skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks great so far, thanks for sharing!

I'll probably give it a try this weekend, but I'm curious - does the @ai_fn decorator ask the llm to write python code and then runs that python code in place of the function? Or does it basically send that prompt to the llm and return the results from the llm? I'm assuming it's the latter, but I didn't see it mentioned at first glance.
>There are people who desire to live that way and can't find it.

Then there are people who don't even know an alternative exists. The car dependency is so ingrained in their brain since birth that a "walkable city with no need for a car" makes no sense to them. Here are some "arguments" I heard from Americans:

*How will I get my groceries?

*What about cold weather?

*I don't want to wait an hour for a bus.

*What about the people with disabilities?

*Public transit increases crime

*My freedom!

*I don't want to be in the same bus/train with other people

*I don't want to walk after a day of work

*I want to go out drinking at night (even remembering this one makes me laugh hard)

What's even worse, due to all the Hollywood influence, even people here started to think suburbs are good planning.
Incinerating waste is already common and when done properly does not result in a lot of toxic emissions. Technology for this has been in use for decades. When done poorly, the result is a lot of toxic fumes. Which is perhaps the issue this article is hinting at.

Of course, generating fuels from plastic that you create from oil is still transferring fossil deposited carbon straight into our atmosphere. Euphemistically labeling that as a bio fuel does not change that and is more than a bit disingenuous/misleading. And probably intentionally so by those advocating this.

There's nothing green or climate friendly about this. Dumping it a landfill is literally better for the environment because at least then the carbon goes back into the ground. Of course you do get some local pollution with that. So, it's not a perfect strategy. Incineration with carbon capture might be feasible but is probably going to be expensive.

Of course getting rid of a lot of single use plastics is better still. The best carbon capture strategy is simply leaving it in the ground and not messing around with it.
CFCs? Thalidomide? Come to think of it, pharma is positively rife with examples of stepping on the gas and causing disease or killing people. You won’t find many people who want to defund the FDA, although I guess there’s always a few nutters.
Computational mail for computer-supported cooperative work (1992)
That is an amazing story! How did you write the userspace driver? Was the enclosure running a well-known RAID5 system?
Haha you gave such a big explanation and invented games again.
Still my point stands, all you are asking for is an interactive game that may not need user action to complete. But movies still need a script, without an actor performing an action the movie just doesn't complete it doesn't make sense at all.
What you are describing is an open world like GTA, where NPCs just go around, gangs fight, police run behind, etc etc. It's just a game, it already exists. OP started with the expectation of an interactive movie. It's called GAMES.
>When was the last time Musk abducted 15,000+ children and force migrated them?

When was the first time Putin did? According to my knowledge, it was just last year. Putin is 70 years old now and has been in control of Russia for over 20 years.

In short, Putin wasn't always this bad. He's gotten worse over the years.

Musk is now roughly the same age Putin was when he took power. If he somehow gains control over the resources of a nation like Putin did, he could be far worse than Putin in 20+ years.

The OP wasn't claiming that today's Musk is just as bad as today's Putin; he's just making examples of people with great potential for harm.
This doesn't explain what STM has to do with it.

On the other hand you have Erlang thesis from 1980s which is still true: https://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf (updated in 2003)
Isn't this just an US social media protection act? Meta is getting their asses handed to them by TikTok, so they do the obvious and lobby for banning of the competition
I have to transcribe a tonne of Chinese interviews soonish -- any further thoughts or experiments you can think of? Maybe some preprocessing steps to the audio? For example, cut it into one minute chunks with some overlap, then transcribe those, so that it can't skip those bits...? Or can we finetune it on a library of Chinese mp3s + transcripts?
The link posted here https://www.guppylake.com/~nsb/CSCW-ATOMICMAIL.txt is the plain-text version

See also the pdf at https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/143457.143463 which has a couple of pictures at the end.
Actually, it seems like the people who are most worried about AGI are the ones building it, because they don't want to see it "raised" the wrong way.

Here's a blog by Sam Altman, about 10 months before OpenAI was founded: https://blog.samaltman.com/the-software-revolution

"Two of the biggest risks I see emerging from the software revolution—AI and synthetic biology—may put tremendous capability to cause harm in the hands of small groups, or even individuals. It is probably already possible to design and produce a terrible disease in a small lab; development of an AI that could end human life may only require a few hundred people in an office building anywhere in the world, with no equipment other than laptops.

...

