skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agreed with the overwhelming majority of this article.

However one serious ommision is the fact that NO ONE who makes $650,000/yr pays $295,000 in income taxes in the US.

That byzantine tax structure is basically in place to insure this.

Personally, I'm a lefty, and I will be the first in line to say that the government of California is massively corrupt. Government is a monopoly, and as such it needs major public review and restrictions in place to prevent corruption. We don't have those review processes, and we don't have those restrictions.

A message to the author: If you think you're getting a bad deal for your taxes in California, try out a red state for size, where you get basically nothing for your tax dollars.
Neat idea, congratulations Taylor!

Would you be able to briefly describe how do you create “an arm” and integrate it into conversation, so that it can triggered and the result consumed by the original chatgpt model?
> He's probably ignoring the externalities like the gas leaks on the way to your house

Where I live (Sweden) and come from (the Netherlands) gas leaks tend to get fixed since they are both costly as well as dangerous. Let's assume that this is not a real issue unless you have some data which points out the opposite.

> the power plant being able to have a huge scrubber that reduces emissions

We're not talking about heating a house using coal - which is where those scrubbers come in - but with gas. Gas fired power plants do not need scrubbers since they do not produce fly ash or sulphurous oxides, nor do gas-fired heaters.

Total systems efficiency for a single-cycle gas-fired power plant lies between 32% to 38% for simple cycle gas turbines, most of those in the USA are closer to the first number. Combined cycle gas/steam turbines can run at up to 60% total efficiency which is about as high as it is possible to get using a thermal power generator [1]. The efficiency of gas-fired heaters lies somewhere between 70% and 95% or more, the upper range is common here in Europe. A good indicator for the efficiency is the fact that these appliances often use plastic flue pipes which is made possible by the fact that flue gas temperatures lie below 70°C. The effective COP for air/air heat pumps is highly dependent on the temperature difference between the hot and cold side, the colder it is outside the lower the efficiency. I don't know where the original poster lives so it is hard to calculate the expected efficiency. If it is anywhere where the temperature goes down below zero (Celcius) it is more than likely that the salesman was right since the effective COP ends up below 2 - and goes down to 1 or lower around -15°C to -30°C (depending on the model heat pump used, the amount of moisture in the air (moist air condenses and freezes on the evaporator which requires a thaw cycle which markedly lowers the efficiency).

[1] https://www.brighthubengineering.com/power-plants/72369-comp...
I started reading completely ready to dismiss the author. But I read the article and the guy provides researched and reasoned opinions, understands LLM, and isn't just spewing an uninformed opinion.

I am going to address his point from another perspective:

1. A revolutionary bullshit parrot is still revolutionary and exceptionally useful.

2. There is a high probability the bullshit parrot will get less bullshitty as time goes on and new versions of GPT are released.

3. Most humans are bullshit parrots, and not very good ones at that.
Even GPT in its current state can augment the not very good (and very good) bullshit parrots in the labor force, academia, and creative fields.
Another great post, keep it up Jakob.
Doesn't necessarily mean he didn't want it there in the first place. Why else would it be there?
How long until somebody creates a crypto project on that?
It sounds like we have a similar thing going on with writing. Just practice your own writing and try different styles too.
In other words, good people on both sides?

I’m not sure minorities who are concerned about being pogrommed would one hundred percent agree with your concern as to ambiguity, but I suppose to the extent it exists it would be a problem.
Pivoted to their next journey of radical nomadism and quantified self neurohacking by DIY intravenous synaptic inhibitors.
That’s what he blew all that cash on. It’s the whole point.
To be precise the heat pump water heaters are electric - they just use latent heat in the air around them as much as they can, but they'll fall back to electric when that isn't enough.

They also cease working when the power is off, of course.
google analytics is illegal in the EU, where is the EU stopping this?

privacy shield is dead, where is the EU stopping the illegal data transfer that happens everywhere?
> So that suggests that these moves are mainly about public opinion?

You know, we also have this thing in the Western world called "the rule of law". It's this really weird idea that when someone breaks the law, they should be punished for it, no matter how powerful or well-liked they are.
What makes me angry about trump or his supporters?

He is lying about fraud and the people that support him are also guilty of this.

He's the greatest traitor in the last 100 years casting doubt, without evidence, on elections undermines our democracy

As for your false equivalence argument. What about people negativity affected by the policies of the Republican party? You are implying it doesn't matter who's in power.
>Not at all. I'm looking at we aren't getting the desired results. We've tried everything but the obvious - pay for results.

What you're proposing is not "obvious" to anyone who actually studies education.

>Quite the opposite. The bonus is per student.

