skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's totally hilarious, how organizations are training large language models and calling them "intelligent". These overgrown & overstuffed stochastic parrots are just toys to amuse and shock the ignorant. Once the novelty wears off, and everyone understands the serious limitations of these models, it will be back to business as usual. "That's not really AI" will return as a catchphrase.
Yeah, but if you're Not Sure, then it's really hard to convince other people as well though.
People are not morally obligated to platform and entertain toxic and harmful ideas. Much more direct options are available than "angry screeching"; it is a moderate compromise.
I own a two-person educational software company. We have a CPA that we engage once a year to do our business taxes and can't afford anything fancier than that. It's an LLC taxed as an S-Corp so all of the "profit" goes directly to me on my Schedule K. For 2022, if this is not reversed, I will owe around $100K in taxes. For reference, my salary was around $100k. I'll have to take out a payment plan with the IRS, and probably shut down the company if nothing changes because I can't do that again for 2023 and beyond.

We aren't making huge profits to absorb the costs and give me a fat bonus to cover my taxes. In fact in 2022, I WAS expecting a nice $30k loss and a refund. Do we deserve to survive? Probably not in some peoples' minds, but we've been scrapping together a living so far. It sucks because we were actually growing and gaining some momentum: any further growth would now be pretty impossible because I can't afford to pay my personal taxes to cover additional dev salaries.
80% seems very low, in my experience it's 1% or less of the code that is a hotspot.

On the other hand, we should talk about "doing stupid things", or having a bad design/architecture. For example, if you architect your application such that each web request is serviced by 20 micro-services, and those micro-services make 20 requests of their own...no matter how fast your code is, the application will be slow.
Intro to Bayesian A/B Testing
Maintenance of existing software doesn't count as R&D under this categorization. The IRS will have some helpful guidance available in June. You know, two months after the deadline.
I remember reading this at the time. It kindof made sense as a trajectory at the time.

But this was pre-Snowden - the stuff Snowden leaked really changed things. Like everyone suspected it before then (like everything Stallman ever said) but Snowden's leaked docs really brought it all into focus and that was when things like ubiquitous https and really checking openssl for bugs and end-to-end encryption in messaging started to get talked about. This led to things like GDPR and just a general pretty-good understanding of privacy from consumers. You can trace all of that back to the change of mindset after the Snowden leaks.

Now its more like data is a liability, third parties will snoop it and use it to try and sell you things. Now the attention grabbing features are deletion and forgetting (e.g. Whatsapp auto-delete)
Some biotech companies claimed to have developed their vaccines within hours of having the genetic code being emailed to them.
It Took 15 Years for the Feds to Approve a 700-Mile Electric Line
>Huh? These are online purchases that have a delivery address for physical deliveries, and a billing address as well in case it's digital goods or services.

Huh? So if I live and work in Buffalo and go into New York City to buy a sweater, the sales tax on my sweater goes to Buffalo? That's where it's going to be taken to and my billing address for the card I used to purchase the sweater. Or would the sales tax go to where the sale is made?
They're also, more often than not, far more limited in scope and capabilities than their imaginative 50's counterparts.
Ugg. Now I got to figure out how this impacts our small business this year. I just e-mailed our CPA so he would be able to look over the changes after their busy season ends. I hope there is some sort of threshold because as a small business some years we barely break even after paying salaries. I mean profit under $10k remaining to role over into January. I am driving a 16 year old Honda Civic. Not living a life of luxury over here :-/
When you say "as one of the signers" do you mean you signed the federal bill which modified this tax? i.e. you are a congressperson? Surely I'm misunderstanding you; your post history is utterly incompatible with any sitting congressperson. But I can't figure out what you meant by it.
Hey all! I've posted previously here about my project GPTDiscord, a full-fledged OpenAI integration for Discord.
Recently, we've made some updates that enable internet-connected chatting! During a conversation, the bot will be able to perform mathematical operations with wolfram, search google and get web-content, and the bot is now even able to directly browse and crawl links that you give it, to help answer your questions!

In addition to this, there are already a ton of other features built in, such as document (infinite length) understanding and Q&A, permanent memory chatting, GPT-4 support, image generation, and etc.

Check it out at https://github.com/Kav-K/GPTDiscord
Software definitely is a capital asset: if it weren't, it wouldn't be IP and all code would be open-source.

VC has spoiled software folks for the past decade. This is just how small businesses become bigger businesses. The dogma of "bootstrapping" in software circles has been distorted into what is now clearly, retrospectively, an unsustainable means of developing industries. There doesn't seem to be any reason to treat software differently from others.

