skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was an extremely predictable and long foreseen outcome of the policies enacted by SF and DA unwilling to enforce the law. Rather than doing the work to understand the critics of these policies, SF just put their head in the sand and called everyone critical of these policies a bigot. Now the chickens are coming home to roost.

The biggest problem with these stupid policies is the chilling effect that remains even if the policies are completely reversed. You can't expect anyone wants to be a police officer after all of the vitriolic hatred and demonization that have culminated to this. This isn't going to be easy to reverse any time in the next 10 - 15 years. Consequently, the think the only feasible path forward to protect the public is vigilantism.
It's sad to see that so far much of the conversation here is going exactly how Twitter would prefer it goes... focused on whether 1% of funding qualifies as "state affiliated". When the real story is that Musk decided to arbitrarily target an organization based on his presumptions about its political beliefs.
A basic mathematical structure of intelligence
I can see the tech being super interesting for video games. But the angle of going to work, going to a mall etc. in the metaverse is just super unappealing. The nice thing about working remotely is that I don't have to go to an office and the nice thing about shopping online is that I don't have to go to a mall. So, why would I want to emulate the these things on a platform where something better already exists?
If you think SF is bad, come to Portland OR. You guys don't even know how good you have it.
Material for a meme. Next... Imagine a triple boss.
For live services, the game has to be a success. ROI for pre-release marketing is more guaranteed and cheaper.
One of the creators here - yeah, the thing we have our eyes on is the vector not the point.

It’s astounding how adaptable these open models are, even with just a quarter of the Alpaca data. We’re a team of machine learning engineers and hackers, not an AI science lab, but that’s kind of the point frankly - this whole exercise appears to be far easier that it might at first seem.
Personally, I was won over by Scott Alexander's argument that news sites very rarely lie. They very often mislead and obfuscate, but that's fakery of another kind.

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/sorry-i-still-think-i-...
Yes, by "kidnapper" I meant someone who had actually kidnapped someone. Virtual kidnappers are going to be able to increasingly make a quick buck, but presumably at the cost of actual kidnappers by reducing the credibility of their threats, which in turn might ultimately reduce the ability of virtual kidnappers to make money themselves once everyone believes all the threats are fake. Wonder what the equilibrium is and whether it's better or worse for society than the status quo.
Motherloading: The Surrogacy Boom
Just makes me even more upset about that company that YC funded that had a Launch a few weeks ago that let’s you do EXACTLY this. :(.

Been telling my family to come up with a word/phrase to authenticate voice. I.e. floorboard
A few years back when it was less castrated, I indeed derived lots of enjoyment from conversing with it. I did it the oldskool way, creating a chat prompt and stopping at my turn to speak. Great fun. Normal humans are really quite limited. ChatGPT is a bit too woke for my taste and I can’t get it quite to my taste. Oh well..

Luckily I don’t have the type of personality that gets addicted easily because I think this could be an issue for people. (“You mean I can talk intelligently for hours about one scene in Star Wars without judgement or rolling eyes??”)
they should add a "government-sponsored" badge to the spacex twitter account. and maybe even starlink and telsa (assuming they have government subsidies or their consumers are using tax credits to buy EV or rural internet)
Man, do we need a way to prove you are who you say you are that doesn't involve a giant corporation. I feel like there was a window where we could've organically coalesced around something open source, like Keybase, or a government oauth run by 18F, or MIT's PGP keyring or something, but the moment has passed and the only identity service you're going to realistically get a majority of people to adopt is for-profit social media bullshit, which is incentivized to stay fragmented and not really address problems like this.
It isn't. What's bad is that by singling NPR out for receiving less than 1% of their revenue from the government implies that's something unusual. It isn't. Almost every business receives money from the government.
I'm not sure I can get on board with the sentiment of your first point. Anaesthesia as another example took more than a century to get right, had some huge failures and wasn't taken seriously. It surely earns the label of innovative but just happened on a much larger timescale.
Bit of a nitpicking but the "sort" order is wrong.
New decks come ordered Ace of Spades - King of Spades, Ace of Diamonds - King of Diamonds, King of Clubs - Ace of Clubs, King of Hearts - Ace of Hearts. The deck should start and end with Aces, and have two kings next to each other in the middle.
I played around with something similar to what you are talking about - take your Goodreads bookshelf, see what you've read and what you have marked as "to-read" and then make a recommendation based on that. It is not perfect by any means, but would love feedback!

https://goodreadsgpt.streamlit.app/
Twitter's own definition of "state-affiliated media" reads as follows:

State-affiliated media is defined as outlets where the state exercises control over editorial content through financial resources, direct or indirect political pressures, and/or control over production and distribution.

By this definition, NPR is not state-affiliated.
> CA has made drugs and misdemeanor crimes effectively un-policeable.

