skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There will most likely be problems with such web-application firewalls anyway, since those same firewalls will probably reject HTTP methods that they don't know about.

But adding a new new method is probably overall better and matches people's understanding of the implementation and interpretation of GET, even if (with extensions) GET can have a body people don't think of it like that. So a new method with defined semantics and interpretation avoids a whole bunch of sideshow debate about if GET with a body is possible or appropriate.
On what?

I cited the OECD data; I downloaded it, added up COVID deaths, excess deaths, and subtracted COVID from excess to get “non-COVID attributed excess”.
Hilarious. It’s important to remember:

1) ChatGPT is not a research tool

2) It sort of resembles one and will absolutely act like one if you ask it to, and it it may even produce useful results! But…

3) You have to independently verify any factual statement it makes and also

4) In my experience the longer the chat session, the more likely it is to hallucinate, reiterate, and double down on previous output
I am to know if the HN crowd has any insight about which brainwashing technique could have been used by the KGB to achieve such a harrowing result.
burning houses = less houses. Start by doing real politics not a junta
"Tiny island nation which has extremely tough rules on biological imports shielded itself from the rest of humanity for two years" does not have the same ring to it.

Be careful to equate correlation, i.e. fewer deaths due to stringent lockdowns to causation

Or just contrast what you said with what at the time came known as the "Swedish Experiment". You know, letting kids and teenagers go to school.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-excess-deaths-...
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-...

Kind of an older article, but illustrates the situation pretty nicely.

Microsoft has also done development work in recent years to enrich the data with more identifiable information and to make the data easier to process for surveillance.
Surely you mean the Turing Police?
But it’s not deliberately lying
It's one thing to accept a device as an emergency backup, and it's another thing to know whether the device and its user will be ready when that emergency comes. Will the firmware be updated? Will the user be familiar with its operation? Will it be incorporated into regular drills and practice scenarios?
>ChatGPT did not lie; it cannot lie.

If it lies like a duck, it is a lying duck.
AI will not destroy the humanity. People who use AI will.
That explains why Snowden was a big deal, but as soon as we all figured out that PRISM wasn't what he claimed it was (and Greenwald stupidly believed without running the docs he was given by experts) and instead just a data integration project for processing communications from targeted foreigners, Snowden should have become a smaller deal.
You may find this excellent documentary interesting. http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/
Currently it costs a lot to update these AI's by retraining them. So they will never have the latest information to work with. This becomes a big problem for a business if there is a dramatic new development in their product area. For example, if someone offers a new integration with their systems but their marketing AI knows nothing about it until it is retrained. Or Congress passes a new worker rights or privacy law and the AI's don't know about it till a year later. This could make it very difficult for businesses to adapt to change.
If you (re)read the grandparent comment, you’ll find that most of what is being talked about is not related to culture, but with nature.
That's not what I would call in the loop. He didn't check that the sources were real.

By "in the loop" I mean actively validating statements of fact generated by ChatGPT
The Onion (via its staff) intends to produce falsehoods. ChatGPT (nor its staff) does not.
Quoted directly from my last session with ChatGPT mere seconds ago:

> Limitations

May occasionally generate incorrect information

May occasionally produce harmful instructions or biased content

Limited knowledge of world and events after 2021

---

A lawyer who isn't prepared to read and heed the very obvious warnings at the start of every ChatGPT chat isn't worth a briefcase of empty promises.

WARNING: witty ending of previous sentence written with help from ChatGPT.
I'm curious why ERCOT has become so politicized.

It seems to stem from the 2021 ice storm outage, but that wasn't even close to the worst power outages seen in other parts of the US that are part of larger interconnects, so I don't see why it's special other than it's hip to hate on Texas by coastal elites like us.
I don't get it...
These are PROFESSIONAL lawyers that have gone to years of law school. How do they not know how to double check an answer from ChatGPT? I'm sure there's databases of cases online, it shouldn't be this difficult.
> That lies with the people who uncritically accept what they are told.

That's partly true. Just as much fault lies with the people who market it as "intelligence" to those who uncritically accept what they are told.
Animals definitely do dream, any cat or dog owner can tell that but even smaller animals like rats do also dream.

