skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, it reads so bizarrely to me... How are we confusing biological human (or other animal) sentience in some embodied creature with queries as a service to some model instance.

I cannot see anything that remotely makes these two contexts architecturally, practically, or ethically similar, except in the narrow sense of query responses that might have been mistakenly thought of as defining sentience in earlier decades.
The pattern finding is in the prompt, the one- or fewshotting.

You can give it a novel problem and it will find something. It might not be good, it might not be what you want to see, but you can't maintain it hasn't found something.

You vastly, vastly overestimate human intelligence. We took thousands, upon tens of thousands of years to get to Newton and even that is not garantueed. He was a fluke of astronomical proportions. We need mountains upon mountains of (intellectual) infrastructure to get anywhere. Newton didn't just wake up with a good idea. He took what was already there and creatively combined it into a seemingly new thing, but none of it was truly novel. How could it be? Divine inspiration?

> it's finding one specific kind of pattern which we can characterise quite easily

I'm curious, how would you characterise it?
Digital Marketing is a highly demanding and versatile field for beginners. It develops an ecosystem of trends and benefits the brand to a larger extent. The demand of digital marketing and digital marketers is increasing abruptly. Many companies have allotted a good budget for digital marketing services.
Lobbying is legal bribing
DNT died the moment Microsoft decided to enable it by default in IE10. That was more than half a decade before the GDPR.
I have given my landlord a key recently so that he can check the smoke alarm and take the water meter reading while I'm at work. I trust that he didn't install a hidden camera even though nothing could have stopped him apart from "being a decent human being" and "not wanting to commit a crime". Not every protection needs to on a technological level. I'd rather live in a society where we have other tools available than one where I have to take each and every matter into my own hand. This is what my analogy showed.
> If I was still in the EU I would simply incorporate offshore and operate offshore, it is more convenient but ive left

You would still have to follow GDPR.

> The interpretations vary and are not strict and clear. I have never seen laws in other western countries always blamed on the lack of interpretation.

It's the same with every law. That's basically how laws work. It's even worse in countries using common law as case law is a thing.
Taking care of those things would involve an actual solution that works, which would require people understanding the technical aspects of the problem, which would require those type of people running for office and getting elected.

When that happens, then we can talk about responsible governance in this regard. GDPR was a direct response to Trump campaign shenanigans, as a tool for politicians to capitalize on appearing to be better than US. It had nothing to do with protecting people. If GDPR outlawed 3d party tracking outright, then you would have half an argument.
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"The largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island is Vulcan Point. It is a small rocky island located within Main Crater Lake, which is on Volcano Island. Volcano Island is situated within Lake Taal, which is on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. Although Vulcan Point is not very large, it holds the distinction of being part of this unique geographical formation."

The title it automatically set for the chat is "Islandception: Vulcan Point"

EDIT: GPT 3.5

"The largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island is known as a recursive or nested island. There are a few examples of such islands in the world, but the most famous one is located in Canada.

The island is called Victoria Island and it is located in the Nunavut territory of Canada. The island itself is the eighth largest island in the world and has an area of 217,291 square miles.

On Victoria Island, there is a lake called Island Lake, which is approximately 10 miles long and 4 miles wide. Within Island Lake, there is another island known as Mystery Island. Mystery Island is about 0.6 miles long and 0.3 miles wide.

On Mystery Island, there is a small lake known as "Unnamed Island Lake". This lake contains another island which is unnamed and not well documented, but is believed to be the largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island."
You misread. They said the opposite:

> Websites in the, (late), 1990s were characterised by many things, but a typical list might include:

> - Serif fonts
Are mastadon posts really called toots or is this a joke?
Why would they cater to the needs of captive user base? It's not like there is some alternative and I can stop using YT. I just don't buy YT premium, that's all. In fact I know no one who does, so I guess I'm not alone in this.
Almost as confusing to my brain as SQL JOINs…
who needs offices anymore?
You can invoke `zig cc` with the same flags that you would pass to `clang`. Zig cc takes your arguments, inspects them and applies some transformations and then Zig invokes its internal copy of clang with the resulting flags. One example of transformation is enabling ubsan when building in debug mode, another is `-target` which makes Zig add some sysroot flags to enable cross-compilation.

In this case all the file operations are handled by clang, Zig basically just sets up all the advanced flags for you when it makes sense to do so. One last example of CLI rewriting is related to the caching system: Zig cc knows how to cache a build by passing to clang the same kind of flags that cmake (or other build systems) would.

