skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was not common in my social circles in the early 2000s. More often than not, people would take as little as possible (to the point they were barely getting by) because they were scared of being unable to pay them back. But these were also people that couldn't imagine going to an out-of-state school because of the tuition costs.

Maybe a computer with a graphics card upgrade, but that was the extent of it.

Also, the idea that you could you student loans for non-essentials was a foreign idea. But some people I knew did take out more than they needed, but it was enough to get pizza once a week, not live in a hotel.

It makes me wonder, were loan limits much lower 20 years ago than now? It feels like this kind of over spending would have literally been impossible when I was in school.
Anyone smart enough to create an npm package can afford $1. You can pay with Satoshi Wallet instantly and virtually for free, and it's easier to fund a Satoshi Wallet than to open a bank account with a payment card. Geo and age agnostic etc.
> I assume you mean that all the LLM can do is produce text so it's not inherently dangerous, but it's rather trivial to hook an LLM up to controls to the outside world by describing an API to it and then executing whatever "commands"

Yes, you can do that, but the result is guaranteed to be silly.

The LLM isn't conceptualizing what it reads. That was already done when the human writing it used language patterns to encode their own conceptualization as data.

Instead, the LLM takes an implicit approach to modeling that data. It finds patterns that are present in the data itself, and manipulates that text alrong those patterns.

Some of the LLM's inferred patterns align to the language structure that was intentionally used by the human writing to encode a concept into that data.

Humans look objectively at the concepts they have in mind. From that perspective, we use logic or emotion to create new concepts. If a human could attach their mind to API endpoints, there would be no need to use language in the first place. Instead of encoding concepts into intermediary data (language in text) to send to a machine, they could simply feel and do the API calls.

LLMs don't look objectively at their model. They don't have a place to store concepts. They don't feel or do any arbitrary thing.

Instead, an LLM is its model. Its only behavior is to add new text and inferred patterns to that model. By modeling a new prompt, any familiar text patterns that exist in that prompt's text will be used to organize it into the existing model. A "continuation" essentially prints that change.

When you attach that to API endpoints, the decision making process isn't real. There is no logically derived new concept to determine which API call to call. Instead, there is a collection of old concepts that were each derived logically in separate unrelated contexts, then encoded into language, and language into text. Those are just being recycled, as if their original meaning and purpose is guaranteed to apply, simply because they fit together like puzzle pieces. Even if you get the shape of them right (by following the patterns they are encoded with) there is no place in this process to introduce why, or to decide the result is nonsense and avoid it.

In short, the LLM can be made to affect the world around it, and the world can affect it back; but there is nothing in between it being affected, and it affecting the world. No logic. No intent. Only data.
Exactly. Almost nobody types domains these days and mixed Search/URL bars execute search often anyway, w/o direct navigation. So the customers must have been referrals, who were particularly looking for this product and would have found it via another route anyway.
35k is a ridiculous amount to spend on this .io domain. The seller knew it too.
I don’t want to sound dense here but why is it frustrating that people who write about genetics aren’t familiar with computer science?
Telling them to fuck off did not work with Gui Minhai, who was a Swedish citizen at the time. If you're in some way Chinese they can just do the dragging first and make you say the "I wanted to come home" line later.
Oh, yeah, it's definitely possible to put Roku on hardware that's so incredibly shit that it runs poorly. And Roku's software (like everyone else's) has definitely been bloating for a long time. I discovered that when I bought a Hisense, because I needed a new TV and Costco didn't sell the previous brand of dirt-cheap Chinese Roku TV I'd bought before. God damn did that brand cheap out, the other brand's older TV that cost the same performed so much better. It even crashed sometimes, seemingly from OOM-like pressure, which I'd never once seen happen on the older one.

But it's also the case that decently-performing Roku devices exist running on hardware that surely wouldn't do very well if its "apps" were Webtech-based. JavaScript, sure, that could probably be brought in (and would surely be an improvement over BrightScript, as far as dev-ex) but a whole browser engine? Nah, they'd have to greatly increase their min specs, and their whole niche is "runs twice as well as Android-based TV UIs, on half the hardware".
Probably from multiple modalities as well as extending the sequence lookback length further and further.

They have low perplexity now, but the perplexity possible when predicting the next word on page 365 of a book where you can attend over the last 364 pages will allow even more complexity to emerge.
Yes, so therefore + is context dependent. Some context dependency is unavoidable, but having everything be context dependent is bad design IMHO.
The thing is, a simple carbon tax is already designed to handle both of these cases. Burning coal/gas would have a cost proportional to the long term effects it has, and at the end of the day customers just see a price of electricity. If someone wants to pay 10x more for energy to power their lightbulbs, let them. As long as the energy they buy is sustainably sourced, who gives a shit how they use it?
> That is not really an AI specific risk

It is an AI-enhanced risk.
It doesn’t have to be a technical competence problem. It could easily be a business competence problem.
The 'mute' function is wonderful for opting out of certain communities
> Alignment is impossible for AGI.

