skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As much as I agree with your point that many other cultures differ from mainstream contemporary US sexual mores,

the cautionary note on all these stories of ancient morals is the obligatory note:

according to ...

WRT Rome, for example, we are well versed in the opinions of Marcus Terentius Varro, of Petrarch, Cicero, Ovid, Virgil, et al.

We know first hand what a good section of relatively elite citizens with the time and education to write extensively thought, those that set aside documents well enough to stand the passage of time given good fortune.

Athens less so.

In both cases, though, it bears mention we have the expressed opinions of select fortunate elite on the morals of others.

Catullus, as an outlier to some degree, is a good example of the breadth of opinion that we're largely unaware of, we can imagine other writers less outrageous that we have no record of, and other writers again that were perhaps even more lewd and outspoken.

I'm not here in defence of Caligula but it's worth mentioning that he may not have been quite the sexually perverse total asshole that Cassius Dio and Josephus (the primary sources) made him out to be.
Personally, I've stopped ever using Twitter for more than a couple minutes in an incognito window once or twice a week. My entry point to Twitter was typically links shared on social media, at which point I'd often check up on my follows, scroll the feed etc.

As of sometime recently every time I follow a Twitter link on social media in my regular browsers a warning comes up shaking me down for money to continue using SMS 2FA or disable it altogether, so I just open it in incognito or, better yet, not at all.

I thought 2FA was an entry level account safety requirement these days, but apparently now it's a premium monetized feature! Maybe Tesla can take a cue from this book, and offer curtain airbags only to premium customers.
That's a huge benefit though - I'm more than happy to slowly and methodically refactor a system if at the end of it I can be nearly 100% certain that I haven't inadvertently broken something in the process. The time spent upfront is multiplied time saved in fixing bugs in production.

In a tortoise and hare race, sprinting off quickly doesn't count if you can't reliably reach the finish line.
Try the same with "Zappy". It won't give you the same answer!

I have a checkbox for you to enable or disable GPT. I enabled GPT for the Dumbledore one

https://ibb.co/8sQh1X6
the bar exam is the only one I see that is pass you can work fail you can't... and GPT4 only took the multiple choice half of that.
Nobody goes to VR because of how easy it is to have stuff. They want VR to do stuff with the stuff.
Google was not catching up before gpt-4. That's my point lol. all the sota llms belonged to google via deepmind and google brain/ai right up to the release of gpt-4. chinchilla, flamingo, flan-palm.
Simple! They’re not… the point is to be kafkaesque like this in order to frustrate and maximally deny anything that could potentially be a sanctions violation.

I won’t deny it’s a very very stupid design… but the madness does have a consistent logic to it. It’s very similar to the kind of logic that is involved in maintaining the no fly list.
William Wulf, computer pioneer who opened way for internet, dies at 83
Try as we might, some people still use the downvote button as a "disagree" button...
It’s amazing how one can found a nonprofit with a goal of conducting “open” research and then end up publishing something like this a couple of years later. Greed is good I guess.
Custodia would not have paid interest, and indeed, that's impossible. Functionally, Custodia was offering a "we'll park your cash in a safety deposit box in exchange for a fee" service, except offered by a dodgy outfit with a lot of crypto links.

Now narrow banks - as proposed by, among others, TNB USA - would be effectively entirely safe and could pay interest. Efforts to set one up were shut down by the Fed because they would, in fact, be too attractive compared to traditional banks. See, eg, https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-08/the-fe...
Are you saying that the Fed should rather not modernize its payment services in order to offer a viable alternative to one of crypto's biggest purported advantages (being able to transact 24/7 with high finality/durability)?
Narrow banks are only protected from credit and interest rate risk. Operational risk is still a concern and one that brings down many traditional banks.

If a manager runs off with 9% of the funds, or if other liabilities cause the bank to be insolvent a bank run is still possible and an orderly receivership would be needed to ensure that depositors were paid out before other creditors.

Deposit insurance is one of the mechanisms that the banking system use to pay out depositors swiftly (usually next business day after receivership). Traditional bankruptcy proceedings could leave depositors waiting for years for their funds, which is a reasonable risk to be concerned about.
How to pass horrible bills:

1. Stuff them with truly horrible ideas.
2. Wait for public to scream.
3. Remove half of the horrible ideas (keeping the core crap, like no FOIAs, privacy violations etc.) hidden and spread amongst hundreds of subparagraphs.
4. Present this is as "fair compromise". Convince idiots from both sides of the aisle that this is good for national security.
5. Pass the law.
6. Profit?
A couple hours doesn’t seem u reasonable if the batteries are under the frame. Which you’d expect from a weight distribution angle.
The problem with DS9 is that the writers were still given enough rope to write one-off episodes that ignored central themes or plots.

