skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess many might've read it that way, so I'll try to clarify.

I can already do systems programming in C or C++. If I'm investing in Rust, to do systems programming in some ways better, then I want to restore confidence that it's not already becoming dysfunctional in leadership.

Fads come and go, some fad-followers hop jobs every 12-18 months (and really don't have to care much whether a fad pans out, because they'll just hop on the next one), but I'm trying to think strategically and longer-term about what I invest in.
> I think the tech and the product will evolve but only by finding out if others feel the same.

Yes, I agree, my personal tagline I play around with is: "the future is human"

It's supposed to be witty marketing. There's always value in zagging when people zig. Tons of energy and interest in AI and automation, I think it's reasonable to see a counter-balance of value in deliberately human, small-scale, ephemeral experiences/actions/art.

During the metaverse craze my tagline was "the Metaverse is 2D". It's pointing out that for all the effort to cross the uncanny valley, people continue to love retro 2D games, animal crossing, and I personally love the artistic style of "Paper Mario" where 2D characters navigate a 3D world.

Anyway, all to say, I'm with you that there's something really brewing in an "answer" to TikTok, Meta, Metaverse, AI, etc, etc not even that theres' something "wrong" with these pursuits, rather it's just really exhausting, and low-fidelity experiences that lean on old world humanness is a break that feels good, increasingly.
And there is a bucket for each word? That seems like a lot of bloom filters
>I do not want my power company making decisions about me based on a large language

What data would comprise such a model?
Okay so if I'm the problem, what can I do to learn more about responsible use of AI? Are there books, classes, something I can do to proactively start working on being a "smart" AI user?

Or, as I suspect, this is all very murky and nobody knows exactly what the challenge really is beyond, "Continue to not be an asshole."

I am, right now, applying LLMs to domain specific business problems as part of my job. How do I do this safely/sanely, does anyone actually know?
I've used fertility awareness (see https://www.tcoyf.com/) paired with a short course of Queen Anne's Lace tincture as a fallback if intimacy should happen during the fertile window. A fertile window for those who ovulate is usually only 2-3 days, with a couple days padded onto either side of the window for extra security. I've been using this method for five years and have avoided pregnancy thus far.

Fertility awareness requires a great deal of mutual trust, and a great deal of understanding of one's body. It is not 100% reliable (although the media would have you believe this method is only for religious zealots and the irresponsible, which is very much not true) -- but it's a lot less complicated than invasive surgery.
Key quotes:

> Pork producers expanded farms and processing plants in recent years as overseas demand boomed. Hog herds in China, the world’s top pork consumer, were devastated by an African swine fever outbreak in 2018.

> In 2022, U.S. pork export volumes fell 10% from the year before as China began rebuilding its hog population... With less U.S. pork shipped overseas, more remains at home, where demand has stagnated.

> Wholesale pork values fell below $1.50 a pound in April, according to federal data. Pork officials say the retail value of pork, which has remained around $5 a pound since the start of 2022, has been too high to attract more customers. Officials say they expect retail prices to start ticking down in the coming weeks, and that more consumers may turn to pork as beef prices rise.
Writing a virtual machine or compiler is always hard! If you write code for the JVM, going forward you will now use the instructions while writing nice clean Java…
same with the word "woke"
The argument you are putting forth boils down to folks like Apollo should receive free API access because they increase the usefulness of Reddit for end-users.

That would be a fair argument, except for the fact that nothing is really free and Apollo currently makes millions in profit at Reddit's expense.

That is not sustainable... any business should have realized this right from the beginning. Apollo's own business model requires income to continue to run... so Reddit's doesn't?

This is just a silly discussion to be having. Of course Apollo and businesses like Apollo were going to be required to pay for API access at some point. The business owner complaining "it's not fair", or that it's not priced like API's that nobody cares about is just staggering.
Quite a lot of this resonated. A long way through though:-

> What if you began each morning with a status meeting in which your team confronts its task board? A plan could then be made about which handful of things each person would tackle that day.

