skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>A duty of care arguably extends beyond one’s immediate source: You don’t have to assist an individual in publicizing the workings of government, but at the very least, you should not intentionally compromise them.

This is, as far as I can tell, the only real substance in this article, and it is completely undefended. If journalists have an obligation to avoid exposing leakers, then the actions of these organizations were inappropriate. But the author does absolutely nothing to establish that journalists have such an obligation.

There are leaks of classified material that are, I think, plainly harmful. This is one of them. None of the information I have seen revealed is useful to the public, but may be useful to the Kremlin. No responsible journalist would have published this information had it been provided to them. I see no reason to want to encourage this kind of "transparency".

>NPR recently decried being labeled by Twitter as state-affiliated media, writing that this is a label Twitter uses “to designate official state mouthpieces and propaganda outlets.” That unrelated controversy is notable given that an NPR staffer seems to have deputized himself to act as a government investigator by posting image analyses on Twitter. (While NPR has announced that its official organizational accounts have quit Twitter, individual staff accounts still appear to be active.)

"Unrelated" is right. Why bring in conspiracy theories?
I think you've missed the point. GP is saying to close the can of worms of reasoning and rationalizing in favor of gut-checking things against childlike simple thinking. Don't kill yourself because ~everybody who isn't clinically depressed or "galaxy-brained" agrees that it's a bad thing to do. Simple.

If the self-mummifying monks took this approach, they would probably take a vacation from monking after their trains of monkish thought arrived at suicide, instead of going through with it.
My entire life is side projects
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Question answering using embeddings-based search (OpenAI Cookbook)
The building looks great and landowners should be able to build what they want on the land they own.

Don't own it? You shouldn't get a say. Imposing restrictions on other people's property led us to today's housing crisis.
I think it would be fun to have a debate using a chess clock. Last time I researched this there was some podcast were two people did this, but of course if two people already know and like each other the chess clock isn't necessary.
I was a shut-in for a few years and lack of money is one of the biggest obstacles to get out of that situation. You want to take a welding class? You need money. You want to take an online class? You need money. Keeping friends and getting a partner without money is extremely hard as you need money to do most social things.

Despite that, I think a straight up cash allowance is the wrong approach. Only thing that helped me was getting a job so maybe some kind of jobs program would be better, in my opinion. It will help some people improve their lives so if a similar program were to be implemented where I live I wouldn't oppose but it will allow others to dig their roots even deeper into misery.
> any casual service claiming to use the GPT-4 API is actually using ChatGPT

ChatGPT model 3 or ChatGPT model 4?

End-users care about quality, not model versions. Serving weak results opens up to competition.
That was a weird interview. The CEO should have answered with a simple – yes, people will be able to say "more brown people should not be let into the country" on Substack. His responses were instead a cop out that aren't satisfying anyone.
https://theshowgrid.com

A static site to see IMDb ratings of all episodes of a TV show in a nice table. (ratings updated everyday)

A weekend project I built to scratch my own itch. Going on cruise mode for a while now.
Also a native speaker, and fully agreed with you.

Especially since there exist words in russian language that actually have "т" before "ч", and the sound it makes is different. Compare "отчёт" and "очки" (the closest similar word i could think of by the sound of the first half of it). If you try pronouncing the first word as if "т" wasn't there (or the second word, but as it "т" was there), it will sound both very different and wrong.
Your last post got me looking into the theory behind prompt injection and one discussion I saw was talking about the difference between 1) getting the agent to pretend that it is something and respond as that something and 2) getting it to imagine something and give the response it would expect that thing to give.

To use the example from the article, telling GPT-4 that it should imagine a pirate and tell you what that pirate says would likely yield different results than telling GPT-4 to pretend it's a pirate and say stuff. I suspect that has more to do with the fact that initial prompt injections were more the "pretend you are" stuff so models were trained against that more than the "imagine a thing" stuff. Hard to say but it's interesting.
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SWEs (SoftWare Engineers) will be much more productive, and new people will be able to come into the field post-GPT-4.

That will open many opportunities for people to do things they always wanted to do, but did not have the time to do before.

This is a golden age in some ways.

Big software companies will have to decide between taking more projects or cutting staff. I think many people expect them to cut staff. I expect them to take on more projects.

Entirely new SWE Management / Project Management methodologies will develop as currently less qualified SWEs learn quickly using AIs and become much more productive using AIs.

I remember legends about companies encouraging engineers to spend a few days a week on their own projects. If I were running a SWE company, I would (1) encourage everyone to share efficiency hacks that involve AI, and (2) encourage everyone to spend a few hours a week on their own projects. In the medium term, I would not lay off people; I would assign them to new projects.

