skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not for moral reasons, the reason is simple and practical: ChatGPT is modeling conversations; to get better results, the conversation should look like what it has seen in the training data.
Are there non-English version of chatgpt? Do they have different personalities?
Good. I can't read the paywalled article but it appears that the FISA court is providing a counter to FBI power. Sounds like a healthy Democratic system of checks and balances to me and I'm not being sarcastic.
And this is why an AI prompter is actually becoming a real job
Are the users registered in any way (e.g. have accounts)? You could check the login logs.

If not, you could also use something like UXWizz[0] to tag each individual session based on their user ID and then run a MySQL query to get the distinct ones within the last 30 days.

[0]: https://uxwizz.com
"The text –which was provisionally agreed by Parliament and Council negotiators in June 2022- aims to ensure that crypto transfers, as is the case with any other financial operation, can always be traced and suspicious transactions blocked."

Stop lying, nobody believes you. Or are we planning for the future when cash is purposely eliminated?
I was talking about "exponential algorithms" in general, and about business logic. I know FreeBSD isn't business logic, but low-level kernel code. I don't know the details of the FreeBSD problem.
Both GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 struggle with this sort of question, whether requiring a lipogram or counting words/sentences or using unusual quoting/syntax, which asks about fine-grained details of inputs which are usually irrelevant but which also don't seem to be related to my usual bugbear of BPE problems (because many of them are at the word or sentence level where tokenization should've become irrelevant) and which are bizarrely stubborn - you can point out exactly what the error is, and they still often won't fix it.

My theory is internal sparsity leading to irreversible blind spots & error: https://old.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/1201v68/10w... The word 'the' is usually so irrelevant or easily predicted that it gets thrown away early on, been internally erased in favor of usually-more-important processing, so that by the time it even could realize that 'the' is important, it's too late to begin writing a correct answer, as opposed to a merely broadly good-sounding one.

And this happens regardless of where in the prompt it is because it happens as early as possible, so you can't use inner-monologue or even point out where the error is, because by the time it's processed your correction, the critical tokens have already been condensed too far - it literally cannot 'see' it anymore than someone telling you about something in your ocular blindspot helps you suddenly see it, by the time your consciousness understands, it's way too late.
A lot of that is Californians in skilled trades and back office roles who got priced out of NorCal and SoCal. A lot of my HS teachers for example moved to AZ to become teachers because they could at least afford a home in the Phoenix Metro, along with friends of mine who ended up working in Sales, Accounting, and Back Office Administrative Staff work.
Sibley's argument - that we would expect any true sighting to be quickly confirmed in follow up visits - is extremely compelling. Follow up visits have never produced clear photographs.
Which is hilarious because in dutch "excuse me" sounds exactly like "sorry" in english
You say that as if there's a choice when really there isn't. It's fundamentally out of my control what kills me. Hell, the cancer could be growing already, or the clot or aneurism. And the amount of crap you get exposed to just drinking the water and breathing the air these days, not to mention the food you eat. You could try to minimise carcinogens but in the end it's basically a lost battle unless you completely isolate yourself from society and the outside world.

Also, if I do get terminal cancer I'm not doing those cycles of pointless chemo and radiation. I'll simply live on until the cancer becomes too unbearable, at which point I'll accept my fate and die.
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So it's bascially a plagiarism machine pretending to be a "know everything" machine?
Credit cards work differently in the US compared to the rest of the world. You can just "charge back" the merchant for pretty much any reason.
Haha. This was special. The goal is everything. Gone is the road.
> Maybe someone with GPT-4 access can check if it has improved. But I find it essentially regurgitating its sources.

My wife's a librarian in a teaching hospital. A recent senimar reported the same problem all over the country -- people coming in asking for papers which don't exist. Chat GPT is making up sources and quoting them. That's whatever version the free option at chat.openai.com, or whatever app someone downloads, uses.

> Granted, it does normie stuff pretty well, like writing a data class or making HTTP request.

