skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They also don’t understand that the “wartime act” is not the act that was invoked. In fact, the War Measures Act has not existed in Canada for nearly 40 years.

It was replaced by the Emergencies Act, which explicitly does not violate the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, unlike its predecessors.

It just goes to show how knowledgeable the previous poster is on the subject.
> If you really can overachieve while working very little then all it means is that you could have achieved more in your life if you spent more time working.

I mean, not really right? That's the whole thing with the totem pole systems we create. You are only rewarded for over-achieving so much. Anything above that causes problems, because we are jealous creatures. There are daggers in mens' smiles.

I have other interests in life and don't care that much about work, which is why I understand how it works in the first place. If I didn't like philosophy and speak four languages and lived around the world, then I wouldn't know that. Most engineers don't.

If my company were willing to make me a principal and comp me with a big chunk of equity, then hell yeah. But almost no one is, and until I have kids, I don't want to start my own company or put too much effort into office politics. C'est la vie, c'est la mort.
I've long suspected that there is a lot of valuable medical truths buried in the vast amount of medical data.

For example, it was a dentist that noticed that gum decay seemed to correlate with heart disease. This was a big deal in trying to prevent heard disease. Finding correlations like that are what a computer is good for.
> Does pi/4 not exist? If I draw a circle of diameter 1 and erase all but one quadrant, I now have constructed a segment of length pi/4. This happens to be a transcendental number between 0 and 1.

Pi/4 the symbol exists. Pi/4 the calculated number output doesn’t exist. You can’t finish calculating it.

And if you calculated a finite approximation, then all you’d be doing is just connect one symbol (Pi/4) to another symbol (output of your calculation).

You keep thinking hat assigning symbols/labels to infinity somehow gives you an instant result of an infinite process/computation.

That’s the problem.
> the only one that was fine from the start was 10.6 Snow Leopard

Snow Leopard had a bug where using the guest account would wipe the data from the main account.
Engaging means thinking about the author’s words as in you’re in a debate/discussion. You may agree, but notice something you need to research more about. You may disagree and not down why you do. You may want to summarize the point he is making. You may want to link it to another work. For myself, I don’t really do it if I’m new to the subject, maybe a few lines about each chapter. But once I’ve read a few different books, I’m starting to form my own opinion or try to link concepts across books. This is what my notes are about.
I had success with this prompt:
Are Chicago and Rent both a type of the same thing?

It said they're both well known musicals. Even with this structure it didn't come up with something for your original pair though.
Moving the goal posts a little but sure.

Ethereum is eight years old. The Ethereum foundation alone has a billion dollars. Ethereum and the related ecosystem has had tens of billions of dollars thrown into it. I don’t know how that can be described as “infancy”.

The web was opened by CERN in 1993. By 2001 it was being used by over 500 million people daily. Please look at an eth block explorer and tell me how many people are using it daily.

I’ll spoil it for you: in terms of the five billion people on the internet, essentially no one.

How long is the crypto community going to excuse the complete adoption failure, horrendous and unacceptable behavior, etc with “it’s still early”? Please point to another technology with tens of billions of dollars of investment and almost a decade of development described as being in infancy.

I swear we’ll be here in another decade hearing the same thing.

If there's anything the crypto community needs to do - stop pumping, shilling, sticking your head in the sand in fantasy land, step out of your echo chamber, and take a good hard look to figure out why no one is using whatever you're building.

Maybe then, and only then, will these applications ever step out of complete obscurity.
Humans of all nations, and all nationalities, and all cultural identities, and all language groups, and even individuals, all of us .. should stop building weapons and start building starships.

That way, we can just get on with having peace, even if it isn't here on Earth.

I know, I know, this is hard. But seriously, sign me up for a one-way ticket to 16 Psyche.

(Disclaimer: will need to take some thingiverse or two ..)
It’s a similar concept to the Squirrel of Despair.
gpt is trained initially on predicting text, then trained with rlhf to make the model more helpful, etc. The second step is referred to as alignment.

