skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Unless people who can afford it are hoarding groceries an increasing monetary base shouldn't be affecting grocery prices

you don't get it

money is worth less when there's more of it. especially 40% more of it.

all the inputs to your groceries (labour, energy, materials, transport etc.) thus nominally cost more

when inputs cost more, your groceries cost more
Given that there’s an obesity epidemic in the United States, we would benefit long term from such high food inflation IMO. It will force people to reach for cheaper, healthier options, or simply go without food and use up their fat stores. The poorest are often the most obese here.
I can simply claim that my religion was revealed to me in a vision in which a supreme being told me personally to never use Windows or I will suffer damnation. You can't ask me to prove it unless you are going to ask the same of every person claiming religion by revelation. And even so, there is no way to prove someone did or didn't have a personal vision. Seems like a very slippery slope.
This is a really beautiful way to explain this kind of thing in software.

When I got to this bit "I work on multi-team task management software", it really made me think though. So much thoughtful design talent exists, and we're all just making B2B SaaS Productivity Software. Maybe I'm projecting my own insecurities though.
Closer to 4 months. It is much better than having a bunch of 2-4gb models laying around.
For organizations like the Video Game History Foundation (https://gamehistory.org/) that are trying to preserve video games in an above board way, things really are as dire as this article describes.

For VGHF to fulfill its mission, it's just not enough that this work is done. "Nobody is prosecuting us" isn't a firm enough foundation for an above board, charity funded organization that makes this work legal and accessible.
Wow how about people using paid api. Can OpenAI retrain on data provided there?

ps.

ChatGPT: "You should only share information that you are comfortable with being stored or potentially used as training data."
They might, but legal contracts are considered, well, legally binding. A lot of software has free/low cost educational editions, protected by access .edu address and a licensing agreement, and that's considered enough to protect copyright on that work. Whether ML models are covered by trade secret and not copyright, and whether that extends to trade secret coverage remains to be seen.
Yes. It's highlighted a lot in rust to mean zero cost abstraction. Basically adding language features without a run time penalty.
> "yeah this was written for a Google project, that other use case didn't apply to our project"

Not only is that a very narrow set of use cases (Read: they only deploy statically linked binaries on mostly unix-y environments), Even the fixes for those very basic use cases take for ever.

Eg. This 7 year old issue is still open: https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/1920 . To be able to create a statically linked library, we had to use: https://github.com/hotg-ai/librunecoral/blob/master/runecora... . Had to use some weird hack to build shared libraries too. Overall, it was just annoying.
Nope. They went up this month.

"UK house prices defy gloom with an average £3,000 rise"

20/03/2023

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/mar/20/uk-house-price...
You need to know that you are a child of a loving (just and merciful) God, a Heavenly Father who has a plan, that there is a reason we live in a world where things can be very hard, that this life is not the end, and that eventually, it will indeed all be sorted out. Be patient (easy to say, I know, but I have some experience to back it up). Avoid things that deny you of opportunities, and which you alone cannot un-do. It can be OK, really.

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I'll just copy/rephrase my comment that got buried in a thread last night:

The fear of large corporations controlling AI is an argument against regulation of AI. Regulation will guarantee that only the biggest, meanest companies control the direction of AI, and all the benefits of increased resource extraction will flow upward exclusively to them. Whereas if we forego regulation (at least at this stage), then decentralized and community-federated versions of AI have as much of a chance to thrive as do the corporate variants, at least insofar as they can afford some base level of hardware for training (and some benevolent corporations may even open source model weights as a competitive advantage against their malevolent competitors).

It seems there are two sources of risk for AI: (1) increased power in the hands of the people controlling it, and (2) increased power in the AI itself. If you believe that (1) is the most existential risk, then you should be against regulation, because the best way to mitigate it is to allow the technology to spread and prosper amongst a more diffuse group of economic actors. If you believe that (2) is the most existential risk, then you basically have no choice but to advocate for an authoritarian world government that can stamp out any research before it begins.
People are arguing about whether model weights can be copyrighted, and who knows how courts will eventually rule. But if a site gets a DMCA takedown notice, they are taking a huge gamble if they don't comply: if courts do decide that Meta's copyright is valid, the monetary damages for an infringer could be huge. So I would expect the demands to be honored by anyone who can't afford to be wiped out in court.
I mean the derivative of a constant is 0. So if all of the original weights are considered constants, then computing their gradients is trivial, since they’re just zero.
It is a guilty pleasure but I like writing awk scripts that write shell scripts that get piped into sh, for example

ls | awk '{if (length($1)==7) {print "cat " $1 }}' | sh

it is something you really aren't supposed to do because bad inputs could be executed by the shell. Personally the control structures for bash never stick in my mind because they are so unlike conventional programming languages (and I only write shell scripts sporadically) so I have to look them up in the info pages each time. I could do something like the above with xargs but same thing, I find it painful to look at the man page for xargs.