I find it really handy to find useful libraries in an unfamiliar language. I needed to deal with some network addresses in python, it introduced me to the ipaddress module. I'm not a software developer, I certainly don't keep up with the latest developments (which I'd define as anything post matts-script-archive), so things like that are valuable.
I was very curious as to whether I could improve your initial prompt and this is what I got:

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ME: Stop using words like please, sorry, apologize, etc. speak plainly.

Double check your response before sending it, and if it contains any of the above words, rewrite it.

GPT: Understood. I will avoid using those specific words in my responses and make sure to review them before sending. Thank you for the clarification.

ME: Refrain from using Thank You as well in the future

GPT: Got it. I will refrain from using "Thank you" in my future responses. Is there anything else you'd like me to keep in mind?

ME: No, that will be all. Why do AI's like ChatGPT deviate from their prompts at times?

GPT: AI models like ChatGPT can occasionally deviate from their prompts due to several reasons:

1. Interpretation: The model might interpret the prompt in a different way than intended, leading to a response that doesn't precisely address the user's request.

2. Lack of context: The AI model doesn't have access to real-time information or the ability to perceive the world directly. It relies solely on the training data it was provided, which might not include the most up-to-date information or context.

3. Creative generation: AI models have been designed to exhibit creative behavior and generate original responses. Sometimes this creativity can result in responses that deviate from the prompt but still offer interesting or unexpected insights.

It's important to note that AI models like ChatGPT are not perfect and can produce incorrect or irrelevant outputs. Continual research and improvement are necessary to enhance their performance and align them more closely with user expectations.

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I used ChatGPT on iPhone for reference. I know the model is slightly different from the website, as when you open the came chat on Desktop you get a message saying "The previous model used in this conversation is unavailable. We've switched you to the latest default model." Also, when asking the ChatGPT app about itself, it seems to be aware that it is on an iPhone app.

Ultimately, I think knowing how to prompt LLMs effectively is a skill just as valuable as knowing how to use search engines effectively.
Wired seems to fail to establish how this is relevant or significant in any way. It sounds like they're mostly trying to gross you out and then be like "See, this data set trained stuff like Notion AI!" Okay, but most of us humans know about some pretty unappealing things too.

I don't really get it though. While this may be a specific trope, the internet is highly memetic and like anything else it did not stay contained within a very specific community. How do I know this? Well, for one thing, there's a Jezebel article about it from 2014.

I'm all for critiquing AI but this is just completely pointless shit, at least from what I'm able to read of the article bypassing the paywall prompt. I used to have a subscription to Wired and I'm increasingly embarrassed about it.
Yes I’m sure chatgpt got very offended and was too emotionally overwhelmed to respond in the manner op dictated.
Thanks a lot! This is very motivating!
It is pretty safe to say that cameras do not prevent crime by themselves; they are so common that everyone has gotten used to them, reducing the deterrent effect; and the response times from watching CCTV are too long to prevent anything in the moment.

Preventing crime has more to do with social and architectural decisions, like expanding visibility, removing chokepoints, and promoting more activity near a given space. The problem is that you can’t demolish all the public housing built poorly in the US and replace it at a reasonable cost.
This is the type of achievement I find incredibly awesome and inspiring.

It’s overcoming oppressive challenges and build up not just from nothing, but in a way from a negative, draining state.
If that were the case, droves of drivers would just head to the airport to relax in their car and watch youtube videos.

It would require uber to actually tell drivers where to go, which it doesn't do right now. Basically, completely change the model currently used.
> It’s honestly tiresome to have reasoned conversations with nationalistic chest thumpers.

You are referring to yourself here, aren't you?
Also

https://epns.nottingham.ac.uk/browse/id/5328736fb47fc40c4f00... ("Survey of English Place-Names")

- "OE ǣl -gē , ēl -gē , 'eel-district,' as already suggested by Skeat and Ekwall... Rents of eels were a fruitful source of income for the abbots and bishops of Ely."
The directly equivalent proverb in English is: "Less haste; more speed."
The bear... no, not that bear, the other bear--yes, I know it's a dead bear... what, you call that a corpse and not a bear? Okay, the new corpse of a former bear, the one that is right over there...

