skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pathetic when you point out the danger of 50 people lying about data and getting busted for lying only to get downvoted..meh. So is the world we live in. It's fine up until the point however people are lying about your own personal court case. At that point the rule of law means something again.
Webb Looks for Fomalhaut’s Asteroid Belt and Finds Much More
>Cool! I hope we can learn from this rich vocabulary the Greeks have developed to describe and to understand our common nature.

I have written an article recently, in which i renamed
Tor -> Pandiodos,
Torrent -> Logothece,
Bitcoin -> Drattergon,

/google emporas lichess blog/ it is somewhere there.
Why should facility with language be the foundation of general intelligence? Any more than cat recognition is? I would argue that it's the other way around - in living things, development of language is emergent from intelligence, not a prerequisite for it. That desired behaviour 'emerges' from specialised networks trained for a specific purpose should not be too surprising, but it doesn't automatically imply that any other behaviour will appear. I think in the case of ChatGPT, we just didn't really know what to expect; we are therefore amazed by the things it can do, whereas with time and greater understanding perhaps we will come to realise that this is what language models are - and perhaps in the process understand our own minds more deeply.

My feeling is that the crucial difference between us and the machines right now is that our software runs on the network, whereas ChatGPT et al use the network as part of their operation, as if the network is some sort of coprocessor. I don't think we'll see "true" AGI until there is nothing but the network receiving inputs and feeding back into itself endlessly, i.e. introspecting - thinking about thinking about thinking, per Douglas Hofstadter. I have no basis for this assertion beyond intuition though.
> you’re still going to trust plenty of mail

Maybe. But maybe people have by now learned that there is lots of junk mail not worth opening.

I personally don't answer the phone any more unless the caller is on my contacts list. I do the same for email, although some of them I read. But with this new feature I would have a clear rule, don't even open it unless it comes from verified address.

This new feature would mean I have 3 types of incoming emails:

1. Mail from people in my contacts list

2. Mail from people who are not in my contacts-list
but who are verified by Google.

3. Everything else, is junk
> Swipe to vote undesirables out of the company

Reminds me of Athenian ostracism. I always thought we should have a write-in line on ballots where if more than a third of voters write one name, they’re banned from public office for ten years.
The tech industry more or less refuses and denies with the fury of a thousand chimpanzees the reality that common men only see computers and the things they provide as fixed appliances.
>compared to the 1token/second claimed by the p40 user

That user is doing something wrong. They may not be cooling it and are getting thermal throttled. That would be my guess.

The P40 is capable of upwards of 10 tokens/second with 30b.
The whole debate is that when you decode the weights (i.e. "run AI on some prompt") you do in fact get training code reproduced verbatim. The fact that we do not have tools to analyze this decoding function analytically is orthogonal.
That's not really a reason, and it's not even true. Some people a long time ago decided that. "We" didn't decide that, and certainly not collectively. I don't think the popular consensus is that copyright is good either.
Then Captain Beef Heart walks in the room...
When the summary of a new law is comprised entirely of saying it bans things that are already illegal (such as harassment [1]), that's a good sign they're lying through omission.

In this case, the law makes it a 1st class misdemeanor (up to 1 year jail time and $1000 fine [2]) to "display or project, using any medium, an image onto a building, structure, or other property without the written consent of the owner of the building, structure, or property" [3].

I.e. even if the display is not harassing or threatening in any way, and even if the owner does not complain, you can go to jail for up to a year. That includes any structure (such as a bridge or billboard), and any medium (unfurl a banner or use a projector).

In other words, it makes illegal to spread a message through anything but official channels they can pressure and control.

[1] https://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/crime-penalties/federa...

[2] https://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/florida-misd...

[3] https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/269/BillText/er/P...
Typically when you see mass automation of benign posts they are "priming" the accounts to make them appear human and trustworthy before they start spamming/phishing with them later. Brand new accounts are treated with more scrutiny by spam filters so this technique lets them get around that.