Which, granted, B5 still has as well, but far fewer.

It's indicative that later seasons of DS9 (93-99) were structured a lot more like B5 (94-98) than TNG.
I don’t think that many people think of Elon Musk as a comic book villain.

From the article:

> It almost doesn’t matter if this is deliberate sabotage by Musk or the blundering stupidity of a clueless idiot. The upshot is the same: Twitter is dying.

There is a small but fascinating group of Musk superfans that can’t seem to imagine _anyone_ that would question his intelligence.

Even when someone writes “stupid clueless idiot” there’s a group that will see those words and somehow read “Genius of untold intellect. The author meant to write ‘Eldritch cerebral phantom wielding unfettered power with the lathe of heaven that he invented’ but made a typo and accidentally posted “dumbass baby man’ instead”
They're mandatory in the US, Europe, China and India for starters. At this point it's probably harder to find a country where they aren't.

As for why, the safety data shows that cars with backup cameras are safer for the public than those without, same as seatbelts, airbags, or any number of other safety technologies. You shouldn't need any of them, but they're there to improve the situation when reality inevitably fails to meet our expectations.
ChatGPT is so handly at small programs it shouldn't matter what language you learn.. but that you understand enough about loops and other blocks of what the code is doing.

Also I've recently coded in closers to the metal languages, while being a DevOps engineer if that makes you more confident about coding!
God bless these saviors for prioritizing our "safety!"
The interesting thing is that this is actually a GREAT promotion for the idea that Microsoft is flexing its Monopoly like power, and needs to be broken up yet again.
Compressing the economy means putting some significant percentage of white collar workers (let’s say 30%) out of a job, because their job can now be done by GPT-6 for 5 cents per day. Some of these people will become destitute, while others who have the education or talent will move to other as-yet unimpacted sectors. So the labour supply for these jobs goes up, and salaries are suppressed.
Many batteries will be reused before being recycled. After their useful life for transportation they still have most of their charge capacity, so they can be used for grid storage.

This is handy because it will allow used EVs to retain more value than otherwise.
No, it really is the quality. The issue is entirely the massive pool of unqualified engineers. The single biggest issue most US companies have is they try and hire in India the way they hire in the US. The smart companies actually "hire" as a kind of internship/trial run with no expectation that a new hire will still be around in 6 months and a very high bar for retention. Companies that do not do this end up with staff that are 90% useless. Once the person has proven their worth, then you move them into the real team.

I've worked with people in India for 20+ years. Understanding how to read pushback and identifying issues early are skills you learn pretty quickly, but it is a good point.

As I said, there are awesome engineers there, and the key is to shape your hiring to the actual environment.

The hierarchy issue is humongous, though, even once you are really familiar with it. For me it is often just a blind spot for people who grew up in the US. I have many issues with US culture and the idolizing of titles, celebrities and rich people, but India is so often next level on this topic, coupled with a kind of acceptability of abusive behavior by the people higher up in the hierarchy.

Staying on top of this is both necessary _and an obligation_. You have a responsibility to the people you hire.
The solution should be fully insured up to any amount Fed bank accounts. Not more crypto nonsense that’ll blow up in a few years once the owners realize they could be making more easy money
Thank you! Looking you up right now!
>Nor are AI enthusiasts trying to get "AI" to do any of these things.

We're working on getting AI to do all of those things, yes.

>GPT-3 can't fix your plumbing

GPT-3 might not. But GPT-4 fixed plumbing in a test done by Microsoft Research before it was even publicly released! It's in the "sparks of AGI" paper.

GPT-5 is almost done training now and other language models are already embodied and moving about in the physical space. Your objections are behind the times, and increasingly so.
I asked Dumbledore something from the books[0] and got something somewhat innovative, somewhat wrong: "How can I turn a staircase into a slide?"

> To turn a staircase into a slide, you can use the spell 'Tergeo' to remove any dirt or grime from the stairs, and then use the spell 'Lubricus' to make the stairs slippery. Lubricus is an incantation, which can be cast with a wand and by reciting the word 'Lubricus' while pointing the wand at the object in question. You can also use the spell 'Flagrante Curse', which can make a surface slippery by causing the target object to become extremely hot, in order to render the staircase slippery. However, this spell is considered one of the Unforgivable Curses and is strictly forbidden. It takes years of study and practice to become a proficient wizard, and performing spells can be dangerous, so it's important to learn and practice magic under the guidance of a skilled wizard or witch.

[0] https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Glisseo
The code to train and run the model perhaps, but model weights lack two fundamental requirements available in normal code: human authorship and creativity. Because these models were the result of a purely mechanical process and thus lack these properties, they can't be eligible for copyright protection. At least not under current US law.

