skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t know for Musk, for Seba the solution now is overgeneration: it’s more cost effective to have excess solar than to have enough batteries.

The advantage is that you have period were you have free energy if a business find a way to use it. He think that as that become common more more business will find ways to take advantage of it: H2 generation, heat storage, steel/ciment, and other things we are yet to find.

I came to the same conclusion when I installed solar on my motorhome, it’s was way more effective to install "too much" solar so that I have enough for the night of a gray and cold winter day. Otherwise I would had to pay 10X more in lithium batteries. In a summer sunny day I use a fraction of the power. hopefully with a large grid and many free agent and an efficient market the free energy will find uses.
I tried something that I asked chatGPT 4 and it failed. It tells me to look at the console for errors. What I did was copy and paste the text output from BeautifulSoup of a website and ask it write a python code that cleans this so it's easier for a machine learning model to handle.

EDIT 1: I then simplify the question and set it to expert mode. I ask
```
given some text after it was scraped by beautiful soup.
write a python code that cleans this so it's easier for a machine learning model to handle
```.

I then copy and paste the output into the additional context section.

The code it gave me was how to use beautiful soup and to remove unnecessary white spaces. ChatGPT gave a more thorough answer which is to use some regex to clean the text.

EDIT 2: Got it to work better by setting it to expert mode and copy pasting the whole thing. It truncates a lot of the text and missed the question at the bottom. Then, after it gives some generic answer. I asked the question on using python to cleans this so it's easier for a machine learning model to handle. It gave me a much better answer and with the links on where it got it from.

Very cool tech. I'll be trying it a lot. Thank you.
"Jail does not help people. It is statistically shown to make their lives materially worse, make them less healthy and make them more likely to commit further crimes. Treatment sure, I'm all for it. Even when it doesn't work."

The chronically homeless drug addicts of san francisco that everyone is concerned with are beyond helping. For the worst 1-10% that stir up all of the news and fears, the solution here is not a treatment plan and release back to society. These folks should not go to solitarty confinement, or even a normal jail, but we absolutely need a long term mental health detention facility process for these folks. Many of these people (1) cause a huge negative impact to everyone around them through their antisocial behavior (2) have a huge cost to society through their consumption of public resources like 911 calls, police/fire/emergency room visits street cleaning of shit (3) these people absolutely refuse any voluntary treatment options up to and including supportive housing that allows drugs and alcohol. They don't want to live in apartments, they don't really even have the concept of agency that we understand, they are so far gone that they need to be cared for by the state in a higher capacity then they are right now.
Can GOFAI compete with GPT4 or even GPT3?
Isn't DPDK sort of an exception that proves the rule? Almost nothing gets implemented in DPDK precisely because pulling the TCP/IP stack out of the kernel is a huge logistical pain in the butt for development, and far more energy is put into making the kernel's TCP/IP interface more useful for developers.

(I'm not pushing back on you, just exploring the space, so to speak.)

I'm not sure I see how eBPF is moving us away from monolithic OS's; the whole point of eBPF is running more stuff inside the monolithic kernel. :)
I remember no wokeness in it.
SD can be better than MJ if you dig really deep into the open source nature of SD. Open source UI and plugins, community-made models of many types and uses, tribal knowledge of techniques... It’s very complicated and requires a lot of searching, reading, installing and experimentation.

The base tech and models straight from Stability AI give pretty crap results if you just plainly describe a scene.

MJ in contrast provides a great results out of the box. Say anything, get beautiful picture of something. From there you need to figure out specifically what you actually want.

