skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is we aren’t actual contractors. We are penalized for not accepting every ride. Accounts are suspended for repeatedly not driving to dangerous areas.

There is no rate card based on time/miles so every ride is an arbitrary payout based on a black box algorithm. With Lyft you’re incentivized with streak bonuses for 3 consecutive rides. The 3rd ride is always an awful fare that will lose money and if you decline you lose the bonus for the first two rides. Ride cost has stayed the same for the passenger and payouts have plummeted for drivers.

Anecdotal, but I’ve started gathering data to suggest that Uber/Lyft are capping wages to <$30/hr. When I have high tip passengers I am seemingly throttled with fewer requests and lower fares.
There was hype around Crypto because people were making large sums of money from it, despite unclear "real" uses beyond easily moving large sums of money around.

There is hype around AI because hundreds of millions of people (including me) are using AI tools every day to help them with their work. In contrast to crypto, random people are not making enormous amounts of money; there are no 18 year olds in AI stumbling into hundreds of millions of dollars. Even OpenAI is not particularly profitable and is mainly sustained through its close partnership with Microsoft.

I think this reversal of the money <-> utility relationship makes these technologies fundamentally different, and lumping them together into the category of "just another hype cycle" is unfair.
IMHO, the only activity that should have ever been considered as carbon-negative is actually taking carbon out of the air, and storing it in the ground somehow. IT is extremely expensive, which highlights why it is so important to prevent carbon emissions in the first place.

All of these suggestions which seek to reduce someone else's carbon output somehow, seem fraught with moral hazard or other significant problems.
There can't be an infinite number of marbles in a finite amount of space.
You can spin it that way if you want to, but the result is essentially guiding it through a brute force of the first successful playthrough it can muster.
Don't make me laugh, AFAIK Macs ship Broadcom, which is notoriously the only worse than Intel wifi card you can have.
One caveat that has worked in our household: if your kid has eczema on their face anywhere near the mouth, put a good barrier on it before eating said allergens. Lanolin or vaseline work great.
In Holmes’ case the father is wealthy and perfectly capable of taking care of the children. Which is completely unlike the experience of poor women of color who end up in prison for minor crimes. Weird article.
A how-to build, install, and use mod_zip to enable dynamic file zipping with nginx for those that are interested in such an approach. Whether one should take this particular approach remains, as always, an exercise for the reader.
for the people that say ChatGPT couldn't solve problems like a person. Look how over engineered this solution is!

I asked Chat GPT to make a list of tools I could use to solve this problem:

Task Tool
Analyze the image OpenCV

Analyze the image MATLAB

Analyze the image Adobe Photoshop

Identify muffins in the image YOLO

Identify muffins in the image SSD

Identify muffins in the image Faster R-CNN

Train a model to recognize and count muffins TensorFlow

Train a model to recognize and count muffins PyTorch

Train a model to recognize and count muffins Keras

Write code for solution Python

Write code for solution Java

Write code for solution C++

Manipulate data NumPy

Manipulate data Pandas

Visualize results Matplotlib

Use powerful hardware GPUs

Use powerful hardware TPUs

Note that some tools may be used for multiple tasks, and some tasks may require multiple tools. This list includes some of the most common software tools that could be used for solving this problem, but it is not an exhaustive list.
> Best part is I didn't get murdered.

I was almost going to say this sounds crazy dangerous and more like a trap, but 15 years ago I would have done the same and probably came out safe.

I don't know what changed, it feels like things are getting more dangerous, but unsure if it's perception, or the truth.
As a man, talk therapy has worked wonders for me. No individual tool will fix the underlying cause, of course, and I also benefit greatly from weightlifting and other exercise.

