1E7Ci/L. From https://www.unitconverters.net/radiation-activity/picocurie-... that is 4E-7TBq/L, From https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/5337327 the conversion rate for tritium is 23Sv/TBq, so we have 92E-7Sv/L = 9uSv/L.

How bad is to drink a litter (quarter of gallon) of this water? From https://xkcd.com/radiation/ that is 90 bananas, 2 dental x-ray or 1/4 of a flight from NY to LA. It's not negligible, but you are not ded. Try to avoid that anyway, my calculation may be wrong.

The 400k gallons are approximately 150k liters that have the radiation of 13 millions of bananas (like 1.5 million kg, 3.5 million pounds).
Nothing, just some ego stroking I check the stats
Tell that to Alan Turing.
This would be more interesting if you did have time to go into details. I'd love to hear about the company getting eviscerated for messing up sales tax.
VB.NET/WinForms (and competitors like Qt Designer) had a pretty good solution for widget placement on resize, all within the GUI builder. So i don't think this was fatal, if Classic VB had survived a bit longer it likely would have been added too.

(Although to date they don't have a great solution for responsive layouts.)
There is one publicly revealed program along these lines that I'm aware of, and it's operated by one of the most secretive intelligence agencies, the NRO. It's called SENTIENT, and it's basically some kind of artificial brain that automatically analyzes intelligence from tons of different sources such as satellite imagery, radio chatter, weather, etc.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/31/20746926/sentient-nationa...

It's unclear from public reports how capable the program is, but the NRO is known to have tech that is decades ahead of the civilian world - feel free to look this up, it's true. So honestly, I'd say that there's a decent chance some kind of AGI has ALREADY been invented.
What's fascinating to me is that it appears that he fulfilled the scholarly requirements for a doctorate (including completing a dissertation that his committee signed off on) but didn't fully complete the bureaucratic/administrative requirements. The proposed explanation is that he already had a job, was busy with other things, and didn't really care.

If this is the case, then unless Ritchie really didn't want the Ph.D. (or was trying to make some kind of statement) it seems to me that his advisor kind of dropped the ball by not getting his student a bit of administrative help to actually receive the degree.
They do. Though what is the preferred mixed strength is highly subjective and so many whisky drinkers will buy “cask strength”, which is >60% ABV vs the 40% you’ll find in the ones people will often put with mixers. And then water it down to the strength they prefer. The act of adding the water itself will provide a different experience given the way it interacts with the volatile compounds as it’s mixing. So a whisky you water down yourself to 40% (not that you’re accurately measuring that at the time) will have a different nose and palette to one that came pre-bottled at 40%. Some people have a preference for cask strength mostly for the snobbery of it. Others prefer the higher ABV if you’re drinking it neat (or near neat) and the fact it’s more true to what came out the cask (I had a >80% rum from the SMWS once that was incredible). I preferred it mostly because it felt like better value; you tweak the water levels and it’s like you’ve got a dozen or more different whiskies to experiences in the one bottle. Maybe even the one glass if you’re adding incrementally as you drink.

Adding ice is more commonly frowned upon for all of the opposite reasons to the above. The cold shuts down the volatile compounds, and it dilutes the whisky (and thus changes it) in a way you have very little control over. That said, on a hot night or even just in front of a roaring fire there can be something exciting about that too.

The only wrong thing would be to say “true scotch drinkers don’t do X”. There’s no more appropriate place to invoke the No True Scotsman fallacy.
The funding for my entire Canadian province for all healthcare; two main hospitals, two small hospitals, a dozen clinics, a few nursing homes for one year is $850 million. So that single US hospital takes in over 7X more than we get per year to run it all.
Poor inventory practices/ mistake seems most likely compared to a conspiracy that really doesn’t make much sense.

Seems like it would be pretty easy to just claim it was damaged or otherwise remove it from inventory in a way that it doesn’t appear missing…. let alone all sorts of other questions.
They mentioned in that the article.
They can always find something to blame. It doesn't answer the question.
what is the anti-state, anti-capital perspective on AGI safety?
Why does one have to do this on a Windows certified laptop?! Sounds like the tweaks I had to do when I ran Linux on my laptops from the 2000s.
The #1 misconception when working with large language models is thinking that a capability is a property of the model, rather than the model + input. It may be simultaneously true that ChatGPT has an elo of 100 when given a conversational message and an elo of 1400 when given an optimized message (e.g., strings that resemble chess games, with many examples present in the conversation).

Understanding this concept is crucial for getting good results out of large language models.
Citadel Offered to Buy Circle's Silicon Valley Bank Deposits Before Takeover
A scientific salad for astronauts in deep space
Same... My daughter had tree nut allergy(worst is cashew).

Peanut I found out are technically legumes, where as pecan, almond, cashew, walnut, pistachio, etc are tree nuts.