There's another C-related feature of Zig that works differently: `@cImport()`, which is a builtin that allows you to import C header files directly into a Zig script, in order to use from Zig all the types exposed by the header file. This one translates the C syntax in equivalent Zig syntax. I believe it uses clang's code to parse the C code into an AST, but then it's all Zig logic from there.

Lastly, we have a C frontend project going (arocc, linked by ptato) on that we plan to eventually upstream into Zig. This would be a replacement for clang and would work by parsing the C code and translating it into Zig IR, similarly to how the D programming language does it. The only limitation of this approach is that it would only support C, not C++, so we would either have to still keep clang around for C++, or ditch clang but then lose C++ compilation support. That said, even in the case where we keep clang around for C++ support, it would be worth having a custom C frontend for the Zig compiler in order to have more fine-grained control over the compilation process than what we can get from clang, plus the fact that it would make debug builds faster, since we could avoid invoking LLVM completely in that case (ie debug builds) even if you depend on C code.
Here is my motivation for this project:

I think AI will shape the way we interact online in the future. While there are many opportunities, AI also imposes great risks to online communities and the society as a whole.

In a future where human and computer generated content can't be distinguished and online validation methods can be manipulated by AI there will only be one reliable way to proof humanity which is a real-word, person to person interaction.

In my opinion, there is no way around a reliable, widely adopted identity solution in the future for online communities. PeerID is an attempt to provide this solution while considering the privacy and anonymity concerns of users which will be the key to mainstream adoption.
First, no, you cannot reduce a thousands of words long legal document to a few words like you did and say "Easy, this is how it works". Those thousands of words are there for a reason.

Second, good luck, figuring out what you have "a contract, permission or a lawful task" for under the specific circumstances of your site.

Third, good luck, making and understanding an "agreement that binds them" with every provider of every piece of infrastrcuture you use. Good luck doing that for even a single piece of infrastructure.
Aren't you failing to account for the following?

In theory, website owners could do as GitHub did and remove inessential cookies and get rid of annoying banners: https://github.blog/2020-12-17-no-cookie-for-you/ But in practice, website owners are worried about breaking laws and aren't experts and just follow what they see everyone else doing, and so put up banners. So in practice, the regulations are indeed the ultimate cause of annoying banners, even if in theory those are avoidable in some cases. The people who introduced the regulations were able to look at the ecosystem of website owners and predict that the consequences of the regulations would be the vandalism of the internet by banners that we've seen over the last few years.
> At GitHub, we want to protect developer privacy, and we find cookie banners quite irritating, so we decided to look for a solution. After a brief search, we found one: just don’t use any non-essential cookies. Pretty simple, really.

Your Product Owner / Team must push against the ever-growing demands of Marketing Team. If the Marketing Team dictates what features Product should build instead of selling your product, then you are doomed. Saying yes to having a cookie banner is sadly an easy bargain for Product Team.
And? ChatGPT doesn't give you logprobs. It doesn't allow you to alter the generation algorithm. They've left their lunch out on the table for someone else to eat.
> That the crucial difference between a human being and AI is that if you show a 3 year old kid one picture of a cat, a kid can recognize all other cats.

Have you done this test for real? My nephew calls everything which moves but not a human a "dog". In his world there are flying dogs and swimming dogs. Probably if he would see an elephant that would be a big dog, while a giraffe would be a tall dog. Now obviously he will learn the customary categories, but it is definitely not a one-shot thing.

> You can feed ML 5000 pictures of cats and it can recognize a cat in a picture with something like 95% confidence.

This is an area of active research. One term of art is "one-shot learning". The general idea is that you show 5 million things to the AI, but none of them are a harumpf, and it learns how "things" are. And then you show it a single image of a harumpf and tell it that it is a harumpf and it will be able to classify things as harumpf or not from then on.

How great do these things work? They kinda work, but you can still get a phd for making a better one. So they are not that great. But I wouldn't pin my hat on this one "crucial difference between a human being and an AI", because you might get surprised once humans teach the AIs this trick too.
It depends on what the cookies are being used for. If they're "essential for site functionality" (e.g. fraud prevention) then consent is not necessary.
I didn't indicate anything to the contrary. I'm just saying that until someone actually validates this, perhaps remain sceptical.
wow no wonder I was curious if it would be visible on google earth

https://www.google.com/maps/@14.0091737,120.9958504,179m/dat...
Superficially, the banners appeared due to how the law was made and how it's implemented. The noble intention is one thing and the pragmatic reality is another.

It's correct to blame the businesses for creating the banners but also unfair to treat the matter as if the businesses and the EU are on a level playing field. The EU makes laws - it has cheat codes to achieve what it wants.

