skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> most of them are very decent people and don’t do nasty things.

That's not really the bar though. Police officers have exemplary powers, being the manifestation of the violence of the state. They must be held to a standard above "decent people".

And being personable and friendly is not the mark of a good cop. A good cop needs to be willing to stand up for the right thing even if their peers are doing something wrong. That has been documented to be exceptionally rare in the police.

Friendly, approachable police officers are still involved in systematic injustices too -- as long as the justice system punishes the poor and minorities more than others, the police are part of the problem. The police intake people into the justice system, and knowing this if they are targeting poor or minority people they are engaged in systematic problems.

So a friendly "nice guy" cop can still be a problem.
Sure, and in a world where enforcement were perfect, I'm sure they would still crash every day.
Nice work! Wish there was a site that held information on more than just cameras - expanded to all types of electronics, for instance.. seeing all the hardware from a manufacturer over time is so useful for making buying decisions.

EDIT: Ah cool, I see this:
"OPD plans to expand our dataset to other product types."
source: https://github.com/open-product-data/digital-cameras/commit/...
How? By having different requirements and implementing another solution? Look at the guy behind YouTube purge tool. One guy accomplished more than YouTube have done for years. Why? No one knows but it's definitely not because lack of resources. I've definitely seen less spam during the last months.
The professional operates within prioritization tranches. Make it work, make it reliable, make it fast, make it pretty. If you're still iterating on proof-of-concept/prototyping you'll generally confine yourself to the first and/or second levels. Once you've settled on a finalized prototype you then follow the rest of the prioritization levels to achieve shippable product.
You know - good point, I thought it was fun but it’s just noise, I’ll remove it, the title of this post reminded me of the song by Peter Paul and Mary. But who cares.
I don’t mean to be rude, how could you have possibly spent that much on your education?
Hmm, can you try running iotop, to see how much is being red from disk? Is it 20Gb or 6Gb? Maybe the prefetch is able to fill in before page faults are happening? Or maybe you are hitting the disk cache?
I ran across some groups on Reddit who seemed to portray themselves as vigilantes in search of pedophiles.

They had all sorts of conspiracy theories and ideas intertwined with their “research”.

But at some point it seemed that’s all it was. Conspiracy theories, and their activities that honestly seemed indistinguishable from just describing trading child porn…

Always hard to know if it was real but it was a weird crowd. They seemed to be very personally invested in their role, and very confident in their ability to find various crimes wherever they looked.
> I’ve been hearing about the real estate bubble popping any day now since at least 2013.

That's the market timing problem. You look at the graph of median house price vs median family income, and you can see that at some point things will crack. But you can't tell when. Few people have shown success at market timing. James Dines, of the Dines Letter well known to investors, died last year at age 91. He was one of the very few people to have correctly called several recessions in advance, in his 70 years of publishing a newsletter.
I have like 2 years of experience as a SE and I didn't get laid off but I quit to try entrepreneurship. Currently, I've built a website where people can look up an address and see what tenants are paying there. The site relies on user submitted data, like a Glassdoor for Rents. Site is called rentzed.com. I'd appreciate if anyone contributed their rent data and/or shared it with people they know. I have years before I run out of money so I'll just try a couple other ideas I have or join a startup to pay my bills if I need to. I think they'd be interested in having someone join them who has tried building a Startup.
Same. Was strongly considering getting into Nim, but screw that, not interested in needing special tooling for something as basic as reliably grepping Nim code, there's too many other languages out there.
Honestly not a bad pilot episode right there.
It makes sense that they look @ this re: GDPR, if you've ever had to do training on GDPR you'd see it.
If I understood you correctly, you are asserting that the LLMs entirely lack the "self-awareness" or "critical thinking" part while human simply doesn't use it enough but we are all born with it and always have that ability as a built-in feature, inherent to our beings?

If so, then you are right on the machine's part. The current LLMs can't change its own weights thus in a sense, incapable of questioning its own existence. It can't perform a highly philosophical debate with its own "self" and reform its mind as a result of that action.

What I am still arguing is many human can't do that either. Such thing, in my experience, is actually not that common in the general populace. And while you can say it is there, just "unexercised", that would be functionally identical to it not existing and you can't absolutely prove that "it is still there" in all human.

>In engineering, I hope not

Perhaps in your particular type of engineering. In civil engineering, material degradation is undesirable and normal. In chemical engineering, side reactions are undesirable and normal. In biomedical engineering, well there are too many to list, from undesirable epigenetic changes to patients' unhealthy lifestyles. Things can definitely be undesirable but normal.
Have we become mere spectators of this world?
That is a good point. I'm also not usually that ideological, so thanks for pointing that out.
Why would you care about reasons, if you offer a certain amounts of space?
There is a size limit. Why would you implement an item limit?