Rlhf: https://huggingface.co/blog/rlhf
When people start interrupting themselves to start a new sentence before finishing the last, like when they are skim-reading something out loud and skip forward halfway through a sentence. It gives me a visceral sensation of panic.
> It's a perfect recipe for success. And I just wonder why other countries can't apply the same recipe.

Because in capitalistic market economies you need to compete. This is a law of nature! Or something like that… /s

I would indeed like to see how this works in reality on side in China. But China has one big issue: Its written language. This is something that makes me really fear the idea to go there. If they would just manage to finally switch to some proper writing system, so even dumb boys like me could learn it, I would invest some time and try to learn the language. But as long as you need to memorize thousands of signs (and can't even use a dictionary…) this is really off-putting. I'm dyslexic and have already problems to write correctly in my mother tongue (German), and had a very hard time to learn English. The second most useful language to put effort in would be Chinese, sure. But this writing system, oh boy…

The Chines are smart and have a powerful government. Why can't they make this Pinyin finally happen? It would make learning reading and writing likely even easier for the still illiterate people on the Chines country side. (And no, I don't buy the argument that you need the signs to distinguish meaning for things that sound alike. The spoken language has no signs and it still works fine. And the whole language is anyway very context depended, so you need to think about the meanings of words or phrases quite precisely anyway.)
I think we should break down this topic further.

One of the key contention points is whether one respects the book/author by keeping the book pristine vs marking it (or whether the book as a physical object deserves respect). This is purely subjective, and has a historical precedent. Books used to be freaking expensive, so of course you would want to preserve it. Now, most books can be printed cheaply, but some people still like to keep their possessions clean. There are many other examples of this divide, like how people use their tools, pots, kitchens, cars, laptops, etc.

The other is whether actively engaging with the book helps with understanding and recall. I don't think there is much disagreement on this point, but this does not require marking the physical book. You can use post-it notes and such, but in the digital age, arguably marking a physical book is inferior to annotating a digital copy and cross-hyperlinking it with other books and your personal knowledge base. Unfortunately both the technology and copyright law is lacking in this area as far as I'm aware, but rather than debating whether to write in physical books, I think everyone would benefit from innovating on the digital side of things.
As the saying goes, "Y is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.", although that has totally different meaning.

Similarly, the y in 'finally' makes an i sound (as in the i in 'machine'), while the y in 'tyrant' makes a different i sound (as in the i in 'finally'), and of course the y in 'year' makes yet another totally different sound. And then of course you have 'lye' and 'lie', which sound the same but with very different meanings.

That is what these jokes were about, simplifying so that each letter has only one sound and a spoken word can only be spelled one way while a written word can only be pronounced one way.

It doesn't work and is silly because letters take their sounds from context, combination, and position, as does the y in 'year'. And there aren't enough letters for all the sounds in English.
> Meanwhile there have been exactly zero new F/OSS desktop apps for over a decade except IDEs and even those are mostly Electron-based. What a mess.

Er, that's just objectively not true. Here's exactly one new FOSS desktop app: https://github.com/quotient-im/Quaternion - I don't know how old it is, but it's a Matrix client and Matrix is only 8 years old so less than a decade.
> It’s a computer program. Written by people. Using maths created by humans.

And you're a human program, written in meat, by natural selection.

To you it's magic, but viewed on a long enough timeline, with enough insight, and you're no more mysterious than a computer program.
I wasn't referring to the demand for units of cryptocurrency on particular networks. I was referring to actual industry, i.e. the companies that are researching, improving, and selling the technology itself.
Stallman's statement (as it's deleted on Reddit):

>I can't foretell the future, but it is important to realize that ChatGPT is not artificial intelligence. It has no intelligence; it doesn't know anything and doesn't understand anything. It plays games with words to make plausible-sounding English text, but any statements made in it are liable to be false. It can't avoid that because it doesn't know what the words _mean_.

