skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not accurate.

FBI/NSA interpret FAA 702 to acquire "one end foreign" communications, i.e. the communications of Americans with other parties abroad. There are millions of American citizens who reside abroad, and many thousands more at any given time are vacationing abroad. Those citizens' rights are being systematically trampled.

Further, Room 641A and then the Snowden revelations showed that actually FBI/NSA get a mirrored port or just split the beam directly on domestic Internet fiber runs. Submarine fibers are obviously all tapped, too (sorry, Hawaii). Supposedly they apply "minimization" filters on that full-take, but considering their incentives I doubt they try very hard.

I suppose it depends on what you mean by the legality of a database definitely containing fruits of Constitutional violations being "in dispute". Clearly FAA 702 is itself "in dispute" right now, with re-authorization not such a rubber stamp this time. And SCOTUS has punted on lawsuits against NSA surveillance with standing BS, so they've never actually ruled on the merits. Certainly many people, myself included, have long disputed the legality of FAA 702 and of retaining or processing communications acquired under its authority.

Anyway how can you say the legality isn't in dispute when the government has a secret interpretation of the law that they refuse to allow anyone to see? How can we dispute what we don't know about?

"I will continue to urge the DNI to inform the public about how the government and the FISA Court are interpreting the law. There is important, secret information about how the government has interpreted Section 702 that Congress and the American people need to see before the law is renewed." - Sen. Ron Wyden, May 19 2023.
What I'd expect is that

"having a distribution that's both radially symmetric" site:youtube.com

would return 3b1b's "Why π is in the normal distribution" video, which has that in subtitles at 22:28.

Even without the site: term, all I get is an allreadable.com page that's scraped the subtitles for that video. Allreadable appears at first glance to be a site owned by someone in China and hosted on liquidweb.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/16/a16z-backed-rooms-xyz-lets...
Is this article from 1985? Memba' then? Industry has to follow suit and compete with those 'other places' or this will be all for naught.
In this context, "invent" is a poor choice of words. "Reify" or "document" perhaps would be better.
Interesting, thanks for the links. By the way, the one I mentioned was in r/learnpython, which is probably not exactly the ideal audience for such a feature.
I thought it runs setup.py
>You're happy to join in trying to close down the thread by dumping on the losers, why would you stop at arguing about it?

Because a few of the arguments basically devolve to things that would affect me as explained above? I did get carried away...

>are these things not devaluing what it means to live in a democracy, for you?

Ultimately a democracy can contain single persons having a lot of unearned wealth and occasional meetings with the PM. If not, there are way bigger fish to fry (in the UK case: Murdoch for example). It would have been fine if the UK wanted a supermajority, but I wonder if membership was a politically survivable possibility if vote went the same way.

>Hang on, why aren't you blaming the...

I was describing the sequence of events. The Tories locked themselves into supporting Brexit once Cameron resigned, so the only possible alternative path came from the opposition. There were several opportunities to change course, but the opposition bungled it up over and over even when the had the votes. In my country, it's obvious that when parliament has the votes for an alternative coalition, your duty is to compromise to get the government out, not hold on for PM post.
Anything can be fun when you get to stop whenever you want. I'm sure it's a lot less app-eel-ing when it's obligatory.
rtorrent with unbound to mitigate the UI hangs from DNS lookups (serve-expired = true). The rtorrent config file is extremely hacky and every time I have to muck with it I wonder it why a friendlier interface to libtorrent hasn't overtaken it. But it gets the job done.
> '79 Playboy interview,

The phrase "for the articles" immediately springs to mind.
Thing about guns is it doesn't matter who's right or wrong so much as who pulls the trigger first.

Plenty of regimes out there that used guns to install an authoritarian government.
It’s weird to me too. I consume a decent amount of media but if I can’t think “oh yeah I want to watch this particular thing” I just don’t download it and it falls out of my brain. Which I’m fine with. Foundation was like that, and His Dark Materials. I guess I would have finished them if they downloaded automatically but they were kinda lame.

