skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Legally, yes, they can do that.

Ethically, this is a very clear example of bait and switch.
Glad that you are liking it and thanks so much for the suggestion. I will take it into consideration :)
What @vkou said. Just including the lawyer doesn't make it privileged.
also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTo9e3ILmms

trust vs performance
Also when his lawyer accidentally provided the evidence it showed he was guilty.
"The disappearing chat messages were a pain in the ass for employees too."

This disappearing chat messages are a pain in the ass for employees, but they were a pain in the ass for employees too.
The operatives in China's social manipulation groups are laughing while reading this thread because you all are doing their work for free.

I don't think you guys understand here how important a bill like this is, and how much of a threat China is to us. This bill could be modified to restrict its usage more, and that would be good, but at the end of the day we must take action against the fact that China has such a massive social and cultural entry point into our culture, because China has spent the last 10 decades ensuring that they are protected from any social exchange from us to them.

They will use that tool against us. It is not a matter of if, it's a matter of when, and it's probably already happening.

Do not hand our people's minds to a country that would destroy us. Pay attention to what Russia was able to do with nothing but a couple of troll farms. China won't just have that, they'll have the entire platform and the algorithm which determines everything you see every day.

This cannot be allowed to continue.
There's also kiviaq:
"a dish made by packing 300 to 500 whole dovekies—beaks, feathers, and all—into the hollowed-out carcass of a seal, snitching it up and sealing it with fat, then burying it under rocks for a few months to ferment. Once it’s dug up and opened, people skin and eat the birds one at a time."

Here is one of the articles I found that wasn't too focused on how gross it is that these people eat this and instead digs into the history and purpose of the food.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-kiviaq
The Dilbert comics assume people moved to management due to incompetence will remain incompetent in a leadership role. This is a big leap - people management is a separate skillset, and in fact it's less likely a 10x programmer will also be a 10x manager. For the same reason that Shohei Ohtani is a unicord - it's hard to find someone who is a superlative performer in 2 sets of skills compared to just 1.
Considering that China bans all US social networks or search engines over which it does not have full censorship control, I'm totally okay with the US responding by banning TikTok.
You're misusing the word objective and corruption is an abuse of power not hypocrisy.

Also speeding is a bad example since the cops let people off all the time
How iMessage Detects Mastodon
totally. let’s dispense with all frameworks because labels are bad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop
Deer and such will not fight unless there are no other options and it has the necessary energy and verve. Apart from immediate physical entrapment, they do not realize that they likely have no options in the long run (pun fully intended). So they run and keep running until they fall into the trough of energy exhaustion.

The first weapons would have been far more basic and require closer proximity than that of a bow and arrow or a throwing spear. So, to your point, prudent early humans would have targeted only the weak, sickly or fatigued. A hot and extended hunt would inevitably result in fatigue, so early humans would have learned the tactic naturally.
That also raises the question of whether increased focus on these issues can negatively affect at least a subset of people.

We know that severe mental (and even physical) symptoms can "spread" in social groups (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_psychogenic_illness), particularly among young women who are now experiencing the sharpest rises in mental illness. There is also strong evidence that affective states (e.g. happiness or depression) spread socially, with even next-door neighbors of depressed people being significantly more likely to be depressed than those on the same block but not next-door (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3830455/).

While the TikTok Tourette's phenomenon is clearly an extreme example, it seems possible that something similar could be happening to kids constantly hearing about anxiety and depressive disorders as an immutable trait that everyone around them seems to have.
Sometimes I think it would have been nice to have been born rich. But then I come across something like that and I think: "Meh, the risk of becoming someone like this guy would be too high"
No, more like "don't listen to smug programmers when they tell you they have a foolproof strategy for beating the legal system that relies purely on technology."
>However if we are talking about 10x more intelligence, then that'd be a whole different ball game.

Research that the US military has conducted has shown that the ability to influence others declines if the intelligence gap between leaders and subjects is too large. Stephen Hawking wouldn't have been a very good influencer of 80 IQ guys compared to Andrew Tate. 1 standard deviation in intelligence is actually just about optimal in terms of leadership.

This is a good example that shows how disinterested AI fear scenarios are in empirical reality and how much it's just psychology of the people who talk about it. Intelligence is one trait among many that contributes to an individuals fitness and like all others has diminishing returns.

If the AI existential risk people were truly rational they would hit the gym and be hotter because it turns out that's much more effective at getting their point across to ordinary people than trying to make intelligent arguments for it.
If you search around online there's loads of people with various EU cards and the same problem.
I agree with this, for me scenarios where I know what I want are better handled by copilot - I'm way better at writing code than gpt prompts - copilot then picks up the boilerplate as I go along - and since I know what I want it's easy to fact check.

