skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice try but the assault weapons ban is almost the weakest form of gun control, right behind “no guns for the clinically insane.” Handguns are involved in vastly more death and crime, yet no one tries to stop them.

Concealed firearms are what terrify police, so why not strictly license concealable firearms?
> Luckily we already have this cool innovation called a market economy

Market economy got us into the situation where the most brilliant minds in the world are researching best ways to make internet advertisements as addictive as they can be.

Very cool innovation, indeed. Ever read The Space Merchants?
That seems like a rather uncommon definition of processing. Certainly not what people mean when they generally talk about processing a message.

You’re right that if the business-processing is a long heavy-weight operation then that should be decoupled from the message queue and failure handled internally, in which case your definition does make sense as an intermediary hand-off step. Just in the general case, I think most people wouldn’t consider hand-off alone as processing.
It saddens me to see how misguided some groups attempt at language creation are. Contrast these 2 quotes:

(greatest/least) "To be clear, in most programming languages, these functions would merely be called max and min. But in SQL, those names are already used for aggregate functions. Since there is no syntactic difference between normal functions and aggregate functions, you have to pick two different names."

"After 2-3 years the language had grown by accretion....
Eventually I found it was shrinking, once you look at enough different applications you come to general notions,
these generalizations allowed me to take out whole chunks of special things
and furthermore the general ideas are usually much simpler to understand than the special cases."

The easiest path for someone creating a language or API is to add a new layer/function for everything. It solves the immediate problem, it allows you to create something new, it can't break existing code. As a java programmer I often find myself creating an abstraction layer without thinking. What's made this much worse actually is google and stackoverflow, people can't google general solutions but they can google for "convert php string to camel case". However when I look at beautiful implementations of languages, they are beautiful in their exposed simplicity.
As opposed to legal bribes?
“All I want to do is smoke inside this restaurant - leave me alone to smoke in peace”
> Fault tolerance and supervision hierarchy might be unnecessary as mentioned.

It's not like there is suddenly no fault tolerance though. Erlang has a certain way of handling/dealing with errors/faults and so does Rust and other languages. I would not by default assume that Erlang's errorhandling is superior.

> That leaves us with runtime introspection, which is pretty cool indeed. But that has to compete with Rust performance.

I would much rather say that runtime introspection has to comete with a static type system.

As I said many times, I really like the BEAM (saying that after having worked with Akka quite a bit) but Erlang/Elixir... those languages are really not great. There are many languages that way better. I also know that there is a new one for the BEAM (forgot the name) but so far we are mostly stuck with E&E.
There should have been a standardized way for a browser to respond in exactly the way that these plugins behave. Basically "allow only functional/minimum cookies, never anything else".

Regulators of course should enforce the simple fact that this is also a requirement for anyone who dismisses a consent popup, has a browser setting that suppresses it, or even someone who clicks the biggest most obvious button - since all those actions (or non-actions) must result in "no consent".
HuggingFace is almost there. Uploading a re-trained or fine-tuned model is trivial. Same with datasets.
A $1500 disposable gun. I'm not sure most gun buyers are going to go for this except as a novelty to add to a collection hoping it goes up in value as a failed idea. Yes, I say this is disposable because the electronics will wear out rendering this gun useless.

As I read the biofire website it makes me like this gun less and less. A limited warranty on a gun. Maybe where they come from needs to be less tech companies and more gun manufacturers. Most gun manufacturers will give you a lifetime warranty regardless of their written policy's because these are passionate firearms people wanting to make quality products that will last for your grandkids and beyond.
>If I were to start with ChatGPT I would, necessarily, only say what has been said.

You would but not chatGPT.
I have been very vocal about cautioning people that LLM are just a parrot, but that is in the sense that there is no real meaning or "reasoning" behind it.
However Its also wrong to say that there is no Creativity.
ChatGPT could very well produce a creative solution just as a byproduct of the sheer amount of weights. When you consider what to write you draw on your past experiences but your ability to make connection between things (and the amount of your experiences) is very limited. ChatPGT could very well stumble upon an obscure connection between two words that is improbable for humans to make because of the sheer dimensions of connectivity of the graph.
That still wouldn't mean that the model has "learned" that inferrence though, it would still be more like the result of the million monkeys typing and writing a shakespeare play.
Usually these countries doesn't have lobby groups in the same sense. That's why it is illegal bribes.
Sure, but will improving layout performance have the biggest impact for users, or was the current one good enough?
Some of those graphs are rather hard to pass, as the same domain is presented twice side-by-side, but with different X- and Y-axes. For example, comparing NN and linear regression models we see orders of magnitude difference on the Y-axis. Would really take the point of 'no change in RV model' home if they had the same scale.

