skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, this issue was in the assembly, but it was not an assembly issue. It's interesting to think about how we could have encoded the assumptions in a machine-checkable way, because they are actually not unlike the assumptions of some formally verified components.

Here we had: 1) incomplete addition that had to be called with different points; and consequently 2) scalar multiplication that had to be called with a reduced scalar so the computation wouldn't wrap and add two equal points. I don't think we have the tools to encode (1), nor the fact that (2) satisfies (1). (2) maybe could have been encoded in the type system by accepting a ReducedScalar.
Let's hope that move won't mark the transition of the RPi ecosystem from partially open to completely closed plus DRM. Some of us have long memory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...
Any AI that morality compels us to grant personhood to should not be allowed to be created. Any instance of it should be exiled from our civilization.

Conscious AIs with legal personhood would stand to massively outcompete us and lead to our rapid extinction. There is zero space for allowing them. Granting such an entity legal personhood is about the height of all stupidity. Such an entity, with the ability to accumulate capital and protected by our laws from appropriate counter-measures, could mass-produce itself at the speed of digital reproduction.
He made ~650K gross in 2021: https://ucannualwage.ucop.edu/wage/

That is a bit more than 1/9th of what the head football coach at UCLA makes, who has two assistants (offensive and defensive coordinators) who each earned a bit more than Tao. Additionally, UCLA still paid more than $3M in 2021 to another head football coach whom they had fired in 2017. The university seems to have fairly clearly defined priorities.
FWIW, I regret not buying a lifetime Plex license. I am still paying every year.
The problem with these solutions is they always ignore one major detail: families. It's pretty hard to pack your kids and groceries into a tiny car or on a scooter.

Encouraging tiny cars for the masses may also encourage a Japan-style demographic time-bomb.
And that accuracy is improving at breakneck speed. The difference between the various iterations of ChatGPT is nothing short of astounding. Their progress speed is understandable, they need to keep moving or the competition can catch up, but that doesn't necessarily mean that those improvements are out there or within reach. And yet, every time they release I can't help but being floored by the qualitative jump between the new version and the previous one.
No, not common at all
The place where they used to put criminals is the only place in SF with a moat big enough to keep the criminals away! :D

But on a serious note, mental health and addiction is not solved by prisons.
Regarding #1, would not the stacks of the lightweight threads have to root have to root any object on it? Otherwise the GC would free objects out from under the virtual thread, right?

I could imagine that by having fewer physical threads running, the stop-the-world part of garbage collection could suspend the runtime more quickly. That could reduce the effect of GC-pauses.
It’s briefly covered in the article, but encouraging healthy members of the public to just pop antibiotics for prophylaxis seems like a recipe for disaster. There are obvious problems with antibiotic resistance, and multiple resistant versions of gonorrhoea and syphilis (and others including non-STD infections) are of serious concern.

On a less apocalyptic note, antibiotics have bowel side effects I’m sure most people here are familiar with. These also increase the long term risk of various diseases like Crohn’s disease. These side effects are totally tolerable compared to an active infection, but there’s no reason to subject healthy people to them for questionable benefit.
Why "falsely"? I've been an NPR fan my whole life, but there is no denying at all that their coverage of american politics is nowhere near impartial. So as long as current party in power is aligned with them, they are de-factor state-aligned.
It certainly can't route around it.

US: https://www.sec.gov/spotlight/cybersecurity-enforcement-acti...

CA: https://www.osfi-bsif.gc.ca/Eng/osfi-bsif/med/Pages/20221116...

EU: https://www.bafin.de/EN/Aufsicht/FinTech/Geschaeftsmodelle/D...

and so on.
That assumes no corruption. Hard to partake in the democratic process when kickbacks and bought votes exist.
I use an M1 Mac, and I'd prefer to develop and deploy on the same CPU architecture. For M1 users the x86 is an alien cross-compilation target.
> considering it's only the beginning.

