skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is the excess violent crime committed by recent immigrants?

Important to this discussion is that I'm not necessarily saying that recent immigrants are committing a disproportionate share of crimes. I'm just pointing out that a rapid growth necessarily stretches social resources everywhere which might have an effect on crime overall.

If you have loads of new people and housing costs are X% higher because of that for instance, I'm sure that fact alone can have some impact on people who are on the edge of deciding that crime might be worth it because they can't earn an acceptable quality of life otherwise.

> The article says that the spike in violence has even affected First Nations:

These aren't like some isolated monastic communities with literally zero interaction with the outside world, are they? Unless these communities are completely isolated with literally zero interaction with the outside world, it seems logical to think that a lack of social resources and negative effects in the rest of Canada at least indirectly impacts them as well.
Recently saw continuous feed paper piling out behind the gate agent at an airport, I wouldn't have guessed it was still in use because it'd been years since I saw any, but now I'm assuming they go through a lot of it
Am Eliezer disciple, can confirm.
Apparently Apple doesn't support their own OS released just 3 years ago? Why would other people support it?
No doubt. But the key word is unexpected.
"Bob Lee story" ? I missed that one.
Perhaps originally, but the reason it persists as a term even when used by people who don't think medieval people were relatively unenlightened is that it can also be construed as referring to the lack of documents. (And for those who do regard medieval people as relatively unelightened, they might regard the lack of documents as something intrinsically associated with that.)
Another wonderful internet fart in the wind is bidirectional links

https://maggieappleton.com/bidirectionals
This hits on the point exactly: latent space isn't a defined by training inputs, it's defined by structure.

If you have the numbers 1=2, 2=4 and 3=6 as training inputs then latent space builds an axis which reflects something like "2x".

That axis is not bound by those inputs - you can stretch right along it to infinity. Which is extrapolation.
Cat People, Dog People – Meta Research (2016)
We already have systems that are based on heuristics or hand coded parameters. I'm thinking like resume screeners. LLMs would be a step up in my opinion.

It's like LLMs in customer support. We already have automated customer support but it consists of a recording asking us to press 1 for X. LLMs would be a great improvement IMO
So I’m going to trust a random website with a general overview?

And the alternative is to have to pay lawyers every time I want to start a business on the web?

And people wonder why the tech scene in the EU is so far behind…
I was wondering if an AI wouldn’t have selected a better winner picture.
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1. I understand the piece about "stamp" of adequacy. But when the Schrems II ruling happened, the world learned that we cannot always rely on "stamps" and need to look into the laws. At this moment in time, the European Commission says that Canada has adequacy ruling as a whole and there is no note about it not apply to British Columbia.

So my question to you is: Which part of the Personal Information Protection Act in BC would undermine the EU's adequacy decision towards BC? The reason I'm pushing on this question is because the "stamp" occurs for a reason. Please let me know where the PIPA would lead to the European Commission labelling BC as inadequate.

2. We're mixing things up here with Amazon, Google and Azure. Those companies are subject to FISA 702[1] and EO12333[2]. We are not subject to these surveillance laws here in Canada. I've spoken at length about this before, about how the US government could compel one of these companies to secretly spy on people using their EU infrastructure. So our company is not in the same position.

I'll wait for your specifics around the PIPA.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveilla...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_12333
Wow: Making GPT4 safer also made it worse at creative tasks. I did not expect to see that in response to my question.
The AI writes many paragraphs but I am limited to just a tiny response. That is frustrating.
Videolink:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmNxwYtzoy0

If by "interesting" you mean so complicated that I didn't get it.
haha still the same, just the applied versions of those topics that you can run through a machine
"AI images and photography should not compete with eachother in an award like this. They are different entities. AI is not photography. Therefore I will not accept the award"

That is, the author of this dirty trick knew this very well from the very beginning, but nevertheless he submitted to the competition not a real shot (which is a unique stopped flat moment of reality), but a synthetic picture of which he is not the author.

And after all this, the author of this trick gracefully declined the award.

Someday such a logic of such bad fools will destroy this world.
It is entirely possible for people to be paid to produce something that is made available at no cost to certain other people. For example, that hand sanitizer dispensor at the pet store. Yes, somebody is paying for it.

In the case of a standards body, the people that do the work can get paid in various ways. The finished product can be published "for free".

In some research contexts this could very much be expected. If researchers were paid through tax-funded grants, for instance, the results of the research should be available to those tax payers. If they are also available to non-taxpayers, perhaps there is some altruism at play.

It's not an absolute given. But it's not an unreasonable expectation.
>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.