It's like defensive driving. You may not be at fault if someone crashes into you but you may have had the power to prevent it.
It is well-known that policing is not among the absolute highest-fatality occupations. However, that's beside the point. Airplanes are not the highest-fatality form of transportation (in fact they are quite safe) yet plane crashes grab attention and headlines, as do police fatalities, solidifying the perception of danger and sympathy among the public.
I see the point in that, but wrt browsing, what counts as a third party? There's a million of points where the browsing data leaks already, running the most trusted adblocker extension doesn't really change that. ISPs track and sell DNS and other metadata, VPNs do god knows what, each website is a third party basically, every website with a Facebook Like button reports your visit to Facebook, most websites are using a large CDN like Cloudflare, some browsers use their own CDN / service to do things like compress images, ...

In the sea of all these things happening, the user is much better served with uBo than going in without it. It gives the mind some peace not seeing all the advertisements, for one.
I ran your exact prompt, this is what I got:

> Zykluptogibbera

> Quixilantrofen

> Zylprenostim

Satisfies the prompt sure enough, but they're hardly creative. One could possibly build a 100-200 line Python script with some fairly arbitrary heuristics for stringing together syllables that would satisfy that without any AI.

Appended: "Make it sound as plausible as possible"

> Flarishimble

> Quindextrove

> Crombifilate

Still not amazed. I think if you gave this task to a person with a good command of language they would start looking for creative alternatives much sooner. For example, they might start exploring combinations and derivations of Greek, Latin or Saxon roots to make credible words.

I'm not denying it's not creative, for the record. I'm just skeptical, and I don't think this task proves it.

Edit: for reference, ran all of the above on ChatGPT4.
It adds a new dependency - the c language frontend - aka clang - surely the zig compiler emits LLVM IR, not C code?
>I don't want surveillance capitalism manipulating society so they buy more shit.

Neither do I, but prove to me that this actually happens. Namely the surveillance part with online trackers.
It's not really. Good management is really hard. That being said, lots of other functions (sales especially) have a bunch of senior people who want to manage, so it's easier to pick the good ones.

In engineering/more technical fields there are less people who actually want to manage, so you end up picking from a smaller pool.
The common solution in this case is simply to also GROUP BY owner.name.

That said, if owner.name has different values and you didn’t actually care which one you’d get ANY_VALUE could maybe be useful.

Though in that case you could also just use MIN or MAX, which already exist.
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The older I get the harder it is to not see Pareto was right about democracy.

"Pareto believed that societies are ruled by an elite class, which he called the "circulation of elites." In his view, these elites are able to gain and maintain power by using their wealth, intelligence, and social connections to influence political and economic institutions. Pareto saw democracy as a way to redistribute power and wealth from the elite to the masses, but he was skeptical that this could ever be achieved in practice. He argued that even in democracies, power tends to be concentrated in the hands of a small group of people who are able to control the political process and manipulate public opinion."

I am not sure what the argument really is against that. That sounds like the reality we live in.
Others answered direct questions.

I'd like to add the link to the use examples demonstrating features of zig for c and c++ compilation available with the default zig installation which aren't directly available after installing clang:

https://andrewkelley.me/post/zig-cc-powerful-drop-in-replace...

Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22679138

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27872596
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I don’t know what merit you’re talking about. I don’t think there’s anything to remove. If I was paying for some work done, like healthcare services (separate fee) or application processing costs + documents (>£1k? definitely not), then sure, but that’s not it.
I laughed out so hard on your comment. I am sorry it is not because I am laughing at you in any way, but rather how the article when full circle around itself. When it said your quote above and this quote further down:

"The worth of anything – an idea, an activity, an artwork, a relationship with another person – is determined pragmatically: things are good to the extent that they are instrumental, with instrumentality usually defined as the capacity to produce money or things.".

We are trying to explain the purpose(!) of somethings that are not instrumental/useful through the lense of how it became that they are useful sometimes. While the examples of the book writer and that punk bands solitary "useless" activity are great they are immediately followed with the example how they produced something out of it.

It's so full circle that it is ridiculously funny. Our culture is soo usefulness driven that you can barely ever put down those lenses even forcefully.
The tone of the website has a very tongue-in-cheek tone to me. Taking it seriously is like doing journalism research using The Onion.
I don't know, core physics leading to Fusion reactors and FTL travel seen much more important to me than AI that can make convincing robocalls and generate furry porn stories.
OpenAI’s Red Team: the experts hired to ‘break’ ChatGPT
https://archive.is/xu0wS
https://archive.is/6iahH
>A piece of software cannot be a slave because it isn't a being and has no consciousness. It's a piece of software with a dataset, nothing more. There's no philosophical debate to be had over it either, it is what it is, and that's all it is and ever will be; a clever trick as a means to interact with a dataset. There's nothing more that will emerge from it, it is a piece of software with a dataset.