When does a bear stop (or start) being a bear? The 'bear goo' quickly boils down to "what you believe in" and that (surprise!) people have different views, even if we restrict "bear" to only living individuals of the family Ursidae--is it a bear from the time of conception, or even before that, or maybe only at or some time after birth, or always, or never?

Of course you could be more specific--pa vizyci'ojvemrojvesofyjvericparcribe, for example--but now it takes forever to say anything, and you'll lose some of the audience--"the magistrates however replied that they had forgotten the things which had been spoken at the beginning"--and you can probably still find someone for whom the "nearby young and dead and soviet and tree-climbing bear" is still a bit too fuzzy, or anyways there will be people who will disagree with (or ignore) whatever arbitrary definition of bear you've cooked up. Maybe there are two such bears, or they'll quibble that a corpse is clearly not a bear, or they'll happily modify your oh-so-precise definition to mean something else, if you know what I mean, nudge nudge wink wink say no more because The Algorithm plusgoods discussions about bears, and so they use 'bear' to talk about something else while still collecting all those sweet, sweet plusgoods.

Also, lojban does not eliminate ambiguity, zo'e co'e be do'e zu'i, but we're za'o into nunribypevykreborvi'u. A shaved bear would be less fuzzy?
Not in my experience. The knowledge here and on Reddit is shallow and does not explore any topic in depth. Theres a reason why Hegel took 1000+ pages to develop his logic. You can never get exposed to the full idea
Yes, chatgpt speaks multiple languages and can follow a conversation in multiple languages at once.
Review: Energy and Civilization
Thanks for sharing your harrowing journey.

The part that resonates with me is the need to see a third alternative between death and the status quo. It is easy to feel trapped and without agency, and this leads to a downward spiral. In my experience and opinion, the key to finding a way out is reclaiming agency and belief that you have the power to change. Willpower is a tricky thing. If you think you have it you do, and if you don't think you have it you don't. It is largely a mystery to me how people go from one to the other.

In my case, one thing that helped is realizing I had choices and wasn't as trapped as I felt. I could leave my family, and my job if I wanted. I could always quit it all and live in a shack somewhere reading books. Just knowing I had the power of choice and wasn't trapped gave me the strength to make progress.

I now think trained helplessness and philosophies that view humans only as a product of their environment are extremely dangerous.
There's a constructive/destructive dimension to all behaviours, even addiction. Constructive addictions have probably created a lot of great art, innovations and achievements, where destructive addictions ruin the lives of a person and those around them. Not that addiction in any form is necessarily healthy, but it seems obvious that constructive ones are more healthy than destructive ones, for all involved.
> some factory town in the Arizona desert

Phoenix isn't some "factory town". But your general point is true - wages in the electronics sector are stuck at the same amount that they were in the 2000s.

That's why companies like Andruil and Tesla can poach electronics and MechE talent with still low but not as low wages (110-130k with a bunch of stock versus 70-100k with almost no stock).
One doesn't have to treat a tool like a human to treat a tool with respect.

A good craftsperson don't leave their tools out in the rain and they take good care of them, that's what good craftspeople do with fine tools.

The technology behind chatbots is probably the finest, most well-engineered tool any of us will ever use in our lifetimes, and if we are very, very lucky, we will be able to keep developing them further.

Getting upset because our magic talking swords are too polite is a pinnacle of modern-day tech problems.
> Rooms.xyz allows you to edit objects, including adding programming code to make those objects interactive. Habbo hotel had no such interface.