I asked ChatGTP plus what it thought:

>do you understand what words mean?

and it replied:

>Yes, as an AI language model, I have been trained on vast amounts of data to understand the meanings of words and their usage in various contexts. I use this knowledge to generate responses to questions and statements that are as accurate and informative as possible. However, it is important to note that language is a complex and nuanced system, and there may be cases where my understanding of a word or its context may not be entirely accurate or complete.

Which I guess is not so different from humans although we have other inputs from the physical world I guess.
Really, they can, can they? Even the bespoke, one-off projects with unknown unknowns?

Tell me, how accurate were the estimates for the launch date of JWST?

I’ll wait here while you look up how many times and how many years that “slipped”.

I bet some dumbass NASA manager asked the team to schedule the launch date back in the 1990s.
I know I was being lazy because then I have to add two spaces between each list item. HN formatting is annoying. Updated tho
That same article says they were still investigating it, so anybody who isn't a conspiracy theorist trying to rewrite history would read that as "not seen a signal [yet]."

> "It is a different demographic than we normally see and we will be working with DOD to understand what is happening in those 14 cases," Walensky said.
> It's objective, provable fact that Apple has been steadily locking down its software ecosystem through restrictions and UI dark patterns in concert with ever-tightening hardware lockdowns.

Only if you intentionally conflate iOS with Mac OS.

Apple didn't create a new Mac bootloader that allows you to boot an unsigned third party OS without weakening the security when you boot the Mac partition because they are "locking down" Macs.
It comes down to the original purpose of OpenAI - to create safe AI before the next guy created unsafe ones.

The thing is we are seeing lots of AI startups come out of nowhere. OpenAI is ironically one, but there's also Midjourney, etc, who are beating all these FAAMNGs with billion dollar budgets. The more progress one company makes, the faster everyone else goes. It's like how EV development was just a bit corp hobby project until Tesla came in.

Plugins were already being unofficially developed. Same goes for ChatGPT APIs. There was originally a waitlist for the API. But bots somehow made it past the captchas.
Thieves stripping parked cars amid parts shortage
Yes I was using the Arch back in 1988 also but it was too expensive. The Amiga 500 wiped the floor with it.
The claim is higher interest rates cause things to collapse.

US interest rate go up, bitcoin go down!

Argentina interest rate go up, bitcoin go up!

Contradiction.

What you pointed out tho is important: fiat is a confidence game at the end of the day, and it doesn't matter how much yield a fiat offers if it lacks confidence.

Bitcoin is more or less a measure of how much confidence people have in their respective fiat currencies.
It does fools. I’ve been taking health force vitagreen daily for ten years and I’m at least ten years “younger” than my biological age.

No brain fog

No problems with my energy levels

I don’t use a “Mediterranean diet” however I do swear by copious amounts of uncooked olive oil in your daily diet (healthy fats).
You’re just doing it wrong.
This is why I always advocated against ORMs. It’s so easy to fall into traps like this without even knowing it, and while you can work around it in some ORMs it is not obvious.

Writing SQL is not that hard, and mapping the results to a type isn’t that hard either. So with an ORM you might end up saving several hours of work up front for lots of pain later.
ChatGPT was RLHF'd into answering questions (instead of just continuing them) and using "I" from some base model. You start over from that base model and RLHF it into something non-conversational. And ideally you'd take this opportunity to make it less confident/authortative-sounding when it's wrong/hallucinating, but I don't know if that's possible. Using it would look like:

"What's Konstantin Khabensky's ID on Kinopoisk?"

"120"
"That's not right, search the web for his ID."

[plugin activates] Searching...

"301" [citations] or "[This website] says 301."