A more primitive version of the technique was YouTube comment bots that simply re-posted other users comments verbatim - now with LLMs they can easily generate unique white noise posts instead.
if you propose any reforms to the intellectual property schemes at all, musicians will be the first to be protesting that.

the system allows all kinds of abuse, but it also greatly benefits anybody who makes their living through intellectual property, at the expense of all the rest of us. this specific time it hurts Ed Sheeran, but it's also made him a lot of money. and we all care about it this time because it affects somebody famous enough for us to care, but all those "chilling effects" already exist and art and creativity is stifled every day to protect the rich and famous (and their heirs)
If you don't have a non-binary measurement criteria you can't tell if it's "emergent" or "step-function" improvement because you can't easily distinguish "90% of the way to consistently seeming logical" from "85% of the way there" from "82% of the way there" etc.
There's no proof of that...., I looked before I posted because I thought it was him too

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/11/11/exhaust-alternative...
The public good of reducing CO2 emissions is a higher priority. By the way I have a safe, too. It’s 30 lbs and fireproof (supposedly).
Blood-brain barrier is one of the problems few antiviral drugs work against rabies virus once it reaches CNS. Maybe we are one step closer to a protocol that finally works reliably.
"I hope this message finds you well"

Direct-to-post ChatGPT chat is extremely easy to spot right now. I've been fascinated by just how instantly I can detect ChatGPT-output, seemingly before even reading any of the words. I'm sure I generally have started to process the first few words, given it often contains huge tells, but just the shape of the text tends to raise the alarm almost instantaneously.
Yet something like no man's sky happened. That couldn't have imagined a worse launch, and really they deserved it.

But, they really did regain the trust of the public by adding all that was promised and more. For free. In my personal view they more than redeemed themselves. I still find it a bit boring but that's to be expected with so much RNG/Autogen. It's inherent to the type of game. But all the initial shortcuts taken have been fixed.

CP2077 never bothered to do this. I love the game and the story but some parts feel ridiculously hollow and short. Like the 3 starter paths. There's so little unique content in them that I'm sure they were so heavily cut that the only reason they were kept at all is that they had already been promised.

I really wish stuff like this would have been filled in after release.

The subway system someone else mentioned is another example. The fast travel option we got feels like a cop out.
Way to Govern AI? Emulate It
No. Or at least as far as we know.

Ultrasound is still a mechanical force that can be focussed in a specific area to open a part of the Blood Brain Barrier.

Wifi and bluetooth are electromagnetic, and interact less with the brain. Their transmission power is also extremely low. So they don’t do much.

Super powerful MRI scanners (3T or more) can heat up the body a little bit with electromagnetic waves, but still no focal damage or anything.

Trauma however, or certain diseases can open the barrier.
Problem with these (like Yubico), if you loose it, it’s all gone and you are locked out of your accounts.
Can one pay for an ad free Windows? This sounds awful.
What we need is someone to troll respond with ChatGPT generated responses.
> That's a wildly exaggerated interpretation of rainytuesday's post. I interpreted it as calling out the one-sided purity test applied to which media one may engage with.

You didn’t need to interpret. They said[0] what they meant pretty clearly.

> Non-engagement with the thesis was the point

And I don’t agree given actual political alignment that “news without a liberal filter” is mild. It’s a dog whistle for increasingly active hate. The news without such a “liberal filter” is openly hostile to my existence, and far moreso towards other people I care about. And to that point,

> If we ignore what anyone we dislike has to say, even when we think what they're saying is true, then dialogue is impossible.

I don’t want dialogue with anyone who wants me to cease to exist, nor anyone who wants to keep people I care about from existing. That’s not intellectual curiosity and it’s not the bedrock of a functioning society. It’s the exact principle of demanding people entertain harmful ideas even when recognized.

