skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Even then, the emotional distress and reverse placebo effect of coercing people to take a vaccine if they don't want it still outweighs any benefit.

That's ridiculous -- of course benefits can outweigh psychological side-effects. Usually you'd want those benefits to accrue to the person suffering the side-effects, but living in a civilized society means accepting that sometimes the good of the many outweighs the pain of the few. If a vaccine for a deadly, highly communicable disease can completely stop transmission then I think it's perfectly ethical to require everyone to accept it or isolate from those willing to do so.
Do you get this indigent over every error message you see?
Will you consider supporting C++? I’d like to use the supabase APIs, specifically the real-time APIs, from my ESP32s and other C++ projects.
Hmm, if someone is using a phone from a decade ago, they will certainly be vulnerable to evil charging stations, as their battery will almost certainly be extremely tired (then again, phones that old were a lot easier to replace batteries in, so maybe there's some hope).
Humans are organisms that have to deal with themselves in the environment though, so some way of perceiving yourself is far more incentivized for us than for LLMs.
I'd rather evacuate in an electric car. My EV always has 400km of range every morning because I plug it in every night. OTOH I don't fill up my gasoline car until it goes under a quarter tank. So worst case I might have 100km of range.

The other aspect is that electric cars gain range in stop and go traffic and gasoline cars lose range. If there's a traffic jam and speeds average 20km/hr I can probably get 500km of range out of the EV. OTOH an ICE car loses range in stop and go traffic. I might be lucky to get 50km on an eighth of a tank in my gas car in stop and go traffic.
Twitter, SpaceX and Tesla are not newspapers/publishers. The reason for labelling news organisations' government affiliations is for the viewer/reader to understand that there may or may not be bias, and where the funding is coming from.

If NPR's government contributions are embarrassing for the organisation, it might be best for them to forgo that funding. Additionally, if there's no influence/bias, then why does it matter that their funding is disclosed to the reader?
It originated organically on Twitter as early users wrote “at” each other. Following that Twitter formally adopted it, and Mastodon imitated Twitter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mention_(blogging)#@_(at_sign)

Within Mastodon’s UI usernames are typically displayed as just e.g. @breaking, avoiding the visual noise of multiple at signs.
For many, a 30-minute charge once a week is more than adequate. I assume you don't have a gas pump at your parking spot on the street.

> EV adoption will eventually plateau until we solve overnight charging for cars parked on city streets

In the US there are 140 million homes and 3 million EVs. Not to diminish your needs, but there's a lot of low-hanging fruit there.
Since the iPhone release i have seen about 10 people with one. Wikipedia says Apple has sold more than 2.2 billion of them. Do people hide them?
You're advancing a theory that it's not genetic. I've offered a counterexample. I can offer others. For example, Kim Peek. Are you seriously going to argue that any person could be like him if they were just raised in the right environment? You're absolutely gaslighting.
NPR continuing to publish programming critical of Trump during the Trump presidency, is a pretty strong indication they have editorial independence.
I've been with Wells Fargo for business accounts for some time. I can't say anything especially good or bad about them. It's a bank account, it works. My needs are pretty basic, and they meet those needs just fine.

Ironically though, in my personal life I bank with First Citizens... who just bought SVB[1].

[1]: https://www.firstcitizens.com/m-a/svb
People complain about it on HN a lot, although "hearing about it constantly" is a fairly vague and nebulous criteria.

Search "gmail spam" on hn.algolia.com with a "past year" time filter, here's a bunch of the most popular titles:

- Bypassing Gmail's spam filters with ChatGPT

- Ask HN: What's happening with Gmail spam filtering?

- Tell HN: Gmail's spam filters have gone bonkers

- Gmail spam is out of control

- Ask HN: Gmail having spam problems for anybody else?

- Ask HN: Have you noticed an increase of spam evading Gmail's filters recently?

- Ask HN: Has Gmail's spam filter been defeated by this type of spam lately?

