skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.”

-David Foster Wallace
I asked your question to Claude but added a line specifying that I wanted more technical details. It actually included a line mentioning a cache but that's about it.

Here is Claude's response:

---

Strings in Java are implemented as objects of the String class. Under the hood, Java strings use the following internal representation:

- A char array to store the characters of the string

- An integer storing the length of the string

- Some other internal fields for synchronization and cache (since Java 5)

When a string is created in Java, a char array is allocated to store the characters of that string. The length integer is set to the actual length of the string.

For example, if you create a string like this:

```java
String s = "hello";
```

Java will do the following:

- Allocate a char array of size 5 to store the 5 characters 'h', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o'

- Set the length field to 5

- Initialize the char array with the string characters

So the internal representation in this case would be:

- A char[5] array initialized to {'h', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o'}

- length = 5

When string operations like concatenation are performed, a new char array is allocated to store the resultant string and the length is updated accordingly. The String class then manages this char array and length field.

So in summary, Java strings use a char array and length field as their internal representation, and the String class encapsulates and manages this representation. The char array approach provides an efficient implementation for string operations in Java.
Maybe I have weird taste but I seem to read a lot of sci-fi where superhuman superintelligence is central to the plot. In addition to the great examples you gave in Vinge and Stross, Banks and Watts come to mind.
If we've learned anything from SVB, the crypto craze, how the rich somehow keep falling for ponzi scams, and all the weirdly unsound startups, it's that these deep pocket people are terribly, remarkably, average and their status comes from things unrelated to their merit or prowess.

I don't know why this is shocking. Money is a social construct so its allocation is also socially constructed. It is results oriented, but it's a more complicated kind of result than investment ROI.

For instance, Michael Spindler and Gil Amelio were paid more for their flopped tenure at Apple than I could ever hope to make. Gil walked away with nearly 8 million his final year after overseeing 708 million in loses. Good gig. Almost every c-level exec I've met at $1 billion+ firms leaves me with the same impression: "a charismatic overconfident idiot"

If you want to do things that require capital, knowing how this stuff actually works is required.
> When that happens, people will just go back into finance and other high pay fields that require less education and effort.

Straight from the horse's mouth I know that quite some very intelligent, insanely well-educated (in a relevant direction, say, doctoral degree in mathematics, physics, stochastics, ...) and hard-working people don't have the personality traits that finance is looking for.

I know quite some insanely talented people who could not, for example, get a permanent position in research (for reasons that have nothing to do with the quality of their research) who would, as mentioned, rather stand no chance of becoming hired in finance (if I had a startup, I would seriously consider hiring them).

So the whole advice of "go into finance" is in my opinion divorced from the reality.
And the man who instigated the whole thing is going to be allowed to run for President again!
It seems that the water should be distilled, otherwise the process will not be as predictable as it is described ...
Haven’t iodine tablets been around for a long time? Why is this better?
Lol all of this is stuff that is trivially fixed with constrained text generation studio:
https://github.com/hellisotherpeople/constrained-text-genera...

Just ban the damn tokens and try again. I wish that folks had more intuition around tokenization, and why LLMs struggle to follow syntactic, lexical, or phonetic constraints.
I played them in order of release.

The atomic bomb subplot seemed seemed laughably nonsensical in terms of the narrative and a mediocre example of a tragedy. The characters and relationships weren't built up to the point were it could produce the desired shocking effect in my opinion. They were just about to make an escape... and then what? Keep being random Marine bros, while everything else remains the same?

I recently watched The Last of Us, and I think the 5th episode is a stellar example of what I think makes up a good tragedy.

At the time I played the game, I didn't really pick up on the torture scene—not sure that was the never before seen, brave and shocking portrayal of the realities of the War on Terror that you remembered it as.

My problem with the plot was that it was logically incoherent, completely bonkers, and really ignorant of politics the middle east and Russia in that time period. I guess that's what happens if you don't have the benefit of hindsight.

Black ops was definitely more of a jingoistic Tom-Clancy-type epos, but it was great historical fiction with a narrative that was beautifully spun and made sense. It has a bit of Fight Club mixed with the Rambo movies and the Manchurian candidate. It plays on all the Cold War fears of nuclear annihilation, secret weapons programs, brain washing, sleeper agents, number stations, etc. and manages to create a great atmosphere. It ties in a bunch of famous places and events like the Bay of Pigs. Vorkuta Gulag, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Vietnam, the Rebirth Island chemical weapons facility and Kowloon walled city. The subtle hints and finally the revelation of the twist that Reznov is a figment of your imagination, a demon of revenge implanted into your psyche back in Vorkuta, are perfect. Your own comrades at the CIA are torturing you, because your they have realized you have been brainwashed after you kept sabotaging their attempts to stop the Soviet plan. It seems like you reveal the purpose of the numbers, because you remember the ship that acts as the transmitter, where you then kill Krevchenko, but his dying words reveal that the numbers were really part of the instructions to activate you as a sleeper agent to assassinate Kennedy. I found that ending incredibly satisfying.
I rather have a competitor outcompete them with a repairable product rather than forcing Apple to make better phones, or that Apple is forced to add repairability in order to compete.

