skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to these links, in 2021 it ended up being 70 million of taxpayer money out of a total revenue of 300 million:

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/3551625-the-time-has-co...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/706290/npr-revenue/

So, as a correction it's closer to ~22.5%. Still a not insignificant amount.
Of the things that make cryptocurrency something I want to avoid, the irreversibility part is the biggest problem.
The quantity has certainly changed. It took researchers months to build an "AI generated novel" way back in the day and some form or relative of ChatGPT spits out nearly that every minute now.

I still haven't felt impressed that the quality has truly changed, yet. LLMs seems more "fluent" in the language than ever before, but it's still hallucinating nearly as much and now the fluency just helps make people more often see "meaning" or "anthropic action" (lies, defamation) where the hallucinations are. The underlying structures of LLMs are still complicated casinos that invoke the Gambler's Fallacy much more than any signs of true "learning". We've put millions of monkeys in front of billions and trillions of slot machines and told them to produce Shakespeare and many of them believe they are doing just that. (Not just metaphorically, by monkeys I mean as much humans susceptible to casino payout mechanics and excitedly spinning slot machines.)

Again, yes, I'm a terrible cynic right now, and I hate to be so down on the technology, but I'm still waiting for something to be excited about that isn't just casinos masquerading as "learning". But people love casinos, they deliver addictive fun. I'm not going to stop people from being excited about all these casinos. I just think that professionally as a software developer, if I wanted to be a bad faith casino manager I'd rather just get into mobile games and gacha/loot-box mechanics. That's more fun, more profitable, and maybe, weirdly, more currently ethical than current "generative AI" hype.
Maths has no factual truths, only logical truths. Physics has no more or less factual truths than any other branch of science.
A few days ago while explaining what ChatGPT is to a friend I speculated that it would be possible to teach a bot how you reason so much that it would in effect become you.

You can live forever.

And now this.
Yeah, once we have the technology to upload you to a computer then we just do it to your cat. So now the causation is we haven't done that yet.
I spent 3.4k on my m1 64gb and tbh its some of the best money ive ever spent
This caught my eye as well. I would go even further and say that being so protective of others is infantilizing and disrespectful.

Assuming they are consenting and informed adults, they can take their own risks.

Assessing counterparty risk and making the choice for them overrides their desires and values, and imposes yours.

If there is one thing that I have learned in relationships, it is that you shouldn't attempt to control others in this way.
it's GPT so 13=4
There are stats from the CDC and FBI. Spoiler alert: they don't corroborate the popular narrative.
I think the common dev response is just to say "user error" or RTFM. But ChatGPT is being used by 100 MILLION+ people now, so the likelihood that many of them are using ChatGPT in a stupidly dangerous way is quite huge.
What do you expect to achieve switching language and/or ecosystem?
The thing about Reddit is that it has greater "discoverability" through search, profiles and algorithmic "hot" pages, so communities like that inevitably become swamped with low quality posts. There's a few niche subs that just degenerated into posting photos of purchases that arrived in the mail today instead of actually discussing the use of the tools.
Not the hero we deserve, but the hero we need.

Thanks for that!
It doesn't work with numbers as computer numbers though. It works with them as decimal digit strings, just like humans do.
Why doesn't AlJazeera have a label?
If the executive agencies are imposing their agenda rather than the "government agenda", then, they are not biased for being "government funded", they are being biased for being "funded". If the government has no power, they could be "government funded", or "privately funded", or whatever, they are not manipulated by the government, they are manipulated by a lobby.

What you are saying is that there is a group of interest that are independent of the government, and that has an influence because they are giving money.
Why should we had a label when this group of interest is "the executive agencies", but not when it is "the investors of Wall Street", the "mass media conservative groups", the "christian lobby", ...?

