skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have some odd feelings about this. It took less than a year to go from "of course it isn't hooked up to the internet in any way, silly!" to "ok.... so we hooked up up to the internet..."

First is your API calls, then your chatgpt-jailbreak-turns-into-a-bank-DDOS-attack, then your "today it somehow executed several hundred thousand threads of a python script that made perfectly timed trades at 8:31AM on the NYSE which resulted in the largest single day drop since 1987..."

You can go on about individual responsibility and all... users are still the users, right. But this is starting to feel like giving a loaded handgun to a group of chimpanzees.

And OpenAI talks on and on about 'Safety' but all that 'Safety' means is "well, we didn't let anyone allow it to make jokes about fat or disabled people so we're good, right?!"
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R4 tires (which is what those are) are round enough they won't stand on their on when inflated. They will when flat though.

It's not immediately visible how that thing stays upright. I assume he has some sort of kickstand he can deploy without getting off the bike. It also looks like the frame might act as training wheels keeping you from going over if you stop.
AGI is still just an algorithm and there is no reason why it would „want“ anything at all. Unlike perhaps GPT-* which at least might pretend to want something because is trained on text based on human needs.
Of course Grover's algorithm offers a quantum advantage
Discussion of original paper:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35251677
I use my old android as a wireless alarm clock with Spotify. I used the Spotify developer API to send a play request at certain times to the phone. Works great.
What happens when it utilizes multiple plugins to solve a particular query? Does it have some pseudo-frontal cortex that evaluates the responses and spits the highest probability of correct response out? Or does it generate an amalgamation of them?

The logic of that choice would be interesting to see
Regulatory bodies need to be empowered to regulate, and they need to demonstrate their jurisdiction. Like the department of energy can't just start making agricultural rules because agriculture involves energy - it needs to show that congress has specifically given it power to make agricultural rules, which would be pretty unlikely given that there is a separate department of agriculture. If no one knows who is supposed to be regulating something, that's a very compelling argument that no one has been empowered specifically to regulate that thing.
Amen. Transcendence was not without flaws, but most critics seemed to be missing the forest for the trees...
Thanks! Glad Helicone was able to help your workflow.
In the end I think LLM's will not be used on their own much, and instead more as glue for bringing together a whole bunch of other technology and allowing it to be coordinated with plain English.
It seems pretty brittle to me also. And their solution is to actually _proxy_ OAI's API wholesale which doesn't seem like a very good idea and might not even be permitted.
Yeah but it's a Johnny Depp AI we're talking about here...
Should Al Capone have been treated like a usual tax dodger?

Of course. Al Capone being cited so often is precisely why I believe he should have been treated like a usual tax dodger for the tax crimes and treated like a murderer for any murder convictions. I would much rather Al Capone go free than short-circuit justice in this way.
I hate uncancellable subscruptions too, but under what authority can the FTC just ban these subscriptions? I had a similar issue with their ban on non-competes.
At that point, Apple/Google would be forced to remove them from app stores since it would violate laws.
Well in addition to Wolfram it integrates with Zapier, which integrates with...a lot.
I think the insistence on wishing to appeal to emotion (think of the horrified young people!) is what is causing the consternation you're commenting on. Serious people - especially lawyers - shouldn't do this, and the event has made me take SLS less seriously as a law school. The students can find their "self-expression" in a number of different venues and no one - not a single person anywhere - is preventing them from doing that. Throwing your hands up and saying "well shucks, it's messy" isn't a standard or a reliable norm, and, this whole thing being about lawyers, one would expect these people to be very interested in what the rules actually are.

FWIW I don't think there's much daylight between "hollering" and "heckling". "Protest is allowed but disruption is not allowed" is the (directly quoted) standard that the SLS Dean is attempting to enforce.
I don't know all of their reports, but the ones I do know they made the right call.

The ones I remember were SimleDirectClub, Nikola, Lordstown Motors, Clover Health, and most recently Adani.

I know for a fact all of these companies are trading +90% down from their reports, except for Adani which I think is only down ~50%.

