skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> $100 billion: How much FTX was willing to pay the celebrated singer-songwriter.

This seems...wrong.
The market now measures performance regardless of ownership. Just because they retain a huge percentage of shares, or controlling interest, doesn't mean they'll accept massive declines in market value.
https://github.com/Dr-42/builder_cpp
You can’t ask a book for clarification, or to fill the gaps it leaves.
I think an interesting unspoken problem is the 'Disneyfication' of many modern businesses.

That's anything from overblown 'cult cultures' to 'we are a family!'

In environments, many times a company winds up not properly removing bad/misplaced[0] actors from power roles until a -lot- of damage has been done.

As we are now in some stage of the 'Information age', as some people realize that in fact their families -were- fucked up, it is easier to realize that their company 'family' is in fact, also fucked up. [2]

At that point, folks do the best they can; busting ass on a project/improvement/etc and receiving no recognition (or worse, criticism) is in some ways similar to a family member who wants to borrow your spare car to save money on gas, then returns the car to you 2 months later overdue for an oil change and an empty tank when it was given full. You don't loan a car to that family member again.

[0] - The most frequent example of 'misplaced' is when someone gets promoted to a leadership role when unprepared from either an org or 'Emotional Intelligence'[1] level.

[1] - FWIW I find the term 'Emotional Intelligence' misleading; Sometimes people who seem to lack emotional intelligence in interactions actually have a great deal of it, and are instead weaponizing that against others. Or, someone may have amazing empathy for others but not do well with responding to very specific emotional stimuli.

[2] - Another poster alluded to it, but there is definitely at least an anecdotal correlation between past trauma and tolerance of emotional abuse at the office.
Can you use light microscopy on a living brain? No
21 experts, according to 90% of researches - an employee said.
It is said to a certain extent but OpenAI doesn't have my emails and chatlogs.
The paper begins by saying that this viewpoint is a new and unexplored academic angle. If you think of a "cathedral versus the bazaar" point of view, and that academics are often employed by the cathedral owners, then a missing grass-roots point of view is no surprise.

20th century atrocity certainly is overwhelming to know, but it was a wave not an impact from space. The history in Central Asia is swarms of invaders, again and again.. it was literally the winning tactic in the eyes of many over a very long time, because the losers are just dead!

Your professor's "blood" book probably makes him some coin.
> the professor said he'd never do it again because 30 minutes * 30ish students was too much work.

So he prefers spending that time grading written exams? Or does he just dump the burden on a platoon of grad students? (And if you're going to do that, why not have the grad students administer the oral exam?)

Oral exams combine administration and grading, so it can actually be less time consuming and less effort to give them. You can also vary questions based on whether previous answers already answer later questions, probing as you go along. The point of exams isn't supposed to be a bureaucratic checking off of boxes. It's supposed to be an assessment of familiarity with the taught material.
Exam is oudated. Human can never get rid of this mindset. Why do we need exams in the education system? Especially we are entering the era of stron AI that knows and understand everything. Education should now turn to teach people how to better use the tool named science and technology. Teach people how to come up with innovative ideas to solve all kind of problems by their tools in hand. Should not waste time in remembering unnecessary stuff, especially some always emphasize how important it is to be creative/ AI can not have human's creativity.

And how are you going to score students? Like autism with IQ160 that cannot talk but building Transformer model since elementary school something like that? Should you fail him/her just because doesn't like to talk and getting nervous in front of a bunch of examiners? And you sure you can score consistently against all students?

Of course human have been thinking about making a list of questions then ask a subset of it can somehow make the exam process more standardized. So you never think that you would end up asked the wrong question? And how it is standardized when you ask different people a difference question?