Maybe it's the kind of software I work on (non-web), seems a bit unreal to expect developers to deliver a "handful" of non-trival things per day. Fastest thing is generally (which fits with higher up the article) ask for one thing to do done, and to leave the developer alone (at least, until they miss a milestone - and even those need to be appropriately set).
I had the exact same problem, I thought it was just in my mind. I feel that I’m now constantly being scolded for asking what GPT4 seems to see as complex questions, it’s really frustrating.
Even if they weren’t exclusive with Azure, aren’t GPU prices reasonable again?
I like how you prompted for a 50 year span and the response claimed to be over a 28 year and 55 year span in the same sentence.

> According to a comparison of 28 years
> 1961-2016
Google has published not just one but two different papers about how and why to ignore microbenchmark signals when making global optimizations.

https://people.ucsc.edu/~hlitz/papers/asmdb.pdf

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/osdi21-hunter.pdf
Somehow this is no longer on the frontpage ..
> But the fact is, if you have two populations with very different reproductive rates, the one with the higher rate (assuming it's sustained over many generations)

But, you don't have two different populations. Identity groups (whether socially constructed races or religions) aren't isolated lineages.
I agree. Therefore I encourage people to have to have disdain for Nazi / Holocaust comparisons in political ads.

It simply pollutes the discourse and makes it more difficult to actually learn valuable lessons from the Holocaust
> Anyway I'm sharing this now to get some feedback. I think the tech and the product will evolve but only by finding out if others feel the same.

I love that the hamburger menu icon is the image of a burger. Thank you for the laugh :D
i m surprised by how few people call for regulating Tesla, the one AI that already kills people
> "It was a monumentally stupid idea to fire the human workers for this particular application."

yes it's probably true

> "No computer can hope to accurately respond in a way that isn't harmful at least some of the time."

yeah so far it looks like that's the case

> "Human's don't have that problem."

wait what
Did you specifically prompt it for a US political party?

Talking of bias - this is used the world over..
I feel the same way about haircuts!
I can turn scripts into internal tools in seconds.

pyinstaller my_script.py -F
It worked great for Twitter, I’m sure it will be an incredible success for Reddit as well. </sarcasm>

Hopefully one more nudge towards decentralized services and open standards.
The title seems obvious. I mean guns, and nuclear bombs and bio weapons don't kill people. People kill people. But this is something we all already know.

I don't think we'll ever have a problem of accidentally trusting all our nuclear launch codes to an LLM.
> If you can't tell whether a paper is real or bullshit it doesn't matter if an AI or a human created it.

That's true, but now it's incredibly easy to create a human-quality bullshit paper. That wasn't true a year ago. It doesn't matter who created it, but it does matter how easy it was to create.

> Journalists will, heaven forbid, have to do real journalism instead of blindly trusting some piece of paper they found somewhere.

That's true, but now it's incredibly easy to generate a real-looking piece of paper and send it to a journalist, prompting them to spend a day doing real journalism to verify it. That wasn't true a year ago.
Surely, you must be aware that this thing called 'Make America Great Again' is a backwards-looking 'movement' that has half the country (and a third of the lefty towns) in its thrall. (Just don't ask them to say what 'Great' is out loud, you're not going to get an answer appropriate for polite company.)

And even besides it, the US is highly backwards-looking. At its best, it's political culture is ossified and enslaved to the predominant opinions of a small group of people who are two centuries dead. (While being oblivious to the fact that within that group, there was a huge spectrum of disagreement on these fundamental questions!)

Pile on a bunch of American Exceptionalism, and you get a perfect thought-terminating cocktail of 'It is this way because it's always been this way and because we are the greatest country in the world.'
Reddit is getting destroyed by tiktok for casual news/random videos etc.

I was a huge reddit user over the years, but now I only go there for a handful of very specific subreddits. That's really it's only use anymore. It's great for that, but they are probably seeing massive decline in usage.

