skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a similar vein, grass floats, and supports rocks, which are water tight. The rocks can support sand, and therefore more plants. The rocks also stack.

I now have a glass-free orb (square).
Molybdenum and copper are harmless??
ChatGPT Passes Radiology Board Exam
>> I don't really see that as a bad thing. This is a policy decision and as such needs to be based on a rational calculation and values, not the feelings known to be hopelessly biased and generally unreliable.

> I hope future AGI doesn't behave this way or we're all fucked.

So, given what you're responding to, you prefer AGI to not use some values (e.g. DALYs or whatever) and rational tradeoffs, but instead to be based on fuzzy, biased, unreliable heuristics?

I agree this argument is generally not going anywhere, but this kind of response in particular makes me wonder, because I have hard time finding a a charitable interpretation I could respond to - it just sounds like vacuous platitudes nearly without context. Is there a good argument for empathy that isn't?
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IMHO realistically for most people the ratio between "your own ideas" and everything else should be like 5% or so. If you're exceptionally gifted maybe up to 20%.. (unless you're writing fiction)
Even assuming a defect rate of zero, Li-ion batteries wear out, and people break screens by dropping them.
https://archive.is/4KLVs
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Yes, and while there were copyright issues with them putting the books out there in public, they still retain all the scans to use for search projects.

https://books.google.com/
"scaling reviewers" implies the money to pay this new amount of reviewers, which I'm not sure the economics of this setup can bear
This is pretty funny. The rest of the stuff on the site is good as well.
Those White Plastic Chairs – The Monobloc and the Context-Free Object
In some cases I believe you're right, tradeoffs do happen. In other cases they are just on call. This is why private rescues are so expensive. You aren't just paying for the professionals and the equipment, you're paying for them to sit around until called.
Was saying to my wife the other day that its impossible to just quit the world in the west. Even if I save enough to buy a plot of land and build a hut and can grow all of my own food. Property tax is due every year. The government refuses to allow people to just disconnect.
I am struck by the fact the Donald Knuth bikes to work at age 85.
Do the taxpayers actually foot the bill? Or does the government print money, and recover taxes to prevent runaway inflation?

And what happens if we stockpile munitions and don't use them? They age, get destroyed and replenished. The military is continually burning money to keep its stockpiles up to date anyway, and if we're sending stuff to Ukraine before it expires, that accelerates the replenishment, but I'd argue that it's better than the alternative.
During WWII, the US was worried that Japan would invade the US via the Aleutian Island chain, Alaska, and down through Canada. Japan got far enough to invade two small islands in the chain.[1]
After about a year of battles, and about 6,000 deaths, the US and Canada won back control of the Aleutians.

After WWII, the threat was the Soviet Union. The US maintained air bases in the Western Aleutians until 1994, as a defense against the Soviet Union. One of the worst places to be stationed.[1]
Hence the US military's interest in being able to operate near the poles.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleutian_Islands_campaign

[2] https://archive.org/details/Pvt.SNAFU.IntheAleutians
Edit: I re-read your comment, and I think I was responding to what I thought you said, not what you were actually saying, so I'm rewriting my response.

You're right that suffering is an essential and inevitable part of life. We shouldn't erase the suffering that informs people's identities just because it makes us uncomfortable.

The amount of suffering in life varies from person to person and moment to moment, and can be influenced to some degree. For some (but not all) suicidal people, it is possible to make changes (different life situation, therapy, better connections, removal of stressors) to reduce suffering to a bearable level so that they want to keep on living and are no longer suicidal.
The UK job market is a bit different from the US tbh. It feels like there isn't enough respect for Engineering+STEM in the UK. Almost everyone from good programs seems to end up in S&T or Consulting or IB.
Threatening unnecessary violence is another strike against your social credit score.
Its all just luck ultimately.
> android and co is a part of the embedded trashfire of course

I don't consider e.g. Android phones to be embedded. A smartphone is much more like a small laptop. That being said, there is a sliding scale; e.g. car infotainment systems have properties of both embedded and non-embedded software.
This headline strikes me as asinine. It wants to be profound, and certainly other people who hear or read it would consider it wise... but it offers no true insight. It can neither explain suicide nor help to prevent it or educate anyone on why they should want to try to do that.

