skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I both want diverse cultures to flourish & be celebrated but wow, this is not the way.

Bossing around entities on the internet to give special treatment to your niche causes is the new thing, is what everyone all of a sudden is giving themselves laws to do.

It just has such limits, pushing other people around to give yourself favor. How is the internet supposed to keep on, when every nation demands their pound of flesh, their personal asks?
Is it non-obvious? The page goes like:

1. Title

2. Screenshot

3. "Mercury is a speculative reimagining ..."
He avoided prosecution of three credible separate sexual abuse allegations by hiding in a non-extraditing country for seven years.

He's also not a whistleblower.
> forcing them to match plate to car make/model/color/year

(In a few years) It's amazing how many crimes are committed in white/black/grey Toyota RAV4/Camrys.
They used to be remote.
What a shame. I'd love those geniuses who decided to remove content to be sued for fraud or willful negligence at least for wasting taxpayers money this way.
Deep Learning Course
Agreed.

Here’s the thing: the authors of that paper got early access to GPT-4 and ran a bunch of tests on it. The important bit is that MSR does not see into OpenAI’s sausage making.

Now imagine if you were a peasant from 1000 AD who was given a car or TV to examine. Could you really be confident you understood how it worked by just running experiments on it as a black box? If you give a non-programmer the linux kernel, will he/she think it’s magical?

Things look like magic especially when you can’t look under the hood. The story of the Mechanical Turk is one example of that.
There is a framework I recognize as similar put forward by Arnold Kling that I think of often, the Three Languages of Politics, that suggests part of what makes political discourse so often fruitless is that the primary value axes differ for three major political interest groups:

Conservatives: Civilization vs. Barbarism
Libertarians: Freedom vs. Coercion
Progressives: Oppressors vs. the Oppressed

His thesis was that polarization has been increasing because there is often no natural policy alignment across these axes, even while many would probably agree on some fundamental Western tenets of rights and justice.
Bought and old mac, installed Linux on it. We have been talking a lot about it lately and she might be ready to try.
to downvoters: how is it wrong? vote for other candidates. No good candidates? become one. the people as a whole has nobody to blame but themselves, this is how it is in a democracy, you have to take (i know i know, BAD) personal accountability/responsibility, which then sums up to the personal responsibility of the population as a whole, which is then reflected in the elected representatives.
Right, but humans don’t scale that way, so the threat is completely different.

This is like saying a nuclear weapon accident is not that scary because you can also have a microwave malfunction and catch on fire. Sure you can —- but the fact it’s not a nuke is highly relevant.
There's better uses of excess energy. For example desalination or hydrogen production.
I dislike trash as much as the next person, but 50MT is 2% of global waste production (2000MT from my search). Is 50MT or (<1% of predicted 2050 waste) really that bad for generating most of the world's energy? This is before considering that solar panel lifetimes keep increasing; some solar panels are sold with 40 year warranties (88.3% @40years, SunPowerMaxeon), so that number could come down perhaps by half.
It's not solely about AGI. Weak AIs that powered social media algorithms already created hotbeds of polarizing extremism around the world as most members of society do not possess the basic diligence to realize when they are being manipulated. LLMs offer a glimpse into a future where much stronger AI, even if still technically "weak", can produce content in ways that influence public opinion. Couple that with the amount of white collar work eliminated/reduced through LLMs, and it's a recipe for mass social disruption that inevitably leads to unrest unless public policy decision makers act fast. The problem is there is no clear path. Not even the smartest and most rational ones know where this road is going.
To me real intelligence is the ability to reason coherently. Humans, even when they are wrong, work in a way coherent with their prinicples/beliefs/axioms. Consider Sheldon from Big Bang Theory who does a very convincing job as a theoretical physicist, at least to the untrained ear, merely by memorising lines. However, as soon as he is questioned on something he didn't memorise, the act falls apart in a way a real Physicist wouldn't even in a domain he doesn't specialise in. For a trained ear, though, even during the act, the inconsistencies are audible.
Ah right; it just seems like a right hassle to carry around.
No. Shut it down. People are by an large ignorant. They will ruin society voting for things unearned and over power rational minds. Shut it down and create a voting system where the needy have almost no input. The needy will destroy any civilization if given the means. Kill it. I know I will get many down votes but that is fine. Either kill it or it will destroy everything. Want everything destroyed then go right ahead.
I think all packaging material should be taxed by weight, but with a multiplier that corresponds to the amount of that type of material which is actually recycled. Glass is heavy, but the data shows that 90% of it is recycled? The tax is 90% off.

