skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Within a timeframe of only three hours, between 21:00 and 0:00 that night, the PPB used at least 148 munitions (of which 138 were likely chemical munitions). With our model, we are able to show that these munitions caused airborne chemical concentration levels to exceed the 2mg/m³ threshold beyond which exposure is ‘immediately dangerous to life and health’ (IDLH), as defined by federal US agencies (specifically the US Department of Labor’s Operational Safety and Health Administration). According to their own internal documents, the PPB is aware of these established IDLH thresholds and the ‘severe risks’ caused by exposing civilians to ‘high concentrations’ of such chemical agents—yet these regulations appear to have been actively ignored by the PPB officers on duty.

Portland residents have the dubious honor of joining the ranks of US citizens subjected to chemical and biological weapons by their own government.

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> As the decades of the criminal malpractice involved in the Tuskegee syphilis experiments dragged on, the U.S. government continued to treat citizens as guinea pigs: the Cold War era saw scientific trials that involved injecting unwitting U.S. citizens with plutonium, and dousing San Francisco (and many other places) with test sprays of bacterial bioweapons. In 1952, the first open-air atomic fallout studies began in Minneapolis, just as construction was getting underway on Pruitt-Igoe. “Army researchers,” Martino-Taylor writes, “would release and then measure ‘cloud travel’ of the material and engage in ‘penetration studies’ inside residences and buildings such as the aging brick structure that was Clinton Elementary School in Minneapolis.”

[1] https://proteanmag.com/2022/11/28/pruitt-igoe-a-black-commun...
Can google stop them? It’s trivial to download YouTube videos
Renting 40 nvidia a100s is around 70k dolar per month (on vultr i see). So this would only cost 420k for 6 months. Seems doable.

Is 40 a100s enough though? I am interested in what this would cost.
I was referring to stuff like this that I've read over the years where Zappa's name gets dropped, I'm no expert myself https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/experimental-german-m...
The poster above for some reason though encoded video is a good measure, which does not make sense actually. Brain gets raw video. With raw video it is about 100PB per year, > 200TB per day.

Even sound alone (uncompressed CD quality stereo) is 3TB/year.
I agree, but two points:

1. It's not unique to government, this is exactly how, say, Rupert Murdoch or Jeff Bezos exercise their media power as well.

2. The sense of loyalty comes before the paycheck. You don't get to make decisions in the first place unless the people who appointed you are very confident that you see things their way.
> near perfect results.

I have tried GPT3.5 and GPT4 for this type of task - the "near perfect results" is really problematic because you need to verify that it's likely correct, notify you if there's issues, and even then you aren't 100% sure that it selected the correct first/last name.

This is compared to a standard html form. Which is.... very reliable and (for us) automatically has error handling built in, including alerts to us if there's a 504.
The realest form of attrition...
You have to distinguish different types of phoneticity. Can you pronounce what you read vs. spell what you hear? Can you pronounce an unfamiliar character?

With very few exceptions, Chinese characters are always pronounced the same way in the various Chinese languages (but not in Japanese), regardless of context, but if you're unfamiliar with a character, you'll have at best only a vague idea how to pronounce it. If you hear a Chinese syllable, you'll have several characters to choose from, and can only disambiguate them from context.
You're right, EFA is custom nitro NICs. Although Mellanox (now Nvidia ConnectX) is not solely Inifiband either - Nvidia offers them with Ethernet upto 400GbE as well, same speed as EFA says on the label.
For me, “better uses” of my time include spending afternoons with my family.

