skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The app ux is buggy and I'm one to complain on spotifys forums about it, but I do wonder about the sentiments in this thread, as I still find having access to spotifys library or capabilities with podcasts, music, playlists, making playlists, downloads, etc, to be a delight and I have not found myself seeking other applications to replace it as it gets so much daily use from me. Am I in the dark about something?
This is great. It's hopefully slightly better on the technical side than the FSP that we usually get, while also being less of a NDA-encumbered mess that you currently get with any of the big hardware and silicon vendors.
They claim that there will be a reduction in electric rate to offset (only partially, in many cases) the income-based fee.

The biggest flaw in this system that I see is related to how often the "household income" is determined, and what exactly it will consist of.

An annual income determination would be pretty bad, as income fluctuates month to month and the utility sends out monthly bills. Are they going to go back the prior year and refund some of it if your income went down (or charge you more if it went up)? By comparison, to get a health insurance subsidy under ACA (Obamacare), recipients are expected to go to the marketplace (exchange) and update their income online whenever there are significant changes. (However, many fail do to so, with unexpected results come income tax filing time). Will this now be necessary for utility bills as well?

And what is "household income"? Only what shows up on the federal tax return? Or how about the California tax return, which is different? What about non-taxable income, such as Roth IRA distributions, or Social Security when other income is low? What about child support or alimony, does that reduce the income of the payer and increase the income of the recipient for this purpose?

What if you rent out a room in your house or sublet part of your apartment? Is that person part of your "household", and how are you supposed to know their income?
That's a really interesting twist.

Could <$big company> legally pour a lot of money to assure control over a parcel or a mine in Mars?
There's really only a handful of battery voltages used across all manufacturers. It makes more sense if you think about the series count of a battery pack instead of the advertised voltage. A single lithium ion cell will have a nominal voltage of 3.6v and a "Max" voltage of 4.0v (technically 4.2v, but you can extend the battery life by not charging to 100% capacity).

Thus a 10.8v (3 x 3.6v) and a 12v (3 x 4v) are the same thing, just measured differently.

As is an 18v (5 x 3.6v) and a 20v "Max" (5 x 4v).

36v and 40v are both 10 cells in series.

Etc.
Like today’s. No clue.
> "America" refers unambiguously to the United States of America

When people say "Columbus discovered America", it most certainly is referring to the entire landmass and surrounding islands (he technically landed in the Bahamas).
Mike Perham is an inspiration to me both in terms of Ruby/tech as well as business.

I've been using sidekiq now for almost a decade and had the pleasure to meet Mike at a Ruby conf many years ago.
One thing they also broke was the ability to press the skip button whilst the song is playing, and have it carry on playing to the new skipped point without completely restarting. If I dont know it in the first 3 seconds, it's annoying having to listen to that whole chunk again before hearing the 4th second.
It only takes a basic understanding of neural nets to recognize this as crankery. Giving an LLM a tricky question does not force it to do any more computation than a simple prompt. There is no conceivable way an especially difficult prompt would make the model crash.
as a foreigner with some interest in US history it does seem like Republicans are going back to their early philosophy of Republicanism, which is basically the moral and political framework of the USA circa the time of abolition, where as Democrats have adopted a postmodern European worldview

these two worldviews differ very significantly and are in a very deep conflict, and by definition the euro-postmodern view is a lot more comfortable in bureaucracy and the currently much bigger (Federal-) State, is much better at it, and effectively controls it at all levels

this renders Republicans into a reactionary party, especially as the growing trend within it abandons neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism

Democrats look a lot like the old Whig party which existed both sides of the Atlantic but was out of step with the prevailing culture; they also look a lot more like a modern British mainstream party than any major US party has looked before, which IMO it's not a good thing, but European politicians love it
It's going to be rainy all day tomorrow, and guess how we're going to spend our Saturday afternoon? Thanks for the recommendation. :)
One comment on the article from what I’ve read so far. The article states that GPT bombed an economics test, but after trying out the first two questions on the test, I think that the test itself is poorly constructed.

