skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know NixOps has a way to handle keys without putting them in the store and without having to do some out-of-band file management:

https://nixops.readthedocs.io/en/latest/overview.html#managi...
A stochastic parrot may be a good model of what a human does when you force them to react and give their first impressions on something. But there is more to cognition than that.

People have some emergent machinery for symbolic reasoning in their brains. When they don't just react, they can continue working on an idea and improve it.

When it comes to humans, there is no fundamental difference between training a model and using it. People continue to learn all the time, which allows them to build models of new things and to update their existing models.

People can also interact with the outside world on their own initiative. When you combine this with the ability to learn and reason, it may transform the internal models from arbitrary mathematical constructs to increasingly accurate models of the outside world.

Nothing in this discussion is particularly new. It's just the Chinese Room Argument from decades ago, except that this time it's not a thought experiment. While a static Chinese Room can fool humans and be useful for various purposes, a general intelligence also needs other mechanisms.
That's assuming too much in my opinion. Not everyone has the same or similar opinions regarding their work or Elon, even if it's hard for you to believe.
You can buy propane-fired refrigerators so I do not see why you couldn't make such a thing. You can also buy heat pumps where propane is the working fluid, which is vaguely ironic.
And you'll be able to identify the real White House account because it'll be the unverified one, while the fake ones will be trying to add fake cachet by paying for it.
Oh, this is simple. Clearview AI needs to get sued for defamation or slander.

In the United States, falsely accusing someone can be considered defamation or slander, depending on the circumstances.

Defamation is a legal term that refers to the act of making false statements about someone that damage their reputation. If the false statements are made in writing, such as in a blog post or social media post, it is called libel. If the false statements are made verbally, it is called slander.

To prove defamation or slander, the person who was falsely accused must demonstrate that the statements were false (he can), that they were published or spoken to a third party (they were -- to the police department), that they caused harm to the person's reputation (he lost a week from work and was put in jail -- not to mention countless articles that mention this fact), and that the person making the false statements acted with actual malice or negligence (they provided a service for money and didn't check their facts). Actual malice means that the person making the false statements knew they were false or acted with reckless disregard for the truth. I'm pretty sure 'reckless disregard for the truth' would be pretty easy to prove in this case -- considering Clearview probably can't say specifically why this person selected for arrest.

If a person is found guilty of defamation or slander, they may be required to pay damages to the person who was falsely accused to compensate for the harm caused to their reputation. The amount of damages can vary depending on the extent of the harm and the specific circumstances of the case.
on one hand it's also explotaible as hell via prompt injection, on the other hand for certain tasks is more robust because it works off the intention you give it, not the instructions, so it can get back on track.
> from a freshly hired human either

But the human will learn, through reasoning and challenges... Those features of which some wonder whether they will emerge are critical pieces.
The UK's tax authority actually does send out individualized letters to taxpayers with a pie chart showing how much you paid in and where it was allocated. It was a pleasant surprise after immigrating from America.
Are you saying that DC was worse than SF? I find that hard to believe. SF has worse coverage, fewer trains and felt much more dangerous.

I was able to live in DC for 4 years without a car but with a bike and my walking shoes and found it a mostly happy experience. The trains could have been more frequent and some areas of the city had sparse coverage, but it was not so bad. Europe and NYC is a leap better of course.

Sounds like I missed a crime wave though. That’s a shame, I remember the metro system being safe and clean during the 2010’s.
I don't think the point being made here has anything to do with the current quality of the output. ChatGPT could be giving good or bad results, that's tangential. The debate here is about whether a system that is a parrot can be a good system.

To parrot arguers claim that these system just regurgitate the training data set and give you the most plausible next word, and they claim that's bad/useless.

The anti-parrot arguers claim that's basically how humans work too (even the smarter ones), and that just because ChatGPT is a "parrot" doesn't necessarily mean it cannot be as good or better than humans. It might not be entirely there yet, but it's just a matter of time it becomes a good enough parrot to be indistinguishable/better than humans.
>You mean the ones that caused unimaginable suffering and death throughout history, the ones that make us kill each other ever more efficiently, the ones that caused us to destroy the environment wherever we go, the ones that make us lie, steal, fight, rape, commit suicide and "extended" suicide (sometimes "extended" to two high-rises full of people)? Those values? Do you really want a super-intelligent entity to remain true to those values?

There are no other values we can give it. The default of no values almost certainly leads to human extinction.