This is only a problem if "policing" these crimes actually removes them. All evidence shows that unless you just intend to permanently lock up all homeless people (therefore giving them....housing), policing drugs and poverty doesn't fix the problems for anyone

> Billions of dollars in taxpayer funds have been given to nonprofits to improve homeless conditions

True. The west coast has a massive homeless problem. And a progressive government. So they invest in trying to fix it.

> but they’ve only gotten worse

Housing inequality has also gotten massively worse over the last several decades. And in general many other social programs have gotten defunding (Such as mental health support)

And in general North America-wide drug usage is only going up and indicators of despair are going up.

Western society has problems and we are not dealing with the root causes. Middle-class millennials have resigned themselves to never owning a house, and never being able to retire. While they have a social safety net from their boomer parents, it's not yet a crisis. When the boomer parents spend all their accumulated wealth to survive the last decade of their lives, it will become a societal crisis.

But the early signs are already being shown by the lower class.

My point is that we don't know HOW MUCH WORSE the problem would be if those organizations weren't in place. For all we know, they are dramatically reducing the rate of regression.

> while the nonprofit operators grow rich.

[citation needed].

This is an absolutely ubiquitous conservative talking point but the only evidence I see of it is that people working for these non profits make living wages (good, shouldn't they be able to?), and the CEOs of these companies make comparable money to CEOs of profitable organizations. Which...is good, isn't it? Don't you WANT to be able to hire the best people for these roles, and don't you need competitive comp to be able to attract it.

> People exploit loopholes in the safety nets to get money for drugs.

Drug addicts will do almost anything to do drugs. The root causes of drug addiction may be character weakness (they're not, but we don't need to have that debate today) but once someone is addicted, it doesn't matter what happened - they have a medical disease, and treating it as anything but does not help anyone.

But if we want to help people not become drug addicts we need to deal with the underlying societal causes of despair.

> These are all unintended consequences of poorly conceived policy making.

You're right. For instance, one terribly conceived policy is policing this problem and spending millions of dollars to lock up people in jails and prisons for this instead of just spending money on socialized subsidized housing.

A social safety net from housing to universal basic income will dramatically reduce the problems in questions.

But even in the most progressive cities of North America, this is just not on the table. And instead when people speak about "bad policy" what they're really saying is "I want to see MORE police".
I tried Googling "does punishing crime work", and I got results about how some studies show it's ineffective, which is true and relevant - this does not imply that we should not punish crime for some definition of "punish", and I don't get any results about how it's "evil", or "yada yada".

>I think the reason there are no studies proving that punishing crime works, is because it's such a brain-dead obvious conclusion that I'd guess nobody ever felt the NEED to make such a study.

It's pretty easy to imagine how punishment might not have an appreciable effect on certain crimes in certain contexts, so it's confusing to assert that your conclusion is "brain-dead obvious". Punishment as a concept is indeed obvious, but only because it serves as an obvious outlet for our angry emotions, not because it "obviously" works effectively and in all cases.

You're injecting really strongly biased/unthoughtful wording into your opinion, which is a needless distraction.
Its not just tire pollution but road wear
That stat doesn't provide much insight when asking about ransom or the sort of criminal schemes we're talking about.
So far, web standards don’t support online supply of direct (constant) current, alternating (sine wave) current, they can only provide imaginary (square root of stealing your) current.

So you can’t trust any site for power.

—-

Although teleporting power Via quantum entanglement has been demonstrated as possible given a line of communication.

So crazily, “power over data” may happen one day.

Perhaps, we can all look forward to hackers draining our last 1% of battery power as a reward for not using end-to-end power encryption.
Of course the real New Yorker play. You don’t know what shit looks like unlike me, Mr. Cool that lived in Bed Stuy in the 80s.

Please give it a rest. That things were even worse under Dinkins is no reason we should tolerate things getting worse now.
I think it speaks well of NPR.
Yeah, such cars are hard to find in the US and I'd hesitate to buy one, personally, given the ever-increasing size and weight of the average car on the road, mostly from trucks and SUVs. I don't want to pack my family into a car with little crumple-room and low weight, on American highways.

Cracking this chicken-egg will require forcing huge-ass vehicle ownership down first, and good luck with that in the US. :-(
I had mild tinnitus for years that I believe I got working w/loud machinery & going to lots of concerts (clubs are actually worse because you are more likely to stand next to the speakers). The morning after my second Pfizer mRNA shot I awoke to what amounts to a miniature jet engine inside my ear. It has persisted for 2 years & has been extremely stressful and disconcerting.

After a long time (during covid) I was finally able to see my PC who sent me to an audiologist for a hearing test. The audiologist only found slight hearing loss at high frequencies in my left ear (the ear closest to the CNC machines I used to work with). She said she didn't see anything else abnormal & asked if I wanted an MRI to see if it could find anything. I agreed. The MRI found nothing wrong with my ear or eustachian tube.