The second question in particular drops the potential implicit assumption that only 100 people stand in line each day.

I face this issue in my CS masters program constantly, and would probably have failed this test much the same as GPT did.
You also have to be careful that you're not saying anything that upsets the admins or you'll find yourself permanently suspended without warning and properly shaddow-banned if they catch you making a new account.
Ah. We only have speed cameras.
What is it composed of? My uneducated guess was that it was full vacuum on the lunar surface
I was thinking like that too. Many many "leaks" are intentional.

For this one to work, you would have to convince the Russian secret services, a pretty high bar. Usually, leaks just have to pass a sniff test, or not even that, people can just glance over the factual basis for the leak if it's convenient for their world view (e.g. FBI leaking photos from Trump's raid)
Ha, yeah, atheism is a much different perspective. I think that in many ways it's more intentional and positive, but that's my bias.
> Oh, lots of people hold this belief, at least in the US. I think it's reductionist in the extreme (if you aren't a productive drone, you have no value as a person), but it's not all that rare.

We even made a religion out of it. This is the teleology of American evangelical Protestantism.
> enlighten me

It's not going to make China's AI better than US. Not nearly enough, they're so behind. So giving them competitive advantage is not something that should matter when you consider whether this law would do good or not
>> podcasters are purely experts at being experts, with no experience or knowledge behind it?

If you are an actual expert in such things, you don't have the time to be doing podcasts.
I realize I should have added we pay above market salaries, give bonuses for good work, and focus on making our engineers feel rewarded and valued. This is just a PART of that, and a part our engineers love and always talk about to potential new hires.

I could have written it just from the engineer's perspective......I get paid a ton, encouraged to take time off, my company recognizes my contributions, the CEO specifically says thank you to me all the time, and I got $10,000 of free stuff when I started!

But since there are a lot of founders on this forum, I was trying to give a measured balance of both how it benefits engineers and how it benefits the company.
Yes. But the general perception is Wooly Mammoths were in another era long before the more "modern" pyramids and such.

TBH I wasn't aware the two overlapped. Now I know :)
Mostly it is asking for reader/listener donations in a non-aggressive way. For example, if one is reading on the site, the request for donations appears only if one reaches the end of the text. If listening, the request comes after the story. This is supplemented by licensing our work occasionally to magazines, other websites, etc., and a wee bit of merchandising.
I don't think the concern is about machines doing it better, but machines being able to angleshoot around copyright. The issue is most easily demonstrated in writing. The current state of technology is already sufficient to create a program that could take as input a book and produce as output a book with identical story, characters, settings, and more - but 'nudged around' just enough to skirt current copyright law.

Humans have already been able to do this of course, but the difference is scale and automation. With this software one could, under current law, setup a 100% legal 'shadow library' that effectively infringes on every single book published. Even a leaked copy of a book could be released and shared (in its legally infringing format) before the "real" copy hit the market. And again, all completely legally. The impacts of copyright infringement are regularly grossly distorted, but I think this is the sort of technology that could genuinely damage artists and creators across many endeavors.

The exact same thing will be coming to software soon enough. 'Take this assembly/IL code, and create a functionally identical but superficially rebranded program while working to ensure you sidestep all relevant patents.' 'Sure, here you go.' The issue of this being done [relatively] instantly is going to really impact things in ways I think many are not considering. Never in a million years thought I'd see myself on the side of the copyright cartel, but this is one of the extremely rare times they're right.
> What are the qualities we would want and not want in a neighbor?

