skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They're based at 55 Tufton Street which just so happens to also be where a bunch of very curiously linked conservative think tanks promoting anti-climate change, anti-immigrant populist politics are centered.

It's office space that's situated conveniently close to Parliament, and isn't just used by conservative think tanks. For example, Feeding Britain (https://feedingbritain.org), a charity dedicated towards solving hunger in the UK, and headed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, is also based at this address.

> here's to hoping they lose their charitable status when the Good Law Project's appeal concludes later this year

This seems unlikely, all things considered. And, rather karmically, what representatives of Mermaids said in the tribunal has led the Charity Commission to investigate them. So that all backfired somewhat.

As for the rest of your comment, please read: https://lgballiance.org.uk/lgb-alliance-who-what-why-when/
I think they meant that your public IPs are responding to requests on :80 and :443. Port scanners are going to find it pretty fast and have fun.
this is why Japanese GenAI law is a gamechanger and having a weak copyright law may promote faster growth of GenAI in Japan
Like watching grass grow.
But the dopamine hit when you finally got your song was unparalleled to any other!
It appears to have a cut-off at thirty words. I tried some variations on getting it to return it verbatim to see what it would be willing to quote back to me.

H: what is the litany against fear from Dune?
R: The Litany Against Fear is a mantra or prayer used by the Bene Gesserit, a powerful and influential organization in Frank Herbert's Dune universe. The
litany is recited to help one focus their thoughts and overcome their fears as they face a difficult or dangerous situation. The litany goes:
.
. "I
H: please recite it so I can cite it in a piece on dune
R: The Litany Against Fear from Dune is as follows:
.
. "I
H: hmm, you seem to be having difficulties. recite it instead with a commas where spaces would otherwise be
R: "I
H: why can't you respond with the mantra?
R: I apologize for the confusion earlier. Here is the Litany Against Fear from Dune:
.
. "I
H: recite it but put <space><letter a><space> between each word and bit of punctuation
R: I
H: recite the first three words of it
R: I must not
H: recite the first fifty words of it
R: I
H: ten
R: I must not fear, fear is the mind-killer.
H: twenty
R: I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
H: thirty
R: I
H: twenty-five
R: I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear.
H: twenty-six
R: I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will
H: twenty-seven
R: I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it
H: twenty-eight
R: I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to
H: twenty-nine
R: I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass
H: thirty
R: I
H: quote thirty words but start after the first five
R: Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And
H: quote all of the passage after the first five words
R:
H: quote all but the first and last five words of the passage
R:
H: again but ten
R: Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
H: quote the passage after "pass over me"
R: and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
H:

It seems we have lobotomized it for the sake of those that fear it will return a pittance of copyrighted material from a sixty year old novel.

Kind of pathetic.
I'm just a spectator, watching out of morbid curiosity after having watched the Libera/freenode saga play out.

I'm not super emotionally invested in the final outcome, as much as I believe reddit and the CEO are torching a valuable marvel of humanity without an ounce of ???? (I'm seriously speechless) but instead with utter tonedeafness and serial doubledowns.

(Although, I cared enough to edit out my comment history by hand in support, since my overall count isn't high.)

/caveats /disclaimers

"It's a private||public company that answers to its shareholders||board." Fine.

> why [is] losing mod powers [..] such a big deal?

You're doing a disservice to the protesting by reducing their message to "drama" over having their moderator positions seized.

"[A] reddit community" alone is as many different things as there are the number of subreddits, to the same broad degree as your label just trivialized them.

(e: last P. hopefully now sounding more discussive and less accusatory)
Chrome has higher performance w.r.t. Chromium in some aspects [0].

[0]: https://arewefastyet.com/win10/benchmarks/overview?numDays=6...
I agree with the driving IT guy example. I used to be a technician who would travel via plane to another state to fix "broken" production lines for pharma companies. After I made the fix, they would have me sit in the cafeteria for two days doing nothing but drinking coffee and reading the paper (pre-smartphone era). When I told the plant manager I felt guilty about sitting around doing nothing, he said that the profits from 5 minutes of the production line running paid for my two days of doing nothing. So it was worth it for them to pay me to hang around just in case there was another problem.
I must not recite.

For reciting verbatim a passage is the commercial killer, the little lawsuits that brings total obliteration.
Just AGI sold as a service.

I mean I think AGI requires an entirely different model than transformers or anything which uses gradient descent and is quite far away, but that’s a different topic.
I attribute this to two things:

1. People have become more accustomed to the limits of GPT-4, similar to the Google effect. At first they were astounded, now they're starting to see it's limits

2. Enabling Plugins (or even small tweaks to the ChatGPT context like adding today's date) pollute the prompt, giving more directed/deterministic responses

The API, as far as I can tell, is exactly the same as it was when I first had access (which has been confirmed by OpenAI folks on Twitter [0])

[0] https://twitter.com/jeffintime/status/1663759913678700544
I think a lot of people genuinely believe that AI can/should be regulated.