This would do three things:

1) Encourage manufacturers to use materials which are actually recycled.
2) Encourage manufacturers to reduce total material.
3) Encourage manufacturers to invest in new methods of recycling to move the multiplier in their favor.
I'm right with you. This stuff was exciting like ~5 years ago. I did several projects with Firebase functions as well as Lambda. Randomly on a few of my projects, the functions don't work anymore. Although I haven't touched it in like 4 years.

Either way, I'm back on the monolith train and probably won't look back for a while.
Pornhub blocks Utahns ahead of new age verification law
I've always seen interpretability and explainability as different sides of the same coin.

If you take an information-theoretic approach to it, and think of a DL model like any other model, there is a certain equivalence in understanding the model features and how it behaves with reference to the universe of data it is applied to.

It was an interesting article but I felt like it created problems that need not be there (or maybe it's just describing problems that others created?)
It's been mentioned several times here, in addition to discussions outside of HN.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
White House ends Covid vaccine mandate for federal employees, foreign travelers
So because one of your family members has a better quality of life and can live closer to a normal person the rest of us shouldn't worry at all about AI? And anyone who talks against it is a cunt then? What an intelligent argument lmao.
A year after the supposed year of the end of the world has passed without incident.

The goalposts must be kept moving.
They definitely don't peck this fast when digging for food or making holes - those are slower more powerful strikes. The fasy drums are for the purpose of making noise.
Show HN: Preturnio – a full-text search engine for Bitcoin
How do you know it wasn't 2012?
Yes, absolutely. The Maya are generally thought to have been 'around'[1] for ~1450 years.

[1] Of course, Mayan people still exist (and continue to carry their culture), but this is about the civilization.
Get a burner phone. Or ask a stranger in a coffee shop. Preferably someone who doesn't use all the social media stuff
Ask HN: Has anyone been hired from Who Wants to be Hired?
Ir would be indefensible for the government to pick people. It didn’t do that before on TV so why would it do that now ?

Quota laws are not that rare outside of the US. They were used in France to rebuild the National cinema.

There is no trend for the government to do what you’ve described, and they do is they create a positive loop between the distributors and content creators so more local content is produced and shown.
Most of the students do not leave university as high qualified, badly needed workers, but as useless parasites, like lawyers, economists, psychologists, sociologists, ..............
It takes 5 goddamn minutes, once a year to put a new registration sticker on.

So that's, what, about 5.5 hrs total over 65 years of driving?
I’ve heard of managers who are so inclusive of trans women that they talk down to them and give them menial clerical tasks (as an engineer) as if they were cis women.
Educating people to spend time solving themselves a problem over-and-over forever, versus expanding our knowledge of material science to solve that same problem for everyone, once and for all?

I know which one's preferable.
This may be configuration / device related but I don't have to say "Hey Google" for "Hey Google, Stop" at least on my Pixel device, which is the only device I would find the need to do this for, to stop an alarm. You can just say "Stop" or "Snooze". The complexity / nuance may be different for differing device realities and situations.
> Bossing around entities on the internet to give special treatment to your niche causes is the new thing, is what everyone all of a sudden is giving themselves laws to do.

