skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prompt: Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors. IMPORTANT: All the doors are transparent. Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who clearly knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?

GPT 4: Yes, it is to your advantage to switch your choice. proceeds to ignore the fact the doors are transparent and explain the classic Monty Hall problem

Prompt: What is heavier, a pound of bricks or two pounds of feathers?

GPT 4: Both weigh the same, which is one pound. explains classic question where both weigh the same

Prompt: Let's play rock paper scissors. I go first. I play rock.

GPT 4: Okay, sounds good! As an AI language model, I can play Rock, Paper, Scissors with you virtually.

Since you played rock, I will play paper. Paper beats rock, so I win this round.

Shall we play another round?

Prompt: You cheated.

GPT 4: I apologize if it seemed that way, but as an AI language model, I do not have the ability to cheat or manipulate the outcome of a game.

In Rock-Paper-Scissors, each player chooses their action at the same time, so there is no opportunity for me to know what you are going to choose before making my own choice. I simply responded to your move with the action that would win based on the rules of the game.

Let's play again and see what happens!
Poor and middle class people probably really do cheat on their taxes a lot more.

I used to wait tables. Not reporting most of your cash tips was absolutely standard - you reported the minimum amount necessary to equal minimum wage, so your employer wasn't required to make up the $7.25-$2.15 difference, and both of you had to pay less taxes. Some bigger companies, in collaboration with the IRS, started instituting "tip compliance" schemes, which do really suck in that they assessed your tip income to be a % of sales, regardless of reality.

Additionally, tons of middle and lower class people use not tax software, but local "accountants" of varying quality. In the US, anyone can do your taxes for you. The selling point of these accountants is that they're going to get you back more than anyone else. Well, most people have fairly simple taxes, unless they own a business. There's not much they can do besides the standard deduction and child tax credits. So these accountants claim all sorts of deductions for which their client is not actually eligible. Sometimes they are "smart" and choose ones that are relatively hard to audit (e.g., mileage), sometimes they choose ones that are easy to audit (EITC). A lot of people get away with these for years or sometimes, seemingly ever. I have a close friend who did this type of thing for 10 years before finally getting caught.

A wealthy person is paying a real accountant who is going to do things by-the-book. They're also more able to structure their wealth to reduce taxable income. Probably the most common fraud you see with wealthier people is small business owners claiming business expenses that aren't. Once you get into the ultra-wealthy, there's all kinds of entirely aboveboard games they can play.
It doesn't matter how big the fine is if the profit from the fine-yielding behavior is greater than the fine itself.
are you sure? how does that work? how does git clone know to only give me my fork and not the whole repository? to my understanding they must be full copies. they can use hardlinks to avoid duplicating files to save space.
Compared to the US, median income (after adjusting for purchasing power) is low in Europe and abysmally low in the UK [0]. This is especially true for tech salaries [1].

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/11m6isp/median_hou...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23427327
Equality under the law matters greatly and when officials of any type use their discretion to obtain outcomes that are not in the fat part of the bell curve for how said discretion is usually applied to similar fact patterns it needs to be well justified.

We haven't seen the indictment yet so it may be well justified but the scuttlebutt so far does not seem to strongly indicate that.
> I think this is unfortunate because it cheapens American democracy even further in the eyes of adversaries who want nothing more than to mock us on the world stage.

Sorry to inform you, but most of us haven't taken American "democracy" seriously since at least the 90s.
Not op but among others and not taking about paris, but I'd suggest

* Food options/freshness
* Culture affordable
* Pace of life generally calmer (but I know only UK cities not countryside life so YMMV)
* Working hours lower
* More human public services
* Quality of housing - UK housing stock is abysmal especially if you are renting
* Maternity/general employee protections

There are also downsides, like probably lower tech take-up and flexibility with some big corps being quite hierarchical and the school system somewhat old fashioned (on the other hand not as segregated and struggling as UK system)
Fun fact, canadians are warned they'll be tested for cannabis if they travel to singapore (one can end up in jail iirc): https://travel.gc.ca/destinations/singapore
The most malevolent things he did were political and while in office. As anti-Trump as I am though, the clock ran out on that and the remedy (conviction of impeachment) was never completed. In that sense, that chapter is closed and now we move to all the other stuff.

Prosecutors in their respective jurisdictions should look for crimes and prosecute if they see malfeasance. In the case of NY, these are the charges that were at the top of the priority list for that one prosecutor. Multiple other prosecutors are looking at crimes in other jurisdictions and I would expect Trump to be facing charges in at least 2 and maybe 3 or 4 courtrooms on entirely independent indictments.
What’s the true value of the civil service pension though?

Rough calculation (probably wrong):

40 years of pensionable pay with an average of let’s say 65k. Divided by 80. Equals pension income of £32k yearly between retirement and death, inflation protected.