You can engage whatever you want, but I’m not obligated to spend a second thought on people who want me dead.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35867929
These guys enumerated all melodies up to a certain number of notes and copyrighted them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJtm0MoOgiU
If you are so vague about the context, your comment is close to useless.
I think this is close to the real meaning of "meek" as used in "the meek shall inherit the earth". It's not meekness as we know it but being gentle(manly|womanly).

From your link - "such as temperance, moderation, prudence, purity, decorum, and self-control."
ChatGPT tends to over mock the module to the point it will always pass the test, so except for utilities module, this isn't helping much either. This is especially common in JS environment.

If you think about it, it does make sense why: the prompt tends to have no where near the context of how the module should be delineated. Normally the programmer knows how the abstraction within his program is separated, but we have no good way to tell it to chatGPT. That means unless your program structure is still following one of the common structure and hasn't morphed into your business domain structure, ChatGPT will mock the wrong layer/ abstraction in the test suite.
I haven't needed to shop for another G-Shock since buying my solar a decade ago, so I was a bit surprised by their collection and the "up to 35 hour charge" of the new line.

I might replace the battery soon; the battery drained early this year from wearing my jacket. In years past, it always survived through winter and into spring. It's been so reliable, I find it hard to blame the watch.

Maybe my arms are getting shorter?
Cancel your credit card (report it as lost) - Facebook will soon chase
Well, people who use creatine also have a greater chance of having dihydrotestosterone, if I recall correctly....

Honestly hard to say, because that doesn't immediately "disprove" it either....
Oh, yeah, maybe that is. So with chimps we share a common ancestor. Even more accurate, chimps are our closest relative species living on earth today, with which we share the more close/recent ancestor.
Your own link below implies this is an open debate; that it is at least arguable that the CHLCA is a species that would be correctly classified in Pan i.e. a chimp.
A remote dev workspace usable on iPad
Been dreaming to do my web dev on an iPad Pro for some years now. Since there is many limitations due to iPadOS, I tried RDP and many web IDEs, but never got the feel I really wanted, so I started my own project.

Here's a small technical breakdown :

- xtermjs and node-pty for a smooth web terminal

- codemirror and coder/code-server (vscode) as text editors
(codemirror feels much better on iOS device and vscode is better for heavy development)

- a dynamic reverse proxy server to access internal port
(ie: reaching localhost:3000 from a public url)

- everything runs from within a docker container, so self-hosting and local installation is very easy. Plus ressource allocation is a bit simpler than with VMs.

- The web app is a PWA, so it's installable and runnable fullscreen.

Mainly, it mimics a remote desktop, but the remote host doesn't compute any graphic since it's all taken care by the client web app. And it's usable on iPad.

I'm working on a plan and system to release to the public somewhere this summer. I was wondering if there was any interest ?
They got me with this too.

I can't migrate my account to a Microsoft account because I don't recall associating any e-mail address with my Mojang account and they've never sent me anything. I have the PayPal receipt from 2010 but due to bad bookkeeping on their side they can't verify my account with it. It's a real mess.

An additional bit of silliness I've noticed: they can't even get their EULA and terms of service correct. The EULA at https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/eula points to a binding arbitration agreement that doesn't exist...
Dr. Gupta: AI Physician Chatbot
I tend to agree. I think a lot of what LLMs do that looks like reasoning is just basic statistical pattern matching. If you see the string `2 + 2 = 4` enough, you don't need to know maths to know the next character in the string, `2 + 2 = ` is going to be, `4`.

A lot of the stuff people ask LLMs do to probably falls into this category to be honest. If I were to guess the vast majority of maths on the internet is just generic textbook examples which an LLM might be tempted to brute force. There's likely much better things LLMs can dedicate network capacity to to reduce error than learning high-level math models, given that most text doesn't contain maths, and most of the maths it sees is probably just the generic, `2 + 2 = 4` type stuff.

I'd argue humans often do this too despite our general intelligence. Student prepping for exams often read all of the course material the night before and simply try to remember the bits that they need to pass their test rather than spending unnecessary time building a higher level mental models of the material.