I think the best strategy is to try to legislate sensible safeguards but work very hard to make sure the edge we get from technology on the good side is stronger than the edge that bad actors get. If we can synthesize new diseases, maybe we can synthesize vaccines. If we can make a bad AI, maybe we can make a good AI that stops the bad one."
If all you have to solve problems is a hammer ("control population") instead of a toolbelt ("control or alter situations") this is all you will produce as a politician. The political duopoly market failure, which has prevented such "alternatives" from appearing has entered its final, terminal spiral, copying the external alternative that is chinas party, which seems to survives all kinds of turmoil.
That's a lovely target and I'll eat my hat if they get below $300/ton.
Yeah, this last time I went from a pristine Fedoda 35 to 36. There was some error upon login, I couldn't open the file manager, and the Night Light feature didn't work afterwards.
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The Kingdom of England ceased to exist in 1707. There is no king of England just like there is no president of Texas.
The last time I wasted some time on this I had a similar notion: "start big" with numbers on the order of 1 million bits and try and demonstrate that different sections of those bits (prefix,middle,suffix) change according to some pattern that can then be generalised "down" to just 64 bits, which has been manually tested.
That is exactly how you weaponize women and family-centric males. Use the big-eyes-trigger and you are set to go.
Are you now talking about the US politicians or the CCP ones?
Jacob Devlin (BERT) resignes from Google to join OpenAI after warnings
To be fair, the presence of genuine criticism doesn't exclude the possibility of astroturfing. That's sort of the whole point of astroturfing, to attempt to blend in with the grassroots.
You can totally do that with most prompts and lists of continues
It’s not super difficult to embed python, but it ain’t easy. It is also very slow and insists on stat’ing a million files all over the disk when starting up.

It’s also hard to stop python code from doing things it really shouldn’t, like calling os._exit.

Oh, you also have to deal with linking against the right crt on windows.
Actually regarding upgrades Fedora Silverblue - which I currently use - may be better.

Key benefits:
- Applications through flatpak don't depend explicitly on system libs so there's less chance of breakage.
- If upgrading to new fedora version breaks anything, switching back is just one command away (rpm-ostree rollback). I don't think going back is so easy on normal fedora.
Does it though? I can think of several instances where it's arrived with calls of ousting a corrupt government.

Military coups are invariably authoritarian and often motivated this way.
In university I installed a rather large sheet of acrylic on the wall in my dorm room. I then used "liquid chalk" markers to write on it.

Acrylic and the markers were more expensive than other solutions, but they could be erased either dry with some piece of cloth or a little bit of water.

Might be another option for anybody looking into that topic.

edit: That solution was not magnetic, though. I installed a magnetic strip on the side for that.
Well, if temperature is 0K I wouldnt be in a state where I can worry about it :o
Humans failing are more likely, such as deploying it as a sufficiently lethal weapon and potentially losing control. It would be a serious immediate hit for sure, but if an extinction, a long and excruciating one.

We do have manual fallbacks for everything critical, so unless we do something totally silly and let autonomous machines of sufficient power and numbers wage war on people, we're fine.

The potential for doom either comes from long consequences we ignore (see climate, propaganda damaging decision making on mass scale), or from extremely bad decisions where it's obvious that you should not have done it. (See nukes and other high yield bombs, bioweapons, autonomous warfare.)
There is Astroturfing going on, but I don't know what direction it's going in. There's two separate bills going on[1], and it seems like the worst creatures in Washington are using TikTok as an excuse to severely expand the surveillance state in the bill that's getting all the press, under the guise of "banning TikTok".

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35363410
I already consciously decided to ignore Instragram, TikTok and Mutter. I will be a happy tmux user still while the young are already immersed in nausea-provoking VR and AR experiences. Looking forward to being happy by not joingin the crowd.
And how is that "off the record" supposed to work anyway? Once you said the phrase, the chat automagically stops sending the texts, or they autodestroy or something? And people get their memories erased like in MIB? Because this looks more like a detective movie scene and less like all day reality.
Texas has a President, the same President that California has.

Ottawa has a King, the same King that Western Australia has.
> there is NO WAY that any of the NATO countries will not ban it immediately

I don't think it's that straight forward. NATO countries, and especially European ones, have a legal system that doens't allow them to just ban a specific company.

MAYBE the NATO countries will start working towards legal amendments that will make it possible to ban it. It definitely won't be immediate.

The governments might ban TikTok's by their employees.
JFC. This was an absolutely massive screwup by Microsoft. In addition to Bing and other MS services, it allowed access to "COSMOS: A file management system, managing over 4 exabytes (!) of Microsoft’s internal files."

I would have added quite a few more exclamation marks myself. That bug should have gotten way more than a $40k bounty.
It's a bill guys. It has technically 0% chance of becoming a law the way it is currently redacted.
Short-lived strategy. Animals are not stupid and learn to go to a different watering hole super fast.
Agreed, but they don't fit the common perception of what abortions are, hence my clarification.
Brrr (dark magical spell) rr rrt
tbf you don't need to go to C. You could write Common Lisp or Ocaml, both academic high level languages and very performant. Hell SBCL can get you to C range performance wise while you're writing dynamic, GCed code. Sure it's a little bit more involved than learning Python but not that much if you get 50x performance for free. Prevalence of Python is really baffling to me because compute resources cost money.
Shelling's Theory of Conflict:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1258092948/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch...

