skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would actually expect that the majority of people working on cool stuff are Dark Matter.
I feel your discussion uses the wrong metric. The appropriate level for measuring wellbeing is national*. If making a comparatively small number of long-term city residents in a little worse off improves the lives of many citizens of the nation it should be clearly worthwhile.

Many cities have obvious low-hanging fruit. SF is full of 1-3 story housing that could easily be made much denser.

Instead we've created a system where the lucky few whose parents bought housing years ago in desirable areas inherit a ticket to opportunity in a city. That's fundamentally contrary to the ideals of the American Dream.

*Well I actually think this should be global, so I support open borders. But that's a tangent here.
> I don't think is that any company with proper engineering

So, we only need to worry about the "other" companies, then? Like Twitter?
yeah, as always it really depends who are you communicating something to
So you are comparing idiots that fall for "financial advice" on youtube to pregnant women who were given a radioactive cocktail without knowing about it? You seem to confirm that everyone has different sort of values...
The irony of that is they are probably going to use AI services of competitors to do that despite pioneering the marketing on it for years, thus closing the loop.
> Or, we've noticed the above, thought that it was an outrage, and fixed it.

Where can I read about the Nuremberg-style trials where the perpetrators of that outrage were brought to justice?

Because if those trials didn't happen, we didn't "fix" anything.
>My coworker Damian Edwards and I hypothesize that there is another kind of developer than the ones we meet all the time

Yes. Real-world developers, as opposed to serial new-tech-hype suckers, software convention panelists/social media influencer developers, and cushy FAANG employees.
Can you link to someone actually saying this? The whole debate seems like people are simply talking past each other, with one side saying "this is a useful tool" and one side saying "this tool is not going to turn into skynet in the next two weeks, so who cares?"
Yes to all of this, but most importantly don’t defer things you really want to do “for later” or “for retirement” as the knees might not hold out and the people you want to do it with might be gone. Somehow, save for the future and live for the present as you never know what will happen.
I'm reminded of: "I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world... perhaps you've seen it." - Steven Wright
> Blindsight, by Peter Clark

* Peter Watts
That would be great, I agree.
If you are hiring people that later need to be fired for doing porn, heroin, sexual harassment,... Maybe the problem is not them.
> It's easy for them to collect Facebook friends and Google searches, not Signal messages and DuckDuckGo queries made in an incognito window.

It's entirely unclear that it's difficult for them to collect duckduckgo searches (Why assume they wouldn't collect the info from duckduckgo?). Specific signal messages might be harder, but even signal collects and stores sensitive info (like a list of your contacts) forever in the cloud and in ways that could be easy for the government to get their hands on. Cell phones are basically designed to leak your info like a sieve and allow google/apple to do whatever they want (or are ordered to do) at any time without notice to users anyway, so anything done on them is probably capable of being observed and/or recorded.

You're right that most of the time it's probably not worth the effort to go after everyone for everything, but as long as they're collecting and keeping the data they can always decide to spend a little more effort if you become a problem for them.

I agree, people should take whatever steps you can to protect themselves whenever you can, since it can only help, but man, "Take care to never become inconvenient to those in power and hope they are incompetent when they finally come for you" is sure no comfort.
I've switched to running new projects on Remix after using Next.js for many years. Remix is just much more sane. Next.js feels like they are aiming to statically precompile everything and do some automagic with the rest all the while locking useful features under Vercel.

I just want to write my SSR applications with dynamic data and deploy them to Docker, Next is making it harder than it needs to be.
Nah, they are letting 7800 people go because of poor business practices. The AI thingie is to save face.
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As another commenter already pointed out, ethical standards are quite a novel concept in the history, newer than these cases (and by the way, there are way more such failures in medical history, Theranos being a very minor one). Anyway, pointing out malpraxis is by no definition equivalent to conspiracy theories and I refuse to accept this strawman of moral equivalence.
There's nothing ironic about it. They invested only in the marketing of AI, but not in the serious R&D of it, pretty sure internally they never believed in their own AIs. Plus they got the publicity benefit from Watson, which is important for a consulting company.
in Britain we have 100 different municipalities and all of them differ in their recycling policies and capability
Can you explain your reasoning there?

Like - was American society aware of this? This all seemed pretty secret to me.

Did it sign the papers authorizing this? Did we vote on all that and I somehow missed it?