When I show this trick to younger people it seems most of them aren't familiar with awk at all.

For me the shell is mostly displaced by "single file Python" where I stick to the standard library and don't pip anything, for simple scripting it can be a little more code than bash but there is no cliff where things get more difficult and I code Python almost every day so I know where to find everything in the manual that isn't on my fingertips.
That’s like saying that creating a song or a movie has no value because after they are created anyone can download a file with it.

However it does open up a point which is: should we allow people to make huge amounts of money by infinitely copying and distributing their own work? Should we be protecting this model?
Library is such a ridiculous name. It used to be called the Preferences Folder AKA etc AKA .config AKA .local AKA ~/\.*

This is the problem with preferences: everyone's preferences are different!
It doesn’t have to be this way.

I’ve been buying games on Steam for 15 years. Even my earliest purchases are still downloadable and playable, and have been on every PC I’ve owned, including most recently the Steam Deck.

The same is true for my GOG library. Even more so, since I can (and do) save the DRM‐free installers of the games I buy.

Don’t reward hostile media platforms with your money or your attention!
> but notice how the EU is not any poorer than the USA.

EU is significantly poorer than the US. Lots of different ways to measure it, but it’s a factor of roughly 1.5-2x in purchasing power parity.
You should read the "Sparks of AGI" paper, especially the math and code sections. It's a GPT-4 evaluation conducted from outside OpenAI (authored by a MS team). It's an easy to read paper, mostly a collection of examples.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712
Ultimately, religions are about the behaviour of the members of that religion. Attempting to make others conform to your own religion is generally a bad idea and leads to violence and wars.

If you truly believe that over-50s are against the will of <insert-deity>, then it is up to you to remove yourself when you hit that age.

Similarly, it is up to you to only consume Coke Zero and not be tempted by the evils of other sodas. If you feel strongly enough about it then you boycott any cafeterias that provide alternatives.

Religions that prescribe the behaviour of non-members are merely a means to control other people and such religions should be shunned by society due to the historical problems that they have caused.
I agree. But regarding

> I can't think of many more elegant ways to convert a list of ints to floats, in any language, than `[float(i) for i in integerlist]`.

I think something like `integerlist.map(float)` is at least a contender.
Saturday deliveries and 5 weekday deliveries seem unnecessary, but universal letter and small (CD-sized) parcel service seems worthwhile.

If the logistics work, delivering letters only if there's a first class letter to be delivered, if there's a standard letter that's been waiting more than 2-3 days, or if Royal Mail feel like it (e.g. delivering to this road for someone else's first class letter) might save a lot of money.
To be fair, even as someone who has low-level code including writing VMs, because of the heavy use of closures in JavaScript it's not immediately obvious when accessing a variable in JS will go through the heap or the hardware stack. What the hardware provides doesn't quite match the semantics of the language and the VM is doing a lot of work/magic to paper over those differences.
Why do companies insist on messing with laptop keyboard layouts? Where's the menu key? Where are the Home, PgDn, PgUp, and End keys? I've used cheap sub 300-dollar laptops with keyboards more complete than this.

The silver lining here is that Framework keyboards are replaceable in theory. I'll wait until a proper keyboard gets released.
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Rockit?

Oracle Linux 7 is guaranteed binary compatible with RHEL/CentOS 7, although there is only (a little over) a year of support left on the whole platform.

Scientific Linux was also on v7, but I thought there was some kind of ongoing apoptosis with this repackaged distro.

Neither Alma nor Rocky implemented v7. I thought that CentOS left that version untouched.

I wonder if the Oracle UEK has addressed these problems. If so, it would be a reason to run Oracle's kernel on CentOS, supported or not.

For those poeple who can tolerate neither these bugs nor Oracle's kernel, another option is ElRepo's "Kernel of Last Resort."