Apart from that, many years ago, at a previous job, I prototyped automatic recognition of model degradation. I think one of the approaches I tried was comparing KL divergence between predictions on the test set and new data. This way you don't need to have the ground truth available (in which case you can make measures based on the residuals). Worked quite well iirc to signal when one should retrain and/or investigate context drift. Nowadays, with relative maturity in explainability methods, you can go much further and can much better find out what exactly causes the drift.

In general, I'm not a big fan of just saying 'error's up, let's retrain'. Why did the error go up? Understanding the data here better is usually quite valuable in the business context.
Yep! So many advantages of induction.
If you just take 5-10 minutes to read the article, you’d understand what this is about.

Literally nobody is saying his account was invisible, they are saying it was disengaged from the algorithm (deboosted)

You could see the tweets, but were unable to search for them .. similar to how Musk allows pro-Ukraine war reporting, but heavily restricts this content from the algorithm.
> "it does seem like there is a strangely consistent relationship that puts time much closer to the square root of distance."

Imagine if you spend the first half of your trip accelerating and the second half decelerating. Of course it's not always true but it explains why a square root isn't such a strange intuition.
The problem is that regulators were influenced by industry then. The proper regulation would have required that the default state be that users are shown no consent banners without explicit action and also not tracked.
> As a result, many men are struggling to fulfill their own outmoded expectations of what a man should be. “The problem with feminism, as a liberation movement, is not that it has ‘gone too far,’” Reeves writes. “It is that it has not gone far enough”—that is, it has not succeeded in replacing traditional models of masculinity with something more adequate to our current circumstances. The Western male is stuck in a culture of masculinity that is now desperately mismatched with his material reality. “Women’s lives have been recast,” Reeves writes. “Men’s lives have not.” Men have been consigned to “cultural redundancy.”

It’s pretty simple. Adapt or perish. Big generational change is not uncommon.
Luckily we already have this cool innovation called a market economy.

We don't really though. There are companies, and individuals, with enough wealth and influence to compete with entire markets. A well-funded startup can undermine whole industries by spending VC money to run at a loss long enough that the rest of the market fails (Uber, AirBNB) or they can become so massive that there's absolutely no possibility of competing (Amazon). People can start private companies that do things only governments have done before (SpaceX, Palantir). These businesses are not influenced by pricing, because they're either too well funded to care, or too influential for others to get a foot in the door.

Free market economics is a beautiful idea, but every big business (and some small businesses) do all they can to subvert the market and hold a monopoly on something. Heck, Peter Thiel literally wrote a book about how to do exactly that - Zero To One.
Article mentioning suicide is the leading cause of deaths in young men in the opening paragraph.

You: probably due to their past privilege
I'm surprised nobody made a GPT to generate startup ideas yet.
I hope never to come across you in real life or do business with you. Your response to reported illegal activity is to laugh at the reporter? Do better.
Distribution shift in the real world data will always be inherent to any data driven methods. Unless there are major advances in continual learning for DL models, they will always struggle with distribution shift degradation.

Similarly, humans are also prone to the distribution shift unless we get updated information on a specific topic. The key differences are that we are great at continual learning and we are much better at learning abstraction
and they expectation is correct, I click whatever green button that i'm presented and expect that my combination of private browser sessions, different profilers and adblock extensions messes them enough. It sucks, I know, but the quantity of time people has loss with those banners, both on the client side and both on the developer side (even If is paid work that i did, I would have preferred to do anything more valuable) is enormous, and the culprits responsable of this should be taken to the courts, if not presented with a cumputer and sentenced to pass the rest of their lives clicking consent banners.

I suppose that is a matter that strikes a chord with me.
What they usually have is a tidy banner saying something like "We use analytics cookies. Reject. Accept".

Compare it to the abominations that the greedy tracking leaches from OneTrust, IAB etc. are presenting.
It doesn't matter under which TLD a domain is registered, the IP address it refers to can still be located anywhere in the world.
I hope you're being sarcastic. GenAI Twitter is _lit_ with this stuff. Almost - almost - to the point of being obnoxious.
Big generational change is uncommon. And on this scale it is completely unprecedented
> This was also true of Juicero and Pets.com.

Yes, it's hard to predict the future.

> Moreover, the people investing in small startups are generally not huge funds. The funds buy in after the company is established. Tesla turned a profit before they were added to the S&P 500.

One reason those small startups can attract capital in the first place, is because their early investors can reasonably expect to cash out by selling to huge funds once the company gets established.

Remove the late investors, and you dry up the payouts for early investors.

> Most of the scam comes from information asymmetries.

That's hardly news. Investors take that into account.