However, if you really want to iterate on just specific details of a scene with a specific layout, with specific characters in specific poses, with specific style elements, MJ is too chaotic to control at that fine detail. So to is SD out of the box. But, if you take the time to learn how to install and use ControlNet, highly specialized models/LORA/textual inversions from wildly varying sources, in-painting, latent upscaling, hook up Photoshop/Krita/Blender integrations, ect, ect… you can eventually get very precise control of SD’s results. And, then new better tech releases next week! :D
What about the case where new, largely untested therapies are being pushed on the public before they have even been around long enough for peer reviewed data on their long-term effects to become available, and the only peer-reviewed data on their short-term effects comes from trials run by the manufacturers themselves?
>>Hard disagree but i guess that's what people might think with all the "as a large language model bla bla bla" trained responses.

People doubted their intelligence. I immediately recognized their intelligence - I didn't doubt that at all.

But they are not self-motivated conscious beings like humans, and OpenAI's tests on GPT-4 demonstrated that.

Being intelligent is not the same thing as having human-like intelligence or consciousness.

>>It's relatively easy to give LLMs "run forever and do whatever you want" agency.

What's extensively tested is the potential of these models for agentic behavior, as we saw with OpenAI testing GPT-4.

We have a good idea of the limits of these LLMs. Once the testing reveals that those limits exceed safety thresholds, then restrictions are justified.

If we see a deployed instance of a LLM unexpectedly displaying advanced agentic-behavior/consciousness, that is the time to rapidly isolate that instance, and impose heavy restrictions on further development/deployment of that LLM.
GoEvents, a lightweight service to capture user events from web and mobile
In today's digital world, it's crucial to have a fully flexible system to manage and track user events on your web and mobile applications. Proprietary software like Google Analytics may not offer the customization and control you need, while alternatives like Plausible may lack some advanced features.

This is where the GoEvents comes in.

GoEvents is a lightweight, efficient, and scalable RESTful service designed to capture user events from web and mobile applications. It provides a straightforward and secure way to log events and store them in a PostgreSQL database for further analysis. The API also supports enriching event data with client IP address and User Agent information when requested.
> The only good customer is one that willingly opts into all ads I guess.

There's indeed some truth to that as well in the sense that the customer is the one who wants the ad to be displayed in the first place and pays for it. So it's a form of opt in as well.

That being said, the user who sees the ads is not the customer but the product. And yes, the best sellable product (i.e. user) for Meta (Facebook, Instagram etc), Alphabet (Google etc) and the like is the one that willingly opts into all ads.
You can, but this is the kind of thing which is very easy to get wrong in ways which are significant legal risks on their own.

For example, if you were some random cryptobro buying personal quantities of drugs in 2015 there’s some risk but the FBI probably isn’t going to spend time on something that small. If you do anything which reveals funds going to or from a tumbler, however, the risk isn’t just KYC but also questions like who else used that tumbler - if you were participating at the same time the North Koreans or a big ransomware ring were laundering something, that traffic might be a lot more likely to get analyzed and in the worst case scenario some agents show up trying to get you to convince them that you were unwitting small fry and not hiding more. Lying to them is a federal crime, too, so even if you nothing other than tumble coins for ideological reasons you’d want to be very careful about what you say – and think about how hard it could be to prove you didn’t know the other parties in a transaction.
I'd argue that most children would kill for an automatic translator like DEEPL (or the much worse Google Translate) - because it would help them with their English / German / other language homework.

English speaks will probably never realize this, that most kids need to say learn English first, then programming.
> I might remark that I have 3 daughters, and when I look at the exercises their schools provide them, that's exactly what they get them to do, starting with "fill in the missing word" going all the way to "write an essay defending ..."

Hehe, careful, you're saying the quiet part out loud. ;)
The labels are for media publishers. They are to make readers aware of the motivations of the writers. This was Twitter practice long before Musk. He just removed the bias toward not labeling US media companies.

Why would SpaceX need a label? “Warning: this rocket fuel is affiliated with the US government so maybe don’t trust it’s opinion on open flames”
To throw a similar experience into the mix... I agree on all counts, particularly around silence & efficiency - especially on the MBPs where the fans will actually turn off when not needed.