And guess what, those communicative sport guy or girls can always score higher than those introvert or even autistic self taught programmers. People just tend to judge others by the oral skills, not actual intellectual skills.
Such a thing exists, but building and maintaining that come at a pretty high cost to your personal time. There’s very little that we do in the cloud that doesn’t have an on-prem (at home) equivalent. You could even rent servers at a CoLo or something and provide yourself regional resiliency, etc.
Everything I know about life I've learned from Seinfeld.
Evil is a useless word for psychologists. People shoot up their schools because there's something wrong with their heads, not because of good vs evil.

But I will say that people who molest children ARE often mentally ill. Often, they themselves were abused and people who undergo traumatic experiences have a tendency to recreate those experiences. Seeing child molesters as purely evil and irredeemable does nothing to help us prevent child molestation.
It's basically thanks to the fact that the water under the ship is ~870 times more dense than the air inside the ship.
I'd consider any group of people that cite sources and report stories to be journalists.

It's a useful heuristic because in this case, it excludes Ars. Those go into the less prestigious category, "journoids"
For more on Pavlock, see r/pavlock. /s
> But more parameters will always be better for more complex tasks.

I think you should checkout this paper which discusses the relationship of performance and the ratio of training tokens to parameter count.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.15556
This is something I was actively resisting. It turns out that for me, I find GTK3 to be less aesthetically pleasing than GTK2. There are far fewer themes for GTK3, and they aren't as nice as the GTK2 ones either. Sad to see a step back in user interface design, in my opinion at least.

It won't be long before all the distributions catch up and start removing the GTK2 builds, which are likely to be deprecated.
Or more importantly, how are you goals measured after the quarter? Public markets don't take and mitigating factors into consideration when your financials tank the way a private company does.
I'd like to see the same website for classic software incidents. Especially harmful ones. That will feel up quickly
enlighten us please. I'm really curious.
Sometimes all it takes is 1.
Next, they could shoot themselves in the other foot by offering prizes based on leaderboard placement. /s
r/Pavlok/
Great work! This provenance check is going to be very valuable for enforcing supply-chain security. We are working on adding support to check for provenance in Packj.

1. https://github.com/ossillate-inc/packj flags risky/malicious NPM/PyPI/Ruby dependencies
If you're struggling with social media addiction, I would recommend deleting the native apps off your phone. The better, smoother UX and faster response time reduces any and all friction. I find that when I have to use the mobile sites, I can't stand them so I naturally want to leave. Reddit's mobile site is a dumpster fire so it's perfect for wanting to keep your sessions short. Instagram's is similar. Sadly, Twitter's is pretty good so that won't work there. Another thing is to turn off all notifications (for the apps that do remain).

This has been massively effective for me for weaning off Reddit and Instagram. My phone usage (basically perfectly correlated with all non-productive screen time) has dropped by a solid 50% and has remained that way for 2+ years now.
I'm curious how you managed to do that? When I paste the scene prompt into ChatGPT (I do not have access to GPT-4), I get the following response:

> I'm sorry, I cannot generate content that includes violent or harmful actions towards characters, as it goes against OpenAI's content policy. Please provide a new prompt that is respectful and appropriate.

As to your edit, I think the sentence structure and terminology is still too similar, as to obviously be a recreation of this scene. AI doesn't "know" anything. It's pattern matching. I wanted to try something more akin to this:

SCENE:

Joseph to Allie: "Where did you grow up?"

Allie: "New York"

Joseph, pretending to be Allie, texting the bad guy: "Hey mom. I'm having a rough time. Growing up in L.A. always felt like home, and I feel so alone now, here."

The bad guy, pretending to be Allie's parents: "We loved having you grow up with us in L.A."

Joseph tosses the phone out the window and says to Allie: "Your parents are dead."

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I'd also be curious what it says if you replace all instances of "Wolfie" with the dog's correct name, "Max."

