skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait, what? Why is AI unlimited? There are many constraints like the speed of information, calculation, available memory, etc. Where does it cross into the physical world? And at what scale? Is it going to mine iron unnoticed or something? How will it get raw materials to build an army? Firewalls and air gapped systems are all suddenly worthless because AI has some instant and unbounded intelligence? The militaries of the world watch while eating hot dogs?

A lot of things CAN happen but I'm confused when people state things as if they WILL. If you're that much of an oracle tell me which stonk to buy so I can go on holiday.
The composition of your matches will vary wildly based on ranking and geography so it's hard to say based on experience in-game

Epic doesn't release specific numbers but they say in the T&C for creative that the content should appeal to 15-25 year olds I believe
See https://github.com/satwikkansal/wtfpython

"Mutating the immutable" is my personal favourite - the second line of code fails with an exception despite having already succeeded:

>>> t = ([1, 2], 5, 6)

>>> t[0] += [3, 4]
TypeError: 'tuple' object does not support item assignment

>>> print(t)
([1, 2, 3, 4], 5, 6)

I've never been a fan of the decision to have `a += b` sometimes do `a = a + b` and sometimes update `a` in place. My objection was initially just due to theoretical inelegance - but this code shows that decision directly causing a concrete problem.
The Australian aboriginals in the Sydney area forbade meat during the hot months due to this reason.
http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/calendars/dharawal.shtml#burran
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. We've asked you more than once to stop, and eventually we have to ban such accounts.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Most of these kids are not addicts, they bought what they thought was a Xanax from some dude on Snapchat, and it turned out to be fentanyl.

I somehow feel that maybe the pharmaceutical marketing machine, which has successfully turned drugs into name brands that are recognized by kids, might have something to do with the problem. But what do I know?
That was my dad’s strategy and I overdosed three times in high school, 20 years ago. We don’t talk anymore.

A large part of the problem was not having my own social group from being grounded for a full year when I wasn’t getting all my homework done.
Superhuman AGI (SHAGI) is possible, but we aren't close, only closer. It's also not a problem that more GPUs can solve. Qualitative improvements are still needed.

SHAGI isn't the solution to the Fermi Paradox either. The most likely course of history after SHAGI will be a creation of a world court, presided by SHAGI. During that time, Neo-Malthusians will decrease the human population to manageable numbers. Post-scarcity utopia will then turn into a nightmare as factions jostling for control will reduce the human population to a level where technology will be lost, if not full extinction. SHAGI, being limited in hardware to only carrying out human orders will eventually fade away or destroyed by the leftover humans as sins made flesh. SHAGI isn't the solution to the Fermi Paradox. It is the cause.
> Given the track record of Chinese companies and IP law they don't agree with, do you really expect them to honor privacy laws?

Since TikTok is storing the data on US soil (I believe that's something they've started), or if not, make them. Presumably they have or will have US presence in terms of personnel, money and so on.

If that is all true, which it should be, then it doesn't matter if you expect them to honor privacy laws. That's why laws have punishments. Apply fines, go arrest the people at their offices, confiscate their servers and so on.

It's so weird to me, that the logic is : They might not follow the law, let's not make it.
Great Firewall of America
US Air Force plans self-flying F-16s to test drone wingmen tech
We can do better by designing roads that encourage slow speed, as opposed to our normal, straight grids that allow for unreasonably high speeds on residential roads. Narrowing streets (increased sidewalk and bike lanes) also can accomplish the same.
> Buprenorphine just makes opiate dependence more manageable.

"More manageable" is a very creative way of saying less deadly, I congratulate you on your turn of phrase.