Some of us are just burned out on the hype cycles and prefer not to count our chicks before they hatch.
Or you can vibrate the camera: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentax_K-3.
No.

Scammed, tricked, or even bamboozled would be much more common.
I absolutely loathe those auto suggest things. I have them switched off everywhere but they still pop up in some places, notably during collaborative editing in a document.
I’d be good with lifetime* license

* lifetime is __ years
Sort of. I hadn't read that one and just skimmed it, but I think it falls into the same category of "while we can find compelling activation patterns even at a single neuron level, it's hard to rule out other representations".

On the flip side is Chris Olah's research (e.g. https://distill.pub/2017/feature-visualization/) which maps a single neuron's activation into the output space (by optimizing for outputs which would have arising from high activations of given neurons). If we take this seriously and call these outputs the "favored" output of an individual neuron, we might believe we've characterized that neuron, but it's really still the entire downstream computation from that neuron and there are still substantial overlaps and redundancies.

These are exactly where I'm getting the sense that the standard rule should be that neural nets have very distributed representations.

Even more to the point, these analyses tend to focus on "binary" questions, either a feature is present or not. Or, said another way, they implicitly treat activation as a "vote", where greater activation implies a greater component weighting of that which that neuron represents.

This, to my mind, flies in the face of GPT-n doing arithmetic, though. I'd lean much closer to the argument that each individual quantity is represented as a neuron as opposed to each quantity is represented continuously by the actual activation _value_.

This "voting" representation is also reinforced by the common use of tanh-like activation functions. There's a long history of having neuron activations be probabilistic/logit-like quantities.

Of course, I cannot speak for certain about any neural net and especially not for GPT-3/4. I just have a hard time taking as the null hypothesis that it is storing magnitudes of numbers in a way that is directly affected by the float precision in use.
I still think it is way more likely that someone posted about he trip on social media. There is basically no benefit to targeting someone you know with this sort of scam, and the risk is higher.
> Tragic video shows dying Cash App founder Bob Lee was ignored by bystanders as he begged for help after being stabbed in San Francisco early Tuesday…Footage showed Lee lifted his shirt to show [a] driver his two stab wounds — but collapsed to the ground as the car drove off…Lee raised one arm in an attempt to flag down [another] car and jumped back onto his feet, but the driver sped away…

This is sickening, the fuck is wrong with these people?
This is the "no peace" bit of "no justice, no peace". Law enforcement and the judicial system in the USA generally have squandered the trust placed in them because of systemic racism and the need to flex their power over ordinary people. Now those chickens are coming home to roost, as in SF they find they can't act at all without stirring up an abuse-of-power scandal. So they just let criminals go free and do their thing.
Absolutely. I feel like I'm just watching the car crash in slow motion. Hopefully I'm wrong, but I really don't see this AI revolution working out well for humanity (in the short/medium term). I'm sure we will eventually get through it, but I think life for most is going to get real hard for the next 20-50 years.
> USB port tries to hack the battery pack, but it's too dumb

Are you certain it is?
> crimes per square mile

What... a stupid measure.
Not with the current generation of people. I can't speak to any other generation, but as a native speaker I did understand it. It seemed archaic to me.
I'm Norwegian and have used hetzner for years - i had to send a copy of my passport to get started.
But chatgpt can crawl a semantic web and use it without us knowing.

I have asked a langchain bot about wikidata ids for specific places, links to the page, to read it and then to answer facts about places and got very good results instead of made up numbers.

Wikidata links to FIPS codes, OSM ids, GeoNames and that gives us an opening to link against the cool datasets from Flickr, Foursquare and others who have created gazetteers.

To me, Semantic Web was dead on arrival because of its UX, but now a semi-smart agent can help us get past the UX problems and jump from plain text to json output.
Politicians will always try to make numbers to fit their agenda. For example, the stats say that human trafficking is down but street prostitution is out of control (like on Copa St [1]). I have no idea how they made up these numbers but they did. So good for them - smart.