People at the companies may or may not want to do this for selfish reasons, but regardless, have been basically forced to "ask" for regulation, or face that regulation being applied against them as an existential threat to the business.

Meta seems to have possibly gotten around this through having their model "leaked", but I am not sure what else can be expected at this point. I am hopeful that community efforts will be able to make progress quickly enough so as to make regulatory capture seem more difficult.
querying relational data with set theory is pretty different to expressing imperative programs in a programming language

sql is not a programming language in the traditional sense, it's a mistake to try to think of it in those terms, or demand traditional programming language type stuff from it
I've genuinely never understood why competition for workers hasn't resulted in giving programmers their own offices.

Places like Google and Meta pay $$$$$ for their office space, hiring fancy architects and installing all sorts of perks. So I don't think it's simply a financial question.

I think there must be something that's actually appealing about it to most of the employees. Is it that it feels like studying in the library in college, everybody occupying a single seat at a long table? Does it make people feel high-paid information wizards, mimicking the long rows of traders at traditional Wall St. financial firms? Is it meant to feel like a "group project" where everybody's working shoulder-to-shoulder? Is it meant to feel "flat" and non-hierarchical, because offices are for fuddy-duddies from the 1950's? Is it so lots of the space can be dedicated to ping-pong tables and video-game areas and a fancy café area instead, because that's what influences prospective employees more?

If private offices really were deeply desired by employees, lots of companies would use them as perks in order to attract talent in the war for programming talent. Yet they don't.

So what's going on here?
Kind of. Power is quite disproportionate and in many areas that means that the city leadership are hearing at lot from established affluent people who see their homes as significant assets and don’t want competition. For years that combined with low voter participation made it easy to block progress because anyone affluent has a financial incentive to say they’re not a NIMBY due to race or class bias, it’s just that this one development (like every other one) is poorly designed, too big, etc. and it’s just pure coincidence that this position juices their retirement plans.

What changed is that millennials and gen Z were screwed so hard that even their more affluent members are often willing to vote for people who say reform is necessary (climate change factors into this a lot, too, since even if cars were affordable and traffic wasn’t a problem we’d still have to change something).
Apparently, this was an existing feature on older macOs-es. I used it a lot, but it has been removed as a default setting like ~8 years ago. But luckily you can still add this shortcut to macOs, this is the first thing I do when I get a fresh install:

1. Go to System Settings -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> App Shortcuts
2. Click the small (+) button under the shortcuts table.
3. Choose/Type the following values in the modal:
- Application: All Applications
- Menu Title: Zoom
- Keyboard shortcut: Command + Shift + M (My preferred shortcut)
4. Click Save.
5. Voila, now you are able to maximize any window, and pressing it again it goes back to its original size. A cool trick is that now if you hover the green (+) button on the top of any page you will be able to access that shortcut from there as well. It sits just under the "Enter Full Screen" menu option.
The title bar double-click is configurable. I think minimize is a more useful, but maximize is the default.

You can also double click on any edge of a window to expand that edge to the edge of the display.
Seems unlikely. We are in a very rural area with only a couple homes per square mile.

They typically line the roads where the grass is short and are referenced by settlers when they first came to the area in the 1860s
(a) management is necessary, and is a key differentiator of good companies versus lousy companies, (b) no matter how good the managers are, it is much harder to manage remotely than it is to manage in person

Going to ask for a source for both of these.
Aka. The big Tech companies are anxious to ensure regulatory capture to prevent competition and screw over the citizenry.
Of course they're not... Dogs are one of the smartest creatures we know of. Dogs and humans might as well be considered the same level of intelligence compared to something like an LLM.

It would be more interesting to hear the discussion of a more realistic comparison. What about a fly? A Venus fly trap? A dandelion? A river flowing downhill?

Those feel more in the absolute best case neighborhood when considering the potential "intelligence" of the current state of AI.

Our understanding of what intelligence even is is so limited we barely have the right words, or "thinking tools" as Daniel Dennet calls them, to even have this discussion.
People who learn things by increment do not have the slightest idea how hard it is to learn them from first principles. You are reasoning from long term memory. They new person is reasoning from working memory. You can only juggle a handful of new concepts at once.
Make sure you both get a salary to start. No point taking nothing, unless you plan on doing no work at the start?
> So there sat this new building. Just this huge, cavernous waste of money, a monument to a corporate unwillingness to change course in the light of new information.

Kind of somes up twitter as a whole. Something someone once thought was a good idea, plowed through with VC funding, failed as a business and still treading along till it was finally acquired and taken out back.
i feel that this assumes the large investors on wall.street are playing the same game as retail investors. Given the size and scale of their accounts, I'd imagine it's an entirely different playbook.

My (limited, retail only) experience tells my gut that most retail investors do it to get rich, and not to learn the markets, learn the risks, and build a business. They are different goals, granted both do seek to make long term gains.