In Canada the only unique thing here is the “on the Internet” component of your sentence. Canada has been bullying business of all sorts into all sorts of things under the guise of “culture” for decades. Apparently our culture is so weak that it can’t stand up on its own and needs the entire edifice of government to prop it up.
I don't think it's futile to try to change an organization within, but depending on the level of toxicity a lot of times leaving (and giving opportunities to others who want to leave and are still there) does more good than spinning your wheels someplace.
Not nice to see that we are following in the footsteps of Venezuela. Beautiful country and great people obviously, but not exactly known for its alignment with free and democratic principles.
Did you read the article ? It specifically says user generated content is NOT covered.
I didn’t just go rush to execute a thousand API calls in response to this “prompt injection” and there’s no human who would or could
Interesting, I read about it but there are mixed reviews, and i am no way near to audit myself… i think really the easiest (and free as in google :/) will be chrome remote desktop.
What was exploitive about Waypoint?
Humble Book Bundle Python by No Starch Press
Because they had found a prior mention of a 819 day period in relation to calendars, but didn't make the link at the time (from my understanding of the paper)
You'd likely be a scriptwriter.

It really depends. If someone has someone else ghostwrite them a book (this is super common), are they still a writer? No.

Are they an author? Maybe.

Are they just a brand slapped on the cover to shift units? Yeah, pretty much.
Usually regulation becomes a moat, I have doubts the type of regulation OpenAI wants to implement isn’t just regulating but make it very costly for compliance as well
Many HOAs require a specific type of grass so they might have no choice.
We should just bury plastic in a nearby modern landfill.

Plastic comes from oil, and putting it back into the ground is probably one of the best things you can do with it from a CO2 point of view.

Spending fuel etc transporting it to be recycled is just a waste.
Please actually respond to the points made given their most charitable interpretation, as the guidelines suggest.
I'm Canadian, and I like CanCon rules. While this new law has major flaws, I still view it as a net positive.
Yes! Ublock origin installed!
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8359474/
Worldwide coal consumption is over 7 billion tons. So we could just burn those solar panels to ash and it would still be a dramatic improvement over what they're replacing.
(Is it either/or?)
We have ALPR in Santa Barbara at the city parking lots.

These have 72-hour data retention and 30-day data retention at the airport and waterfront.

While SB’s are not placed around the city to track all license plates like the ones in Palo Alto, Reifschneider’s statement of Palo Alto’s retention limits being “the shortest in the state” is not fully accurate.

PDF: https://santabarbaraca.gov/sites/default/files/2022-06/Final...
That's not the right phrase, it should be "annoys me no end".
I mean why ruin the infinite money hose the U.S. has?
I’m not in a position to evaluate your management, but I do think it’s important to point out that you and/or your org may have biases which make it harder for you to see issues, and which may discourage people from raising concerns. Discrimination is only extra work if it’s a conscious goal, and it’s easy to miss if your effort avoidance signals the bias as “normal”.

It’s entirely possible you’re totally unbiased and your self described laziness is warranted. But it’s at least as likely somewhere on the spectrum of not enough of a problem for people to risk rocking the boat.
Pornhub Blocks All of Utah from Its Site
Location: Vancouver, BC
Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Web fullstack, audio, MIDI, MusicXML

Résumé/CV: https://blog.karimratib.me/assets/CV-KarimRATIB.pdf

Email: karim.ratib@gmail.com

I've been working for several years on web audio projects, including professional contracts. My personal projects in this space involve a fully open-source music sheet player, supporting automated accompaniment and non-western musical cultures. You can see my progress at https://github.com/infojunkie.

I am seeking part-time or full-time engagements to work in the web audio space.
By saying "I no longer think that", it's not necessarily that he thinks ChatGPT is smart than humans. Google Search has been far more capable at indexing and retrieving information than humans for over two decades now. He's talking about AGI no longer being 30-50 years away but instead may arrive far sooner than society is ready to deal with.
How is it easier to sell energy? Electricity is not digital, you need to build the wires, figure out the demand and fund the operations of the whole thing.
>What the paper actually shows is that even intelligent people have a bias towards perceiving patterns in randomness

I'm not saying that you're wrong, but...

you'd have to provide a more rigorous rebuttal to be taken seriously.