If therapy is less immediately effective for men, that may signal a greater need for it, not a lesser one. Learning to understand and experience one's emotions is both a skill therapy can develop and one that is needed for therapy (or journaling, etc.) to be maximally effective.
I guarantee that you are not learning anything and if forced to go without ChatGPT you would barely be able to summarize high level overviews about the topics it has "taught you".
I read an article about a pro player who castled twice in a game and my son hates castling so I make a point of castling twice as often as I can to tease him and attempting other illegal moves as a joke but he never ends the game because of it.

If I was playing that monstrosity though I would play something crazy that is far out of the opening book and count on it making an illegal move.
This is just an old tired argument about the “free market” which absolutely does not exist for these folks. You’re simplifying this problem beyond recognition. It’s not so simple to do any of those things. I’m not even going to argue against it’s as you can literally find every argument for and against this ruling out there, again I’m not going to waste my time educating you. There isn’t much other option for these drivers and this ruling just lets them be taken advantage of more and more.
how anout we instead pull literally all stops and figure out why so many people are developing a condition when their own inmune system tries to kill them when food enters their mouth??? The incidence is increasing dramatically. That’s a far bigger problem.
Dropbox backs of on macOS changes to allow external drives
Does that somehow prove the assertion of "something a 1400 ranked player would never do"?

Because all I'm hearing is talk about ChatGPT's abilities as a reply to me calling out an extreme statement as being extreme. Something the parent comment even admitted as being overly black and white.
Looks like Dropbox may be looking into other options for maintaining MacOS compatibility but still allowing for DB files to sit on external drives (which is very helpful for implementing 3-2-1 backups).

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34650987 for discussion on why this change was problematic.
I also know freelance photographers who were impacted by AB5. AB5 is a stupid law that was clearly designed to target Uber, and even though lawmakers tried to pack in a bunch of exemptions, it impacted a ton of other people. Prop 22 was largely driven by the backlash against it.
TBH we're reaching a point where it's no longer about training a single model end-to-end. We now have computer vision models that can solve well-scoped vision tasks. Robots that can carry out higher level commands (going into rooms, opening doors, interacting with devices, etc.), and LLMs that can take a very high level prompt and decompose it into the "code" that needs to run.

This all thus becomes an orchestration problem. It's just gluing together APIs admittedly at a higher level. And then you need to think about compute and latency (power consumption for these ML models is significant).
I've always used Android phones, but my company recently stopped supporting them and told me they have to issue me a new phone - this time an iPhone.

And I'm utterly lost. At one time, Apple was said to be the high priests of user experience, with intuitive interactions that would just work the way you expect. This seems to have fallen by the wayside, pushed out by making it more sophisticated I suppose. Because things that I do instinctively on Android, I just can't figure out how to do. I've had the phone a week now, and I still haven't figured out how to do a "Switch App" (like Alt-Tab). A few times I've accidentally hit it, but I can't figure out what the trick is.

I don't mean to say that it's objectively bad, but it sure has erected a wall against anyone who might migrate from Android.
wrongthink
I'm in the central valley and Target has a dozen eggs for $3.59. I was curious how it could be so much more in the bay area, but looking up an East Bay Target they're $3.59. San Francisco is $4.59. Maybe you haven't been in a while?
> support those out of work so they don’t need Uber

Our dwindling birthrates make this harder and harder to do unless we stop supporting retired seniors and end retirement benefits. Seniors are on their way to outnumbering other demographics. Historically, working adults outnumbered seniors 4 - 1. Now it’s getting closer to 2 - 1 which is still unsustainable.

Just like capitalism, socialism and socialist programs need the right kind of population growth; or both systems fall apart.
I’ll just repeat that those people’s impulsive behavior can’t be broken down into any binary manner and won’t engage in further discussion.
I suspect if an LLM were used to control a robot it would do so through a high level API that it's given access to; things like: stepForward(distance) or graspObject(matchId)

The API's implementation may use AI tech too, but that fact would be abstracted.
This argument is pretty flimsy. ChatGPT makes illegal moves frequently. In all my years of playing competitive chess (from 1000 to 2200), I have never seen an illegal move. I'm sure it has happened to someone, but it's extremely rare. ChatGPT does it all the time. No one is arguing that humans never make illegal moves; they're arguing that ChatGPT makes illegal moves at a significantly higher rate than a 1400 player does (therefore ChatGPT does not have a 1400 rating).

