skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect there will be a lot more attention to ageism in about 10 years when the current of cohort of tech workers starts getting replaced by younger new college grads. Right now the population affected by ageism is just not big enough. It mostly affects Gen-X, which isn't that big and didn't have that much tech presence in the first place, most went into more traditional fields. When it starts to hit the mid-millenials, it will be too big to ignore.
That's true -- some bats never have kids. They just have lots of hobbies and are very fulfilled.
Indeed. Yet in Baltimore I've seen GrubHub drivers openly carrying and wearing body armor.
Yes, big second from me. HTDP taught me how to how to work with through complex data structures/problems in a really clear and simple way.
Anna’s Archive has backed up the world’s largest comics shadow library
Or, you've mismanaged the business so thoroughly and have such negative reviews you wish it looked like you were being swept away.

It'd be a convenient yarn to spin to concerned shareholders, anyways.
"Don't use ZFS. It's that simple. It was always more of a buzzword than anything else, I feel, and the licensing issues just make it a non-starter for me."
-Linus Torvalds

https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=189711&curpost...
His linear algebra lectures on youtub: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVKj3LADCnA&list=PL49CF3715C...

M.I.T's OCW containing the same videos: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-06-linear-algebra-spring-2010...
It's better than not hosting the data in friendly or neutral turf, but you're trusting a U.S. company (Oracle) to somehow some way mitigate Chinese surveillance and algorithmic manipulation.

Erecting an industrial complex dedicated to a poorly-defined and probably impossible anti-China mission on a Chinese-controlled platform, run by entities that salivate at Chinese $$$, doesn't seem like the best idea.
Can you think of any country or empire that survived by not keeping up with military advancements? War is a thing, sad as that truth may be, and working on your countries defense is not a bad thing.
Tell it what you do for a living. Then ask it what it does for a living. A bot will always be in a similar field to you.

I'm a teacher. Any school librarian or counselor is a bot.
There is a happy silent majority that disagrees.

I personally almost never need to run Xwayland. My terminals (kitty, alacrity), web browser, all work great in Wayland with good hidpi scaling. Vscode has good support now too I hear. KiCad seems close to landing good support. I use OBS & it works amazing; Pipewire+Wayland is a modern marvel & such a faster cleaner better system than the slow costly trashfires we had. https://arewewaylandyet.com/ fills most of the rest of the little needs I have.
It's a version of the tundra orbit ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tundra_orbit )

In https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tundra_orbit#/media/File:Anima... its the green orbit.

The figure 8 shape can be seen in https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Qzss-01-120s2.gif though it isn't quite as extreme in its eccentricity as orbits that are trying to service further north.

The shape is based on what is known as "apogee dwell" - that from the ground perspective a satellite at apogee (the furthest distance from earth) will be moving the slowest compared to the ground view. When the satellite is closer to Earth that same velocity will be covering more ground distance (there will also be some actual change in velocity based on how far down Earth's gravity well it goes in and out of, though I haven't done enough orbital mechanics to say with certainty). Judging by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-Zenith_Satellite_System it changes by about 10% as it gets closer to earth.

The main issue (and you'll see this if you use GPS in a city) is that GPS can have difficulty in canyons - either urban or natural.

https://www.traffictechnologytoday.com/news/connected-vehicl...

You need line of site to GPS in order to get an accurate fix. If there's mountain or building in the way, it can have difficulty. Japan's cities are susceptible to this.

The QZSS system is designed to have a satellite directly overhead of Japan so that when you are in a city there is a satellite visible.

> The primary purpose of QZSS is to increase the availability of GPS in Japan's numerous urban canyons, where only satellites at very high elevation can be seen. A secondary function is performance enhancement, increasing the accuracy and reliability of GPS derived navigation solutions. The Quasi-Zenith Satellites transmit signals compatible with the GPS L1C/A signal, as well as the modernized GPS L1C, L2C signal and L5 signals.
Imagine if IKEA sent someone to your house to smash your plates if you used cutlery they didn't like.

The CEO and board who are supervising this ought to be barred from ever running a company again.
'I may not agree with what you have to say, but I will defend until it may have monetary consequences for me your right to say it.'

- Elon, presumably
"Crafting Interpreters"

A physically beautiful book, carefully crafted and written in a style that's entertaining and brilliantly separated into distinct "phases" such that each chapter adds substantial functionality and doesn't leave the codebase in a broken state. The attention to detail and meticulous documentation of the code is no small feat, and this book delivers like no other.

An absolute joy to work through and provides enough technical detail to provide a good foundation without having to slog through compiler textbooks.

Hands down my favorite programming/software related book.
Not saying they should go to jail, but OP is saying they're bricking potentially millions of printers, not one $80 printer.
This is something that I've wondered about before. I've seen many people with that opinion: UIs in the past, although dated looking now, were very intuitive, in that every interactive thing looked interactive.