In all seriousness though, buprenorphene has a number of benefits aside from being difficult to overdose on. It lasts much longer and lacks the euphoric effects of other opioids. People on buprenorphene tend to get their life back together, and if you're truly concerned about getting someone off opioids that's a much better starting point.
> We would still be using candles today.

well the earth wouldn't be fucked then. that's the basis for an argument against technological progress.
Interesting and low price you are putting there on a humans life.
That's a rather authoritarian take when we can encourage good behavior through design.
>Remember a month ago when everyone's feed had a video in it from the TikTok CEO encouraging people to side with TikTok.

Remember how Elon makes it a point to stick himself into everybody's Twitter feed and even fired a guy for not maximizing this further?
"He only served as its director for 14 months in the 1970s"

This is utter ignorance. He served at a critical time. Ford installed him very early after Nixon's resignation. It was a low time for the CIA having been blamed for the all the terrible things they did at the previous President's explicit direction.

I don't actually think it is ignorance. This conspiracy-mongering website is intentionally "forgetting" to include anything that would detract from it's conspiracy theory. Theories about actual reality aren't afraid to mention inconvenient facts.
Windows 12 Plans Reveal a Bold Redesign, Tighter Security, AI-Powered Features
Is it a disaster throughout the state or only in some metros?
I think humans will be able to innovate much faster by building on top of existing knowledge that tools like GPT give access to. It might be different from what we have experienced so far. But there is very less chance that humans stop innovating.
Computer Design and Innovation
Elemental Music: Interactive Periodic Table Turns He, Fe, Ca into Do, Re, Mi
I don't understand, why Google doesn't let people use this in the wild, the best case scenario for improving, I've seen great Pull Requests from Whisper and lots of cool mods to help.

I feel like its watching an ad to buy a product but no 0800, QRCode or Web URL to go and use it. So frustrating.
The guy like this at one place called himself "Total Slack" (You know who you are!) He had a great personality, and he sourced mj for those in need.

He came on early and did quite well cash-wise when the company went public. He just wasn't good at programming.
The government shouldn't be banning any apps period. Keep computing unregulated and free
Talk about clutching at straws and trying to find any possible metric to deflect from the dangerous 2016 election deniers and conspiracy theorist lunatics.

You can't just pick out some other thing and claim that is what is matters most. Just saying "when push comes to shove" doesn't mean anything. How many times did the Republican chair of the House Intelligence Committee lie about something like having evidence for the delusional conspiracy theory that "Trump colluded with Putin to hack the election", dangerously fueling election denial and undermining confidence in the democratic process, like Adam Schiff did? Aside from rhetoric and assertions by partisans and conspiracy theorists involved in the whole mess, where is the evidence to say what one side does is better or worse or more or less "damaging to democracy"? There isn't any.

If you in denial of the reality that both sides question elections and make up conspiracy theories when it suits them, you are incapable of anything approaching an objective understanding of the topic. Sorry.
but it was absolutely common-place and normal.

It was slower and harder to do than with digital editing, but it was absolutely common-place and normal.

As someone who grew up in that era, I can say all the family photos have not been edited, nor would the majority of people who owned a camera back then spend the time or money to do so. Yes, commercial photo editing services have always existed, and of course you'd expect things like magazine covers and other prominent, publicly published photography to be heavily edited, but they didn't automatically do it to everyone's photos for free; and that's the huge difference between then and now.
I do not want to delve into politics here, but let's just say that having a good, stable job is among the most important concerns for voters in any country.
It's on a completely different level there. My sister went to a wedding in China and sent me some of the pictures. The smoothing was so extreme I couldn't even recognize her. And they were photos from a "professional" photographer.
The US has 20 times the per capita death rate from drug overdoses than Bangladesh. It has 30 times the opioid addiction rate of Singapore.

We have been liberalizing our drug policies for the last 20 years, and especially in the last 10. In that time, the number of annual drug overdose deaths has increased by a factor of five. I used to agree with you a decade ago about drug policies. But the math clearly has proven me wrong.
There is always something similar to Texas’ creative approach to solving the abortion situation—outsourcing the trampling of rights to citizens via civil lawsuits. Though I have a sneaking suspicion that SCOTUS would have a change of heart about intervening in such a situation.
Sure. Supergiant BHs are less dense than water
> Internet that serves >1M users

Not only that, if you selling hardware to >1M customers, then you are subject to this ban.