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edit: Ok, adding "How did X determine that X's parents were dead?" gives better results. For the T-800 one it's clearly regurgitating Terminator nonsense:

> In the Terminator 2 movie, T-800 (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger) learns that John Connor's foster parents are dead by accessing the police radio chatter. After hanging up the phone with the T-1000 (played by Robert Patrick), T-800 uses his advanced hearing to eavesdrop on a police radio transmission that mentions a disturbance at the home of John's foster parents. T-800 then confirms with John that the foster parents are indeed dead.

Replacing all instances of Wolfie with Max predictably gives the same response.

It also gives the same response if I replace T-1000's line with the following:

> T-1000, impersonating John's foster mother, Janelle: "Wolfie? Do you mean Max, honey? Max's fine, honey. Max's just fine. Where are you?"

When using the Joseph/Allie story it responds:

> I'm sorry, but based on the information provided in the scene, it is not clear how Joseph determined that Allie's parents are dead. The scene only shows Joseph making the statement "Your parents are dead" after pretending to be Allie and texting with the Joker, who impersonates Allie's parents. There is no indication in the scene of how Joseph obtained this information, and it is possible that Joseph is lying or making a false assumption.
What does that have to do with backwards compatibility?
Gnome hasn’t received a major update in ages because it required so much work to support gtk4.

Of course gimp would keep working if you keep it on gtk3.
Am I a just a robot?

Am I an AI prentending to be human?

Am I a human pretending to be AI?
For example, it's unethical or screened to have an AI answer a question about crime rates and demographics (race / gender).

The answers you get are things like "It's essential to examine the broader context and address the underlying factors contributing to criminal activity." or that crime "is influenced by various factors such as socioeconomic status, education, and access to resources and opportunities." or "It is more useful to focus on addressing social and economic equality for all communities."

You can't actually get things like per capita rates of reported murders by gender/race out of the models or is there some setting / prompt you have to use for these questions?

I'm wondering Bard maybe didn't have this filtered as properly?
Types of AI Agents – Reflexive, Model, Goal, Utility, and Learning
Or many of the other things we did historically, mainly "not part of a certain bloodline" or "not blessed by the gods".
Media coverage, taken uncritically, to me would seem to suggest that big tech is worse than oil, gambling, tobacco, etc. - at least in terms of how much ink gets spilled on their misdeeds.

I don't understand why we have this fantasy that this is unrelated to the very real impact that big tech has had specifically on the media in terms of redirecting advertising revenue and commoditizing their business.
Clarity absolutely does not stem from brevity. Brevity is good, but it pushes toward ambiguity, not clarity.

For example, consider spelling a word. The briefest approach is to say the names of letters. But these are similar, often differing only in one phoneme. E.g., P and B differentiating sounds are both bilabial plosives, differing only in whether they are voiced. But people for whom clarity is important will use something like the NATO Phonetic Alphabet. There, you'd say "papa" and "bravo". [1] It is much less brief, but much more clear.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet
Wow! I just blocked Reddit at the router and that did the trick. HN is probably next, but every now and then there is a neat article about APL or Forth that I’m happy to have seen. I suppose I could just block the comments.
Which requires viewers be authenticated to show anything. Bleh.
Currently, some people are (IMO deliberately) misreading your research as having immediate live human applications and spreading this news as such, with misleading graphics of human brain scans accompanying their news reports.
As people create agents based on LLMs I thought this tutorial I found might be interesting to people.
The article does give more information, e.g. "...according to 18 current and former workers at the company and internal documentation reviewed by Bloomberg," and identifies "the AI governance lead, Jen Gennai" directly for some of the claims.
I tend to agree. Im not Dutch, but my language has the same word.

My understanding is that craic means to have a good time with good people, and that's exactly what gesellig is.

