skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ChatGPT 3.5 has been improving in its creative output pretty much every other week since I started looking at it. The improvements don't get announced, things just sort of change. Breaks prompts all the time though! For my usage, sometime around 3 weeks ago was probably peak, a few days ago its started getting really wordy, so much so that it runs into the 4k token limit before it can complete stories now!
Looks nice, but would benefit from longer examples (10+ lines) to really get a feel for things.
I agree. It's disappointing and it's one of the big picture trends I've seen continuously as I age.
While not standalone apps, our data publishing plugins for Adobe InDesign (http://emsoftware.com) are now 23+ years old and going strong...
You can't please everyone, so it is best for good-natured people to get out front. It's the same with any powerful technology.

Are you going to invite religious extremists to the table in the name of fairness?
It's $70 per month. The $50 rate is for only for customers who joined years ago. If you move to Longmont and sign up as a new customer you'll be paying $70.

The pricing isn't super cheap, but it's very fair and the service quality is good. No data caps, symmetrical speed, good reliability. No IPv6 support though. They also recently started offering 2.5 and 10 gbps for $150/250.
I think your parent’s question is completely justified by having anecdotes. They aren’t stating a fact, they are raising doubts of a claim. One does not need scientific evidence to raise doubts about a claim which it self has limited—and sometimes no—evidence behind it. Repeated real world examples are sufficient for such doubts.

Now if FSD proponents want to stop people from having doubts, they need to run several experiments in very diverse settings (as diverse as real world driving). In the absence of sufficient evidence, a skeptic is completely justified.
Check out mathpix.com

(disclaimer: I'm a founder)
I'm not sure what you thought I meant. Or what this is supposed to show. If you tell your text prediction engine to make sure to account for keyframes. It's not impressive that it responds with how to account for them. I know it can use ffmpeg, I haven't seen it attempt to account for well known edge cases, or caveats they way a real expert trying to be helpful would.
While the motorcycle brand probably outsells the car brand by 1000x, the Indian/chineses market is big enough to also have a car model that sells millions upon millions of units.
Dog whistles aside, the entire justice system is driven by stats.
There's a good lecture on AI ethics.

It's good to have screenwriters on staff to flesh out consequences of your decisions. Plus maybe a Wall Street trader or two to figure out all the ways to game the system.
Well, it is a bit different. FSD theoretically can get driver into bad situation, then beep at them "I can't handle that", and as long as beeping was early enough that's no fault of Tesla even if the start of the event chain was caused by it.

Also Full Self Driving is extremely deceptive name for feature that does not do that
Depends on the shoe type. I was asked multiple times to take off heavy winter shoes. But no one ever told me to take off my sneakers
Roughly how many people on the planet would be able to understand this blog at a casual glance?

I'm going to take a few swings at it tomorrow because it's so well written, but I feel comically far away from the target audience.
What you’re saying doesn’t exclude my policy specifications. The end result is the same.

Every person of age gets up to $X in the way of loan debt payoff and/or tax credits. The results will be filed in taxes. A progressive tax rate based on wealth can be up to 100% for this specific money.

If this is still an ambiguation of the issue to you, I can clarify further.
Which complex video games?
European Portuguese from Portugal!
Every person of age gets up to $X in the way of loan debt payoff and/or tax credits. The results will be filed in taxes. A progressive tax rate based on wealth can be up to 100% for this specific money.

What I am saying satisfies what you’re saying.
Is it possible without a phone number or other forms of near PII?
It's weird to set Chinese imperialism as the worst alternative, when the US is China's most prominent provider of technology, and first consumer of manufacturing and services. In exchange China is of course also the biggest holder of US dollar.
Here's a Tesla ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfMtONBK8dY
It seems like comparing AP to anything but regular cruise control miles is not very fair and is going to inflate its safety.