But in the evening once they’re all settled, I do frequently work. I don’t enjoy TV and social media is cancer. I’ll play the occasional video game with mates.
That sounds pretty nice compared to the GCP world where every issue is your issue and you need to pay for support or forget it. Last time they fucked up, I had to raise the issue in a public bug tracker to which I got one of those "not a bug, wontfix, your problem, goodbye" kind of responses.
I don't think that played a big role of the game becoming successful though ;)

I find it much more fascinating that the father of the creator of Factorio is a scientist though.
Because that’s literally one of the top purposes of the FBI, and a function for which it is designated as the lead agency?

https://www.fbi.gov/about/faqs/what-is-the-fbis-foreign-coun...
Even if you control the keys, it does not protect you from vulnerabilities somewhere in the stack. Stuff like thumbnail generation provided by the OS has been used by cyber-criminals in the past to compromise phones by sending MMSes or even third-party messenger apps, and I'd take a guess and bet that at least the Five Eyes government agencies all have a sizeable cache of baseband vulnerabilities.

Technology simply has become far too complex to be reasonably secure, even if you have the financial firepower of being Apple, Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo or Amazon.
Very interesting. My dad used to frequent the Waterlooplein flea market in Amsterdam and once picked up a Paul Citroen for 25 guilders. We ate from the money it fetched at auction for a long, long time.
I wonder what percentage of phone calls would add anything meaningful to models, I imagine that the nature of most phone calls are both highly personal and fairly boring.
Does he even have any background in machine learning? I always found it bizarre that he was chosen to be OpenAI's CEO...
and me, in NZ, trying to tell a friend exactly when the launch window opened: 12:00 UTC on 2023-04-17 translates to midnight on the night between 17/4/2023 and 18/4/2023 NZ time. I ended up telling the friend that the window opened 00:01 2023-04-18 NZT, because that got rid of the 00:00 ambiguity
Never said you couldn't make impressive stuff with SD but feel free to share those comics.

Models on CivitAI are okay. Cool if you're looking for a certain style and/or want to create something that looks like the training images but style isn't everything.

Midjourney generates much better than "slightly better images" and the very fact you say this just tells me you've not even used the thing in any real capacity.
You got enough power for all those lasers? Looks like that coal field is running low!
Why don’t criminals just meet in person to swap public keys and use email to mail each other encrypted messages?
AWS compute savings plans are easy to reason about, though, and cover things like Lambda and Fargate, too. GCP’s sustained usage discounts are nice but they don’t save more than AWS’ savings offer and in the last 6 months that’s been a lot lower than GCP’s cost increases on other services.
This trend has happened in the small for their APIs as well. They've been dropping options - the embeddings aren't the internal embeddings any more, and you don't have access to log probabilities. It's all closing up at every level.
Elon Musk has been constantly doing this and thriving.
In Software, I can think of Music Streaming and ERP.

Outside of Software, aeroplanes and luxury goods come to mind.
Surely that is a joke? They don't actually charge $40 for breadsticks, do they?
My understanding is that LLM and Cyc are fundamentally different forms of AI. Even if you could turn OpenCyc into text rules, once ingested it would just dissolve into the ocean of training text data and would not significantly gain more apparent "common sense" than it already had. Maybe a more interesting combination could be to have both Cyc and LLM working side by side and comparing notes before agreeing on a result.
Because that requires technical skills most laypeople don't have.
Someone who doesn't understand economies of scale. You know how many ar-15 lowers are made every damn day in this country? They are cheaper than a dozen eggs at this point.
Dupe (similar time) of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35603976 which is more active
They also chose BSD, I suppose, because it does not requite to upstream any special changes to it, which they likely made.
> This is the definition of liberty that the nation (as a cultural construct) was founded on.

It is dishonest to claim that the definition of liberty has changed without acknowledging that the largest and most important change is the expansion of who the definition applies to.
Interesting how this contradicts "The Bitter Lesson": http://incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html.
You could follow from a safe distance (or go parallel to the suspect) and track until air support is in place, or set up a few road blocks and box the suspect in. By the time you stop and remove the tracker, the police could just catch up and shot another pair of trackers.
On the Lex Fridman podcast, he pretty much admitted he's not an AI (per se) and isn't the most excited about the tech (as he could be).
Not really. The unbanked are mainly poorer and use much cheaper Android devices.

Also if you're unbanked, a savings account isn't going to be your first step. It will be a checking account with an ATM/debit card.
> Advertising has been profitable without spying for many, many decades.