Ah, but that's exactly the problem. There are a ton of places in this country where people would answer that as "people of the same race, with the same values as me".
Oxide phbl https://github.com/oxidecomputer/phbl doesn't use OpenSIL. I assume it's written from scratch based on documentation and maybe looking at AGESA. Why can't other server/firmware vendors do the same? Because they're just not willing to.
Everyone here aspires to work for an ad conglomerate that's busy destabilizing democracies while they "own" the compose button in an app. Of course its very pedestrian.
Controversial dead people are also hard to manage by Wikipedia, just read the article about Alister Crowley, portrayed as an intellectual of the "dark arts" and not just another charlatan taking advantage of gullible people, which he was.
That's because bitcoiners created it and Jack Dorsey boosted it and abandoned Twitter for it. He's been extremely active there, https://primal.net/jack

And the idea of using nano transactions for upvotes has long been an attractive approach in this community for mitigating bot swarms from influencing conversations. In fact, the proof of work system that bitcoin was based on was originally proposed in the 90s as a solution to fight email spam. A micro cost of computation power (or a nano transaction) is neglegible to most legitimate users, but adds up quickly for spammers who depend on sending out thousands of emails for a single hit.
Why OpenAI is the new AWS and the New Kingmakers still matter
The official Rust introduction is stellar!
One concept at a time, clearly explained, with examples.

And, most importantly, it is complete. It starts with how to install it, and the installation actually works in a few lines of code. The authors put a lot of effort into the general onboarding user experience.
While we're cleaning it up:

fizzbuzz = i => (i % 3 ? "" : "Fizz") + (i % 5 ? "" : "Buzz") || i
Array.from({length: 100}, (_,i) => console.log(fizzbuzz(i+1)))
No, it's not. Exquisite all-Erlang front pages are also occasionally served.

(OK, once, many years ago, but the point stands.)
Well this is a good reply, but it's mistaken.

The conditional probability:

P(x[0]| x[-1], x[-2], x[-3] ...)

is not the same as,

P(x[0] | x[-1], x[-2], ... -> x[0])

Where `->` says we select only those cases where x[-1],... brought-about x[0].

To see why this is the case, suppose we do have a god's eye-view of all of spacetime.

P(A|B)
always selects for all instances where B follows A.

P(A| B -> A)
selects only those instances where B's following A was caused by A.

Eg.,

P(ShoesWet | Raining)

is very different from

P(ShoesWet | Raining -> ShoesWet)

in the former case the two events have, in general, nothing to do with each other.

To select "Raining -> ShoesWet" even with a gods-eye-view we need more than statistics... since those events which count as "Rain -> ShoeWet" have to be selected on a non-statistical basis.

For the athelete catching a ball, or the scientist designing the experiment, we're interested only in those causal cases.

For sure P(A|B) is a (approximate, statistical) model of P(A| B->A) -- but it's a very restricted, limited model.

The athlete needs to estimate P(ball-stops | catch -> ball-stops)

NOT P(ball-stops | catch) which is just any case of the ball-stopping given any case of catching.
I wouldn't treat it as a binary. Use the project to provide feedback on what learning material to read, then go back to the project until you hit another blocker.

Suppose you're read a book about Rust and now you want to write a web service. You take a peek on Reddit and hear good things about Axum, so you check out its docs.

You write some handlers that do crud operations on a database, and it's all going well. You can translate the examples in the docs into your code in a pretty straightforward way.

Then you decide you want live chat. You've heard of websockets, and axum has a websocket example. But you keep beating your head against the compiler. What is the right type for a chat room? Who owns the chat rooms?

You realize now would be a good moment to take a step back and learn more systemically. After reading through the tokio mini redis tutorial async makes a lot more sense and you're back on track.

In this example you "wasted" a little time before you took a step back and studied async more, but you saved significant time by tailoring your learning to what you needed. If you hadn't gotten partway into your project you might not have realized you'd want to learn async next and instead studied something else.
> People with the impulse to create will do it regardless.