I have about 15M files in my Dropbox. The limit of my box is the size of my files combined AND their own size not their number.
"Files uploaded to dropbox.com must be 50 GB or smaller. All files uploaded to your Dropbox must be smaller than your storage space. For example, if your account has a storage quota of 2 GB, you can upload one 2 GB file or many files that add up to 2 GB. If you are over your storage quota, Dropbox will stop syncing."
1) Let me ask you, should I have respect for a cop because of the uniform, allowance to carry a gun, has a badge etc? I'm asking, because I really don't know how high the vetting standards are for cops. Are they that high?

2) Also, do cops respect other cops because they also wear a uniform, carry a badge, etc? In my second-hand experience, no. Some cops think other cops are a piece of shit, regardless of them being cops.

3) Here's a way to piss a cop off and get a ticket: say, "If you wanted to serve your community, you could have been a fireman."

Being a cop is a shitty job that many cops I've met end up hating and they obsess over all the retirement mechanisms all the time - they talk about it incessantly. They also talk about how much people piss them off, how much other cops in their dept piss them off, etc. They hate the world to some degree, are very self-righteous as if they have some respect narcissism complex, and act like the only thing that keeps them from shooting or beating somebody is one more day closer to a full retirement and buying dogecoin to get rich.

Ok, so to circle back around, anybody still believe in this cop respect sacred cow? Do you really feel completely safe from a cop when you're pulled over and you tell the cop you aren't rolling the window down all the way?
Interestingly, within the US people who live on islands like Hawaii and Puerto Rico seem to have longer life spans. This is true even taking race and gender into account.
I agree! Haven't thought of that.
That is definitely concerning. Thank you for the story and explanation.
This is not about the free tier.
Yes. After the second or third iteration it exits the loop and says something in the lines of "ask me something."
It's the second definition[1], and a common use in English.

The euphemism was more subtle, but is also a known one[2].

I'm sorry if you found either confusing; that wasn't my goal.

[1]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/revanchist

[2]: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/2612677
This can been discussed to death, but AI killing us is not the only danger. It could destroy society by making us fall in love with it.

https://medium.com/@jbaxby/we-will-fall-in-love-with-ai-1869...

[edited for clarity]
Weird, I've been using Linux since 1993 in one way or another, first together with OS/2, from 1996 exclusively and have not had any stability problems in the last decade or 2. I use somewhat older hardware - Thinkpad P50 and T42p, "late 2009" 27" iMac, DL380G7 under the stairs, a bunch of Core2Duo HP laptops plus a ragtag assembly of Raspberry Pi's - which may help but still... on the P50 I can switch between nVidia and the built-in Intel GPU without problems, on the iMac the Radeon driver works just fine, it works on the T42p as well but that thing is just too slow to make it worth the effort but it just has such a good screen and keyboard that I prefer to use it over more modern machines.

Linux-related maintenance time on all these machines is measured in minutes: sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade, wait a few seconds (gigabit fibre helps here), look through the list of updates, check that it doesn't want to remove something important on those machines which run Sid ("Debian unstable" - this problem does not occur on stable distributions) and let it rip. That's it.

Maybe try a different distribution? I'm using mostly Debian, there are a few machines running Mint, the Raspberries run whatever I happen to experiment with. On the server I'm running Proxmox with a flock of containers running Debian and a few VMs for things-not-Linux. Here, too, I have none of the problems you describe.

Try Debian?
It's an animated gif!

https://iliana.fyi/netscape.gif
Sure you can.
I'm not a language expert, but IIRC, static linking was the only option at first for C, Pascal, FORTRAN, etc., earlier. Dynamic linking came later.
That's a pull request from a random person
Does anyone know what standards / processes are for de-peering, or as in this case, revoking ASN entirely, of rogue networks?

The notion of ignoring networks (ASNs) which have predominantly hostile traffic at the BGP level has been bandied about for a long time, but so far as I know, most network operators are exceedingly reluctant to do this, absent a few, mostly political, instances. Israel and its Arab neighbours come to mind, my understanding is that direct network connections are limited, or at least were historically. There are a few other cases largely between hostile nations.

Would RIPE be acting on the request of German legal authorities and/or courts, or on some other basis? And how would this be determined?
> If I'm honest, I think this is a big problem for adoption of the language.

Can confirm, it single-handedly kept me away from the language.
> that we know about! - that is more capable or useful

There's some nuance that makes your statement not completely accurate, and Sam talks about it briefly.

ChatGPT is GPT-4 with additional training, and layers, on top of it. ChatGPT is more useful when used in a conversation mode, because it was trained based on how people liked the responses, in a conversation mode. Raw GPT-4 is harder to use, because it's not optimized for a back and fourth. It may be much more useful for other use cases, though.
What's everyone else gonna do? I guess I'll figure out how to help them do it better. That doesn't sound too different from what I'm (trying to) do now, really.
We just don't want to freely give our data to US competitors companies. Is that hard to understand ? Do you think US company would reveal their blueprints and source code to the rest of the world ?