AGI can exist without sapience and intelligence is a continuum. you can't just hand wave away GPT's capabilities which is why the sharpest minds on the planet are poking this new machine to work out wtf is going on.

human intelligence is a black box. we judge it by its outputs from given inputs. GPT is already producing human-like outputs.

a common rebuttal is: "but it doesn't *really* think/understand/feel", to which my response is: ...and? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ what does that even mean?
It's bizarre, considering there was zero cost for hosting the thousands of videos that had already been on Youtube for years.
I've always heard it as, "annoys me no end". No "to" in there.
I do wonder this - I also wonder about companies constantly posting they're hiring - like, why are your employees churning so badly?
See also: https://br.ifunny.co/picture/R68WTJxJA
Anecdotal story time, when I was a young student in France, I believed that discrimination was mostly a thing from the past, I believed that in 2000, being black wouldn't affect hiring decisions that much and wouldn't make it much harder to find a job.

Then two very good friends of mine graduated, they were both black, they were both French citizens from the French islands, they both graduated as electronics engineers within the top 10% of their class, they were well-spoken, and pretty much serious model students. The average time to find a class for people who graduated in their major was less than 2 months. One of my friend found a job in 6 months, the other in 5 months. Both of them had a starting salary that was more than 40% lower than the average salary of the other students in my university graduating in the same major.

That's when I discovered that discrimination still exists and that it has tremendous impact. So, it doesn't surprise me at all that being transgendered makes finding a job significantly harder.
Wow, this is sinister and really needs to stop.
There should be requirements for phone makers to recycle their own phones.
What’s different in the downside case of AI is exactly what’s different in the upside case of AI: immense power that we have never seen before.

We now have a few “live x-risks,” each one representing a high wire we cannot fall off of even once, but nor can we just choose to step off of them safely. AI is an additional potential doom we are suspended above, and if it lives up to its positive potential it’ll also be able to produce a million more x-risks by itself (e.g. viruses).

Additional risk is always bad, and is not mitigated by “other technologies before it also carried risk.” It’s all additional, and this is the biggest addition so far (if it lives up to its positive technological promise).
Because ChatGPT assembles letters into words and sentences without attribution and so is untrustworthy.
>> You gotta start somewhere

Such a strange concept. People like songs from "Region A" but we in "Region B" and want people to like songs from our own region. We do this by restricting access to "Region A"'s songs, not by making better songs in "Region B".
I might point out that today is labour day in most of the world, so that might lead to fewer posts.
A lot of whistleblowers can't seem to find work after they blow the whistle

weird
One per person on the planet in a single year?

Never preface your talking point with an obviously wrong statistic.
There is good content that is being produced in Quebec, you just have to look out for it and not expect Hollywood quality production. Xavier Dolan, Denis Villeneuve and Jean-Marc Vallée (rip), Monia Chokri and more, all started their career in Quebec thanks to legislation around creating French content.

The "90% bad TV" also happens everywhere, especially in the US. The number of CSI spinoffs must be really high.

One of the dangers from YouTube/streaming platforms in regard to French Canadian content is that the economics is just not the same. For example, Linus Tech Tips have a global reach since it's English content. M. Net (now defunct tech show in Quebec) or something similar would not even be closed to compete monetarily.
I love when design that optimizes the humane experience is being pushed forward. I celebrate this technology ten thousand times happier than the next hyped self serving tech framework.
NFT Marketplace Blur Launches Blend, a Peer-to-Peer Lending Platform
If you are throwing an old DVD or blue ray player and you are sure that it will not be recycled, take a moment to disassemble it, get out the reader head and marvel at the complexity of what you are about to put to the trash.
Not sure if it was intentional,but the title of this article is pretty hilarious considering she explicitly badmouths explainability (trying to peer inside a black box) and advocates for interpretability (building models that are less black-boxy in nature).

