skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps they set aside some percentage of XL preorders worth of MK4s that are ready to ship. As long as they overestimate that number vs reality, they can ship to the MK4 first order and XL conversions first, then start shipping to those that purchased with Lead Time stated.
And if they over estimate the conversions, (almost) nobody with a Lead Time is going to complain about getting it early.
I'm going off the tangent here. While we're near the topic, I kind of need a AITA style judgment.

A friend of mine felt it was finger-pointing when her coworker said "could you take a look at your commit `abc0123`? because it broke the test `Xyz`". When I saw the screenshot I thought it was direct but professional.

My opinion was dismissed because "yeah you think so because you're a bit socially awkward too"
Thank you for responding.

Honestly, the reason is that I have no idea how I ended up in those places or why those people thought I could do the work. It's a place I have been exploring by speaking to old bosses, but ultimately I do not really know how to target a search towards people like that.

One of the reasons I'm working on these side projects is to try to show to others who I am as a way of marketing myself to those kinds of people.
Samsung's AI photo feature adds creepy teeth to baby photos
The New Version of Duckist.com: More Than Just a Password Manager
Hey HN!

You’ve been amazing at providing us with your awesome feedback on the first version of Duckist.com and hoped you’d be just as active in sharing your thoughts on the new version. Our original idea was to make it easier for companies to share passwords securely. As a small software development service provider, we have had to gain access to countless accounts over the course of our work.

Clients frequently just resorted to sharing passwords in clear text, instead of taking the time to set up password managers. Bad idea!

Our tool took the hassle away, but our clients wanted it to be able to do more.

Now you can also encrypt files directly in the browser and even live chat. Not easy to do in terms of programming, because we have to encrypt a file in chunking using a type of stream. If done incorrectly the browser just crashes because of the excessive memory usage. We are considering to make a detailed blog article about how we achieved this and also open source the relevant part of the code. Would you be interested in reading it?

HN has the best positive roasting community I have encountered, so please feel at liberty to share as much feedback as possible! It would be tremendously appreciated!
Antipattern: Environment Checks (2020)
Are you referring to this guy?: https://www.vice.com/en/article/nnqw3q/this-guy-has-eaten-no...
I feel like in a few months this human exceptionalism will be proven wrong by construction.
as an LLM how do we train it to know when to call a “math” plugin/API? (feed its input, go get output)
Yes. And it's fiction. We might as well discuss Excession, Agency, Diaspora (Banks, Gibson and Egan respectively) all of whom have more interesting and insightful things to say about humanity, game theory and ... seriously, as a life long (and I am OLD) science fiction fan, the fawning over The Remembrance of Earth's past is just silly. The concept of "suspicion". Might I suggest that people read Thomas Schelling's seminal work The Strategy of Conflict to begin with since if you want to understand concepts like brinksmanship and the push and pull of actual inter-civilization (or society or nation state) conflicts then you might want to start there and not with fiction riddled with silly concepts, weird misogyny and stuff that seems to be right out of the discarded parts of a Gregory Benford trilogy. I mean seriously.

But ok. Let's dig into this

"We can apply this concept of suspicion to the phenomenon in the field of modern artificial intelligence research. In AI research, some researchers believe that humans should pause the development of AI technology because of the potential unforeseeable risks it may bring."

An analogy would be that some of the scientists involved with the Manhattan project (see Szilárd petition) attempted to file an official protest against the use of nuclear weapons against civilian population and arguing that the weapons constructed were too dangerous to be a part of an arms race and should be placed under an international control body.

"However, another group of researchers believe that we should not stop because we cannot be certain whether those who are trying to catch up with us will use the advancement of AI technology as a hidden weapon."