From that link, it's pretty bad if it's not even clearly better at general "highway miles" than when it's off because people are least likely to use it at the times that are much more dangerous generally, such as merging onto and off the freeway.
It doesn't impress me that once corrected (which it has been multiple times), that it stops giving wrong answers. If it was able to detect and supply nuance to something novel. Then I might be impressed.

BTW: when I posed this question

> how do I use ffmpeg to slice out a video, I only want 3 seconds of video from the middle

to chatgpt4, it did not mention anything about accounting for keyframes. So I'm not sure what version you're using, but it's not the one I have access to :/ Another reason to assume good faith, because you seem to have access to something that I don't.

And, this is now (well before this specific conversation) an expired example because openai's model has been specifically training on this nuance, and thus even if it never made a mistake around it, it still wouldn't be impressive to me; simply because this nuance was directly added to it's model. Remember, we're talking about if the abilities of available models are impressive, what would be impressive to me is if they're able to generalize well enough to know things they haven't been directly taught.
And when they outsource it people will say they're just focusing on core competencies. The great thing is businesses can use a magic 8-ball to make business decisions and someone will laud the results as a good move.
Embarrassing to post nonsense like this in 2023.
It is not about efficiency or trying not to be slow. I am not bothered how many people cut in line or "cheat".[1]

Someone will always keep cutting into the space. It is impossible to maintain 3 second to the car ahead. First one car will cut in, you make room for them and add 3 second gap the next car will cut in. Maintaining even a 1 second gap is sometimes very hard close to exits.

[1] Personally my driving pattern changed once I switched to driving a hydrogen fuel cell Mirai, slower is better on the mileage and fuel cell owners are very range conscious.
Ditches which ”occasionally” have ran water run through them have larger impacts on water quality and retention than wetlands. There’s all kinds of negative externalities people don’t understand are a problem or care about the problems they create, but that doesn’t make those externalities actually disappear.

> All the court did here was rule that the law doesn’t cover ditches which might occasionally have rainwater in them.

Hardly, what the court did was override both the intent of the law and people who understood what was required to implement it. It’s a perversion of the basic concept of the rule of law.
Conversely the over abundance of guns also is fraying the social fabric and makes normal policing impossible.
This is HN. The corpo minimal social news site of the most successful VC incubator. Egalitarianism and HN barely overlap.
What does this comic have to do with the topic?
When does a thief become a whistleblower?

It seems to me that something really dangerous or illegal needs to be going on to morally justify publicly releasing a 100GB worth of (presumably unfiltered) private company data.
> The statement that the war was unprovoked is proving to be less durable by the day. https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/the-war-in-ukraine-was-...

This article makes no sense what so ever, and repeats multiple Russian talking points including a often included comment about NATO expansion

That comment and supposed promise never happened in the way it is presented, I’d suspect someone who is familiar with this situation to know that.

That the author of that _opinion_ doesn’t know that is telling of his actual familiarity with the situation.

The entire thing reads like Russian propaganda and reads like it’s trying to dissuade western weapons to Ukraine, a key Russian goal.
NextLight is a local gem!
Because in a capitalist society, capital owners are in control
But But But nuclear is safe. These accidents that keep happening are because it's an old design with 98 rubber hulls. This new design with 99 rubber hulls will prevent every foreseeable accident that can possibly happen! Coal is more radioactive than cutting-edge nuclear according to this one report from 1974!

Oh, the entirety of europe is afraid of being irradiated because some lunatic decided to purposely make a plant in Ukraine blow up? A tsunami you say? A hijacked 747 plunging into the reactor? Coal is more radioactive than nuclear!
It doesn't stop with one, the problem is not someone cut across, the problem is someone always keeps squeezing in the gap. Every time you open a gap, a new car cuts across. How can you maintain any gap in that context ?
Whether EVs last longer is yet to be seen. The batteries are a huge flaw in their ability to last long term. Replacing the batteries are likely a $10k+ cost, meaning that as cars get older it may not be worth doing. Imagine having a car worth $8k because it is 10 years old and needing to spend $10k on it to update the batteries. Would it make sense? Or would you just buy a car worth $18k instead?