(I don't pretend it's the case. I think people who really believe that the evil executive agencies impose their agenda are idiot who are not able to mentally comprehend that maybe NPR news are biased because their redaction is politically biased, with or without the existence of executive agencies)

(also, the reasoning on 4'000 jobs politically appointed is very weak: while there are way more than 4'000 jobs in the executive agencies, the very very very majority of these jobs have ZERO decision power, and the position of power in these agencies are the one politically appointed. If these executive agencies are sending memos to bias the media, or even renegotiating the contracts or the refunding based on what the media have published, it is with the support of the politically appointed board of directors)
That's a weird way to frame a truly free speech environment. Yes, speech is more limited to left-leaning speech on most accepted parts of the internet. That doesn't make a board that allows both to be right-leaning. It means that most of the internet is left-leaning.

Ofc, im simplifying to left vs right here, but that's only in response to calling it a right leaning board.
Still waiting on io_uring in the Go stdlib: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/31908

"Unplanned"
I do a lot of 3D printing -- but outside of when I first started and it was a shiny new toy, I almost never download models to print.

Being able to make my own custom parts and such, though, has been an incredible superpower, and my printers have paid for themselves many times over that way.
Correction: Twitter lists NPR as government-funded media, not state affiliated media [0]

[0] https://mobile.twitter.com/NPR
Relax, morality does not need to enter the equation here and I am not judging you.

But you are definitely very demanding, and even if you are in the top 1%, at that point it just becomes hard to meet a suitable partner if you restrict yourself to the top 1%, which is why you notice a lot of celebrities dating and marrying partners who are technically way below them in terms of looks and status.
What we really need is pipes with peristaltic movement.
> A reasonably reliable source of information can be subject to scrutiny and doubt, can have clear biases, can sometimes even be diametrically opposed to your own moral and ethical values.

I think we have arrived back very close to my original premise. Which is to say that in principle there are no "trusted" sources. As they are all capable of the same fallacies. Furthermore, those that you do trust, will lead you astray more than those you don't. As if you don't use reasonable scrutiny and doubt, then you are more subject to be misled or influenced.

AI will give more power to all in this arena. However, in some aspects, it will also give Steve's Blog the power to appear as professional as NYT in presentation.

However, arguments over the degree of bias or misinformation is not really the point, it is that the power to create it is now increased in the hands of all.
Imagine that in five years, we will have cold fusion, world peace and FTL travel. ChatGPT told me so it must be true!
I know this is a digitized collection, but the original way 19th century silhouettes were created was pretty interesting and as most would think pretty simple . They were created by cutting out the outline of a person's profile from black paper, and then mounting the cut-out onto a contrasting background. :)

But all silliness aside, silhouette portraits were a popular alternative to more expensive painted portraits and were especially popular in the United States during the early 19th century. They were also used as a way of creating a memento of loved ones, especially those who were far away or had passed away.

The process of creating silhouette portraits was relatively simple and required only a few materials, including black paper, scissors, and a light source. The subject would sit or stand in front of the light source, and the artist would trace their profile onto the paper before cutting it out.
In testy exchange, Mayor London Breed defends San Francisco as safe city
No, full list is in the license, but it’s only those components that they provide MongoDB as a service to end users. Doesn’t penetrate OS abstractions AFAICT, but I’d check the license and/or consult an expert if starting a relevant business!

FWIW, just realized it doesn’t even apply if deployed internally (within an organization and/or subsidiaries)…
Device ID tracking should be illegal period.
Indeed! Mindblowing answers on “expert” mode. Really nice!
>After the introduction of the coffee, the equilibrium changes so that people are willing to wait in a longer line than 100 people

I do agree with OP that this has to be stated as part of the question. Otherwise you can't expect anyone to give the stated answer.

Basically any answer is correct.
Drug dealers would be a good example, yes, especially in a society that bans so many things for such utterly stupid reasons.

This applies to both kinds of drugs, by the way. Online black market shops selling generics from India also use crypto heavily.
Yea, I dislike it (a bit) for that reason. The "meme" in leetcode interviews is that "hashmap lookup is O(1)". It does feel like a bit of a gotcha to (correctly, mind you) expect an answer of O(n) for the lookup.