And the moment they basically kill 3rd party reddit apps is the day I barely touch it again.
Those are reasonable approaches. You must interact with more reasonable conservatives than I do. The ones I interact with regularly tend to worship the rich and reject any approach that involves any change at all.

As far as "racial inequality" goes, it's loaded and difficult. I disagree with the common approaches I've heard on both sides (the left tends to push for an oversimplified hypercorrection, which causes different sets of problems). It's like cancer, in that it's often lumped into a single category, but it's actually a huge set of problems without a single solution. Most of the conservatives I've talked to reject that any inequality exists at all.

What you are talking about is what I'd really consider to be "true conservatism", but in my interactions, a lot of real life conservatives I've talked to sound more like 4chan trolls. Maybe I need to get out of this city.
Aren't torrents legal in Spain and Switzerland?
This AI is rather pathetic. To work within the time limit it would need to make typos and mistakes but even the first reply makes it easy to call out. Not very impressive.

https://ibb.co/xL0XpZ7
Yes, there are plenty of people in the US who are proudly and aggressively ignorant for ideological reasons, but what does that have to do with a discussion of what's going on India?
I mean the article statement is just a statement about any tech in the history of time. It's a generic statement. A tool is a tool and the risk is how it is used and by whom.
> Reddit wants freedom to arbitrarily change the design of their app and placement of ads, etc. Ads are a huge (primary?) source of revenue for them.

And they do. Over time they have become less and less distinguishable from post of humans.

I wonder what's going to happen with Apollo.

And what about my script to randomize my posts after a while? Yea, it doesn't do a lot, but still...
haha was thinking the same. The other day openAI's api hiccup gave me a small panic attack
> Overturning Roe v Wade has been a brutal blow for women’s rights in America. The rise in vasectomies may be one very small consolation.

What a terrible way to end the article. Especially when it has the subtitle "Brothers are doing it for themselves." It's not a consolation of any amount and calling them "solidarity snips" is the dumbest fucking thing I've ever heard. No one gave that reason with a straight face. There's no author credited on the page, I wonder why.
Generally on board with the author, but this didn’t ring as true:

> Oyster payment cards are virtually impossible to use anonymously

You can just buy them with cash from the machines, right? Isn’t it a rare example of a public service in the UK that does not involve a bunch of surveillance?
Not really sure you can say AI is "racist".

It can't think, or form opinions. It's not "intelligent" in any real sense.

It's just Eliza with a really, *really* big array of canned responses to interpolate between.
Agreed. Existential level risks, need existential level arguments.
Minor quibble, but social media hasn't actually altered reality, only given permission for some to ignore reality in favor of preferable illusions.

I know the language is "choose your reality" and I'm not saying you're wrong, but I think we could acknowledge that's not really what's happening. Folks don't get to decide facts, they decide what facts they believe. That decision doesn't invalidate those facts.
His work on aperiodic monotiles has been in the news very recently. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36119920
You can use google's text-bison to get a pretty decent LLM without RLHF.
> The story goes that Hindus had nuclear energy 10,000 years ago, but filthy foreigners corrupted Mother India.

I’ve never understood this kind of messaging. You see it in all sorts of supremacists.

But how is it a credit to you and your ancestors that they had the ability to create nuclear power or fly, etc and then they just lost it!

That’s a sign of deep shame. The particular group of people you’re claiming are superior are so incompetent they weren’t even able to keep knowledge they already had.

Seems like the group of people you think are so superior have been getting dumber with every generation and you therefore are the dumbest of your lineage.

What’s there to be proud of about that?
Which of Alaska and Sweden is your "here"? :)
Now that's the question. Is it a failing business model if everyone is starting to do it?
Tesla Confirms Automated Driving Systems Were Engaged During Fatal Crash
>So... OpenAI is severely GPU constrained, it is hampering their ability to execute, onboard customers to existing products and launch products. Yet they signed an agreement not to just go rent a bunch of GPU's from AWS???