But they may not publicly release it. I've already removed my works from the public web, and I've heard from several others that have done the same.
So You Want to Launch a Hedge Fund?
Automation with a Human Touch
Please consider reading the article next time.
> first humans (5mya)

This might be a little early - Wikipedia says the genus Homo emerged from Australopithecus around 3.3 Ma (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo).
If you’re posting here you’re likely around a lot of people who have longer time preference and have chosen to temporarily sacrifice short-term happiness in an effort to maximize their lifetime happiness.

The key is knowing when to stop. A lot of people don’t.
None of the way any of this has played out has told me it’s nothing more than major, major chess.
How does `index_advisor` work?
10^16 -> 10^24 flops isn't 100x, it's 100,000,000x

This happened in 10 years (training cost of largest model according to the batshit crazy god AI article in the FT).

On the one hand compute power increased by about 100x and then some lunatics came and spent 10000x on it...
uff, that's big if true, it could jeopardize the entire plan. But then again, Ukraine has been saying only 5 people know of the true plan, so maybe it won't matter (surely more people know which depos are running low).
> and the people with power are the white homeowners who want HOAs to control their neighbors

While I'm sure this is fairly common, I was careful not to restrict my sibling reply to the GP to a single race. There are predominately black or hispanic communities out there (for example) with very similar preferences.
Your links claim that:

'GPT-4 is not “AI” because AI means “AGI,”'

Is a more strict term that hasn't typically applied to AI as an example of my above claim.

As we lack general definitions, it isn't invalid but no AI is thought to be possible with their claims.

AI being computer systems that perform work that typically requires humans within a restricted domain is closer to what most researchers would use in my experience.
All kinds of sensitive military operations are conducted by 21-year-olds, such as nuclear missile maintenance and readiness:

> "The film starts in September 1980, when a 21-year-old missile technician named Dave Powell dropped the socket from a socket-wrench... When the socket fell, it plunged 70 feet to pierce the side of the Titan II missile. The puncture released pressurized rocket fuel and set off a chaotic series of events and decisions that highlighted a chain of command ill-prepared to deal with disaster."

https://www.theverge.com/2017/1/10/14232574/command-and-cont...

Chelsea Manning was 20 years old and had full access to State Department cables and secret military video, for comparison. The military aims recruiting heavily towards teenagers, incidentally, for various reasons.

Older people with more independent thinking might be even more willing to leak data about government incompetence, criminal activity, reckless stupidity and so on.
Chinese fast-fashion giant Shein enters D.C.'s crosshairs
The only way you can do secure by design/default is if the customer of your service experiences a productivity gain.

For example, if they can deploy infrastructure more efficiently (and securely as a byproduct). Or if they're able to get reliability out of a software library (and security as a byproduct).

You have to find these win-win situations where the developers/clients are not even aware of security improvements.
"I don't think about you at all."
Traditional prepaid are basically illegal in EU now. You need to provide name, address and social security number to buy and activate them. I guess US could follow. With that said, it's a terrible idea.
Not to be a GNU/Linux instigator but I remember when I first read the GPL how strange it was to have a legal document to give something away it seemed like a impish prank - will someone take it and insist you stop giving it away, or sue you when their production line breaks down.. And then the flamewars began, the pronunciation, the toolchain, freetards, 'open sores', etc. but it was the GPL making it all possible.
One thing I think will dominate in the future is to write software documentation geared towards the easy understanding of it by LLMs, with documentation possibly including a fine-tunning dataset with which a model can be tested for proficiency in using that particular tool (like OpenAI Evals). Software will be written to be used by humans through LLMs because humans will code in natural language, and not in the language of your interface.
> In 1991, Linus wrote that Linux "won't be big and professional like gnu". In 2023. Linux is running on every continent, on every ocean, on billions of devices, in orbit, and on Mars.

Amazing
> I don't consider that a big loss at all.