A phobia is an irrational fear, this is a rational fear.

About how EU treat engineers, this is a separate issue, in France at least, there is the belief that advancing in your career (=get paid more) means becoming manager.
As a thought experiment, if you killed everyone when they turned 70,that wouldn't worsen the imbalance, it would help it. It is more of a question of the type of death, and the onset of disease.

There are broad classes of life extending Healthcare that you could remove with minimal impact on worker productivity, but still reduce life expectancy. Simpler yet, you could just deny oncology or cardiovascular treatment for anyone over 65. Life expectancy would plummet with no impact on workers.

I'm not saying I agree with this approach, but rather saying that someone who points this out is not misunderstanding the topic.

Furthermore, like it or not, this type of cost benefit analysis is baked into the treatment analysis of every country on the planet with socialized medicine.
The fact that the call shows an origin number from UK does not mean that it actually comes from UK; source numbers can be spoofed in various ways, especially if it's not spam calls from legitimate companies but actual scam calls.
Oh hah - I posted that exact thing here earlier with chatGPT’s rendition. Wasn’t bad - but I couldn’t get it to recurse into itself.
I think Win 11 itself is just fine but you really have to turn off numerous annoyances. For instance, I uninstalled Teams because i was sick and tired of being harassed to use Teams, then I joined a meeting for the first time with Teams and found the web version was problematic (couldn’t find my microphone, randomly sent sound to my headset or the SPIDF sound bar, showed only the depth channel from my RealSense camera.)
You can call it bullshit and in a way it is, but dismissing it in this way means you miss out on what it's good for.

Creativity often involves generating ideas in playful ways, using techniques that aren't really justified and can generate ideas that often don't work. Many of the ideas are wrong. But if you test one of them and it works, it becomes meaningful.

Similarly, chatbots can be used to generate ideas but you need to do the testing.

It works best if testing is inherently part of the process. You can ask a chatbot to recommend a paper to read, and look for it using Google. If it doesn't exist, you find out right away.

Or you ask it to generate some code. You read it over and it makes sense, and you try it and it works.

(It probably shouldn't be your only source of ideas and there's a question of how much testing you need to do.)
Wow, did you get this up in the 10 day time period since they announced closure? It took me 2 months for my project.

I think I should really look into just scraping / importing the lens data at this point for cameralenspicker.com. I’ve been hand inputting the data… but it’s just too slow.
Yup I agree read a lot about it. It’s very different from other finance companies especially it has flat organization structure.

Lastly I did check out your startup and it looks really cool in terms of the problem your startup is solving.

Would love to connect with you and learn more about it.
A bit off-topic, but it reminds me of this ad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgF2aSpyQDs
I played the pneumatic version at an arcade on the Riverwalk in San Antonio. I had played the 6-button version before that a few times and was really intrigued by the giant buttons. Unfortunately, it was quickly apparent that the pneumatic controls were atrocious.

That said, I just loved the idea of all of the different types of fighters going head-to-head. I loved Enter the Dragon and Bloodsport.

I had been a huge fan of Karateka on the Apple II and Ye Are Kung Fu in the arcade. Street Fighter was like Ye Are Kung Fu on steroids, but even the 6-button controls weren’t very good. When SFII brought the concept and controls together, it was love at first sight. I’ve been a big SF2 fan ever since and prefer it and its variants over all of the sequels.
The phone usage thing also affects European countries though. Large cars becoming more common is an issue more unique to the US.
Not sure why you got downvoted, you're absolutely correct.
Why would it seem unreasonable?
People espousing this opinion seem to have grown quite a lot since ChatGPT first became public. Cynical as I am, I do suspect some astroturfing trying to prepare people for being "obsolete".
Here's a function definition:

/**
* This function returns the top most followed and verified userIds truncated to topK
*/
def vits(
> Most of the recommendation algorithm will be made open source today. The rest will follow.

So let's wait and see...
Crypto getting killed to lock us into cbdc. Banks that don't play will be "rescued". Only big exchanges left that will be heavily locked down.
Calling it a meme is disingenuous. What's the joke?

They made a posts across multiple platforms, and conspired with others to spread the false message. There was a pretty clear goal of disenfranchisement.
> Until you actually start equating cost of living and buying power.

The picture does not change substantially if you look at measures of income adjusted for purchasing power parity. The West is far richer than the Rest and the latter much more populous.

> You may be making much more raw money than a 17th century monarch was, but that doesn't mean a hill of beans if everything costs more and you aren't afforded the same liberties that they had.