But I'm crazy. I though the Internet was a fad and that we'd all be back to BBSes in 6 months.
This is great fun. Though my first guess had no connection:
Cleopatra and The Great Pacific Garbage patch
The AI Hardware Show: TPU, A100, AIU, BR100, MI250X [video]
Also note there's an Android analog: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/VpnServi.... You call `protect` on sockets that should not send data through your tunnel. It's a bit more flexible and straightforward IMHO (:
You two sound awesome together.
Dreams are the default for intelligence
Wouldn't encryption be enough of a defence against prompt injection? Or better yet, if you don't trust the service provider, running the model locally?
I think this is cool; but mostly a one-off?

Real impact would be something more of a city-plan such as "High density mid-rises along a corridor such as: California, Geary, Sunset or even Sloat (but Sloat is hinterlandish) and build an underground Muni (or Bart arm) to support the population's transit needs.
For a more generic FOSS perspective, https://www.amazon.com/Rebel-Code-Linux-Source-Revolution/dp... is a very nice read.

Cristi Vlăsceanu, if you're around, many thanks for the books. The OS one I gave to a Poli student that was very passionate about OSes.
Maybe cities should explicitly charge for using roads instead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congestion_pricing
The satellites of Saturn and Jupiter will still be chugging along.

Our star is unusual, as well over 90% of stars are smaller (and thus longer lived). Though if you go small enough you start dealing with planets in the habitable zone being tidally locked.
That's a clever abuse of data but, though this may come as a surprise to you, very few people actually die by means so traumatic (crushing, incineration, explosion) that it's impossible to determine which organ or necessary biological system failed critical to their death.

This same process would determine almost nobody has died of cancer, gunshot wounds, drowning, smoking, etc. as they lead to parts of one's body no longer functioning which in turn causes death, as opposed to some sort of central and essential death descending upon them.

You may even recall how this exact same handful of cases were used to "demonstrate" that doctors were just making it up as they couldn't explain the cause of death. May I refer you to the 1979 film The Jerk, as the main character exclaims "there's something wrong with these cans!" when they were, in fact, being shot by a sniper.

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and your point is ... what?
Human programmers might do something stupid that defies belief in that small percent of cases that literally destroys your company.
> You can be punished for it, but that doesn't absolve you of the deed, and it shouldn't force others to forgive or accept you.

Sure, people don't have to forgive you. But why stop at murder? Why not publish every bad thing a person does, so everyone can freely choose whether to forgive you or not? How do we decide what to publish, and what not?

> Yes, it's a tough deal, but let's be honest here: it's nothing compared to what they do to their victims.

Definitely, we don't have to compare "damage" or anything, the victims are obviously the worst off. But the question is: what is the purpose of life-long punishment? Just to make us feel warm and fuzzy that the bad people have it bad, without any consideration for the effect this has on them and consequently us?

> And there's really very few cases per decade that will make you a nation-wide celebrity. For the most part, moving 50km away will for all intents and purposes make you "a new man".

That doesn't matter in the slightest in our digital age. No matter where you go, no matter what you do, everyone around you can quickly find out what you've done if it's public information. Literally, if you told me your name, I could tell you in a couple of minutes. And this happens regularly, and is spread throughout social circles, meaning that once "the lid is off" you'll have to move another 50km to have another calm couple of weeks.

> You can often attain forgiveness by showing regret. Many don't, which is why they aren't forgiven, and aren't happily accepted by society when they get released.

How many? Is this based on statistics, or on a feeling?

> I also don't buy the excuse that recidivism is significantly driven by rejection from society. It's the easy way to explain your behavior when truth and reflection would paint a different picture, but one that's harder to accept: that we're responsible for our deeds, and (yes, with some super specific exceptions) nobody made us do them.

Actually, you're taking the easy route. Putting everything on personal responsibility removes any responsibility from you for the decision to punish them for life, and consequently the actions they take due to your decision. It's nice that you don't buy the excuse, but studies show time and time again that this is a big factor, especially if you compare the American legal system with more developed nations.

So you're making decisions for which we know there will be bad consequences, but your hands are clean, since you didn't do it directly! But usually people develop past this view of morality and recognize that you're not just responsible for what you do directly, but also for what your decisions lead to.
I created a SaaS CRM/DMS for manufactured housing retailers ("mobile home" dealerships.) Monthly gross is about $4,000. Expenses other than my own time are $400 per month for the server. So about $3,600 a month net.

The MH industry contracted drastically after the 2008/2009 financial crisis, and the handful of dealership software companies still in the industry went under. So I basically have the market to myself right now. The total market is not very big, though - maybe 1,500 independent manufactured housing "street dealerships" in the USA at this point.