I guess I just consume media more haphazardly than most people. The whole point of my PLEX is only exactly what I’ve requested shows up.
> Those weren't requirements.

Then it seems we don't disagree on anything concrete. You're just using a different rating system than me when I judge it as impressive compared to what an average person would produce in 60 seconds.

Not sure if this is a general principle of yours. If ChatGPT were able to write a 1000 word essay using all 5-letter words except for a single mistake, would you still find it unimpressive? Do you think it a tool or person who makes minor mistakes isn't useful? Or only when a tool/person makes major mistakes?
The Link Between Climate Change and Air Pollution
Yes, MY statement is the totally unhinged and insane one.

Got it.
O.K., less than half know that the ballet is scheduled at appropriate times so the friends of the girls can get some bar time in without undue hassle.
Not everything is prison, but involuntary holds in psychiatric facilities are, and they're more expensive than just paying somebodies rent.
Are you high? Anyway I'm talking about 32bit based windows games from 2000 forward
No problem. And I agree completely -- it'd be really nice if newcomers could copy a template (or even better, have a tool make one for them) that handles all of this behind the scenes.
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This is the new Godwin's law: the longer a thread about AI grows, the higher the probability of a comparison to Skynet, Matrix, HAL etc popping up.

I would also like to add Wall-e to this memetic set of movies. In Wall-e, AI is an enabler of our own destructiveness, humans are enslaved by AI willfully, AI is empowered so that humans can graze away on nihilistic screens.
Random anecdote but I usually run Samsung (8X0 Pro) or Western Digital (Blue/Black) when I need cheap consumer NVMe drives. Otherwise I run used Intel enterprise SSDs with lots of life. Any component can fail but I have had good luck so far with these (fingers crossed). Of course, take frequent backups of any important storage.
Visual Question Answering: Techniques and Common Trends in Recent Literature
Against specific vaccines opposition to which has been leading to measles outbreaks. I think counting that against him is important, and again it's usually what people have meant when they've said "antivax" before COVID.
Was wondering how the upload in this case might be different than the AOE2 game I watched yesterday.
> how do you control the quality and encoding of the show?

There are settings for setting the desired quality parameters, and even for transparently replacing the on disk version with a higher quality version becomes available.
In the settings [1].

There's probably different *arr app's because it's easier that way. Each one already has enough bloat and settings to it to be overwhelming.

Overseerr [2] was the key to making me love the radarr/sonarr experience.

[1] https://trash-guides.info/Radarr/radarr-setup-quality-profil...

[2] https://overseerr.dev/
It is so strange. The decline in competitiveness is so obvious.

American cars can't compete with Asian or German cars. No engineers.

American homes aren't built for efficiency. No engineers.

American semiconductor and hardware tech is powered by immigrants. If/When they leave because of backlogged immigration, the companies will see more competition. Already America is resorting to sanctioning Chinese semi companies because American companies can't compete.

American software industry is powered by h1b slaves who can get deported by BS American laws themselves.

America is out of doctors and nurses too.

The only thing America succeeds at is financial engineering and management enriching itself.

Baffling!
This could be absurd but have you tried ChatGPT for clues?
Academy of science is not doe labs

Chinese gov have affiliated labs like doe national labs

Academy of science has its own graduate school and professor ranks
Death isn't the terrible tragedy many make it out to be. Very soon we will all be dead; this is all temporary anyway.
Windows has protected memory APIs to protect against precisely this kind of vulnerability. A simple method is to mark the "secure string storage" area as locked in memory, and hence not eligible for paging to disk.
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Show HN: Apply plugins to LLMs in one line of code with PlugnPlai and Langchain
Hey HackerNews, I'm building an open-source library aiming to make it very easy for anyone to use plugins with any LLM (plugins as defined by OpenAI).

I just finished this very simple tutorial: https://github.com/edreisMD/plugnplai/blob/master/examples/a.... And would love to get some feedback, and suggestions on how to improve it / make it useful for you.