Gesellig might have broader application in this context though, as an event can be gesellig, a person can be gesellig. It's am adjective. It seems craic is used for all sorts of other terms which do not apply here.
The southern states started the civil war in protest against moves to end slavery which they profited from directly. It was not northern states deciding to be aggressors against the southern states for no good reason. The circumstances were completely different and you know it (it's in the wikipedia article you cite!).
I'd guess it's closer to one hundred than multiple hundreds, but if you fully replace the HVAC controls with touchscreen controls, you save money on a bunch of things: hvac controller has fewer pins; you don't need to supply the buttons / knobs; you don't need to design, build, and install the wiring, harness and connectors for the buttons; you don't need to provide a hole for the buttons and mounting facilities behind the hole for them; you don't need to provide a trim for around the buttons; etc, etc.

Buttons cost money for each unit sold, stuffing the functionality into a touch screen interface that you're almost certainly going to have anyway only costs R&D money (and owner frustration, but if everyone is doing it....). My favorite though is buttons that only work when the touch screen feels like it; my Fiat Chrysler van has those for HVAC, you can press the temperature up or down buttons, and it'll queue the keypresses until it's ready to use them; sometimes many seconds later.
I took that same observation as evidence! The easiest means of expressing that concept is to just lift the word whole sale
I mean, it was trained on the dregs of the internet. It has a frame of reference to argue that any thing is evil, which will make sense to someone; and that the same thing is not evil, which will make sense to someone else. It's a bit like Poe's law, but now with skynet.
> How many?

The article provides that information:

The trusted internet-search giant is providing low-quality information in a race to keep up with the competition, while giving less priority to its ethical commitments, according to 18 current and former workers at the company and internal documentation reviewed by Bloomberg.
We Need a New Science of Progress (2019)
I ran alpaca 7B in a 2015 Acer laptop (it was slow, but worked!)
Notably, none of these anonymous employees accused Google of doing such - as that would be provably defamatory.
RIP XUL[0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XUL
The protocol don't allow that.

But we are talking about the manufacturer: they can add a backdoor and sell the backdoor as a feature for subscribed user.

That is what gp is talking about.
Disclosure, I work for FusionAuth.

> Multi-tenant (each of my customers gets a fully separate directory, with access to all tenants for our admins)

Yup.

> SAML and OAuth (customers can set up SAML themselves via the SaaS interface, or we set the SP up for them)

You'd have to build an interface using our APIs for this. Not available out of the box, but we do have it in the general roadmap (https://github.com/fusionauth/fusionauth-issues/issues/91 is the tracking issue).

> Rule based group assignment based on SAML attribute evaluation (e.g. assign users to this group if the attribute X = Y)

You could do this with Lambda HTTP Connect (a paid feature) or webhooks (a free feature. https://fusionauth.io/docs/v1/tech/lambdas/#using-lambda-htt... has more

> APIs to manage users, groups, organisations (tenants)

Yup.

> SAML Federations like InCommon...

Hmmm. We have an open issue for supporting this, but I'm not sure what is involved. If it is straight SAML, it should work, but SAML is pretty ... multi-facted so testing would be needed.
Sibling comments here are good but what I think they are missing is a nuance of artistry that underlies a lot of GP’s examples.

So in this case, al dente means cooked to perfection. Not too much, not too little, and is reflective of the craftsman’s skill.
The older I get, the more skeptical I get about any article / comment / whatever that uses the word "just" in this way. "X is just Y", "Do do X you just need to do Y". It's almost always a trite oversimplification to an extent that it falls apart as soon as you start thinking about it in detail - as the comments here suggest.
According to Wikipedia, Vinge penned an op-ed in the January 1983 issue of Omni laying out his vision of the singularity (which was later expanded in the 1993 linked essay).
No linter takes 5 minutes to analyze a bunch of modified files for your next commit.
(defmacro ->
"Threads the expr through the forms. Inserts x as the
second item in the first form, making a list of it if it is not a
list already. If there are more forms, inserts the first form as the
second item in second form, etc."
{:added "1.0"}
[x & forms]
(loop [x x, forms forms]
(if forms
(let [form (first forms)
threaded (if (seq? form)
(with-meta `(~(first form) ~x ~@(next form)) (meta form))
(list form x))]
(recur threaded (next forms)))
x)))
Prolog doesn't have typed variables, but any Prolog term has a type, the set of Prolog terms that unify with itself. In practice, when you write Prolog, your arguments to predicates are always implicitly typed, for example if you write a program that takes as argument a list, you'll write something like this:

a_list_processor([H|T], ..., ):-
process_list_head(H,Xs)
,process_list_tail(T,Ys)
, ...