So was the horse drawn carriage. Where is that industry now?

George Orwell could not have conceived a time where everyone was voluntarily carrying an electronic billboard in their pocket. But we are in that world, and that world no longer has room for the Mad Men/Ogilvy/Chiat Day era of ad agencies creating one-size fits all campaigns. Google and Facebook took them out over the past 15 years.
Well yeah, it's an imperfect tool, and you have to treat it as such. Probably there's a lot to be discovered about how to use it most effectively. I just don't find that it's more problematic than the other tools in my box.

Sure, grep has never flat out lied to me the way chatGPT does, but it's a statistical model, not a co-worker, so I don't feel betrayed, I just feel... cautioned. It keeps you on your toes, which isn't such a bad state to be in.
Are we talking about the same "firmware" here? If you're talking about firmware loaded directly onto the CPU (like microcode updates are), that runs even before the motherboard gets to do anything, then the mode the CPU starts in can only be observed after that point anyway, so for all we know it probably could already be implementing your idea without anyone noticing.

I have objections to changing the way the CPU observably starts (i.e. mode in which the BIOS or bootloader starts in).
I prefer the existentialist "history is written by those who write history." Often, the victors give themselves a better justification for their conquest than admitting that someone bigger and badder may eventually dethrone them. However, some losers write histories praising their new overlords and their incredible military might, not out to gain favor with the new king but to preserve the dignity of the old king. The defeat was inevitable because of the invader's futuristic military powers aided by the Gods (instead of admitting the old king had no strategy).
IIRC Altman has no financial stake in the success or failure of OpenAI to prevent these sorts of conflicts of interests between OpenAI and society as a whole
Netflix cancels ‘Love is Blind’ livestream after technical issues and hour delay
So would a puddle of fresh blood. Should we ban cleaning that up now?
Car chases have been banned in large cities because they often lead to injuries to bystanders and cops and then gigantic lawsuits. So yea the plan now is to find them later and I guess gpsing the car could help.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.13971.pdf table 15. 1770394 A100-80GB hours to train the entire model suite at the going rate for cloud 8xA100-80GBs (~$12/hr if you could actually get capacity) is ~$2.6M, under extremely optimistic assumptions. YMMV on bulk pricing ;) "the more you buy the more you save"
Thats great, but isn't there a lot of red tape in moving to another country?
The Bing search engine not the chatbot. Is there some v2 Bing search engine? A quick Bing search didn't reveal anything about it.
AWS has some of the best support out there. You don't even have to 'cozy up'.

It sounds like you didn't use AWS support but you got AWS certified consultants.
The Steam Deck is regarded as a competitor to the Nintendo Switch yeah?
The point is that now we're at the point of diminishing return for increasing model size, unless we find a better modeling architecture than Transformer.

I think this is likely true; while all the other companies underestimated the capability of transformer (including Google itself!), OpenAI made a fairly accurate bet on the transformer based on the scaling law, put all the efforts to squeeze it until the last drop and took all the rewards.

It's likely that GPT-4 is on the optimal spot between cost and performance and there won't be significant improvements on performance in a near future. I guess the next task would be more on efficiency, which has a significant implication on its productionization.
How come ICs don't integrate decoupling capacitors themselves?
Really interesting article. I get the impression the Sky ECC bust was bigger than all of the previous ones but maybe that's just cause there was more reporting on it. It's kind of confusing to me why the CEO is wanted in the US because it doesn't seem like there's any evidence he facilitated drug trafficking or at least facilitated it anymore than say Signal does.
Mm I mean more gross ethically than a difficult market.
Not sure about the entirety of the list, but printables.com is not a search engine. It is a repository of models that users have to manually post and upload them to the website. It doesn't search and aggregate from other sources. It has its own internal search engine though.

Yeggi (you mentioned it as well) is a proper search engine though, and it indeed sources models from many other repositories (including printables.com).
AutoGPT used to create ransomware, mutation, save, and repeat
Atkins’ contributions to techno go well beyond Cybotron.

