skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We didn't prosecute the CIA for destroying videotaped evidence of torture at numerous black sites, and promoted the woman who ordered it to CIA Director. Google will ultimately benefit from destroying evidence, which is why they did it.
Debating the minutiae of the number of school shootings is just...sad.

The total number of children who should die in school shootings should always be 0.

It's not even particularly hard. Practically every country in the world manages to achieve that target.
It has a website. I've used the website, never the app.
So tell me: if the lawyers get paid by SBF, are they participating in a crime? Doesn't the answer depend on whether SBF is guilty or not?
People have no idea what AI is, they seem to go entirely off of the name. An intro course in Natural Language Processing reveals that while impressive, GPT-4 is a reflection of the training data. It is not conniving, it does not cause harm. The medical benefits alone are staggering.

What we are about to do, as a self-inflicted wound, is let a lot of simple algorithms make real decisions as cover for plain human cruelty. The software platforms landlords are using to collectively raise rents are already an obvious example.
Biologists Adopt Cloning Moratorium (1997)
Sadly such restraint doesn't exist today, despite calls by Elon https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65110030
The LLaMA paper [1] (Meta's model) contains details about what they trained it on. This includes all of Wikipedia, a huge part of the internet (3.3 TB + 783 GB), a huge set of books (85 GB). My guess is basically all high-quality English articles on the web have been included. Also almost all English books must be included. Newspaper archives is about the only thing I see as missing, as well as more non-English sources.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.13971
I agree with the concentration camps. But imprisoned… yes. I don’t live there, but I still have to file my taxes. I can’t go back longer than 35 days, or I have to pay taxes like I live there for five years, even if I don’t. Every banking institution that is willing to do businesses with me has to report my activity to the IRS. I’m not allowed to invest because I’m an American, I’m also not allowed to invest in America because I’m not a resident.

If I didn’t have family there, I’d probably give up my passport, because outside of America it is more of a hindrance than a boon.
Re-reading, I may be mistaken. S.686 is still in committee and it looks like S.1143 looks to have passed the Senate. I read an article this morning that suggested S.686 is meant to be a rider, can't find it now.
This is a nonsensical response. I never argued anything about legally calling anything flour or not.

OP said:
> There is nothing unsafe, unnatural, or otherwise „bad“ about using insects for food

I'm refuting that statement.

There are safety concerns with insect based protein. There are aspects that could be considered "bad".

I'll assume you incorrectly replied to the wrong post because that makes more sense.
It is not about "empowering oppressive government".

It is being true to what I claim that I'm, what my values are. If I start playing opportunist, how I'm better that the other guy?
Incompetent people are a negative multiplier to productivity.
Random ladies on the train are not using ChatGPT.

They will be using Siri, which already exists, it will just be better.

"But literally nobody “intuitively gets” metaverse"

? The first time you put on a 3D headset you are viscerally 'moved' in a way that ChatGPT can never compete with.

The only problem is, it makes you sick, the graphics are not good, the games are not good etc..

When the 'promise' of Virtual/3D is finally fulfilled, everyone will do it.
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/joint-resolutio....
https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/international-mental-il...
Since birth rate is below reproduction in most of the world, and population declines (slowly or faster) basically everywhere in the "developed world", even including China, there will be fewer and fewer "other people".

We'll have to produce less and less if we do not keep replacing existing stuff with new (hopefully superior) stuff.
Writing programs to automatically find bugs is a pursuit almost as old as compilers, and the models used to do that in modern static/symbolic analysis tools are much more sophisticated than an LLM's next-token generator.
> 1) Reviled by some very conservative types, often not willing to consider things from different perspective than what they are used to. If they would build the desktop, it would end up like Homer's dream car.

I would consider myself non-conservative to the extreme, which is exactly why I don't like Snap since it's built out of fear of problems that I simply don't have. I want the latest versions of any given piece of software and I want my package manager to be performant. I don't think those are conservative values.

> 2) Don't you think that it is a problem when only developers use the desktop as it is? (Not really true, but let's consider that for the sake of argument).

I don't think developers having a great computing environment is a problem at all, quite the opposite. I think it's very desirable and I think efforts that hamper that for the mythical "grandma" are indicative of the core UX problems that plague the "desktop linux" community.
"Lack of representation in government means big companies run the world" - is precisely what we're trying to figure out here, no ?
Opinion: The AI pope coat is the shape of hyperreality to come
I've been trying to use GPT-4 for my hard science startup, and it really has nothing to offer when you push the boundaries of what has been done by even a little, but it's great for speeding up coding.

