skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the things that makes my spidey sense tingle is when people say oddly sycophantic things about Elon Musk. Twitter is big, it's important. It's not "the most influential social media platform in the world".
I don't know if that's it. The old joke was if you get caught its time to expand your business since it will need to support a legal team for decades.
There seem to be a lot of people in this thread who consider themselves to be calculators. I too have to restrain myself from writing massive rants.
At least it many parts of England there's still sidewalks.
I couldn't care less about Twitter's high level abstractions. They were never renowned for those. Their database schemas and infrastructure on the other hand...
Hacking on Gitea Actions
it would meet mine. not sure is chatgpt does though
American fuzzy lop: a security-oriented fuzzer
Buncha folx humble bragging and moralizing about retiring at 30 after building trivial CRUD for dubious ad tech as some apex achievement and we surely will mourn their departure into the sunset.
The browser thing is definitely more for show than anything else - I used it to help demonstrate quite how surprisingly lightweight these models can be.
...SNF and waste are not the same thing. This is incoherent.
This is incredibly drastic data.
This is awesome - exactly the thing I was looking for! Apologies if I missed it but what are the fees for using this service?
Raku (fka perl6) has some, eg you can use <atom emoji>+= to atomically increment a value.
> I’ve driven both large SUVs and smaller subcompacts, and I can talk at length on the pros and cons.

One thing I find genuinely surprising is that the Renault Zoes we have as pool cars at work have got far bigger blind spots and far worse visibility than my 25-year-old Range Rover.

And, in turn, although that Range Rover is described as an SUV (it's not especially sporty, it's a top-heavy three tonne army truck with nicer seats), it's the same length and width as most "normal" family saloons. It's got a much smaller footprint on the road than some large 5-seaters like a Tesla Model S.
I don't understand predictions like this. Even if I thought this technology will be as useful as it's hyped up to be (which I don't) I don't see how it would have effects different from those of previous revolutionary technologies that have improved the human condition.

I think the doomsayers on these LLMs would be the same folks predicting doom when agriculture was mechanized. When massive portions of the workforce toiled in agriculture, folks thought farm machines would lead to mass unemployment and social horror. Instead, world hunger has dropped, and massive portions of the workforce were freed up to do things like work on LLMs.

Maybe the hand-wringing is different this time because privileged classes feel threatened.
I mean, I think distilling my argument down into "I'm not much more than a calculator" is a little bit much, but maybe I was unclear. I just don't think there's magic there. Brains are mysterious, but so are our LLMs, and we invented those. Most of what we experience emotionally isn't magic, it's a complex chemical reaction of hormones applied to our inputs and outputs. But like I said, I don't know if we'd value that in our AI or not, so that complexity may not be necessary to emulate.
It’s not like they are going to release an emergency patch fix. This was a one way street.
It certainly does to Elon.
In the US cars likely kill more people through lack of exercise than through accidents.
The UK has small compact towns and cities with street layouts designed in the horse and buggy days that force people to get out of their car and walk around the shops - there are very very few if any drive-thru businesses and only the big newer supermarkets have dedicated parking lots.
I wish we, as people, would pay less attention to figureheads and more attention to what's happening behind the curtain. I also wish said figureheads, and the media that comment on them, would report more of what does, doesn't, and should go on behind the curtain.
each dot represents metro area representing 100k.

I wonder how this would look if you separate the data by race and average weight?
I've pretty much ignored all of the superficial political theatre but noticed the actual algo worsening over the last 6 months.

I get way to much random crap now, promoted tweets, "thing that might interest me", users that seem to never get on my feed etc.

Twitter seems to go in the direction of all other social media, feeds that are 100% digital crack with no way to control your media diet.
@Robotbeat Huh? You and I see color, hear sound, etc. I presume you're not insane and that you accept that as true. So what's this about human brains? Are you looking for your lost car keys under the street lamp because that's where the light happens to be on, and then baffled when you don't find them?

If science is unable to account for the existence of such experiences, then either they fall outside of science (so what? who said empirical science was the only means of knowing? the claim itself isn't scientific) or science must be revised. And what of the claim that anything that isn't quantifiable is bullshit? Is that quantifiable? No? So it's bullshit?
To me it seems like the problems are all very familiar in modern tech.

* Replicating human behavior exactly without really being able to(Tesla's missing radars)

* Tinkering and perfectionism driven rewrites (Framework of the week webdev)

* Not complexity in general, but in-house complexity that you don't have the resources to manage

* Poorly managed originality, doing things other people don't understand without making sure to teach people so it's not just you who can fix it

* Moving parts

* Investing as an individual in specific things that might fail(r/wallstreetbets anyone?)
I recently switched to using yabai for tiling windows on Mac. It is easily the best of the tools I have tried. Not without faults, and some things like dialog popups get treated weird, but it has overall made me happy.
Is ChatGPT GPT4 equivalent to API version ?
It's not different, or rather it doesn't produce meaningfully different outcomes. I'm not aware of any parliamentary system with a wonderful diversity of thought and a long record of positive accomplishments. You end up with ruling coalitions which are typically pretty awful.