When Atkins left the group, he started recording solo under the aliases Model 500 and (later) Infiniti. The early Model 500 releases like “No UFOs”, in addition to being absolute classics, demonstrate the progression from electro to what we would now call Detroit techno. He also collaborated with many of the Berlin techno pioneers in the 90s, forming a key link between the two cities.

Not to mention that Atkins mentored May, Saunderson, and many of the other techno originators.

(ps. Cybotron is not really techno, IMO. It is better categorized as electro with a few prog-rock and post-punk flourishes, a sort of proto-techno. But pointing this out makes you kind of a pedantic bore, so most are happy to go along with calling Cybotron techno.)
I didn't think this article was very good. Sam Altman actually implied that GPT-5 will be developed when he spoke at MIT. And if Sam said that scaling is over (I doubt he said this but I could be wrong) the interesting part would be the reasoning he provided for this statement - no mention of that in the article.
Ok here's one: "why did capote and vidal hate each other"
This tells me you haven't really stress tested the model. GPT is currently at the stage of "person who is at the meeting, but not really paying attention so you have to call them out". Once GPT is pushed, it scrambles and falls over for most applications. The failure modes range from contradicting itself, making up things for applications that shouldn't allow it, to ignoring prompts, to simply being unable to perform tasks at all.
Pointless article, considering that companies that hired in early 2022 (since H1B petitions are due in March) could have done layoffs later in 2022 and in 2023.

The totals are especially misleading, given that most of the H1Bs issued are for outsourcing companies, which by definition, have no US layoffs.
Murder, torture, drug trafficking... but by far the worst is abbreviating Lord of the Rings as Lor rather than LotR !
Are intelligent people that valuable? There's lots of them at every university working for peanuts. They don't seem to be that valued by society, honestly.
Doesn't need to be cop cars. Many tow truck companies have agreements to mount these sorts of cameras for the police.
There are excellent commercial AI resume parsers already - Affinda.com being one. Not expensive and takes minutes to implement.
Missouri House Republicans vote to defund libraries
DJB is a gift to humanity.
Agent Functions
The Cybertruck is years behind schedule, so Tesla is launching a $30 beer
Now, I don't know if I would rely on it, but I've certainly thought about asking a LLM to write my patent text for me, provided with a technical description.
Also agree. There should be tags for "Amazon Affiliated" or "Murdoch Affiliated", but there should even more be a tag for "Independent Journalist".

The latter are, unfortunately, mostly in jails today, be it in Russia, in China or even in the US.
Good question! I don't know either, haha.

I would probably start by poking around Rails Casts, and talks from prior Ruby & Rails conferences. Ironically, I submitted a talk for Rails Conf this year that might've done this for you, but I wasn't accepted... although that doesn't mean I can't just make the talk myself anyway...!

That said & very IMHO & bias note: I love Ruby - If you're approaching Ruby from a strict OO perspective, you're at best handicapping yourself and at worst tying your shoelaces together - although partly that's because (AFAIK) Ruby works off of Smalltalk's OO model (which is where the OO term originated) which doesn't really map to what's usually taught in schools.

(Everything in Ruby is an object, including functions, and messages are passed between them. At the same time, "everything in Ruby is a function", in that the body of a class definition is also a function.)

I generally start with either a flat Ruby script or a simple function (depending entirely on the "business" context of the work), rolling it out script kiddie and/or functional-programming style. As things get grow into complexity, that's when I start identifying where I may want classes and/or data objects.

(Unless I'm writing an ActiveRecord model definition, then it's classic school OO from the start).

One of reasons (IMHO) that this works is some good advice I got a long time ago: "Ruby is easy to write, so it's easy to rewrite." I say: Put your thoughtful effort towards how chunks of code relate to each other, and where they interact (function signatures being the clearest example), and you really can worry about everything else later (where you'll have the benefit of a better understanding of the problem space). Ritch Hickie's "Simple Made Easy" and ye olde SOLID principles will help out a lot here.