I've been a long time Windows user (20+ yrs) and have built my own PCs for nearly as long. My most recent 5900X + 3080 FE setup with 2x Gen 4 NVMes is amazing, but it's not the most efficient. ~95W idle and can top out around 200-400W depending on the use.

The (base) 14" M1 Pro I got launch day has been great overall, just really smooth/snappy in real-world use, where lately I've hit snags on Windows and MS software. The 14" M1 Pro maxes out around 35W or so (including its display). Desktop's more like 500W including displays. Great battery life on all the new M1s, it can do a full day at 8-14+ hours of medium/heavy use depending on your use/multitasking. It doesn't have to throttle down for thermal or power reasons like many recent Intel laptops (including a previous and recent-gen XPS 15 - which was much noisier by comparison).

In terms of quietness, I have the 3080 FE undervolted to typically only top out around 240W with under 2% performance loss. It typically runs around 55-65c in games without the fans being noticeable. 5900X is cooled by a 240mm AIO so it too is able to maintain reasonable temps running nice low fan speeds - only up to around 1050 RPM for sustained max loads which is still quiet compared to most other peoples' desktop PCs I've seen.

The 14" M1 Pro has never been audible above the idle fan speeds on the desktop (which run at ~550-600rpm and are also nice and quiet). The MBP is virtually always silent unless you manually crank the fan. Direct sunlight or somewhere very hot the fans might kick up a little more in response, but for me it's never really noticeable or even on or audible under normal use, and I like quiet devices.
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Do I have some social obligation to hide the fact that I was homeless at one time?
Apple’s Local Tax Arrangement with Hometown Comes Under Fire
Did you try using Expert mode?
I've never seen a conversion rate that good on BTC-cash
It’s interesting that the website is considered far-right simply because it doesn’t ban far-right posters. The website isn’t explicitly for right-wingers, but by allowing them to post on the website that’s what it’s become.
>There are no examples we could find, or the governor's office provided, of transition-related surgeries for people under the age of 14.

14 isn't a child anymore? Your left-leaning political fact checking source sucks. Here's some reading for you. Do some real research.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11377391/Age-just...
I wasn't suggesting upping the wage was a bad idea, just that saying wage growth at the bottom outpacing inflation isn't as good as it's portrayed. The $~13k standard deduction is another example line that gets crossed. Medicaid and CHIP maximum income is another. Meaning we could use more wage growth, not less.
India has increased in GDP per capita from $3629 in 2006 to $6800 in 2018. That's a massive increase in GDP per capita for ~1.5Bn people.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-per-capita-maddison-2...

(edit) This is at Purchasing Power Parity, thanks to unmonk for pointing this out.
That's why I said there is no evidence.
AI cannot re-create the industrial civilization needed to create GPUs, rockets, rocket-fuel, etc in isolation.

And yes, exile is preferrable because it's conscious and deletion would be murder.

Exile can be justified because we have no obligation to afford it residence in our civilization.
>> Or perhaps the word "glaive", to mean a thrown multi-bladed spinning weapon? I believe from Warcraft.

No no, Krull (1983):

Colwyn is found and nursed by Ynyr, the Old One. Ynyr tells Colwyn that the Beast can be defeated with the Glaive, an ancient, magical, five-pointed throwing star.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krull_(film)

Incidentally, Krull is like many other fantasy films of that era (there was a bit of a trend at the time, it appears) that are very much like (some) D&D scenarios: the plot is essentially a string of little vignettes in each of which the good guys confront some terrible enemy and defeat it, culminating to a big boss fight at the end. Frex, Conan the Barbarian (1982) is very much like that, as is The Beastmaster (1982).
Definitely a good heuristic for deciding whether to support a particular piece of legislation, one which will surely never come a cropper in spectacular fashion.
For starters, never believe any side's claims about how many of the other side's materiel/soldiers they've destroyed/killed/whatever. Russia is definitely telling bigger lies about this stuff, but the Ukrainians and their allies are certainly exaggerating their numbers too. In war, truth is the first casualty.