The arguments here given scream of panicked, defensive rationalizations how actually we're super special and saving the world through technology, and how dare they claw back the rewards we're given for enabling humanity's progress.
Indeed.

I do hope they'll expose Ruff as a Python module / API in the future. I'm currently using Black to format Python code that's in-memory (never gets written out to disk).

With Black (as an imported Py module), it's just a matter of passing in a string and getting one back. With Ruff as it is now, I'd have to write that out to disk, spawn Ruff process, then read the formatted file back in. Do that for many files and the speed advantages disappear, and actually it's slower.
Theoretical results allow you to make experiments in the first place and to interpret empirical results.

Sometimes experimental results aren’t even the important part. Lorentz Ether Theory and Special Relativity make the exactly same predictions. Yet only one of them is considered revolutionary. And it isn’t the one that was invented first.
If you go to a movie theatre playing a South Indian movie on day 1 in US, the fans you see going crazy are usually fans belonging to the same caste as the hero of the movie. You can sometimes see the caste names in some of the posters they put up
> As I understand it, it's not quite as simple as that when the number of satellites gets large.

I'm not sure "simple" is the term I'd use, but given the satellite ephemera and timestamps, the algorithm for knowing where the satellite is and therefore ignoring that chunk of sky when the satellite passes through is well-understood (and we can certainly mandate that every launching organization maintain correct and up-to-date ephemera).

Telescopes observe a tiny, tiny sliver of the night sky. The density of satellites necessary to interrupt them continuously would be something well past the expected launch capacity of this century alone (and would create its own navigational problems were we to achieve it).

> The cost of the launch is not the largest part of the cost of having space telescopes.

Not as they've been done, because the cost of launch was so high that it could only be justified by putting a perfect-mirrored device that could see all the way back through spacetime to the first microseconds of the cosmos in orbit. Now imagine the economics when you're putting a hundred up at that price, not one (and you can use algorithms to combine signal from them to account for lower resolution).

... imagine having, with the right math, an aperture the size of the orbital diameter of the Earth itself...
You can’t fly an 737-200 for 3 years and then jump into a 737 NG without difference training. You won’t know how to work the flight management systems.

They are the same type, so you don’t need to re-qualify for the type. But you need to do training to move between variants of a type. It’s just a lot less training.
Ooof. Maybe as a first pass it should check for people in the photo and just stop if there are any.
it sure does, and i'm not sure it's great. Didn't the bitwarden hack happen via a plex server on an engineers network?
An earthquake is a form of tech debt.

I think.
Something that no other human knows. Isn't that what college is about, broadening existing knowledge?
As long as electricity generation is a profit making endeavor, it doesn't matter what the source is, generating companies will never build enough of it to significantly drop costs. "Energy too cheap to meter" was always a lie. Capitalism always makes it more profitable to make too little of something rather than too much.
My wife’s a journalist and she already uses ChatGPT for a good deal of gruntwork.

Requires a lot of human oversight but is quite helpful.
A stronger KDF would plausibly have protected him even if his password was embarrassingly deterministic.
Will respond to every query with poop emoji and/or weed joke.
Dont think of this as me whinging. "reborn as a vending machine" is my most anticipated show this season, I love the weird promises and read this one when it was just a machine translated webnovel :)

Didn't the Simpsons do that one first?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons_Spin-Off_Showcase
It is nice to see someone writing that a single server is enough for a lot of websites/apps - if not most. Computers are insanely fast nowadays.
I didn't say anything about neural networks, I asked how humans do it.
The word axis can be used to mean various things. One of those is the line that a rotation happens around.
I guess technically that could be arranged. Although I don't want everyone to run their own crawler. It would annoy a lot of webmasters and end up with even more hurdles to be able to run a crawler. Better to share the data if possible.
Yea, I've basically just swapped to the BNPL lenders because they don't charge compounding late fees if I decide not to pay the bill off.
It'll be even more mesmerizing when it's sending OTA updates to your Neuralink chip to get you back to work.
Do you think California would accept a company like Apple not collecting the sales tax because the merchandise came from China? Any company doing online sales would just need to locate the merchandise across state lines.
Okay I would like to see you post openly criticism of how the CCP handled Covid in China while being a Chinese citizen living in China. Then also criticize Xi and call him Winnie the Poo. Then also blame CCP for releasing Covid.

Let's actually compare what we're comparing here.