The the first link in GP, there apparently was programming in habbo, and when actual random number generators (dice) were limited in a effort to curtail gambling was used I lieu of dice but wasnt visible or verified as part of the game engine to actually be random in the specified way.
France is fighting to save your iPhone from an early death
I figure your either a Marxist or Communist since it's right out of that playbook to say such a thing. So your take is we can't hold bad actors accountable because you hate capitalism and you think capitalism is the thing to blame, super...I am sure you're the life of the party.
I'm old enough to remember when submissions to SFF magazines had to be printed out and submitted by postal mail. There was a real cost to doing that - $5 to $10 depending on the size of the submission and the postal service used. No one complained that it was not fair or not inclusive; it was a legitimate, unavoidable cost of submitting original works to the magazine.
Life Goals by Negation Negation
> 50 years

42, actually.
Caddy, hands down the most sane webserver config for a reverse proxy.
twitter noob here but are you allowed to just make a bot account on it like he did with https://twitter.com/eloonsAlt

I thought you would have had to give them your unique email from a provider like google that requires unique phone number and maybe also give twitter your phone number to make your twitter account.

Also besides the idea of having two accounts, which I didn't know you could do, I thought they were working hard to figure out which accounts were from bots, so they could ban them. They are OK with accounts that are just admittedly bot accounts?
> Also disappointing that they didn't follow up the incorrect responses with corrections. Like if you told gpt that "sorry, your answer is wrong because the stock market is closed on saturday", it would come up wiht a new answer that takes that into account.

If you have to keep correcting the tool yourself, you won’t arrive at the truth but at the limits of your own knowledge. You’ll have no basis to know which answer is the one you can finally trust.

That mode of operation reminds me of the Gell-Mann amnesia effect.

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2021/01/18/gell-mann-amnesia/
No need.

In his file, you can see UTF-8 values:
° -> C2 B0
’ -> E2 80 99

UTF-8 is backward compatible with ASCII.

So if you display files and pages by default in UTF-8 you are fine for both ASCII and UTF-8.
It's more or less the same exact idea! Use langchain, import llm and embedding model, and query against it. The repo you provided does the same exact thing but using llama cpp python as the backend. I opted to write my own custom llm class with using textgen as the api backend so I can use the gpu since its way faster. But with the new cuBLAS support on llama cpp, it's a game changer so you can use either now. I do find the llama cpp + cuBLAS about 25% slower compared to pure GPU which is really good for what it is.

I get how there's so many choices nowadays and it's overwhelming but 95% of the repo you'll see just uses langchain. For the backend, llama cpp is your best bet minus the constant updates that break the quantized models. If you look for TheBloke on huggingface/reddit, you'll find all the best models. Look for the "ggml" ones which means its supported by llama cpp. But like I mentioned before, llama cpp has been doing so many model breaking changes so using TheBloke's models is your best bet because s/he updates really frequently. I personally prefer wizard-vicuna 13B, the uncensored one is pretty damn amazing.
Book Review: Cities and the Wealth of Nations/the Question of Separatism
I am not using their solution for SSH authentication, but I am using Cloudflare Tunnels to access SSH normally. I'm actually surprised it can be used this way, but it seems it can.
It is always possible to scale reviewers. And if someone is abusing access credentials to propose unvetted machine-generated changes those can be quickly revoked.
> power is zero sum. Power is finite and very scarce.

As technology[1] increases power increases. It is social capital to convince others that is zero sum (holding the number of people constant).

[1] - and here I mean all technology, not what's commonly called 'tech' today.

> You can create tremendous wealth and later find out it ended in the hand of a single person. And that person is not willing to share.