I think this is possible. It would certainly have secondary effects, maybe making outputs shorter in general even when you ask for long, detailed outputs, but I can't predict exactly what those effects would be.
Nothing-up-my-sleeve Number
Indeed. But just to be even more clear:

> which explicitly does not violate the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Indeed indeed. However, it does limit the rights and freedoms in the Charter, and it does so in a way that the Charter allows. The Charter provides an escape hatch in exceptional circumstances, and that is not by accident: it is by design. And anyone who would design the Charter without this escape hatch probably has no business being in governance, because it would just be a ticking time bomb to a constitutional crisis.
To me, it matters whether I am responsible for wrecking humanity or someone else is, even if the end result for humanity is the same. (That's partly a Christian thing.)

Just running away and hiding in a cave probably isn't the right thing to do, though. I want to do my best to push for good outcomes. It's just not clear what the best actions are to do that.

OTOH it's pretty clear that "do uncontrolled irresponsible things" is not helpful.
Twitter Says Parts of Its Source Code Were Leaked Online
> Query CSVs using ChatGPT

sql? in particular, postgresql.
How useful is that tonnage going to be after the first salvo? It's been a long time since "submarines or targets" and China has invested heavily in missile development.
Yes, I understand. I disagree with scribbling in your own books because (I found) scribblers often forget and do it in the books I lend them. Also, I inherited books from my aunt, who was a heavy scribbler, and it annoys me. It has a factor of having a connection to her, which I appreciate... but I also find her scribblings distracting.

Plus "your own books" are never truly just your own. In the example from the author of TFA, they are his family's. I wouldn't have wanted my brother's or parent's scribblings in books from our family bookshelves!
I agree. I'm an amateur, but I'll give my personal answer:

There will be a recession.. but when? I think sooner than later, but next year NBER could declare it to have started today or maybe it starts in another 12 months. There are "large and variable lags to monetary policy", which usually means >12mo. Almost a bigger issue than the actual risk free treasury yields is the rate volatility that's forcing lending rates up, because bankers don't know what's going to happen, and that makes loans and hedging expensive. The speed of the rate rise, along with the size and duration of inversion is very large and relative to previous rates it's a huge move (doubling from the 1-2% previously). That's going to break something some time. It could be when the debt ceiling fight gets real or earlier, if the economy actually turns over. You'll know when the Fed starts cutting rates.
> Upgrading is going from one major version to the next.

> Updating is increasing the minor version, including bug fixes and small patches.

I dont agree with this at all. You could swap the two words and still have a cogent paragraph. what reference do you have for these terms?
as in some kind of emotional reaction?
Can we add 2015 to the title? It was presented then.
https://rectangleapp.com/ works really well with OSX. Does everything wayland and others on linux in OSX and performs really well.
I never found useful to write up my own books. I find it ruins them for other people, too.
I make highlights in Calibre and export them as markdown to make it part of my knowledge management system
Recent models (since the Instruct series and including ChatGPT) are essentially two parts - a "Base" part (what you would have read about in 2020 when GPT-3 released), and a "RLHF" part - which improves the output from the "Base" part by slightly changing how it gets produced.

The RLHF (Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback) "aligns" the generation of text towards "human preferences" (Whatever qualities OpenAI asked humans to label it with). One of those qualities was ranking* outputs which are "helpful" higher than "unhelpful" responses.

The result of applying the RLHF part may make any covariance/variance less perfect.
Fabricate? Someone needs to read about 20th century history x) I don't need to fabricate anything, the US has been involved in over a hundred regime change operations, either covertly or explicitly, to further its geopolitical goals. The Soviets as well, before somebody comes with the whataboutism.
> There are Chinese generals who claim the war will be over in a few days.

Just like with Putin's generals, Xi's generals may tell him what he wants to hear. If the wants to hear they will be ready to invade Taiwan in 2027, and they say it's not possible, then they'll be replaced with some who say it's possible. If 2027 comes and the invasion is about as successful as Russia's invasion, then they may or may not be replaced. Replaced for sure today versus replaced maybe in 4 years, which one to choose?
Why would someone need to be a mathematician to think and understand?