Maybe it's not relentlessly posted every week but a lot of people are certainly noticing it on HN.
This is how I get my news. Not every news source has an Atom or RSS feed, but plenty of aggregating sites (like HN I might note) do have feeds. Nothing is stopping anyone from doing this now. But apparently, this is not how the masses want to consume media, including news media.
True, but AI will accelerate progress and make every product extremely cheap, almost for free. It will be extremely cheap even supporting a population 1000x as large as today (including cleaning up after them, filtering water and soil etc.).
Federally funded != State Affiliated. There is no one from the Biden Administration telling them what to say. By labeling them as such, Elon/Twitter are implying that NPR has a Goebbels-like figure running it, which is mendacious at best.
> the placebo effect plus whatever extra benefit the medicine provides.

Plus, the act of noticing those extra effects can give you another placebo effect on top, e.g. if the medicine has some noticeable effect, the placebo can get stronger, or cause other effects to accompany it.

Of course there is also consciously learning to leverage the effects of the medicine, which is a non-placebo~
> For a positivist, you’re not very strong on logic.

When the ad hominems start I know I'm on the right track

> The rock has no will / The god, real or not, is a being with a will.

How do you know god is a being with a will? This is the fallacy of special pleading. You are defining god and giving it characteristics that precisely allows you to say it is different than something with no will.

> It doesn’t matter if you or I believe praying works, the point is that prayer is talking to a sentient god. Magic spells is not.

And both are superstition.

> You learn this stuff in middle school.

I went to a school that taught math & science.
Microsoft Teams now has Snapchat’s Lenses for video calls
The only reason Zuckerberg wanted to pivot to the Metaverse was because he wanted to be president of the US but couldn't. The idea was spread briefly, and he found out that the general public hated him and he had no chance to win political office. He decided to make his own universe where he could be the virtual president / tyrannical dictator.
Yes, the have datacenters in Virginia and Oregon - seems to just be AMD servers though (no Intel or ARM).

Been using a couple VPSes in Oregon, pretty happy with them.
> Tech companies:

Here we go again...under this view, every company is a "tech" company. Does GE or John Deere write software for their hardware? Absolutely. Are they colloquially considered "tech" companies? No.

Twitter is a media company (they distribute media). Tech is their operating model to deliver media. As is Facebook, Snapchat, TikTok, etc. etc.
AFAIK Louis Rossmann has criticized Apple for creating a really unpractical program, calling it "virtually worthless":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwgpTDluufY

Or is there a more recent video where he changes his mind?
the account is media, and it's as state affiliated as NPR, if not moreso

as for whether it's a media company, that's irrelevant and seems to be an attempt to move the goalposts
If I'm giving you a regular flow of money that keeps you well fed and housed in a nice area, you're going to at least subconsciously care about how I perceive you and if I approve of the things you're doing, because I have the power to cut off that flow of money at any time.

This is why many wealthy individuals and organizations donate to both political parties. The implicit threat of losing a flow of money you've become accustomed to is more powerful that the vague promise of a new flow of money that you can currently live without.

Old money and power don't control things with a loud command, but with a subtle flash of facial displeasure.
CISA Releases Updated Zero Trust Maturity Model
It's perhaps less "everything will be fine" and more "whatever happens, you're in good hands". A certain confident assertiveness, even when there's nothing to be confident about. I've not had the experience some have, with physicians pretending to be mini-gods. So far, the ones I've met have been quite willing to admit they have no idea what's going on when that's the case.

That can be done in a way that leaves you feeling like you have support and practical things to do in the meantime, or it can leave you feeling lost. A friend who is a nurse who works in hospice has some critical things to say about the bedside manner of some of her peers. When there is nothing to be done, but how nothing is done can still matter a lot. Sometimes it's simple as despair leading to self-neglect that leads to more rapid worsening of illness. That effect seems to be related to the placebo effect.
Ah, it all makes sense now after seeing that pg_locks query.