I mean that was my original premise supported by my article I posted. I go into detail on the conceptual methods for alignment and their fallacies.

When I state necessary, I don't imply the feasibility, it was in response to the question of the paradox.

Finally, the fact that AGI can not be aligned is also based on assumptions of its capabilities as well. If those capabilities don't manifest as we expect, that is really the only escape for the paradox.
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There are lots of people who believe someone ODing on fentanyl deserves to die.
Are OpenAI saying they have adhered to the terms of service of all the content they have used?
I bought Feit lightbulbs at a big box home store (not the cheapest option). Half of the 6 I bought failed in 6 months. The rest seem to be going strong at least…
What if people start trusting the AI more than other people? It will tell them exactly what they want to hear.
I took a refactoring class where we used scratch and it was a lot of fun.

I now have a 5-month old and I can't wait to introduce him to scratch jr in a few years.
The Tesla CEO claimed a few years ago that the company would be installing 1,000 solar roofs a week — but last year it averaged just 21 installations a week.
Does a light bulb implicate the sun? In some very specific ways certainly, but believing it generally does will cause more errors than useful insights.
The FTC regulating OpenAI for "bias" and "misinformation" would be struck down by a judge immediately for a First Amendment violation. The AI luddites should pick better arguments.
Devices so bad that even Roku runs poorly on them do exist.

Zero of them would do better if Roku switched to webtech for its applications.
You relinquish all licensing rights when you upload your code to GitHub. Microsoft can do whatever they want with it. That's in their ToS, which you have to agree to when you make an account. Normally, only affirmatively accepted ToS are enforceable, so just putting a clause into your license doesn't work (unless it's a copyright, which doesn't require consent).
The is like DynDNS on steroids. Awesome job. It should be noted that for high bandwidth applications, you'll incur a bit of a penalty due to hops but other than that it's pretty solid.
I’ll state an extreme belief: post-scarcity is likely within our grasp. LLMs are startlingly effective as virtual librarians that you can converse with as though they were an expert. I started using them to try tripping them up with hard and vague technical questions, but it’s so good at it that I get most of my prototyping done through it at this point. When this technology becomes portable and usable with natural human speech, this ease of access to the world’s knowledge made available to everyone could enable breakthroughs in a wide range of disciplines that simply reduce the cost of goods and services to the point where we can begin spending our limited time on this planet seeking fulfillment rather than making money for other people to live. I’m scared that this potential will be erased by fear and doubt, and we’ll all watch on the sidelines as the rich and powerful develop these capabilities anyways and lock the rest of us out.
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Absolutely -- I wouldn't touch ubuntu on a personal device, but UBPorts is well known as the cleanest and most performant desktop for the PinePhone user-base. I'd rather port it than use the other leading mobile desktops (or Ubuntu Touch). They've done great work.
The cost is too high?
I don't think it's right to blame npm for this issue. The service they offer is very clear. The responsibility of the downloaded packages is the user.
maybe separate the repo into a few groups:

main - the well known gold standard popular ones
staging - the ones that will be moved to main when good enough
experimental - whatever you want to push

this is kind of like debian repos
First paragraph is a bit of a disaster.
It needs a filesystem for the same reason they were invented for computer

Why would that be true? It is a cool analogy but implying that it is the reason requires much more.
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15 years fully remote for me and 3 kids.

The lunchtime breaks were my favorite, getting to see how their day was going and help out or share a quick laugh.

It really was and still is priceless for me.

For anyone starting out, I highly recommend trying to be home as much as possible in your kid’s 1st 5 years before they make strong friendships and when you’re their mentor and best friend.
They claim it's short for "Fun Tunnel".
The 2020 was in negative, 2021 was also in negative. That's not "becoming profitable"
I'm afraid I don't have a lot to add to this conversation but I have to say I just love Tailscale. I don't often run across software that feels so right and when I do it's a great surprise. Every time I see a new feature they're releasing I'm always impressed at how adept they are at targeting modern pain points.

I grew up and got into software by messing around with self-hosting web servers and game communities as a kid. As time has gone on I felt like we had lost some of the magic of easily sharing your machines and your creations with other people. We have a ton of services where you can now deploy and share your creations, but we've moved further and further away from direct sharing. There were plenty of good reasons why this has happened, with security being the most obvious factor, but it still makes me a little sad. I want my things to be able to talk to each other no matter where I am. I want to be able to invite my friends in and have access to my stuff.

Tailscale makes all of that quick, easy and awesome. I think it's really neat, makes me feel like a little nerdy kid again.
The parallels with AlphaZero are not so easy.

