skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I usually use these instead of the toothbrush/paste combo, it’s more healthier than all the chemicals and fluoride in the paste, it’s organic, environment friendly, and you use it any time of the day or continuously unlike the toothbrush, and my teeth are better than most per my dentist, actually after using it you can feel your teeth surface feeling it’s like a mirror.
When it comes to the question of when strong AI will come, I think our society's reaction to ChatGPT is more worrying than the technology itself. Namely, because of ChatGPT, we see major companies, governments, etc clamoring over AI today like never before. The magnitude of this hype and its resulting funding rush is unprecedented. Nobody could have predicted that this would have happened so quickly.
YES!

So: Arcanum, Disco Elysium, Fallout 1/2... The superfecta.
Conceptually this is paradoxical because of the notion that time is linear. Which it is to the best of our current understanding.
i.reddit.com was great, miss it dearly.
I would wager most people who are serious about using old.reddit are doing it via extensions, since that approach works even when signed out - so many don't notice e.g that title bug.
> Even people who highly value diversity and inclusion should feel queasy about the DEI gold rush...after the murder of George Floyd...a pretext to sell hazily defined consulting services to corporations

Indeed.

"These riots really shouldn't surprise you. It is hard to know exactly who is responsible for these sad changes to America, but it is easy to see who is benefiting from them. They are the same people lecturing you about white privilege and systemic racism.

"This isn't accidental. CitiBank is happy to put Black Lives Matter logos on their Instagram page precisely so you won't ask what interest rates they are charging black people. If you really cared about the poor, you wouldn't crush them with debt they can't afford to. Of course if you really cared about black lives, you wouldn't put abortion clinics in black neighborhoods but they do.

"These people are scam artists. They are playing you."
Boeing says certification of 737 Max 7 is taking 'considerable amount of time'
Excellent outcome.

Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33860346
That article claims that swiping to delete/archive messages debuted in Mailbox, but I recall doing that in 2009 with the Palm Pre's builtin mail app.
The claim is that AGI will solve all these problems. But AGI alone cannot solve any problems. AGI needs other advancements before it can get close to solving the problems. Additionally many human problems cannot be solved with AGI unless AGI has control over humans.
Diffusion models learn how to denoise noise into images that are similar to training data. But what if the training data itself is noisy? Then the model will learn to produce noisy images also.

There's a reason why they try to remove noisy/blurry/bad q images, because simply put, what you put in is what you get out. While I don't agree with intentionally destroying the quality of images (ruins it for humans as well as AI), I don't see why this wouldn't work.
You don't have to like cows to like milk.
> It will really go into freefall when they go public later this year,

I mean the only thing the founders/investors want is to cash out, nothing more. they don't care about what reddit becomes after they IPO.

> Reddit's product is authenticity.

It has not been authentic since Trump's election. It has become a PAC, tangentially something else, but mainly a way to push partisan politics on every single subreddits including the subs that have nothing to do with partisanship.
I did, but couldn't get into it.

First person just doesn't cut it for me.
> those who believe the endstate is a time travelling cyber Satan that will torture everybody

This smacks of misinformation. If you're referring to that dreaded basilisk, very few people actually believe that scenario has any likelihood at all. Also, it has nothing to do with time travel anyway.

The other two things are more or less guaranteed because they're simple extensions of processes that are happening right now and can be seen all around us.
That’s pretty neat!

Also, I was not aware that Instructables.com was owned by Autodesk. Guess they must’ve been acquired somewhat recently.
> I can imagine scenarios in which it could be fairly shit, but good enough.

Let’s hear these scenarios that aren’t possible without AI.
There's a ton of stuff here and this isn't a climate thread, but briefly:

1. Yes I believe independents are more reliable than full time researchers because the latter are deeply conflicted and independents aren't.

2. They don't work for the oil industry. I've checked. That's propaganda designed to stop people listening.

3. There was in fact a very real pause, not simply due to statistical chance. Climatologists didn't predict that and fixed the problem by altering the historical record to erase it. That's why you can't see a pause now - not because there wasn't one, but because any time temperature graphs don't go according to plan, they change the databases with the measurements so they do. Look into it. There's another pause going on right now! In fact temperatures seem to have been stable for about 20 years modulo an El Nino in ~2015, which is natural.

4. A big part of why they're unreliable is that these guys don't engage with the real world. A major embarrassment for them was when people started driving around and looking at the actual ground station weather stations and discovered what an unusable data trash fire the ground network was - this was something climatologists themselves hadn't bothered to ever look at! You'd expect these experts to know more about the quality of their data than random bloggers but it wasn't so.

5. Where do you think Al Gore got his original claims? He didn't invent them out of whole cloth. They came from climatologists, of course.