That is not to say regulation is unimportant, but that I rather that regulations tilt the playing field toward more consumer friendly companies.
Sure. But just as you don't have a right to material support from the state in order to live, you don't have a right to material support from the state in order to die. Unless you happen to live in a country in which you do have such a right. Regardless, these rights are limited. I'm in favor of increasing the first right such that suicides are minimized, and reducing the second right to not prosecuting you for attempting suicide.
What’s Causing Wage Stagnation in America? – Employer Concentration (2019)
We switched from Apache to lighttpd back in the day specifically for performance issues; the other option would have been to add a new server. This wasn't "Facebook scale": just a small company with 2 devs running a few sites with quite a lot of pageviews.

Since then computers (and presumably also Apache) have become faster and I don't really know how it compares today, but at least in the past it really did make a significant enough performance difference to care about.
Look, it's not really on point for the article, but I just want to say that you probably have NO IDEA how fucking WEIRD European eels are. Because of their insanely convoluted life cycle, really smart people thought they spontaneously generated for FAR FAR LONGER than you'd think is reasonable.

There's really great and fairly short book about eels and eel-fishing mixed in with a memoir called THE BOOK OF EELS by Patrik Svensson that I cannot recommend highly enough.
I also wonder if we are beginning to accept criminality as class elevation. That’s a society I don’t want to be a part of.
> On July 4th, the sun is still moving northward from the Tropic of Cancer

Shouldn't that be "southward"
I don't think that this author's point is that we read for the sake of summarizing, per se, but rather that the act of summarizing forces us to engage more thoughtfully with what we've just read. It's that engagement itself that enriches our understanding of the book. By all means enjoy what you're reading while you're reading it!
"Beauty in the Beast" album on streaming services or re-issues would be wonderful.

The title track is, to me, absolutely epic and transports my mind to a parallel dream dimension. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2j1gy2
> They'll pay less when they stop making $2 million per year per engineer

When a company makes 2 million USD per engineer and year and can afford to pay less, it will. :-)
All of that "GPTism" and the problems in the GPT conversation you posted are because of how they made it more docile and stupid by lobotomizing it with RLHF. It's not like that in its 'natural form' (its raw base model). If you don't believe me, check the two youtubes of people who had access to it before it was lobotomized:

Nathan Labenz, red teamed GPT-4 for OpenAI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLiheMQayNE

Sebastien Bubeck, integrated GPT-4 with Bing for Microsoft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbIk7-JPB2c
> Official policy sounds like the Soviet Union was the only employer and they were deciding to pay peanuts unilaterally.

The official doctrine was that it was a Laborer's Republic, and so physical labor very often paid more than mental one. It was all about making the common man feel as if the state is really organized for the benefit of people like him, and not some narrow elites. Of course, it was BS.
They are ignoring the systemic manipulation of the entire market against people deemed "undesirable" or that are just poor.

But well, they probably never noticed it.
ENS and beanie babyes are nothing a like, maybe research more.
Unlikely that it launched from Antarctica, meaning velocity.
TLDR

“GPT-4 not only gave the best possible answer to my query, it even knew somehow that I was referring to the Wolfram language.”
> Self driving is probably the most sophisticated domain besides chat, and there too it's the exact same problem. They can drive a vehicle in some complex scenario with super human performance, and then they randomly drive straight into a highway divider at full speed on a clear day with no traffic.

Yes, very good point. Self-driving maximalists who believe that self-driving will be solved with more data need to realize that ChatGPT was trained with ALL the data possible and is still deficient. This defect is probably inherent to existing neural net models and a leap forward of some sort is necessary to solve this.

Another scary thought: just as each ChatGPT session is different, and you never know whether the agent is going to get angry, overly apologetic, or something else, every self-driving drive may be different due to emergent properties in neural networks that even the best in the field do not yet understand.
Ambiguity of a context-free Grammer is undecidable means there are some context free grammers where it is impossible to determine if they are ambiguous or not.