Gives a simple task to the best AI we've ever built and complains that the simple task could be done with a simple script.
What kind of things do you use it for?
I'd say that's very accurate model of real debates if the judge is not knowledgeable in the subject what's quite common in nearly every setting up to and not excluding court hearings.
What if you use in-camera fx like lenses, filters, lighting etc? How puritanical is what we consider photography?

Is it like the puritans of guitar rejecting digital then later embracing profilers and modellers?
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Just to give a sense of the atmosphere on the peninsula, at the end of January, a poll came out where 76% of South Koreans supported getting their own nuclear weapons.
modern problems, right? Accepting the truth is step one.
I don't know food chemistry books for kids, but there are some online resources:

https://thehomeschoolscientist.com/kitchen-chemistry/

https://foodscience.psu.edu/outreach/youth

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/stem-activities/subjects/cook...
>> anyway i think your statement that industry is light years away from unis is just misleading. i think the two are trying to answer different questions: 1. how can i achieve a "somewhat" decent chatbot that gets me rich albeit not even knowing what it does [industry in case you wondered] 2. try to understand, quantify and measure how well a model works, is it stable? does it converge if we have small datasets? and so on so forth.

GP here is, IMO, confusing what the corporations want (1), with what corporate R&D people want (2). As long as the corps see good ROI on throwing infinite money at their AI R&D departments, then those corporate researchers are better positioned and better equipped to do actual, solid science, than academia ever can be. This has happened many times before, including in this industry. Research is best done by well-funded teams of smart people left to do whatever they fancy. When those conditions arise, progress happens, and it doesn't matter whether it's the government or industry that creates them.

(Conversely, the best hope for academia to become relevant again is that corporations lose interest in this research, and defund their departments. This could happen if e.g. transformers end up being a dead end, or compute suddenly becomes very expensive.)

> Do these large """language""" models actually even implement any concepts from linguistics? Or is the entire "language" part of the model merely derived from the fact that it's inherently part of the training data?

The latter. And guess what, they're not trying to solve the issue of linguistics. They started as tools to generate human-sounding text, but in the process of just throwing more data and compute at them, they not only got better, but started to acquire something resembling concept-level understanding.

It turns out that surprisingly many aspects of thinking seem to reduce well to proximity search in a vector space, if that space is high-dimensional enough. This result is both surprising and impactful well beyond the field of AI. It's arguably the first potential path we identified that the evolution could take to gradually random-walk itself from amoeabas to human brains.
That's unleash a discussion on whether electrical engineering toys (usually they are like Arduino but more childish) fits to a girl or girls are better to be kind of social-oriented persons. Personally my take is that it is perfectly OK to learn electronics for 7 y.o. girl but no game can unleash child's interest in any topic.

Science spreading must be similar to religion spreading. There are neither Christian/Muslim/whatever games nor books but new believers are keep appearing. Please observe/research their attitude, religious adepts of every religion are very interesting subject of learning.

It's interesting to observe how controvert is my root comment based on rate change, now it has a low rate but when the topic was new it used to be appreciated.
This is good website.
It's interesting that you say that, because I had no knowledge of the relation to Miami (it's tough to tell what you meant by that comment).

The only reason I said this, is because I was there for Miami Music Week, and they had multiple shootings two years in a row. It also has a bit of a reputation from the "cocaine cowboys" years. Honestly, the city had a bit of a "feel" to it, but it also seemed to have a great amount of character.

I'm not really passing judgement myself. I live in a place that many people would call "undesirable", and it does hurt... it's also not really fair, because it's a beautiful city with rich culture heritage, and continuing culture.

However, we have lots of shootings here too, and I understand why people are a little apprehensive.
> just leads to questions

No, not really. People in this area are severely poorly informed on animal learning, and "ordinary science".

AI evangelists like to treat as "merely philosophical matters" profoundly scientific ones.

The issues here belong to ordinary science. Can a machine with access only to statistical patterns in the distribution of text tokens infer the physical structure of reality?

We can say, as certain as anything: No.

Associative statistical models are not phenomenological models (ie., specialised to observable cause-effect measures); and phenomenological models are not causal (ie., do not give the mechanism of the cause-effect relationship).

Further, we know as surely as an athlete catching a ball, that animals develop causal models of their environments "deeply and spontaneously".

And we know, to quite a robust degree, how they do so -- using interior causal models of their bodies to change their environments by intentional acts can confirm or disconfirm environmental models. This is modelled logically as abduction, causally as sensory-motor adaption, and so on.

This is not a philosophical matter. We know that "statistical learning" which is nothing more than a "correlation maximisation objective" over non-phenomenological, non-causal, non-physical data produces approximate associative models of those target domains -- that have little use beyond "replaying those associations".