So while we call them all "nuts", peanuts are quite different than tree nuts.

Daughter developed severe tree nut allergy(that we don't leave home without 2x EpiPen) by age 3.

Had pleanty of foods with peanut butter, but seldom tree nut exposure (outside of mixed nuts which she was too young to consume).

She can eat peanut products just fine, but we end up telling everyone all nuts allergy including peanuts... As some people don't know the difference.

Now I am finding everything "peanut free" is not always tree nuts free, there's different labeling =/

Cashew is in alot of vegan foods and South Asian dishes (though alot of restaurants stopped using cashew based thickener now, some still do).
Worse yet a misguided school district buying tablets instead of chromebooks, for example!
No windows machine runs as cool and fast as an M-series. All else is window dressing.
wow, strange but revealing comments here on the ideas of what constitutes news in the usa - i read the guardian (uk) every day, and i simply don't recognise many of these issues.
Upon second reading, oh yeah youre right
That’s not really an option for a lot of people outside of the US. The average SWE here makes 50K USD a year. Good luck saving up a safety net that large if AI is ready to take all our jobs. That’s kind of my point. Nobody has a good answer to the question IF AI does take SWE jobs, what then?
If you want to give another nation nuclear capabilities, you give them plans and documents. You don't give them a live bomb and say, "You figure it out"

PS

I assume you are referring to Israel. Just come out and say it.
Where can I read a more scientific treatment of this topic?
YES, there is: https://www.karensforhire.com/
A philosophical exploration of the concept (not of the same name, but pretty much it) - https://existentialcomics.com/comic/13
Have you filed a complaint with your country’s regulator of financial service providers? I would encourage you to do so.
Self-service is a scam, but it takes reaching certain age to notice it. It's basically the business outsourcing its costs to you. It's tolerable when you're young and have no money, but tons of free time. It's really frustrating when you're a little bit older - when you have some disposable income but are severely time-constrained.
I've had mostly very positive experience with chat support. It's always what I look for first.
I think this clip section says a lot - if videos are permitted as replies.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=MNtjSMvcjzs&t=211s
I've used Fancy Hands for this to resolve something with the DMV: https://www.fancyhands.com/
My website doesn't do anything for me. I don't think that makes it purely vanity though. I just make it for fun.
Conspiracy: they are planted in Russiam and Chinese cities.

Reality: it would make more sense to fabricate the weapon in secret and hide its existence to begin with than to document it well and use it for secret stuff.
Enjoy the Season You're In
Not sure where you’ve been looking, but the origins seem well-documented (as linked to from Wikipedia): https://webflow.com/blog/corporate-memphis
How To Answer Questions The Smart Way (2015): https://skippy.net/how-to-answer-questions/
If they’re rephrasing content, then not much. People already do that en masse giving their take on the same news event, product, etc.

But if they creating BS, then we’ll need much better tools for validating truth.
> I have no problem with it myself; but the companies/brands certainly do.

actually, the companies don't have a problem with it, the customers do. customers (it's human nature, maslow's hierarchy, etc) cling to their beliefs about themselves and their identification with products that reflect their values. Companies would rather cut costs and sell one-size-fits-all products, but they need to give customers what they want, and different customers want different things.

> Lots of national brands have a "this is not produced in a factory or machine that produces any store brand"

and many people have the need to think that they are "better" than store brands, or more likely on HN, that they "see through" all the marketing, so companies market to you "transparently"... if a brand says "this is not produced X way" and you didn't even mention X, hmmm, do you really think they haven't figured you out?

if you are the cheese puff king, the most expensive thing you can do is not sell everybody exactly what they want, and you probably have redundancy in your manufacturing facilities, so why not segregate which products are on which machines, so long as a market segments aren't too small.
Or potentially significant diet adjustments. Having tried to fix my microbiome I have found probiotics useless but the use of prebiotic fibres to promote species does work slowly.
On a related note, please stop telling me about the website when I call for customer support. It's 2023, people know that websites exist. If I could do it on the website, I wouldn't be calling you.
You'll be fine. Hopefully you saved some of that FAANG money because it might take a while, but if you target recently funded startups and reach out directly, you will get a job quickly.
My personal blog has been cited in academic publications.

I'm not an academic, so it's quite the complement.
Thanks, honestly not sure if I’ve heard of it before, but here’s another more recent article with additional information:

- https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/highly-classif...

Which includes an official release on it:

- https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/wp-content/upl...

* NRO maybe secretive, but they are well known for their special project patches.

EDIT-001: Here’s more recent “approved for release (with redacted material) on the project; warning link is NRO site, but legally viewable FOIA doc, per URL and notices on doc:

- https://www.nro.gov/Portals/65/documents/foia/declass/ForAll...

EDIT-002: Appears to be similar to “Total Information Awareness” project:

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Information_Awareness