I've reported it to VAERS and have been sort of following Gregory Poland, MD [1](director of Mayo Clinic Vaccine Research Group), who also got tinnitus from his first mRNA covid shot. The issue definitely needs research.

Dr Poland, along with others, have recently released a couple of reports [2,3] saying that we need a new roadmap for covid vaccines. I agree!

Also, I used that tone generator site that someone else posted and it seems that my jet engine screams at about 18000 Hz.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Poland
[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X2...
[3] https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cidrap-unveils-roadmap-a...

Edit to add VAERS website. If you suspect you got tinnitus from an mRNA vaccine please report it here: https://vaers.hhs.gov/reportevent.html
The implication of something deeper is present in emerging features of the larger models. What is that if not emergent intelligence? Can you expand?
I agree. I've been looking to train/fine-tune an LLM model myself but the corpus I want to provide is not in question/answer mode.

Is there a way to train or fine-tune an LLM model using say only plain text files?
The problem isn't that they should have defined "emergent" better, it's that they should have used a different word that actually means what they intend to communicate, such as "size-based" or "scale-dependent".
Is your program really complete if you haven't implemented all of the design patterns in the GoF book? How will it even work without an AbstractFooFactoryFactory? How else can you make stack traces unreadable to the point of being useless?
For safety, weight is not the only, but a very relevant factor to optimize for.
True in general, but in the particular case of misinformation, there was so much of it already before LLMs that I don't think scale makes a qualitative difference.

Maybe even the opposite, perhaps the deluge of AI-generated content will make the average person trust less what they find at random sources... which is healthy.

Note that in general I'm not too optimistic about AI risks (the very news that motivated this thread is scary) but I don't see the worry about mass misinformation in particular to be such a big deal.
with that logic, wouldn't corporations who take subsidies and tax credits be considered "state-affiliated"?

just slap that label on every single food product.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!

If possible, could you share how Dolly v2 compares to RWKV-4 14B ctx 8019?
There is also this part that you did not quote:

>On average, less than 1% of NPR's annual operating budget comes in the form of grants from CPB and federal agencies and departments.

It is irrelevant to most of the controversy, however. The original Twitter label declared that NPR did not have editorial independence from the government.
I agree. For reference:

-Nissan leaf - 3500 to 3900 lbs

-Tesla model 3 long range - 4250 lbs (131mpge)

-F150 lightning - 6000 to 6900 lbs
Actually they are in states without a castle doctorine and stand your ground laws. Unfortunately, California is not the place I want to be during a home invasion. If I so much as brandish my gun to the invader my chances of going to jail that night approach 100%
"Contrast that with the generative AI models revolution. It's clear to anyone from day one how useful those models will be, and that they are providing clear value right away."

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/16/technology/what-happened-...
> The fact they take any money at all from the gov makes them sate-affilated.

Let's leave out the Elno companies that take gov money hand over fist, why is this label not applied to every company that gets tax benefits, took out govt loans?
Don't they know when they're being trolled?
I really want an EV, but they don't work for me. I live in an urban area and park on a city street. EV ownership would add a lot of complications to my life due to the current state of charging infrastructure.

I think EV adoption will eventually plateau until we solve overnight charging for cars parked on city streets or there is a large increase in rapid charging availability and speed.
I hated using Lotus Notes for emailing and calendering! But, when someone showed me the application develoopment aspects, it was then i came to the conclusion that it was an amazing app-building platform, and a mediocre email/calendar app!
I'm thrilled to see my project (https://mockoon.com) being part of this first cohort!
It's a great opportunity but it's also good for open-source projects in general. I think this is part of a broader movement that started not long ago and will contribute to make our industry more sustainable.
I'm not convinced it's so nefarious. When the problem is this big, individuals eventually feel unable to help; not to mention that the mental health aspect causes people to (rightfully?) fear erratic/dangerous behavior. West Coast cities are putting massive amounts of money into the problem, but the problem is so much bigger than they can reasonably handle when people are able to move from other locales to cities with more services. It's a national problem and we're collectively blaming SF/LA/Seattle/Portland for not solving it.
Don't be negative about revolutionary new technology that can make the world a better place.

As it stands, people believe whatever dumb thing they read online. Thanks to AI, they will have to learn that if something is out of the ordinary, they should confirm with multiple sources. I call this a net win.

And for those literally medically incapable of this level of reasoning, we will soon have "AI firewalls" (Gibson ICE) that can tell people "Hey, this looks like a scam!" and also help them reason about complex topics.

This is fantastic, what a time to be alive!
I’m also thinking about buying a second hand server and racking it in a colocation joint just so I can physically get the disk. The client data I have is super important, and there is some level of comfort you only get from bare metal.
Using fire seems like an odd comparison to me. Fire exists in nature. Even if you can't create it, there is nothing to stop you from understanding and likely avoiding it. You can even extinguish it without understanding the creation of fire in most circumstances.