Anyway, the only how to fix this problem is to get involved. Contact your supervisor, police capital, etc. Be persistent. That is all I can say.

[1] https://www.ktvu.com/news/neighbors-complain-of-rampant-pros...
I think that Facebook has a better data set than Google for all this.
The interactions stored in their servers are way more spontaneous than emails. (FB, IG & WhatsApp!!)
No one is better positioned to make "artificial persons" than they are.
Databricks’ dolly-v2-12B, an instruction-following large language model
This list is pretty woefully out of date, even if it's an excellent snapshot in time of a Redwood City that once was. We moved to RWC in '10, and it has changed a lot. Gentrification of the Little Michoacán area has begun in earnest (hi! we bought in NFO), and the downtown area's light-industrial flavor has been nearly eliminated in favor of 1+5 apartments (of which I am a huge fan).

Taquerias have come and gone since this list was written. I just got back from Mexico, perhaps I should undertake to do it myself...
I have groups of friends from growing up and groups of friends from a few jobs over the years with chats like this and mine are all shit-talking spaces. I wouldn't know how to behave in anything else.
Sorry for the late reply. Yeah it's a chicken and egg problem here in the US.

If there aren't enough riders, then the planners won't have the data to support painting some bike lanes to attract more riders and get people out of cars.

And then the car people will complain that the bike lane is taking up "their" road and planners will be forced to remove the bike lane or let it rot.
I'm not going to expend effort arguing with this, I just want anyone reading it to know that it's completely untrue
I'm not in SF but so many of the responses here seem highly reactive in their politicization and catastrophization of the issue. I'm in NYC, and if you were to go the subreddit for it, you'd see similar claims, which IMO, are completely off-base. Can anyone provide me w/ a reasonable take?
> In one placebo group, people were told by a friendly, trustworthy, and empathetic researcher that the videos had a physiological impact that activated “early conditioned emotional schemata through the color green.”

> “It was a fake idea, a fake rationale behind it,” Gaab said. “And it worked, people loved it.” It worked as well as a group psychotherapy treatment Gaab and his colleagues used with study subjects a few years earlier.

Were people explicitly told that it was a fake idea at the outset, and went along with the ruse?

Can I buy sugar pills and tell myself “these pills will help with problem X” and have an expectation that they will work? Or do I need to receive “Problem X pills” from some authority in order to see a placebo effect?

I had always assumed that a key component of the placebo effect is not knowing whether you’re receiving the treatment or the control.
I'm a huge fan of the 15 minute city. It's a bit hard to retrofit that into existing sprawling cities. One avenue I'm excited about in places like Austin is building dense mixed use development areas like https://brodieoaksredevelopment.com/ which turns a massive strip mall into a much denser area as a destination.

This then makes it feasible to build public transit between these areas and start building things up along those transit lines.
And it's ~5% if you annualize last months MoM core measure.

The Fed is making judgements primarily off of core, not headline. e.g. Oil dropped to ~$65 last month, but is now at ~$85. Does it make sense to consider last month's number a durable trend down given that the low headline was primarily due to decline in energy prices? A decline that doesn't exist anymore? No, not really.

CPI in general is a poor measure for driving Fed policy since many measures are lagged, but even still, far more sensible to use core and strip outliers
Yeah JetBrains is great as long as you keep paying. Stop paying and you downgrade to [year-1].[current-release]. That was my experience.
That's a leap!
As H.L. Mencken put it, "Democracy is the theory that the people know what they want, and that they deserve to get it, good and hard."
Allowing a backend dev to do frontend should concern everyone. They are very distinct skillsets.
I regularly get 3-5gbit on their regular cloud servers to consumer ISPs. They definitly don't overbook their vms regarding bandwith.
yeah, im pretty sure the US can cut a lot of emissions by making any car with an average fuel economy of under 25mpg considered a truck for license purposes (which includes training). Boom.