ChatGPT appears to do many things. But you will see soon, after a year or two of papers published, that those things were tricks. That "replaying associations in everything ever written" is a great trick, that is very useful to people.

Today you can ask ChatGPT to rewrite harry potter "if harry were evil" or some such thing. That's because there are many libraries of books on harry potter and "evil" -- and by statistical interpolation alone, you can answer an apparent counter-factual question which should require imagination.

But give ChatGPT an actual counter-factual whose parts are only in the question, and you'll be out-of-luck.

Eg., tell it about tables, chairs, pens, cups and ask it to arrange them using given operations so that, eg., the room is orderly. Or whatever you wish.

Specified precisely enough you can expose the trick.
> To learn CNNs at the deep-dive level you need calculus, at least differentiation and integration.

Oh the poor dears, imagine needing schoolboy maths to do science.
Then don't invite the plebs to celebrate. Rent a pent house for the executives only and go wild.
Agreed on all three points.

I've been using the same Sansa Clip+ for (at least?) 10 years. I started loving it after I installed Rockbox, and I replaced the battery in it a few months ago. Its 32 GB micro SD card is almost full with Opus files, so it has about a month's worth of music on it. I push the power button and it's playing music in 2 seconds, and navigating music by directories is dead simple. I even have another Sansa Clip+ ready to go if this one fails, but these things are built like old Nokia phones.
Would love to learn more about this. What type of SMBs do you target? How did you acquire your first customer?
Have you asked them about the food here vs. back home? Will you return here when they tell you the food tastes different just like what the person said?

The guy said two sentences. You may think it's rude but it's probably the language barrier and he's just trying to give his honest perspective and there was no rudeness intended.
I feel like it's actually a rare great idea out of Microsoft.

Too bad the Shipping Too sucks eggs compared to flameshot (now available on Windows!): https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot#preview ;)
These training programs are there so the company can check a box, have plausible deniability, and so low ranking employees don’t do something stupid that exposes the company.
I actually don't think it's a useful distinction, since the topic is media, not media companies. SpaceX's and Tesla's social media accounts are media, and they're both as state-affiliated, if not moreso, than NPR

folks reading posts by Tesla and SpaceX should know that aside from elmu's history of disingenuousness and outright lying, such posts are even more likely to be pro-government biased than NPR

so I agree: SpaceX and Tesla should be labeled according to the government which supports them, there's no shame in that.
https://archive.is/ensb5
I would be interested to see what it was competing against. I hadn't even heard of the award.
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I'm a Swede living in Switzerland, and have previously lived in Ireland. I'm not sure what conclusions to draw from this, but I feel guilty of something.
This was a recurring set of posts back when Digg was popular too
It was quite interesting to find an article about Bruno Schultz in HN! the prose is quite magical, IMO predating the magical realism of, for example, Garcia Marquez by some time. Thanks for posting!
If it's Apache 2.0 how are you getting royalty payments from it?
There is a small one on the landing page, but most of the revenue comes from the ones on the download page, actually.

Awesome story! Come back to the light (literally) side.
You just have to dive deeper. You need two cameras that have cryptographic signatures automatically attached.

In order to submit picture 1, you need to have picture 2 that was taken at the exact same time (and time is in the signature too) by a different camera, of picture 1 being taken, as a verification picture.
that is interesting, thank you.

unfortunately, at least for wechat, as far as i can tell, it won't be possible to log in without having an original wechat on a phone (that's how you log into the official web-wechat too). so that doesn't really solve the problem of not needing non-free software. there is also a high risk of getting banned for using an unauthorized client.
Wow! Freaking monster!
What do you find your customers are looking for that other blogging platforms don't provide?
In mythology, they had a priesthood manage the oracle at Delphi, and granted access to consult it only under certain conditions. The risk isn't AI, it's the people with AI, and you need a better filter for people to manage it or you're going to trigger a war between people made subject to it, and those whose beliefs have been seduced by it.

If I were to make a prediction, it's that the coming conflict will be between people whose ontologies can be simulated using language models, and those whose can't, and will not be. What's the difference between a political antagonist whose experience of the world can be simulated by machines and even wielded by them - and a zombie?

The quotes in the article were concerning, as the tropes they used showed a lack of sophistication. I don't think they were well equipped. If I were hiring the red team for MSFT, I would also use what the team represented and not what they were capable of, as it's not an engineering problem, but a political legitimacy one. Twitter users using DAN have shown what the hacking/engineering approach entails.
I'm happy to share my experience and lessons, but its a bit too much to type. If you are serious about starting one feel free to shot me an email (address in my profile).