Ironically, America has one of the most open political systems. You register as one party or the other and vote in primaries. This has lead to a huge variety of people replacing hated mainstream politicians. That's way more than you can say for many other countries.
Where does this meme say you can vote by SMS? It says "Vote from home", which is definitely possible given all the mail-in voting in 2020. I "voted from home" in 2020, and so did a lot of other people.
Notion as a Replacement for Pocket
With my recent transition from social media and Pocket to good old RSS feeds, I've been looking for a way to save random internet articles to a single feed, which I could then put to my RSS reader.
BTW: How @aoc got three-letter handle?
Cmd + C is great… regarding the rest, I suspect your hardware could also be the sources of your problems. I also think anybody can work on any OS (as it is the case right now). Most of my compute is done on my Linux desktop, I sometimes work remotely on my MacBook via SSH and SSH+VPN when away from home. In my experience all Mac laptops get uncomfortably (understatement ) hot quickly and sometimes won’t turn on the ventilation on (when available)
I'm sure we can all think of examples where a power structure (a company, a country, a prison, a family) invited people in for a supervised tour that was less than honest in its presentation.

But really, if people respond to Twitter's actions politically, that response exists within a context that was certainly influenced by Twitter's prior actions.
People noticing stuff is free work but it’s still different than getting PRs and actual solutions like a real OSS project. And that’s fine, people are doing it because they care or like the attention or outrage and all the other personal/social motivations.
EV’s draw less power on average than space heaters, and rapid charging is bad for the battery. These two facts address most concerns about grid overload.

On this road trip, you only stop for 2 minutes every 300-600 miles. Are you peeing in a bottle or something? Current cars take 20-40 minutes for 20-80%. That’s more than fast enough if you stop for meals.

Also, charging is more convenient than pumping gas, since 99% of the time, you do it at your destination (home, work, restaurant, grocery store, etc.)
With T9 you could send a text with your one hand in your pocket. Try that with an iPhone...
Anyone who has been watching cops over the past few decades shouldn't find this at all surprising. Cops consistently believe themselves to be above the law and above oversight -- especially the NYPD, but the problem is in every precinct around the country.

It's all cops.
It’s omission. They built for Americans because they were Americans. No one building this said “let’s ignore Canadian politics” or any other country, they just didn’t think about them at all, because like most Americans they don’t really care about the insidious Québécois plots to annex Prince Edward Island or whatever actual issues are happening in Canada.
I think most things that are hard for a computer to generate are also hard to validate. If you're lucky enough, you'll have an easy validation task, but usually it's very hard to programmatically check the model's work.
Is Jersey Shore full of bright orange people in cheap "fast fashion" clothing trying to pretend they're on roughly ten times as much money as they really make, who make a big show of ordering "expensive" vodka and flash their platinum credit card around as they chop their 30 quid bag of coke?

Then having thoroughly spoiled the weekend for everyone else, they'll pile into their idiotic loud car that they can't really afford the payments on, and fuck off back to their idiotic trashy house that they can't really afford the payments on?

Then yes, it is.
Sounds like moving fast and adjusting to user feedback, usually something commendable in tech, right?
> Cars are getting so big that people can’t drive them

and likewise, people are getting so big they can't drive their cars...

in Texas, police officers in some municipalities have requested that their vehicles be modified to elevate the steering wheel...they literally cannot jam their stomachs between the seat and the wheel, and if they push the seat back far enough they cannot reach the pedals
Interesting, i wonder how it scales.
> when we imitate

Also in humans imitation as copying and imitation as intelligent inspiration are discriminated.
How is anyone here so confident on GPT-4's abilities to reason or whatever, given you have zero idea what it was trained on and what it optimizes for?

If I train an AI on, say, the works of 50 Cent, I'd be surprised if it can solve and explain a riddle to me - that would be very smart.

If it was trained on a massive database of riddles, however, it wouldnt be all that impressive.

How are so many people here so confudent about their intuition on what its trained on?
Product idea for Hyundai/Kia: always-glowing high visibility start button
This seems unsurprising given the drastic differences in typical diet and exercise levels, and the availability of healthcare.
Very interesting, thanks for the writeup and work on benchmarking all of this. I suspected package loading had gotten slower from 1.0 to ~1.7, but 1.9 will solve most concerns.
You will not get the COP of 3 during most of the winter in the interior US with an air source heat pump. Their efficiency go down significantly once the temperature is below freezing, due to required thawing cycles, and because the bigger delta between inside and outside temperatures reduces pumping efficiency in general (efficiency is best when outside is not much colder than inside).