Steps:
1. Load plugins from https://plugnplai.com directory (now with ~150 plugins)
2. Install and activate: Load specifications and build a default prompt describing the plugins to the LLM
3. Apply the plugins as a decorator to your function

Links:
- Plug and Plai directory: https://plugnplai.com
- Open Source Lib: https://github.com/edreisMD/plugnplai
Thank you, I appreciate you sharing your experience, it hits close home. I have moved back to Europe, but am actually looking at remote positions in the US. And thank you for your offer, I’ll take you up on that!
The Mighty Boosh - Eels sing

https://youtu.be/0AckvdGbk4w
Also, we can shift away from a culture and polity that worships Mammon. Generally speaking, people simply go with the grain of the culture, regardless of whether that grain is crooked or straight. If the culture reduces life to economics and makes consumerism its religion, then yeah, you'll see lots of people who would have chosen less lucrative paths choose work that pays more. What's worrying about finance and FANG pulling in a good chunk of the STEM majors is that finance is not a productive sector, and arguably, FANG isn't really all that productive either, certainly not relative to the economic bias. You need sectors like finance, of course, because they are the way capital is allocated toward productive labor, but the only way unproductive or marginally productive sectors can make this much money without funding and investing in productive industry is through usury. Usury is the ruin of empires.
> One thing that occurs to me is that we often fail to believe that people 3000 years ago were just as smart as we are ...

I think of this as "hubris of the now." This is where people cannot fathom how previous generations could achieve what they did without the tools and/or knowledge which exists in the present.

An example of this is found when contemplating how atmospheric differential equations were solved with computers having about 4k of RAM in the 1940's.
How so? Don Knuth wrote about his experience with ChatGPT. It was submitted to HN and made it to the front page. Someone saw this and decided to submit the same questions to GPT-4 and posted the results. This seems like a perfectly normal sequence of events.
HN ranking graph for this story: https://hnrankings.info/36016420/
True. No writer can imagine what's beyond the singularity, as no astronomer can look into a black hole. They can only explore "around" it, outside the "events horizon".

This is by definition of singularity: if it was possible to predict what's next, then that would be just a (meaningful) moment in the human history but not the singularity.
aka Napster
Until it is literal weekend at
bernies.
The Chinese Room and GPT
You missed the part where they do it for a fraction of the salary.

I suggest there's a kind of 'cultural imperative' in Korea that is so different from the US that it doesn't even begin to factor into our equations.

My Korean grad school colleagues went to intern at Samsung for serf pay, the only way that could work is if there was some kind of culturally implied merit.

The US also needs a 'different kind of ethos' to compete in semiconductor, Cali Surfer Vibes won't cut it, neither will NY banker vibes, neither will SF Social Media AI Allbirds vibes, nor Cambridge High Intellectual Healthcare Conference vibes, nor Texas Energy Industry or DC Government Consultant etc..

And that will be impossible without a fair number of migrants who will be mostly Asian - so where is this going to happen?

Maybe they need a 'New South Valley' about 50Km south of San Jose, a cross between Orange County, Silicon Valley, Cambridge, and Seoul aka Cali, but slightly more formally regimented, a bit like the actual old-school Silicon Valley which was at the time, away from the buzz, a bit of a sleepy burb where people focused on hard stuff and economics mattered.
> If I run "keeppass_compiled_by_attacker.exe" do you get some sort of prompt?

Yes, smartscreen
If anyone wants a recommendation for an alternative, I've had a good experience with the Crucial X8 4TB external SSD. Not quite as fast as the SanDisk Extreme Pro but pretty decent. Wouldn't trust it 100% though. (Also after writing ~300GB continuously the write speed falls from ~900MB/s to 90MB/s).

link: https://www.amazon.com/varencs-4tb-ssd-rec-ps-did-you-know-y...
I feel like you may be overreacting and also missed a bit:

OP: > Video opens with an explanation of LLMs.
Yeah I was hired by a prop trading firm of old Chicago floor traders in 2009 and then shortly asked to come up with an algo strategy in Kospi 200 options, with no help from any experienced algo traders. I worked something out completely on my own which was very similar to 0+, it just follows naturally once you understand the dynamics of a microstructure with low fees and FIFO queues.