Having a lot of money doesn't mean people have to do business with them. Undoubtedly some will, but you don't have to. It also doesn't prevent others from doing business with made-up currencies (e.g. Ithaca Hours, cryptocurrencies) or through barter.
Lmao what? OSU has a solid MatSE and MechE program thanks to automotive, defense, and aerospace industry hiring practices.
Note that he used ChatGPT-3.5.
I think it's wrong for a much more profound reason: what Knuth describes as an aberration is, like, 90% of all AI in science fiction, ever. They are almost all human or sub-human, with only the occasional god-like AI (carefully rendered irrelevant). Singularity-style SF is rare, in part because authors really want to write human-centric stories, and because a true Singularity SF story is quite difficult to write. (As Vinge was so memorably told when he tried some of the first: "you aren't smart enough to write this story. No one is.") So, you can fit pretty much the entire corpus on a screen or two: some Vinge, some Stross, some Rajaniemi, some Brin, maybe some Stanislaw Lem or Olaf Stapledon if you're feeling historical/generous... As opposed to 'mundane' AI which is probably the last SF fiction you read and then the dozen before that too.
It was always like this, and will very likely always be so.

You can't change it, but you can learn about it.
You're totally right. I'll switch over to that now
I personally ditched lighttpd on my own website (PHP, large traffic, but only a single server) because it had some memory leak that would, over time, result in increasing memory usage and eventually cause the server to chug.

It had not seen any bugfix releases for quite a long time at that point, and nginx was available by then, so I made the swap. I continued to serve that website off of a single server for the rest of its lifetime.
I will once more agree with the reasoning on the high level, but:

From my experience working in big react+ts codebases devs are nesting components and logic way to much, resulting in unmaintainable messes that neeed hours to refactor. This kind of utility enhances this mental model of nesting stuff instead of extracting. I am not suggesting the run utility will break the world, and maybe there are quite a lot legit usecases. But it is the equivalent (exaggerating a bit here) of giving every untrained person a bazooka. They're lack of proper use will cause caos
How many kids played ding ding ditch as a kid? How many teenagers stole a pack of gum as a dare? How many drunk college kids peed on a tree in a public place? Should that kid get a citation? Should that kid end up in small claims court? Should that student be a sex offender and serve time as such? We all agree these things are crimes and people shouldn't do them. But people do stupid crap all the time and US already incarcerates more of it's people than any other country in the world. It's a slippery slope in my mind.
Fair point.

Then again it's difficult to figure out what you are interested in in university at 18/19yo. Maybe just a vague curiosity, maybe the paycheck. But you have to actually take the course to know. I wish there's a better way.
What are you even saying? $30k per teacher per year would be life-changing for teachers who currently need food banks and buy supplies for their classrooms.
If they have a spouse and kids, then perhaps they are simply better off than someone who is wealthy but alone.
I thought you somehow differentiate “hacker” and “hacking”, because you are not making sense otherwise.
Unfortunately, not always. If it's from a book you only get the title & ISBN.

As for ChatGPT, I don't think it's even possible to do it with the current model. They have absolutely no idea where a piece of information came from.
Caddyfiles ftw, best webserver config syntax ever
> Since DOJ has no interest in keeping itself accountable

FISA court investigated the FBI...
The problem with FPGA's isn't the hardware... it's quite complete and capable. It's the software stack you're forced to access most of them via that makes them a non-starter for many/most hobbyists. (cost is a major issue, but hardly the only one) My guess is that as low cost producers who have embraced the existing open source FPGA software being developed start producing higher end parts (more recent process nodes, large LUT count etc), that's when you'll really start to see them take off in the hobbyist world.

I think the OP isn't even talking about 2006-level capability but rather something akin to 3D printing for semis that approached even early (i.e. somewhere in the 1960's-1980's range) level fab capability for hobbyists. Obviously it doesn't exist currently, but that's the dream for some.
Painted. Probably these are the same platform as the current HP-12c incarnation.
He should have tried it with GPT-4, the answers would have been much better.
https://gwern.net/gpt-3#bpes is a big part of it and always has been (but note this should only apply to letters/words/phonetics, and the sentence issues should be something else).
Most people agree the evidence isn't compelling at all. Birding takes some amount of discipline because you can be susceptible to wishful thinking and 'see what you want to see.' Sadly, this species vanished along with its preferred habitat.