(Well-crafted hardcover and quality Kindle edition available)

Easy and amazing read, written in 1960s - it builds on the game theory, it was used as a basis for MAD and nuclear strategy in general. The author won a Nobel Prize in Economics for the ideas presented in this book.
I guess author is also counting there high school and college
He's furious at them because they didn't make them CEO. He withdrew his funding and parted ways.

Source: https://www.semafor.com/article/03/24/2023/the-secret-histor...
That makes me think, why not concentrate the effort on regulating the usages instead of regulating the technology itself? Seems not too far fetched to have rules and compliance on how LLM are permitted to be used in critical processes. There is no danger until it's plugged on the wrong system without oversight.
I can't share my code, but I do things like "here is my Livewire component and here is the blade view, remove these three properties and replace it with a Carbon object". And then I paste like 400 lines of code and walk around in my office. After a minute, I have sometimes 100% working code (PHP but also the frontend), that I can paste back in PHPStorm. Sometimes GPT-3.5 can do this, but sometimes I need to use GPT-4, because it "understands" much better what I want. Also, it sometimes optimizes my code, because it "saw" something, that I have not thought of. Github copilot was kind of cool, but this is magic and really helpful.

It also just writes my unit tests. Prompt is "here is my code (pasted a few hundred lines of code), write tests."
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They have a bias towards big tech (more big tech employees submit their TC), so you end up with higher numbers. The question is whether you get a similar bias in every country. You compare the same company in different locations to avoid this problem (easy to do with India, see my Apple example in another comment).
In the UK they still call them "blackboards", I've never seen a green one over here.
Bard is crap. But even if it weren’t, we wouldn’t know. OpenAI has been the media darling for months now and Google can barely get a word in.
Sorry, how exactly is AI supposed to do that? Unless somebody has already built Skynet and is planning to give it the nuclear codes?
American suburbs are not actually the result of good planning. They were born of a mix of factors, starting with a significant housing shortfall and large numbers of recent WW2 veterans who qualified for help buying a house.

This was not really planned per se. In some sense, it kind of just happened.

Sorry to hear people in other countries are being influenced in that way.
do you really need perfect photos? Does it add anything to the memory?

imho there's value in capturing that someone had a weird expression on their face or blinked.
My anecdata, my teenagers won't play it, despite liking it [privately], because it's for "little kids" -- by which they mean Primary School (7-11yo) children.

They are ridiculously sensitive to their perceived age groups for games.
No, that isn't what astroturfing typically implies. Astroturfing is spreading FUD and misinformation in more automatable or massive ways, which in turn will cause articles to be written that echo these misinterpretations or misinformation.

EFF and ACLU don't exactly have much credibility left in my book, but that is a personal opinion. EFF is still defending Internet Archive in the pirated books scheme. ACLU has retreated from the USA first amendment, which was their main organizational principle. Not exactly a moral high ground anymore.

https://www.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/20180621ACLU....

https://www.eff.org/cases/hachette-v-internet-archive
Yeah, the law sounds similar to what we've got in Russia. Don't go this road, guys.

Update: Read the article a bit further and it says they could criminalize the use of VPN. Even here in Russia we don't have this. At least for now)
I am sharing this link because I think it is interesting how close many of the things said here, in 1992, are to what ended up happening.

> What is really
needed is a platform on which distributed applications can be built without
concern for the problems of distribution, user buy-in, and heterogeneous
interaction environment.

> […]

> One solution is to "piggyback" the engine on top of a
technology that is already at the fingertips of most computer users today,
electronic mail.

This is more or less exactly what happened. Except it ended up happening not on top of email but on top of www.
The nice thing about whisper is that it runs locally.
From what I've heard, Microsoft wanted to downsize the research department in Cambridge. By UK labour laws it was possible to lay off basically everyone in a department, but would have legally been much harder to cherry-pick a few people to keep.
The answer to the question at the end is that you fire them. It sucks but someone who can't get their job done is also demoralizing for the rest of the team who have to pick up their slack.
He is indeed: https://www.semafor.com/article/03/24/2023/the-secret-histor...
A lot of opiates are produced in the US.
2B weights is not too big, so with some compression + sparsity + down-sampling it will run on any device offline
This is something that has been known for many years in the consumer space: customers dislike usage based price even if it would be cheaper. This is both because they don't like the unpredictability and also because now every transaction involves a tiny pang of losing money. "Unlimited for a constant fee" is much nicer psychologically, because you take away the guilt of using the app.