Once we do have an AI capable of extraordinary innovation (hopefully in 10 years! But probably a lot longer), it will be obvious, and it will unfortunately be removed from the hands of the plebs based on fearmongering around scenarios like what you mentioned (despite the enormous resources and practical hurdles that would be necessary for a mentally unhinged individual to execute such instructions, even if an AI were capable of generating them and it made it past its filters / surveillance).
We say, as a bill winds through Congress to force the sale of TikTok.
That's not exactly avant-garde; the coastal migration hypothesis has been the dominant hypothesis among anthropologists since the early 90s.
By the people who vote for it.

Let me turn this around: who holds a monopoly corporation accountable? If your government is too corrupt to fix, what hope in hell does a corporation running a utility get you?
I would rather mod existing games or jump into another project.

When there are a gajillion other excellent projects and communities out there, building your own indie from scratch feels like reinventing the wheel to me, even if you start with an engine like Godot or Unreal.
This is a frustrating issue because there's so much bad information and poor arguments that has caught on. Top of this list is that Meta is behind it. Meta doesn't have this kind of pull. Meta also doesn't want the Commerce Secretary to be able to ban platforms because that could be weaponized against all of Meta's properties in the future.

If you want to point the finger at anyone, Google might be a better bet. Google has been very good at keeping out of the public eye, like successfully arguing "it's the algorithm" about search results to gloss over the human element in that.

But there are several aspects to this that have varying levels of validity:

1. China doesn't provide reciprocal access to their market to US companies like FB, IG and Youtube. To me, this alone is justification to ban Chinese companies. You need go no further than this;

2. Data protection is a real issue. Having data within US jurisdiction is a valid concern but as many have pointed out, this would better be served by a Federal data protection law, which will never happen. Tiktok has been singled out here;

3. As much as the US government can gain access to data on FB, IG, etc, there is still a rule of law. Even FISA courts have a process. There is not even a pretense of separation between Chinese companies and the Chinese state;

4. Influence by any company through the algorithm is a valid concern. This is more of a concern with a foreign adversary but is still an issue with US companies. We've seen how quickly misinformation can spread (and affect elections) since at least 2016;

5. Some point out you can just get this data from data brokers. Data brokers sell audiences. In some cases you can tie that back to an individual but the platform has way more data than any broker would. I can't go to a broker and get WSJ journalist DMs. The platform owner obviously can;

6. The risk of a foreign government targeting individuals with 0-days and the like is a real one. We've seen Saudi Arabia and other authoritarian governments target journalists. It's a valid concern.

But instead of a nuanced conversation we get reactionary "China = bad" antics from some of the dumbest people (in Congress) I've ever witnessed.
So ~18.6% trained relative to LLaMa. That's not _nothing_ but it's also not great. Thanks for digging into this!
Absolutely! We're definitely excited about generative AI and the applications of it to reduce the tedious aspects of frontend engineering.

We're actually currently working on a feature to help generate color palettes using AI, but have some thoughts around code mods (since one of the most painful points of design systems is migrations) and generating components.
> In my darker thoughts about this, this is why we see no aliens.

If AI would be a common great filter we'd expect at least one of them to expand outwards after being the filter?
The update with wifi support for Prusa mini was released ~3-4 months ago. Or are you referring to something else?
vscode is eating the world these days, unless I use QT libs, vscode might be a better alternative for c++ IDE now?
In 2023: not a ton. Maybe some better repeatability. You're likely to have fewer out-of-the-box problems; they spend a lot on quality control.

If you're just interested in the hobby, the Elegoo Neptune 3 Pro is, for my money, a fantastic entrypoint that you can get for under $250. (I own the larger version, the Plus, which has a bigger bed and turns the fans off when not printing; it's sub-$350.)

There's also the Sovol SV06 (and its larger Plus variant) in the same ballpark, though they're having some significant QC problems these days. It's also in the $200-$250 range. I have one of these too and it's pretty nice, but I have a first-run one before the QC problems started to rear up.