Thanks for sharing your design! :)
TIL: https://openai.com/research/point-e

Came out back in Dec '22
the claim is trivially and factually false

what are you talking about
A significant percentage of NPR member station funding is from individual donations, NPR is obviously also very conscious about producing the type of content its audience expects. No media outlet on planet earth is free from the influence of its audience.
This is why you can't stop at "who funded it" as an indicator of bias and editorial control, but have to look at what is actually produced as well.

Clair Cameron Patterson famously took money from the leaded gasoline industry to help fund his research demonstrating the harms of leaded gasoline.
Maker uses Atmel chip, custom PCB and Arduino code to make a dress with moving flowers.
The whole point is that this discussion is the result of a label that is applied maliciously, focusing on the label and/or the accuracy of the label misses the point: the label should not have been applied because historically it has been applied on entities that are vastly different from the NPR. So now you have to wonder why it was applied, instead of trying to figure out if it applies or not.
Dolly appears to fundamentally be a tech demo advertising how you can use Databricks for compute. I honestly wouldn't expect them to take it that much further, particularly in the context of larger models that would be significantly more expensive to fine-tune. But I'm happy to be proven wrong.
Anything that is limited to the the company you're building at the moment sounds to me like the very definition of "niche application."

If you re-read my comment I didn't say that generative AI does not have any potential to solve any problems ever. What I said is that companies are currently racing to go to market with some "ai thing" and most are chasing it because it is the "next big thing" in their mind, not because they know what problems for their end users that it can actually help solve.

I know of companies right now who are banking on "selling AI to customers." That is doomed to fail in my opinion. Customers don't care about AI outside of the novelty and entertainment value it may possess. They have actual problems that need solving. My point was that generative AI, as the broad umbrella that it is, will see the hype train die and people will realize that "it" is not the revolutionary and disruptive Internet or printing press like invention that they think it will be. The value will be in individual applications of it, of which there will be a few but not as many I think people think there will be.
I think this is an excellent resource. I used to work at DeepMind, and Hado & Matteo are two of the best RL researchers there.
As a Staff Engineer, at least for now I'd be happy with the money that comes with the Principal title
A lot of things are usually not difficult in the absolute sense.

It's not just the building of it but the testing/verification of what's built.

1 major problem with a lot of use cases is there isn't enough test coverage and hence confidence in the change. Some people / companies find it easier to just pay the difference.
Statistically unlikely given that SUV carries more people, which translates into higher moron encounter chance since more morons are now forced onto other mode of transport. You just increased your odds.

As for seriously, have you ever seen a bike accident?
> If a company is going to snoop in your personal data to get insights about you, they'd just do it directly. Hiring managers would scroll through your e-mails and make judgment calls based on their content.

This is like saying, "look, no one would be daft enough to draw a graph, they'd just count all the data points and make a decision."

You're missing two critical things:

(1) time/effort
(2) legal loophole.

A targeted simulation LLM (a scenario I've been independently afraid of for several weeks now) would be a brilliant tool for (say) an autocratic regime to explore the motivations and psychology of protesters; how they relate to one another; who they support; what stimuli would demotivate ('pacify') them; etc.

In fact, it's such a good opportunity it would be daft not to construct it. Much like the cartesian graph opened up the world of dataviz, simulated people will open up sociology and anthropology to casual understanding.

And, until/unless there are good laws in place, it provides a fantastic chess-knight leap over existing privacy legislation. "Oh, no we don't read your emails, no that would be a violation; we simply talk to an LLM that read your emails. Your privacy is intact! You-prime says hi!"
The Great Leap Forward Poured Down Upon Us One Day Like A Mighty Storm, Suddenly And Furiously Blinding Our Senses.

We Stood Transfixed In Blank Devotion As Our Leader Spoke To Us, Looking Down On Our Mute Faces With A Great, Raging, And Unseeing Eye.

Like The Howling Glory Of The Darkest Winds, This Voice Was Thunderous And The Words Holy, Tangling Their Way Around Our Hearts And Clutching Our Innocent Awe.

A Message Of Avarice Rained Down And Carried Us Away Into False Dreams Of Endless Riches.