This is mostly a thing in consumer products though, perhaps for b2b it is different.
> I bring a "bazaar car"[0] (sorry, don't know what it's called in English)

It's called a shopping caddy or shopping trolley[0] :)

Not a native speaker myself either but I also wondered what the english word is. Maybe a native speaker can chime in an tell us if there's a slang term for these caddies.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping_caddy
Yes.

'Branching' and 'non-branching' make sense in the context of specific architectures and/or languages. Just not really in an abstract algorithmic sense.
Wow, you really do not understand Apple, and you’re even proud of that.
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Sorry, I still don't get it.

Could you explain it with fewer steps left out?

To be honest, I doubt that you will have come up with something that Terrence Tao and other geniuses haven't, but it's interesting to figure out exactly where you went wrong. (Or, on the off chance, seeing how you might be right after all.)
I'm not sold on people reusing the 'durable' bags a sufficient number of times to even outperform their plastic counterparts. I suspect the durable bags will become damaged or worn out to the point where they're replaced before even break even in the majority of cases.

I would prefer that the old, cheap, paper bags (without the handles) were a free at checkout option. If plastic bags are offered the laws should be changed to require that they are sold __at cost__ not __for profit__. Currently this is just a huge money grab that every business is doing where I live (WA state); including force bundling unwanted bags for online orders.

I would like the option of natural wax coated paper spoons that can stand up to a yogurt cup or bowl or two of cereal. That takes care of the 80% use case of grab and go breakfast at places.

Leave my dang straws alone, or at least have that tiny bit of material made out of a plastic that some bacteria can breakdown but which is otherwise an OK plastic. Convenience store cups and pre-packaged foods would also be good things to look at using such a plastic on.
I think the problem is the gradient, not the current state of chatgpt. Given how much better gpt4 is over gpt3 (I've used both) , some people are getting worried.
Final anthropic principle =
FAPOCALYPSE WOW(wanton organizational wizardry)

or

FAPOCALYPSE WHOW(wanton holistic organizational wizardry)
For good reasons, to be fair. OpenAI has pushed to production as an incredible rate so people had a blast with their prototypes and APIs. And many of us thought Google was waiting to push the red button with a fully-fledge amazing product. Doesn't seem to be the case.
glibc breaks regularly, as does mesa occasionally, so it would realistically be required if you wanted win32-style 20+ years of backwards compatibility.

And there is a lot of more obscure examples: fontconfig e.g. at some point changed their config file format in a not backwards compatible way, and now some Steam games crash on startup because the developers earlier vendored it to get around its ABI breaking repeatedly.

And that sort of software doesn't really obsolete. Steam and GoG allow games to have a 10+ years long tail of slow but steady sales that don't really justify constant maintenance releases but still both let people enjoy good games (those don't really obsolete), and serve as advertisement for the developers' newer games.
There were a few things wrt to clustering (which I don't need) and storage pool management that tripped me up at first, but not too bad. However, it made me worry about the fact that I might not be the target audience for the LXD project (I just need simple lightweight machines with snapshots, nothing more).

When they decided to stop officially distributing debs, and promote Snap as distribution channel, that was the final straw. I don't understand what's their target audience anymore. Desktop users? My machines are sensitive about reboots, but pretty much sealed off the internet. Upgrades are tested, and happen in scheduled windows. Yet Snap auto-update insists on restarts, whenever it sees fit.

Sure, I can find workarounds [0], but the complete disregard on this issue and the reason that they probably forced the LXD project to promote the dumpster fire that is Snap just didn't sit well with me. I'm gone for good.

[0] https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/disabling-automatic-refresh-for...
Are you sure about that? I've seen YouTube captions understand homophones, and Google Assistant definitely can (though that may be linked to some other system).

Surely the speech recognition model itself learns some basic language statistics in order to recognise homophones?
Without using every feature you still have to conform to the complexity of the runtime. Every variable in that loop is a hash map lookup into the locals. `np.linalg.norm` is two field accesses, necessitating more hash map lookups on the module objects. `-` and `<` are attribute lookups as well as full function calls.
You know what the supreme irony is? The China scare (“oh no, totalitarians are coming for us”) is pure manufacturing of consent and its goal is to pass bills that will REDUCE democracy in America.
> Incompetent nice people, as long as they are not so incompetent to be a liability can at least contribute to a strong team culture and make good competent people want to show up.

Hard disagree. They demotivate the competent. People start to wonder if they can perhaps slack off and be nice instead of delivering...
Putin has led similar genocidal campaign in Chechnya from the day one of his ascent to power. The only reason Chechen children were not abducted is Chechens are not Russian-passing and they had no desire to absorb them.
Would you ignore random garlic in your OS?