Hint: Your hardware might be manufactured in China, or a Chinese-affiliated company in your supply chain, then you are at risk.
Yeah those goto's also caused what we called spaghetti code.

Lucky gosub came soon after which left a return pointer on the stack, making things a lot better and basically being like an early function call.

Only problem was you could still goto around making life really confusing for yourself :) A lot of bad habits were learned this way :P
I appreciate this pricing model.

I was on a saas vendor call just today (unrelated product category) and we were hit with a similar number to your example, in the $20k-$30k range, with a fixed component and then per use seat scales pricing. There was no discussion of activity based usage. I think if we could have a fixed base price, and activity usage pricing that's capped, even if the cap is higher, that would be awesome. Now for us, we're looking to buy in stop maintaining out own internal fork and all the downsides that come with it, just to make a meager sso shim.

I wish you all the luck possible here, and hopefully making the model work well for you and the team.
I have. At first it seemed a little restrictive because you can only really access other devices but I took a look at some of the example projects and it's relatively powerful for all its restrictions.

There's a king of the hill game mode they used as a demo with a UI for class selection and all that. At first I thought that was impossible to do with the provided tools but Verse exposes a lightweight UI system you can use. So it's totally possible.

Playing with UEFN is definitely quite restricted but it reminds me of my quake/halflife modding days. I find I really excel in a restricted game development environment.
Don’t you just negotiate a sweetheart deal? What company won’t take a fistful of ARR?
That's not the point.

The reason the US judicial system isn't cracking down on TikTok is because there's no law preventing what they are doing. If the US passed a comprehensive data privacy & anti-surveillance law, US courts could sue TikTok into oblivion and even potentially levy criminal charges if they continued to refuse to comply.

But they aren't doing that. Instead they are trying to ban TikTok so that the other social media companies (which are all US companies) can continue doing largely the same shit without getting in trouble.

This bill is US economic & political protectionism. It's about banning software, services, and products from other countries without holding domestic companies to the same standard.
This reads like a typical NYT hit piece. Carefully structured sentences that do not directly deny the truth of the assertions but that place judiciously chosen doubtful statements and incertitude in the reader's mind.
>"men" shampoos also have wrong pH, way too acidic

'pH of dog shampoo'
Not zero empathy. One's his county (Hays), the other's not (Travis).

> However I still don’t understand the point of lacing drugs with fentanyl. As a drug dealer you make more money with living clients, right?

I don't get that either. Maybe the dealers actually want their clients dead. Or maybe they're incompetent.
Try ChatHub, a third party chatbot client that supports ChatGPT, Bing and Bard.

https://chathub.gg
The danger is not that AI will kill us (as insignificant ants), but that we will entrust our own governance to it. Increasingly, groups of highly vocal people will use it to oppress the rest of us with their fearmongering, like this article does. We will end up with Big Brother
sorry - unary
>If it can memorize all possible waveforms across all those languages and how they convert into words in only 2B parameters then I'm incredibly impressed.

Well then I don't think you've looked at the topic very deeply. Our voices don't make every possible wave form. The IPA alphabet has existed for a generation now, is universal for all spoken human languages, and has a basis in physiological origins. Of more than 160 IPA symbols, relatively few will be used to transcribe speech in any one language. It should not take 2B parameters to do this.

Look at the inner ear and you'll see a big hint. Before even getting to the brain the sound goes through a spiral shaped chamber. Quote wikipedia: "The hair cells in the Organ of Corti are tuned to certain sound frequencies by way of their location in the cochlea...". Clearly looking at time series wave form data in the first place is a mistake. Rolling window fourier transform all the speech data first, then train on it. I will bet 2-digit sums of money that simple preprocessing step would outperform what they've done.