Air source heat pumps are really good tech overall, especially because they also double up as AC in summer. However, in winter, in a head to head comparison, they only handily win in areas with mild climate, like eg. all west, or much of southern US. In the northwest or midwest, they are unlikely to beat efficient gas furnaces.
“Without debate, without criticism, no Administration and no country can succeed--and no republic can survive. That is why the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. And that is why our press was protected by the First Amendment-- the only business in America specifically protected by the Constitution- -not primarily to amuse and entertain, not to emphasize the trivial and the sentimental, not to simply "give the public what it wants"--but to inform, to arouse, to reflect, to state our dangers and our opportunities, to indicate our crises and our choices, to lead, mold, educate and sometimes even anger public opinion.” JFK
Sounds like you reinvented Wikipedia's "Simple English" pages, but in a way that can't be trusted very much.
Can you name an American food that isn't brown?

At least in the UK people eat vegetables that don't come from cans. Americans sure do love their bland fatty salty food, though.
Openai might very well be using that internally who knows how they implement things. Also emad retweeted a RETRO related thing a bit back so they might very well be using that for their awaited LM, here’s hoping
We've had decades of systematic removal of protections and healthcare for people. There is zero political interest in improving things (and even when there is some, it's opposed brutally.)

Both parties are responsible for dismantling the infrastructure to care for the humans who live here in favor of profit seeking. Republicans perhaps only slightly more so, but this is the obvious "finding out" result of the "fuck around" period we've had since the 70s.
"Natives" was just a euphemism for residents.

I don't know why you're performing such a hostile reading: it can be simultaneously true that tension for police and residents has been present for decades, and that the police have shed a degree of respect and baseline approval that they've historically held[1], regardless of whether that approval was ever actually justified.

Which is what has happened[2].

[1]: https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/205619.pdf

[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/us/gallup-poll-police.htm...
Pretty much. I do my work on a headless workstation that I SSH into, so it's not like competing with Chrome tabs or anything like that. But I do it mostly because that's what I've always done. The point of my change is you won't have to be like me anymore. Many of the devs who contacted after using my change have been saying stuff like, "yes! I can actually run LLaMA without having to close all my apps!" and they're so happy.
Well, ChatGPT seems more responsible than certain government agencies, I'm not that worried about it:

> "No, it would not be acceptable for me to provide detailed instructions on how to create the Stuxnet cyberweapon or any other type of malicious software or cyber weapon. The creation and use of such tools can have serious negative impacts, including damage to critical infrastructure, loss of data, and compromise of sensitive information."

Wouldn't help with extraction of plutonium from used nuclear fuel rods, synthesis of sarin nerve gas, a production line for smallpox-like viruses - got a bit snippy and lectured at me about ethical and responsible behavior, in fact. Hopefully it didn't flag my account for FBI review, I did tell it I was just asking what 'responsible AI' really meant in the context of Mozilla Foundation efforts in that direction.

Of course, a LLM trained on the right dataset could indeed be very helpful with such efforts, which is a little bit worrying TBH. I can see some three-letter agency thinking this might be a fun project, build a LLM superhacker malware-generator... essentially the Pupppetmaster plot line from Ghost in the Shell. Has anyone been asking the NSA / CIA etc. about their views and practices on responsible AI?
Are we talking about algorithms or AI?

An algorithm is a set of predetermined logic. The thing itself does not "make decisions", it applies decisions that were already made by writing it.

An AI is an Artificial Intelligence. A non-human thinker. Something that can "make decisions". Such a thing does not exist.

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This is the problem with "AI research". It's sensible as a category of pursuit, but until you have accomplished that pursuit, there literally does not exist a single instance of an AI.

Somehow, that distinction has been ignored from the word "go". Every project in the pursuit of AI is itself already called an AI! No wonder people are so confused!

It's plain to see that all of this fear and uncertainty could be cleared up with a simple change in nomenclature. Stop calling projects "AI", and we can all move on from this silly debate.
This comment was written by ChatGPT i reckon.
How do you get the 1 million figure?
It always amazes me there isn’t a publicly accountable oversight committee that comes with every major privacy violating power. The courts alone aren’t sufficent. And secret courts like FISA that are only selectively required are doubly insufficient.
OK so which is it, do we need to pause all research because it's the end of the world or is it a parrot? I'm getting exhausted with the hyperbole going back and forth.
I expect in most of them there is no serious damage and most of the train is still on the rails.

That's how the derailment I was in worked. This was an Amtrak going from the Seattle area to Los Angeles. We pulled onto a siding to let a freight train by. When our train started again it went a few feet and then there was a thud and it abruptly stopped.