> Did someone screw up by not putting a clause in that contract saying "exclusive cloud provider, unless you cannot fulfil our requests"?

Maybe MSFT refused to sign such an agreement?
> "The title seems obvious. I mean guns, and nuclear bombs and bio weapons don't kill people. People kill people. But this is something we all already know."

sure

> "I don't think we'll ever have a problem of accidentally trusting all our nuclear launch codes to an LLM."

i would guess this could happen easier than you think
Researchers aren't immune to the incentives the rest of the field has. They're every bit as financially incentivized to push the AI risk narrative as the rest of the industry.
Please Reddit, just let us use a web browser to access your web site.

Users shouldn’t be forced so aggressively into using an ‘app’ - whether the official one or a 3rd-party app - when mobile web browsers are so very capable.
You've got it wrong - he explains how employers use remote work as a pretext to introduce surveillance!

And he definitely has a point there. The worst amount of bullshit (keyloggers, screen capture) are illegal here in Europe under labour law but completely legal in wide parts of the US.
I didn't say you asked for it...I said you're going to get it either way, so make the best of a bad situation.

Sticking your head in the sand just gives more opportunity for _you_ to get the worse outcome.
And what do you think ?

Hearsay!
> It's called indoctrination, and everyone does it to their kids.

I'm sure everyone does it to some degree, but surely not every "indoctrination" is equal, right? If you help foster critical thinking and show proper scientific methodology incl. how to discern good and bad sources, I'd say you're doing less indoctrination than if you don't do this and e.g. just block resources you don't like.
Good journalism is not taking powerful peoples' word for things when there is considerable evidence to the contrary. If you want to believe Dabiri that's fine, but nothing in the article was factually incorrect and there is still a strong likelihood that the event was linked to his resignation.
It shouldn't be? I got a new AM4 board a year or two ago and almost every board on the market at the time had TPM2.0 slots. The issue was that they aren't advertised and barely mentioned but they were there.

From taking a quick search, I selected the first AM5 motherboard I saw from ASRock, MSI, Gigabyte, and ASUS. All had TPM headers buried in the specs or only listed in the manual. Caveat that with ASUS it seems the ROG boards don't have TPM headers but the equivalent ASUS non-ROG boards consistently do.

Point being that they are still quite common and if that's a feature you care about, it's easy to accommodate in any build without even having to look for a different brand. The only issue is that they aren't well advertised or advertised at all.
The issue here is point #2. We Brits already have a cultural apathy for learning other languages. And as you have said theres enough proficiency in English in Sweeden, that combines to make it easy for English speakers to take the easy option.

I don't understand how you can truly live in a country without speaking the language.
Well, if your goal was to create an anti-ship cruise missile, I'd say you're about half-way there..!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Brahmos_ER.webm
You're getting into the nitpick weeds on a detail while ignoring the actually substantial argument the comment was making.

They provided an example and finding a technical flaw in the example they chose doesn't invalidate the broader concern as applied to other domains.
> the concern is about agential models that employ LLM elements, not LLM models on their own.

Rather? I'd imagine concerns about autonomous agents running amok is further into the future than the digital content manipulation potential of gen AI possible today. Heck, porn deepfakes of celebs were a problem in 2020, and right now Adobe has made gen AI generally available in Photoshop (AFAIK)
Very nice.

We use Mattermost. Its great, but you really get lost in topics quickly and its hard to follow them. Especially with bots that you can't remove from conversation when you need it. We also had to mumbo jumbo LDAP support via GitLab which is suboptimal and there seems to be no way to remove users forever from it, only deactivate them.

The threads here look very nice and entire thing reminds on forum/email conversation. With free LDAP and AIM support I am certainly going to take a deep look.
The research institutes are also for profit bodies, just much more of an closed shop because there's only so many people they can employ at any one time (and that's before we even get into tenure or the fact all you're really doing is shifting the peer review burden onto people that report into the person that wrote the paper).