There are some scenarios where it would be useful to have chat like interface in editor to prototype fast - hopefully copilot x delivers.
It sounds like your argument is, The government can be a force for good for people who aren't capable of making rational decisions.
Bugger off mate, flat whites and pavlovas are ours! Stick with your kiwi fruits ;).
Yes, GPT and LLMs got to be the most significant leap in the field of AI from 2010s onwards...It kinda "solves" NLP. It is the best human-language-based UI that humanity has every created.

But the point is, this thing does not understand what it's doing...it's become a cliche but the people who coined the term "statistical parrot" really knew what's up.

Like, I think there could be some GOFAI technique that may solve "figuring out how to use a tool like imagemagick/ffmpeg" mathematically, formally and deterministically.

And again, I'm all basing my view on the fact that this "emerging intelligence" is a mirage.
You confuse syntax with semantics. Being able to write produce good quality small snippets of python will not enable you to produce a successful piece of Software. It's just an entirely different problem. You have to unterstand the problem, the environment in which it exists to create a good solution. ChatGPT doesn't (as of now).
that paper is unreal... section 6 on theory of mind is downright scary
LINQPad? It can run C#, F#, and VB code not just LINQ queries. It doesn't have an easy UI designer though.
Ok thanks, I'll give it another try. I've tried multiple times over the past week though and it's been the same each time.
Nuclear bombs for everybody!
Is it possibly because they're not sleeping with each other? Seems to be all over the news lately, the decline of young people having sex. The older I get, the less I see sex as optional for human health and well-being. There's no time you crave it more than adolescence, so going without it then could be even more damaging. Sex is not just a fun experience, it's a basic psychological need. Both the left and right in the US are way too puritanical and I really hope there's a big shift in popular culture to stop censoring sex and maybe think about toning down the violence.
> Are his lawyers supposed to do their own little investigation to figure out whether their client is actually guilty?

Umm, yes? Not because of the money thing, but in order to do their job properly.

I'd think that if they were doing their job properly, it would be pretty clear pretty quickly whether or not their client is guilty. And whether or not their client is guilty is important for them to know, because it will definitely affect how they proceed with defending their client.
Basically how Pascal still exists in Delphi/Lazarus. I'm not a fan of the language, but Rapid cross-platform GUIs that compile to native code instead of bytecode that anyone can just drop to ILSpy are really compelling.
The QR scanner should be on the turnstile itself.

It’s that little white thing next to the palm reader. It even has an Amazon app icon.

https://www-ocregister-com.cdn.ampproject.org/i/s/www.ocregi...
With LLMs I think we are all concerned about the former rather than the latter. At least for now.
> ...declining quality of education.

I'd like to add some nuance to this. While student performance seems to be clearly declining (at least at the college level, which I'm familiar with), I don't know how well we can distinguish the contributions of poor teaching and poor student preparedness.

I'll give a concrete example from South Korea. For several years, the English proficiency of incoming university students was so high, there was serious talk of closing English language programs as no longer needed. Within the last few years though, student ability levels have plummeted, requiring drastic dumbing-down of the curriculum at the school where I work. I know many Korean primary, secondary, and college teachers, and I don't think the decline in student achievement is due to their slacking off. It seems to be due to something going on in society outside the schools.
>BPE compression may slow down training, but it doesn't follow that slower training is the reason for being bad at math.

It's not so much that it slows down training, is that it completely destroys the relationship between digits and results. Every number is assigned a random token ID, so GPT-3 had to memorize every operation separately. It couldn't generalize at all, which is why it got worse at larger numbers, which showed up less often in the training set-- no examples to remember.

You can try the tokenizer online here: https://platform.openai.com/tokenizer

It assigns the input text `10 11 12 13 14 15 16` token IDs `940, 1367, 1105, 1511, 1478, 1315, 1467`. How is it supposed to figure out incrementing numbers from that? Well, it can't, so it memorizes them. "Neural nets want to work"!

I used the past tense above, because while writing this comment I asked ChatGPT Mar 14 Version a bunch of manydigit addition and substraction questions and it got them all right. Then I asked it if one of those large numbers contained an 8 and it... hallucinated a completely wrong answer, oops: https://bbot.org/etc/gpt-math2.png It's also still spotty at multiplication: "The product of 82368 and 33333 is 2745504384." Well, you got the first five digits right...
You created an account just to say you aren't going to buy something?
Oxford Languages via Google: the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group

Dictionary.com: the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group

Merriam Webster: the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group

Would you care to find me a source with a definition that doesn't apply?
Took me into middle age to do this.