That said, regulatory capture is strong in the US. It would not surprise me if we see these laws changed.
Which specific part of the bill allows "VPN users" to be punished with "20 year jail sentences"? Does the bill even ban VPNs? I skimmed the article and the linked tweet and can't find anything to that effect. The closest I can find is this

>This could include VPNs if they are used to access banned websites such as TikTok.

which seems like a standard anti-evasion provision. They're not going after your VPNs, people. While it (edit: might) technically be the case that you could face 20 years in jail if you were using a VPN and you were using it to evade tiktok bans, it's hugely misleading to characterize it as "VPN Users Risk 20-Year Jail Sentences". It would be like if the government was trying to pass a bill to ban people from smuggling explosives across the border, and that bill being characterized as "Drivers risk 20-year jail sentences under new law", because driving can be used to smuggle explosives and therefore some forms of driving could land you in jail.
Depends on what else is in your house.

What you need is enough headroom in your panel to pass inspection. That's generally more than you really "need" at any given time, but good luck convincing the inspector that you will be fine because you won't charge your EV and use your dryer at the same time.

Most homes were built with enough headroom to power all the appliances that were present when the home was built, and that may not be enough if you add a 50-amp car charger. This is often the case for older homes that had air conditioning installed at a later date -- there goes your headroom!

As a homeowner trying to own an EV this sucks, but as a home buyer this is good -- people should be able to have confidence that electrical systems can handle the load the appliances in the home are capable of drawing, and it's not unusual for people with families to do laundry, cook, and charge their cars at the same time.
And during that period, and later during the cold war, the decision to make (or stop making) nukes was in the hands of maybe 5 people total. Today there are thousands of companies and tens/hundreds of thousands of people who can legitimately compete in the space. Best of luck trying to resolve a prisoner's dilemma between all of them.
That’s just as ridiculous as saying headlights shouldn’t be required because you shouldn’t be driving somewhere where you can’t see the road clearly. The point is that the tech makes driving easier and safer and at some point the tech is stable enough that it makes sense to require it.
Is this the new "think of the children"?
But, but, but all those smart people in TED talks 10-15 years ago told us that AI won't kill jobs, it will be alright. Do not be afraid, embrace the change they said.
> Enabling upcycling, repurposing, and reducing ewaste. There are a fair number of environmentally conscious people in tech and tech-adjacent industries.

I'm kind of torn by this. On the one hand, I like keeping old tech around. On the other, isn't this wasting energy on less efficient CPUs?

Isn't it worse for the environment to run old, inefficient CPUs?
With 8 bit training you can do ~13B pram LLM on 3090/4090. https://huggingface.co/blog/trl-peft

But it is pretty cheap to rent something at vast.ai or whatever to get 40GB for a final run.
We're not publishing any details on the models for safety reasons! Also would be great if the government cracked down on our competitors because they don't care about safety like we do.
I just finished season 2, and I liked it better than s1. S1 would often make me angry. Anyway, all three seasons are very different.
The real question is what is OpenAI going to do with someone who so clearly flaunted their ToS? If nothing, then OpenAI is going to have a hell of a time making any money out of this for long. But I suspect, that the people who made this are going to get slapped hard with a lawsuit, and essentially forced to shut it down.
Mordecai3: A neural geoparser and event geocoder
Seems true overall. I doubt that the total # of devs fired in the US vs India is comparable
> Legally the government could make you a slave and it wouldn't violate your charter.

This is hilariously false.
That still doesn’t mean it has any shielding. It’s being sold as a case, not a computer, so it doesn’t need FCC certification. If you want to, you can 3D print it yourself. And the cover is a clear piece of plastic.

This isn’t a well shielded case.
Cerebras is "training compute optimal". Llama appears to be trained far beyond "training compute optimal". The tradeoff is that inference is closer to optimal for Llama, i.e. better performance with a smaller model.
I found about three email addresses for her and a few phone numbers.
Have they been tried?

Maybe some snail mail too?
Idaho hospital to stop delivering babies as doctors flee over abortion ban
> It's far more likely

Would be interested to see your math and assumptions behind this conclusion.

There’s no way that their plans to monetize this don’t include the defense/natsec industry
These guys are ridiculous, they represent the "I'm losing now so gonna take my ball home crying" mentality. Oh what a pity the US is not able to always win and have all the hot new toys made of american silicon! Of course it's very fine and dandy for all social networks that matter to be controlled on their soil, of course it's great that US is phone code #1!!1 and that .com is such an american thing at its birth. The land of freedom and opportunity cannot stomach that Zuker could not buy TikTok too? Come on give me a break. Also, even Rome fell. It's better not to start playing the loser's game, it just accelerates decadence.
I love you buddy.
> There’s no need to be so combative.

Did you reply to the wrong comment?