That being said, I think you could get around this with careful prompting (ie, ask first "what is the Big-O for dictionary lookup with the respect to the number of letters" before asking the overall big O). But I think there is a bit too much wiggle room to make this a completely consistent question, too much variance candidate to candidate.

I like the problem a lot, but wouldn't feel comfortable using it.
Even then, you have to know how to recognize that ChatGPT is feeding you made up information. In the case of these Citogenesis Incidents, 99% of the Wikipedia articles are legitimate. The trick is knowing what is the false 1%. How do you distinguish between the ChatGPT output that is true versus made up?
Hierarchies (folders) and tags are the only way to organize things.
I have run into the same issue when using it for coding. It can easily debug simple code but for libraries like Bazel I went down a rabbit hole for 2 hours of letting it debug an error and failing every time even with chain of thought it had a very shallow understanding of the issue. Eventually I had to debug it myself.
> in mine, people are mostly terrified of what it will do to jobs and how it'll be used for surveillance.

Mine as well, as I mentioned.
Isn't there? I didn't attend MIT. That is a factual truth.
Remind me to avoid getting old.
Oh no, MacOS just doesn't like the position of the tilde character on my keyboard. Decided that it should be somewhere else.

I'm okay with it beeing anal with the ctrl/super/alt keys. It's just thay MacOS is anal about a lot more things.
Be aware I'm not a medical profession but have these suggestions for you; switch to the Mediterranean diet and give up sugar. I have done so myself and guess the fish and olive oil in the diet should progressively improve your situation.
https://www.eatingwell.com/article/7908695/mediterranean-die...
Is people just a large enough sample of person that a few extreme outliers creep in?
To use RLHF you need a dataset that includes instructions with good & bad answers - do many of those exist? I know there are a few datasets of just plain instructions-with-responses, but I'm not aware of any that have both good and bad (or ranked) responses. Is that trivial, or an important missing element here?
> Twitter, SpaceX and Tesla are not newspapers/publishers.

Twitter is a publisher, though (because of Section 230) they are not liable as a publisher for most of what they publish under US law.
Conversely, part of those regulations involves excluding whole countries from the system, most of them for purely political reasons.
Calling Bacon just a mathematician (first sentence of the text) seems quite reductive. Other than that it was an interesting read. I think the Wikipedia page is better - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Bacon
Could you explain what you’re implying because I don’t get it
I'm not sure how effective such bots will be. People have tried having masses of actual humans defend their country in the comments of news articles and the like. That often seems to backfire instead of help.
No, it is NOT ok to be a communist. Communists and white nationalists are morally equivalent, though communism to date has a much higher body count than white nationalism and their methods of execution and torture have on balance been more savage and more brutal.
> you're buying all the future bugfixes, security mitigations, server maintenance, future integration work...

There's also middle ground that used to be very common: pay a fixed fee and get a perpetual licence + free updates for a certain period (say for a year, or until the next major release). As a user, that's my preferred model as it gives me complete control over my expenditure and over when/whether I upgrade.

(This is mainly about standalone software that fully runs on my own hardware.)
have you visited /pol/ lately?
Watch this to the end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYQmF_QLR38
They are trying to make an ecosystem with all the products they build, this are not third party ads.

I hate go to family members homes and have to check his Windows devices to disable stuff, uninstall apps and all this things that they push through updates. I'm moving to Ubuntu LTS all family members as possible though.
> He lives in Germany too, where it takes way more effort to turn an incidental encounter into something more.

This is a classic, I've heard people say stuff like this in basically every country that I visited. I don't think it is something that can be measured, it's just something super subjective and a bit of a stereotype.

