skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like "open the recommendation algorithms!" is easy to _say_, and it's less easy (and maybe impossible) to do effectively.

Should we have access (by law) to the code that makes recommendations on content? That seems like a governmental overreach. If that was the case, then we should have to have direct access to the brain of every editor/layout person of every newspaper. Why was one story above the fold vs below the fold vs on page 4? I don't see a whole lot of distinction between those two.

Once we get access to that, how do we keep people from abusing these algorithms on the supply side? Thought SEO sites were bad before? Guess what happens when those sites know what they're _actually targeting_, as opposed to blindly guessing!

As a question, how well do you understand the recommender system that you've created? For a given piece of content, would you be able to guess at the penetration into the platform? As an outsider, I sometimes feel like the recommender systems I interact with have grown out of the platform holder's control (see: Nazi/ISIS/ISIL propaganda on YouTube, etc.). I think these are the points the article is reacting to.

So if the article is saying "I would really rather not see Nazi/ISIS/ISIL propaganda," then, ok, that's good. That's a good want. But we're going to need an algorithm to determine what that propaganda _is_, and then downrank that for that user.

So, is the conclusion of the article... misguided? Sure! Is the desire of the author valid?

I don't know. I don't have time to read these articles.
That really settles it.

We shouldn't have to guess. It should be known, within the first couple search results. What's the point of not revealing that?
I simply rebound the keys.
A lot of people on HN came to SF from elsewhere for money/career reasons, and were upset to discover that the city is not an extension of the Moscone Center (ironically enough named after a former mayor who was murdered - by one of the city supervisors who thought he was too 'woke': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Moscone).
It's probably better to have the paper come out with your name on it so you can point to it in your cv and be able to talk about it publicly. Not that it takes away much of the pain of being laid off, mind you.
The "egopower" vendor has some good products in this vein. I suspect others are catching up or passing them, but I've been very happy with the mower we have. The blower goes through the battery faster than anything else. But I'm very very grateful not to have gas in the garage for this. Even more grateful to no longer be mixing oil into gas to get these things to work.
The current implementations use Milvus and FAISS, but we have opens for other open-source vector databases as well.
If you have an angle grinder, quite a few premium/discount brand pairs become suddenly compatible with each other.

Same batteries with different plastic bits to keep them incompatible. Remove the plastic bits and suddenly your black and decker battery fits into the porter cable device no problems.
> Without moving your hands, curl your right knuckles up, so that they point toward the ceiling. Under pressure from Juan de Fuca, the stuck edge of North America is bulging upward and compressing eastward, at the rate of, respectively, three to four millimetres and thirty to forty millimetres a year. It can do so for quite some time, because, as continent stuff goes, it is young, made of rock that is still relatively elastic. (Rocks, like us, get stiffer as they age.) But it cannot do so indefinitely. There is a backstop—the craton, that ancient unbudgeable mass at the center of the continent—and, sooner or later, North America will rebound like a spring. If, on that occasion, only the southern part of the Cascadia subduction zone gives way—your first two fingers, say—the magnitude of the resulting quake will be somewhere between 8.0 and 8.6. That’s the big one. If the entire zone gives way at once, an event that seismologists call a full-margin rupture, the magnitude will be somewhere between 8.7 and 9.2. That’s the very big one.

> Flick your right fingers outward, forcefully, so that your hand flattens back down again. When the next very big earthquake hits, the northwest edge of the continent, from California to Canada and the continental shelf to the Cascades, will drop by as much as six feet and rebound thirty to a hundred feet to the west—losing, within minutes, all the elevation and compression it has gained over centuries. Some of that shift will take place beneath the ocean, displacing a colossal quantity of seawater. (Watch what your fingertips do when you flatten your hand.) The water will surge upward into a huge hill, then promptly collapse. One side will rush west, toward Japan. The other side will rush east, in a seven-hundred-mile liquid wall that will reach the Northwest coast, on average, fifteen minutes after the earthquake begins. By the time the shaking has ceased and the tsunami has receded, the region will be unrecognizable. Kenneth Murphy, who directs fema’s Region X, the division responsible for Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska, says, “Our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast.”
emacs-w3m

I've also tried eww, but don't like it as much.
Cannibals think human flesh is good as well, you wanna give them a pass too?

It’s okay to have opinions, and there is nothing forcing you to accept everyone’s opinions on every subject.

Also, the person said nothing disparaging about meat eaters, and you are only guessing they don’t eat meat and trying to create context that allows you to try and put them down.. for seemingly no reason.
Community forks: A new, easier way to contribute to Gitlab
Half-way through the article it just says UDP receive coalescing, once, and never mentions it again. Do they mean interrupt mitigation? If so, using what parameters?
The tool costs $100. The battery costs $100. The tools only work with the one battery, the batteries need replacing, and you need more of them to use multiple tools at once.