You can go back and forth on climate related claims all day and get nowhere because the field is so corrupt that half the data is truncated, manipulated, tipped upside down, cherry picked, or wholesale replaced with the output of models whilst being presented as observation. It should go without saying but if the people who control the data also make the predictions, then they will never be wrong regardless of what happens in reality!
I've been trying to do this for the last 20 minutes on my desktop screen...it's not working.

Now there are finger prints all over my screen...

Any tips?
In my experience law firms would not hop through these. That is the job of hired ethical hackers, police and prosecutor's office.

A law firm would be useful in (a) applying to remove illegal content, (b) seize any profit generated by illegal use of clents' content, (c) (if the client requests) horrify users identified of such illegal services, (d) pressure the authorities to crack down on the operation.

Most lawyers do not understand the technical details. We do a hell of a good job of understanding experts' findings and put them in a clear legal structure though.

Most of the boring but billable job I ever made was searching through company registries, google searches, sanctions searches, panama papers searches, reviewing countless pdfs to either (i) mark them as privileged so they cannot be used as evidence, (ii) scan whether there are any documents that may directly implicate the client and if so try to find a way to legally claim it is unusable.

I believe law firms do provide decent service. Billables are there, but no lawyer I know would willingly generate busywork that does not lead anywhere to charge more. OTOH, I HAVE seen instances where a work got reviewed multiple times by different lawyers, because the client was willing to pay more. But even in these edge cases, multiple reviews did benefit the client and they received a better work product.

My advice would be establish a good working relationship with a lawyer in the firm that you trust, continuously send work. Ask estimates if you are on a tight budget. But do not be cheap and try to get things done with less budget. Law firms provide a service you need, if you pay them decently you'll receive your money's worth. Lawyers will literally take a bullet for you to make things happen when you need them.

Apologies for the long rant :).
You still want a redirect extension since that forces it even if you're in, say, an incognito tab. The settings piece will only work if you're signed in.
It’s funny they’re still pushing it after Tumblr, and also considering 5ch.net always had the NSFW part in a different domain(not subdomain). It’s as if everyone knows and some always knew…
You implied that no work had already gone into optimizing it with no basis for the assertion. Then you misinterpreted him saying that a Reddit admin made the same response on the thread in question and accused him of bad faith. Maybe you should also take a minute to review the guidelines that you also included in your post.
AWS might not really have much extra GPU capacity for them anyway.. also they would cost more.

I think that there aren't a lot of GPUs available and it takes time to add more to the datacenter even when you do get them.
One of the things I regularly think about is the "Cafe of Broken Dreams".

I've found myself in dive bars and coffee shops around the world that make me think, "Oh, wow, this is like the Cafe of Broken Dreams" when it seems a lot of people there are down on their luck.
Everyone saying their pricing is absurd had better get ready for the new wave of API pricing.

Like every other industry, there's a growth period where things are new and prices are reasonable, and then there's the "squeeze" where bean counters come in, make charts that are likely bs, and explain how much easier it'd be if we charged 4x as much for half the customer base.

Twitter was one of the first to give access to cheap mass data, and now they're one of the first to charge through the nose for that. The move is going to be that if you're not enterprise level you're not getting this data anymore, and I doubt it stops with reddit.
Nbxmpp 4.3.1 out (Python-nbxmpp) – used by Gajim Jabber/XMPP client
Which is funny because Internet forums used to be a software package you acquire and run on your own servers. No one really asked for a centralized system where you didn't have any control. It seems pretty straight-forward to go back to that original idea.
Here's the nutrition information for a 3-ounce serving of skinless chicken thigh, per the USDA: 9 grams fat. 20 g protein. About 1g fat per 2g protein in the chicken thigh. It's far higher than more recent recommendations, but those have been far too low in terms of natural fat intake.

Pork butt is about 20g protein and 16g fat, which isn't in and of itself bad, as it can still be used for energy (like carbs can).

If you look at a lot of western nutrition issues, most are centered around lack of fat soluble nutrients and hormone deficiencies, which are sourced significantly from fatty acids.

Edit: there's also obesity, but fat is far more satiating than carbs and tend not to cause the insulin/carb cycling in terms of hunger response that you get from sugars and simpler carbs. In the end, one should not be specifically avoiding fats from animals in natural proportions. That isn't to say you cannot overeat meat, only that it's less likely than overeating from other sources.
I'm glad everyone is alive.

I'm also going to need more proof this wasn't someone listening to Waylon Jennings' "Good Ol' Boys" from Dukes of Hazzard and saw an opportunity.

I half expected the video to freeze frame when the car was at its apex and hear the narrator cut-in.