So far I bought a small suv because there were pretty much no other options on the market. Even Ford Mustangs are now SUVs.
Yeah JetBrains is great as long as you keep paying. Stop paying and you downgrade to [year-1].[current-release]. That was my experience.

What I thought I was buying was stop paying after a year and keep the current version.
Slightly warmer attic in winter doesn't reduce heat loss significantly, but in summer the roof temperature increase is much greater than winter, does measurably increase cooling load in insufficiently insulated houses, and, in aggregate, causes the Urban Heat Island Effect along with road surfaces.
Prescribing antibiotics where they will be nothing more than a placebo is undesirable, but prescribing homeopathy where it will be nothing more than a placebo (i.e. in every case except dehydration) would have a number of undesirable consequences, including a predictable increase in the number of people who will turn to homeopathy when antibiotics are needed for themselves and, more importantly, for their children.

This reminds me of a cartoon (in the New Yorker?) where a patient is demanding a better placebo as the current one is not working.
Where is the Earth's Radiogenic Helium? (1957) [pdf]
The solutions don't need to address every use case or family size -- smaller vehicles could work very well for commuters, that's enough to make a dent in emissions.
Pretty sure there's only one political party and political philosophy there.
Two questions:

Does the data fit in the "active memory" of gpt-4, or do they now have a workaround for that?

In what form was the input prompt given (or, how does gpt-4 know when the raw data starts and stops)?
Specifically on high/low income intertwined, yes. There is certainly some segmentation, but there are also places where one street is good and the very next street is bad and the next street is good. It's an interesting city for sure.
> Ironically, Tao's post convinces me that AI, though amazing, isn't really the solution. Better UX and data quality is. Why was the data so disjoint to begin with? Why is Latex so hard to work with?

AI is just that. A UI/UX for any/your data.
Most companies only need the latter.
Do random people even get kidnapped for ransom anymore? It seems like technology and risk/reward killed that one pretty quickly. At least in the west and places with stable governments/law enforcement.
I'm pretty sure it's because you forgot to fill out the two dropdown fields, "Select the app and device you want to generate the app password for."

If you don't fill those out, the button to generate the password is grayed out.
Also, I support sci-hub through crypto. That's pretty much my only use case for it, but it is one. Wish we lived in a world where we didn't have to bypass regulations to get free access to journals... but cryptocurrency is a solution for now.
I think we aren't using the same definition of "taste" here. I think that considering that problem important enough to address was good business, but not related to "taste".
> This is sickening, the fuck is wrong with these people?

Would you have acted differently? Specially if you risk going to jail yourself if you have to use violence?
I think the Chevy Volt is what you're talking about. You plug it in to charge and when the battery runs out, the engine runs to charge the battery so you can drive until the gasoline runs out. The engine isn't connected to the wheels at all. It only charges the battery as you drive.
El Grullense Grill (Woodside and Gordon, #2 in TFA) is the taqueria GOAT; I stop there every time I find myself in the south bay around lunch or dinner. My roommate and I ate there 3-4 nights each week in grad school. Amazing public service for taco-lovers here!
>>Are we really approaching the reality where we need 2FA to trust the other person is really who they are?

YES

In fact, not approaching, but already passed the threshold.

If you have any assets, it'd time to be sure you have a set of actually obscure un-guessable prompt & responses to verify identity in your family. And it needs to be better than "what's our first dog's name?" or "where do we vacation?" type stuff found on FB; if they're going to the trouble of getting images & voice samples to clone, they'll find that stuff.

Now, it is not that everyone is famous for 15 minutes, it is that everyone needs to be up-to-date on security to avoid being randomly shot or scammed. Nice society we've built.
Do you have 2fa enabled? It is possible that you can't generate app-specific passwords whithout 2fa enabled.
There are plenty of chorded keyboards that are programmable enough to allow use of whatever symbols you want or need when programming.