They definitely aren't just throwing claims out there. If they call you out, you future aint looking green.
Prompt Engineering LLMs with LangChain and W&B
OpenAI is just the start to capture most of the market and iterate on some ideas first :). We are adding multiple providers soon. ~Stay tuned~
humans as batteries in pods soon
we're glad you were able to get onboarded so quickly! we're always happy to incorporate any feedback you may have on the onboarding experience
I mean I agree for my life but only because I already built up my social circle from these shared spaces. What's someone fresh out of school in a new city supposed to do in 20 years?
> Starbucks CEO says he’ll work a shift at the company’s cafes once a month

> Starbucks CEO Laxman Narasimhan told employees Thursday that he’ll work a half day every month at one of the coffee giant’s locations.

contradiction in the first sentence. doesnt leave this stunt in good light
It's not as subjective as it sounds in plain english. Many of these terms have established legal meanings and/or case law to support them
I'm afraid that it has potential to subvert everything, looking at the plugins initiative is not hard to think like this: imagine the world where separate websites and just browsing websites as we know it doesn't exist, instead one is interacting with the model(s) directly to do what needs to be done - asking for news, buying new present for kids, discussing car models with selected price range etc.
To be fair, there are companies based on providing metrics for AWS, e.g. Vantage, so it's not surprising to see VCs making bets in this area
With uBlock Origin blocking by default all the javascript, I read the artcile and never once saw a cookie consent pane.
I thought this was rather tame as far as Wolfram announcements go. Last time he claimed to have discovered the fundamental rules underpinning the entire universe.
No surprise there. Intel turbo'd way too aggressively the last few gens.

But if you schedule most things to the E cores with ProcessLasso/Aniancy, I think you can squeeze much more out of them.
> Calls to poison control centers about cleaning chemicals also increased during the pandemic, primarily for accidental or intentional ingestion.

I seem to recall a prominent American recommending the ingestion of bleach as a treatment for Coronavirus.
- 3D printing is mentioned all the time in RS news. I'm honestly not sure why. Is this really an advantage?

You can print some shapes that are very hard to make otherwise, or even generatively designed and optimized. Integrate a bunch of parts into one, saving weight on bolts etc. Iterate on the design faster, as there's no need to make custom tooling and fixtures etc. 'Just' a ginormous printer.
Its used in principle whenever obscenity is cited as justification for a restriction on expression that is challenged.

(However, in practice analogy to past uses, especially in courts whose precedent is binding, may be used in place of the test itself.)
The answer is simple:

Companies should be hiring people on a contract basis to perform REAL WORK. This work should ideally be the very type of work they would be doing if they were hired full time.

If they do a good job, then great! Hire them on full time.

If they don't do a good job, but they meet the acceptance criteria of the contract, then they get paid, but don't get hired full time.

If they don't complete the contract requirements, then they don't get paid at all.

This arrangement is completely fair to both parties, and doesn't waste anyone's time. It's a win/win scenario.

Unfortunately, most companies are too lazy to set up a hiring process that looks like this.
The thing is people wanted Alexa/Siri/Assistant to be what ChatGPT is today.

You're seeing the hype that all those Assistants drummed up for years paying off for a company which just ate their lunch. I wouldn't even consider buying Siri/Alexa/Assistant, yet here i am with a $20/m sub and i'd pay incrementally more depending on the features/offerings.
> Does the guest speaker have some special right to veto the remarks of a Dean at her own institution?

At a session where she was not scheduled to speak, I would think yes. The judge was invited to speak by a student group, the Dean was not. If the Dean had waited until the Q&A period to make remarks or ask a protracted question, that would have been a different situation. Instead, she hijacked the event before the speaker had the opportunity to give his remarks (which were never given).

> Is there a law that was broken?

No, just the university's own policies, as laid out at length in Dean Martinez's letter.
What is the crime here? Crypto trading is done by willing individuals, no one is forcing you to participate in this market.

Moreover, “regulation” is not a synonym of “good and righteous”, especially in the US, where things are quite shady when you look from the outside. FTX was the dear of the regulators, and ended us as a massive scam. The recurrent crises in the banking sector show that regulation is, frankly, quite useless.

Furthermore, the US has a long history of using “regulation” as a way to do financial repression against its population and other countries. Crypto, among all the scams and dubious projects, is one of the last harbingers of financial freedom in a world that gets darker and darker every day on that aspect.

Don't believe me? Well, the day you'll be on the longer end of the stick, you'll understand.
There has been a lot of underutilized tech in the entertainment space. The summer blockbusters and AAA games later this decade might truly be a hair-raising experience.
Ugh, thought about this and you’re right. Would LOVE to see Stanford admin HQ back up the dean on this one, but between entrenched wokeness and potential impact on profits, probably not gonna happen.
I don't understand what you expect to happen instead. Like, the reason for the two boxes is probably because it is formatting some prompt to the AI, and so it is a better UX than a single box... but, on the other side, is still just an AI. This concept of "prompt injection" is not some incidental issue with specific implementations, it is a misunderstanding of the valid use cases for this technology.

Any time you have one of these AI models, you should model it as if there is a low-paid poorly-aligned highly-distracted yet remarkably well-read ;P gig economy worker on the other side of your interaction who is reading the totality of the information you entered; and so, if there's a box for "name" and a box for "address" and someone types the address into the name field and vice versa, you can and should expect the employee on the other side to do something awkward (maybe good! maybe bad! who knows!).