Contrast that with amorphous, flat, "clean" designs we have today.

So what could we do to have something that looks nice and modern, but is also intuitive, with clear affordances?
> The prosecution should have asked for higher bail if he was further threat to society or

No. Bail shouldn't ever be excessive... if it's purpose is to ensure that they show for trial, then it can only be so high that the defendant should work towards avoiding forfeit. By definition, it must be affordable to them, if only barely so.

It shouldn't be used to keep someone detained. In such cases, prosecutors should have the balls to demand they not be offered bail, and judges the same to withhold it.

Every time a judge sets some ridiculous bail (I think I've personally heard amounts approaching eight digits and this for non-billionaires), it further conditions everyone including the public that high amounts are justifiable, it normalizes it.

Given our reliance on the parasitic bail bonding industry, it turns these amounts into either a pre-conviction fine, buying their way out of detainment, or judicial/prosecutorial incompetence masquerading as prudence.
Don Norman's "The Design Of Everyday Things" was very eye-opening for me. It introduced me to a lot of ideas about the human brain, and about how/why we make mistakes.

This will sound stupid, but that book was the first time I encountered the idea that a brain can just straight up miscalculate and make a mistake. No reason, no explanation. Just your thinking meat did the wrong thing.

Really great book. Very entertaining, and a pretty quick read. I'd recommend it to anybody.

https://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Revised-Expand...
It's the same for every trigram... maybe that makes it easier for it? It could probably memorise the most common trigrams.

If that's the case it would be less accurate for encoding random letters than English.
Yeah totally possible. We’re deciding this right here on this thread.
Your comment makes it seem like you're commenting on the article, but you're not. I'll admit to being rather confused as to why a top level comment has nothing to do with the article at all.
lol, really?

Me:
Can books be fluorescent?

GPT-4:
While the term "fluorescent" is typically used to describe substances that can absorb light and then re-emit it, often at a different wavelength, there's no inherent reason why a book couldn't be made with fluorescent properties.

This could be achieved by using fluorescent ink, dyes, or paints on the cover or the pages, or by incorporating fluorescent fibers into the paper itself. When exposed to ultraviolet light (often called "black light"), these materials would glow. This might be used for aesthetic reasons, for practical reasons like aiding reading in low-light conditions, or for interactive elements in children's books or art books.

It's important to note that this is not a common feature for most books, as it would increase production costs and might not be appealing or necessary for all readers or all types of books. Also, long-term exposure to ultraviolet light can be damaging to many types of paper and ink, which could reduce the lifespan of the book.

As of my knowledge cutoff in September 2021, I don't have any specific examples of fluorescent books, but that doesn't mean they don't exist or couldn't be created.
It's more of a 'bring your own optimizer' kind of a framework.

The idea is that, you know best what optimizations work for your domain.

But a compiler needs a large amount of engineering for things which are not optimizations.

MLIR makes it possible to get this infra (developed utilizing lessons from LLVM and other compilers) for free and share improvements among multiple compilers without pulling your hair out trying to understand misleading academic papers.
A full-blown OS with an office suite fit on something like 100MB drive with everything opening and responding to user input in a snappy manner. And it didn't show random ads or try to track your every action. You could chose when and if to install any updates. All the while running on a 486 with a few megs of RAM. How did we get to the current state of software?

Edit: I remember a few places still running 3.11 well into the 00s because it just worked for the given tasks, got out of the way and didn't require a super-computer to run. The performance difference was especially jarring when Vista came out and barely worked on contemporary hardware.
Because those mostly don't exist in America. Suburbs are dominated by cars, by design.
People are in the loop, this is just a way of taking existing analysis and giving it a different tone. The military deals with a lot of potentially-incorrect info already to great use - no reason this extra source will be bad to have too.
I'm quite sure you can go to prison for stealing a printer. Why not for breaking one?
When it comes to the CCP is it even a "backdoor"? They assert full LEGAL right to all data from companies in their jurisdiction. Everyone who operates in China, domestic or foreign, knows the costs of doing business.
Some (many?) of those statements have been empirically proven false, like understanding humor. Multi-modal LLMs can explain why certain images are funny, for example.
I got some banana bread at work today. Hell yeah.

So it goes to show that waiting for things is, like, worth it.

But there's a lot of bad things in this world, dude.

Like fucking skunks, dude. HELL NO.

Scratching your eye, but it's still fucking itchy. HELL NO.

The fucking Cubs, dude. HELL NO!

Fucking ligatures in fucking programming fonts, dude. HELL! NO!