Because you're still free to say 'let's dismantle the WHO' just as the rest of the rational and free world is also free to disagree with you.

Now, before you go off half cocked I am not saying the CDC or WHO made perfect calls every time. I think they used the best information they had available to them with decades of expertise and updating as more and better information came in. Additionally for years to come public health officials, scientists, doctors, and organizations will be researching this recent pandemic, evaluating what was effective and updating policies and strategies for future pandemics.

However the important part that we're discussing here is that we are free to criticize these organizations. Free to criticize the government. Free to expose a company skirting regulations in place to protect consumers and the environment. We are free to review the science and come to a consensus. There will always be outliers. The existence of them alone doesn't mean the consensus is wrong though.
By the same logic, boundaries and distance are also part of a healthy relationship, and there's no point to forcing proximity when it is not desired.

The original title of this post was "You'd Be Happier Living Closer to Friends." which I disagree with. It has since been changed to "Why don’t more people live close to friends?" which feels like a much more reasonable inquiry.

The matter of fact is not everyone wants to be social and connected all the time. While it might be interesting to discuss how the modern world limits people who do enjoy being more close to their friends, my point is that it is critical to also recognize that, no, sometimes you'd be less happy living closer to friends.
The difficulty with PARITY for Transformers seems to be that it relies heavily on the position encoding. The longer the input sequence, the more likely it is to read the wrong bit, then all the subsequent output is wrong.

Instruction tuned LLMs as chat bots receive multiple inputs in a sequence, interspersed with computation to produce output tokens. Those output tokens appear to be able to act like short term memory.

For example, this ChatGPT 3.5 prompt appears to work well:

You will act as a parity calculator. Ask me for each bit in turn. The parity value starts at 0, an is updated with xor using each new bit. Print out the updated value after each new bit is processed.

Responding with 0 or 1 produces outputs like:

Got it, so we'll apply the XOR operation between the current parity value (1) and the new bit (1), which gives us 0.

The updated parity value is 0.

What is the next bit?

After ~20 iterations the output looks stable, if a little wordy. Perhaps this works as the tokens to attend to are all recent. I imagine that there would need to be a mechanism to remind the model what it is doing if the chat continued indefinitely, otherwise the initial prompt may be forgotten, I’ve not done any experiments with that yet.
Idiocracy got the timeline wrong so, Star Trek and co assumed we are much faster, Idiocracy assumed we are much slower.
I have noticed that great code and terrible code often have the same characteristics on profiles: in both cases, slowness is spread around everywhere.
The whole point of this post is that we are trying to:

* Classify the computational power of Transformers (when it stumbles on certain easier problems but can solve harder ones)

* Find a "minimal" change to the Transformer that would allow it to compute these problems.

Solving these 2 problems by giving LLMs arbitrary access to external plugins is a cop out. You would not:

* Call youself a chef just because you own a restaraunt (you need to cook too!)

* Or (more program-y), say that C code meets Rust's memory safety standards simply because you can write the main function in C and write the rest of the program in Rust

Allowing arbitrary external plugins seems absurdly overkill and not 'minimal' (although that doesn't mean it isn't interesting from a practical perspective!), which is what I assumed that the rain1 was originally pointing out.
Users should learn to say "no" to companies. The surveillance advertising economy is not some hapless mistake that companies will suddenly wake up to one day and realize the error of their ways. Whatever Microsoft "should" do is just wishful thinking. Change will come from users or regulation, and regulation seems unlikely.
Devoid of additional context, the latter would be worse, but in this context, I cannot avoid the former while using iOS, while I pretty easily avoid the latter while using Windows. (At least, to date. I don't run preview/insider builds of Windows.)

Maybe there's some MDM that can be practically used to manage personal/household iOS app installs without the App Store? Happy to take suggestions there.
Is ProtonMail really the gold standard of secure communication these days? Seems like Signal was the previous go-to for jobs like this.
I never thought I'd find another vending machine maniac in the wild :D
It's also probably a huge win on the pollution front as well. Emissions controls are much tighter now.
Good tools come with a price, and that applies to all industries, not just programming. The most comparable offering would be Microsoft Visual Studio: free up to 5 users for smaller companies. If you have more than 5 users, it’s $45/user/month (for the cheaper Professional edition, but it would be good enough for most). And if you’ve got >250 PCs or >$1M in annual revenue, the 5 free users do not apply.