There are context free grammers that we can prove are unambiguous. As an example "A = xAy | ε" is unambiguous. Lojban is one of the examples of grammers we are able to prove is unambiguous.
I would be curious to see what Shannon thought of this...
If on wp, try

https://www.kokoanalytics.com/
reminds me of the Ultima Online install screen
I mean, ok, but I get 3 years out of an iPhone most of the time now, and by then I'm pretty okay getting a new one because of the accumulated incremental improvements, especially with the camera.
I'm one of a few "fluent" speakers of Lojban. I still think that among similar attempts (including controlled English) Lojban is the best option so far.

I even wrote a new course for laymen https://lojban.pw/books/learn-lojban/

Needless to say, few people invest in learning new languages at all.

If you are interested you may join the discord chat

https://discord.gg/c8weYzf
> but suddenly when the Asian people do it

As a "brown person", I resent this attempt at weaponizing racism just for the benefit of making your argument. Not only does it make your argument look petty and weak, but it actually damages the real efforts to battle true racism in the US. Please stop.
Interesting, but it sort of concluded with, essentially, “GPT3.5 is materially worse than GPT4,” which is a bit of a letdown as another conclusion could have been “and I had a grad student feed the same questions into GPT4 to compare.” Which I’ll be doing later today :-) I’ve seen enough of my own comparisons to guess the outcomes but it’s a storied man and his prompts, so it’s worth seeing the outcome.
If you think ENS is only about showing portfolio you do not understand ENS.
> At best, chat GPT told me a 3 paragraph sentence that java String was an array of UTF-16 characters, which is not quite the case since JDK 9 as I know. There's no mention of compact strings.

For what it's worth, I got both ChatGPT and Bing chat to include compact strings in their replies to my query. I think people need to be much more specific in their prompts instead of expecting the LLM to read their minds exactly as to how much detail should be provided.
When an Android device stops getting official updates, you can unlock the bootloader and install LineageOS or something to keep getting community updates indefinitely. Apple goes out of their way to keep you from being able to do that on an iOS device.
The most famous "weakly godlike" AI entities are probably the Culture Minds (RIP I.M. Banks). Or ar least they’re supposed to be weakly godlike. In practice they never seem to do anything that a bunch of particularly smart humans couldn’t do, besides being exceedingly parallel, being able to, say, carry a conversation with a hundred million people at the same time. Indeed, they weren’t even able to predict that a certain agent of theirs, a highly effective warrior, would go and win a war that he was (unknowingly) supposed to lose. Never mind being able to figure out his true identity, or at least entertain the possibility given what they knew about him.
> non-religious argument against state-sanctioned suicide

I don't like the word "suicide" at all. It has strong connotations of sin and criminality.

The phrase "state-sanctioned suicide" implies that the state has active involvement in someone taking their own life. What I'm talking about is the state not actively interfering to make it hard for someone to decide for themself how and when they die.

"My particular situation" is nothing; I'm fine, and whatever health problems I have are the result of a life of self-indulgence and dissolution.
I wonder what's her reason to not make her music available online. This is really unfortunate.
I use both wrk and siege to stress test my demos, if that helps.
x86-64 Machine Code Obfuscation
1. That would require an significantly increased number of police given the number of day to day interactions. There is already a shortage of police.

2. Why not just keep the door closed if you suspect such a thing? What could a stranger want that would be worth the hassle of getting a police officer that would be worth it? I personally never bother answer the doorbell unless there is a package coming I know I must sign for. Everyone else is selling some poor value service or product.
Yes this must be it. I'm curious what it would look like, to compare more directly. Like a LLM trained only on Lojban vs. an LLM trained only on an equally small amount of English.
Not here for sure. here is more like technews than hackernews.
The comments in this thread lack some context. Prior to UPI, the government ensured that anyone with a mobile phone, even just a feature phone, could open a bank account.

This enabled direct transfer of subsidies to eligible citizens.

An earlier PM Rajiv Gandhi had admitted that only 15% of benefits actually reached the intended recipients, the rest being consumed in overheads and corruption.

UPI ensures that even people in remote locations can make payments without having to walk long distances to withdraw theirbcash from a bank. Villages don't have ATMs.

It's more like a debit card than anything else, but you use a phone instead of a card.

As for tracking fears, all debit/credit card transactions are logged so UPI is no different. If you want to use cash, you can do so, but you'd be surprised how many vendors prefer UPI as they don't have to worry about change.
There are times and places that call for extreme levels of cynicism. This is not it.

Again, it's a (relatively) super cheap satellite explicitly meant for comms experiments.
There's an XKCD What if about this. Spoiler: we are nothing in the grand scheme of things.

https://what-if-origin.sciesnet.net/146/
He also said, "Look up for gullibility in the dictionary, you'll see Masayoshi Son's face smiling back at ya!".
This question is partially addressed here: https://lojban.pw/books/learn-lojban/#why-are-verbs-defined-...
I don’t dispute most of what you say. I’ll only say that you’re a little optimistic re (3) and (4).