That’s just gate keeping through labels. And probably the reason why so many old ideas go completely unchecked and are taken as gospel for so long with no one questioning them.

You can clearly reason about this stuff, even if you are not a mathematician. But maybe it scares you to think that something that you thought was “true”, is just someone else’s opinion about what they thought it was true.
I haven't read the book, but the article gave me that impression. Maybe I define productivity differently than they do.
My apologies to those for whom US politics isn't salient. Thank you for that feedback, I'll try to speak to a broader audience in the future.

There's a world of difference between a statement giving you a clue about someone's worldview and assuming you understand it's entirety. In not saying you shouldn't infer anything from anything, I'm saying you should be honest with yourself about what is knowledge and what is supposition.

Knowledge is justified, true belief. I can come to believe something as strongly as I may from scant information, and that thing could be true - and it still wouldn't have been justified. Alternatively, you could take those reactions and interpret them as untested hypothesis, and test them by asking followup questions.

I don't agree that this statement represents a broad assertion that life is out to get you, as much as that the author has made a decision about how to allocate their efforts because they observe rapidly diminishing returns in certain areas. I don't have a fatalistic attitude towards life broadly, but there are aspects of my life that are treadmills which I try not to step on to.
How Much is "About 2", Really?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mxNPpte_6m4
Can someone with some actual medical knowledge provide a summary what are the findings and key points of the paper? Can this be really useful or it's just another improvement on the path towards usability?
The bold point really resonates with me.

Lately I’ve been writing a CLI application in Python to analyse and generally handle possibly megabytes of DNA data.

At first I wrote the code quickly and in haste of inspiration using some Numpy constructs, some functional maps (with list) and an occasional list comprehension. It has took WAY too long to convert to code to use iterators, because the syntax and semantics are so different.

In Lisp I could usually just switch the kind of map function to be lazy, iterative, or whatever I would like without changing and carefully thinking about the rest of the code.

I think this is the kind of glue the article points to.
To be fair, Ayn Rand said basically the same thing about industry long before tech bros existed.
If this sort of thing is of interest, check out John Ware.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ware_(cowboy)

Ware started life as a slave in the American South and ended as a respected rancher and member of the community in Calgary, Alberta. There would probably be movies about this guy if he'd stopped at Montana instead of crossing into Canada.
I'm not a pulp engineer, so odds are I said the wrong chemical class. Maybe it's a detergent/surfactant? I'm not sure.
Un-"limited" LLMs (to me meaning pre-RLHF) look more like GPT-3, which instead of responding to a prompt will just continue it. As an example, you'll ask it a question, and it will give 5 more questions. To get it to write about something, you have to write it's introductory sentence.
For $400 I would go with an RE320 and get some good accessories to go with it. SM7B is great as well, I just prefer the RE320's sound but I would be perfectly content with either as an only mic.
> Is VW CEO Oliver Blume aware of these roadmaps?

Apparently he isn't :D (see below) but what can you expect, he seems to be new on his job.

(2021:) https://insideevs.com/news/516552/volkswagen-exit-ice-europe...
(2022:) https://www.motor1.com/news/591948/mercedes-vw-ok-ice-ban-20...

This article also adds a bit more context to Blumes opinion: https://insideevs.com/news/658291/evs-and-ice-vehicles-on-ef...
No clue if it is true though.
>Unlikely

We don't need to imagine, the US has invaded countries in what it deemed to be its "backyard" for taking choices they don't approve of.
I don't think that contradicts what I said. The key here is how we define productivity. I agree that focusing on maximizing productivity in the short term can be a bad strategy. What you're suggesting is still what I would call productivity; it's just maximizing it over longer time scales.
> There were several errors in the prior correspondence. According to several sources, Konstantin Khabensky's ID on Kinopoisk is 301.