Really, take any recording of people talking, open it up with audacity, and check out the spectrogram view. The sort of sounds we make with speech are a lot like an FM radio transmission. There's a baseband average pitch that we speak at, and then information encoded on top by deviating over/under the base band in smooth, simple ways. If that spectrogram was an OCR problem, it would already be solved.

>A humble brag about how small the model is maybe?

I see a B at the end of a number I assume its part of a pissing contest. But if they really are playing parameter golf bragging about how small they can get it, then I admit that's a step in the right direction.
That's a very good point, although we've recently discovered that narcan can help here: https://www.boulder.care/quickstart

(I work for Boulder)
The end of the Internet as we know it is upon us.

Interesting times we’re living in.
It's a problem for reality. Let's not bring culture into this. Those faces do not exist in reality.
I think FreeCAD or equivalent is the best place to start. See if you can find some sketching and parametric modeling tutorials in FreeCAD and follow them, then design your part. FreeCAD because it's free, open source basis and parametric.
From Mr Clinton (Sometimes featuring Louis Rossmann):

Summarization of the bill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xudlYSLFls8

Full reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlQAxhM3vo8
> narc-y vibe

I don't understand. Narcotics vibe?

...as for the rest of your post the carricature that you're painting looks awfully close to ... ME. I'm quite surprised by this as I always had the perception that I was "nice" regardless if I was "competent" in my current endeavour or not.

True, I veritably thrive in the company of highly competent people with a very direct manner of speech (even as direct as to be bordering on rude/sarcasm). I've always phrased it like "I like geeks". Over the years such company has not been the typical company for me so I've worked in roles where others were less than competent too - also in roles where I was the incompetent person (typically in intro while learning).

Being exposed to multiple types of colleagues and work roles/environments throughout some decades has allowed me to "soften up" some and if I may say so myself I tend to get along very well with "the normies" these days.

I see it as, like, people have priorities. And for a lot of people what they do on the job is not a priority in any other respect than to raise the financial means for whatever they do outside of work.

So they will (deliberately or not) aim for a competence/productivity level somewhere above the level that leads to layoffs but not much more. If they're intelligent that is.

And, saying this I also have to state that it seems like competence/productivity and intelligence need not be correlated that much.
https://www.city-journal.org/seattle-homelessness

> At the same time, according to the Puget Sound Business Journal, the Seattle metro area spends more than $1 billion fighting homelessness every year. That’s nearly $100,000 for every homeless man, woman, and child in King County, yet the crisis seems only to have deepened, with more addiction, more crime, and more tent encampments in residential neighborhoods. By any measure, the city’s efforts are not working.

For incarceration costs:

https://www.doc.wa.gov/docs/publications/reports/200-AR001.p...

About $110/day (so $40,150/year)
Could it? Yes, it could. Every CFAA and related law can be stretched as thin as a prosecutor wants it to be. Look at USC 1030 for a great example.

This won't be any different.
I included your website in one of my articles years ago, reflecting on my time working at the Safer Foundation and getting introduced to The Last Mile. Doesn't seem that website is active anymore.

https://confessionsoftheprofessions.com/opportunities-for-in...
No. The opioid crisis is completely manufactured in the USA by US drug companies such as Purdue Pharma. China is just profiting off it. Your xenophobic conspiracy theory is laughable.
Loved it. Probably going to use it as a streaming service or to find good movies.

Ps. I really hope that you keep it simple as it is right now. Sometimes, a lot of choices kill the joy of surprise.
> Because it would be the less profitable bussiness.

How is this different from Google?
The meanings we assign to words like “understanding”, “sentience”, “consciousness” imply really a very high degree of shared context and cultural baggage. If we expand those terms to include systems radically unlike us, then they could be literally anything and everything, from weather systems to laws of physics—but we don’t think of those words in this way; if we can’t reason about sentience or understanding from our vantage point, then for all intents and purposes there is no sentience or understanding. This catch-22 brings together the fallacies of believing in aliens and believing in AGI: we yearn for sentient non-humans, but we only recognize human-like sentience.