From my experience, I've noticed that typically individuals will say this of people with their same nationality (or from their own country in general). The same individuals will then argue that "Oh, I've been in country X and girls/boys are way easier to date" but I don't think that is related to the country itself.
> These terminal word processors always looked attractive to me, but what is the path from this, or WordGrinder, to some mainstream document formats

The early WordPerfect file format is pretty straightforward. It pretty much mirrors what you see in Reveal Codes, which is a single stream of text interspersed with special inline codes that switch things on/off (eg bold) or do something special (eg table of contents).

As it's linear you can just whizz along taking plain text as it is, converting features as you reach them, and discarding the ones you don't care about. I did it myself in C# for WP4 (DOS) files to Markdown, but RTF is also trivial to write to. Search for the filename "WP42FF.TXT" and you'll find the format online.

Incidentally, DOCX is just a ZIP file with special contents. Make a single sentence document in Word and save it out, rename the file to .ZIP and extract it. The contents are obvious when you look through them, and you can use that as a 'skeleton' and switch the text with your own. For RTF look for a copy of "RTF Pocket Guide" by Sean Burke.
AGPL is basically the same thing, except far more reaching. AGPL, to my understanding, makes it a requirement if you allow people to use the software via network levels. “Program as a Service” seems a lot more limited in scope.

All new licenses come with risk since the decisions can only be made via court decisions.
From your quote:

>access to the exact product version for when your 12 consecutive months subscription started.

(my emphasis)

As for the rest of the quote from Jetbrains:

>You will receive perpetual fallback licenses for every version you’ve paid 12 consecutive months for.

In a one year subscription, the only version you will have paid 12 consecutive months for is the version that existed at the beginning of the 12 months. If a new version was released with only three months left in your subscription. Then it's impossible to have "paid 12 consecutive months for" it when your subscription is up.

Here's a screenshot[0] I just took of my account. The subscription started about 6 weeks ago when 2022.3 was the latest version. Thus, as shown in the screenshot it's the version I have perpetual license to. Even though 2023.1 was just released two weeks ago (roughly three weeks into my subscription) [1].

It's all worded terribly (probably intentionally so) so I don't fault anyone for getting the wrong interpretation. The whole thing gives me a bad impression even I though I love JB otherwise.

[0] https://imgur.com/a/SSLPijk
[1] https://blog.jetbrains.com/webstorm/tag/webstorm-2023-1/
It has unprotected 3V inputs. Naked, it shouldn't be subjected to any (electrical) abuse. It's a SoM and a few other devices, not a PLC. That said, I'm not particularly kind to silicon and I have overvolted the pins pretty frequently since I keep forgetting that they're not spec'd for 5V.

The reason you don't hear much about them in the consumer space is that Raspberry Pi's are far more popular there. However, for commercial/industrial uses, SoM's are used everywhere.
Winamp re-imagined as a physical portable player
Mostly communications upgrade, with plenty of opportunity, for RF countermeasures.
Watched it without sound.. seems that removes a lot of this negative impression which I did not have at all.
Yes, I had misremembered it. That does leave a mystery of why they are listening for inaudible frequency. I wonder if it might have to do with their plans of having devices that can connect to other connected devices when they aren't connected to the user's wifi.
I thougt autocad was ported to M1?
This is interesting because it's essentially how human bullshitters work. The more they know, the longer they can convince you they know more than they do.

https://xkcd.com/451/

Imposter sophistication levels might be the way we rank these in the future.
Being racist and being trans are not equivalent...
AI must learn to understand code, not just copy it
We all know the FBI got their tentacles in Reddit’s policies.

O wait.
I "know" people who work on projects that provide data to train these models. When using photos and data, like google photos, you need to give a series of permissions. The pay is very low, anywhere from 3 dollars to 6 dollars per hour to answer some questions.

What I mean by that is that legally these companies get that date without having to run the risk of using data acquired from those who didn't authorize it.

Google cannot do as it pleases with your data. And they don't even need to. It's cheap to get permission from other people.
How? As can be seen from these Citogenesis Incidents, humans cannot even tell when other humans are making up stuff that sounds like it could be real. How will ChatGPT, et al do it?
A world where children ask questions to unreliable entities who guess when they don't know the answer?