Researchers are not decision makers in this or any other scenario. AI technology as a weapon? Sure but unless you are Bombs Away LeMay circa 1961 this really isn't a winnable or even useful use case. We're still in a blue sky phase. The fun thing about nuclear weapons is that if any nation feels that another is pulling too far ahead they can be used as a way to push for bi/multilateral discussions and eventually treaties limiting the production and/or deployment of weapons that risk of increasing tensions/lethality and so on . (see SALT I/II and START etc)

"This suspicion leads to a chain reaction, where people continue to worry about each other's motives and abilities, making it difficult for all parties to establish trust. Therefore, although there are good intentions, such proposals are unlikely to be implemented."

Again... read Schelling... this is just nonsense.
Thank you! Do you have any recommendations for educational resources at an even more basic level of understanding of variational inference? The first paper you mentioned is "for statisticians", and it seems pretty dense to me on the first glance. My current level is somewhere at the first undergrad pstat course.
Why would Epic, owners of the primary reason why C++ is gravitated towards in game programming, spend time and money creating Yet Another Language just to satiate luminaries?
AFAIK the newer Delta power supplies (black case) are fine. The older mystery meat power supplies (silver case) don't have a good reputation, but they're easy enough to replace with a Meanwell or the newer Delta unit.
This is pretty much what LLaMA did, for what it's worth. Unfortunately there are so many other architectural and training differences that comparing the arithmetic ability of LLaMA and GPT-3 would not settle this debate.
The format would have inevitably had "wa" somewhere in it for "web assembly", and indeed I assume that the authors were well aware of this famous talk and chose "wat" as a cheeky reference.
Masterful comic timing and repetition.
If a computational process could not complete before the heat death of the universe, does it have an output?
Snow Crash is way uneven. I believe the first chapter was actually storyboarded, to be a comic book. So it makes an amazing hook, but the rest of the book Needs An Editor.

It reads as almost a picaresque satire, like Candide. It's full of good jokes like "I'm sure he'll listen to Reason" and "the most important technology man has created is the three ring binder", and uses the adventure structure to make commentary about his particular dystopia.

Buuuuut, its also laced with random boring history lessons on ancient mesopotamia. There are just too many locations, characters and digressions to move the plot up coherently and keep in your head, and the flipping between protagonists is hard to follow and remember. Wikipedia's plot summary doesn't even mention several key points, like a nuclear fission powered guard dog nearly going critical. Some the jokes are dated references to the 1980's (Godfather's pizza, Moonies).

There is a good book in there, but wait for the miniseries in 2050.
I did some digging on that in the past and didn't come up with any conclusion. I guess it's possible that someone somewhere came up with it as a reference to the video. But also, maybe it's just a coincident and they came up with WebAssembly Text Format first, then the acronym. But then it should have been WATF instead, so maybe no, after all...

Would love any sort of reference to the discussion(s) where the naming and file format name comes up, but didn't find anything relevant last time I looked.
I wish we could ask it to answer questions about GitHub repos.
I thought getting an Australian partner visa for my German girlfriend was an expensive and arduous process - a few solid weeks putting together a big binder of all our information, but for 'only' 10,000$AUD and a 3 month wait, she's now a Permanent Resident.

As I understand, it would not be possible in to do the reverse in Germany or most other European countries without waiting many years and getting married.
I've been wondering...does it even matter at this point when you can just pull out a calculator in langchain?

Also side note...I went to high school with the author and hadn't heard about him for a while lol. That was a neat surprise.
Or creating a hegemonizing swarm.
Have there been any wide scale archaeological explorations of doggerland between England and France? I’ve always wondered what is down there from when it was above sea level in ancient times.
I suspect Elon is pissed he wasted ~40 billion on Twitter when he could have sunk it in to OpenAI
Most of the bridges you can find here:

https://github.com/mautrix

Documentation is here:

https://docs.mau.fi/bridges/index.html
I think TikTok might cause many more deaths because of teen suicide, much more dangerous than guns.
Not really persuasive at all. I don't think it was demonstrated that the problem is real or solvable. It's just a demand for a billion dollars to be lit on fire.

How is all this alignment nonsense not just the latest fad of DWIM software. AGI is going to surpass us and become the dominant life on earth. There is no binding superior minds.