You keep repeating "it is a piece of software with a dataset".

One of the big questions is whether human like sentience can be reached by a "piece of software with a dataset". So, merely saying "it is a piece of software with a dataset" doesn't answer it.

One other question is whether being "a piece of software with a dataset" is isomorphic to how the human brain works anyway. Whether the substrate is cells and neurons and chemicals, or circuits and computer memory, what's important is if the latter can model the former. The actual human brain, for example, the parts that matter for consciousness (not the non-essential accidental attributes, such as it being from biological matter, could just be a calculating machine, with the neurons, electrical and chemical signals etc, implementing this network with weights, back propagation, and so on. Much more complex than a current LLM, but not out of reach for eventual software modelling.

Another question is whether full modelling of how a human brain works is needed, and whether a simpler model (like an LLM, perhaps a little more advanced than the current) can still be enough. After all the current brain does not hold some special god-given role: it's just an evolutionary design, that has to have many constraints (e.g. power consumption, blood flow, information processing speed through our senses, etc, whereas an AI can have orders of magnitude more power, information fed to it, etc.).

Lastly, you say "There's no philosophical debate to be had over it either, it is what it is, and that's all it is and ever will be". You seem to be misguided. Philosophical debates neither stop, nor are refuted by decree. People already debate this development, including major philosophers, so "there's no philosophical debate to be had over it either" is "just, like, your opinion, man".

>we start growing biological brains in tanks and utilizing those as data slaves rather than any kind of AI.

I'm not sure why you think the substrate (biological or not) is what's important, as opposed to the processing.
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It's not only the French, would be the same for the Portuguese, for example. English is an official language of only two EU countries, if I'm not mistaken.
Ideally browsers would have an API to handle GDPR requests natively, the way they do for hardware access, and users would be able to set the default level of access, as well as lists of exceptions for some domains. Of course, Google will never provide such API in Chrome as it would be bad for their core business of spying on people in order to sell them more stuff.
Google Translate says: "Walk with Chiaromonte and Abel in Staten Island."

But I think it should be "on Staten Island"? So perhaps the score is:

Google Translate: ½

Ryan Bloom: 0

(Sorry, Ryan! I've made worse mistakes myself!)
Yes, there's a cargo cult mentality (encouraged by the big players who would like everyone to believe they are just doing the same as the average wordpress blog), but one way of counteracting that is to educate website owners like the above posts aim to. It's important to realise this isn't just a consequence of the laws being passed but poor understanding of them, which is in part deliberately propagated by those who object to the law.
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Look, I think your career ending example would make a better case for what you are trying to argue. If you dig into history of longstanding democratic countries like US and Switzerland, you find plenty of rioting and chaotic infighting throughout centuries. Classic republican (as in, US founders) thinking would be that while unfortunate, this is preferable to a police state being able to establish a true monopoly on violence. Then you could have your "order" and "safety", but at the cost of naturally deteriorating toward thinking and doing only what the central power allows you.
White flight is a term used as slant, it isn’t some nuanced term for actually determining the different intentions of movers. If enough white people move for whatever reason then there’ll be someone waiting to paint it as racism.

Schelling’s segregation model comes to mind in these moments but I never see that mentioned, strangely. Oh, the inconvenience of maths that explains things better than divisive and ignorant rhetoric!
When you say "many, many" I take that to mean "a substantial proportion" and I think you may be making the mistake of estimating your proportions from the population of people in tech forums, rather than from the global population of internet users.
This is not a grocery store. It’s a niche enthusiast website.

It’s supposed to be fun. Many fun things “exclude” people. Sports for instance. Music. Painting. There might be accessible versions. There are also inaccessible ones that trade off artistic expression over other factors. The internet is a big place. There’s room for all of it.
> Liquidity and price discovery are useful things. Nobody would pay them otherwise.

Is there any other evidence of their usefulness beyond "people pay for it"?
Underlining answer - you can't.

Useful answer - fine tune on large training set, set temperature to 0, monitor token probability and highlight risk when probability < some threshold.
>The back of the moon gets the same amount of sunlight as the front.

silly me, yes even better then, since in theory there should always be some amount of water vapor floating around? I just recall a weather phenomenon in Finland when the atmospheric temperature drops sufficiently that even the water vapor freezes and falls like 'stardust'. So would a big sun shield on the moon create a similar temperature drop allowing capture the ice crystals? maybe the moons gravity is insufficient.