Pretty sure we just called it the 90s.
And for what it’s worth, even were I not a lawyer, I would know that the use of the word “clearly” is a dead giveaway for a loser argument.
The problem is I don't need any of this stuff and I know a ton of people who feel the same way. If FB's timeline had a chronological option like twitter, I would switch to it tomorrow, then mute people who bugged me.

Every algorithm seems to end up optimizing for engagement, which basically means car wrecks, conspiracy theories, and other outrageous controversial stuff.

Youtube will never stop recommending Jordan Peterson, no matter how many times you vote it down, because the algorithm has figured out that if it can get you into JP, it will open up a whole new world of engagement as you head further and further down the alt-right rabbit hole. So it's worth a periodic try at the hail mary, even for users who previously showed active aversion to JP.
well, at least you've given a very generous timespan for them to resolve it
Yes. This is why I'm of the opinion that if the enthusiasts are correct about where this tech is going, it is going to be a disaster.

You can't eliminate the ability of most people to earn a meaningful living and expect anything but a dystopian nightmare.

This is also why I'm hoping the enthusiasts are completely wrong.
Working link: https://url.rw/?https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jwz.org%2Fxscreensaver%2Fs....
>It's clear you've not researched ethics thoroughly.

Au contraire, subscribing to hard DCT is an active choice I made.

>I guess all those philosophers just needed to agree to use the same exact interpretation of the same holy books and there would be no need for discussion, right?

Wholly negating meaning on the basis of usually minor differences is sophistry.

>Do you only abstain from murder and rape and lying and cheating to avoid punishment in the afterlife?

Yes. Reading Stirner helped me to realise that there was very little difference between disliking heights and disliking murder aside from God telling me that avoiding the latter leads to unimaginable reward. Absent that I could simply decide to start liking things if it so pleased me, just as I did with heights.

>We can agree to those which bear out healthy, happy, productive societies or ones which do not.

Except that all of these terms are based in belief systems, of which mine and yours are wholly different.
Bing Chat also gave this answer to part 2:

def is_concatenation_of_dictionary_words(s, words):
if not s or not words:
return False
n = len(s)
dp = [False] * (n + 1)
dp[0] = True
for i in range(1, n + 1):
for j in range(i):
if dp[j] and s[j:i] in words:
dp[i] = True
break
return dp[n]

It doesn't find the trie (or regex) solutions to parts 1 and 2, though. It also finds the right complexity for its solution for part 1, but when asked for an O(n) solution, it first repeats an equivalent algorithm, and suddenly claims it is O(n) because the hash is O(1).

That said, I believe an engineer with the answers it gave, would easily figure out from its output what the right complexity is. (Figuring out the trie, may not be so easy.)

That said, meanwhile, ChatGPT is not yet at a point where it can write out a full working repository solving a nontrivial problem. It can help, but it is not autonomous; and realistically, if someone can get that help to reach a good solution for a test, they can do so for a salary.
Thirding Widom's course!

It's my go-to recommendation for anyone wanting a strong foundation in SQL.
Granted, operating a weapon under the influence is a stupid idea. Just as it is with respect to driving. I mean, before now, we may as well just ban alcoholics from getting drivers licenses. At least then there'd be more statistical evidence to back it up, and there isn't a constitutional protection for the right to drive a vehicle.
All of the UX interface have little up/down thumb icons... that's where the boolean feedback comes from. If people stop using that, sentiment analysis on the human responses will likely go a long way.
I am not surprised a transit agency cherry picks data to try and make their competition look bad.
It reminds me of one of my professors, actually also in economics. He would grade in a similar way.

Basically he had some very extreme views, based on terribly simplified economic models, and would want you paraphrasing what he said, ideally quoting.

The closer you could match his wording and extreme views the better you scored.