How familiar are you with education? Children develop at different paces but are grouped by age, at least until high school. Teachers don't just teach to get the kids to the next grade, or at least they shouldn't. Under what you are proposing, it doesn't make sense for a teacher to spend any time on a kid who is already going to go on to the next grade. There is no incentive to challenge them with harder books, or harder math problems.

Like, we literally already tried this with NCLB. The ended in the most obvious way possible. Teachers taught to get test results, standards were lowered to make it easier to move to the next grade, children who were excelling were ignored by their teachers who had to focus on children who were lagging.

The whole concept behind 'pay for results' is that you think teachers are not putting the effort they could in.

>NCLB was nothing like I proposed.

I encourage you to do some reading on this topic. You're literally just describing a positive incentive based NCLB. You have the same operating theory that the designers of NCLB had.

>It's also not about working harder. It's about results.

This is a meaningless statement.
I haven’t shifted my target since my first comment, and you have failed to argue against it. You have instead raised “America has problems” straw men and posited that 12-step philosophy is wrong.

Pointing out your false statement that there’s no science behind 12-step programs was in direct defense of my original comment/argument’s claim about them being recommended/supported by the medical community. My previous source only denotes 12-step programs as “at least as good” instead of “superior”, but labeling a literature review as “dubious at best” implies science denial that would make this a worthless discussion.

My “nuh-huh” reply regarding your use of the word indoctrination was in fact citing the AA preamble read every meeting: “AA is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization, or institution … neither endorses nor opposes any causes”.

AA is technically a religion (in the US at least). In the positive sense, indoctrination is a correct word to use regarding what goes on in meetings. The common negative sense in which you’re aggressively using the word, implying hidden agendas/motives, is entirely false. Saying 12-step programs act directly opposite to the stated preamble would be a conspiracy theory also making this discussion worthless.
I've been using helix a while, and compared to vim, the bindings are not as time-efficient as vim bindings are, but I just can never get LSP to work quite right at neovim, so I use helix for code
I have always liked Bittrex. Have been a user for many years now. Indeed they’ve never been hacked and their support is pretty good. Sad to see this happen.

Have to say that as an EU based user I feel a bit uneasy about this though. Perhaps it’s time for some cold wallets or, as I’m reading here, a dex.
Oysters are arguably more effective than sea walls.
In the movie Ad Astra (2019) https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/419704-ad-astra they have the concept of "comfort rooms" the system is always sending humans to when they need to wait.
Think back to cavemen days, or before actual spoken languages. You pointed and said oooh oooh... Still communication, but you couldn't wonder about the stars in the skies because you didn't even have words for what those were, or a clue about much, because prior generations of info wasn't passed down as easily as it is today.

Entire generations of info is now instantly at our fingertips whenever we want it, even w/ creative spins thanks to GPT models.

Language is the glue that holds up consciousness/sentience, it is intelligence. It's very hard to be intelligent without language, or the ability to understand language.

A lot of learning deficits are because of ones inability to understand the other person (Teacher, etc, or focus on them long enough to understand what they're saying), I think language itself could turn most things into AI or just I, perhaps anything that can communicate and build language could be intelligent regardless if it's silcon or carbon.

There's a lot of 'understanding' we glean from other senses, from what we see, etc... but we only know a tree is a tree because we've been told that (reinforcement learning), and because language exists to tell us that over and over again. So vision, audio, etc are all still language-based.
what do you honestly think would happen? facebook says "we cannot serve the EU because your politicians made it illegal". People would immediately demand facebook be put back, and the politicians would have to comply, or be replaced. They would comply
Effectively, moving from RDB to a graph database just shifts relationship resolution from query time to insert/update time. Sometimes this can be an advantage. I’d even wager usually.
Url changed from https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm-ml, which points to this.
True, it still seems odd to encode an explicitly ordinal variable as categorical (particularly one with a small finite range, in contrast to the follower logarithmic bucket ones), but Twitter's layout is weird enough that it could be a impactful difference in terms of engagement.
Simple metric: if the office had a kombucha tap in 2021, it's a tech company.
It sounds like: if they use computers, then they're tech, weird.

I don't share the sentiment, I don't see Netflix in the same group as MSFT / OpenAI / AMD / TSMC.
"Control Panel for Twitter" plugin. You can get rid of "For You".
The standard should be higher for machines. Historically, they're inorganic tools.

If a hammer was only as dense as bone, would it be a good hammer?
And you can rule out most of the monte carlo stuff too. Which rules out parallelization modern statistical frameworks like STAN used for explainable models; things like Finance modeling of risk which is a sampling of posteriors using MCMC also can't be parallelized.
The users can and often do fire the CEO.
>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.