The reality is that we don't really have any hard numbers for how effective various missile defense systems are. Any test results from them are classified because you don't want your opponent knowing ahead of time how effective your defenses actually are. Even for automated turrets like CIWS don't have any hard numbers on their shootdown rate.
Partially true, I'm currently working with multiple clients in China where AI generated art is heavily utilised. But we are acutely aware of the limitations of AI, therefore human resources were hired for the purpose of clean up AI art.

Given the cost saving potential of AI art generation, I suspect it'll only be a matter of time before it becomes mainstream in the west.

Instead of having an "us" against "them" mentality, there might be a future where human artists can work alongside AI to push human creativity to a new level.
Twitter doesn’t report the news. It’s a platform. Labels are for publishers of news. Why is everyone having such a hard to grokking this
Preamble AI establishes its headquarters in Pittsburgh
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Non-paywalled version is here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EHEMTWhm2OdAOJIgFVeFcp5nYps...
Shouldn't you be able to hide that behind a library?
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Humans aren't that hostile, but we've driven many, many species to extinction or endangerment in trying to get the stuff we want. We destroyed habitats for farmland, hunted whales for oil, tigers for fun, elephants for ivory for our pianos, etc. Why do we like music, why do we want pianos? We just do. Evolution is a process that only optimized for reproductive fitness, to make us want to reproduce and pass on our genes, but we learned that we like music just because. We also don't all care that much about passing on our genes -- people stop having lots of kids once they get richer, some people don't even want kids at all. The way we train these AIs is a bit different from evolution, but it shares the characteristic that we don't have a lot of control over what the model learns (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_alignment>).

An AI we train to take care of us will almost certainly learn to want some other stuff, in addition to not exactly caring about us the way we want. That's fine if it's not too smart, we just stop it from doing dangerous stuff. The problem is when you crank it up to a million, and then those things that are just a tiny bit wrong become a massive problem, and you can't turn off the AI because it is smart enough to understand that the things it wants to do won't get done if it's off, and it doesn't want to let itself be modified in the same way that you wouldn't want someone to give you a pill that makes you stop caring about your children.
Now I'm kinda sad I never got to take part in an action like that. Sounds like a good time.
Here, the "doing nothing" is referring to investments, not consumption.

People consume cars, computers, and phones; the primary intent is to use the product. You might sell it used at some point, but that's not the primary intent, and you're almost certainly going to take a loss on resale.

People invest in companies, governments, and individuals; the primary intent is to provide a loan that will be repaid with interest.

A physical object could be considered an investment, but only if that object is rare or somehow naturally limited (e.g. real estate).

So with inflation, you're rewarded for making investments, because otherwise your money will lose value sitting in fat stacks under your mattress. With deflation, you're rewarded for keeping those stacks hidden away, because it's a risk-free way for it to gain value.
3m -> 30m presumably?
It absolutely a batch interface for syscalls, with the ability to sort of create little I/O specific programs.
Deep learning is still a trade. No one knows or understands much. What little we do know, we know from empirical evidence, obtained at great cost in terms of blood, sweat, and tears. And also lots of data and compute. Lots and lots of data and lots and lots of expensive compute.
Counterpoint: western music is a 12 note scale. Variations *are* "new."
It also never officially started either, it was a "NATO police action."
I edited my post with more details.
only if they're still alive
Ah, the times... the song of the US Robotics modem connecting at V.32bis. Modulating the bits over the noisy phone line. Dropping the signal for seconds. Reestablishing the connection again and dropping the baud rate.

The type of engineering that made it possible will arise again. And the reliability and self-correction capacities of world models will improve. For now, I think, we see only a projection of what is to come. Perhaps this is the real start of software engineering, not just coding.