People willing to drop that on a "repair" would probably rather buy upmarket instead. Which leaves a lot of older EVs driving around with potentially really poor ranges and clogging up charger networks.

We will have to see how it plays out. But they are lower maintenance.
Compare DB vs neighboring SBB (Switzerland‘a trains, possibly the best in Europe or the world). Germany has been ravaged by neoliberalism. underfunding publicly owned services, failing to maintain the infrastructure that is collectively used. This leads to degraded service, which liberals and other right-wingers hold up as an example of the need for privatization because the free market will of course fix these inefficiencies, only to rapidly accelerate the decline of the service.

If you want nice things you have to pay for them. Deutsche Bahn has instead been stripped for parts by the capitalists.
There’s a company called comma that has something close.
> Wait, I too thought your original comment on alignment questioned its fundamental premise—than one dominant culture should not/cannot define the adequacy of alignment.

What?!

This is exactly what I was worried about when OpenAI, et al. co-opted the term "alignment" to refer to forcibly biasing models towards being polite, unobjectionable, and espousing specific flavor of political views.

The above is not the important "alignment" - it's not the x-risk "alignment".

The x-risk alignment problem laughs at the idea of dominant and subordinate cultures. It's bickering about tenth place after decimal comma, when the problem is that you have to guess one real number that falls within +/- 1 of the one I have in mind, and if you guess wrong, everyone dies.

This reminds me of a Neal Stephenson novel, Seveneves. Spoiler for the first 2/3rd of the book: with Earth facing an unstoppable catastrophe poised to turn the surface into fiery inferno for decades or more, humanity manages to quickly build up space launch capacity, and sends a small population of people into space, to wait out the calamity and come back to rebuild. Despite the whole mission being extremely robust by design, humanity still managed to fuck it up, effectively extincting itself due to petty political bullshit like "what makes you better than me, that you want me to do things your way".

So, where it comes to actual AI x-risk, I no longer have any hope. Even if we could figure out how to build a Friendly AI, someone would still fuck that up, because it's not inclusive enough of every possible idea, or is promoting the views of a specific culture/class/country, or something like this - like this was about casting for a Netflix remake of some old show, and not about the one shot we have at setting the core values of a god we're about to bring into existence.
Of course, HN achieves this by killing anything politically controversial via the flagging system.

Next up, their analysis of the political bias of the Linux kernel mailing list?
And something to note, every single time the debt limit did eventually get raised.

And likewise spending did get reduced, although not maybe as much as Republicans would like.

Basically the two parties need each other. And the best legislation happens from a mixed Congress.
Of course one can argue about the semantics of "defensive war", but as far as I understand, there was basically zero chance Japan would have conquered the US, or any American territory for an extended period of time, without the US invading Japan. So in this sense the war wasn't purely defensive. It was nothing remotely like the defensive war of France against Germany during WW2.
$70 for symmetrical 1Gbps sounds cheap to me.
Wonder how many of those surviving churches were themselves erected atop the ashes of a non-Abrahamic site of worship and/or sacrifice
If anything, mid journey is an argument against prompt engineering. Each successive iteration of mid journey (currently at v5) has made it progressively easier and dispensed with the need for stable diffusion specific terminology.
>>the disease is far less effective spreading, either for not be able to infect as much people, or people not being severely impacted and being less contagious and for less time.

>This idea doesn't mix well with Covid's very high rate of asymptomatic cases (which may be even higher among the vaccinated).

Indeed. Isn't it counterproductive (and also contrary to the history of public health remedies) for a "vaccine" to only reduce symptoms but not reduce infectivity? Doesn't that cause people to go to work and school when they might not have otherwise?

>At least where I live (Wales, UK), asking citizens to avoid healthcare for several years to "Save the NHS" has resulted in an ongoing health crisis of unprecedented proportions.