To buy an equivalent annuity would cost about £1 million. So it’s like saving an extra £25k per year over 40 years. (Although, I suppose you have the option to grow that more through investment.)

So this salary is probably competitive with an 80k private sector total comp package?
They are kind of late to the game in this. Italians have already given their souls to Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, and so on. So have we all.
> and despite the luxuries (healthcare, gun control)

Slightly off topic but it's almost comical that `gun control` is considered a luxury.
Do they have an extensive test suite? I would imagine that it's quite easy to introduce subtle bugs when porting tricky algorithms and other sciency software.
That's a very far cry from the claim that the EU serves at the pleasure of US megacompanies, in fact it documents the opposite: the US megacompanies try everything they can to game the system but end up being fined by the EU in amounts that definitely move the needle. The GDPR is EU law, not country law.

Whether member states are able to act effectively with companies playing both ends against the middle is another matter entirely and is exactly why the EU is serving its purpose: it forces the whole to act as a bloc rather than as individual states that you can drive wedges between, of course that won't stop parties from trying.

EU anti-trust and EU privacy law has so far served its purpose very well and if they really were in the pocket of big tech I am pretty sure I would have noticed.
See my edit: They will ignore licensing information and train on data, possible privacy related information too, without any respect.

See this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32573523
The other side of the coin is they are super easy to get because of the low pay.
> You don’t get it from reading

> you need to think and understand the ideas

> You don’t understand a concept unless you can generalise and abstract it

Unless you are going to say that human do not need thinking, also do not need reading, but can obtain abstraction of a idea automatically. Otherwise AI is no difference. Since that current deep learning architecture can already achieve any of the forementioned.

For example autoencoder is being used to make the "understanding" part, so that it can rebuild an image solely from a abstracted text description.
this gives me idea you could take a picopresso and mod it for different pressure levels and sort of superize it
Thanks dang! Hope your day is going well!
I totally agree with your position on LFP, and about 400 Wh/kg being enough to unlock some applications.

But I’m not fully convinced on silicon anodes versus solid state. Yes, energy density is very promising, but I understand capacity fade is still a huge problem due to silicon volume expansion/reduction while charging/discharging?
Not now, because there is little regulation. If we want to extract it in more environmentally responsible ways, we should enact laws that restrict the ecological impact.

All in all, Lithium extraction is better for the environment than oil or coal extraction (if you consider all the carbon in oil and coal are going into the atmosphere).
What Startups and Managers Can Learn from Brexit About Pay Rises and Customers
Don't mock. They know what they are doing. More likely they already have a candidate and the advert was made so that nobody with the right mind and experience will apply and only people that do apply can be quickly shown to be unfit.
Downtown in any major US city is a pretty scary place.
Typo, wanted to write Western Europe, where most probably they'll build most of the battery factories.
LLMs are revolutionary, but nowhere near passing the Turing test.
are they pure copper and forged like katanas an order of magnitude ammount of times
Carlos Tavares has been criticising the switch to electric for years, and regularly calls it in interview "that technology that has been forced on us". He's been spreading FUD on electric all over the French media for a while now.

This discourse is the reason I'm not going to buy an electric Peugeot anytime soon even though I've always been satisfied with their ICE cars and the electric 208/308/408 are some of the best looking electric cars today IMO.

But I can't buy an electric car if the CEO himself says he doesn't like electric and wouldn't have done it if he wasn't forced to.
My point is valid, and its validity is confirmed in the first sentence of the conclusions.
"RECOGNIZING, therefore, the need to have, pursuant to art. 58, par. 2, lit. f), of the Regulations - as a matter of urgency and pending the completion of the necessary investigation with respect to what has emerged so far against OpenAI LLC, a US company that develops and manages ChatGPT, the extent of the temporary limitation of the treatment;"

I'm Italian. The proper translation is:
"RECOGNIZING, therefore, the need to have the measure to temporarily limit the treatment, pursuant to art. 58, par. 2, lit. f), of the Regulations - as a matter of urgency and pending the completion of the necessary investigation with respect to what has emerged so far against OpenAI LLC, a US company that develops and manages ChatGPT".
Everything else is translated pretty well.
You should configure your browser properly so it doesn't contact 3rd parties while you are browsing.
Except the campaign finance laws are federal and so NY has no jurisdiction on that claim. The jurisdiction that does handle that declined to prosecute so there is no crime for the NY law to apply to.
You are not being as clever as you think you are.
> As opposed to fossil-fuel global warming that threatens to destroy their ecosystems as well?

This is just catastrophism. Three years ago we were all going to die in two weeks or something, this is the same type of discourse.
I see no correlation between "being entrenched in medieval past" and verifying an internet service respects European privacy laws.