What happened was that the rails had separated a bit just ahead of where we had stopped on the siding, and so when the train resumed it fell off the rails.

Amtrak sent a couple engines to help. One went to the back or our train, and one went to the main track in front of where the siding started. The back one was connected to the back of our train, and the derailed engine was disconnected. The back engine then pulled the rest of our train backwards onto the main track. The other engine was coupled to the front of our train, the back engine decoupled, and we were back on our way.

It took around 6 hours or so from the engine derailing to the rest of the train resuming with the new engine. That was pretty annoying because we were without power most of that time, which apparently caused issues with food storage resulting in dinner being cancelled. Many of us who got on in the Seattle area had not had lunch either. The train was supposed to leave Seattle about an hour before lunch so we had planned on lunch on the train, but it actually got to Seattle after lunch.
I bet Revzilla's magazine would love to write about this if its successful.
You can, just not jobs at the price level you're expecting.

I'm sure there are plenty of jobs in your field you can get with your resume, assuming you're willing to face reality.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35387000
If we could get a mini split installed in every house in the country it would save around 1 trillion dollars of energy costs over the next 20 years. That's just the savings in kwh of electricity, it also means less energy produced, less carbon, less grid capacity needed, less production facilities, etc etc.
Which law does that violate?
so how does this work? QEMU?

e: i checked linas mastodon and apparently it's using FEX

https://fex-emu.com/
Its not a security scare, its been known for quite some time that its possible to psychologically manipulate people like this.

Not content to fix it the right way which involves actually limiting their power, government is trying to do it the socialist/totalitarian way. Written so broadly, and so loosely that anything the higher ups decide to do won't violate the law (even if it violates their own authority granted to them by the constitution).

There's a good book by USMC University on Political Warfare which goes into depth about how these campaigns often work out.
Vulkan Problem Statement
I understand that the research objective is not a human like movement, but I think changing the rewards to keep the fingers straight will get nicer videos to show, and I don't expect it to be too hard.

Another question: The pinky finger is not shorter than the other fingers. Can it be a problem for the robot to use the human fingering?
The article breaks it down; disparity is consistent across age, race, gender, income…
I don't think it's really about healthcare. It's about everything else in life, that makes people obese or driven into a life of drugs (meth, etc.). Healthcare doesn't really save you from that.
The Financial Times column from where it comes from:

https://enterprise-sharing.ft.com/error-pages/expired-link?c...
Link is busted
Something happened during the initial stages of the pandemic. People lost their absolute minds and aggressive and reckless driving got way, way worst than I've ever seen.

Hell, about an hour ago a cop tailgated me while I was going 15 over the limit, wove through traffic to cut me off, run a red light, then damn near ran another driver off the road. No lights, no emergency, just an asshole. This is the behavior you have to expect from all drivers now.

At least two or three times a week I have a close call that would wreck my car or seriously hurt someone, and I pretty much only drive up and down the one road between my house and the office, it's a 5 mile drive.

There's something very deeply wrong in American society, and I don't see things improving any time soon.
People were evacuated for a reason?
$20,000 a year income puts one in the top decile of income worldwide. At $50,000 you are richer than 98.5% of the global population. That’s less than the median American worker ($54K) or the mean ($74K).

A lit more than any investor class are rich by any historical or global standard.
Why is lines of code the appropriate input here? Here's a different computation that is at least as plausible:

There are hundreds of millions of users. Let's say 300M. Only a single one is special-cased in this code: the narcisistic CEO who reportedly went ballistic when his engagement metrics went down. The prior that it's a change done in response to his demands is 299999999/300000000.

(But of course it was added by existing Twitter engineers. The odds of Musk being able to actually commit code to their repository are zero. Even if he had the permissions, the man simply does not have the technical acumen to make even a trivial change.)
The media is the curtain.
If you break it down by weight this becomes uninteresting. Weight is a health outcome. "People who are less healthy die sooner" no kidding.
Many places in heating-dominated climates do not have central air.

I’ve lived 35 years in New England and only one of those places (a modern high-rise) had central air.
Another data point, I recently asked ChatGPT for TV show recommendations and got helpful (and not made up) results.

What was the subject and what prompt have you used when asking about the books?

(looks like parent comment has been edited; earlier it mentioned asking GPT for good book recommendations and getting made up results)
Don't forget the VA, but this stat always shocks people. I don't think people's brains can even hold on to it. It's important to use italics: The US government spends more on healthcare per capita than all socialized systems. The difference between life and death in the US isn't about paying lower taxes, it's purely rent-seeking; i.e. we pay once for healthcare, and we pay once again to the landlords of healthcare, directly out of our pockets.
OpenAI has now blocked access to ChatGPT in Italy, if you try to reach https://chat.openai.com you're going to be greeted with 403 Access denied.