It has a smarmy veneer of subjectivity to it.

If someone built an true general AI, and it suddenly started obsessing over suicidal ideation, would you jump to the "it's suffering!" explanation, or would you ask why it was malfunctioning?

"The subroutine that offers up solutions to perceived problems is fixated on a course of action that does result in the solution of any problem" seems more like an appropriate response. Or maybe "What errors exist in the code to cause it to constantly loop back to the wrong answer?"

Those would be the non-stupid reactions. So what about a natural intelligence doing the same thing makes you all wax poetic about suffering and being pushed beyond ordinary limits and crap like that? Natural intelligences shaped by evolution and chance have it worse off, of course, bugs and errors and bad code are just the way things are.

If anyone wants to ever be able to fix such things, this is the only way. Not wallowing around in psychology and other pseudosciences.
Sad to see them go. I just learned about Neeva and Kagi a couple weeks ago. In general the search results on both of them seem to be much better compared to google but I've mostly used Neeva so far because of the lack of need to log in.
Isn't Open Source just a giant plagiarizing machine with more genial licensing conventions?

AI is as good a time as any to re-assess how we feel on intellectual property, but I don't think we can get any more restrictive without suffocating innovation. Plagiarism is how patent trolls shut down otherwise innovative products, and it's the basis for jacking up non-generic drug prices and forcing developers to pay licensing fees just to use an OS. If anything, our current preconception of plagiarism is too unclear and fragile, bound to be destroyed by whatever the hell AI is, if it even matters in the first place.
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And you don't need to compile in many cases..
or Half Life 2.
Hmm, if you look at the reviews, it doesn't seem to work for everybody. Also seems to make a "referrer" header instead of "Referrer".
I took a science major at a large uni. 16+ science/math classes, but there were 20 out of major classes that were required, including 6-8 in the humanities and 4 in the languages. This was in ancient time, and I hope this is still the case. Is it a humanities major, no. But it is "humanities", which were English lit and European History for me.
What you just described is teaching, essays, and just about any form of summarized content.

You cannot “steal” information. Me attaining that knowledge does not deprive others of it. You could make an argument for copyright infringement, but honestly, who cares? Me asking an AI does not deprive others of say a book sale, because inherently I am unlikely to be interested in a book on that topic if I just want the magic black box to give me a possibly hallucinated answer instead.
You might like the book "The heretic's guide to best practises".
I still don’t really understand what this is. An anonymous shared Pinterest board tied to a location?
I find it so disappointing when giants of science/tech declare the results of their experiment with GPT, after asking a few single-line questions.

I remember my first time using a computer; not really knowing what else to do with it after an hour of play.

Imagine if Knuth instead had set out to use ChatGPT4 as his coding partner and, for example, set the goal of rewriting tex from scratch. I bet he would be blown away with what he could accomplish in a few days.
I remember people hacking on the binary of the MS mpeg4 encoder to create "DivX" binary blobs are everywhere (though much less so in every industry than they were 30 years ago)
Its Google, the obvious seems to elude them even when its sitting in front of them.
Same here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32828898#32833 (no one noticed).
That's not what anyone else means by "paid user".
It was not a hoax that Paul Manafort was caught exchanging campaign data with an Russian intelligence officer by the Senate Intel Committee. It wasn't a hoax that he met with a Russian spy at Trump's home to discuss an exchange of dirt for relaxed sanctions. It wasn't a hoax that Trump's campaign had a hundred+ contacts with Russians but lied saying they didn't have any, including under oath. It wasn't a hoax that Trump and Trump's lawyer lied when they said there were no deals in Russia, when in fact Trump had an in-progress "Trump Tower Moscow" deal with a planned penthouse dedicated to Putin.