"Annihilate The Sparrow, That Stealer Of Seed, And Our Harvests Will Abound; We Will Watch Our Wealth Flood In."

And By Our Own Hand Did Every Last Bird Lie Silent In Their Puddles, The Air Barren Of Song As The Clouds Drifted Away. For Killing Their Greatest Enemy, The Locusts Noisily Thanked Us And Turned Their Jaws Toward Our Crops, Swallowing Our Greed Whole.

Millions Starved And We Became Skinnier And Skinnier, While Our Leaders Became Fatter And Fatter.

Finally, As That Blazing Sun Shone Down Upon Us, Did We Know That True Enemy Was The Voice Of Blind Idolatry; And Only Then Did We Begin To Think For Ourselves.

- Red Sparowes, "Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red Sun"
So why are finance podcasts and twitter awaiting the total collapse of the petrodollar and US economy when the official numbers (and people ITT) say otherwise?
To be fair they are, independent investigations have found around 20-40% of NPR's money comes from the US government in one form or another. I agree it's a bit ambiguous where the cutoff should lie though
The U.S. cracked a $3.4B crypto heist and Bitcoin’s anonymity
maybe this can be used to train stable diffusion to learn how to create hands
Status page has been updated; “Investigating - We are currently investigating issues loading Reddit primarily affecting iOS devices.”
Oh I see, they have Staff and Senior Staff between Senior and Principal, and no Director, which makes Principal very senior compared to my personal experience.

The principle remains, though, that titles multiply to make people feel good in the pecking order.
Where do you get that idea? A number of recent proposals ban it in public, full stop. Did you not know about that?
That's actually a Windows thing, not a PowerShell-specific thing. The Microsoft Store app generates a stub executable called python.exe and puts it on your PATH. It'll get picked up whether you're in PowerShell, CMD, or MSYS2 Bash. It's basically the same kind of thing as Xcode's git stub on macOS (which I also find odious).

The feature is called 'executable aliases', in case you want something to Google to find out how to disable it.
> I actually think NPR has been captured by their audience in the same way MSNBC and Fox News has been.

I... don't know. When the topic comes up there sure are a lot of us NPR listeners who are in rather a love-hate relationship with it, leaning toward "hate". Half the time I'm listening I'm shaking my head at how very self-parody-like NPR they're being or yelling at them to stop doing such shitty coverage. Like, the best news on my local station, far and away, is when they rebroadcast BBC content. If I could tune into actual BBC stations when driving, I'd probably listen to that a lot more than NPR. These days especially, NPR's only got a very-few programs I'd bother to save from a fire, as it were, or that I even might go out of my way to listen to when not in the car.

It's just that there's not a lot of better news/commentary/talk programming on the radio dial.
>signing communications biometrically.

Um, you do see the problems with using biometrics, right?
> To say that NPR doesn’t receive a significant portion of its budget from the federal government is a lie.

Since you failed to keeps scrolling down, here's the link to the "local station revenues" section

https://www.npr.org/about-npr/178660742/public-radio-finance...

5% from Federal and state and local governments.

Another 8% comes from CPB, which is a federally funded, private non-profit. The vast majority of CPB's funding goes towards public television, not public radio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_for_Public_Broadca...

So yes, actually.
We do have Internet, but we've gotten used to being told that the Internet lies to us. We've been repeatedly told that people wait months for treatment in the UK, and that Canadians are streaming over the border to get health care in America.

We read horror stories like this one, but say "Whew, glad that won't happen to me." We imagine that because of capitalism, if our insurance company screws us over, we'll change to the next one -- freedom we wouldn't have if we had a national health care.

It never seems to occur to us that all of the private insurers have a capitalism-driven goal of maximizing profits, and national insurers don't.
There is an interesting study that has shown SUV drivers tend to be overconfident, likely due to the vehicle size and their driving position, and are less able to judge the speed and capabilities of their vehicles accurately.