They really gloss over "getting to the front of a strong queue," which generally requires stacking to many levels of depth in the market (which adds risk), or finding some way to join or remain in weak queues before they become strong, which requires some other method of estimating a theoretical value. Estimating and tracking depth in the queue at each level was definitely a significant part of the more sophisticated code I wrote.

The article may overstate the importance of lower latency as well. I definitely was not the fastest at the time, running some fairly non-optimized Java when I knew there were some faster C++ players in the market, and I was still able to do relatively well.
Yes, but it is a "waste of its capacity" in the same way it's a waste of the human brain's potential to learn numeracy to this level. Calculators are cheap, readily available, and don't make errors.

I'd be more interested in having the thing "study maths" in the sense of seeing many examples of Wolfram Language being used in matching English context. That way, it would learn the English->Maths mapping in a format that it can then feed into an industrial-strength mathematics engine. Apparently, Stephen Wolfram is working on this now, but the "full" fine tuning training would require significant funding and time. I suspect OpenAI has other priorities right now, but this type of thing will eventually become a routine way of making specialised and/or more capable large language models.
Yes popcorn prioritised downloading the torrent chunks in order so you could start playing the video while it was still downloading
Yeah honestly that kind of issue - where it says it will do one thing, then does another - really limits the use of gpt for me. It’s fun, sometimes, just to see what it comes up with - but if you actually need it to do something in particular - or not do something in particular? Good luck.
I’d be curious to know if someone could get a more “valiant effort” version of those first two questions with some prompt engineering. E.g. if it was asked to roleplay a conversation with the proper disclaimers to override its objection to not knowing what they actually think.
I know people who don't want to pray for their kids safety in school.

Violence isn't gonna come down unless mental health problem and fun couture changed which is very unlikely to happen.
It's a bit stickier, in that Google's very existence depends on there being a healthy, compelling world wide web, and there being just not that many people funding or supporting or driving that quest.

Google has to be a power for good open source & web. Otherwise they risk losing their whole business to apps & closed Oses, where they have next to no competitive advantage.
High interest rates = cut costs now.

That's literally how monetary policy is supposed to work, if economy is overheating with inflation, you force companies to cut costs with high rates. It discounts future revenue, making immediate costs way more important.
I usually see the not able to cope with the volume. I have also seen trap primers and regulators not set correctly so the toilets won't properly flush. I have also never understood why a plunger or a toilet brush was not available in the stall. I keep one in my bathroom so if there is an issue I can address it easily and quickly. Not able to keep up with the volume is more common than in should be.
I was so frustrated by that book (bought it on recommendation here) that I couldn't finish it.

He has one premise I agree with, that we can't decarbonize as quickly or easily as some hope. He then bludgeons the reader to death with it. I get it, okay!

Worse, much worse, he is incredibly myopic. For someone professing love and faith in science, he strangely seems to firmly believe we'll be stuck at our current technological level forever, the "end of history" fallacy on a whole other level. Have some faith in scientists, would you?

Factually, I don't doubt he's correct. But his assumptions and innuendo come off so strongly it completely ruined the book for me.
Smuggling also. In the last decade some cargo of alive eels had been found inside lugagges in airports flying to Asia.

There is an american Nematode parasite also that castrate the European eels.

Plus, overfishing, contamination, invasive species of fishes, drough, engineering of rivers, by-caught, propellers in dam pipes that cut them in chunks while swimming... And can't be breed in captivity.

The animal will go extinct in this century by greed, as usual.
"need to realize that ChatGPT was trained with ALL the data possible"
That's just 100% not true
Visual novel youtube uploads are definitely a thing. All of Umineko is available as just an auto-playthrough for those that want that. It's hard to argue it's not just outright piracy, even if you're not shipping around the bytes.