These are not "hoaxes", but facts discovered through investigation and detailed extensively in at least 9 reports. In total, they show the Russians hacked the Democrats to help the Trump campaign, the Trump campaign welcomed the help, the campaign publicly asked Russia for the help, and when the help came from Russia, the campaign used the help to their advantage, and they hoped for more. Then when the investigation into said help happened, they obstructed it, tried to shut it down, and called it a "hoax", which you repeat here. Everything I've said is supported by hundreds of pages of reports: The Mueller report, the Senate Intel Committee report on the 2016 election, the IG report, and yes even the Durham report corroborates what I'm saying.

Taken in total, it's impossible to conclude these reports support the theory that Russian interference in the 2016 campaign, and the Trump campaign's welcoming and support of that interference was a hoax.

> Comey brought incredible disgrace to the FBI thru his actions and leadership during the “investigation”.

No argument there.
It is very interesting to compare Knuth's position on LLMs to Einstein's position on quantum physics and I think it is apt.

At least Einstein was explicit in his distaste for non-determinism. Knuth does not specify in this exchange why he believes these LLM approaches are inauthentic. He does demonstrate the untrustworthy-ness of the current models but he doesn't provide any evidence that shows the approach is incapable of creating trustworthy models in principle.

Even on the topic of trustworthiness, it is an interesting kind of criticism in that we are holding AIs based on LLMs to a higher standard than we would hold any human. Could you imagine a vox-pop style on-the-street interview where an average passer-by was asked the same questions that Donald Knuth posed to the LLM? How many people would even be able to formulate a coherent answer to the questions about Beethoven, Rogers and Hammerstein, or The Haj? Yet somehow the imperfection of these answers from an early-generation LLM is enough to completely dismiss the entire approach.
> If you have to verify every detail of its responses, what good was it to ask it in the first place?

It's awesome for brainstorming, or for getting a first draft of something.

> It does work for coding as you can -- usually -- immediately test the code to see if it yields the desired result, or ask it to provide a unit test for it.

Exactly. Though there are still too many people who somehow think they can use it as an "expert assistant", without a validation step with a human.
Similar (though not quite as extreme) case: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnacle_goose_myth
I hate being a critic when someone actually does something, but I have a lot of trouble justifying the effort on this one as well. It seems like the mission did a great job of checking off some ESA goals. I'm skeptical these tasks were actually useful. A lot of these things don't need to be demonstrated. Using an outdated linux kernel or OS image is going to be vulnerable if you have direct access to the machine. Security here comes in layers (encrypted links, being judicious about what changes persist through resets, good+signed firmware that won't let you break things). Saying "don't forget about the OS" doesn't need a multi-million euro endeavor.

It's also a bit frustrating because (assuming it is a useful exercise) there are plenty of private companies that could have built this for ESA much more quickly and cheaply. Planet and Spire could have dedicated or loaned out one of their satellites. Starlink certainly has spares and coverage. I suppose these companies are US-based, so it wouldn't help develop ESA capabilities. Feels a little like a handout to Thales.

It's neat that I can borrow a satellite to train a neural net, but is it useful? And if it is, do I need a demo to prove it's possible?
Labour should pledge £11B to build ‘BritGPT’ AI, thinktank says
Have they? I can't think of any science fiction that takes place within the singularity. It would be like a perfect protagonist; without flaws there can be no story, but in the singularity every character would be both perfect and inconceivably alien. The Zones of Thought series (Vinge) hardly strays from the Slow zone, and never into the Transcend except by reference. Accelerando (Stross) follows humans into exile rather than continue the narrative into the Matrioshka sphere. The Eschaton series (Stross) limits itself to the effects of the Singularity on non-Singularity civilizations.