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/pricing/?tab=business

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/0...
How generative AI could replace artists in creative industries [video]
If there's no difference, why don't women just opt for the cheaper razors, even if they are mens? Manufacturers only maintain products so long as they sell, and if they can convince gullible people to keep paying, well, that's business. There's a sucker born every minute.
Anyone know where I can hear the song?? Seems like they nuked it everywhere
I believe the "state affiliated media" tagline is as you might guess, intended for media who's editorial opinions should be taken with their state affiliation in context. What utility does it serve to label SpaceX, Tesla, Lockheed, Boeing, or any other company that does not publish editorial opinions as "state affiliated". I don't get what people don't understand here.

NPR and PBS would not exist right now or in the future if their government funding grants were revoked. That puts a nonexistent bias on their editorial decisions. I seem to remember NPR "leaking"/breaking the story on WMDs in Iraq with one of their journalists directly quoting internal contacts in the Pentagon as their source. They are clearly far from immune to being used as agents of propaganda. That being said, I personally hold both NPR & PBS Newshour in very high regard. I do think that placing them in them in the same categorisation as RT or even the BBC is reductionist. Perhaps there should be varying levels of "state affiliated media" labeling.
And Bob Belleville.

I don't actually know how much influence the Xerox guys had over Lisa/Mac. Not much, I'd bet. They were certainly aware of what Star was trying to do, but they probably thought it was a lot of bad ideas :).

I guess you could consider that an influence /s
okay, I appreciate your reply. Even so, linking to the issue is helpful, including JavaScript disablers.
National Weather Service accounts were not granted API exemptions by Twitter
Enough with this stupid "left-wing" versus "right-wing" dichotomy, it doesn't mean anything any more and has not done so for a long time. Many so-called left-wingers call anything which does not fit with their world "right-wing" no matter whether that thing is seen as "left-wing" by the rest of the world or not. Other so-called right-wingers consider anything which does not abide by the God-Mother-Apple pie holy trifecta "Communist" no matter what the thing is in reality. Depending on where you stand the terms "left-wing" and "right-wing" means either "good, virtuous" or "bad, vile".

Yes, machine learning can become a threat by brainwashing the population because it can get personal with individuals where propagandists were limited at broadcasting their message to the crowd. A biased ML-based search engine will give biased answers, a biased ML-based personal tutor for schoolchildren will brainwash them, biased ML-based medical expert systems will have the power to change the demography of the population, biased ML-based voting systems are a match made in hell for those who are intent on using these systems in such a way. The added power of machine learning is that these systems can target individuals instead of groups. It doesn't matter whether the systems are biased towards pushing "critical theories", "patriotism", some "young earth hypothesis", "scientism", "objectivism", "anarcho-communism" or whatever other ideological bent you can come up with - given sufficiently advanced models they'll be able to spread the word to the masses, one by one.

What can help against this onslaught of personalised precision propaganda which is fairly likely to come sooner rather than later? An equally advanced bias detector, factory-sealed with a no-tamper seal and a stamp of approval by the National Institute for Neutral Standards? Equal access to otherwise-biased systems which get to fight for every scrap of attention of their victims? An intermediate which takes input from many models and presents the results with detected bias vectors? Good questions, let's get working on some solutions without wondering whether an old salon socialist fart like Bernie Sanders or a nouveau riche captain of industry like Elon Musk says something about it.
I would love to see expanded personal options. The new free tier with 3 users is great, but trying to Tailscale for personal use for a family of more than three users while still using advanced features like Funnel is $18/user/mo, which is too high for personal/family use.

If anyone from Tailscale is around, would you consider a family or advanced personal tier for primarily non-commercial use, perhaps a moderate user limit, but more advanced features and lower pricing than Starter?
>That's a purely software issue, though,

I know, that's why I'm so annoyed! And Android is already half-way there; they've already acknowledged that I should be able to control how my phone interacts over USB with a PC, now all that's left is a proactive control that sets the mode for the USB port globally instead of asking my preference in reaction to a device being connected.

>and actually easier to solve on phones (with built-in display+input) than on PCs (how to trust a keyboard/mouse without having keyboard/mouse to input approval with?).

I feel like PCs are less of an issue; I'm not out with my PC at a coffee shop or bus station when suddenly I'm tempted to use the publicly available USB keyboard. At least to me phones and tablets seem like the problematic devices here since charging them (with a wire at least) necessitates connecting them via USB.
> (since progressive income tax means that 5 years of tax at $800k < 4 years of tax at $1 million)

This is corporate tax, not income tax, so is not progressive.