What keeps investing from turning into a market for lemons is that companies can communicate to prospective investors and show them transparently that they eg didn't remove the slack.

As an investor, you can go by the maxim of 'guilty, unless proven innocent'. So if a company does not have that transparency, you should value them as-if they have skeletons in the closet.

(And if companies explicitly lie, that's already a crime.)
Correct, if we [ blockchain ] then we will be able to solve [ thing ]
One thing I've noticed about this line is it gets used from all sorts of groups feel like they are the ones which were oppressed / the other group is the oppressor.
I doubt they would make you a cosmonaut without being a convincing communist, the same way they wouldn't probably make you an American astronaut if you were one.

If he were a doubter, it would still make sense to include that to potentially make it easier for his family to obtain or preserve a decent position in the Soviet society. These sorts of heroes were supposed to be idols and demigods of the country. This wasn't a society that would respect you having a private apolitical part of life, especially for a man of such a position.

I almost wrote how people are clueless about living under totalitarianism, where there can really be no such thing as truth or honesty. Except maybe heavily drunk in a small company in a dacha, if you're feeling adventurous. But really I think people would often pay lip service to any social orthodoxy in such a situation (contrary to what you might think), because of the benefits of psychical comfort and fitting in.
This paper is

1. Really a blog post disguised as a paper.

2. Silly.

3. Excellent.
Curious -- how much time have you spent elsewhere in the western world in recent years? I don't mean small towns in the midwest, I mean other cities of similar size and economic importance. I suspect you'll find that San Francisco isn't really special, and, in fact, the problems facing SF are facing most of the world, especially in the wake of the pandemic.

Interestingly, there's strong correlative evidence that wealth inequality is linked to increased crime in developed nations. So that's a fun fact!
Because we are well over 75% through the window this planet can support life and are headed towards a complete extinction event with little chance of survival?

Life has been here for ~4.2bn years, has another good 500-800m years left until our carbon cycles grind to a halt.

"Why do we need a space station?"

"To save all life on Earth"

I've grown rather disenfranchised with most ecological movements (outside of the Whole Earth branch). Given what we've learned about our planet in the last few decades, and our current understanding of where this planet is heading, it's hard to interpret their arguments as anything other than advocating for letting all life on Earth die a slow death over the next 1Bn years.
Suicide is the leading cause of death among young men because a combination of medical science and safety regulations have made all the other causes incredibly unlikely.
In open-book mode it does not hallucinate. That only happens in closed-book mode. So if you put a piece of text in the prompt you can trust the summary will be factual. You can also use it for information extraction - text to JSON.
The market as implemented in the past, in a world with technology form the past, worked well in the past. This doesn't mean it won't need to be changed ever. No one is saying the complete market should be removed. We always have had rules putting boundaries on free markets (child labour, slavery), and these rules should move with the times.
Came here with the same quote in mind :) This whole thing has such "Don't Create The Torment Nexus" vibes.
Yes, they do. They all do. You need a rule of law, to tame corruption and no non-democracy has that.

The attempt to deploy western culture globally has failed miserably, generating jobs who exist merley to errect a veneer of compliance.

Behind the thin layer of paint, the old culture and world continus happily on unphased by the hysterics. And it was always painfully obvious for those in the know.

For example there was a law in many arab countries, that you could not do buisness with israel and do buisness with them. Yet, when you opened company location maps, there they were, side by side, right next to the company "morals & mission statements" tab.
The obvious answer, bribes in broad daylight.

Now, as the western exported "cultural revolution" winds down in obvious failure, all that veneer fades away and the ugly old world reappears as if it was never gone.

Very soon, the workers with confiscated passports might as well be called slaves again. Its a sad, depressing state of affairs, but then it was for the non deluded befor this point in time too.
I expected this to include more resources like TPU Research Cloud, but it doesn't mention even TRC itself. Disappointing.

https://sites.research.google/trc/about/
The only task GPT-4 "botched" for me was trying to write an IRC bot with Rust.

12 attempts and it still couldn't connect. After 6 attempts (of me pasting back compilation errors) it compiled, but didn't run. The last 6 attempts were me trying to get Rust to ignore TLS errors so it could connect. I gave up after that.

I had a set of ancient (10+ year old) shell scripts and Python controlling Deluge. I wanted to move to Transmission and still retain the same functionality.