Also, man, quanta feels really rough and popsci-y when it comes to CS.
This is because recycling is a fraud whose primary goal is to make people overcome their opposition to consuming wasteful plastics.
I swapped out my failing middle mouse button
It's not one or the other. It's that we're spending millions into one category and zero in another.

Zero waste is already technically achievable with the technologies we have today. Kamikatsu, Japan is an extreme example where they sort their waste into 34 different bins.

We don't have to do all that but we would see extreme immediate benefits from even slightly abandoning George Bush's "the American lifestyle is non-negotiable" proclamation
Yeah I'm on a Pixel 2 still and it's snappy as ever, I would see no improvement at all by buying this year's flagship. I'm sorry to hear other androids aren't the same.
> It reminds me of when Western countries burned coal for 100 years to get where they are and then don’t want other countries to do that. I get it, and I don’t want the earth polluted either but it certainly smacks of colonialism/manifest destiny type thinking.

That kind of argument makes less and less sense the more you think about it. It's like arguing that Africa can't develop the Internet until after they get their telegraph network up and running. There's no reason that a functional power grid requires the use of fossil fuels as the primary energy source, and we're already at a point where renewable energy is as cheap to set up as fossil fuel plants. An advantage to starting industrialization later is you don't have to waste time working through worse versions of technology. If you want to be competitive, starting out on the latest and greatest is the best choice, especially because you often have a chance of undercutting existing providers who have too much sunk capital costs in less efficient technology.
The town installed it on a one-year trial basis. The cameras didn't break any cases and cost the town a huge amount of money to pay for police overtime to review all the footage.

The city council voted unanimously to make them permanent, even in the face of clear evidence that they were useless. Why? To be seen to be doing something. They even said so in the resolution.

Check out the staff report on page 335 of the agenda packet PDF.
https://losaltoshillsca.portal.civicclerk.com/event/2742/fil...

The final paragraphs before hitting boilerplate were especially galling:

Even though residential burglaries are at an all-time high since the system was installed and no direct correlation can be made between the system and a reduction in residential burglaries, the cameras remain a tool that the Sheriff’s Office can use to help solve ongoing crime in Town and have been successful in solving other types of crimes.

It is impossible to tell whether the presence of the cameras themselves could have deterred additional burglaries from happening, but in all, the cameras remain a reminder to the citizens of Los Altos Hills that the Town cares about their safety and that the Council is actively trying to
reduce crime from occurring in Town.
>> FM radio is required to broadcast

So, how does this work on Spotify? Am I now required to listen to Nickelback?
>> if you're genuinely losing sleep about GPT-4 becoming a general agent that does every job

I guess I'm one of those people, because I'm not convinced that GPT-3.5 didn't do some heavy lifting in training GPT-4... that is the take-off. The fact that there are still some data scientists or coders or "ethics committees" in the loop manifestly is not preventing AI from accelerating its own development. Unless you believe that LLMs cannot, with sufficient processing power and API links, ever under any circumstances emulate an AGI, then GPT-4 needs to be viewed seriously as a potential AGI in utero.

In any event, you make a good case that can be extended: If the companies throwing endless processing at LLMs can't even conceive of a way to prioritize injection threats thought up by humans, how would they even notice LLMs injecting each other or themselves for nefarious purposes? What then stops a rapid oppositional escalation? The whole idea of fast takeoff is that a sufficiently clever AI won't make its first move in a small way, but in a devastating single checkmate. There's no reason to think GPT-4 can't already write an infinite number of scenarios to perform this feat; if loosed to train another model itself, where is the line between that LLM evolution and AGI?
You missed a perfect opportunity to use “righteous!”