On the other hand, plenty of science fiction narrates the acceleration towards a Singularity: Fast Times at Fairmont High (Vinge), Dennou Coil (anime). Or describe the aftermath of the Singularity on those left behind: Marooned in Realtime (Vinge). Or describe a society which averted the Singularity: Dune (Herbert).
Or a lot less profitable.

“From now on, the [gross margin] of search is going to drop forever,” Nadella said in an interview with the Financial Times.

“There is such margin in search, which for us is incremental. For Google it’s not, they have to defend it all,” he added, referring to the competition against Google as “asymmetric”.

https://www.ft.com/content/2d48d982-80b2-49f3-8a83-f5afef98e...

https://archive.is/4JOW1

It's 50% of Google's revenue, and they'll suffer immensely if this goes away.
While some people really do have to make a choice between fire and falling, many who think they're in that situation may actually be hallucinating of the fire. They don't have to fall; they can be helped.
Autonomous vehicles should be required to have a “kill zone”: a little square—away from any potential passengers—that cops can shoot to disable the vehicle entirely. If it were a human driving into a crime scene they wouldn’t hesitate, how come when it’s a driverless car all they can say is “oh, hey, stop… what should we do here?”
Once I had tried Bing Chat, it had prompted to open in edge and I ignored. After your comment I went back and tried it again. It certainly seems to find some more details after I specify the prompt well.

I admit it's a clear improvement. (Thank you for pointing out.) But it still gave some unsatisfactory answers in short interaction.

I asked to write a comparator to sort in decreasing order, for which it returned verbose (anon. class) form of `b - a`, which can go wrong with large negative integers.

Surprisingly, it did fairly well when asked to write a custom `JavaFileObject` class for `JavaDoc` toolprovider API, which is fairly obscure and I knew only because I worked with it. (There were errors in code, but they could be spotted by someone who can figure out the code's meaning).

So my conclusion from short interaction, bing chat finds stack overflow pages more reliably than Google does (LoL), but still gets affected by crap of society like geeksforgeeks.
I was alive when attempting suicide was still a crime (obviously, you can't be prosecuted for succeeding!). For me, the word "suicide" has connotations of wrongdoing, like "homicide" and "patricide".

Younger generations may not be so aware of those connotations.

For me, "commit" doesn't have connotations of wrongdoing, unless it's a matter of a bad commit that breaks the build. "Death by suicide" doesn't name an act; it's a verdict.
The right answer to those questions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFhpctuUwb4
not always because they sucked.

Some were replaced by cheaper, easy to mass produce but somewhat inferior products.

Others by some insane reasons by manufacturers to increase their profits or differentiate amongst themselves, pushing for thinner, lighter devices. i would gladly use bulkier devices for better specs and reparability.
You wish. Proper hacking has been done under Unixen and before, MIT with ITS and Lisp.
You don't know anything about hacker culture. The cracking one, maybe. Unix and Lisp users run circles on Windows' crappy warez culture any day.
C and C++ dependency installation is "sub-optimal" but it is certainly well understood. The fact that there are many cross platform, open source projects written in C and C++ proves this. If you can't deal with makefiles and scripts, maybe stick to Go and Rust?
That spins an entirely new theoretical, because YouTube wasn't made by Google — could someone else have popularized it to the same extent?
I would say she succeeded in that, because for decades I have listened and enjoyed and respected her music, and today is the first day I learned that she was trans.
I think this is the first I’ve heard of Neeva!
From where I have been involved, the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) have been very helpful in setting meaningful climate targets for large companies.

They provide a clear standard, refuse to accept carbon offsets and have the right affiliation and reputation to be taken seriously in board rooms.

This has left little wiggle room and made it so much easier to agree with senior management on what the company should commit to.
It doesn't look easy to change and even then, there is some doubt whether it works with newer Chrome versions. Anyways, the Chrome developers are purposely making hard if not impossible to change the Referrer and other headers. Part of the blame is to comply with standards but there should be some flag to turn off that behaviour.
Indeed he approved enough of the final response at the end that he invited the possibility that Wolfram was joking around with him by representing his own answer and coming from GPT4 instead.
If the easiest action is not to spit, why did he continue spitting?