It's only when you need to learn to predict something novel frequently that the need to comprehend at a higher level becomes necessary.

I think given the size of modern LLMs and the amount of data they're trained on it's likely that they are now starting to create these higher level abstractions as the limits of brute force statistical pattern matching are starting to be reached.

With GPT-3.5/4 it seems specifically the types of reasoning you might need to follow a piece of written text it can do quite well. And this isn't surprising given the training data probably consists of a lot of news articles and fictional pieces of text, and relatively little unique maths.
>Their "job," insofar as it requires lying to people, explicitly does not include lying or manipulating the American people.

Lying to the American people was the explicit goal of Operation Mockingbird, in addition to many other (known) CIA operations.

I would suggest that anyone who has a rosy (and false) view of what the CIA does (and has done) spend some time watching the Church Committee hearings (which themselves only scratched the surface).
Did that end up being a “support” call where they sold you more services?
Slash is an issue of bad practices. It's fixable with better management and isn't an inherient feature of forestry
CRISPR-modified human embryonic stem cells showed resistance against radiation
Now you have a test that passes but checks something unrelated.
The internet's noise floor rising was always going to be a given with generative AI, but man to see how low effort, lazy, and haphazard it has been... disappointing.

Everyone's been so scared of intentionally malicious groups, we all forgot about the average lazy fraud who wanted to boost his github commit graph, make his subreddit seem alive, or whatever the dumb case may be.
The models can distill basic fundamental principles and broadcast them over vast amounts of working memory beyond human capability to process, so no, it’s not necessarily true that it would be impossible to extrapolate superhuman cognition from contemporary corpus sources. Especially considering we can associate writing samples with intelligence levels and then project out to iq 9000
The _full_ Oxford English Dictionary (aka 'OED') - multiple volumes with detailed entries of each word.

Eg: the third entry for 'Hotel' (n)

3.3 A house for the entertainment of strangers and travellers, an inn; esp. one that is, or claims to be, of a superior kind.

1765 Smollett Trav. xxxix. (1766) II. 235 The expence of living at an hotel is enormous.

1775 Ash, Hostel, an inn, an hotel.

1776 R. King in Life & Corr. (1894) I. 20 By a Gentlemen who lately came out of Boston I was informed that they have two bake houses constantly employed in baking for their hotels.

1783 Let. in H. Arnot Hist. Edinburgh App. 512 In 1763 there was no such place as an Hotel: the word indeed was not known, or only intelligible to French scholars.

1806–7 J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life (1826) xiv. i, Groping your way to the inn—(I beg pardon—hotel).

1817 Walker, Hostel, Hotel, a genteel inn: this word is now universally pronounced and written without the s.

1834 Medwin Angler in Wales II. 118, I‥returned slowly‥to my hotel.

contains notes on prior printed usages of the word through time.
and Remote Development extensions
Just a little thing, this is in Julia
Weight lifting, ironically.

(see the rating + probability of positive effect charts here. [Warning, this is another insane rabbit hole of research to fall into!]): https://troof.blog/posts/nootropics/
You need something that can:
- be easily installed in a low-budget LAMP server
- implement an online store in a few clicks
- be used and administrated mostly by non-tech people
> "Astronomers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to image the warm dust around a nearby young star, Fomalhaut, in order to study the first asteroid belt ever seen outside of our solar system in infrared light. But to their surprise, the dusty structures are much more complex than the asteroid and Kuiper dust belts of our solar system. Overall, there are three nested belts..."

I almost feel like they were hoping to find planets but didn't see any. But of course this is science press release writing. So instead of "Webb Looks in Fomalhaut’s Asteroid Belt for Planets But Didn't Find Any" they put a more positive spin "Webb Looks for Fomalhaut’s Asteroid Belt and Finds Much More" as is tradition.
Couldn’t you just buy some more and make a killing? Couldn’t a distributor after having sold out a few times see the opportunity and make a killing? How is this vast conspiracy keeping all of its thousands of participants in line? Your theory doesn’t make sense.
https://recurai.com to do this with sms :)
> Historically at 20-40% unemployment wars start and country leaders are physically disassembled in the street.