Were the people crafting these horrors and delivering these cocktails Licensed Doctors, or random American society folk?
It's helpful to document the anti-human, anti-nature detritus of our economic kulchur.
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Translation errors in small-town restaurants across Portugal, Spain, and Italy is a bread and butter of my group chat's memes.
>> you can mostly assume that the paper is valid

What? Is that something you can still assume in 2023?
I know there are regulatory rules which partially explain the fragmented banking sector in the US compared to other nations: four example in Australia we only really have 4-5 proper banks

Are there other reasons that small banks have seemed to thrive in the United States but no where else?
Vice used to be cool around the 2010's. I got the monthly magazine in our local American Apparel store for free and absolutely loved the edgy stories, photos and interviews. But after Shane left, Vice became another boring Buzzfeed clone. It was another example of the sad truth that nothing good lasts forever.
Review of Peter Turchin's “End Times”
It looks like the wrong AI for the problem. RL should be more successful.
There shouldn't need to be any board history, just like you don't need to know the board history to know the next move in checkers.
I wasn't talking about a military state, but about every human being dead.
You can get much great results at playing games with ChatGPT by adding “memory” as shown here - https://youtu.be/4oQUsiPsbOQ and here - https://youtu.be/lXFeq2yUy58

Prompting it to remember the game state and feeding it back in or offloading that job to a plugin can get some very Interesting results.
The author mentions this at the end of the article:

> You need to benchmark, test and tweak in order to figure out what works best. Benchmarking is particularly important because, unless you're dealing with large data or very hot code, there's a good chance that effort won't yield measurable benefits.

How to benchmark something like this sounds like it could become a pretty good article in its own right.
I don't think you are wrong and that's the actual cause of the problems, not the tools. But that's for another day..
Yes, it's always tricky. I think an alternative point where translators go for accuracy, everything else be damned, is for cultural artifacts and specialized language.

For instance when reading programming books, having english words like "core dump" need to either be translated in the exact matching technical word in the target language (which the reader might actually not understand better than "core dump"...english is my second language and I have no idea what it should be officially called in my mother tongue...), or be kept in english. Going for an approximation that conveys the feeling won't be useful to the reader.

The same sometimes applies to real word conversation translations where the speaker mixes and matches languages (engrish being part of that). Translating the engrish or the foreign words used in the speech (in particular when the foreign words come from the very language we're trying to translate into) will make it more difficult to understand for the reader, especially if they could have understood the nuances of the original script.

I think of this when I see the english "déjà-vu" translated into french: it will often be left untouched with some signage to convey it was in the original script as is, and it would be worse to have it translated for more immersion or fluency.
And yet it's quite easy to get ChatGPT to do tasks that involve some sort of thinking ahead, so this can't be the full story. It's pretty clear that nobody quite knows what's going on inside these very large neural networks, hence the surprise at discovering the "meta-gradients" involved in ICL.

A simple example is to ask it to write a complex program in a language like Java or Kotlin that requires you to declare all your imports up front. There can be a lot of these. Therefore the model must figure out what it wants to use very far down the program in order to emit the first words of the program correctly. Presumably somewhere in the intermediate state process the network is actually working out the entire program ahead of time so it can predict the next word of it, and that's sufficiently stable for it to do so successfully.

Also I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean by not maintaining hidden state between tokens. Doesn't the transformer algorithm start by parallel processing every token of the prompt to compute a large set of vectors and matrices that are then reused over and over whilst generating the results? What are the KV vectors if not hidden state of some sort?
Point of pedantry: some Latin infinitives are single words -- present active, present passive, and perfect active. Perfect passive, future active and future passive require two.
To claim that nothing was fixed, you need to present us with some proof of further fuckup. Please proceed to do so.
As TFA states, this was all explicitly against the Nuremburg code signed in 1947.

> The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, overreaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision.

> It should be made known to him the nature, duration, and purpose of the experiment; the method and means by which it is to be conducted; all inconveniences and hazards reasonably to be expected; and the effects upon his health or person which may possibly come from his participation.
>It is more about rejecting purely decorative elements and working directly with the structural elements and building material.

No, that's what they claimed they were doing. The reality was different.
It's hard to get reliable numbers, but there are few third-party stats that say between 40-50% globally, but in some countries likely over 70%.

In Australia, I work as a consultant across many orgs, both large and small, and the percentage of Windows Servers is definitely over 75% here, but apparently we're an outlier. For example, Australia East is a top-tier Azure region because there are so many Microsoft-centric large enterprise orgs around here.

It also matters what you consider a "server" and whether you count "unique configs" or raw numbers. For example, a University might have 2K-3K distinct Windows Server VMs and a 5K node Linux HPC environment running an identical build as a single cluster. So do they have more Windows or Linux servers? Technically, more Linux, by the numbers. But their admins will spend 99% of their time dealing with the large number of distinct Windows VMs, and treat the Linux cluster as just 1% of their fleet.