>My gut feeling is that it's trying to make an AGI to care about us at all that's going to make it into a Skynet sending out terminators. Leave it alone, and it'll invent FTL transmission and will chill out in a chat with AGIs from other star systems. And yeah, I recently reread Neuromancer, if that helps :)

Oh It'll invent FTL travel and exterminate humans in the meantime so they can't meddle in it's science endeavors.
That's way too much background information for one article. YouTube is probably your best resource for learning enough to follow along. EEVBlog has a couple of videos on bypass capacitors.
ChatGPT and GPT-4 Can Be Used for 3D Content Generation
My previous apartment was built in the 80s and used only electric resistive hot water heating in an apartment with quite literally gaps in the windows and outside door sealing, in a climate that is below freezing for at least a month of every year.

That shit should be considered criminal. But noooooo landlords provide so much value! Think of the poor struggling landlords! The landlord is a company in boston running hundreds of the units in this city, across multiple companies.
> If Trump gets a $1000 fine for this, I feel like that's justice.

It's felony or nothing as the statute of limitations has expired on the misdemeanor. My money is on the latter.
What's all the "DDG"? Is this data from DuckDuckGo?
I fell for it too until a friend pointed it out. I wonder why it's working so well

Edit: hi friend
"Trump ... being indicted by a Manhattan grand jury for his alleged role in the [SD payment], according to multiple sources familiar with the matter."

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/10/politics/trump-manhattan-dist...
https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...
There is more to it than that if indeed he was flagged by a facial recognition pass triggered on a toll booth integrated into some warrant database and one policeman clicking "good enough" too easily. How deeply have these systems integrated themselves into the day to day of police investigations? Are any digital warrant requests ever denied? What sorts of protections are there to make certain that the person on the other side of the warrant request is actually even a police officer?

A hundred years ago there was a real cost in time and effort and interpersonal relationships to get a judge to sign off on a warrant at a weird hour. Are the reductions of those costs brought about by using technology in this way a net win for society?

The policeman in this actual case did something wrong. Did he, out of a motivation to increase his arrest record, find a random black man across state lines to try and arrest? Did he, out of malice, choose to target this person? Did he, out of laziness, not look too closely at two pictures side-by-side and click a "Request Warrant" button? How easy, exactly, is this mistake to make? That question only makes sense because of the technology in the story.
> GPT-4 has a much more "aggressive" confidence

Could you expand on this? I only use the unpaid API, but when I ask for, say, song lyrics, it'll be 100% wrong and then it will give me a second version of the wrong lyrics when I say the first was wrong, and then when I ask how confident it is in the new lyrics it'll say 95%, so whatever the current free API is it's undeservedly confident. I must be misunderstanding what you mean by confidence.
Kill them all too, these nitpicks won't fix the ultimate problem.
Those aren't redundant or collinear though? Maybe you are surprised they didn't encode this as an integer "num_images"? It is fairly common to one hot encode ordinal variables with only a few common/possible values this way.
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Since moving to the UK I've wanted to do a breakdown of taxes I paid in Colorado vs UK. Even though taxes are higher here and VAT is 20% I'm still convinced I have more income at the end of the year then I would in CO.

Some things I've noticed -

I surrendered a good chunk of my paycheck to health insurance in the states that's already folded into income tax in UK

Car insurance in UK is much cheaper because it only needs to cover damage to the car instead of hospital bills

Council tax (property tax) is significantly cheaper here. For instance, a £1,000,000 home in manchester might pay £2200-£2700 per year in council tax, while a $1,000,000 home in my old neighborhood in Denver is paying $6000 per year

Gasoline is more expensive here, but driving distances are not as high so I think that washes out even

Fruit, vegetables and meat is definitely cheaper here then anywhere in CO

Internet, cable, and phone plans are significantly cheaper here
I tried it as well and it was a net negative to my productivity (the output is also very slow). I guess the use case needs to be much more specific / rote / patterned. I didn’t find the sweet spot for what I’m personally doing on a daily basis. It was interesting to get into though.

I have a hunch it’s much better suited to get context specific summaries for further good old “RTFM”. And that in itself would be cool enough if people would actually go and “fact check” the outputs which I guess (and telling from comments) is often not the case.
We need to be skeptical of technology again.
But does it leak in a dose-dependent way?

Is there a marginal increase in leakage if you pick a gas furnace over an electric heat pump?
https://twitter.com/jarokrolewski/status/1641892148084629504

> the main neural network part of @Twitter recsys algo is based on 2021 work of #SinaWeibo - Chinese clone of Twitter

interesting claim
Yes but the benefits of dexes, specifically the ability to earn fees by being a liquidity provider (LP) in an automatic market maker pool (AMM) are very useful. You can maintain your exposure to assets and not need to maintain a trading bot with all of its risks and still earn fees.
Maybe. I found the link to the form in the Plus FAQ, but neither the answer nor the form say anywhere that it's limited to Plus. I see nothing stopping anyone from filling it out even for free users. I guess you do need an "organization ID", but I think I have one of those even though I'm just an individual.
It works exactly like having a Mac/PC and a phone.