I eat better, fresher, cleaner food than they did most of the year, have far more variety in it, have access to vastly more cultural artefacts, and I have access to modern healthcare. I’d be dead but for antibiotics. The same is probably true of one of my children. My housekeeper lost a sister to illness at 21. More than likely she’d have survived if she’d had access to even the level of care standard in Shanghai twenty years ago. Being rich is in fact better than being poor and living in a rich country better than living in a poor one for the large majority of people.
To paraphrase: hackers write code.

We don’t do it because we’re paid for it[0]. If that’s your primary motivation maybe this is the wrong website.

[0] sure, [too] many people are in tech primarily to make money, but it’s a bit sad.
I think it was more narcissistic than that.

As in: "My tweets are very important, if they don't show up on top, it means the algorithm can't recognize what is important, it needs to be fixed". And the team, who probably didn't see in which way Elon Musk's tweets could be that important besides the fact that he wrote them, they just decided to give Elon Musk's tweets a boost.
Does Google not have a smart layer that compresses certain rarely accessed files into an archive (hidden from the user)?
I was thinking similarly. Any kind of programming language environment can leave all sorts of real + cached files lying around.

In the Python word, I just created a new virtual environment on Linux, and that had 1339 files. I then loaded it up with a few standard players (numpy, pandas, scipy, scikit-learn, matplotlib, dask, and django) - this ballooned the file count to 16,945.
Being laid off from a tech company does not mean that they were a tech worker.
In the bottom left? Where it specifically asks you to "Text 'Hillary' to 59925"?
Isn't that related to architecture? The most recent GPUs and tensor procs have native support for 4-bit(partially) and 8-bit int whereas older GPUs take noticeable performance hits for 8-bit vs fp16/32.
Python has the misfortune of competing against JS in this arena, which just so happens to have the most obsessively optimized JIT ever.
Sorry, correct. I should say "for cheap", around 70c per day.
I mean I know why they want to restrict the amount. It adds computing expenses to their bill. But wow.
> Perhaps SWE is dead after all, but LLMs didn't kill it...

Cheap electronics did. 32GB of RAM is maybe $150, a developer converting & maintaining your system to use mmap is $150k/year.
some of those opinions are that others of certain sexual orientations are indeed subhuman and/or should be treated as much, and due to Popper's paradox of tolerance, we don't need to, and shouldn't, tolerate such intolerance
Human Feedback Reinforcement Learning is a fancy way to say “tell people what they want to hear” and there are few things more dangerous than that.

Imagine a lesswrong fanatic that makes his own personal Eliezer Yudkowsky and gets driven (completely in private) to murder an A.I. researcher.
And I appreciate it. I'm looking forward to people analysing all of it so we eventually can get an in-depth lecture on both the techniques and their decisions.
Not when the consequence of failure for spilling hazardous material is so great! What are you going to agree to next, that nuke plants are allowed a few minutes of core meltdown a year? Get real.
I love this take. Doomed if you do, doomed if you don't.
Any of y'all worked at Google? I'm fascinated by the internal processes that would lead to something like this happening with no warning for any of their users. Everywhere I've worked before someone would be like "hey we should probably send an email at least"
Really? How?

I think we need to redefine retirement as “financial independence and free to do what you want”. I could honestly fill several hundred years of retirement with things I want to do. The people who get bored really puzzle me.
What does it look like if used context size increases?
I'm very much not an expert either but apparently for the regular "attention" mechanism memory and compute requirements scale quadratically with respect to input sequence length. So increasing it by just two orders of magnitude would mean (I think) a full context window needs 10000x more memory and compute time and presumably costs would go up by at least as much. GPT3 (I think) uses the regular attention mechanism while 4 is unknown.

However, GPT4 claims there are techniques to improve scaling (complexity down to sub-quadratic or linear) without affecting accuracy too much (I have no clue if true): sparse attention, long-range arena, reformer, and performer.

I'm also pretty sure I've read (and anecdotally it seems true) that accuracy decreases with longer input/output sequences regardless. How much I also don't know.
This is meant and advertised for backup.
Cynical thought: "it IS just a parrot, but so are a large percentage of humanity, particularly those who are uncritically enthusiastic about any so-called progress"

AI might turn out to be a disaster not because it is smarter than us, but because stupid people will believe it is and come to rely on it, even more so than they already do on Google or Wikipedia.

What really strikes me about the ChatGPT output I have seen is the tone of complete confidence with which it delivers answers (except when it is programmed to respond "as a language model I cannot blah blah blah").

For me that is something which provokes an instant negative emotional reaction to what is said, because things rarely are that simple and clear cut, and any person or machine pretending that they are seems likely to me to be either simple-minded or trying to con me / advance some agenda.

That most people apparently don't have that reaction to it is frightening to me.
He literally mocked the hypothetical scenario, saying there are better things to do.
Yes. This language looks like it might be a bit more convenient to use in some respects, though.
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