The Charachorder One is one example

https://www.charachorder.com/products/charachorder-one
AI and deepfakes are very popular subjects right now, but is there any evidence that either was used here?
SF is 7 miles across, by size it is tiny

probably the very best place in SF is the corner of Broadway and Broderick...still within half a mile of a tent camp
Heart surgery is just a series of simple cuts and stitches!
I've had booths on cyber security trade fairs hand out USB flash drives as prizes for spinning a wheel, with no awareness how that might seem odd. I guess people would be reluctant to accept them at BlackHat, but everywhere else people are very trusting towards USB stuff.
Does your model explain the need for a minimum wage?
I was having a conversation with some friends the other day about what schemes might mitigate some of these risks, something like an anti-safe word, i.e. a "danger word" that someone can be used to remotely validate that a loved one is authentically in danger.

This is fairly low-tech and likely susceptible to various kinds of social engineering, but I'm curious what a more robust approach might look like that doesn't involve us all regurgitating 6-digit codes like robots all the time.
read A Pattern Language. families can get by when we stop doing development around anti-patterns that have the inconvenient external cost of burning up the planet.
If a keyboard is the attack vector, what I don't get is: why not suggest people lock their phones and charge them when they're locked? Or maybe even shut them down and charge them before booting. Is there any reason not to suggest those? It certainly seems more practical than telling people they're out of luck, unless there are other attack vectors - in which case, what are they?
When people say they 'don't have social media' it usually is a good idea to check what their definition of 'social media' is. If they have a web presence that they regularly update it doesn't really matter what the label is, it can likely be used to infer a whole bunch of stuff.

I know quite a few people who claim not to have 'social media' and yet they are on LinkedIn etc. Maybe I should have used 'web presence', but I think that what I intended to convey is clear: if you have a regularly updated online identity then you are giving an impostor a lot of useful information.

If there is absolutely nothing about this person online, including that they don't use any of the video chat services, no tiktok videos etc then yes, the circle of suspects would narrow accordingly. But most teens are quite active online, even if their parents aren't always aware of it.
Yeah I've known this for a while, I suffer from anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder and am well aware that my compulsions are total placebo and have no connection to my obsessions but still find they calm the anxiety almost completely. I think people are just drawn to ritual, be it religion or placebo/quack medicine or OCD.
The last time I was in San Francisco was January of 2020 - I was staying near the convention center and I was surprised by how open the drug use had become. I’d been traveling the city off and on for around 20 years, and while you could always find someone doing drugs if you went looking, I wasn’t used to seeing groups of people huddled on the sidewalk openly injecting what I imagine was heroin and/or fentanyl. Nobody seemed to mind. I also saw a guy who was so out of his mind on something, leaning up against a mailbox, that it took him several seconds to realize his pants had fallen down and several more to do something about it. This gentleman was not wearing any underwear. Again, it didn’t seem to shock or bother any of the numerous people walking by, some of them with small children. It was very, very strange.
The new Altra developer kit is also very cheap. I wonder if Ampere is dumping overstocked inventory. Given their track record I don't expect the One to be available any time soon.
(Databricks cofounder here)

All datasets are biased, including this specific one. However, we believe it's still very valuable to open source, for a few reasons:

- This dataset is primarily used to train instruction reasoning, not for knowledge. (Keep in mind Dolly and any of the well known models have not been specifically trained for knowledge. They are all just demonstrating instruction reasoning.) The lack of a true open source (available for both research and commercial use) instruction dataset is the primary blocker for making these LLMs available for commercial use.

- We hope this will lead to not just open source innovations in models, but also future training datasets.

- Given the international population of our employee based, it's likely more diverse than datasets created by a small number of human labelers. And it is easier to identify, discuss, and debate dataset bias in the open.
OpenAI releases Consistency Model for one-step generation
> One of the difficulties of pharma is proving efficacy over placebo

I guess that could be true in a very specific subset of medicine, but I cannot imagine that is true in general. As others are mentioning, the placebo effect already is part of the medicine, except in cases where the patient is medicated while in coma or things like that.

Do you have evidence to support your claim?