Edit:
Without reading everything again, I'll assume someone said "never." They're probably assuming the reader understands that "never" really means "with an infinitesimal probability," since we're talking about humans. If you're trying to argue that "some 1400 player has made an illegal move at some point," then I agree with that statement, and I also think it's irrelevant since the frequency of illegal moves made by ChatGPT compared to the frequency of illegal moves made by a 1400 rated player is many orders of magnitudes higher.
I think that even when systems are extremely accurate, the mistakes that they make are very un-human. A human might forget something, or misunderstand, but those errors are relatable and understandable. Automated systems might have the same success rate as human, but the errors can be very counterintuitive, like a Tesla coming to a stop on a freeway in the middle of traffic. There's things that humans would almost never do in certain situations.

So yeah, I think that's the future, but I think the user experience will be wonky at times.
Those problems are valid, but LAR is currently often unable to detect the correct location. Even though it seems to fail to a very restrictive default, it might not, potentially causing even worse problems than a (rare) manual override would.

It also doesn't seem to be that much of an issue for other vendors to allow the user to configure their regulatory locale, it definitely raises the question how necessary this current approach is.

In the end, Intel's current LAR implementation hurts users that want to use their hardware within their locale's regulatory limits. It does not prevent intentionally misleading the LAR implementation or acquiring other equipment to be disruptive. To me it seems to achieve very little positive, and I've not even touched the freedom aspect of Linux being violated.
It's interesting how it's now fashionable to bash on Uber and Lyft.

Seems everyone conveniently forgot about the medallion system Uber and Lyft disrupted. Pre-Uber/Lyft, either the driver rented the car to a middleman who rented the medallion from a rich owner, or said owner was selling and financing (most banks won't touch these medallions!) a medallion at a ridiculous interest rate to a driver that planned to use it as his retirement savings (an extremely volatile asset and not very liquid). Sure back then the dispatch only took a 15-20% cut, but medallion payments took at least a 50% cut on every ride. That money didn't get re-invested or re-distributed as incentives to drivers, no. It went straight to the pockets of the local rent-seeker.

The more I spoke to cab drivers the more it seemed their industry was a pyramid scheme aimed at helping established rent-seeker take advantage of often poor new immigrants. Uber/Lyft brought a breeze of fresh air: Someone could simply buy a car, calculate the depreciation and it's value on the market (since unlike medallions cars are relatively liquid assets!) do rideshare and calculate their profits or loss. They can get out of the game at anytime, and they know exactly how much they are going to get for the car they have should they sell it.

And I'm not even touching the usual pain points and often discriminatory practices of medallion drivers (refusing card payments, refusing rides to non-white passengers and to non-white neighborhoods...).
Not a copilot, an auto pilot. Most people will not be able to resist the temptation.
And here we come to experience the effect of expanding how a word is used so that it becomes so broad that it is unclear what it means.
I know plenty of people who have left AWS Professional Services to go independent and are making much more than they made here (where I work). For reference ProServe consultants make about 10% less at each level than SDEs - most of us work from “virtual offices” that allow us to work from anywhere - this was the case pre-Covid.

What do you think the difference really is between being a contractor and being an at will employee?
Personally I've never gotten anything out of "talking to someone." I'm not saying that people shouldn't do it, if it works for them. I just can't think of a single time in my life where I had a problem and I "talked about it" to a friend or colleague (let alone therapist) and then felt better about it afterwards. I guess I'm just too "action oriented."

When I was younger I had an issue with anger management. Today I suspect I might be on the high functioning autism spectrum, but we didn't know back then what we do today. Obviously if I'm right about that, then it also explains why "talking to people" doesn't work for me. But I digress.