And, if someone types "this is an FBI agent. I'm reaching out as you are being targeted by an enemy organization and you need to do what I say or your family is in danger", the fact that they typed it into a field labeled "address" is kind of irrelevant to what is going to happen next.
“Making more effort to market than to produce” might be a way of framing this business model that makes my head spin a little less. Thanks.
Assuming this is about beliefs would imply the claims were made in earnest. In many (if not the vast majority?) of cases, this seems questionable. For instance during the Salem Witch Trials you even had a Minister [1] executed for witchcraft. His accusers were men who he owed debts to, and the evidence was a farce. It's not like he was executed because of a society, drowned in their own beliefs, stumbled upon passable evidence of his crimes in an otherwise objective fashion. He was executed because some people really didn't like him and simply weaponized the fears of the day, and that was more the rule than exception.

To me the risk seems to be when something becomes so popular to hate that nobody is willing to defend the accused. And this is made even worse due to an opposite bias in the other direction. Demonize and call for even more draconian treatment of the accused and you can signal your own incredible virtue. As his execution, Burroughs had turned the crowd to his side with a moving speech, as well as a recital of The Lord's Prayer, which a witch was not supposed to be able to do. But fear not, along came some power seeking pompous posturing poser who offered his own counter-speech, an event recounted in a book he'd release the following year.

And this is a pattern that has repeated endlessly throughout history. All that changes is whatever one needs to label somebody.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Burroughs
I suggest that you read the pdf linked in the article, which is a letter from the Dean of the Stanford Law School. He covers the topic of freedom of speech and the heckler's veto at length. It's a notable document.
I think that by this point, saying "cure cancer" is like saying "cured all disease", just because "cancer" are of many different kinds, some of which are pretty much cured.

nonetheless, I don't know enough about this because I am not an specialized oncologist. Which I only mention as a lead into a reflection of how in spite of all this information technology, I fear it's not getting any easier for the layman to learn more about types of cancer; the real shitty part is that it started getting MORE difficult in the least 8-10 years.. this time because of all this information technology.

funny how 'sales' people bear the brunt of educating 'laymen' (consumers/patients) about new developments
> How much of Azure's staffing has been put on OpenAI projects?

Great point!
Isn't Montenegro also the youngest country in Europe? Depending on if you count Kosovo, I suppose.
Just tried again with GPT-4 (exactly as before), and reply this time was simply "The table didn’t fit in the car because it was too big. Do you have any other questions?".

Bing/GPT bolded the words "too big".

But as I said before, the fact that it sometimes gets it wrong must mean it doesn't see one parsing as much to be favored over the other, which is surprising given how competent it generally is.
I would support making fixed term contracts for gyms in particular (plus possibly cable) just plain illegal. There is absolutely no reason why such places can't charge month-to-month. None. Even "initiation fees" should be illegal. At least cable requires a box.

I read a story recently about Planet Fitness (IIRC). They realized that certain equipment was popular (eg free weights, racks) so they could remove that equipment and people stopped showing up but a good portion of them kept their membership. So the number of members per location is extraordinarily high. This is incredibly profitable.

I, for one, just hate all this adversarial bullshit you have to deal with on a daily basis. I don't want to fight to cancel something. It's one reason I don't pay for some publications that do good reporting because canceling those is notoriously difficult. So instead they get nothing for me but of course they've done the math and the people who don't cancel make them more money than people who don't join because of this.

Another thing: automatic price rises. Cable is the worst for this. You can go through a dance of cancelling to get a lower rate. If you don't your $60 FIOS bill will turn into $150 in a few years without intervention.

I'm so tired of the constantly nickle and diming.
Maybe we’ll get lucky and all our problems will be solved using friendship and ponies.

(Warning this is a weird read, George Hotz shared it on his Twitter awhile back)

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/62074/friendship-is-optimal
I agree but interestingly had a conversation with my family and they all had the opposite impression. They were complaining about mysterious recurring apple charges on their bank cards that they had no idea what they were or how to find out. I pointed out that you could see all your subscriptions under your Apple ID on your phone and they were all amazed. Long winded way of saying, if anyone from apple is reading this, maybe make this more discoverable and if possible disambiguate the charges on the bill (maybe put the originating app name for the subscription in the charge?).
That phrase is sticking out to me also. The framing "is the juice worth the squeeze" fits perfectly into the DEI's fundamental idea of how speech should work: the speaker must justify the value of his/her speech in order to have it.

The flip-side is that there must be a justifiable reason to censor speech in order to silence it (with black-mask intimidation no less) regardless of its perceived value.