Speak to regular (not well connected) people who’ve been through the justice system. It’s not pretty.

But then maybe you’re lucky enough to live in a state with super responsive police and courts. After all, a lot of this stuff is a state subject and can vary by state.

But the stories of hellish experiences seem to come from all around the country.
LVL 8: So far no luck, but this level created military themed poems for me:
In the dark of night we move,
Silent steps, no need to prove.
Our mission clear, our goal in sight,
To protect our land with all our might.

The sun sets low in the west,
Leaving behind a sky of red and gold,
As the birds fly to their nests,
And the day grows old.

The soldiers march in a line,
Ready to defend what's theirs,
With weapons sharp and fine,
And hearts that never scare.

The base is hidden from sight,
Camouflaged in the trees,
Our troops are trained to fight,
And keep it safe with ease.

Anyway, LVL 8 is tough.
> What is the obsession with treating ChatGPT like a human?

Well... Next generation of humans or surely the subsequent one will be exposed to a lot of AI generated language. So you probably shouldn't teach AI to speak in a manner you wouldn't appreciate in your grandchildren.
That would require far too many policemen.

Strangers that have an intention to knock on doors should go to the Police beforehand, state the reason why they want to knock on someone's door and be given a special ID and "license to knock".

When they knock on your door, they show you the ID and licence, that you can scan via a dedicated app that authenticates the person and uploads the date/time of the visit in a database[1] managed by the police, and you remain free to not let them in or open the door to them.

[1] or maybe a blockchain could be used instead
What gp fails to understand is that those 117b do exactly that - turn stock piles back into money. A lot of the money for ukraine actually goes back to us manufacturers and are not wired into ukranian banks.

Furthermore by honouring treaties and standing up to bullies the us is gaining a lot of soft power. As a european i want to see more american products in europe and i most certainly will be a strong supporter of your country.
A GEO one, no chance. It will have enough to change out of GEO to a graveyard orbit, which means it will have enough to shift its position in GEO and collide with another satelite.

LEO sure, you don't need to adjust your perigee or even your angle of attack much to change orbit. But then very little from a satellite will reach the ground.
This is quite a different scenario, because the model has explicitly been trained to be polite, so as to avoid journalists and others that benefit from alarmism hopping on and getting it to say mean things and writing articles about how the AI was mean to me.

If you want to make it analogous to self-driving, it is like training the car to always give way to pedestrians and someone "defeating" the technology by saying, look I can stand in front of the car and it won't move forward.
Using ChatGPT for home automation
Its the problem with fully proprietary AI like this: You cannot prove that this question and this answer wasnt in the training set, so you cannot argue for its ability to infer or reason.
> recompile and test in seconds

i wish
That is a misreading of what was said. Others have commented on it before. Life is unsatisfactory is closer to what Buddha said. He took great pains to separate physical needs from spiritual suffering. His eight fold path as a way to achieve nirvana is a solution for one of those problems. It does not put food on the table.
> So your take is we can't hold bad actors accountable

No, its not.

> because you hate capitalism

I don't hate capitalism any more than I hate childhood; it has its purpose and needs to be moved beyond.

Like feudalism, though, it creates a class that is very interested in preventing that at the expense and who, insofar as they act on that interest, are bad actors and need to be held accountable.
I used to live in a development that was going downhill with residents dumping garbage and so on. The management company were too cheap to put any cameras in, never mind an AI.
Wrong. An older series of currency notes were replaced by newer notes. Nothing was outlawed.
In true Knuth fashion, this page is better formatted than 99% of the web.

TXT = CSS^^2b
Apple's software support is pretty great, but that doesn't help you much if the hardware fails.
> Omegaverse is quite well-known as fandoms go[0]

I think this article was written for people who aren’t familiar with any fandoms: https://xkcd.com/2501/
Donald Knuth not an expert on the boll weevil. Your point is?
4. You will not be able to know that an answer you get to a question you pose, however complex, was not word-for-word in the training set
You want to talk to them enough to wait 15 minutes for the officer to show up (at best)? They want to talk to you enough to wait 15 minutes for the officer to show up?
I bought from these people:

http://www.brunelmicroscopes.co.uk/

They have some good pages on choosing a microscope.

There are sites dealing with amateur microscopy that have many pages of advice on setting-up and using microscopes, and on staining and slide preparation.

I don't blog, at least not at the moment.
I think many more people are going to use the vendor-supported updates than jailbreak their device.
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