"Save the NHS" has a long history pre-COVID19, too. <https://twitter.com/KulganofCrydee/status/833654730849136641>
> Every customer complaint about unintended acceleration of Teslas was proven in court to be the fault of the customer confusing the pedals.

Reference, please? Are you referring to a specific complaint, or truly "every" customer complaint?
corvette C8 for those who cant afford a Ferrari
I think Elon was thinking that was the way to take cars off the road. own many cars with low utilization vs share fewer cars with high utilization.

Personally, I'm surprised that the "Summon" feature wasn't matched by a corresponding "Banish" feature (go away and park yourself)
And if there's a video of FSD that isn't a "fail compilation", it was probably filmed and/or uploaded because it showed off the FSD doing well, and may even be subject to, effectively, the editorial review of google (whether via algorithms or moderators), which could easily depend on the size of google's advertising relationship with tesla on a given day (or how heavily they want to push the safety of self-driving cars, a business they are also in)

There's so much bias at every step of the process of looking up youtube videos that it lends essentially no credibility to any claim in any direction on this matter
And he’s admitted self driving was way more difficult than anyone realized, so his dream is gonna be delayed 5-10 years like most of his other major ones.

It’s now 2013, want to see a video of Starship taking off?
Two Things That Are Not Great About Oklch
> If power and efficiency issues are resolved,

My gut feel is that this is a pretty grossly inefficient system by nature. Inducing current in seawater just to give magnetic traction something to push off against seems semi absurd.
Looks great, thanks! It would be useful to add chapters indicators / links to jump directly to a specific news in the audio
That's not the right question to ask. The right question to ask is, "Can self-driving tech kill fewer than 30,000 people a year, as humans do now?"

If you kill the R&D goose or smother it in overregulation, more people will die.
I have a government that I choose through voting. It's not complicated.
A unipolar world order is a local optimum by its very nature. Regardless of who's in charge, conflict arises from parties thinking they have a chance to secure leverage against another power via violence. If there's a sole power with an overwhelming military advantage against their next-largest competitor, people aren't going to go off and die in hopeless wars. Russia and China's actions can't be separated from the fact that their existence in anything like their present form is a challenge to the US and its sphere of influence.

Even then, the US government and economy is organized in ways that make it disturb the trivial-to-maintain peace its position as hegemon affords it(see Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and various covert operations that succeeded before escalating to direct intervention) to secure itself minor advantages or even for entirely domestic reasons.

If you account at all for the inherent advantages of a unipolar world, the US's record is shockingly poor. I'm fine with rolling the dice on multipolarity in hopes of a less irrational hegemon emerging.
The tech giants have an interest in AI regulation
A friend's wrote a book on prehistoric flutes. Her Ph.D. dissertation was on the subject, [1]. Unfortunately, I believe that it is out of print.

[1] Lana Neal, The Earliest Instrument: Ritual Power and Fertility Magic of the Flute in Upper Paleolithic Culture, https://www.amazon.com/Earliest-Instrument-Fertility-Paleoli...
https://archive.is/D6Pss
Intel's $200 Arc A750 GPU is the best budget GPU by far
Wow, that is a much more capable and versatile instrument than I expecting for something so simple. 2.5 octave range and a scale/tuning that sounds pleasant even to modern ears.
I'm personally skeptical of any level of government, but then I come from the place where Steven Seagal was given access to a sheriff's department tank (provided by the federal government, naturally), and drove it through a gate targeting alleged cockfighting [0]. There's plenty of horrible stuff Joe Arpaio did, but if county-level governments are receiving "tools" (including stingrays and other surveillance equipment) from the federal government, I don't see any reason they wouldn't just walk into the local government ISP whenever they wanted.