Ruby is a playful language, it works well to play around :)
As of now not much. But existing apple suppliers(mostly Chinese) are in process of setting up manufacturing in India. https://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/apple-gets...
Get a pixel and put graphene on it.
I think it's obvious where this goes. The cited "war" between childless and people who start families is creating a tradcon counterculture in the youth, of people who want lots of kids, to raise them themselves instead of delegating to the state, and thus will be able to instill deeply from an early age the importance of family. They will necessarily win in a couple of generations. The shift back to a stable society centered around the family will return, and it will not be as easy as the shift to childless consumerism for short term economic paper gains. It's simple, ideology is passed to future generations when people raise their own kids, and those with the opposing ideology have removed themselves from the gene pool.

Off topic question, I've been using a different HN aggregation tool that isn't the front page, and I've found that some of the more interesting topics get flagged, why is that?
The link you supplied belies the myth that Ford paid his workers such that they could buy his cars. Ford paid his workers what he did so that he could get more reliable, productive workers.
I asked it to write a simple function to copy text to clipboard. It unecessarily created a async function and forgot to pass down the text as a variable.

Next, it tried to use AlpineJS to create tooltips with NextJS which is really not supported and couldn't fix the resulting bugs.

For sure, it's better than nothing, but you've got to be at least somewhat competent before you start copy-pasting code from it blindly.
“Only has 10 million downloads” wow
The smart crooks use Signal on iOS with backups off. Maybe a VPN for good measure.
And the nice thing is, if it breaks and you determine you need a better one, you can order the part from mcmaster and you already know it'll fit.
All of that should be predicated on the answer to the question "How much of the outcome of this work do I truly have influence over?" and if the answer is none, and those extra hours making sure your code is really nice, should only be spent within the constraints you're being paid for. Are your requirements fulfilled, but you were pretty fast and have a bit of extra time to clean things up? Great, that's fine. If you spent your 8 hrs that day, the requirements are complete and there's no more time you're getting paid for, and you don't get to determine what the positive outcome for you is if you donated your weekend to fixing something management doesn't care about and won't pay you for, then don't, and stop having pride in it.

You own it if you own it, keep your personal investment at arms length, lest you become a Jason Bateman character desperately putting in those extra hours so one day hopefully you'll be blessed with that VP position or w/e.

That said, of course if you've achieved something within a fairly tight constraint, ideally you're compensated or recognized somehow for it. Extra worthwhile hours should also be compensated for obviously. But if nobody is willing to pay you for it, it's probably your own undoing.
More generally, if you were looking for "lists of list of X named after Y":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_etymologies

Although that page doesn't have my favorite list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organisms_named_after_...
Funny thing I just realised I have contributed absolutely nothing to SO since ChatGPT came out. I wonder if others have done the same. I also wonder if open source zealots are enough to keep these regurgitators up-to-date or if their quality will decline as the dead internet approaches
Extent and reproduction of coastal species on plastic debris in the Pacific
Are we talking about bare GPT through the UI, or GPT with a framework giving it access to external systems and the ability to store and retrieve data?

Because, yeah, “brain in a jar” GPT isn’t enough for most tasks beyond parlor-trick chat, but being used as a brain in a jar isn’t the point.
Seems like a wild claim to make without any examples of gpt models which are bigger and no demonstrably better.
Some of the higher tiers of AWS enterprise support are INCREDIBLE. They're close the level of support I'm contracted to provide as a full time IC. Stuff like turnaround within hours? 30 minutes for critical issues?
It just sounds like they're not a huge account.
Charles Strauss wrote about that in the atrocity archives.
Writers Guild of America: 98% of members vote to strike
"He does it, too" should always be read as "Guilty as charged".

Does the CIA do shitty things? Yes. No question. And they don't get anywhere near enough static for it.

That does not mean that China doing it is any less shitty or any less deserving of approbation.
Could you say more about how you were frozen out? (or link to it if you've already written about it) Thanks in advance!