The problem is you need some sort of arbiter of who has "won" a conversation but if the arbiter is just another transformer emitting a score, the models will compete to match the incomplete picture of reasoning given by the arbiter.
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And what about the terms of service of my blog or code repository? Does OpenAI respect that?
It's a little more complicated - in AAD, the app developer has a single app registration, which is the app side of AAD. The app can ask for certain permissions, specify trusted sign-in URLs, manage client secrets, etc.

Then, on each AAD tenant that wants to use this app, an admin for that tenant would create their instance of the app, called an enterprise application or service principal.
That second object can choose whether any user in that tenant can sign in to the app or not, and can assign AAD roles to users/groups.

It is very common for apps to have a single tenant, and therefor the app registration and enterprise application are both in the same tenant, but if the app registration would allow it, any tenant can create their instance, and assign users from their tenant any role they desire.

This means that it is possible to have an app managed really well within your tenant, yet make the mistake of allowing sign-ins from other tenants, and thereby outsiders could still have full access...
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Also FSD in 2024 will work perfectly
> Can you elaborate as to why the first two are impolite?

The "YOU caused a problem", not "I see a problem".
Content is not subject to terms of service.

Services are subject to terms of service. (If content is received through a service, the terms of service may govern use of it, but that’s not a feature of the content, but the acquisition route.)
From my personal experience, the greatest benefit of YC is being part of a group of so many brilliant founders that are trying to create amazing things - this creates healthy peer pressure and pushes you forward A LOT. As a result, many companies achieve absolutely crazy results in just 3 months

This is even better now that YC is back in person. I think W22 batch was the last remote batch
The TV is a good example because the light from TV is transmitted light, like a stained glass window. The TV can create the widest range of perceptual experience if it has R, G and B colors that are precise spectral lines.

If I'm looking at color prints in a book or on the wall that is reflective light and it is dependent on the spectrum of the room. My main TV room has RGB Hue lights that can simulate "warm" or "cold" light but also specific colors. I think 100% green is the ideal light for hot summer days because a full spectrum is also coming in the windows and it gives the most light for the minimum amount of heat. I also find other colors fun sometimes. The guest room that also has a TV has sengled lights that can be tuned from cool to warm.

RGB lights that can produce saturated colors are not going to render reflective colors so well, see

https://blog.kasson.com/the-last-word/metameric-failure/

Personally I like high color temperature light but with the system we have we can have it any way we like. If I really need accurate color rendition I bring in high-performing spot incandescent and maybe someday LEDs. My work is all "born digital" so I spend at least 80% of my time looking at screens and looking at prints, handling paper and such is a small but essential fraction of that.

What I really gotta do though is set my system up so it can vary the room color together with what's on TV, that ought to be cool.
IMO git would be way better with different naming and some UX improvements. Like a git undo[1] command, or renaming git reflog (git usage or git cmdlog), git blame (git author), and so on. Also stuff like the index, while great for experienced developers, leads to a lot of confusion early on.

I'd love a command pallet where you could search for basic behavior in plain text like "reset my branch to GitHub's copy" or "only rebase two commits" and have it find the magic incantation.

[1]: https://blog.waleedkhan.name/git-undo/
I agree with most of the points in principle. It helps when you remove all of the hysteria.

That said, I think OpenAI is being unfairly targeted. OpenAI has done more to democratize access to AI algorithms than any other company in the history of tech. They simply provided access in a straightforward and transparent way with transparent pricing and APIs.

Google and other competitors sat on this and acted as gatekeepers and here again we have an attempt to gatekeep what people are allowed to use and tune.

It's only through usage that we can get the data to fix the core issues like bias. We can't expect a select few to solve all of AI's potential problems prior to the rest of humanity being "allowed" to benefit.
See HiQ vs LinkedIn. ToS has to be affirmatively accepted. I doubt that happened in this case.
And that company's name?

SNEED

(formerly m00ts)

Seriously though, we know somehow someway this isn't going to end well. It's interesting to just watch it go down.
> - Bots were most likely largely operated via the AP

This strikes me as extremely unlikely. The bots being discussed were attempting to pretend not to be bots, and there were active attempts to detect and remove them. Using the API would have made it trivial to detect them.
Hey! I definitely understand the reservation. This is definitely me as well. My reasons for using the UI at this point:

* GPT-4 is decently faster when talking straight to the API

* The API is so stupidly cheap that it's basically a rounding error for me. Half an hour of chatting to GPT3.5 costs me $0.02

Would be curious what you mean by integrating the backend-api?
It has little to do with privacy - it's about adversary controlling a Skinner box which millions of your citizens have willingly put themselves in. It's just, how do you encode that into law? So privacy it is.
There has been some folks that have hacked on these machines, although not for specifically what you describe. Here’s an example https://medium.com/root-ventures/the-best-office-coffee-youl...
MM? Using roman numerals... Seriously, I do value good notation, but for this particular case, juxtaposition, we do use it for multiplication - in algebra, where it's easy to find the boundary of a number, and variables are always 1 symbol long, so 'xyz' is a product of three values, not a name of one.