I need to check myself if I hear "Gimme Some Lovin" when driving for similar reasons.
in the high power rocketry the newer flight controllers that have staging capabilities have lockouts now. We can configure logic like "only fire the second stage igniter if N seconds have elapsed since stage 1 burnout AND the rocket is traveling at a min of X ft/sec AND no more than Y degrees off vertical". It makes things a lot safer and more convenient

1) an M motor igniting 45 degrees off vertical 20k feet up means a long drive let alone a long walk.

2) an M motor igniting at a negative velocity ( descending and likely pointing down) is very scary heh.
US, France, Israel ... then who? Maybe another five eyes country like the UK? Possibly China? I'm pretty skeptical Russia would be able to get someone in there but maybe.
It becomes an official communication method.

This should allow you to actually send legal save communication to the government.
Many people are pointing out that they're going to lose a huge number of users over this, but that seems to be the point of the "cutting" phase of bulking and cutting.

(By bulking and cutting I mean eating a calorie surplus to gain muscle and fat followed by a calorie deficit to reduce fat while hanging on to as much muscle as possible.)

Reddit, Netflix, YouTube... they bulked their user base by subsidizing products. Now they're in the cutting phase and raising prices, restricting features, and/or increasing ads. They know they're going to end up with a significantly smaller user base, but if the cutting manages to maintain a large enough number of profitable users (muscle) while shedding unprofitable users (fat) then the business will end up in better shape.

Alternately one can keep calories stable and slowly increase muscle without gaining fat, but that's much slower and harder than a bulk/cut cycle, and most people and public companies don't have that kind of patience.
woah okay.
Interesting. Last I poked around with it GPT-4 performed abysmally with basic logic. For example it routinely confused the inference with the equivalence. Definitely cool to see progress.
This is a great example of what I'm talking about. P-values of 0.049 is not a "tell"; that is an HN meme. You can have p-values above 5 percent and the paper can still convey novel and valid research, depending on the nature of the study. The 5-percent value is a common cutoff, but it is a largely arbitrary one. Sometimes there is justification for a higher one, and sometimes it should be lower.

To gauge what sort of p-value suggests a useful model requires familiarity with the area and the broader context of the research.
Good point. I haven't had any need for incognito Reddit since I discovered the setting.
I don't think anyone uses alignement to refer specifically to DEI bullshit.

There are people using the term generally to refer to any kind of finetuning of an LLM, so they would consider what OpenAssistant did to be alignment even though there was no attempt to convince it to not kill humanity or to be politically correct.
It's an emergent property of the voting system:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law
> and why the Digg exodus happened

They may suspect they're larger than Digg ever was, and can simply weather that storm.

They may be right, to be honest.
... I hate the redesign, which probably means everybody but me will love it. Maybe I'm just old, but "clean, modern look" always seems to translate to "harder to figure out how to interact with it" for me.
I think the tricky part for me is that "work" is extremely broad and now that ChatGPT has plugins, it can kind of do anything. Heh.
No it mostly works, but does revert and need to be rechecked seemingly randomly. Used to be more frequently actually, now is only every few months for me.
It's a shame it doesn't work with Sigrok because you miss out on all the nice decoders that brings you.
Right, but there is a long way between that and civilisation collapse. Also neither of those systems have long planning or self improvement capabilities.
Why would they IPO? Just take the money you make now and be happy. They need to pay back the VC money they stupidly took very late, but it's not like they need to fund future dev? Another bad redesign? Many people use these alternative apps because the UI on Reddit is pretty bad. They should force ads into the api stream and just call it a day. These 3rd party developers are doing the work for you that the reddit employees cannot figure out on their own.
Very cool stuff, thanks for open-sourcing this! Might incorporate it into Dub , an open-source link management tool that I'm building: https://github.com/steven-tey/dub
What happens if you go into an MRI machine with these bitches inside you?
Yes, but we also don't have reason to believe summoning alien entities through any kind of rift is at all possible. According to known physics, it can't happen.

On the other hand, we don't have any scientific reason to believe that superhuman AGI isn't possible. We know AI is possible, because we have it right now. What's preventing it from getting smarter than us? The human soul?

To clarify, most believe we likely have started on the path to superhuman AGI. We just don't know how or when we'll reach an arbitrary threshold where it becomes dangerous. There are many finish lines and we can't see any of them, but we're running as fast as we can down the path of least resistance and hoping we don't cross a finish line we don't like.
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I thought macOS did very little font hinting? I personally turn off hinting in my fonts.conf. Also, TeX Gyre Heros isn't identical to Helvetica Neue, which itself is not hard to find on the Internet.
Have you found plugins to be useful?

For what it's worth I've found the model actually performs significantly worse at most tasks when given access to browsing, in part because it relies on that instead of its own in built knowledge.