Close, but not quite. At 20-40% unemployment and with people <<starving>> and <<physically insecure>>, wars start.
Sure, here's another example comment that tries to use a more sarcastic tone:

"Oh boy, another brilliant idea for generating crappy code! Let's just automate our way to technical debt and maintenance hell. Who needs readable, maintainable code anyways? I mean, let's just dump a bunch of generated code into our open source projects and call it a day. Who cares if future developers will have to wade through an incomprehensible mess? I'm sure they'll thank us for our foresight and ingenuity. Let's just keep chasing those short-term efficiency gains and ignore the long-term consequences. What could go wrong?"

;)
> further increase the wealth/power gap

The wealth gap is a distraction, it doesn't measure anything meaningful. We shouldn't care how big the wealth gap is, rather, are more people leading healthy, happy lives. To go further, equal opportunity is more important than equal outcomes.
Have you confirmed that their charges aren't still showing up on your credit card statement? Merchants collecting recurring payments use updater services to update expiration dates automatically.
If you're interested in showing photographs and paintings on a classic Mac, I actually made an app for that. It takes modern images, dithers them to 1-bit, and then exports the results to MacPaint format (encoded in MacBinary for easy transport). It works on modern versions of macOS:
https://oaksnow.com/retrodither/
I had no idea what QRP is so I looked it up. Wikipedia says it's for HAM radio lower power devices.

> The term "QRP" derives from the standard Q code used in radio communication, where QRP is used to request "Reduce power" and QRP? is used to ask "Should I reduce power?"
Some of those are contextual, but "ought to be done" is certainly future tense, it's referring to a future activity. It's a pretty apt example for future passive, juxtaposing the future active "will be done."

Or at least that's how I reason it. English is rather hard to analyze sometimes.
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse Amanda.
If you are stuck on wordpress, consider using a static export plugin like wp2static [1]. I have been playing around[2] with a setup where the normal WP UI is protected behind HTTP Basic Authentication, and wp2static exports the public snapshot

[1] https://github.com/WP2Static/wp2static

[2] https://github.com/jessopb/wp_d_rymcg
It's not really whether the doctor will "accept your insurance". Doctors will "accept", i.e. bill, any insurance, but if your insurance company doesn't consider that doctor in-network, it will just not pay and you're stuck with a nice medical bankruptcy.

In my area (suburban CA, not particularly in the middle of nowhere), nearly all the doctors that are in-network are not accepting new patients. The one I found that had that magical overlap of "accepting new patients" and "in-network" has a 6-12 month waiting period for new patients. Hope I don't get sick!
Not all X features are going to be implemented in wayland, right? If a feature has security implication, chance that it won't be implemented in wayland. It took them years to get screen sharing working, and that with a significant proportion of wayland users begging for it on every release. Chance that other insecure but useful X features won't be implemented in wayland unless they can be implemented with security in mind AND the features somehow got prioritized for development (or some l33t programmers suddenly show up with a patch and got accepted).
You connect non-open-source third-party tools to your work calendar? I certainly don't.
Grafana Cloud is definitely cheaper especially if you have some volume.
Is that a real answer from ChatGPT? I wouldn't consider that totally correct; it's possible that some Smerps are Merps, but it's also possible that no Smerps are Merps.
In the same vein, it's very funny to me how many people are feeding proprietary information to LLMs without giving a damn about their employer's stance on data privacy.
Was it crystal by chance? I meant to have a look at it but never bothered, if it is maybe I will.

As for the SQLish approach, I’m not sure, it just seems to fit. I think it came from the way that there’s a thing you are requesting, and you have constraints you want applied to it. I think it’s one of those things where the analogy to SQL gives us developers just enough of a toe hold on what we’re doing to produce something but ultimately I think it will start to look less like SQL.