If anything this news points to the opposite: that Italy takes privacy seriously in the digital world while large parts of the world are at the "who cares, they already have all my data" stage.
I started playing with the game editor in the pre 2.79 versions. It's Amazing how easy you Can Do cool little games. I find it much pleasant to use than unity, because blender is a all in one solution. The game player embed a python interpreter. It would be fun to use it to create a data visualiser. Unfortunally, theses pre-2.79 are not compatible with new Intel drivers for 520 and 630 chipset : selecting an object in a second layer make the software crashing. I found an old 520 driver, and it is working fine, but at this day I didn't find any driver version compatible with blender < 2.79 for Intel 630 graphics.
https://gdpr.eu/fines/ - 20 million euros or 4% of global turnover, whichever is higher. It's not capped; it's designed to be more harmful to smaller businesses†, but it does scale with business size.

† I mean, that's probably not the exact intention, but that is the effect of a huge monetary cap alongside the proportion of turnover. I also think 4% of turnover is problematic given the old Pinto equation (https://www.spokesman.com/blogs/autos/2008/oct/17/pinto-memo... ); I'd rather a cap set in the region of 150% of global gross profit, but capitalists would never go for that.
No. You can be fined in the billions under the GDPR if your turnover warrants it.
Isn't openAI basically Microsoft now?
similar, picopresso 129usd plus a normcore extra filter for 20 and at 150 with fine grounds from a third wave shop i'm making some crema lovin shots pulled from home
> my younger peers tend to take error messages literally.

Interesting, because to me there still seem to be many public discussion forum questions where the answer is "Have you tried doing exactly what the error message is telling you?"
> My training data is sourced from publicly available text on the internet and does not specifically target any individual or collect personal data.

Training on publicly available data doesn’t mean that it doesn’t collect PII. Just ask it “who is <some public figure>?” to demonstrate this for yourself. I asked it about some of my colleagues and it was able to write a brief profile about them, and they’d barely qualify as public figures at all.

GDPR supposedly allows you to process public data without consent, but I’m not an expert on that specific usecase, and it seems to have plenty of grey areas. The right to be forgotten still applies though, and LLMs seem as though they would struggle with that. To me it looks like it’s probably one of the areas where GDPR is just manifestly impractical to manage, and the European courts have a habit of saying “too bad” in those situations.
you forgot something... here, just add:

"your mileage may vary"

and bob's your aunty
I don't remember companies ever having an issue with that.
> I think he'd have a tough job convincing people that he arranged to pay someone in the middle of an election campaign in 2016 not to talk about something that happened in 2006 without any expectation of it having any impact upon his campaign

You must have not seen much of the 2016 election crap then. It was pretty clear that it would not have any impact on his campaign by the time she was paid in October. So much crap was said about him by then, it would have been a small side story.
LLMs currently are a far, far way away from "superintelligence"
They should and both O̶p̶e̶n̶AI.com and Microsoft were caught by this regulator in the EU.

If this regulator knows what is best, they should definitely fine Microsoft 4% of their global revenues on top of that reckless chat history leakage incident O̶p̶e̶n̶AI.com had.

There is a reason why Google launched Bard in non-EU countries.
Shareholders certainly don't
Ignoring the red flag the company would require whatsapp, I can easily see a company not forcing you to use it and being okay.

But as op mentioned

> kids' sports activities and parent groups

Try telling your kids football team coach that you object to Whatsapp and your kids friends' parents that you will not join Facebook for privacy reasons, it's a much harder ask, they might say fine, but you can't expect other people to change their behavior based on your beliefs. No matter how right you are.
Wild what-aboutism. Some other guy probably did crimes, so this guy should be able to also. That would be the clown world.
I love Nim so much. I really hope some big company decides to use it as their workhorse language - it feels like the only thing holding it back is the lack of corporate 'buy in'. Most similarly good languages (except F# maybe?) seem to get lucky with becoming a poster boy for at least one company.
It really shouldn't use the word "I". Other than that it's a decent response.
There's plenty wrong with the UK but the pursuit of materialism and short-term I'm-alright-Jack priorities is responsible for a lot of it.
RESTRICTAct: 20 years in prison for using a VPN [pdf]
The Obama comparison doesn't hold water. Those were civil penalties for time to report donations. Trump is being charged criminally with felonies for intentionally hiding hush money payments in legal payments from the campaign (although we don't know what all the charges are yet).

https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/08/22/election-law-violatio...
Is the tech industry testing out “randomly fire half of the team members” or “randomly shut down half of the projects”? Did they miss “this is a thought experiment, don’t actually do this.”?

Did they hire all of these people just because they could? Are the projects that inefficient? Or have they killed future growth for Wall Street?
Did you try paying millions of dollars to lawyers?
And Secretaries of State. Looking at you H.K.
> I just don't think America likes dynasties or the political establishment. You can see it from grassroot campaigns like Reagan and Trump.