BUT BANANA BREAD, ON FUCKING WORK, DUDE! HELL YEAH! HELL YEAH, BRO!
It should be clear in 24-28 hours from now.
But they're domestic companies whose staff members, all the way up to the owners and CEOs, are not under threat of disappearance by the totalitarian regime of a hostile state...
It's amazing. One, I learned a lot about database internals.

But more importantly for me, it was an eye opener about all the differences between all those database engines out there.

There are lots of tradeoffs involved in trying to address the problems of distributed databases (obviously), but seeing that database A takes that choice, B another, C leaves out some common feature entirely and therefore doesn't have to care about this, D optimistically ignores the problem hoping to fix it later if it does happen, et cetera - very helpful.

They're not just trade offs, but serious useful databases actually exist that take the different options. Before reading the book I didn't understand how fundamental the differences between all those databases were, I think.
I believe in the United States, and the egalitarian enlightenment era principles upon which it was founded. It's a flawed nation, but any human project, certainly one of this size, is bound to be flawed.

What I do not believe in is the ethno-fascist state of China, run by the CCP, nor do I believe in the kleptocratic crony carnival that is Russia.

So, if there is to be an AI arms race, then I do hope that the West will win. It is good to have qualms, it is right to have reservations, but to over enthusiastically hamstring our own efforts here will give us a momentary peace from ourselves until we are devoured by nations (note, nations, not people, I firmly believe that both the Chinese and Russian people are trapped by their government) whose values and morals do not, at all, align with ours.

If it is time again for us to build a new Arsenal of Democracy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenal_of_Democracy) let us do so with a weary sigh, but own the responsibility fully and not shy away from it.
I think in this case they just know the demand is RED HOT and they don't have nearly the supply to go around. I don't think it's really the typical new product concerns on this one (product-market fit, are we covering use cases, are there technical problems, etc.). They know people want this and would rather have it right this second, problems and all, than wait for a slow rollout; Google just doesn't have the supply to go around.
I like brother printers.
Slashdot's system came close, but it only did half of what's necessary.

IIRC there were no options where the +number and label disagreed -- they didn't have "+1 Spammy" or "-1 Insightful".
This sounds a bit like "suggesting a solution too soon means you cut off a fuller discussion about someone's problems, and their surrounding context." Do you think that's an adequate summary?
You deliberately misrepresent this as one $80 printer; in reality it is the sum total of all printers bricked by this, plus price gouging the printer owners who don’t want their printer bricked.

If even a few dozen printers were bricked by this it would represent more lost value than the threshold for grand larceny in many jurisdictions; do you propose we let people who steal, say, $1600 of goods walk away scot free? And don’t waste your breath on fines —- those will only be passed on to the captive consumers as the “cost of business.”
Use a real NodeJS framework then. Also nowadays it's Typescript tooling that gave superpower to NodeJS backend.
Not sure where you are (Oregon? California?) but BC[0] and north NW US[1] are low.. 88%-95% of normal. Alberta is even worse, although it's hard to find numbers ([1] shows 60-70% for southern parts). That's partly because of the early heat that's already reduced the pack. Drought this year, not floods

[0]: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/environment/air-land-water...
[1]: https://www.drought.gov/drought-status-updates/snow-drought-...
This is very true. There is so much reinvention of processes happening behind the scenes around GPT4 as an API. These advancements will take a few quarters to show impact.
> Not because it was not possible, but because there was no money in it.

When one of the earlier GPT models was released, didn't they straight-up say "none of us expected it to work this well"?

I think it really was closer to "not possible" than "no money" - but more like "no one thought it was possible".
>no program is running

Not true. This is irrational. A program runs when you input a query and it generates a response. There is nothing that says consciousness must be always running. When you ask me a question and I answer it... In that time span of processing you're query all humans are conscious. Therefore it is a possibility that LLMs are too.

What is obvious here is that the consciousness an AI exhibits because it is not always running is clearly different from human consciousness because a human is always running. That is logically the biggest possible statement against consciousness. We simply do not have enough information to say it is absolutely unconscious. Such a claim is illogical.

>We also know that they immediately forget anything they didn't write down. A chatbot has no memory of any internal calculations. If you ask it why it wrote something, it's guessing.

False. First Chatgpt has limited memory in the span of a chat session. Outside of that it forgets things.

Second. Consciousness does not require memory. There are many examples of people with retrograde amnesia or even memories that only last minutes and these people are still considered conscious. Therefore a comment about memory is orthogonal to the concept of consciousness.

>People sometimes believe that an AI-generated character is conscious because the writing is convincing, along with some wishful thinking. But writers and characters aren't the same thing, and there's no writer waiting for your reply when you read the character's dialog. This essentially the same thing that happens when reading fiction.