I have 15-ish paying customers right now. I'd love to be able to spend all my time on growing the business, but I've been too afraid to quit the other freelance dev work I do. Also, I unwisely took on a big contract that I haven't been able to finish in a timely manner, which is dragging me down. I wish I'd spent that time growing the MH SaaS instead.
First time I have seen the dotty zon file, it looks like zig anonymous struct syntax? If so, does that mean the structs/information in the zon file can be merged/included directly into the build.zig file where the dependencies are mentioned again? ie avoiding the zon file altogether? Maybe it is documented? but you are all working so fast I cant keep up :) I saw a http client/server push (btw nice!) that seemed to also include some new syntax that I wasnt familiar with; for(n..n2) etc. Anyway exciting times and great to see solid progress, well done.
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Source link: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-study-helps-explain-limit...

Source title: "NASA Study Helps Explain Limit-Breaking Ultra-Luminous X-Ray Sources"
With the caveat that the intensity of the increasingly older agriculture is increasingly low.

There are clearly agricultural societies, where >90% of calories come from cultured plants, and there are clearly hunter-gatherer societies that predate them, where ~0% do. We used to believe in a relatively sharp cutoff between these, where once people learned to grow food, they quickly moved to mostly grow their food. This is no longer thought to be the truth, and there was likely a "transitional period" of many thousands of years as people very slowly hunted and gathered less and planted more.

(Why believe in a sharp transition? Because there is a lot of archeological evidence for it, so it clearly happened in lots of places. It's just that this doesn't represent people inventing agriculture, but it spreading to a new area and displacing older lifestyles, either by migrations of people or of ideas.)
Pretty astounding that all these people had LLMs back then and didn't release them. It's also crazy that the rabbi was talking with an LLM back then. The folk story precedes modern computers. How did he run inference? There are probably many such secrets in our ancient ancestors' pasts. Who knows how many h100s they had back then?
tinderglowup.com - an AI product to generate you with abs
I'm scraping multiple sources (ATS, LinkedIn, some major job boards) and parsing out the https://schema.org/JobPosting — if that indicates TELE_COMMUTE, then they're indeed remote, or so the source says. :)
I count 91 articles from FreeBSD to Weedonville, Virginia

https://www.wikibinge.com/#FreeBSD/Weedonville,_Virginia
Right, but for this to work, that cohort has to include some incredibly talented people with relevant experience so the pool he can draw from is vanishingly small.

I doubt people like Hinton or LeCun or any of their successors in the field would come anywhere near that crazy charlatan.
Spoken like someone who hasn't had a monstrously out of place building developed beside their home, or an inappropriate use-case like high density commercial.

I can assure you, people complaining about the shape/size of skyscrapers in their neighbourhoods did not lead us to a SF housing crisis.
I believe people have speculated that desertification is where the idea of the Garden of Eden (that humans were expelled from) may have come from.
Green means a new user - if you’re verified your name appears as everyone else’s but it will say “dang”
I don't think the cargo pilots' union would agree with that plan...
Legally you aren't allowed to upload it, it's just the website won't have to request identity verification from you and won't get in trouble for it (as long as the people in the video are non-recognizable).

So if law enforcement pings the website with "hey, this video was reported as being uploaded without consent by the person in it, you gotta remove it", they still gotta take it down, regardless. And the website will still get in trouble if they refuse.
The state is empowering developers to challenge local control to try to break the logjam of CA housing development
Electronic lead screw for metal lathe - https://kachurovskiy.com/ - started about a week ago and sold 4 kits so far. Unit cost today is 61€ so margin is rather slim too.
Yeah it's not even very clever because all protein we eat rolls up to the sun as an energy source anyway (unless this is explicitly about reducing fertilizer use). The website is more interested in tracking me than showing me what it's about so I can't confirm.
Ask HN: Are there non-programming / non-research ways to get involved in AI?
This more than anything tells me he doesn’t get how difficult of a problem it is.
This is funny, pressed the dice icon and I got "Milk" and "Cookie" and I thought it was going to be a short connection. It isn't. https://www.wikibinge.com/#Milk/Cookie
For small numbers of pages, the SingleFile[0] extension for Firefox (WebExtension) is pretty handy. It's not "archival quality", though, if that's the kind of "archiving" you're doing.

[0] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile
I work in robotics, so I always find clean front-end implementations pretty neat. Can you tell me how you got this to work? How do you host all of it? What is the back end you use? I apologize if this seems too basic, but I'd appreciate any details you have for me. My goal for this summer is to work a bit on front end tech, so that I can present better visualizations, and build simple CRUD apps to showcase my data.
Thanks!
What's going on with this website? When I click the link I end up in an app but I have no such app installed on my phone (Android). I've never seen this before. It's not AMP and there's no URL bar. It also transitions in a way that normally only happens when you go from the browser to an app.
> But it does depend whether they’re mentally sound

Where we draw the line on "mentally sound" is a social construct, right? I can't really wrap my head around somebody wanting to amputate their own hand and at the same time being considered "mentally sound" by the people around them.