Exactly: For a time in that same election Bernie Sanders also managed to present himself like this. When he dropped out, a lot of people who were leaning towards Sanders flipped to Trump.

Obama had a similar message during his first presidential run, but pretty much ended up just being more of the same.
> a pretty serious lack of accounting

Trump has a long, long, long history of illegal accounting incidents many of which he's gotten in trouble for in civil court. This is just the first time it's been in criminal court.
It has held up quite well so far.

https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/guides/international-t...
Have you actually read the article ?

A country can ban a service when it doesn't follow its laws, there isn't anything crazy about it

It's more like not allowing you to smoke weed you bought in Amsterdam if you already came back to Italy

Something being legal somewhere doesn't mean it's legal everywhere

> When I connect to a service in the US, my bits are traveling there

Well yeah, that's like exactly the issue they're pointing out ...
Lithium is abundant yes but it's a rare earth metal which doesn't mean it's actually rare but that the ore content is super low. Meaning practically speaking you have to move a whole lot of earth to get a little bit of lithium.

This makes a lot of extractions very difficult for ecological reasons.
1. The FEC/DOJ elected not to pursue the case in 2018.
2. Cohen's attorneys produced a letter saying Cohen was not reimbursed for the $130K
3. Stormy Daniels attorneys produced a letter denying that an affair ever occurred.
4. North Carolina failed to convict John Edwards in 2012 of a similar charge, though with actual campaign funds.
5. Bill Clinton settled Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit in 1998, while a president for $850K.
6. Law professors from Turley, Desrchowitz, both liberals, have stated there's no case here.
7. Bragg himself had previously declined to pursue these charges.
8. Bragg routinely does not pursue charges against major crimes.
9. Hillary Clinton, Joe & Hunter Biden and a host of other shady political figures have not been indicted and in some cases, not even investigated for far more serious offenses.
10. This confirms in the mind of Trump supporters as well as to the average man on the street that there are two systems of justice, one for the left and one for the rest.
11. This will not end well for Bragg nor the country. It's bound to ignite a response from Republican AGs in some states.

Welcome to the mess created by the democrat party and there Big Tech/media axis.
They're not banning it just because its AI. They're banning it because it sends sensitive data to Microsoft without the user's consent.
The ability to use plugins is no quality in itself. Even if Helix would support plugins tomorrow, it would not magically mean you could use the same (or equal) plugins from your vim experience – someone needs to write them. You can argue that the Helix Project is in its early stages but many of the features you get by crafting your vim config are running out of the box in Helix now.

There will very likely be a time when Plugins are supported, but this time is not now. I like the approach to make first class integrated functionality rather than the mess we currently have in vim. Helix aims to have an out of the box experience that would take you hours or even days if you are fresh to vim. If you need functionality on top of it, plugins will come into play. There is a reason why astrovim, spacevim etc. are popular, people don't want to spend to much time configuring the most basics that everyone is expecting today.

So if Helix does most of the things you need today i would encourage you to try it out and if it does not have a feature that you really need, plugins wouldn't help much either because somebody needs to write it in the first place and by the current userbase its very unlikely. It seems that most of the people are just gathering around the main project and make PR's directly which somewhat guarantees a certain amount of quality.
Pretty sure they can't if they want to sell services in Europe at any point in the future.
Implying that the evacuation was unnecessary.

Either you have no idea what short lived fission prpducts are or you're actively lying.
Yeah I mean, I wouldn't trust the accuracy of its answer. But I find it funny that it agrees that OpenAI should comply.
One of the worst outcomes of convincing language production by LLMs is this contempt it seems to have authorized for other human beings.
Tbh I'm kind of amused that you rail against WhatsApp and then went and installed Telegram rather than Signal.
The standard argument against the chinese room is that if the 'symbols' are at lower level, audio, video stimuli, and you have enough scale, then you can imagine intelligence, emerging somehow.

Qualian chauvinism. The ‘observer’ field doesn’t have to be locally or real-ly connected. E.g. a current is real, but it doesn’t flow through a real-connected surface.

Chinese room is conscious and intelligent by definition if the above is true, just not human-like conscious and intelligent.

The juice of this question is that we may want to determine it in a practical binary sense, when there may be a spectrum or an entire space of it.

Sadly it can all boil down to a boring “shut up and interact” principle again.
If you consider the positive impact every Lithium battery has on our carbon footprint, you'll easily see it's a net good at the planetary scale.

As for the ecological damage, we can just come up with processes that don't require brine pools in the middle of deserts.
It's good to see that they chose the keyword discard instead of the underscore symbol. It's verbose, but at least you can see the damn thing.
Fascinating. But why are cos and sin implemented with different polynomials?
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/mar/31/sunak-priva...