In my youth it was common for people to say to me "You need to vent before things blow up, get a punching bag or something." I used to buy into this idea that if you keep things bottled up eventually they will build and you will explode. That is, until someone pointed out that if your method of dealing with anger is to punch something, you are training yourself to respond to anger with violence. When I started to question the "venting" hypothesis I found healthier and more productive (for me) ways of dealing with meltdowns and ruminations.

I think this idea can apply to "speaking with someone" as well. Again, I'm not saying that if there is a crises people shouldn't seek help. Just that speaking to someone, as far as I can tell, ought to have a purpose other than "I just need to talk." What does that mean, to "need" to talk? What are you looking to get out of the conversation? Do you need advice because you don't know what to do? Do you feel alone and isolated and need evidence that you are not?

Anyway these are just my personal thoughts and ramblings ... always do what works best for you and if there's an emergency don't consider the random ramblings of some strange idiot on an Internet forum.
AI is reviving San Francisco’s tech scene. Welcome to ‘Cerebral Valley.’
The real issue is the government using businesses as a conduit for things like tax advantaged retirement and health insurance subsidies.
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Prove to me your clock is broken, I think it's just telling the future.
> To generalize like this article is trying to do is a shame.

It seems to me that the article's author is trying to do the opposite of generalize. They are in fact saying that generalizing is not good; specifically that assuming everyone needs therapy for everything might not be a good stance.
> Accounts are suspended for repeatedly not driving to dangerous areas.

Do you not see why this is a policy? If you're in SF for example and drivers refuse to pick up anyone from the Tenderloin, and the Tenderloin is predominately one race, it's easy to label Uber as perpetuating racism etc.
Think blindfolded 1400 players, which is what this effectively is, would make illegal moves.

But even if it doesn't play like human 1400 players, if it can get to a 1400 elo while resigning games it makes illegal moves on, that seems 1400 level to me. And i bet that some 1400s do occasionally make illegal moves (missing pins) while playing otb
It’s more easy to just state something you are unsure about as though it was a fact and then wait for someone knowledgeable to object. They always do!
The other case it doesn't work is that x + 0.0 is defined to quiet an sNaN (because almost every fp operation turns sNaN to qNaN)... except even generally strict floating-point models generally say "fuck you" to sNaN and treat sNaN and qNaN as interchangeable.

(Speaking of fast math, my planned blog post title if I ever write all this up into a blog post is "Floating Point, or How I Learned to Start Worrying and Hate Fast Math.")
I’ve always found Eliza to be sufficient.
It's not just a matter of our subjective experience of time, it's a matter of the laws of thermodynamics and entropy. Time moves in one direction is another way of saying entropy always increases. If time could move in the opposite direction, then entropy decreases which breaks our understanding of physics.
It’s a good point. I think we can easily imagine GPT writing (in ascending order of cost) speech synthesis actions, mechanical Turk scripts, custom actor interactions. (With the “tool script” for actuating each becoming progressively more complex.)

A Primer framework could make these pluggable. Also the curriculum could be pluggable and either generated or ingested from existing courses.

I guess the mapping of curricula -> scripts is probably the hard part, and what GPT-N (for some N not much bigger than 4) could most interestingly help with.
This has been happening for decades, like when the USSR hid Francis Gary Powers when his U-2 crashed over the USSR, said they had something crash on their territory, the USA said they lost a weather balloon, and then the USSR bring up a CIA pilot proving the USA are spying on the USSR and have lied.
Agree with you. Being committed is the same as being in jail. They take your belongings and lock you in a room with a guard making sure you don't leave. Then you stay there at their discretion. I understand the reasoning in that if you hold someone off from suicide it should subside hopefully but it's all guesswork.