Coming back - notation is important, but sometimes it's hard to find "the best" or even "good enough". Newton's primes as symbols of differentiation used alongside with Leibniz' dy/dx, and there is the shortcut for "differentiated by time" as dot on top of the function symbol, so for various cases different notation is more convenient.
Git gud with git or get gut ?
I guess D would make more sense than E, but also G E A sound great in a progression
> You relinquish all licensing rights when you upload your code to GitHub

What now? Seriously?

I found this. Section D4.

"We need the legal right to do things like host Your Content, publish it, and share it. You grant us and our legal successors the right to store, archive, parse, and display Your Content, and make incidental copies, as necessary to provide the Service, including improving the Service over time. This license includes the right to do things like copy it to our database and make backups; show it to you and other users; parse it into a search index or otherwise analyze it on our servers; share it with other users; and perform it, in case Your Content is something like music or video."

"as necessary to provide the Service" seems critical.
Please list the harm that has been done. I do not see it as transparent.
> And what about the terms of service of my blog or code repository? Does OpenAI respect that?

Seems to me that’s an issue between you and OpenAI. (Does your blog or code repository actually have published restrictive terms of service? Did it when OpenAI accessed it? Did OpenAI even access it?)
Two reasons: Firstly, Data is supposed to be a character on TV, and we can’t empathize with computers. The in-universe reason is that Data was designed to be, as much as possible, an artificial human, and not a robot merely functioning in human society.
3000 calls to list.append() cost only 2ms. In a computational intense program, no one bothers. Because usually one call to do matrix multiplication is already costing 500ms or so.

Of couse you can prelocate memory for size=3000, and append stuff in a loop. But this saves only 10ms. Too insignificant.
Hardly unethical, considering OpenAI is doing exactly this.
0-3-5, 0-3-6-5, 0-3-5-3-0
are you familiar with a procedure called a DNC ? Have you ever known anyone who had a miscarriage? Are you aware that the DNC procedure is now vaguely illegal in many states and that entire maternity wards and OB/GYN practices are literally leaving states like Texas to avoid accidental liabilities? That mothers undergoing medical emergencies are being forced to writhe in painful, life threatening scenarios for hours, as their baby dies through natural causes in any case, as doctors are now terrified to intervene?

Do you know any of this?

I think if you are completely ignorant of modern medicine, you should probably sit down before commenting on what "abortion" is and what the actual effect of anti-abortion laws is.

sources:

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/01/20/rural-hospital-texas...

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/16/health/abortion-texas-sepsis/...

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/07/1161486096/abortion-texas-law...

etc etc
My dude, how do I get in touch with you?!
>Even if they did – so what?

Amplification of biases, propagation of errors, echolalia and over-optimization, lack of diverse data, overfitting
Yes that policy seems dumb. I'm all for everybody being able to buy it. I'm not at all for having to use public funds to pay for it. Let all the saints buy it over the counter with their own money to be the hero, and spare me the tax money.
Yes, but this is exactly what I'm asking. How do I find the ones designed in a buy it for life way? Or at least ones designed to last longer than the crap on the Home Depot shelves.
> If you have years of muscle memory, gut is probably not for you.

yep, that's my problem.

i do really wish that one of these would take off though and everyone would switch, it would be better for the world.
If we assume that tiktok is a mass surveillance tool (which at least didn't use to controversial on this site) what alternatives really are there? Using a VPN isn't criminalized, using a VPN to bypass the provisions in the law is.

Just look at vendors on Amazon to see how effective banning by name would be.
That's a good point, although I'm pretty sure the Sun still trumps any kind of LED grow light output, especially during summer months.

That being said, maybe it's a good idea to use a plexiglass UV filter when using it as a workshop light.
I don’t see why not.

People who do vigorous sport can turn into complete couch potatoes once they are too old to practice that sport. Difficult concept for you to get, perhaps? Hint: being “healthy” wasn’t the point; it was the excitement, the adrenaline… etc.
California's JA8 certification requires LED bulbs to meet specific criteria related to efficiency, lifespan, and light quality.

- Efficiency >= 45 lumens per watt

- CRI >= 90

- R9 Color Rendering value >= 50

- Rated life >= 15000 hours

- Minimum dimming level <= 10%

- Flicker <= 30%

Theoretically if a bulb is listed as JA8 compliant (and the certification isn't fake) you know it at least meets these thresholds.
Pretty sure that the CIA's A-12s came before the YF-12 interceptor prototype.
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