Not that I trust Cox et al much more, but I have at least passing sympathy for GP's overall point.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/03/23/134803230...
I liked Tegel. The low distances between entrance and all the gates, combined with the per-gate security, allowed to arrive much closer to the departure time than at other airports, IME. I never checked luggage flying via Tegel tho.
One aspect of the specific positional embedding used there is that it explicitly encodes a signal that the very first attention layer can directly use for both relative and absolute position - i.e. that there can be a trivial set of wights for "pay attention only to the token two tokens to the right from the target token" and also a trivial set of weights saying "pay attention to the first token in the sequence" and also "pay attention to this aspect of all the words weighed by the distance from the target token". As by default the transformer architecture is effectively position-blind, having the flexibility to learn all these different types of relations is important; and many possible simple, clean, efficient position encodings make it easy to represent some relations but very difficult for others, perhaps theoretically possible but needing extra layers and/or hard to learn by gradient descent.
> liberals and other right-wingers

... Is this a case of "words to describe politics mean different things in different countries"?
That might seem plausible after reading just this article, but if you look at this video [0] you can see the way it was reconstructed, and hear it being played.

It strikes me as unnecessarily dismissive to insist that hyenas gnawed a perfect pentatonic flute; that really does just seem like some kind of weird jealousy... Especially when we have other examples of pentatonic bone flutes tens of thousands of years old.

0 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHy9FOblt7Y
Notably, none of your examples include the central distribution service which underpins a whole FOSS ecosystem.
Why should I use Either<Left,Right> over exceptions?
I develop in Typescript and I'm often reading how I should handle errors with Either<Left,Right> instead of throwing exceptions. I've read about this so many times and I just can't fathom why I would ever want to do this. I assume I'm missing something so I thought I would ask here.

I'll briefly describe how I use exceptions in my web app. I wrap every API endpoint in a try/catch block. Further up the call stack I throw objects which are either ExpectedError or UnexpectedError. In my catch block I return an invalid HTTP response and an error message. If the error is expected then the user sees a relevant message, if it's unexpected then the error appears more generic to the user and gets logged in Sentry for review.

What exactly is missing from using this approach? Whenever I read into Either<Left,Right> it just seems like I would be introducing way more code into my project with no clear benefit. I understand that when the error is not something that should fail the user request then explicit handling is required, but that seems to be way less common and I can still do that? In most scenarios I want to end whatever the user is attempting and communicate to them why there was failure, exceptions seem far more efficient for that..
Suits are often worn to be manipulative. People wear them on dates to look more handsome or richer. Salesmen wear them to get more sales. Mobsters wear them so they don't look like thugs.

You might just wear it to look good, but there might also be this unconscious bias that you're using money to compensate for something.

To neutralise the look, one of my friends wears a Simpsons tie, which suggests he's wearing the suit because he wants to, not for any other purpose.
Its my understanding that the vendor that they were buying LIDAR from was either slow paid or never paid - and then cut them off. This is when LIDAR became less important in their marketing spin and they said that they do not need it.
The flashy tech bells and whistles are there to compensate for the inherent problems with electric cars. They lag in range compared to gas cars, and get absolutely trounced when it comes to putting energy back in the car.

Concrete example: this week I had to drive some people between San Jose and Hollywood. Google maps says that's 5:40 hours over 340 miles.
I looked at renting a model 3 for the trip but it simply could not justify itself when compared to the minivan I ultimately rented with 500+ miles range. Not only was I not forced to stop in BFE for 20-40 minutes, I didn't have to stop at all. Arrived with plenty of gas to get to any station in LA I might want (cheapest).
And I wasn't even pressed for time, but if I'm slapping an extra half hour onto the trip I'd rather spend it (and actually did) on taking the more scenic US101 route for ~400 miles instead.
Left-right seems like a false dichotomy to me. e.g. the reason to avoid cable news is not because of some sort of "left" or "right" bias (which is already nebulous), but because of conflict of interest: health care and military contractor ads sandwiched between pundits attempting to sway public opinion regarding health care and defense policy.