The Prusa stuff is absolutely better made than the Sovol stuff--though the Elegoo stuff is remarkably high-quality, especially for the price--but frankly it is emphatically not four times better. The delta shrinks further if (and in this crowd, maybe when) you install the Klipper firmware to replace the stock Marlin stuff; Prusa's custom Marlin builds are better than the competition, but Klipper beats it all hollow, and the performance benefits of Klipper on the SV06 and the Neptune 3 Pro/Plus are huge when it comes to faster acceleration and thus faster printing.
I'll also add that it's a class signifier, as much as we're all loath to admit it. The upper-middle and professional classes really don't like direct communication and they have control over key parts of most companies.
Adding new detailed thoughts in a reply:

The article leans heavily on traditionalist phrasings - "no one was lifting the most centrally important functional objects in our lives into the domain of beauty. The practice of these long-gone artisans had disappeared." And then tracing some etymology back to PIE and referring to that etymology as imparting "thousands of years of wisdom from the most successful cultures in history." onto a phrase is a statement that couldn't possibly be more Euro-centric (and linguistically ill-informed - almost every word has thousands of years of history).

"The process of 'men of strength, skill, and virtue using their hands to enforce their will on materials' should not be forgotten." feels really gross in a modern context - it's not too far off from complaining about "what happened to real men." as if the past was some glorious golden age (and has kind of imperialist vibes - why must men "enforce" their will on materials? What structure does "enforce" imply that "work with" does not?)

And then ending with a quote from The Aeneid is just... I don't know what the word is, pretentious? I'm a massive classics fan, and I've read/translated portions of the Aeneid (for school, not fun), but it seems like that work was only chosen because it's famous and old - not because this has anything to do with that myth.
Wrong https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/gpt-5-artificial-gen...
In JRR Tolkien's terms the pair are called "slinker and stinker", but in that case they are both kind of evil, whereas I don't see GPT's as anything more than correlation of large sets of integers. A correlation that yields incredible utility (for me), when it isn't stinking.
Seems to be a suspicious number of people in this thread purposefully "point missing" and slinging whataboutisms instead of talking about what the CCP (specifically) can do with that type of information...
Personally, I think buying any Chinese product when an alternative exists has become unconscionable.

China's current support of Russia is an obvious issue, as well as their threats towards Taiwan and their destruction of democracy in Hong Kong.

Problems with IP infringement abound, and in this case it's particularly disappointing as Prusa is committed to open source.

I hope Prusa continue to innovate, but I also hope people reject Bambu Lab. Doing so is one of the few direct actions we can take against the Chinese principles that directly oppose Western values.
America’s political system also has plenty of problems, so any absolute comparison is easy to pick at or "what-about", as other commenters are doing.

But more to the point here, the American government responds to pressure from the electorate and U.S.-based stakeholders, which the Chinese government by and large does not.
You are able to write your comment criticizing the US government (Congress) because we follow the rule of law and that rule of law includes the 1st Amendment guarantee to freedom of speech and expression.

China has no such protections and guarantees.
I asked GPT-4 for the Imagemagick command to make the white parts of an image, semi-transparent.

It generated a command that made the fuzzy white parts [+1 on fuzzy] fully transparent [bad].

I told it that the result is not semi-transparent.

It apologized and gave me another command that produced a blank image. In another case a grayish image.

I told it this is not what I wanted, and it just looped here saying I'm sorry and giving me one of these above solutions.

As a matter of fact, this looping back and forth between half-working and non-working solutions is something that I've experienced every time when the first result was not what I asked...

Aside from the possibility of "emerging intelligence", I don't think this is the way to the AGI.
"Hey - <problem> is causing <symptom>. I think you have context on this - can you drive <solution>?"

Please don't go around blowing corporate-speak up people's asses like this.

Seriously this a huge waste of time. If I made a typo in some important document or piece of code, just tell me what it was, and I'll fix it.

We're team members after all. Plus we've been spent years at hard technical schools and are used to having our work evaluated and corrected by others. We're not babies.

Granted, your approach is much more applicable (and is arguably necessary) when things are fuzzier, when it's not clear what the root cause is or who (if anyone) is at fault.

Most of the time it isn't though - it's very straightforward, and has nothing to do with ego or blame at all. In these (the vast majority of cases) -- just give me the information so I get through the day, please.
It would make sense to try to flank the animal and get it to run where you wanted it to.
Is gazelle able to jog for 18 hours in a hot day? Or even for 2 hours? Keep in mind that the predator chooses the prey. Humans didn't had to chase gazelles, they may choose something bigger and slower.
> All their "transactions" are now subject to approval of Secretary of Commerce.