We are vastly overestimating the cognitive capacities of humans, we should in fact have higher respect for other intelligent species living with us.
Talk: The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI
>A language model is not consciously making decisions about what to say

Well, that is being doubted -- and by some of the biggest names in the field.

Namely that it isn't "statistically choosing words which probabilistically sound good together". But that doing so is not already making a consciousness (even if basic) emerge.

>it is statistically choosing words which probabilistically sound "good" together.

That when we do speak (or lie), we do something much more nuanced, and not just do a higher level equivalent of the same thing, plus have the emergent illusion of consciousness, is also an idea thrown around.
What do you mean what about us? We got what we wanted; tech jobs, new phones each year, all the anime, Marvel, and Star Wars content we can stomach!

If the public wanted security and sustainability it should have acted less like a drunk in a whore house.
> Unless it turns out some common ancestor of all of us had something like proto-dreams.

It's not clear to me at whether every animal with a nervous system dreams. It's something very hard to detect in most animals.
> they can easily become profitable in the next 5-10 years if [...] fusion energy becomes cheap

Boy you're leaning rilly far out of one of those windows that vertical farms typically do not have
Shouldn’t the answer be zero?
Pretending to no effect whatsoever of lockdowns on people would be arrogant. I'm glad we agree. It's also not what the parent commentator said, when they point to lockdown as the root cause (not a cause) of the 5% increased death rate. The activity you labeled as arrogant is denying the antecedent to what the parent and my comment said.
Yes but be merciful to an unfortunate fool who believed in technology! ChatGPT proved, like the Ouija board, to be the very voice of Satan himself for this lawyer. Bwahahahaaaaaah!8-)
There was a very brief mention in the video, but this link goes into more detail: https://micromouseonline.com/micromouse-book/rules/. The score of each run factors in 1/30th of the time spent to search. There is a separate period where the mouse can search, and then it goes through the maze at high speed using the route it planned prior. Obviously if you spend a massive amount of time searching, that will impact your score but it seems to prioritize the later, faster runs in terms of scoring.
A little confusing because "vector" here (largely) refers to two different things. "Vector search" being this ANN thing, but the "Vector API" is about SIMD. SIMD provides CPU operations on a bunch of data at a time, i.e. instead of one instruction for each 32-bit float, you operate on, depending on the CPU, 128 or 256 or 512 bits worth of floats at the same time. So, over scalar code, SIMD here could get maybe a 4-16x improvement (give or take a lot - things here are pretty complicated). So, while definitely a significant change, I wouldn't say it's at the make-or-break level.
The core problem with this argument is that if China were to detonate a nuclear weapon high in the atmosphere the US will immediately retaliate with massive nuclear strikes in which case the world would effectively end
So what's the alternative? Just wait until something bad happens to come in? Seems a lot more unproductive.
They are elected. People are choosing the old.
As bad as it is in the US, the UK's House of Lords is next level.
If you sign you name under "I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct." then you absolutely have an obligation to check that your facts are correct.
The upper estimates are that Russia has suffered 50k KIA in the war which is a lot but in the grand scheme of things won’t show up much in excess deaths.
Might want to stress it's space-based fusion energy just to troll the overly-optimistic folks around here
Everything that went wrong is evidence that if everyone had done my thing, it would all have been perfect.
The opinion in this case prevented a "evil" government entity from taking an individual's property unjustly, and was written by a person using anecdotes and references to people. So honestly I don't know what you're on about.
Excess deaths are the number of deaths above the expected number of deaths. The expected number of deaths usually comes from a model that takes into account how the number of deaths would normally change from one year to the next. This model would incorporate the effect of changes in the composition of the population that are occurring over long timescales.
It's a text generator. You ask it generate something and it does. It produces only stories. Sometimes those stories are based on actual facts.

This lawyer told it produce a defence story and it did just that.
It's definitely not a stupid question!

Gravitational waves are usually studied in the context of linearized gravity <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linearized_gravity> rather than the full theory of General Relativity.

Essentially one fixes some background metric that does not have the dynamical aspects of the inspiralling binary. Those dynamical aspects are then applied as perturbations of the background metric. When one then slices the 4-dimensional static background into 3 spacelike dimensions along some timeline, the departures from the background (the perturbations) then propagate like massless waves.