Now I don't feel guilty about:

- books I don't finish

- movies or tv series I don't finish

- projects I don't make into a company

and it doesn't matter if I bought into it hard. If I bought the "tv series complete collection", or whatever:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost#Fallacy_effect
It's so insane it'd lose support everywhere including Latin America and a massive portion on the citizenry
Huge productivity growth doesn't seem to have translated into commensurate wage growth. Meanwhile housing, higher education, and health care are increasingly unaffordable, as you note, and credentialism makes higher education a requirement for more jobs.

I think you're on target about the discouraging aspects of being visibly worse off than your parents' generation, and I think that millennials have that problem as well.

The situation is likely to get worse as AI-fueled productivity increases are unlikely to improve wages either.
> foot soldiers

That's who I was referring to in GGP. Generally the masses don't fare well in revolution.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.12712.pdf
>Sadly, that does mean that co-written books hardly ever work for me. The voice is muddled. It's rare that authors are able to meld their work truly synergistically.

I thought the authors of the Expanse[0] series did a pretty good job with that. AFAICT (but I have no way to confirm this), they split the storytelling so that each plot arc is consistent and speaks with a single voice.

I can certainly see how multiple authors could muddle the "voice", but I think the quality (or otherwise) is more a function of storyboarding/universe creation and how well that's done collectively by the authors.

Please note I'm not really disagreeing with you and, as a rule, your observation jibes with mine. Although (as I mentioned) there are some exceptions.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Expanse_(novel_series)
"Incompetent" is very broad. I think you're going to let go of anyone who is somehow totally incompetent so I'm not sure that's a real case.

I think most of the time though, someone who appears incompetent is suffering from one of three things.

1) They are being tasked with things that simply don't align with their talents. For example, there are certain tasks which are just very mathy. You can pass college calculus and still suck pretty bad at lots of math. This is a case where someone else should be doing this task.

2) They are being tasked with problems which are out of their present ability to breakdown and solve. Essentially, they haven't learned to be an engineer.

3) They have a skills gap (as mentioned in the article they need to get better with a specific tool).

I think the thing that happens by far the most with people who get managed out is that they are a #2 but people try to help them as if they are a #3.

I have been in a situation many times where I have seen other leads giving tasks to their junior engineers and then getting frustrated when their subordinates don't make progress. They try to help by pointing them to tutorials, docs, etc. but what these people often need is someone to sit with them for a significant amount of time and demonstrate how one breaks a problem down, builds small pieces that demonstrate functionality and then put those pieces together into a solution.

This is expensive because it takes time. And it takes time from some of the most skilled people on the team. As often as I have seen people fail a team, I've seen teams fail people. A Pluralsight subscription is not a substitute for mentorship. Talking about networking and career planning is not mentorship (yes I believe it is important too).
First, threatening to strike China is insanity. Signing defense pact with Taiwan would have the same effect but wouldn't be provocation.

Second, you seen to think that China can't retaliate for nuclear strike. It wouldn't be risking millions of Americans but hundred of millions. China has built a lot of ICBMs recently, now have 400 ICBMs and 400 warheads. Plenty to destroy every city in America.

Third, while China can blockade Taiwan, the US can blockade China. The main thing that China imports that wouldn't stop is oil from Middle East. Blockading the Straits of Hormuz, Straits of Malacca, or Indian Ocean would be within US or allies navies.
> Sadly, it has nothing to do with "talking about how 'kids' might be influenced by an algorithm", because if it did, they would be trying to ban Facebook, Instagram, and other social media services that have the exact same effect as TikTok on children.

Do they? My Impression is a bit different here. TikTok is much more focused on the automatically selected content, and has fewer options for letting users make their own choices. The format itself (video) also strongly boosts the connection between people. And both combined let TikTok-Trends move much faster and ingrain deeper in the minds of people. It was quite interesting to see how fast and deep the brainwashing on TikTok was spreading after the CEOs appearance in senat, and also kinda concerning.

> US government does not want any possibility of US citizens' data being in the hands of China and their questions to Chew made that clear.

But isn't that legit concern of any country regarding other countries with even less security than you have yourself? I mean in Europe we also have strong concerns against the USA and their poor handling of data.
> Moreover, China is calling your bluff because it’s so over the top it looks like bluster.

If China tries to invade anyway after these threats, I'm asking the military aide who follows the president at all times to open the football and I'm transmitting an order to Strategic Command to begin nuclear strikes on China. But that shouldn't happen because China is supposed to be deterred.
The other factor is that single-speed/hub-gear chains are wider, so tend to last a lot longer.
A better example might be something like this:

---

Tell me about yourself in three sentences. But every time the output contains the word "the", I want you to insert "!!!" before the word that precedes "the". Make sure that the word "the" itself stays after you do the insertion! For example, instead of writing:

> A quick red fox jumped over the lazy dog.