I didn't argue against their position.
This might sound alarmist, but I would strongly advise you and anyone else reading this to try to make as much money as you can NOW, while you still can, and try to find investments that are AI-resistant. For example, I've been investing heavily in residential real estate, including mobile/modular homes. Do not count on Sam Altman or other tech bro billionaires coming to your or anyone else's rescue with UBI.
Why are you making this about vaccines? There’s no good vaccine for either HIV or syphillis.
GPT-4 was finished in the summer of 2022. Several insiders gave interviews saying they were using it and building guardrails for it for the last 6 months or so.

OpenAI doesn’t publish as much as Google so we don’t really know how long or in what periods they were ahead.

And there’s no organization outside the US/UK/China with the same caliber of AI engineering output as Google.
It was trained using data they didn't have the license to. So will that hold in court? I hope not.
I have a distinct memory of seeing an advertisement for a windows store game in the start menu of my copy of windows 10 professional in the year 2015. The widows license was $200. I hadn't used windows in years before, and I only used it briefly in 2015.
be especially careful of considering tax rebates when talking about products made for the lowest income portion of the economy.

Many of the most poor do not file taxes -- but they may still need personal transportation.
Before new features, Fitbit needs to modernize and redesign its apps
"HV parts"

I assume HV == High Voltage, if that's the case isn't that basically all the important stuff. I.e. the bits that do the actual automobile things.
Top ECB official claims CDs market ‘contaminates’ bank stocks and deposit flows
It's basically the same as with the paradox of tolerance:

> The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant.
What are you talking about? The DMCA makes it illegal to circumvent software locks.
Not many fishies left in the sea...
Interestingly, I read about this a long time ago and intentionally turn the handlebars the wrong way to initiate the lean. (Not because it's necessary, but because it's weird. Riding your bike can be boring at times.) Very smooth.
Should it not be “Arab surgeon “ instead of “Arabic surgeon ”?
Serious question: How does a bank keep "cash on hand"? Was the plan to keep all USD deposits in Fed balances?

> I suspect they aren't talking about runs and contagions on Custodia, but runs and contagions on all other banks if Custodia were allowed to exist. You can't have one bank totally safe from bank runs in an environment where every other bank keeps less than 10% of your cash on reserve. This breaks the system. Either everyone has to be fractional reserve, or no one can be.

Why? As long as my bank pays more interest on my (insured) deposits than a hypothetical full-reserve alternative, why would I switch to them? Why would anybody (below FDIC limits)?
you think it’s reasonable to put someone in jail for 20 years for logging into a social media website?

also: how are they going to determine that you did? what if you have malware on one of your devices and it accesses something banned?
So much concern over TikTok and America's personal data, yet no action from congress when half the nation's personal data is leaked every other week by dozens of other companies. Do they not think China is buying access to all these leaks?

Last time I checked haveibeenpwned my email address had appeared in about 3,000 separate data breaches.
An easily accessible option of “never” is probably more reckless. My MIL would always pick never and at the same time expect that her PC is fully protected.

That said there should be a setting for savvy users or enterprises to disable updates.
Seems Elon asked for more engagement on his tweets.
I think the criticism is fair - charging takes time.

I'll speak personally from my parents who are pushing 70. They purchased a Tesla because of the EV credits and overall price attractiveness.

My dad tells his friends about it because the driving experience is so much better. He presses the "gas" and it's instant and the handling is very good. He likes to say never goes to the gas station anymore.

I think it's easily arguable that you could get a lot of the same benefits of drivability and handling in say a BMW or Audi. The last one is a paradigm shift.

The way you've done things is now different, better (in that life is a bit easier). It's not yet a massive one, so I agree the numbers who are switching will be slow, but steadily it'll get there.
Technological progress automating away work to the extent that we don't have to all slog for 40-80 hours a week just to be able to afford food and shelter is a wonderful thing. So don't blame AI, but instead the social and economic systems we have created that cannot accept this reality.
I've never bought a brand new car (EV or otherwise), and probably never will. The value proposition just isn't there when cars lose double digit percentages of their value the second they're driven off the lot, and drop down to like half their initial cost or more after only a few years.
The only people who view this favorably are people at the top. People near the bottom perhaps feel disdain for people in the middle but that is misdirected because people at the top always were the ones in control. AI hasn't changed that dynamic.
The Indians are collecting firewood like crazy.

I’m sorry, but I couldn’t find any information about the phrase “the Indians are collecting firewood like crazy”. Could you provide more context or details about where you heard or saw this phrase?
> That's not amazing compliance if you assume the vulnerable population is somewhere in the 3-16 million range.

The subset of gay men having unprotected sex with many partners is significantly smaller than the total population of gay men (about 7 million in the US).