And yet you're cheering on AI that will dramatically increase the amount of cheap art that's made just to sell copies.
UC Berkeley's open-source Vicuna LLM chatbot released new improved model weights
Twitter announcement: https://twitter.com/lmsysorg/status/1646618380114468864
A Complete Noob's Guide to AGI
Yeah I used to get it maybe 70% of the time in the first few seconds, and I just played it today and I have absolutely no idea what this song is. The main difference between Heardle and Wordle for me is that with Wordle you can sit there thinking on it for a bit and come back and you may have a new guess. With Heardle I either know it or I don't, I'm not gunna suddenly realise what song it is 5 hours later.
Prompt Whispering – German AI image generation group
Midjourney is already far ahead. I can’t get nearly the same quality with DALLE2
Excessive Daydreaming
Man have we observed and worked out a lot of stuff about our past. Not bad for a 3 inch chimp brained creature.
I think for the application here (analogous to autograd on neural networks) you know each individual building block of the function (a well-defined neural network layer) so can be sure such things will not happen.
> given that in the Instagram photo the match is on the edge of the counter - whereas in the leak, the match is clearly not on the edge of the counter.

This was my first thought as well, but your comment made me go back and look again. And actually, I find it more convincing now. You can see a line from the floor just below to the right of the marking.

Also, I think the Twitter poster you're linking doesn't understand that the photo was taken from the opposite angle and the marking was thus rotated to match, putting the paper directly on the counter at the edge and consistent with the leaked document photo.
It's probably a parallel construction. They might have found him using other sources or methods which they might not want to reveal. The should already be embarrassed some 20 year old kid had access to all this stuff, so any further embarrassment would be nice to avoid.

Once they had him, they sifted through the stuff until they found some plausible confirmation and the pattern just looked a fun enough one for the media to report on.
> This is the sort of crowd-sourced investigative thinking like when Reddit "Got The Boston Bomber"

It's the literal opposite (suggesting someone's innocence instead of someone's guilt), but sure.

> They will have found him because the photo was geotagged to his house, or he's on Discord - his personal credit card has probably paid for nitro or the account is linked to his personal phone for 2fa or something.

Then you'd think they would've mentioned that instead of fixating on some splotch in a granite countertop as if it actually proves anything.
Any notion of the rate of that acidification? I can't imagine its happening quickly, still very fun to think about
Thanks - I guess its time for a bit more tutorials first then. Traits & borrow is still very shaky
Can’t someone go and make more of this manually inside it … and it can be the largest X in Y in X in Y in X hehehe
The title is an editorialization: no government source (to my knowledge) has claimed that the IG photo was used to find the leaker, only that it served as a piece of data singling this suspect out among several. It’s much more likely that other, officially undisclosed, evidence led them to the suspect in the first place.
4chan has pulled some truly impressive hoaxes, but they are also adept at creating these dog whistles. /r/frenworld was a master class in riding the line between dog whistle and obvious hate speech. Eventually it got banned and the users just moved to /r/honkler and took a lot of the vocabulary with then.

Regardless of what one might think the "correct interpretation" of the cartoon frog might be, actual real-world unapologetic white supremacists have associated themselves with that specific cartoon frog on national television, so the matter isn't limited to some bored pranksters on an image board.
That's what's already happening with a few countries around the world.
I think perhaps one of the reasons they were so quick to push was for the introduction of a section saying the content generated by such services should not contain elements that could subvert state power, incite secession or disrupt social order, according to the rules [1].

[1] https://archive.is/nPLDu
Parler shuts down as new owner says conservative platform needs big revamp
https://archive.ph/jBGfQ
But don’t you have to prove the derivative work based on the content of the work? For example you can’t argue that NBA Youngboy’s songs are derivative of the Beetles just because he heard them. You have to show in the work it is derivative. Likewise, you’d need to show the output of the AI is derivative.
How to Use the Segment Anything Model (Sam)
Um, people are still blacksmithing and riding old tymie bikes, so I'm pretty sure it has been tested.
Extensions were awesome. Took them about a decade to bring lyrics back after they killed extensions too.
Sometimes it’s raining or dark outside…