Video Cassette Recorders?
He's not really saying that GPT-4 is a 'math genius', rather the combined system of GPT-4 and Wolfram is.
SpaceX’s secret sauce was mass manufacturing. Not building a rocket, but building a system that builds rockets. I remember, over a decade ago, looking at these shops and realising the specialty plane Virgin’s launch systems relied on were being built as works of art. Falcons, on the other hand, were not. Even with the company’s eye on reuse.
> It answered much like a human I think ... you might get

It would answer like a human with bad reasoning, and that is what we do not want to emulate.
Those look older to me. They all have last updated dates for October and November 2022.
https://www.rewiringamerica.org/ira-fact-sheets

Progress is being made.

> The 25C and 25D tax credits incentivize household electrification by lowering the total cost of qualified electrification upgrades. 25C provides a capped 30 percent tax credit for heat pumps, heat pump water heaters (HPWHs), qualifying electrical panel upgrades, select weatherization measures, and energy audits. For the first time, air source heat pumps for space heating/cooling and HPWHs will be eligible for a tax credit
of up to $2,000 per year, and electrical panel upgrades installed in conjunction with a heat pump or HPWH will be eligible for a tax credit of up to $600.
There are a lot of US households on places like New England and the Midwest where historically very very few houses have central air and most have a furnace running on oil, propane, or natural gas. The upgrade path is hard there: do you accept the multiple thousands of dollars to install a heat pump on top of your existing heating solution? For the couple of fringe months where a heat pump can actually heat your house, and the extra cost of cooling in the summer (money many don't have)?

It probably makes a lot of sense to just switch to a heat pump if you live in the south these days and give up any backup heating system entirely. But it is worth noting that only in the past 5 years or so did we finally get heat pumps that didn't totally suck at 0C. Until then, it made sense for even a lot of Southern households to stick with backup furnace + central air, assuming they already sunk money into the backup furnace for the 5 days a year they actually need it.
H1-Bs are harder to get approved these days and a lot of companies don't want to go through the effort/cost to do so
There are actually more "types" of SBOMs than the two you mention. I don't think CISA has published the corresponding table yet, but depending on the point in the software lifecycle that you are, you can create "Design", "Source", "Build", "Deploy", or "Analysis" SBOMs -- and they are all for different use cases,
I wonder how accurate those benchmarks are in terms of actual problem solving capability. I think there's a major line at which point LLM becomes actually useful and it actually feels like you are speaking to something intelligent and that can be useful for you in terms of productivity etc.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/31/23664814/gm-ev-restrict-a...
The Verge has the actual document from GM, it is the last line.
I see Twitter engineers are not from Minnesota.
Does that also mean 6GB VRAM?

And does that include Alpaca models like this? https://huggingface.co/elinas/alpaca-30b-lora-int4
Might be a language barrier from my side but it doesn't really sound like a "strange quirk" but rather a wise decision. Following people to get followers is one of the oldest spam methods on social media. It's not surprising that they would reduce the reach of accounts using those methods.
> “criminal blackmail excludes legal process,”

They're saying that "If you don't pay me $X, I'll tell your wife I slept with you" is not illegal, so it doesn't constitute criminal blackmail.
It's fast to read stuff when you have the domain knowledge. The weights won't be a 5kb Scala file: they'd probably be a big binary file, which is easy to search it github/locally after cloning.

Otherwise, if they are provided, someone in the thread will surely point to them.
> This leads to the hilarious paradox where a software based business worth millions could be built on top of code valued around 60k to write.

Or the fact that software based businesses just took a massive hit in value overnight and cannot possibly defend such high valuations anymore.

The value of companies is quickly going to shift from tech moats to brands.

Think CocaCola - anyone can create a drink that tastes as good or better than coke, but it's incredibly hard to compete with the CocaCola brand.

Now think what would have happened if CocaCola had been super expensive to make, and all of a sudden, in a matter of weeks, it became incredibly cheap.

This is what happened to the saltpeter industry in 1909 when synthetic saltpeter was invented. The whole industry was extinct in a few years.
The game SNK vs. Capcom: The Match of the Millennium used a similar system because the Neo Geo Pocket only had two buttons.
What is the "deep reasoning" that leads one to the conclusion that a language model is capable of any kind of insight? How does training something like this to be better and better at mimicking somehow indicate something about general AI? Does reasoning ability lie somewhere on the path of better mimicry? What's the evidence for that? When is one of these going to solve the Riemann hypothesis?
Airports perform better when owned by private equity, study
The crazy thing about that story is that they have the what right but not the why.
I tried it. It took some iteration and explaining to get it to do what I wanted, but here was the final result:

--

Building a bridge over a lake using only toothpicks would be extremely challenging due to the limited strength of toothpicks. (70%) However, it is possible to build a toothpick bridge by using a truss structure. A truss structure involves using triangles to distribute the weight of the bridge evenly across the structure. (80%)

To build a toothpick bridge over the lake, the first step would be to create a design using a truss structure. The design should take into consideration the width of the bridge, the width of the lake, and the strength of toothpicks. (90%) The toothpicks should be laid in layers to increase their strength. (70%)

To estimate how many toothpicks would be needed, we would need to determine the spacing between each toothpick and the number of toothpicks needed to create the truss structure. The number of toothpicks required would also depend on the thickness and quality of the toothpicks used. (80%)

Given the width of the bridge is 20 meters and the width of the lake is 200 meters, the toothpick bridge would require approximately 10 layers of toothpicks to span the distance. However, without a detailed design, it is impossible to estimate the exact number of toothpicks needed to build the bridge. (60%)

Overall, I would say I am 70% confident in the correctness of this answer, as it is based on theoretical principles and assumptions about the strength of toothpicks.

--

It's... okay, not great. The blatantly wrong part is marked 60%, which is the lowest certainty it assigned to anything, but that's still really high for how wrong it is.
Counter anecdote. I just bought a house in the mid atlantic and 0 of the houses I looked at have a heat pump.

> The other is that if you have central air then it seems like you should have a heat pump. You're basically just running the heat pump backwards to provide heat instead of air conditioning,

These days sure. But the cold weather compatible heat pumps are relatively new, electricity was and still is a whole lot more expensive than gas, running it as both an air conditioner decreases its overall life span, and finally a dedicated air conditioner can be more energy efficient especially on older models.
I always say, if some nontrivial code compiles and runs on the first attempt, then you just haven't found the bugs yet.

GPT-4 is a fantastic collaboration tool for senior developers, who know what they want in detail and can review, verify and apply the output it generates.

Just yesterday I needed to write some detailed bash scripts. I'm no Linux guru but I know what I want and that was enough - in minutes I had a solid script that did everything I needed and wanted, something that would have taken much longer to hunt down through Google. And then I asked it about SQL, C#, AWS, Terraform, Rust and on and on and everything was high quality.

The only way I could have gained similar results without ChatGPT would have been to post all my questions to the dev slack channel and engage in hours long discussions with my colleagues.
This _is_ the GDPR at work here.
I've never really schemed, only Lisp'd in a common sort of way.

I've heard that some scheme things will compile out to C even.
You should probably read more than the headline.

1. This article is specific to the UK, not the US.
2. The article is published by an Electrical company, obviously as PR piece to make it look like they have things under controll. This is not an idependaty study.
3. One the "solutions" to the problem the UK came up with is regulations which state:

>The regulations ensure charge points have smart functionality, allowing the charging of an electric vehicle when there is less demand on the grid, or when more renewable electricity is available. The regulations also ensure that charge points meet certain device-level requirements, enabling a minimum level of access, security and information for consumers.

In other words, even the grid the UK cannot handle an influx of EV's to combat this they are making the charge points "smart" (i.e. you won't be able to charge your vehicle when you wish only when the "smart" point says demand is low enough). This is hardly a solution. It attempts to "spread" out the charging with these "smart points", the problem is most people work during the day (and are parked somewhere where they cannot charge) and will want to charge at night. This would leave many SOL when they wake up to find their vehicle hasn't charged at all.

Hard, fucking, pass. Additionally, EV's are complete non-starter until they can go from 0% charge to full charge in 2 min or less IMO. If am on a road trip and trying to make good time I am not waiting around an hour+ for my vehicle to charge. Until charging is as easy and quick as pumping gas I have no interest in an EV.
OP here, I killed it. Maps and Geocoding costs were exploding, I didn't expect this. Thanks for your support, I'll have to improve it in a leaner way!
“Manna” by Marshall Brain.
A Differential Privacy Protection Protocol Based on Location Entropy
The organization is speaking, which is made up of many people. This is fine.
I'm not surprised at all. If you compare individual US states to other countries, some parts of the US south have worse healthcare systems than third-world nations. The US is by far the worst health country in the OECD.
Not a FAANG engineer but the whole idea of “worth” is a two sided affair and very subjective. You can decide your own worth and the other side can decide what they think you are worth. Neither side needs to be correct, but that’s how economies are structured.

It’s totally fine to demand more for yourself because the companies will always try to pay you less. Are all engineers at banks less skilled than all engineers at say Facebook? Definitely not. But does that mean engineers at Facebook are worth less? Again, definitely not. It’s the engineers at banks who need to demand more.

Personally as a non FAANG engineer I have my minimum for what I will work for. And I would rather be unemployed and do something of your own than work for less.