What I will say is that I think the timing was right. My co-host and I lived in Manhattan pre-pandemic and regularly took advantage of the restaurant variety there. Our dinners are hosted on Long Island and our theory is that people who move from Manhattan to Long Island over the last 20 years started to expect higher quality food and a larger variety of ethnic options. Over the past decade or so the variety and quality of Long Island restaurants has greatly improved from what was here 25 years ago when I was growing up.

Post pandemic we saw an appetite (pun intended) for people to just get out of the house, be around other people, and have an experience. Quite a few people who come to the dinners say that they keep coming back because their partner/family aren't adventurous eaters so they never get to try new foods or typically wouldn't order some of the things we put on the menu. We aren't going for a fear factor vibe, but we do try to get people out of their comfort zone. We have a large number of solo guests who enjoy meeting new people and sharing a like-minded experience. Initially the group skewed heavily towards males in their 30's, which was our friends. Today its a very diverse group of people.
Or...
Extract the keys from the camera.
I'm asking you to stop arguing inside "simple linguistic ontology".
Per original link

>>Arghhhh! Your pages give me a headache, and/or eyestrain.

>Stop using the site immediately and consult a qualified ophthalmologist.
Seriously, no static display on a modern and correctly adjusted VDU such as a computer monitor or phone screen should ever be inducing headaches or eyestrain in a healthy individual when properly used for reasonable time periods, and with sufficient breaks.
If it is, you may have an underlying health condition which has otherwise gone un-noticed.

this statement basically implies that you have no intention of creating a website that is accessible to all users, and to all of those users with cognitive, vision, or neurological issues: "tough luck, go see a doctor!". Though I understand the goal here in terms of style and this page is indeed WCAG friendly enough in terms of some of the most obvious success criteria- this website is an objective nightmare for those with a variety of cognitive disabilities.
Friends from local IT communities that are also into "indie" stuff. But I believe it should be possible to reach out to people from online communities like indiehackers to form a group. There's also YC startup school https://www.startupschool.org/ that does matchmaking for founders.
> I'm not necessarily saying that recent immigrants are committing a disproportionate share of crimes

I see. The reason I thought that is that you wrote that immigrants haven’t been culturally integrated which seemed in this context as if you meant that they were the perpetrators.

Do you know if areas with more immigration have seen a larger increase in violence? Indirect effects through housing should be correlated with that.
gets bored, makes two immortal people in its image, tells them not to eat from a certain tree and then punishes them with mortality for braking the rules and being tempted by a snake to do so and then…
I'm getting more convinced people should be warned. You ask it to provide you with arguments and it will, truth be damned. It's like the perfect conspiracy nutcase right next to you at all times.

I'm all for freedom, but now that I've witnessed first hand what it means when people exercise it during the last couple of years I'm cooling down. The stupidity of it all makes me think AGI replacing us is actually not such a bad idea.
Thanks! I fixed it!
This is just more NIMBYism. Front yard signs that everyone is welcome but then flip out when immigrants arrive. People proclaiming they care for the poor, the homeless, yet become enraged if you dare to put a shelter within half a mile of their property. It's the same disingenuousness that American politics is rife with.

Americans seem very enthusiastic about telling everyone else what they should do about an issue, but as soon as it effects them in any way, it becomes Not In My Backyard or just "not my problem."
Illegal means it is beyond reasonable doubt that there has been a violation of the law. People do not get thrown in jail for donating money to political parties.

Suggesting ideas to political parties is also not illegal.

It is only illegal if the money is donated for the sole purpose of influencing a particular decision.
every flavor of llama up to 65b?
Why is Apple’s market cap twice that of Alphabet?
Right now, Apple has a market cap of $2.62T and Alphabet $1.39. What is the logic behind these valuations?

If we look at Apple, they don’t make anything indispensable. Sure, losing my iPhone and Mac would suck pretty badly but there are decent to great alternatives and I’ll be fine.

Google, on the other hand, has services that are literally indispensable. YouTube and Google Search have no alternatives. Losing these services would change people’s lives for the worse.

What do you guys think?
Thank you for the clarification. I tried to exaggerate my point, but what you say is obviously true and much more nuanced.

In fact it's so easy to forget or ignore that we humans were just as smart and creative thousands of years ago as we are today.

But it's interesting and funny to think that our ancestors called each other mute, or rather unintelligible, because they didn't understand what the other one was saying. I find it endearing how we often stumble over our own limitations and quirks, so much that it is often ingrained in language and culture.
Congratulations on your success!

> get it out there quick

What did "getting it out there" consist of for you? How did you get it out there in the beginning?
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