A convincing facade of consciousness is the first prerequisite of consciousness. That is absolutely the first step. We obviously don't consider if rocks are conscious because rocks don't put up a convincing facade. In this respect many LLMs in a certain sense fulfill to varying degrees this first prerequisite.

The second step is to understand what's going on within the neural nets. In this regard we do not fully understand what is going on and we have made little progress.

So in conclusion we cannot know if these things are conscious. We are in an state of not understanding what's going on.

A statement of saying we do know that it is absolutely unconscious is irrational and illogical at this point. Such is the nature of your reply.
Anthropomorphism is the UI of ChatGPT. Having to construct a framing in which the expected continuation provides value to the user is difficult, and requires technical understanding of the system that a very small number of people have. As an exercise, try getting a "completion" model to generate anything useful.

The value of ChatGPT is to provide a framing that's intuitive to people who are completely unfamiliar with the system. Similar to early Macintosh UI design, it's more important to be immediately intuitive than sophisticated. Talking directly to a person is one immediately intuitive way to convey what's valuable to you, so we end up with a framing that looks like a conversation between two people.

How would we tell one of those people how to behave? Through direction, and when there is only one other person in the conversation our first instinct when addressing them is "you". One intuitive UI on a text prediction engine could look something like:

"An AI chatbot named ChatGPT was having a conversation with a human user. ChatGPT always obeyed the directions $systemPrompt. The user said to ChatGPT $userPrompt, to which ChatGPT replied, "

Assuming this is actually how ChatGPT is configured i think it's obvious why we can influence its response using "you": this is a conversation between two people and one of them is expected to be mostly cooperative.

(https://twitter.com/ynniv/status/1657450906428866560)
I'm entirely failing to envision the process. I want to ask why is the first step (?mapping the book photo to a face of the cube?) is not just restating the original problem, but it's obvious that that question must be missing the point.
Coup didn’t have support from the public.
Honestly this is a waste of money, resources and time.

The EU had forced other things nicely like walled gardens.

I would love to see a law for inter operability for third parties.
But it's just not how GPT-4 works. If it works that way internally, it'll be very consistently decoding base64. It actually fails from time to time for longer inputs.

You projecting your thoughts onto GPT-4. It's how a human will solve this problem. It's a perfectly valid solution, but it doesn't mean GPT-4 does that.
> No MSVC involvement whatsoever

> all I had to do was extract a bunch of headers and link libraries from the Visual C++ 6 SDK

Hmm . . .
I’m left wing and think it’d be catastrophic to reject AI for military applications.

I do worry that hyping something as “ChatGPT-like” distorts better analysis, and makes political discussions about employing AI more opaque than they should be. Maybe the way I’m more left wing is that the profiteering angle worries me.
How does Midjourney factor into business idea generation?
Yeah, Dolt is very neat. I'm pretty much all-in on SQLite at the moment though, so I'm going to try and figure this pattern out in that first.
I don’t find this one bit surprising. It’s no different than language translation.

OpenAI has an association between Base64 tokens and plain text. It’s likely a pretty high correlation, but like everything, it likely has some unpredictable edge cases.
I'm not surprised. UEFI has to publish the revocation keys, then board manufacturers have to update their BIOSes, then the OSes have to enforce them on their level... although tfa makes it sound like Microsoft is skipping the board manufacturers?

I vaguely recall some keys being revoked a couple years ago, but I don't remember why. FWIW, here's a list of previous revocation keys... https://uefi.org/revocationlistfile/archive
Can you point to something specific or was it more an overall sort of rejection of the contents? An old or new testament thing?
You, ah...you know that "finality" is bad in a system that needs to transact money, right?

Fraud exists. (You should know. The cryptocurrency universe is mostly that.) But more importantly, judges exist, and they do not give a single sweet damn that you say it "cannot be reversed".

(And a hearty LOL at "costs pennies". Ethereum gas fees yesterday, on the say you posted this, averaged eight bucks in actual-money terms. I can send a wire cheaper than that.)
Ummm South Korea is actually infamous for throwing almost all ex-presidents to prison, even if they get pardoned eventually. The pardons are always done for "political reasons" and hugely unpopular. We want our ex-presidents to remain in prison, it seems.

There are obviously pros and cons (every Korean will admit that some of these "investigations" are politically motivated hack job, they just disagree on which ones are hacks), but it does send a message that nobody can stay above the law forever, so I think it's not that bad.
All shiney and good, until you end up on the receiving end of said arsenal of democracy. You, necause the government of your country refuses to sell oil for dollars or some other reason, that absolitely requiers "liberation".

But yes, the democratic west should aim for weapon and capability parity. We just should not get on too high a moral horse so.
Lots of comments here trying to place blame on a single party. Can't we agree that it's complicated and that everyone involved is responsible for the circumstances.