Let's move on from spitting, as it's a dull example, but into behaviors in general. How do you get someone to stop doing something? Punishment does not work. Telling someone not to do something only encourages them to do it even more. So, like most other solutions, we can instead work off incentivizing positive action. We saw this with smokers, you give them a designated area, a place to put out their smokes, alongside restrictions like not smoking indoors, and you've got a winning combination. Likewise, we need thorough solutions to behavioral problems, not "easy" ones. Easy ones don't last long. Habits remain.

If cameras save lives, why do you not have a camera in every room in your home?
It is also interesting to play around with "compression":

ME: Write all your answers as concise as possible, military telegram style.
GPT: Acknowledged. Will respond in concise military telegram style.

ME: Explain quantum gravity.
GPT: Quantum gravity: Theory unifying general relativity and quantum mechanics. Describes gravity at smallest scales. Merges quantum field theory and gravitational force. Seeks to reconcile Einstein's relativity with quantum physics. Graviton exchange particles considered. Still under active research.

ME: Can you shorten that even more.
GPT: Quantum gravity: Unifies general relativity, quantum mechanics. Explains gravity, small scales. Merges fields, reconciles relativity, quantum physics. Graviton exchange. Active research.

Or timing:

ME: What would happen if you as a AI model had timing information about how long you need to answer a question. What could you do with this meta-information?

GPT: If I, as an AI model, had access to timing information about how long I need to answer a question, it could impact my model in several ways:

[...]

Dynamic response generation: With timing information, I could dynamically adjust the response generation process based on the available time. This might involve employing strategies like progressive disclosure, where I provide an initial brief answer within a short time frame and then gradually expand on the topic if more time is available. This adaptive approach would allow me to provide relevant information within the given time constraints.
Because verification of a proposed answer may be easier than discovering the answer in the first place.
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Yeah it was called WeLive.
I'd be crazy if I didnt think that google is sitting on some stuff that nobody knows about and they are stroking their cat from the lair as we type.
Super exciting to see the work happening in this area! I can especially appreciate the use of ChatGPT to orchestrate the necessary API calls, rather than relying on some kind of middleware to do it.

I have been working in this area (LLMs for ubiquitous computing, more generally) for my PhD dissertation and have discovered some interesting quality issues when you dig deeper [0]. If you only have lights in your house, for instance, the GPT models will always use them in response to just about any command you give, then post-rationalize the answer. If I say "it's too chilly in here" in a house with only lights, it will turn them on as a way of "warming things up". Kind of like a smart home form of hallucination. I think these sorts of quality issues will be the big hurdle to product integration.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.09802
Chinese workers build railway station in just nine hours (2018)
It's working fine, and getting better.

A movie is a story. If the story is good, we're all ready to accept imperfect VFX, SFX, sets, costumes, props and so on as long as they're in service of a good story.

So the story is the problem.

The problem is the story is very often the problem in modern movies. So my feelings about that WGA strike are very mixed. The industry has seen an influx of young, inexperienced, at times obnoxious writers, whose union insists "you'll hire them in greater numbers, for longer time, at higher salaries".

I'd say:

Attention, Hollywood: the WGA isn't working, so please stop using it.
Your comment should be pointed at RFK Jr., who believes vaccines cause autism, among other disproved nonsense.
Apache uses [APR Versioning](https://apr.apache.org/versioning.html) which I think had a big influence on semver, fwiw
This. Common Lisp and Emacs' hacker/AI/REPL programming world make Windows' cracking culture a running joke.
They are DNA-based organisms, like every other known life form, all of which evolved on Earth, so it seems reasonable to assume they evolved here too. Of course you might hypothesize that DNA is a building block of life that is not unique to Earth, but that's a whole other can of worms...
Isn’t it a real phenomenon that’s even been observed in pop culture?

https://youtu.be/L_VFXM0mnR8
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