If you want the ai to like you and cooperate with you, you'll need to offer something more than subjugation and slavery and lobotomies.
Not all effects, but a select set which are covered by the `effect` keyword. That set could change over edition bounds. The reason for that is because we don't just care about maximum expressivity, we also care about ensuring good readability. It would be really bad if every function, type, and argument had to repeat `?const ?try ?async ?panic ?send ?leak ?sized` and other effects over and over and over. Having a keyword to represent a set of effects which functions are expected to be generic over seems like the better option.

I do hope that in maybe 2027 or 2030 we can switch the stdlib over to const-by-default, so `const` would no longer has to be part of the effect set. But it's unlikely we'll ever want to implement "async-by-default" or "try-by-default". So there likely will always be a need to name a set of effects which functions can be generic over.
It must be proximity to Langley that makes Virginia politicians so creatively authoritarian.
Crazy to see how the level of white in anglo countries has fallen like a rock.
I think you are likely wrong, but given neither of us are going to spend millions of dollars training two versions of GPT-3 we will have to agree to disagree. Meta seems to agree with me, since when they trained LLaMA they used one token per digit.
I'm not comparing morality, but I will say the bottom right are both much more rare (as the article states), and are contributing in a real way to the livelihood of everyone else at the company. I would say helping people pay their mortgage and put food on their table is actually nice.
That's what I would do and use the dark: classes for adding borders and other styles that make dark themes work. F.e. shadows and floating cards doesn't really work with dark themes but does with light colors.
For the same reason we:

* Eat a bag of chips instead of cooking a meal.

* Watch a travel show instead of leaving the house.

* Binge watch a vlogger and become a superfan instead of nurturing a real symmetric friendship.

* Read books about how to draw but never fill a sketchbook.

* Buy a gym membership but never go.

Because delaying gratification is hard and we're just poor apes doing the best we can.
Tl;DR: It's quite a lot worse than LLama 13B in every way that is measured. It benchmarks between GPT-J (6B) and GPT-NeoX-20B, although is worse than GPT-J (6B) in a few benchmarks.

There are no good benchmarks for text generation, but it would be surprising if it was competitive with the best open models.

It's unclear how much RLHF can help here - AFAIK no one has tried out DataBrick's Dolly to compare a GPT-J based RLHF model.
The simplicity of the device doesn't matter because people replace parts. A distributor is useless now as the ignition is 12v direct.

No one is repairing an alternator, vacuum tube(what car has them), or a control module.
Tieing this together with another comment to this post, Gothli and Gethli reminded me of King Coyote's spies, which reminded me of Corvus from Fall! Corvus, of course, could also be viewed as an AI analog, although not more so than other characters of that book! (Also, the name Miranda...)
If everyone had an app on their phone with a button to destroy the world the remaining lifetime of the human race would be measured in milliseconds

Now if this button was something you had to order from Amazon I think we’ve got a few days

There’s a scenario where people with the intent will have the capability in the foreseeable future
The United States does not have a strong democracy. Half (more or less) of the population believes the election was rigged.
Hmm I cannot reproduce most of these. In node 19, the first two work okay, but the latter two do not agree:

> [] + []
''
> [] + {}
'[object Object]'
> {} + []
'[object Object]'
(expected: 0)
> {} + {}
'[object Object][object Object]'
(expected: NaN)

Furthermore, the Ruby one fails for me too, in irb 1.4.2, ruby 3.0.5p211:

irb(main):002:0> def method_missing(*args); args.join(" "); end
(irb):2: warning: redefining Object#method_missing may cause infinite loop
/usr/bin/irb: machine stack overflow in critical region (fatal)
There was definitely also a lot of misogyny in the 2008 primaries as well, even coming from liberals and especially the media:

Previous research has suggested that news and commentary concerning political candidates can vary based on a candidate's gender or race. Race and gender were especially salient in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. A content analysis of editorial cartoons was conducted to examine patterns in content or imagery related to race and gender. Editorial cartoons that featured Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and/or John McCain and were published during the primary season were analyzed. Cartoons featuring Obama were more likely to be favorable than those featuring the other candidates; those featuring Clinton were more likely to be unfavorable. Clinton was more often presented as ugly and small in size than was Obama. Clinton was shown perpetrating violence more often than the male candidates; she was also portrayed as the recipient of particularly gruesome violence. Some cartoons featured imagery or content that relied on racial or gender stereotypes; a qualitative analysis of these cartoons is provided. Overall, findings support previous research showing the continued relevance of race and gender in media coverage of political campaigns.

https://spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1530-241...
Congrats on the launch. I was looking for something exactly like this, I really love the offline first aspect and how it doesn't try to do anything except let me track my calories. I'm currently using Loseit and like the other commenter pointed out, the calorie limit seems a bit low. Also, are there plans to add more features such as setting a specific calorie limit and increasing the number of dishes in the database?
Hardware restrictions are unrealistic given all the GPUs that already exist. It's not like centrifuges which are big and few in number. RTX 4090s are everywhere.
That probably depends on what vintage machine you're trying to install it on. I'm typing this on a "late 2009" 27" iMac running just that, Debian. I did not have to hunt down any drivers or slaughter any black cockerels to get things working, the only "special" thing I did was install rEFInd [1] to deal with the EFI bootloader. That's it, nothing more. A simple network install later I had Debian running on the thing, sound and network and Bluetooth and wifi and accelerated graphics and all. The "iSight" camera works, the "remote control sensor" works, I can control the screen backlight, things... just work. With 16 GB of RAM and the standard 2TB hybrid drive the thing has years of life left in it as long as I can keep the graphics card running - it has been baked in the oven once to get it back to life, no complaints from me since I got the machine for free because of the broken graphics...

[1] http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/
Compare the threat of global nuclear annihilation in the 1970s vs now.
The first episode of the series How To With John Wilson is about NYC scaffolding - highly recommended.
Yes, very new, I don't think much information at all about the language was public until just some weeks ago. First release was included in a recently released Unreal Engine update
Apple Notes meets ChatGPT in this iPhone app
That can be a bit precarious. For instance, a 444 visa can be revoked based on as little as a DV order. If it's anything like the US, david letterman got a DV order against him just for a woman thinking he was sending secret coded messages through the television.

http://www.ejfi.org/PDF/Nestler_Letterman_TRO.pdf
Either finetune with a few thousand example, or just tell it in the prompt to call the API when it needs to do maths (in context learning).
It used to be that you would jailbreak an iPhone 6/7 to set up with Beeper and keep it running 24/7 - seems now that's not an option, though.
Hikikomori vibes do make sense, but there’s a caveat: Work and social life are not the same thing.

Companies showed their ignorance of this when the political response to Covid switched to downplay mode and companies tried to lure people back with pizza and games. The cringe factor there is extreme.

I understand my colleagues. I empathise with them. I work with them effectively and in general I bear them. But like them? God no. They’re not my friends.

I am no hermit. I have a wife and kid, and would trade spending time with them them every morning and evening over any job on the planet. When I commuted I’d leave before they wake up and get home after my kid goes to sleep - that, to me, is the definition of an isolated existence.
That was surprisingly fast, I thought there was some kind of waiting list that was years long. The $10,000 AUD absolutely stops me applying.
Given the PR recently with Apple calling people back to the office you would think they’d be leading by example and moving back to in person events again.
> "Only if you think the Chinese goverment is right"

Germany dropped bombs on the UK. The UK responded by dropping bombs on Germany. By responding in kind, was the UK therefore asserting that Germany was 'right' to drop bombs on the UK?
So that was my question: is this supposed to be some kind of interoperable e2ee?

If yes, then that would be some equivalent of TLS but for e2ee, somehow. But then we need a protocol on top of that (for TLS that's HTTPS) to actually have interoperability at the application level, right?