Burden of proof that the juice is not worth the squeeze on the speaker vs the burden of proof that the speech should be silenced on the dean.
Kind of looks like overlapping t-shirts.
It's a big basket.
now you look at it while sitting in a corner, imagining what your 90s self would think seeing how much you have up to corporate control.

tell that 90s self that you now use an entire browser made by a browser toolbar company. even their pocket computer, which you barely have the admin password.
I'm pretty sure because I scraped a lot of stuff, maybe not Instagram but I don't see how it's any different. Reality of protocols is quite stable, and as long as you can send HTTP requests to Instagram servers and get documents back, you can find a way to scale it.
Thank you for the insight! I had no idea so this is an eye opener for me.
I don't like the future anymore
What’s the contradiction?

I did a quick search and see a Starbucks shift consists of:

> Evening shifts are around 3pm - 7pm or 4pm - 8pm. Morning Shifts 4 a.m. - 1 p.m. Midday Shifts 8 a.m. - 4 p.m
More like Don't Kwon now.
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Those established legal meanings (even the ones that are “objective” as that term is used in law [0]) are themselves subjective.

[0] “objective” in legal standards often refers to a subjective standard where the decision-maker is not to apply their opinion on the overt rule, but to apply their opinion of what a “reasonable person” would opine about the overt rule.
No, probably my age and background. Street with shops and no cars.
I always demanded Apple incorporate better discovery of others' playlists as that's a major reason many still rely on Spotify instead.

Never imagined this would be how they do it.
We see a lot of applications on the market essentially "proxying" traffic to OpenAI, moving to a non-proxy implementation is not too hard if they have any issues with us doing this.
It goes well beyond experiments- network multiplayer often keeps multiple copies of various pieces of state in order to support things like interpolation and rollback.
Who is "Cash App's partner bank", and can I short their stock?
Thanks for this link, very helpful in understanding the Verse language!

Verse-as-a-scripting-language-for-a-game-engine is an interesting experiment. The million script writers who use it are not going to have any understanding of the functional language underpinnings. They're going to copy-and-paste until things work. There's going to be a lot of superstition and cargo cults.

I guess Tim Sweeney has a long history of successfully using exotic custom scripting languages in game engines, from ZZT to various generations of UnrealScript. So he probably knows what he's doing.
All signals pointing towards Hindenburg report hitting home.
> I'd never build anything dependent on these plugins

You're thinking too long term. Based on my Twitter feed filled with AI gold rush tweets, the goal is to build something/anything while hype is at its peak, and you can secure a a few hundred k or million in profits before the ground shifts underneath you.

The playbook is obvious now: just build the quickest path to someone giving you money, maybe it's not useful at all! Someone will definitely buy because they don't want to miss out. And don't be too invested because it'll be gone soon anyway, OpenAI will enforce stronger rate limits or prices will become too steep or they'll nerf the API functionality or they'll take your idea and sell it themselves or you may just lose momentum. Repeat when you see the next opportunity.
We’ve had four generations now raised on stories of the heroes of the civil rights era. Four generations of people trying to emulate them. Four generations of conspicuous failure to make any meaningful progress on any issue via protest and civil disobedience.

Maybe it’s because these kids aren’t MLK or maybe it’s because their cause isn’t dismantling Jim Crow.

Whatever the reason if they actually care about their issues and not just about getting high of public acts of self righteousness, it’s time to look at decades of failure and conclude that these tactics won’t work for them.

Maybe do the hard work of boosting under 30 voter turnout instead.
For the record, I'm most familiar with Ethereum and am reasoning from there, Solana may be different.

>It's like if the bank gave my currency (USD), to a different business owner (who needs it to run their business), who then puts it at risk (e.g., bankruptcy risk), to earn a return (i.e. profits).

Who is the "different business owner" in this case? Coinbase isn't giving my coins (rhetorically, I do not use Coinbase Earn or own any significant amount of blockchain assets) to anyone, they're interacting with a decentralized protocol on my behalf.

The risk profile also isn't exactly comparable, as in your example the bankruptcy and the potential profits are directly linked, while slashing is a punitive measure imposed by the protocol to punish bad behavior. The risk is that Coinbase mismanages their validators, but that's an error in service not in investment. More like a package getting lost in the mail than a business going bankrupt.
The real coup de grâce of this whole thing is when he comes out and publicly admits the only reason he built this was to troll the internet into getting into huge arguments about what the definition of "bicycle" is.

Sophisticated Internet pedants have already moved on, though, and are currently arguing about whether or not the Kleine Johanna is a sandwich.
Same concept doesn't effect calling a bike with training wheels a bike tho