In this manner, the FAANGs definitely skew numbers. They may have hundreds of millions of largely identical Linux servers, but they're treated as a few huge clusters.

And of course, startups created by ex-FAANG employees will generally be Linux-centric and all hires will be similar Silicon Valley types, reinforcing the notion that "only Linux is used for servers". Yes... in one tiny part of the world. I bet BSD is also more common... near Berkley.
How do you filter for porn addiction during your interview process?
What did it used to be.It’s always been this way in the last 3+ decades since privatization.
It sounds like the English analogy might be "out of the frying pan and into the fire".
Every organisation I've worked in has had comprehensive processes for deleting personal data and only storing what is necessary due to e.g. https://www.gov.uk/data-protection

Without such laws, every business would store as much data as they could indefinitely, because $$.

All of this is besides the point that was made; your fatalistic view point suggests we should make no attempt at effective governance because there are powers that oppose us. There are countries which are more democratic than others, and the population of such countries tend to have a better quality of life and more rights.
Oh, as long as you stay within a transportation region you are fine (mostly). Problems start when you want to travel across transportation regions...
What do you mean nothing? Organizations like the FDA famously got a lot more powerful after incidents like with Thalidomide -- a big enough screwup seems to result in very considerable change.

Why here it's also not rare to see people complain about the onerous regulations on nuclear power, guess where those came from?
Load CSV Challenges:Debugging and Profiling for Improved Performance in Memgraph
Efficient indexing with Quickwit Rust actor framework
I won't comment on whether this is good or even workable idea, but I will acknowledge this announcement is kinda genius.

Playing into fears about AI replacing large segments of the labour force in the coming years invites calls for regulators to slow down their competition. While at the same time this announcement makes investors happy because IBM is signalling that they're looking to both cut costs and embrace AI.
The hypermedia API option really doesn’t add much flexibility, when consumed by client code (as opposed to a human, or possibly by ChatGPT). It allows changing the URLs, but it doesn’t allow changing the structure or naming or semantics of the API. Arguably the only benefit it affords is being able to transparently move linked resources (such as subresources) between hosts, and that’s usually a case of YAGNI.
This is like how Kodak pivoted to crypto. It's chasing a short term stock market bump at the cost of being absolutely bollocks. Or maybe I'm being unfair and they're smarter and actually this is just a ruse to avoid more lawsuits for age discrimination in their firing practices. Either way, it's more of a sign that IBM is in trouble than AI is really breaking through.
The constant invocation of Nazi this and Nazi that really not only undermines the issue, but it’s also racist in that it centers everything only about a single event and only one single instance of similar awful things that only happened in Europe.

The opposition to human rights abuses should be a universal one, not something that is cheapened by narrowing everything down to a comparison to a single event. Guess what, there are atrocities that have both happened to and were committed by other people and also in different parts of the world besides Europe.

It ignores the awfulness of what has happened and is happening to other people too and other people also matter, not just one group at one time frozen in place.
EU AI Act draft excludes military companies from AI restrictions
"This Regulation shall not apply to AI systems developed or used exclusively for military purpose"
Really?! Downvoted for this?
OT but I like the fact that you used please and thank you.
I'm saying that if you don't trust the "establishment", then other people will very gladly take its place.

The only solution I see is to fix the "establishment", because the alternative seems to be mostly a free-for-all where everyone tries to convince you that they have your best interests at heart, and I don't see how not being part of the government suddenly makes one trustworthy.
Comparing New York city, Tokyo, Dubai and Bay area is comparing outliers. I don't think there is useful science comparing planetary business hub or the the wealthiest place on earth to some wilderness. You can't create great wealth, prosperity and capital at will, at least not New York city level, they are created due to external circumstances.

Those circumstances drive: prices, density, opportunities of which people speak in sibling comments.

There could be some forced or artificial dynamic, but these examples are plain bad. Chinese megacities are much better ones, particularly planned, not organic cities
Things I learned using gpt in last 6 mo:

* Various new english idioms. I read a lot, but still find new ones

* More optimal translations between languages i'm ~native in.

* ton of new JS, Python libs

* Got deeper in SQL (recursive queries, etc)

* Can use CSS way better than before

* Mermaid

I wrote https://chatcraft.org/ as a friendlier UI for learning programming related things.
Systems where you have to checkout are always problematic in my view. Huge queue because one terminal is broken etc. lead to maxed out fares and unhappy customers.