Masslessness (and no refraction, birefringence, etc.) is why the wave propagates at "c".

Light propagates as massless waves too, which is why the speed of light is "c". The constant is geometrical in origin (it's because our spacetime is 4-dimensional, with one dimension of time: gory details at <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_structure>, particularly the "Curves" subsection of the Introduction), although "c" was discovered by studying the speed of light.

Linearized gravity is a good approximation but not fully general. It breaks down in extremes of compactness, and so one resorts to numerical relativity (on supercomputers) for understanding the final parts of inspirals of merging black hole and neutron star binaries (both species are compact, and in the final inspiral each binary partner orbits within the "compactnes-really-matters" region of the other).
this is true, but doesn’t stop mistakes from being made or criticism from being useful.
And if you want to be pedantic, ChatGPT isn't even generating falsehoods. A falsehood requires propositional content and therefore intentionality, but ChatGPT doesn't have that. It merely generates strings that, when interpreted by a human being as English text, signify falsehoods.
The point was the delay of cases. During COVID many people died of preventable diseases or issues because COVID patients were siphoning our hospital and medical systems of resources. This man died of something that could've been prevented because hospitals were full and he couldn't get an ICU bed [1]. There are many more stories of this during the height of COVID of people dying from things that were low risk emergencies that became high risk ones because of hospitals being stressed.

In a situation where we did not have any lockdowns or curfews or measures in place, there would've been far more deaths because of limited hospital capacity being entirely consumed.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/0...
Well put.

I stand by this comment:

> Catch-all comment for all ChatGPT use cases:

> (1) Stunning tech demo, a vision of the future today

> ... yet ...

> (2) There are so many sharp edges that I'm not brave (foolhardy?) enough to blindly trust the output

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35068386)
I can only speak for macrium but they have good reasons to use their own format, so that you can have differential mountable backups. That's very different from someone inventing tar-but-worse.
Oh, code? I assumed you meant geometry and/or materials.

Yes, it's possible. I can think of several ways to approach it. Not quite as cleanly as with javaScript, mind.
Well, I just went outside and had a ton of fun for 30 minutes or so with a paper airplane outside of my neighborhood's tennis courts. I forgot how hard elevator tuning was, as well as the apparent unfavorability of the wind sometimes (and how hard it hurts to really chuck something). Super sweaty and happy now, thank you for encouraging _me_ in turn to go out and build a paper airplane for the first time in years. Total blast! Thanks again! <3 :)))) :D :)
Then why is the federal IRS so much better than the state revenue services?
Context window size will eventually be solved, likely with its own trade offs.
Rust is its own father? I think the borrow checker will make this difficult.
And pit bulls, but I digress. The debate gets lost in translation when we start having what do words mean debate.
There are systems built on top of LLMs that can reach out to a vector database or do a keyword search as a plug in. There’s already companies selling these things, backed by databases of real cases. These work as advertised.

If you go to ChatGPT and just ask it, you’ll get the equivalent of asking Reddit: a decent chance of someone writing you some fan-fiction, or providing plausible bullshit for the lulz.

The real story here isn’t ChatGPT, but that a lawyer did the equivalent of asking online for help and then didn’t bother to cross check the answer before submitting it to a judge.

…and did so while ignore the disclaimer that’s there every time warning users that answers may be hallucinations. A lawyer. Ignoring a four-line disclaimer. A lawyer!
I think this isn’t about specific screenings rather than the most basic physicals people get.

Screenings for specific diseases like cancer and regular blood checkups do definitively catch things early.
Sure - I think I agree that the same approach wouldn't have worked in the USA. But it's also not a binary choice between 'lockdown until elimination' and no lockdowns, but having said that, I don't know what the US or similarly large countries should have done.
Compiler Toolchains Resources
But if a new method is needed, servers have to support it (e.g., by updating them to the next version that supports the new method). In the same sense, couldn’t that new version “just” not drop the body of GET requests?