It is about money. Money from batteries, money from vendor lock in. This isn't cynicism, it's economics. These companies would probably lose at least half of their profit, maybe much more, if they gave up the battery.

And there's more reasons. If you want people to buy more tools (of course you do) you want to be able to phase out the old tools, and the best way to do that is a new incompatible battery. Or if you want to use a different voltage. Or if you want to ensure the battery won't set the tool on fire and cause returns or lawsuits. Or if you want to change the balance, or form factor, or something else.
What? Bellingcat is CIA's laundry service, in what way are they citizen journalists?
by having a permanent/persistent notification. for example KeePass2Android does it pretty well. (usually when the battery saver kicks in it kills these semi-foreground things.)

when the phone starts the user has to first start the app though (and I found this to be true for Signal, Skype and probably for WhatsApp too)
Well first of all I think each country will end up making one because of national security reasons. UK and I'm sure others publicly and privately are already doing it. If I had to guess, India is doing it right now too. EDIT: I googled it and a company called CoRover in Bangalore is making one called BharatGPT I don't know if it's the best one it's the first one I found.

> "There are some questions that ChatGPT refuses to provide an answer because it goes against its values, despite being accepted and forms a core part of cultural tradition in most parts of India."

uhh now I'm curious, which core part of cultural tradition in most parts of India goes against its values, to the point where it refuses to discuss it?
> The idea behind GPT Unicorn is quite simple: every day, GPT-4 will be asked to draw a unicorn in SVG format. This daily interaction with the model will allow us to observe changes in the model over time, as reflected in the output.
Is it useful to do this every day? Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that OpenAI does not update the models available in production incrementally on a day-to-day basis.
very cool resource! this work is much more proactive then recommending a 6 months pause of AI
See the \zs and \ze patterns in vim.

I've asked for them to be implemented in evil, but have been told it's not possible because evil just uses emacs' regex engine, which can't do this.
Did you generate a bunch all at once before starting to get some idea of what the natural variance looks like? I would think it's important to verify some level of progression over time, because with the current four it seems entirely possible that the examples could have all been generated at the same time with no changes to the model.
Wasnt that the primary factor? They lent their money to the government at very low interest rates. When interest rates rose, the value of those loans fell.
You can't push energy into the grid at will, there is simply an upper limit where the inverter will stop raising the voltage and leading the grid phase. So for the grid to accept your power it has to have a drain somewhere.
What is a "safe direction" for AI, though?

You thought you were inside a VM (at the firing range, as an analogy). But the AI knew a 0day to escape the VM.

Oops.
Speaking as someone not in the field, that's how it struck me as well.
You never actually get away from types, they are a core requirement of using any data beyond raw bytes. The guarantees that a strong type system provide mean you can be certain about certain things before your program even runs. If that's a problem for you, you're likely just leaving bugs on the table to be discovered at runtime.
Because one topic, homelessness and its contribution to crime is irrelevant to the topic at hand, the tragic murder of a person. Yet there was a rush to link them. Why discuss them together when doing so implies a causal connection between them?
Becuase the EU hasn't had the balls to legislate this out of existence yet.
Sampling a single noisy sample from a model that doesn’t update that often is hardly correlated with the claim of “Daily exploration”.
> Elon has enough money that why would he need to ruin his reputation on this?

Are you really asking why Elon "pedo guy" Musk would need to ruin his reputation over frivolous bullshit?
Remarkably slim is not impossible.

Let me remind you of when we sent a probe to Earth, thinking it was sterile, and a few billions of years later our RNA-based lifeforms had spread everywhere.
Or Library Genesis...

On Goodreads a lot of reviewers complained that the writer is so grumpy and negative towards the other passengers, but I finished it recently, and I agree it is a tale of a bygone era.
Mostly agree. You can have strong cryptography even with mutability/overwritability. You can simply issue soft deletes by issuing a tombstone write.

However, you always risk someone else (like a scraper) storing messages including your signature forever. Deleting is virtually impossible for practical communication purposes. Best you can get is “I promise you I deleted my copy and thus wont distribute it further”.
Are you saying this specifically for the GPT-4 API endpoint compared to idealized described GPT-4 from the paper?
A Whole New Generation
terrifyingly, a situation in which the lucky ones would have been the ones to die in the blasts
That makes very good sense, and I would be very happy to participate in such a scheme if it were on offer.
In my suburban California high-school circa 1990, there were multiple kids carrying "digital" pagers and a few with cell phones. They didn't seem like time travelers. Others would gossip as to whether they were rich, spoiled brats or maybe selling drugs.

It is true that pocket information was either printed material or something more specialized like an electronic dictionary. The newest information-delivery fad was multimedia CD-ROM applications. On the TV front, product infomercials were already a familiar cliche and CNN had already debuted live-streaming war coverage with the first Gulf War.