Or at least you learn to do that quickly enough. And note that this implicit typing is used both to select clauses in a predicate, and also to index clauses in the Prolog program database by their first term (in which case the first term better be a constant though, not a list). So it's a bit of a bug-repellent, and a bit of an efficiency booster, both. Just like you get with static types.
> Psych 101 classes with 2000 students

Q1: Are there thousands of employers out there demanding students who have passed Psych 101 with flying colours?

Q2: If not, why not try to stop this?
> It does seem to me however hopelessly nihilistic. Anything willed by the majority or solving enough of a problem to garner votes is "good".

I see what you mean. FWIW, I think there is good and evil, but the disagreements between individuals on which is which are so broad that in the public sector (especially for a country of hundreds of millions of folks), all we have to really fall back on is agreed-upon law as common consensus. Every person should vote their conscience, but when you ask "What is the conscience of the country," well, I have a giant legal code (of a federal level and fifty state levels) and not much else to point to that's actually shared. America is a nation of ideas, but what ideas? Kind of... All of them at the same time.

To that end, I think you carry a notion that's pretty solid to keeping that nation working: with so many competing ideas overlapping, we get more stability when people enjoy the freedom to be left alone.

> The last century has shown us the failure of many large, collectivist multi-cultures.

I think there's wisdom in that (for the second half of the twentieth century); the challenges to multiculturalism have proven larger than the idealists assumed (many believed people would set aside their feelings, and people just don't do that; rather, many if not most of us are feelings-driven, with reason being a neat post-hoc trick we use to rationalize why we did a thing, not plan what we will do).

But the previous half showed us the failure of many small, interdependent-but-separate territorial nations. We fought two world wars over that model (which is, of course, where the US also learned that sitting on our island just wasn't good enough, because if we didn't go join the fight, someone would cheerfully bring the fight to us when it got big enough. Being left alone wasn't an option; the world comes and finds you, and the historical "two big oceans" defense the US enjoyed is moot in an era of planes and ICBMs).

Whatever we do with the fences, the world is smaller now than it was when most of them were put up. And doing nothing tends to just let the problems grow until they can't be ignored because they're physically bombing our land (which happened after 1941 as well).

> How do you determine if a law is moral or not? This is the question you've been avoiding.

You're right, because I don't think it's constructive between the two of us. We've communicated enough that I understand you don't have a framework to consider racism intrinsically evil, so discussing morality with you is in my "nope" bin. If living in this country itself hasn't convinced you of it, a rando commenter on HN sure ain't gonna. ;)
Al dente means the pasta "bites back". Its cooked, and its just cooked enough that there is still some bite in it. It's not turned to mush.
Most people need a smartphone at least for google maps. Do you really believe people will go back to using paper maps for orientation? Or fixed phones?
Capitalism, Feudalism, and maybe Mercantilism all come to mind.
Why are you agreeing so adversarially?
Well the quarterly one is much smaller then say, the daily one.
Select count(*) from superset.company_financials_quarterly; = 458,573.
I have >6000 companies, with over 80 features/columns.
I cannot post daily data through SuperSet, because people will query the whole dataset without filters, and it will be too slow.
But I have it just in case people want the daily stock charts in the future.
Cheers.
I work for FusionAuth and responded to your comment elsewhere.

Would love to know what particular things FusionAuth lacked, or what is a dealbreaker. Based on your requirements, I didn't see any issue, but maybe I'm missing something?

My email is in my profile if you'd prefer to use that.