You can have papers published by Google Research or by nobody now: turns out academics like the journals' attempts to curate interesting stuff more than only ever reading stuff on their bookmark list or that's mailed to them in a desperate attempt to get some engagement. And for all that they might not like the long delays and low chance of success associated with submitting to Nature, they like the idea of trying to persuade an academic at an elite institution to go to the trouble of replicating their research as the only means to build their reputation even less...
They almost certainly were. But the API only offers two default choices of GPT-4 (unless one has been anointed with exalted 32k access):

1. gpt-4-default which has been progressively nerfed with continuous no notification zero changelog zero transparency updates .

2. gpt-4-0314 which is a frozen checkpoint from shortly after public launch and is still great but not quite as good as the very original, or as flexible as the fridged based model. Fine. However it’s currently due to “no longer be supported” i.e. retired on June 14th.

It’s kind of a challenge to commit to building on murky quicksand foundations of an API product that changes drastically (but ineffably for the worse) without warning like the default accessible version does, and soon it looks like there won’t be a stable un-lobotomized alternative.
Certain people always say that "art" isn't "art" but it's a consistent way to embarrass yourself whether the object is Duchamps' "Readymades" or video games (in the case of a famous movie reviewer.)

Particularly any kind of "A.I." is always considered by some to not be "A.I." for instance a chess playing program is just searching moves, an expert system is just applying rules, software that lays out microchips is just solving an optimization problem, etc.

It is moving the goalposts and it is a form of ignorance that leaves the field wide open to the likes of Eliezer Yudkowsky. Particularly, like the aphorism that "an LLM can't create anything new" it distracts people from the serious task of figuring out what specific things these things can and cannot do.
Idk about AirPods in particular, but you could try layering good PNC earmuffs over your ANC earbuds? I doubt you'll get it <10%, but should still help cut a lot of the high-frequency crying.
> who the hell onboards their personal devices onto corporate MDMs?

People who don’t have the luxury, or living space, to be able to own multiple devices of every type.
They subject all of their dark patterns to multivariate testing. I suspect this is to elicit feedback like yours, and suppress the ability to respond to it, as they have never in years promoted any of it to general availability.

I’ve been in tests where the entire site is gated, demanding I download the app. I’ve been in tests where SFW content is marked as NSFW, demanding I log in. Etc.
I think Apollo is a “one man band”
So true. I'd much prefer the AI to be used to solve captchas, or automatically navigate me to a live human in a tech support call, or filter spam without throwing every useful email into spam basket. Not gonna happen.
How? Is it exploitation of hardware vulnerabilities (e.g., processor vulnerabilities), software vulnerabilities (e.g., apple's webkit vulnerabilities, google chrome + search JS vulnerabilities), or Wifi/Bluetooth vulnerabilities?

The only way I can think to intercept prior to encryption would be Key logger, so this would require an already compromised device. Alternatively the government could force a vulnerability state (e.g., the Perseus text message of doom). Is this also your understanding?
As someone who lives in Olde Kensington, that means half the blocks are bad. There are drug addicts, stick up kids, and insane people wandering every block throughout most of the city. The fact that I have to walk a few blocks to see 1000 zombies pass by doesn't mean it's not a problem that affects me. Go onto any of the main thoroughfares in Philly, even in upscale center city, and you'll see lots of addicts.

It is not overblown, if anything it's underplayed. Those videos don't capture the scale. It's like an entire stadium of addicts on Kensington Ave every day. And that many again wandering throughout the city and on the trains.
It’s unfortunate because the potential value in vertical ingestion is quite large, as apple have been demonstrating for some time.
People steal from retail because "playing by the rules" nets them nothing. The choice isn't between "work hard and succeed" and "steal and live an easy life". The reality is there is no option for success or living an even dignified existence under the current system. That is the root issue, not people stealing razors from Walgreens.
Use the facade pattern so it’s easier to swap out if needed.