The local libraries had a mix of physical card catalogs and digital catalogs. There were still banks of microfiche readers to view archived newspapers. The digital catalogs were a mix of green-screen terminals to some centralized computer and some starting to be based on regular PCs running a library kiosk application. The libraries still had more space dedicated to the stacks of books than contemporary ones which seem to have more lounges and meeting spaces.

The equivalent of internet-based shopping was ordering from printed catalogs either by mail-order or phone-order. Most products would ship in 2-4 weeks instead of a few days unless you paid silly money for expedited service. There was still the lingering concept of cash-on-delivery, where you would give the UPS driver money or a cashier's check when they delivered your package rather than paying the sender in advance. You were more likely to buy clothes locally unless ordering from a company like Columbia or LL Bean.
Cash App founder Bob Lee's death: Tech worker arrested in fatal stabbing
I've been interested in the Beaglebones. They seem much better suited to the types of things I build, and while they aren't super affordable, they're much cheaper than a Pi right now.

Do you know of any obvious drawbacks with beagles? I can imagine the community is smaller, so there would be fewer peripherals and libraries to choose from. Generally speaking I don't really need that, though. Sometimes off-the-shelf solutions are even unappealing because I enjoy learning, or I don't want to hit edge-cases where it doesn't quite fit my use case.
No, they don't. They insinuate that because it's a conveinient dogwhistle - the claim is always the same whenever a non cishet/white person attains any level of success.
The unicorn example is discussed at length in Bubeck's recent talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbIk7-JPB2c#t=22m6s
Canada Funnels the Largest Share of Investment into Housing in the OECD
Why would the model change over time when asking the same question? Just it's generation dataset for generating similar images? Or is this just tracking GPT's explicit model improvements over time?
I did wonder how WeVPN were offering such low prices compared to all other VPN providers. e.g a 2-Year subscription @ $2.59 per month
> We need to know who is moving, who is coming in, the economics of the region, geological suitability to population demands, needs of the larger state and nation as it relates to the region. And on and on and on.

Exactly. And it turns out we know the answer: California has been hemorrhaging residents for 30 years and they are overwhelmingly lower-income, albeit with a recent surge in higher-income departures which correlates with the shift to remote work.

https://www.ppic.org/blog/whos-leaving-california-and-whos-m...
https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2020/01/not-the-gol...

It's the housing, y'all.

All of it.

The homelessness vastly out of proportion to the area's drug-addiction and mental-illness rates. The property crime. The exodus.

All of it. It's all the housing.
I know the history. Lol, I didn't even notice that Robin was the author.
Not nuclear, but the U.S. Army Air Corps once tried this in Hawaii: https://www.historynet.com/army-tried-to-stop-mauna-loa-erup...
Similarly the quality of the model can't be judged with a single sample. These end up canceling out.
Which makes you wonder why it was never applied.
finasteride exists doesn't it? It's mainly preventative but works.
Determining which API key is supposed to be a secret isn't usually an issue, cause typically site providing you with the secret key clearly states the fact that it's supposed to be a secret. For example this is what OpenAI says about their keys directly on the page where you generate the key: "Your secret API keys are listed below. Do not share your API key with others, or expose it in the browser or other client-side code."
Agree. Except vim cannot be better editor as emacs can be better vim if one likes
Basic Freudian/machismo one-upmanship - "my rare and uber-expensive thingie is rarer and more expensive than your thingie".
graceful degradation ftw
I've been trying to hold on to using Sublime Text because I really appreciate the super clean interface which helps me stay productive, but I think I'm probably going to have to either go back to VSCode or possibly JetBrains Fleet. Every time I learn a new technology there seems to be an official VSCode Plugin for it that gives you some superpowers. Sometimes they'll get some sort of port to Sublime but I feel like it's falling too far behind now. It does make me pretty sad though because I love it. I think it'll be a long time til anything pries Sublime Merge from my fingers though.
All fun and games... until we really start linking GPT to the internet and give it the ability to act.

Not far off.

Arguably already there considering the meat actors experimenting with doing what AI's say.
If you want to get all numerical. Let's say an extremely generous 1% of SF population are tech entrepreneurs. 1 out of every 12 murders in SF this year was committed by a tech entrepreneur.

This would imply that Tech entrepreneurs were 12 times more likely to kill you than any other SF local, an astonishing 1100% higher murder likelihood than average!