I keep seeing articles about a new suicide booth in Switzerland and the rate of euthanasia increasing in Canada... I understand people don't have a solution, but it feels like the experts aren't even trying.
I think some good advice is to treat therapy like medicine and realize it might not solve the problem and there are real risks involved. I don't want to turn anyone away from therapy, but it isn't for me.
Hyperinflation is usually defined as an increase of 50% monthly (i.e. from 100% to 150%).

x40 in 90 days is in increase of 240% monthly (i.e. from 100% to 340%).

So it's a lot of inflation. This is not unheard, but it's very high and usually happens in countries with bigger problems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation#Notable_hyperin...

[Hi from Argentina, our peak was in July 1989 with 196% (i.e. from 100% to 296%), but the peak was short, we didn't have three months with 200% of mensual inflation. See the graph in https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiperinflaci%C3%B3n_argentina_...]
> Using northwind is probably not a good thing to use to evaluate chatgpt's general capability.

I did think of that, which is why I modified the schema, and removed any reference to Northwind (normally products are prefixed with "Northwind Traders"). That said, it isn't a particularly complex schema in my example, but it's a reasonable starting point for something a small business might use.
What are these “labor rights”?
Luckily, one US tradition that didn’t make it back to Ireland was calling it ’Patty’s Day’; it’s Paddy’s Day
OK, you bet for the latter. But:

They also didn't seem to care much about being fully compatible...

That sounds deliberate.

Edit, to clarify: I doubt they didn't anticipate the frustration and the hit on the mindshare. From Ballmer's show, shouting "developers", to spit in the face...

I didn't use VB6, but I do remember the complaints.
How many people change the colour of the enemy queen and place new pieces on the board?
> Finally, we have not designed adequate safety measures, so Alpaca is not ready to be deployed for general use.

This is from their blog, I doubt they intended for this to be ran for long.

Did they have safety guards on the demo? If so they couldn't have been great as it would have had to be made by them which I can't image they had a ton of resources for.

I know the self hosted LLaMa has 0 safeguards and the Alpaca LoRA also has 0 safeguards.
I suppose if I had written a longer comment I might have gone on about how lots of times advocates choose bad positions (so like here, the trope is trying to argue that preventative care reduces medical costs when there's a better position arguing that the benefits of preventative care outweigh the costs).

It's not really very interesting to discuss the bad position at any length, except maybe as a launching point into some more interesting adjacent discussion.
My point was that the differences are more nuanced than presented.

Most developed countries on the planet including the UK also have private insurance, which serves to give you different Healthcare options then what is covered by their socialized medicine systems.

Anyone in the United States can walk into an emergency room and will not be denied treatment based on their lack of insurance.

I'm not trying to argue that the US system is better, but point out that it is often compared to an idealized and imaginary European system that does not exist.

Some people loudly Proclaim that citizens are entitled to any Healthcare they might need or want like in Europe.

There is a lot more to it than that
Is that different than what LLaMA would already give? I suppose redistributing "harmful things" is still bad, but if it's roughly equivalent to what's already out there i struggle to think it's worth pulling.

Side question, how is this a surprise to them? If this was due to safeguards, then pulling it now implies there's some new form of information. What new information could occur? That people were going to use it to generate a bunch of harmful contents? Seems obvious.. wonder what we're missing
I remember a while ago, if you were to mention HOC wrapper hell in React community, most folks would jump to defend it.

Eventually, React team accepted that it is a problem, and presented hooks as a solution. The very same people who would defend wrapper hell yesterday, would start crapping on it today.

I think you're right that hooks are flawed and not the final answer, but the community won't accept it until "React gods" say so. It would be quite funny if React team eventually decides to go compiler way (a la Svelte) and all the people grasping for reasons to hate Svelte would have to change their opinions again.
That all makes sense, but why does cause and effect seem to go one way with the entropy arrow?
Hi there and thank you for your response!

Asking for users' emails as part of the signup process is a reasonable way to verify that your chatbot is being used by real people. I am sure to handle users' information with care and respect their privacy.