In any case we are talking about updating servers.
Hallucinated not lied.
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My discussion about packet loss & less than ideal connections.
Idiots come in many sizes.
If they wanted a ‘double’ check then perhaps also check yourself? I’m sure it would have been trivially easy to check this was a real case.

I heard someone describe the best things to ask ChatGPT to do are things that are HARD to do, but EASY to check.
It's not about what the dead would say - it's about the difference in degree between inconvenience and death.
This is important advice. I was lucky to have heard this before getting infected. The immediate infection hit me hard for a week, but I waited a good couple of months before trying any exercise more vigorous than a long walk. Even so, an hour after my first (short!) run, my watch gives me a high heart rate alert. Heart continues to clock 100bpm for the next three hours while I lay around doing nothing. Freaked me out. Take getting back to normal very slowly, and watch for weirdness.
Outschool is pretty amazing. I think through a Darwinian process a lot of remote education tools will emerge. I think people ignore that remote education tech is helpful for homeschooling, for extracurriculars, for people trying to get a degree while working, people in very rural areas, developing countries, and a whole host of other use cases. There was definitely a “we will hack this stuff together and throw it aside asap” mentality which baffled me as an engineer, but I’m certain a lot of very capable and smart people have learned amazing things and built great tech. It’ll take a while for the bitter after taste to wear off, and as I discussed above, the back biting and second guessing and the indignation that they had to sacrifice or suffer in some way in a disaster. But as emotions cool, I think we will see a resurgence of the techniques and technologies.

Re: governmental open source - the government is typically bad at such things. It’ll be private sector, educator, and contributor sourced as with all great things in the space of tech, for better or worse.
While I think SF should be able to function on a much leaner budget (There's so much waste and corruption in the city), this isn't a great take.

Investing in one of the most important cities in one of the most important states in the USA is in everyone's interest.

SF contributes 6.5% of California's GDP, a state that alone would rank as the world's 5th largest economy. SF's economy is higher than several other states put together [1]. Additionally, Californians pay significantly more federal taxes than they receive in return, so they are the ones subsidizing other states' budgets.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...
"Why do you think that? An entire generation of low level white collar work like Administrative Assistants, Bookkeeping, Typist, Administration Management, and anything BPO or KPO related has already been automated or outsourced from 2000-2020."

They probably all got retrained and now work for HR...

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Why would you want this on a phone though? It's for VR headsets.
There's no possible adequate warning for the current state of the technology. OpenAI could put a visible disclaimer after every single answer, and the vast majority would assume it was a CYA warning for purely legal purposes.
This is completely true but completely in conflict with how many very large companies advertise it. I’m a paid GitHub Copilot user and recently started using their chat tool. It lies constantly and convincingly, so often that I’m starting to wonder if it wastes more time than it saves. It’s simply not capable of reliably doing its job. This is on a “Tesla autopilot” level of misrepresenting a product but on a larger scale. I hope it continues being little more than a benign or embarrassing time-waster.
Omicron is certainly less deadly that the earlier variants, and the time gained with lockdowns allowed the population to get vaccinated, and gave hospitals time to build more ICUs. I think it's fair to say that these things are facts, not opinions!
Is there something specific your second paragraph refers to? I agree with the first one but I don't see a clear basis for the second. Do you just hope they're doing something untoward? And even if there is some dirt on them, how could it possibly relate to the quality of llms overall? Unless gpt4 is really just a room full of smart people typing really quickly...
Cool:

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You’re right. Which is why it’s great that this link was posted. You can now take this available data and combine it with you understanding of the CoL on the various locations. Otherwise you’d only have a feel for the CoL.
A big problem with healthcare is it tends to be reactive rather than proactive; folks generally tend to seek out care only when they’re having issues.
> was not listening to science and picking worse over bad.

The problem was anyone trying to say this, no matter how much evidence they had, was censored and ignored. Called an idiot. Asked "why they wanted to kill grandma". So on and so forth.

"Worse" was treated as "good" for years in spite of the science.
Whether a statement is true or false doesn’t depend on the mechanism generating the statement.
We should hold these models (or more realistically, their creators) to the same standard as humans. What do we do with a human that generates plausible-sounding sentences without regard for their truth?
Let’s hold the creators of these models accountable, and everything will be better.