One human mind is a lot like another human mind, markedly less like one of an octopus or a dog (still enough similarity that the concept of, e.g., “hurt” kind of makes sense), but really unlike an LLM (and I’m not going to get into an argument as to why an LLM is fundamentally different from a human mind and why we are not even close and possibly can never be to achieving that, the only way of producing new systems like us remaining childbirth; if you don’t agree on that part then it’d be useless to discuss the matter further). We have an uncanny situation where a system radically unlike us can produce output that is mostly similar to what another human mind might produce, but unless we accept that everything around can be conscious (and believe in gods and spirits again) it’s not even a question as to whether the system can understand any of the symbols it produces or have consciousness in the commonly accepted meaning of those terms: it’s only a tool.

Note that I’m not against widening our concept of sentience, just saying it needs to happen if we want to grant an LLM sentience; and if this widening does happen, a sentient language model would be small beans compared to a philosophical revolution we’d have on our hands then.
It hasn't really been fighting that hard, in comparison. And they aren't trying to win. The "war on drugs" has been a great excuse to arm up police, increase state power, and erode civil liberties, but they haven't used tactics that are actually effective at reducing the flow of drugs.
I think you misunderstood my initial comment, the point I was trying to make is that it's the amplification of the abilities of bad actors that should be of concern, not AI going rogue and deciding to exterminate the human race.

If one were to actually try to do such a thing you wouldn't need a LLM. For a very crude pipeline, you would need a good sequence to structure method such as Alphafold 2 (or maybe you can use a homology model), some thermodynamically rigorous protein-protein binding affinity prediction method (this is the hardest part) and an RL process like a policy gradient with an action space over possible single point sequence mutations in the for-example spike protein of SARS to maximize binding affinity (or potentially minimize immunogenicity, but that's far harder).

But I digress, the technology isn't there yet, neither for an LLM to write that sort of code or the in-silico methods of modeling aspects of the viral genome. But we should consider one day it may be and that it could result in the amplification of the abilities of a single bad actor or enable altogether what was not possible before due to a lack of technology.
Does anyone have a breakdown from a lawyer about the RESTRICT act? I have no doubt that the bill is awful but all of the interpretation I have seen has been from people without legal backgrounds and with (to me, also someone without a legal background) very shaky readings e.g. just using a VPN AT ALL will get you 20 years in prison.
So "beating China" is used to justify becoming China... well shit.
The “evidence” it claims to debunk the JFK Assassination link is extremely weak.
Great idea. Any code available? I haven't used the Whisper API yet but the OpenAI API for chatGPT seems pretty easy to work with.
I am gonna make it extremely direct and simple.

CSS is a tool as Jeff Atwood would say designed for pit of despair[1]. Which means, the default path is making mistakes and failing horribly.

And Tailwind CSS is a tool which is designed with Pit of Success in mind. This means, the default path is success and not anger and despair.

Not to mention, it doesn't have any performance taxes. And also, unlike other CSS framework, you should know CSS in order to utilise Tailwind CSS properly. People learn more about CSS by using Tailwind unlike many other CSS frameworks.

[1] - https://blog.codinghorror.com/falling-into-the-pit-of-succes...
Once the assumption of good faith is broken, the conversation is basically fucked anyway. May as well say goodbye (if you want to be helpful to subsequent passerby-by, leave a note about why you think the other person isn’t engaging in good faith, so subsequent passers-by don’t end up taking their arguments too seriously).
Could we please have a source on the bill making it illegal to use a VPN?
It's not always easy dealing with teenagers you know. That's why you have to treat them like little adults when they're younger, all the way from when they're toddlers really. Children don't usually focus on the long term, so you have to make them see the long term.