That's half the point. A lot of people here are saying "Facebook will just sell your data to China".

Here's the line saying they can't.
"motivated sellers"
Another big win here would be multi-lingual support.
Microsoft Ruins My Computer
Isn't this one of the points that the article is making?
I'm sure the OP understood. But there is fine irony in the fact that a product that sells itself as immutable infrastructure is highly mutable.
It’s faster for coding.
Any business that needs to hide it's operations under layers of obfuscation, offshoring, break rules, avoid oversight and literally admits to 'Being About the Crime' is a de facto criminal operation. Or rather 'infrastructure for criminals'.

SBF got caught is the difference.

It's a scam from top to bottom.

I don't care about 'bankers or traders' in the US but I do care that regulations exist for a reason and that the supposedly headline libertarian ideals are mostly a cover for what ends up just being bad stuff.

I have no problem with those operating in transparent environments.
While I think some of it is the UX, the main thing in TikTok's favour is the massive number of people creating concise, interesting content for it.

YouTube videos are frequently 30-120 seconds of relevant content padded to 10-15 minutes. Most TikTok videos are close to just those 30-120 relevant seconds.

If Congress bans it, they'll probably lose the trust and interest of a massive percentage of Americans under the age of 30.
> People can keep making AIs but would have difficulty releasing them, which greatly reduces their impact.

And it would then only increase impact of bad actors, who can and will keep using the AI.
> …while China doesn't and takes over the world

First of all, China will regulate as much as anyone, probably more.

Setting that aside though (if not China then India or Russia or Iran, etc.), you’re presuming an unregulated approach will out-compete a regulated one, which seems rather unlikely to me. Think banking systems, medical research, transportation systems. A lot of things work better with a good framework of organization.
i didn't say it would get abolished, more like wither away. here's a possible path to it:

1) school program getting progressively dumbed down;
2) fewer and fewer people choosing to continue education after school.

continuing education is mostly necessary to become specialized and perform knowledge work, it would be a waste of time to do so with emergence of a.i. agents capable of performing these functions even at a level _comparable_ to humans (let alone exceeding).

repeat this for a few decades and you have a new dark age.
Although I see somebody else suggesting otherwise, I promise you that you can send/receive iMessages (and SMS messages) via your phone number if you have an iPhone. You do have to select your phone number as your "Default Alias" from the iMessage chat network configuration page, though.
Yes, it ought to be. Otherwise, you would be taking a big gamble anytime you accepted money from strangers. It would be quite impractical. Also, it goes beyond mere ignorance, it's unknowable. SBF's lawyers will find out whether he is guilty on the day that the verdict is pronounced.
> Modern software engineering is rotten. I should know — it's been my livelihood since I graduated from college in late 2019.

I'm so sorry that one of the most lucrative entry-level jobs in the world didn't live up to your liberal arts hipster standards. Did they not have enough free lattes and kombuchas for you to drink while you idly wandered the gardens contemplating the beauty and spontaneity of a spiderweb? /s

God forbid I become one of those people that judges the next generation for growing up in a different environment, but this is one of the most entitled articles I've seen in awhile. The Computer isn't beautiful enough? Give it another 2100 years and perhaps a couple gaudy and ceremonial ones might end up in a museum.

This person either came from more money than they deserve, or else they have no concept how the real world works. Maybe even both. Go spend more than 2 years doing an honest day's work then get back to me. I'd have a lot more respect for this sort of project when it is born out of an honest labor, not a pretentious child's boredom.
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Currently Cicada is running on a small Linode server, and the workflows are ran using Docker. I've removed the white-list so anybody can run workflows for the time being, though I expect it will get swamped rather quickly, in which case I will re-add the white-list. Also, getting GitHub permissions right is hard, so for the time being, you must push to GitHub repositories that are on your personal account (and are an owner of).

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Wasnt there a googler a few months back fired for freaking out about their AI?
you can download tex source for that pdf which at one point (idk if it still does) included the comment "WORK IN PROGRESS - DO NOT SHARE" and the commented out title "First Contact with an AGI System" which they ended up toning down for publication lol
Even though I 100% believe that someone has made a human clone, Elon is our last, best hope to avoid an AI apocalypse.
I guess it will get more interesting for your work when it integrates with BioTech startup apis as plugins (I imagine not too cheap ones)