Except for using an API from 2021, the code it gave me was 100% correct and properly named and even commented. I had to spend 5 minutes correcting the import and changing a few named variables (user -> username type stuff) and it just worked.
"We find robust evidence that exposure to teacher collective bargaining laws worsens the future labor market outcomes of men: in the first 10 years after passage of a duty-to-bargain law, male earnings decline by $2,134 (or 3.93%) per year and hours worked decrease by 0.42 hours per week. The earnings estimates for men indicate that teacher collective bargaining reduces earnings by $213.8 billion in the US annually. We also find evidence of lower male employment rates, which is driven by lower labor force participation. Exposure to collective bargaining laws leads to reductions in the skill levels of the occupations into which male workers sort as well. Effects are largest among black and Hispanic men."

https://www.nber.org/papers/w24782
> the data drifts

It's in fact the data itself is the closest to reality, not the ML model...

It's a conundrum in the flow of reality for me:

Reality -> data that reflects reality (hopefully as best it can) -> train model based on data (typically takes a non-trivial time scale!) -> make decision / do stuff based on algo with newest data

If you ask me, even with all known technology we have, seems like it's impossible to simultaneously aquire realtime data and train a model to operate and or make decisions on exactly that data. It's a catch 22, there will always be a lag

Even as humans with super big brains we can't hope to do this outside of extremely simple tasks like "throw and catch the ball"
Well, he was a part of the resistance against Nazi occupation. Albeit less on the front lines and more on the journalistic side, but nonetheless. I'd say it's valid enough to give him the opportunity to have an existential crisis.
True, "amount of hallucination" (very confident, but factually wrong) is probably something they can decrease in the next versions tho.

I also would not trust it with anything important, but there can be good applications for something that works 9/10 times.
^^ This guy bribes.
Not just China. All over the world once dirt poor people have started closing the gap. Most of South East Asia, India, even Sub-Saharan Africa, etc.
I find it ironic when people say that, the quote could easily be used in the opposite direction.
Sure, though if we're talking about crime, inequality is probably the strongest correlation to crime rates.[0]

"In industrialised societies, the prevalence of exploitation, in the form of crime, is related to the distribution of economic resources: more unequal societies tend to have higher crime, as well as lower social trust."

0. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-80897-8
And the alcohol version Salmari was banned in Finland in 1993 as unhealthy - not directly because of the licorice but because it was both cheap and masked the taste of (strong, 38%) alcohol too well causing people to drink too much (alcohol).
200 milliwatts doesn't sound like much.
Wow you really took a good swipe. I'm not sure what triggered that.

It's the time cost I'm worried about. There is significant opportunity cost in reading a big text book. Especially with a young family on top.
This article quotes a bunch of statistics and then jumps to conclusions without analyzing why (some) men do worse than (most) women.

Given that most men still outearn most women and that more women attempt to commit suicide and the ongoing (predominantly female) teenage mental health crisis this whole article reads like a case study of how to lie with statistics and jump to (bad) conclusions.

Men have problems, women have problems and instead of framing it as a gender issue and arguing that either men or women have to change I think it would be more productive to zoom in and analyse why less men graduate from college or why (young) women have seen such a rapid decline in wellbeing in the past ten years.
We would need regulation to stop model ingesting data they do not have the right to, which would mean something like laws governing ML algorithms, having to declare what data you fed it and so on. Like some kind of SOC2 audit for data provenance.

Maybe ML weights are just numbers, but then so is a movie, an mp3, a logo, a brand, and so on.
Adapt or perish or (re)shape the world. Current state where saying „kill all men“ does not raise eyebrows is a pretty sad state. Too many pseudo-feminist lunatics are tolerated.
But these metaphors (self models) get better and better. Just like physics went through a number of paradigm shifts, and each model improved on the previous one.

I also think we're more than just a LLM, but not for the hardware in the brain, it's the rich environment and efficient body shape that helps us develop that edge. We can be more than language models because we learn from our own experiences in the world and society.

I expect future AI agents will also be more than LLMs, they can get agentified, embodied and embedded. They can have feedback loops to learn from. Access to experience is the key to being more than "just a LLM".
GDPR. Does not. Mandate. Browser. Or website. Cookies. Banners. Or UIs.

In it's simplest form it says: if you want to collect more data than is required, you have to ask users for consent.

This applies in equal measure to sites, banks, grocery stores, shopping malls, shit processing plants, nuclear reactors etc.
We are a long way from capturing the richness of human experience. Your assumption is that everybody records everything all the time but they don't. Like linkedin never has anybody failing at anything.

It's going to end up a simulation of what people think other people want to hear, rather than what actually happened. The experiment has already failed because the assumption that the internet has captured everything is wrong.
If even a fraction of the stuff in that article is true, it's the trolls who are overreacting. Has he been swatted SIX times?!

If you have a different perspective, please share it, but from the information available so far, it appears that his tormentors belong in prison and Tomlinson deserves our support. It's sad that the justice system is unable to deal with such vicious abuse of online anonymity.