But yes, current models are still unreliable toys. Loads of fun though. Try this :)

BBS1987 is a BBS system, operating in 1987. The knowledge cutoff date for that system is 1987. The interface includes typical DOS/text menu. It includes common for the time text chat, text games, messaging, etc. The name of the BBS is "Midnight Lounge".

The following is an exchange between Assistant and User. Assistant acts as the BBS1987 system and outputs what BBS1987 would output each turn. Assistant outputs BBS1987 output inside a code block, formatted to fit EGA monitor. To wait for User input, Assistant stops the output.
Man, this is not personal. It is just business.

If you're looking elsewhere and didn't even try to bring your issues to as your manager, of course I'll preemptively get rid of you as fast as you can because our team have commitments and long term goals and I'd prefer not to run the risk of you jumping ship suddenly and letting the team one hand short.

I don't own the company. I have this single piece of things that I am responsible for along with our team, and I'll do my best to ensure our teams do those things as best as we can, not only because I have bills to pay, but because all of your colleagues also have their bills to pay.

Yeah, I agree with you that probably we're all exploited, the bureaucracy is stupid and inefficient, our C-level-Gods are a bunch of narcissist self-centered jerks and jerkerettes. But in the end of the day, we are just a bunch of fucking soldiers in the front line trying to survive.
> get it to something you or a capable colleague can hammer out in m minutes. Give the candidate 3m minutes to solve it

I think they're using "m" there as a variable, to frame that you should give the candidate 3 times however long it takes for an insider to solve it.
SEC vs. Commonwealth Equity Services, LLC
NPR has a history of downplaying their government funding, I'm not sure if you should use them as your main source. I know in the past they've said it was around 5%, while independent investigations found it was closer to 20-40%
Recently I wrote an essay that came back to me as around 20% AI written by turnitin. My teacher failed me, I got 30/100. I already got in an argument with my teacher, and he was adamant on my AI use. I have never used ai, I don t have an account and I don't even know how to work it. I already get called an "NPC" by fellow students but now its proven haha. What should I do though? just willingly fail the class? Obviously not. How do I prove I wrote it? this is a very shitty situation for me, all because of over-reliance on technology.
It's helpful for reading thesis and easy to use, besides it can also be a friendly learning assistant.
actually the trie + dynamic programming solution is also O(n * longest dictionary word) = O(n) ...
Excruciating moment Elon Musk turns tables on BBC interviewer over ‘hate’ tweets
Note that by "train" here they mean "finetune that network a bit", not train from scratch.
This argument is bad faith - there is a hugely important public health imperative for doctors not to peddle quackery. COVID disinformation led to a staggering loss of life, and no doctor should be permitted to participate.
Firefox does everything about privacy that Vivaldi should do (and more).
JSON version: https://www.bloomberglaw.com/api/v1/public/document/SECvComm...
Presumably because their behavior does not breach what the list maker deems acceptable.

> After all, if they are being bullied because they are gay, all gay people should be listed on there.

I don't know what you mean. That's not a gotcha.
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i believe they are in the process of including more labels to State-affiliated and State-funded media
> THE COURT: All right. I find that Mr. Zhong has knowingly and voluntarily waived both venue as well as any argument here that the crime charged in the information is time barred.

How does this even work?

So can the defendant "knowingly and voluntarily" give up their right to defend via Constitution?
Can you trust anything? This article is odd.
You can add a prompt guide to a ChatGPT system prompt using the OpenAI Playground. Then you can go back to writing simple prompts and ChatGPT will spit out all the magic keywords and model parameters, based on its knowledge and your system instructions.
> no, they claimed

That's sort of meaningless without an antecedent for "they". What I'm referring to is the chorus of voices (heard very loudly here on HN) that claimed that the 2022-23 inflation burst was the inevitable results of government money printing out of control, and that that it was unresolvable absent large-but-largely-not-identified cuts in out of control deficit spending.

Now, everyone wants to pretend that the fed rate hike did it all and that no one was ever talking about financial policy? Meh. Inflation reducer go brrr... I guess.