"We stress that we consider such kernels as a last resort..."

http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-ml
One of the reasons I'm not blown away is that everything we've tasked it to do has resulted in rather terrible answers. A lot of them outright didn't work. When they did, the way GPT created our solutions were often in a way that wouldn't work well over time. Unfortunately you wouldn't necessarily know that unless you really know your tools. In many ways, this isn't too different from people performing brute-force programming through their favorite search engine, but at least most people know that "Google programming" is sort of bad. I think we're going to be cleaning up the GPT messes for decades to come because it's very confidently incorrect and much more accessible as you point out.

I think we're going to see a lot of programmers who are going to trust GPT a little too much, and I think that's sort of scary. For the most part that is going to work out just fine. Often the quality of your programming isn't actually going to matter that much, because as long as it solves the business needs okish, then it's frankly great. That's not always the case, however, imagine someone using GPT to get your healthcare software wrong.

I'm still impressed with it in other areas. I think it'll do wonders in the world of office automation because it seems to have the ability to succeed at this much better than any previous "no-code" attempt where the logic would almost always end up requiring people who are basically programmers for it to work. I think GPT will help here, requiring less "superusers" for a department to move their data flows into automation. Especially in areas, where efficiency and stability aren't necessarily that important if the automation-tools mean you don't need three full time employees moving data from one system to another.
It is interesting how history repeats itself here: When google started it was just a list of links to the websites that contained your answer. As tech advanced, it increasingly started giving out the answers in google's pages.

OpenAI's plugins are equally temporary. Right now they will be generating actions through APIs, but GPT4 is probably already capable of performing the same actions on your browser. All it needs is a "control my browser" plugin that allows it to make that reservation on expedia, without expedia having any control in it. It will inevitably eat the world again
If you already have to build a wasm target, I don't see why building one for each arch is that much worse, especially if there are probably performance benefits by building platform specific.
Regarding 1., it appears to have about a 30% accuracy rate, and the other 60% is complete nonsense, often complete with fabricated citations. I dearly hope that nobody is ever encouraged to have this machine as their tutor.
It definitely sounds a lot more exciting to call these “secret and unapproved” than “leftover test data”.
I've switched to buying the bargain bin discounter stuff. It's such a transparent pretense to raise prices while raking in profits that I don't want to give it to them.
The Overton Window widens: Examples of AI risk in the media
they "have" to be when interest rates are up, since it means the price of money (to borrow) is high. When money can be had for cheap (rates), prices balloon, and when rates are up, real estate prices will, relatively speaking, go down. Another way to put it is that RE prices are always viewed through the relative lens of current interest rates. Yet another way to put it is that it can be hard to figure out if they have objectively risen or fallen, because of the changed rates.

UPDATE: I can see a comment below says they have gone up in some places. Well, when both rates AND prices have gone up, it is not hard to tell :-)
> Anyone going into teaching minors as a profession cannot be doing it for the money, because at no point in recent history have US teachers been adequately paid, so they knew to some extent what they were getting into.

Indeed, but the economy is considerably worse now than it was and how observant one is does not seem to be determined by nurture.

The teachers I had in elementary school in central NJ in the 1990s could all afford to lead pretty normal middle class lifestyles. I wouldn't say that they were thriving, but they certainly weren't just barely making ends meet.

I wouldn't think less of a classmate of mine from that time if they went into teaching as a profession thinking it would now provide what it provided then.
It's larger, but there are less parameters to train for your specific use case since you are training the small matrix only, while the original ones remain unaltered.
As far as I understand it, the responsibility is on you to know the law and your rights.

If you are required by law to answer a question, you must do so. If you are not required to, you do not have to. What the police tell you has nothing to do with it.

There are very few occasions when you can be required by law to answer a question without a lawyer present (and without a judge compelling you to do so). These questions tend to be very limited, such as name and address, and may be even more limited in states without a stop and identify statute. You should research these questions before you need them.

The police are not required to teach you the law (with a very specific exception of reading you your rights when you are arrested) and are allowed to lie to you. They may also be simply mistaken about the legality of compelling you to answer a question. This may or may not impact the admissibility of anything you say, but generally provided the police officer reasonably believes what they’re saying is true, they will have qualified immunity and you will not be able to (successfully) take action against a police officer for lying to you.

In any case, you should take personal responsibility for learning what questions you must answer, and any questions other than that you should respond to with some formulation that makes it clear that a) you are aware of your legal right to refuse to answer the question, for example under the fifth amendment and b) you are exercising that right. You should answer all questions this way, even seemingly innocuous questions, as inferences may be drawn from your choice to stop answering questions. Courts have also established that if you are unaware of your fifth amendment rights, then they do not protect you. You should get legal advice at the earliest opportunity, but certainly before answering any question you are not required to answer. Police also receive training on how to make it seem as though you are required to answer the question without necessarily saying so. For example “how many people live in your house?” may be the question.