Would be nice to just get the videos pulled instead of outright arresting people. Maybe someone is wanting to make a point.
Not that it is a panacea, but you can/should configure Keepass to autolock the database after inactivity. I believe the default is something like 4 minutes, which should kick in before any kind of hibernation or paging would occur.
ChatGPT wasn't asked to be impressive, it was asked to write a single sentence containing only five-letter words. I think that a tool that is unreliable is significantly less useful than a tool than is reliable and that, all other things being equal, a tool that fails in difficult to verify ways is less reliable than one that fails in easy to verify ways.
You are taking his hyperbole of what an idiot would do as a literal example.

Please, relax.
> Top equities on US exchanges like NASDAQ and NYSE might be out of the scope for the average hobby quant, but a thinly traded penny stock, or a low-cap cryptocurrency on a smaller crypto exchange, might not be.

These kinds of markets tend to exhibit the kind of price moves and thin liquidity which make pulling off 0+ style trading very difficult.
When I try this in GPT-4 I don't get a hallucination: "I'm sorry, but as an AI with a knowledge cut-off in September 2021, I can't provide specific information about the number of chapters in "The Haj" by Leon Uris. This book, like many novels, is not primarily structured by chapters and its sections may vary based on the edition of the book. You can easily find this information by checking the table of contents in your copy of the book." (I'm aware that every time you use it the answer is different.)
I used to play with ELIZA on a TRS-80 back in the 80's. I have definitely wanted to see this.
It says it stores things on disk, rather than in memory.
Interesting, everstrike is a option market that sells a type of option they call an everlasting option. They say it was co-invented by non other than SBF: https://www.paradigm.xyz/2021/05/everlasting-options
I don't think longevity or flash has anything to do with it. Consumer devices of any type just can't afford reliable firmware.
> "when measured on “simple bibliometrics like productivity and citations, China has outperformed expectations”. She adds, however, that it still “significantly trails” behind other nations “in its capacity to absorb and apply knowledge”"

> "The thing that differentiates the United States from China is the depth of US capability across the board, whatever the field might be."

these sound like some cope
Its open sourced because.

1. Internally, its a legacy tech that's slowing people down and costing $$$ to maintain.

2. Its not something that'll give any competitor a leg up. Given its a completely saturated market even 10 years ago.

3. Hence, open source it, in the hopes someone will improve/maintain it for free
Unfortunately trusting something with capabilities that generalize isn't an easy thing to do.
I looked to it a little bit more, and was so baffled and horrified by the man I decided to stop. I did hear him insult pedophiles but that’s it
Works just fine for me when I bypass HSTS...
Interestingly, I had this problem with some (well just a couple) humans too. I couldn't get them off the "please/sorry/apologize" vocabulary or (can I ask you a question?). So I am not sure if that's due to GPTism or is an actual Brainisim problem.
But the people most in need of the intervention are also the ones least likely to take those muscle-preserving steps.

And if you can get them to take those steps, the need for the drug decreases.
This is what I was talking about. Rants like this who have switched off mid sentence somewhere.

He does not say that anything about staying on fossils. He does not say anything about there not being enough green resources.

He just quantifies what it would take and the result is that we need to build like a reactor per week or massive amounts of PV/wind/etc. Much more and much quicker than we do.
Except that the problems aren't really so different, are they? We seem to be making the same mistakes across generations, and learning the same lessons - which seems like a tragedy that can be avoided.
> The sequence of these two threads is just too perfect. Almost likely someone is trying to make a point.

Exactly! Almost every weak point that Knuth commented is fixed in GPT4 answers.

Maybe OP feed Knuth's observations to the model?

If that ins't the case, I'm really impressed.
Amazon is planning on closing the warehouse in Shakopee, MN where many of these Somali workers currently are.

This actually isn’t too surprising. This location has had issues with Somali workers protesting, striking, etc for the past few years.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/01/30/amazon-minnesota-sh...