I haven't found a good way to have it only access the web for specific parts of its response.
LLMs don’t have errors. What you perceive as an erroneous output is actually just one that failed to please you.
Anyone reading this can spin a discord namespace ("guild"/"server") and that's what reddit is competing with, even if they don't realize that.
It's an interesting issue as folks who want to get married, start a family, and develop that nuclear style household are presently the same folks who are not able to buy a house, afford medical bills, hell even most cannot afford a $500 emergency. Even without everyone having their own home and driving consumption, it's not likely that the situation would be all that much different.
I don't think that will work because there will not be enough paid users to build critical mass. Enough of the never paying users provide sufficient value that I don't think there is a viable alternative without them. If there is going to be a reddit alternative, it is going to have to happen now or very soon after the paid Reddit API goes live.
Yes; if you've ever wanted to go back in time and create a new thread for an e-mail topic, you will understand what I like so much about Zulip.
Sadly, the RIF team has been silent on this issue for a long time. I would be very interested to hear what their plans are in the transparent way the Apollo developer has been.
ew.reddit.com is even better.
This is in fact not correct. There are two unique identifiers for every german citizen, first the so called "Rentenversicherungsnummer" and the "Steueridentifikationsnummer". Both are assigned at birth.
Academic concepts are only considered serious by convention
Show HN: Lance – Alternative to Parquet for ML data
So what is the scenario that we should be worried about? Because I’ve only heard skynet prophecies.

Or weird nanobot bullshit.

Is there a really boring possible outcome that leads to the destruction of humanity?
I don't think ML is a good example, because it's an outlier within an outlier.

CS is already a weird field, because it leans so heavily on conference papers that see a single round of reviews. Journal papers with multiple rounds of reviews are more common in other STEM fields. Because of this difference, peer review in CS is more focused on accepting/rejecting the paper than on improving it.

And then the CS model breaks down in ML, which is far too popular for its own good. There are too many people working on the same topics, writing too many papers and submitting them to too few conferences, which have too many people attending. CS conferences are supposed to be more like community meetings than formal conferences. Informal discussions are the main point, but that doesn't scale beyond a few hundred attendees.
He was talking about open sourcing GPT-3. That is not the frontier.

The frontier is the multimodal versions of GPT-4 which he just said wasn't even going to public release until next year. Or whatever they are on now which they are carefully not calling GPT-5.
There needs to be some added context to this. Many anti-science advocates mask as "just asking questions." This was the whole Koch strategy over climate change (they didn't invent it though) where they exaggerated uncertainties in data/conclusions. These always exist, they are called error bounds, but can be quite nuanced. It is easy to bastardize scientific language, which is different than laymen (and why it is possible, though noisy, to identify scientists on semi-anonymous forums like this one).

> Let us remember where a lot of "scientific" funding comes from, the politicians and Uncle Sam; which inherently tends to corrupt the "science" to become political.

Which this is a flag about your political beliefs and lack of experience. It just doesn't follow the practicality of the situation. Neither democrats nor republicans control government science. If you look at DOE secretaries you'll see their party affiliation matches the sitting president. In the labs, there are a lot of political diversity (including a need to ban news being played in the cafeterias because it led to fighting). It is far from monolithic and it's absurd to paint it with a wide brush. You also need to decouple the science (what's being published) from what becomes political narratives (news/directions from secretaries). Gov scientists frequently publish works contrary to the normal political narratives (even of the agency) and if they are prevented from publishing leaks happen pretty quickly.

Some science itself is innately connected to politics (others "aren't"[0]: e.g. cosmology or particle physics). The question is how science should be participating (leading, participating, or auxiliary). You invent new technologies that affect societies and governments... govern societies. You find information that affect citizens and of course this is going to affect policy (e.g. climate change). Of course there are going to be biases, but there is less than what you'd find in an industry. Government science is different, especially since the focus is far less profit motivated (the scientists also aren't making much and can make far more in industry if they are profit motivated). While not ideal, gov science should be a third party verification of information. As an example, looking at climate again, you look at the results of 3 (not independent) different groups: gov, industry, academia (influenced by both gov and industry). If gov + academia comes to a consensus, industry agrees with data but not conclusions, then there's reason to distrust the industry conclusions as there's profit incentives. Your comment is destructive because it has been the narrative that has led to industry capture and manipulation. We've seen it in leaded gasoline, cigarettes, climate change, and many others. No, gov and academia aren't perfect, but this shouldn't result in defaulting to industry opinion or allowing them to dominate narratives. This has to stop.

[0] quotes because money and funding is political, but this is different than conclusions like climate change. Most gov science is in the low politics camp btw.
There's a replacement already (maybe not as good, unfortunately): Lemmy*, which is decentralized and integrated with Mastodon.

* https://lemmy.ml