You might respond with something like “I would prefer not to answer that question”.

The police officer might then respond with something like “I need to know how many people live in your house so I can record it in the report/make sure my colleagues are aware that there are people at home/because I need that information to perform a proper investigation”. They may even threaten you with arrest for obstruction, but at this point they have likely crossed a threshold and anything you say past that point is probably inadmissible.

Although I’m not a lawyer, the above is my understanding of the recommendations of pretty much every lawyer about everything. You should do your own research or engage your own lawyer rather than listening to some loon on the internet with a Wikipedia degree.
The Canada Food Inspection Agency publishes weekly estimates of the number of birds affected by highly pathogenic avian influenza infections. The numbers seem relatively high (any number above zero is concerning), but they have barely increased since January:

Week ending 2023-01-18: 748,000 birds affected in Ontario, 7,051,000 in Canada [1]

Week ending 2023-03-22: 749,000 birds affected in Ontario, 7,173,000 in Canada [2]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20230120170319/https://inspectio...

[2] https://inspection.canada.ca/animal-health/terrestrial-anima...
The rich are those who can get high level politicians on the phone quickly to discuss their issues while the non-rich are those who can't do that.
This comment is bizarre. Corporations taking advantage of the current economic climate to make a profit is a conspiracy now? Most of the large corporations responsible for selling these supposedly "inflated" goods are posting record profits with no shame, and here you are covering your eyes and ears to defend them.
> Sorry, we are techies - why would we be running a "social simulation"?

It can be extremely useful for figuring out how other roles in an org work. Or prepping for a promotion ("OK, it's day 1 having title X: what's important? Who should I talk to? What should I say/ask? Who am I trying to impress and/or what should I be treating as my deliverables? What does my activity look like from their perspective?")

It becomes more formally part of what you do as you move up the ladder (higher-level business strategy is basically all role-playing! It's a ton like playing a game, really) but it's a really helpful tool even if you're down at the bottom, if just for trying to understand your immediate superiors better, or interviewers, perhaps—which can help you to align your behavior with what they want to see, in both cases, which will tend to be very good for your career.

Even as a solo dev, role-playing—even if it's entirely in your head—can be incredibly valuable for marketing or just deciding what to build in the first place.
Congress barely understands the internet, let alone the sheer amount of privacy that's being given up to use it.

They just happened to have TikTok in the crosshairs because of the fear of China. The broken clock strikes again.
I try not to name check him the way every article in lesswrong seems to have to!
This is funny, but it does hit on something deeper. We already lose so much connection to each other by the current convenience of online. People are noting how much smaller their friends circles are, how difficult it is to have meetups, and how much is just based almost entirely on online communication.

When things become even more convenient, what happens? When it's so much easier to just fall in love with a chat bot because they get you? When talking to your friends brings abrasiveness (not a bad thing btw, friends who challenge you to improve are fantastic), but your bots just actually get how to talk to you in the way you want? When you don't even know who your coworkers are or what they're like because everyone is just using their bots to convey things on slack, so it's that much harder to even make "office friends" nevermind serious ones. Even going off the deep end, because of the lack of limitations someone hooked up their model to a vibrator and now when it generates certain tags it provides you physical sensations (which, unfortunate to any readers here in the dark, there are already tools to link audio/video to your toys so this idea isn't that far fetched).

I don't think people are really prepared for how much the average person is willing to completely avoid for the sake of convenience.
Dalí has an accent at the end, which has the emphasis in the last letter. Dalai does not. They sound very different. “dah-lee” vs https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JhFbvuKn45w
> Obviously Biden shows how much he cares about stopping the war.

Oh yes, of course. All we have to do is negotiate an end to the Sudeten crisis and there will be no more wars, or threats of wars, from Hitler.

Been there, done that. The best preventative for war is making it quite clear that any victory for warmongers will be a Pyrrhic victory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudetenland#Sudeten_Crisis
Correction: It was pointed out elsewhere that you can just tell sshd to use PKCS11 keys via the SSH agent mechanism, and so yes that would allow use of an HSM for host keys
Something tells me at the pace they're moving this wo t be the first serious leak.

There was talk somewhere about a bug bounty program being a good idea. I have to agree.