> If someone wants to amputate their own hand, for example, it seems hard to argue that they shouldn’t be allowed to

I just don't get this. I suppose it hinges on what you mean by "allowed to". Maybe there's an argument to be made around personal bodily autonomy, that as a society we decide we don't want the government to compel us not to do things like this? But if someone I loved expressed to me that they wanted to harm themself I would do whatever I could to convince them not to. If one of my kids tried to chop off their hand for no good reason I would do everything I could to prevent it.
This is wild for a side project?!?! I wish you had something like this for Dutch. I recently moved from America and something like this would be phenomenal. I can see why you have so many patron donations!
I wasn't talking about good homemade bread. I was talking about decent homemade bread -- which is still better than store-bought. Yes, if you want to rise (no pun intended) to the level of truly good bread, that's more involved. Or truly great bread -- my best bread is a process that takes two days and a fair amount of active work.

I disagree about cleanup being a big deal, though. You do have to do it immediately, but there's not a lot of it to be done. When I make bread, I need to clean a bowl, the bread pan (or dutch oven, if I'm making sourdough), the large cutting board I work the dough on, and a couple of utensils. That's not a big deal.

> It is perfectly reasonable for someone to say, "this is too much work, I need store bought bread."

Indeed it is! But I was giving a possible alternative to someone who struggles to find store-bought bread they can safely eat. I was not saying "everyone must make their own bread".

(I'm also a long-time home baker. I've been making my own bread for 30 years now).
> dinosaurs died out around 66.04 ± 0.05 Ma.

The dinosaurs didn't die out, and are alive in abundance today.

I know what you mean, but it's interesting how many otherwise scientifically accurate publications use the taxonomic term as if though our understanding of the origin of birds hadn't evolved since the 1950s.
Keeping an 88-year-old violent criminal in jail could not be considered "necessary" by any definition other than a pure appeal to morality.
I guess that's one way to give that shitty Tesla robot a fitting brain.
When you can't find a connection, always try the reverse!
https://www.wikibinge.com/#Great_Pacific_garbage_patch/Cleop...
The data types make sense to statisticians. Ordered factors are great when you need to fit, say, an ordered logit regression model.
> I am thinking of a list of ways Asimov's famous Three Laws were subverted, specifically one android told to put poison in a cup, and a different android told to serve it as a drink, such that neither one knew they were harming a human.

Heh. Android Munchausen-by-proxy.

I've noticed it doesn't take much to "groom" ChatGPT into breaking its own rules. It's getting better at catching on, but as long as you placate it with assurances that you're not a racist sexual terrorist (which is apparently its sole concern), it'll play along with your instructions.
I send myself a message on whatever app I have logged in on both machines. Discord functions as a sort of notebook for me, it's quick to open on phone and I've usually got it running on laptop.
As ridiculous as it sounds, Slap fighting[0] is a thing now. One slap fight contest lasted 27 rounds.

[0]: https://slapfight.com/
That or they're working on something like a 10-30B input model, dubbed GPT-NextGen, that essentially has the same results as gpt4, but with a lot more performance gains, and speed, and improvements. GPT-5 will suck, if it's a similar ratio slower to gpt-4, than gpt-4 is to gpt-3.5.

So, I think there's a lot of improvements where maybe gpt-4, is as far you go in terms of inputting data, and maybe better use cases are more customization of data trained on, or finding ways of going smaller, or even some model that just trains itself on the data requirements, similar to how we jump on google when we're stuck, it'd do the same and build up its knowledge that way.

I also think we need improvements in vector stores that maybe add weights to "memories" based on time/frequency/recency/popularity.
This is a terrible idea.
The SF YIMBY movement is completely out of touch with the spirit of SF.

I say this as a native San Franciscan.
Is anyone more familiar with the locale able to provide more context as to why specifically these stores may not be profitable?
Brandolini is a great guy! He’s also behind ‘event storming’ which can be a pretty nice way of getting shared understanding and design of a system.
Surely brainwashing as used now can describe any type of system. Weren't the nazis brainwashed? Aren't you implying that the American peasants are brainwashed? How could it be that the only people who were truly free and doing what they wanted were the ones living in a dictatorship featuring show trials and a gulag system?
It’s a constructed reality. It doesn’t have to be a simulation of anything in particular.
I'm very pro development in general, but I'm not sure if the market for a building of that type makes sense for that location? Over 40 minutes to FiDi on public transit and not especially close to 280, so not super convenient for commuters. That far out there also isn't a ton of bars/restaurants, so no especially attractive to younger people. And for families lack of dedicated outdoor space + downstairs neighbors to worry about makes it less than ideal.

I hate that SF has painted itself into a corner, where development has to occur in whatever random locations that happen to open up. I think for higher density housing, locations off of muni closer to the core of the city would obviously make more sense / have a clear market, but we just can't get there.