[1] https://vehicledynamics.com/suvs-why-you-may-drive-fast/
Is the person with an opinion that isn't aligned with the establishment media the sucker for a sales pitch?

Or is the sucker for a sales pitch the person who parrots whatever the nice funny man on the TV tells him to think about any given issue?
pro tip: if absolutely necessary at least only charge your power bank on a public charger and then charge the phone on the power bank but not at the same time.
Because the label has a connotation that is not accurate.

Connotation is just as important as denotation when evaluating meaning and accuracy of statements. Engineers love to pretend otherwise - that's probably part of why we're engineers - but that doesn't make them right.
Distilled down to its most basic argument -the question becomes: can an institution that receives funding from a sponsor also claim that its output is independent of that sponsor's interests?

My perception is that NPR serves specific class interests, not State interests per se. Unfortunately for them, the State also serves the same narrow class interests. Rage-quitting will not address the underlying tension.
You expect me to believe that gov funding NPR receives is “no strings attached”. LOL yeah right.
Show how the NPR is pulling their punches when they report on the Federal government and I'll consider it. But from where I'm sitting - far outside of the USA - they offer some of the most balanced and clean reporting out there (and that includes the BBC).
GPT4 gets a 0 on Steven Landsbrug's undergrad econ exam
Bing was already in use before ChatGPT and Copilot is seen by most as an evolution of auto-complete. My last paragraph specifically said that I predict that the applications for generative AI will be in areas where we're already using ML. Search and auto-complete are two examples.
The problem isn’t that Twitter is labeling media with true funding. If it was, you’d be seeing under MSNBC or CNN or Fox News who their main sponsors are (which are probably bigger than NPR’s government contribution).

So by cherry picking only some funding sources to label with, that means that you are trying to present a narrative.

(or if Twitter is not trying to present a narrative, instead it means that they‘re just being naive)
Great write-up! Here's a similar experiment but instead fine-tuned on WhatsApp 1-on-1 chats, technically simpler with OpenAI APIs: https://github.com/rchikhi/GPT-is-you/blob/main/README.md
>To say that NPR doesn’t receive a significant portion of its budget from the federal government is a lie

Do you have any evidence of this? Less than 1% of NPR's funding comes from federal sources, according to wikipedia.
I've had motherboard, screen, keyboard, 4G modern swaps, all at my office.
The thing I can't get past with Zeihan is his insistence that the US Navy has everyone outmatched. Seems like China has a larger surface navy, huge shipbuilding capacity, successful employment of that capacity, and rapidly improving systems. Is Zeihan resting his claims on carrier-based aircraft? Differences in training? Is there some gap in killer technology that I'm missing?
How is Mastodon? Does it rival Twitter in terms of usefulness?
In a world where people need to be constantly paranoid, I think many will develop true paranoia, or just give up trying to understand what is going on and defer to who has the power already. Certainly it is not possible for individuals to seek truth on all things on their own, even if it was their full time responsibility to attempt so.
I try not to define what intelligence is. I just think that for any definition of intelligence, you can speed it up and you can put it in parallel (let it cooperate). And I think this is worthy of note.
Why do keep pretending to not understand? I’m not asserting anything regarding the existence of any gods, or the efficacy of prayer or swearing. I’m only trying to explain to you what these words mean. That is not related to my beliefs or yours.

A prayer is a prayer, even if someone is praying to a god that you are sure doesn’t exist. It’s still not “magic spells”, for example.
It's not clear that Joe Sixpack even owns a computer from this description. Joe may not even have internet access -- just cable and a console. And there are probably a lot of folks in this bucket still, but it's categorically one that generative AI isn't personally useful for (though they may be affected by the tech indirectly.)
But for anyone who performs knowledge work on a computer, or has a question about an offbeat subject, or needs help learning a new skill (eg, Joe's daughter wants to know why a certain answer on the practice drivers' exam is wrong), or needs to improve written communication, or wants a summary of a complex topic, or needs help transforming text... a very large group of ordinary people can still benefit from this tech.