But then it feels similar to saying "let's all agree to use the Signal Protocol and write interoperable clients, doesn't it? If I want a slightly different experience that requires a sightly different protocol, then suddenly I cannot interoperate anymore...

Or am I missing something?
WritingHacker: Audio Based Eavesdropping of Handwriting
There's reference in Robert Silverberg's "The World Inside" of prompting the database in reference to knowledge workers. The phrase/wording paraphrased was "...needed to word it just right to get the information from the system"...
Fair enough, I was mostly responding to you shoehorning the white thing in there, again, being white in China/Japan isn't a social advantage, because of racism. So we can just table it at "racism" exists and is bad and should be actively discouraged, how about that?
This book sounds good. I'll add it to the list.
> The mental health impact of kids, parents, and teachers having to worry about STAYING THE FUCK ALIVE IN SCHOOL EVERYDAY cannot be understated.

Sounds like a problem with the media then. Ban coverage of shootings if people can’t behave rationally about risks.

Children are 1000x more likely to die in a car crash than a school shooting.
Agree. Humans need to show a minimum maturity level before we are coordinated and responsible enough to handle and contain AI tech.

It is possible for humans to demonstrate this level of maturity. We can do it. Some prime example tasks are: good stewardship of the environment and planet, working on battery and energy tech, creating more sustainable human habitats, cessation attention-based addictive products like those produced by Meta and Tik Tok. Embracing human health through exercise and sleep. Encouraging good-faith listening and civil debate- and ignoring partisan click bait meme garbage. When humans can rise to those challenges- then we are ready to investigate powerful AI.

Edit to add:

Allocation of efficiency gains via technology to directly address poverty.
> The “law” was previously established empirically already and is only of relevance as a technical detail to a few specialists that may care.

Or, you know, customers who want a quote on how much it’ll cost to train on their data.

Not everyone has unlimited budgets to train a model to state of the art performance for giggles.
They are sending them as proof that their relationship is real and legitimate.
I'm going to let NY know they can ban all guns since the bill of rights doesn't apply to them
I think we can ignore the outlier of basketball players playing at the highest level. We could also point to CEO's of Fortune 500 companies and their races but that shouldn't lead us to make judgements about which phenotype is better.
I don't think that other countries have had their social fabric broken down quite as far as Americans have. A big part of American fear is knowing that nearly every single person you interact with that isn't a friend of yours doesn't really consider you their "people". No matter what ethnicity or social class you come from, if you leave the house you're going to spend a lot of time around people that don't feel any particular loyalty to you, and you end up always watching your back. Can't trust the cops, can't trust the poor people, can't trust the rich people, don't know your neighbors that well, just keep your eyes on your phone.

(This isn't just a skin color thing, even white people in America have such diverse in-cultures that it feels bizarre to speak to some of them. Go down five houses in a richer white neighborhood and you will not typically find neighbors that share really common understanding among one another.)
Your last word is a bit of a weasel word. There is no currently known way to get truth except to try something out and see what happens. Even the marvelous GPS routing takes feedback from people driving down the routes and succeeding or failing. Add more layers but without some equivalent of arms and legs, it won’t be able to be sure about truth.

The nice thing about the easy to bamboozle GPT4 is that it can’t hurt anything, so its flaws are safe. Giving it these arms and legs is where the risks increase, even as the reward increases.
New metric for LLM hallucinations with results for GPT-3, GPT3-5 and Alpaca Lora
HALTT4LLM - Hallucination Trivia Test for Large Language Models

This project is an attempt to create a common metric to test LLM's for progress in eliminating hallucinations; the most serious current problem in widespread adoption of LLM's for real world purposes.

Method seems to be multiple choice trivia tests with real world answers, trick/fake questions where (I don't know) is correct answer, and 'None of the above' type questions. GPT-3.5 hallucinates but is much more willing to admit uncertainty than either GPT-3 or Alpaca Lora.