Systems like Chat GPT and other large models do not exist in nature that we know of.
> research published this year from Gaab and his colleagues showed even taking imaginary pills could reduce test anxiety

I'd be curious how effective it is versus deep breathing, or any other anxiety-calming practice. The mind is extremely susceptible to the power of suggestion, but I'm not convinced there's anything special about a "placebo" versus ordinary mindfulness.
I hope you are not successful. Your policy is the wrong solution and will have side effects you cannot predict.
"yet you participate in society. curious!"
I thought about this a bit, and am wondering about the results of LLM-fueled arms-race when it comes to figuring out whether an AI has created some piece of text.

I'm worried we may reach a point AI will get so good faking people that real peoples' output will be treated as fake due to only as many combinations possible that originates from humans. You will start depending on AI telling you what is true and what is fake for every single piece of information. This leads to a question how to tell which AI is right - you can't really verify an opinion, only facts.

And being able to manipulate opinions is a very strong perk.
I know. If only the data were collected at all so we could have a discussion about kidnapping in the USA....
> When you try to be the goody two-shoes and block anything and everything that could potentially be offensive to someone

This is intentionally trivializing the actual approach and making it seem as arbitrary and low impact as possible. I certainly wouldn't support a ban on "everything that could potentially be offensive" and I haven't seen a proposal for one. I do support a ban on violent far right extremist movements on social media platforms though, because they coherently use these platforms as a venue for harassment, recruitment, and messaging.

The "marketplace of ideas" ideology or "don't feed the trolls" tactic don't actually work in practice. It's the sartre quote. Having a public policy debate with, for example, an ethnonationalist is a victory for the ethnonationalist in itself. They don't have to "win" the debate, they've won by getting you to have it in the first place.

Bans do work. Reddits used to have a serious problem with extremist antifeminists and literally, self-identified neonazis brigading semi-related posts in other subreddits. Banning the extremist subs had a huge impact in reducing it! You don't have to give people a forum to self-organize against your other users.

Or like, what is milo yiannopoulos up to these days? His influence and reach shriveled into insignificance after he got banned from everything a few years ago. The idea that the best way to combat extremism is by discussing it with extremists is a particular ideology. It is not a pragmatic goal- or result-based approach to moderation, or an abstinence from making ideological decisions about moderation.
Some of us like sticking up for people of similar temperament to us. I'd stick up for the average person that gutted a company he bought and kept it running just like I would Musk.

I like Musk because he doesn't appear to be a woke tool. Is he a tool of a different kind? Probably. But I don't like woke, so I stick up for the non-woke. Is he perfect? No. None of us are.
> There is no such thing

Sure there is, there’s an entire thread here of people mentioning their faves.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35538466

It’s not proof or even true to claim that some examples mean all lifetime licenses will be voided. Like most things in life, it’s a distribution where some people behave well and some people don’t.

It’s valid to worry about whether a lifetime license will survive the future, whether you think any specific company is lying to you, and it’s worth estimating the risks of your purchase. But it’s not valid to conclude that the whole concept of this kind of license is a lie just because it doesn’t always work out.
I think we already do. When you buy a bottle of decongestant with phenylephrine, you're just buying a bottle of placebo, and this is the most commonly purchased type of decongestant.
UK EV Smart Charging tariff shifts 330 MWh to off peak
I use public transit, a bike, and I haul my family in a GMC Sierra.

Most of the time, bikes are better. Sometimes, I use the truck. We shouldn't require use of the truck, which we do in 95% of the urban areas of this country. I'd rather just put my kid on a bike like they do in NL.
What is the correct factor then?
Not that I agree with op but you could make a solid argument that they're the reason we haven't had war between major powers. You could probably argue the whole Ukraine Russia issue is because Ukraine gave up it's nuclear weapons in exchange for a promise of peace (and other countries can take notes on the result of that)
The "fun" thing -> the sad thing
The problem with front loaders, and it's a fatal flaw unfortunately, is they unavoidably have mold and mildew problems due to the design. This makes them an invalid option in my opinion as I don't want mold and mildew spores in my home. They also begin to stink and your clothing can pick it up over time as it gets worse.

The other problem is many top loaders today are garbage. In order to be effective they do need a good agitator and they do need use a lot of water. The water part doesn't really matter to me though as tap water is so cheap we're talking a few cents per load.

Also speed. A front loader takes a long time. A good top loader (like Speed Queen) is done in 30m.
Correct - a "one-size fits all" solution would be foolish! But... This has been accounted for to not penalize EVs disproportionately :)

Hopefully battery tech can improve at a steady pace that there are in the near-ish future notable reductions in weight.