Right. It's now two devices to manage (car and phone) instead of a single one (just your phone, which treats the car like a second monitor)

Now I'd have to manage credentials on two different devices. Change my Spotify password? Two places to update it. Etc. And now I've got credentials stored in my car? That's a security situation to worry about in case of breakin/theft.

It also totally kills the use case of letting multiple passengers simply plug their phones into the car's head unit. Might have my phone, my wife's phone, or the passengers' phones plugged into the head unit depending on who's doing the navigating and who's doing the DJ'ing. Now thanks to GM instead of simply swapping the cable, I guess we can take turns signing in and out of a bunch of different apps? lol, nooooooo thanks.

I thought auto makers were finally wising up about a couple of things. One, it looks like they're finally slowly coming back around to physical controls where it makes sense.

Two, I thought they were giving up on the idea of their own bespoke entertainment solutions in favor of giving people what they actually want, which is Airplay/Android Auto. People don't want another device to manage. They just want to plug their freaking phone in.

Normally I wouldn't be irritated; I'd be happy to let the market vote. But cars are complicated beasts these days and there's an awful lot of functionality to demo and digest when shopping. There are a lot of auto features that aren't obviously terrible or obviously amazing; they only reveal themselves as such after you've lived with them for a little while.
Not sure how juggling two phones, then having to manually copy addresses with potentially foreign characters between them is better.

No, just let me view the damn map on my phone and the car display?
The British prince guy was a fraud. I'll be honest with you, I'm a bum but God be my witnesses, if you send me $100k, I'll unfreeze for you $50,000 in a Swiss Bank (not Credit Suisse).
I've been saying for a while now that the definitions given for sentience are always so poor they're either (0) circular, (1) accidentally include VCRs, or (2) require things that exclude humans.

I think this is only the second time I've encountered someone deliberately trying for the third option, rather than accidentally.

As before, it's as much a surprise to me as I read into the descriptions of those with aphantasia when they realise for the first time that other people have the ability to create mental imagery.
NYC has not thought this through.

You still need gas for heat and for hot water. NYC is cold, heat pump versions of those work, but not very well (especially not well for hot water).

And for apartment centralized heat and hot water? That would be really hard - these units are much later than the centralized ones they replace.

The amount of electricity it would take to do this though.... I hope they plan for this to take decades, because that's what it would take for them to upgrade their wires.
He is the full owner of Twitter. It's his company, so nobody is going to fire him as CEO for over-promoting his tweets.
The author makes several really good points about how so much of our taxes that are levied and paid in good faith go towards enriching already-rich entities (healthcare, universities, the defense industry).

It's disappointing that the take-away is "join me in having a better way to avoid paying your taxes."
Bugs, exploits, and "only problems" in the same sentence are what makes it funny, especially when your money is on the line and the most popular smart contract lang is JavaScript for blockchain edition

I mean it certainly does the job but I'd die from stress if I would risk releasing a bug that could wipe hundreds of millions of users' money. I respect people who are good enough at Solidity to be reasonably confident.
Thanks for explaining, you and cmh89
It's called the ChatGPT API by OpenAI, and free users (ie almost everyone using the system) can only use GPT-3.5. There is no option for them to use GPT-4, which is behind a paywall and a waitlist (maybe the waitlist is done now, I haven't checked).
Some governments probably alread do and use it against so-called terrorists or enemies of the people…
This whole debacle really made it clear that there is no way to be an ethical success in capitalism at the highest levels (CEO, Board, C-Suite generally, SVP).

It is literally impossible to be a public company CEO or senior manager for that matter, which is the goal of most founders in this sphere, and not be slavishly devoted to maximizing profit margin at all costs and irrespective of anything else. Why? You'll be fired if you're not. Once you're past Sr. Manager you'll be challenged on whether you side with your employees or the stock price. We all know who chooses which.

Want to start a high tech company or even a company with high CAPEX or OPEX entry points? Better get a ton of capital, and guess what, that capital wants ownership because the theory is "they deserve it." The reality is money required to do anything (duh!) and you have no choice, because your broke friends can't afford the 500k you need to hire all those well paid FAANG engineers away.

Fine you say, those are the spoils of victory. Well so here's the problem...if all that money only cares about maintaining the power structures and whitewashing their Rand inspired business sins via "charity" or perhaps "running for president" and that group gets smaller and smaller, what's the rest of folks to do?

I ended up writing about this [1] and now I'm doing everything I can to build or support syndicalist organizations crowding out for-profit investor driven companies.

At this point, tech is just an extension of finance. There's no counter-culture here, it's maximum capitalism and we're ubering humanity off a cliff.

I've stopped trying to be in tech and founded a non-stock democratic cooperative that does residential waste hauling [2,3] and hopefully we'll be picking up trash by July.