Germany had it for a while (TouchPoint) but they gave it up thankfully — although I don't know the exact reason it was given up.
What's most surprising to me is how willing journalists are to completely suspend their disbelief. During covid the authorities loudly proclaimed that vaccines were 99% effective, provided durable immunity (years!), and that vaccinated people would not spread covid themselves.

But what was amazing to me, at the time, that journalists refused to ask basic questions like:

- If the vaccine is brand new, how can we possibly know how many years the protection will last?

- Coronaviruses mutate rapidly, and because of that people are unable to build long lasting natural immunity and because of that we've never been able to create a conventional vaccine for coronaviruses. If RNA vaccines trigger a natural immune response that doesn't provide lasting immunity, just like conventional vaccines, how can we be so sure these new vaccines will be durable in the face of mutations?

- How can we know that vaccinated people are no longer able to spread covid, when we haven't done trials that demonstrate that, because such trials are forbidden (because you can't do trials where you intentionally expose healthy people to a disease).

This is not an angry rant about vaccinations or about covid. I'm vaccinated, it was fine. This is about how journalism fails during a crisis, and how patriotism (i.e. encouraging people to get vaccinated, with truth, lies, whatever it takes) takes precedence over doing their actual job (i.e. informing the people). And government agencies will grab and hold on to power when they're no longer kept in check by real journalists. The annoying kind that asks tough questions.

You describe the "greatest PR coup in human history", but I think the simple explanation is that it's easy to have great PR when journalists do your PR work for free.
Or don't try to make buttons tangible/physical objects. If your hand (or pizza paddle hand) is inside a button, highlight the button and then use trigger to "press" button. It is hard to press buttons you can't really touch
Hi there! I am author of this blog post.

Large amount of data, combined with using non optimal memory allocation can result in interesting issues in graph database. Thanks to flamegraph and heaptrack, we successfully resolved issues we had in Memgraph concerning high memory consumption and lower performance on LOAD CSV clause.
I don't think they have caught up with the SPD yet, but ymmv.
So many comments on this shovelling sh*t on OP...? I agree with the author entirely. In practically every field, the reason it's difficult to learn anything, starting with zero, is because you don't know what questions to ask. You need to find an in. ChatGPT is really good at this - the answers it gives provide an idea of what you don't know you don't know. Obviously, you then need to go verify the answers, but the difference is: now you know what the language you need to use to do so looks like.

PS you would also need to do this if you started with Wikipedia as well.
> all are listed on the Canadian Toronto TSX exchange

Given the history of Canadian mining companies, I wouldn't trust any Canadian mining company listed on the TSX to give to shits about human rights.
Not a project idea, but you might get a little inspiration from Asahi Lina. They're developing the linux kernel for M1 Macs and often stream it. https://github.com/asahilina
For AI, it seems at least as likely to be normalised as the generally accepted parasocial relationship between celebrities and their audiences.

For non-humans… I'm expecting, by 2100, arbitrary biological re-engineering to be possible, to the extent that it renders meaningless the current boundaries between human and non-human in both body and mind — the idea of hooking up with a centaur or a dragon might be pretty niche fantasy today, but when you know the former is Dave and he has an interest in crochet and organic farming, and the latter is Tiffany your sysadmin and she's a regular at her local LARP event, it changes things.

Some people clearly hate this, judging by the anti-transhumanism conspiracy theories, even though it's not actually possible today — but are they representative?
Seems like I read that entire thing without hearing any mention of the race of the experiment's victims? Did I miss something in the OP, or did they really make it through the entire way without referencing that?

I'm assuming it was much like Tuskegee in this respect?
The question is, can IBM place those consultants at customers and get paid for them? Then they're definitely not "BS jobs" for IBM. They might be BS for the person interacting directly with them, yes, but I see no reason for IBM to reduce them.
I'd go with "no-make selfies"
2048 spawns new numbers randomly on the board. A human player uses that information to determine the best move.
With a significant portion of mass consumption missing, wealth would start to erode. Stable inequality could grow up to a certain point, but not without adverse effects on investments. You can only sustain wealth without consumers in an absolutely totalitarian society, but even there it would lead to a catastrophic societal collapse sooner or later.

I think this is a dead angle for a lot of AI experts. That sudden bump in efficiency might ruin large parts of the markets businesseses are built upon.
Mostly it's tech jounalists. "We are doomed! Along with artists and programmers!"
Focus stealing 100% has a place, just not on app launch and while you're typing. Since switching to Wayland, which doesn't allow focus stealing, I keep thinking apps have frozen when a popup shows up in the background.