Given that this is a forum frequented by a lot of SF Tech entrepreneurs, the FBI should monitor this forum or perhaps shut it down all together.
is that because they are 10x the scale... or because they have 1/10th the customers demand...
Not so. I've mostly lived in a comparatively high crime neighborhoods in SF, though I live in Oakland now. I'm married to someone who grew up in the Tenderloin. Your argument that attitudes are correlated with residential wealth rather than experience may accurately capture a general trend but it is far from the cast-iron rule you suggest.

straightforward solutions

Hmm
Infrastructure that looks like sci fi
GP asked for critical articles and received them. Changing the requirements to be for the last five years is moving the goalposts, by way of a no-true-scotsman.
Consent-O-Matic: Automatic cookie management
Why do we do anything to escape reality?
Personal introspection of a dreamer who tries to build things.
It doesn’t have it because it doesn’t need it, not because it somehow built abstraction around it. That’s not the case with modern computers, anything is built on top of everything.
What surprises me is that even within a single brand there are multiple standards.

Right now I mostly have Bosch Professional 18v kit. If I want a small edging router I have to biy a while new Bosch Professional 12v kit… unless I go with the Bosch “amateur” system which is different again.

I think there might also be another 10v Bosch Pro system as well. Why?

It’s like an xkcd.
> Look at the standard AA, C, D cell sizes and what they did for the electronics market.

On the flip side, look at how far we've strayed from that, with many devices only having their own proprietary battery.
I certainly am not going to take the time to do that. But at the same time, I also completely ignore programmatic recommendations, because I find them terrible.

What I do to discover interesting new stuff is to listen to the recommendations of friends, and to check out references or recommendations made from the stuff I already enjoy.

Basically, I do what everyone used to do to find new music, but for all other media as well.
> Hybrids are not EVs.

My statement that Toyota had EVs on the road before Tesla was born is not based on any degree of confusion between hybrids and EVs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_RAV4_EV

You can argue about specific capabilities, you could even argue about what it means that Toyota worked with Tesla on models in the 2010s. But whatever you think of Toyota's strategy since 1997, it was a choice, not a lack of capability, not ignoring the capacities of pure EV tech.

As for whether they "screwed up," well, hybrids proved to be pretty popular, probably around twice as many of them sold as EVs through 2020ish, and Toyota dominated if not outright made that market. Even if hybrids eventually decline, that kind of win over two decades is something most businesses would take gladly, and my bet would be that hybrids will remain a non-trivial portion of the market even as EVs grow. There's going to be markets/applications where charging is inconvenient or unreliable for a while yet.

Meanwhile, since (a) pure EVs are easier from an engineering standpoint and (b) Toyota has been making investments in the fundamental tech and engineering capacity for 25 years and (c) they're over a decade into plug-in hybrid territory (where the difference between hybrids and EVs gets especially narrow) and (d) their public roadmap has them ramping up ... I don't think the game they're playing is best described as "catch up" so much as "good timing."

But hey, you want to bet on Tesla, be my guest. I thought it was a good bet myself 12 years ago, not sorry. Less so since 2020.
The year is 2063. Audio recordings have completely eliminated all frequencies below 100hz in response to headphones' and speakers' continual drive to deliver MOAR BASE.

In response, AI-powered headphones and speakers are able to reconstruct bass notes not present in recordings by using their knowledge of the composer, musicians, and recording equipment to estimate what bass would have been there, had it not been zeroed out.
The fact that you don't need ID to move between Northern Ireland and the rest of it, has precisely nothing to do with Brexit.
The media seemed to care when the narrative was 51 IC members says the laptop has “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” Hell every network ran with that lie and bullshit. Even twitter was involved and we can see the fallout within the twitter files. Some retracted. Some updated when the laptop and data was deemed “authentic”.
If you mess with Stable Diffusion long enough, it kinda "trains" your brain. You get a feeling that an image is AI generated staring at it, but can't exactly put your finger on why.

Still, the hit rate is not good... That dog looks real to me. I think scenes with human faces and scenes will really sharp directional lighting are easier though.
Husqvarna makes a backpack battery. They charge about 1300 USD for it (or the equivalent thereof in my home country [1]). They don’t recommend it (and I’m not sure it’s compatible with) their electric chainsaws, only their brush cutters, leaf blowers etc. May be a safety thing, I’m not sure. The price, however, is pretty outrageous. Their smaller batteries are already a rip-off; the backpack battery is more expensive per watt-hour than the small ones.

In my view it’s time for regulators to step in and push the tool companies towards battery compatibility, as the technology is now mature enough for standards to be viable.

[1] https://www.husqvarna.com/au/battery-equipment/bli950x-backp...
Spanner Understanding strict serializability and external consistency
That would actually be a better application than what they're doing here. In your scenario, you're trusting that Facebook's and that third-party app's servers aren't compromised. What Facebook is publishing here is Facebook verifying that Facebook isn't compromised or compelled.

Anyway this idea is out there and most typically done with PGP, using the standard tooling to sign whatever info (or key) you want people to be able to verify regardless of what platform you're on.
I’m sure they’re delighted that you’ve drawn attention to this and republished their personal information. /s
yes the public api (or on paid chatGPT) vs the base model from the paper