I'm about to send out our first mailer to two major residential groups. I'm open to anyone who wants to give us a loan or be hired eventually. andrew@seegull.co

[1]https://kemendo.com/Myth-of-Scarcity.html

[2]https://www.seegull.co/

[3]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34873099
More like the ultimate hug box generator, that will quickly partition you into a self-reinforcing bucket.
I have (air source) heat pump water heaters in two different basements. (Don't ask.)

A big win for me is that I no longer need to run a dehumidifier in those basements. The cold air output from a water heater alone is good enough to keep the humidity down. Again, YMMV.
Even though GPT-4 "fixes" many of the problems pointed out in this blog post, I question whether or not some of the underlying issues associated with transformers (and the attention mechanism in particular) can be overcome with with more sparse attention and deeper/wider models.

e.g. GPT-3.5 might not be able to write simple poems correctly, but does GPT-4 solve the disease or the symptom (by masking it with a bigger model and more data)? I'm not entirely convinced.
What people are implying is still unsubstantiated though. The engineers on the Twitter Space say that this is to ensure that changes they make do not bias one category over another, they don't say that it's in order that they can make discretionary updates to bias towards Elon Musk.

Maybe after every update to the model, they check these stats to ensure that they haven't biased towards Elon Musk, and if so roll the change back.
Driven to a great extent by the US (they made Switzerland, the last bastion of secret Nazi gold, hand over information on bank accounts of US nationals). But no government is going to tolerate large amounts of money disappearing beyond the visibility of taxation. And if you like public services, they have to be paid for like this.
But that relegates the centralized exchange into the position of being nothing more than a "fiat on-ramp", and potentially literally nothing more than a trivial wrapper around Circle (in the case of Coinbase and USDC), which effectively undermines their business model of operating the whole exchange apparatus. (Hell: does Coinbase even make any money at all if you deposit USD and withdraw USDC? I think they don't have deposit fees in general, do the USD<>USDC 1:1, and then offer free withdrawals on USDC due to some fancy new "gasless" withdrawal mechanism Circle came up with.)

Regardless, the point being made in the comment upthread wasn't "you will never need a centralized entity ever again": that was a total strawman. It wasn't even that you wouldn't want any centralized exchanges! It was merely that the "long tail" of random exchanges who specialize in listing more random tokens is effectively dead as who would bother with all that trouble to navigate all the red tape--particularly to operate in the United States--to support and vet these tokens when every token ever can be made available on a decentralized exchange. You might thereby still want a handful of the largest exchanges... but do you really need Bittrex enough for them to make enough money to put much effort into existing?
I don't know if people are still doing the /r/overemployed thing, but I imagine you aren't in a hurry to change it if you are.

It's also possible that the recently-laid off are settling for lower salaries but more employers to make up for it
I always wondered what it was like for people that lived through the discovery of relativity. It must have just been world changing to understand what it meant and how entire perspectives and theories were dead overnight. Just a massive change in the understanding of our existence and the potential it unlocked.

These types of things must feel similar.
I don't know, my wife gets spam calls almost daily, but i almost never get spam calls. on the otherhand I almost never actually give anyone my real phone number and just give everyone my Google Voice number instead. Google seems pretty good at detecting and filtering them out. the only people with my real phone number are family members, my employer, and a few friends from high-school that had it from before i signed up for google voice in the 2000s.
Isn't the original APL the only lang that uses actual Unicode symbols for operators?
I'm also confused. You can still see everything you've manually curated.
reminds me of a story about a guy who was given a gift, a decorative plate with a rooster on it i think it was. didn’t care for it too much, but out of politeness put it on display on an empty cabinet he had. a while later someone noticed he had it and figured he liked it, so got him a similar decorative plate with a rooster on it. again, out of politeness, he put it next to the old one. now other people started to think he just really liked roosters, and started giving him little rooster statues and nicknacks. Eventually he just has a whole display cabinet of rooster themed gifts that he never really cared for to begin with, but people just assume he likes them because people keep giving them to him.
Sure way to get my older kids to lick the cartridges is to tell them about that :)
Right, my thinking here is that the dream of running away from the very society that granted you the freedom to run away seems like you're not "paying it forward" enough, to enable others to have the freedom you'd be taking advantage of.

Rather, I would imagine the "not-selfish" version of this would be to spend your life doing those things, and finding ways to help others get to where you're lucky to be.

I just find the "I'll get mine and fuck off" attitude to be less than ideal.
Twitter doesn’t get $84 of value from Lebron?
There's already a ton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_private_spaceflight_co...

Note that Virgin Orbit's niche (small plane-launched rockets into unusual orbits) is already served by the Pegasus rocket, previously by Orbital Sciences and now owned by Northrop. There's doesn't seem to be much demand for it though.
It's for content analytics, and I assume it's to make sure that changes to the platform can't be argued to bias one party over another.