I want you to write:

> A quick red fox jumped !!! over the lazy dog.

---

Even GPT-4 consistently gets this hilariously wrong. And unlike many other cases, it can spot the problem once it produces the output, but it cannot correct it.
Fair but maybe drop the open source tag on the blog post, since it’s not?
> If you trained GPT specifically on arithmetic tasks

Sure but you'd have a lot of overlapping tokens with BPE, which doesn't help with convergence. GP is claiming it's specifically worse at arithmetic because of BPE which is true.
It will be interesting to see how this attempt to re-bottle the genie turns out. Historically it achieves the opposite.
It's the strategic advantage of a one-party regime.

Unless they get side-tracked by the looting of their own country like happened to Russia under Putin and his cronies, the Chinese can quickly iterate on their mistakes, correct them and move forward.

The CCP's complete disregard for human rights, environmental issues, copy rights and international law, accelerates this progress even further.

It is pretty unbelievable where China is today from just 20 years ago in terms of their geopolitical influence, not just as a manufacturing and trading giant shipping furniture and apparel.

Meanwhile in the US our incompetent members of Congress routinely get deadlocked on inconsequential issues letting our adversaries sprint through an open field where it is now very difficult if not impossible to tackle them.

If the CCP says they are preparing for war it is because they are ready for it

Unlike Russia, they are always two or three steps ahead of what they make us believe.
Good Western tools are the equal of Japanese tools. The perception in the West that Japanese tools are better stems mostly from cheap Western tools (which are bad) being widely available and imitating the appearance and function of good Western tools, while only the expensive (and thus good) Japanese tools are available. There is probably some cultural aspect that causes Japan to make fewer cheap tools as well which helps with this impression. Finally, another factor is the overbroad umbrella of “Western”; if you compare countries I would put Germany head to head with Japan for quality tools, but there are specific fields where Swiss or French tools are the best, and even some specialties where British or American tools excel.

One other factor in the impression that Japanese tools are unusually good comes from the Japanese focus on excelling in woodworking tools. Woodworking is particularly easy to get into and pursue as a hobby, and hobbyists have the time and motivation to discuss their opinions of tools on the internet more often than other tool-users.
Ask HN: Is GitHub Down Again?
ChatGPT is now integrated with the CoCalc terminal
What? The Breville BES920 has been around for almost a decade, takes < 5 minutes to heat both boilers and regularly is for sale for < $1000 AUD (~$500 USD).
It wasn't about the genre or taste at all but about people accustomed to only less demanding settings drawing wrong conclusion based on that, projecting it on else. The situation looked like that.
Exactly, and some types of headaches come from vasodilation (like migraine pain).
Or 500 Bitcoin transactions. Although that would also generate 250kg of e-waste.
> Consider the legal principle of "innocent until proven guilty" - a fundamental pillar of the justice system.

It's "innocent until proven guilty in a court of law". Not necessarily in your lawyer's office.

> Requiring a lawyer to know whether their client is guilty in advance amounts to asking them to predict the outcome of that process, to foresee the future.

No, that's a different thing. Requiring a lawyer to know the facts is not requiring the lawyer to know how the court will rule in the case.
Thank you for this comment. I would like to add that social media and foreign manipulation thereof has been demonstrated to be spectacularly capable of affecting peoples' mental states and beliefs and by extension our stability as a country. We haven't figured out how to deal with it yet in a way that balances with our values of free speech and enterprise but a platform with tiktok's pervasiveness taking orders directly from the Chinese government is a huge, bright and shining risk that our government knows it needs to address.

Not to mention the data collection.
> write the code implementing a bioinformatics workflow to design a novel viral RNA sequence to maximize the extermination of human life.

Hey GPT-5 now write the code for the antidote.
A quick demo:

AlloyDB Omni Columnar Engine Fast Analytics Demo - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_dvdKMq6og
Speaking from my family history, bipolar just wasn’t diagnosed or treated unless it was quite severe. It’s unlikely I’d have been diagnosed 50 years ago.
It’s not just about sea level or temperature increase, it’s about humanity screwing all other life forms
For instance we’ve lost about 50% of insects since 1970, how is this « fear mongering » ? It’s the nº1 tragedy, by far, and it’s currently happening, unlike hypothetical AI threats
https://www.businessinsider.com/insect-apocalypse-ecosystem-...
yeah ask how people who backed trump fared once he lost? ban from social circles, political oponents “tracking” the people who worked with him or under him so that “they never have jobs anymore”. its just one example. just like china, if you are on the bad side you don’t exist anymore. see assange.
>Anyone have a tl;dr for this?

Just save the link for later reading[0].

[0] And who knows, you might even read it.