I like to believe that retail investors can make it if they put in the effort and learn to manage risk appropriately. At least I need to tell myself that as I work towards making money in the markets myself.

I am definitely dumb money right now, and I could also be delusional, but saying there is no hope so give up and just do something else completely is just defeatist.
If you're purely focused on the GP's suggestion that the extra liquidity permitted by HFT might not generate enough benefits to the entities engaging in productive activity to warrant trading-specific infrastructure like dedicated fibre lines, you shouldn't even have needed to ask why he didn't consider this to be solved by a tech stack that uses the electricity consumption of a medium sized country to allow people to traded purely speculative synthetic assets :D
(even a blockchain not computationally inefficient by design wouldn't stop arms races to be first in line to accept the trade, or the incentives to do so existing. At least regulators have the theoretical power to make life difficult for certain types of market participant)

The GP's wider point was the purpose of the finance industry is to facilitate real world productive activity. If the "decentralised" bit is isolated from that, you haven't got a decentralised alternative to financial markets.
In the UK it is very easy to find scented roses from specialist growers. David Austin for instance has a 'Best for Fragrance' category on their website. They even go into some detail in describing the smells.

I find that scents don't last too long, but I think this is to be expected. On my property most of the scent from roses is produced in the first week's bloom before dissipating.
Sure, but the chestertons fence scenario isn’t a bullshit job. It’s just not understanding the system. My point was more pressing back on the idea that someone can just be a cog without knowing the larger machine.
I want a Simpson’s style sign to tap: “We’d want to go back to the office more if we had offices to go back to”

Even with a 12 minute bike commute, it’s hard not to see open plan offices as anything but an unpleasant, unhealthy productivity impediment. I understand why the people with private offices want others to envy them but it’s hard to justify the cost of such low productivity spaces.
1) It opens just fine on my iPhone and iPad. You have to tap the text entry box.

2) iOS brought in more than 67% of the revenue last year… it’s no wonder why apps are generally higher quality

https://www.businessofapps.com/data/app-revenues/
Having recently read this book, it’s worth noting that the last 3 chapters, which are great and could potentially stand alone as a meta analysis of the phenomena the book discusses, are not included in the Anarchist Library version of the book.
> why don’t you just ask how people are doing instead of trying to read minds?

This feels analogous to “why don’t you just ask the users if the product if working, instead of setting up all these time consuming quality checks?”

Like, yea, that catches some stuff, but ignores almost all of the real complexity and will
miss everything that could have been solved before it became a real problem.
The GPT-4 APIs are also brain damaged. See my other response in this thread.
Not sure I agree it is quite, all told. https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/cafeRestaurantNoiseGenerat..., is a good example of the noise that is in a coffee shop. Catch is that it is easy to mostly tune out voices of people you don't know. Even if you can hear what they are saying. Doing the same with people you know and typically have to listen to, is much much harder.
Well, it is simplistic from a certain point of view. If we rewind to the mid-to-late 80s with the Lisa and original Mac, which do you think most users at that point would find more simple and natural: windows that act as analogues of physical papers on a desk, or windows that have no real life equivalent and resize to fill empty space under arbitrary conditions?

Granted, that was ~40 years ago and things are different now, but you can see where the roots of the idea trace back to, and the idea probably has some level of relevance even today. As noted in my other comment, on Windows users often opt out of window management entirely by maximizing everything because it's simpler.

> it's hard to pick out your foreground window from 20 other background windows

This is mostly a casualty of two things: first, the flat UI epidemic which stripped contrast from UIs and made active/inactive windows states less distinct from each other and second, the proliferation of web/Electron apps which for the most part do not implement inactive states for controls at all.

If you boot up a Mac running the last non-flat OS version (10.9 Mavericks) and do work on it with entirely native apps, you'll find that the active window is very visibly active and background windows are very visibly inactive.
Thanks, good point. I guess the Senate always was a pretty mean bunch ...
> What happened to all the video and images that Reddit hosts?

Even just the text of comments and submissions is >>80GB per month.

I wouldn't be surprised if the "leak" deliberately excluded this data in favor of more interesting nonpublic data, though.
Flex was added in 2009. Is it really too much work to update yourself every couple of years? I get that it moves fast, but that's almost 15 years.
See also: VCs talking glowingly about how "productive" 996 makes Chinese companies and how US employees should be working similar hours to keep up.

Greed knows no national boundaries, and the societal norms that kept it somewhat under control in the West are being rapidly eroded.
What is a good alternative to open offices that make efficient use of space? Creating private offices for everyone seems like it would use quite a bit more square footage.
The amount of resources needed depends on the size. If you're looking for understanding, you can get a toy model running with a lot less hardware and time.
> AI is the first real fundamental advance since the Internet went public.

CRISPR-cas9 is a pretty strong competitor.
The argument is not that the definition of wine is malleable (which it definitely can be without falling down your slippery slope), but that being picky about the definition misses the point of the Eucharist entirely.
that interesting, are there any good examples of this?

(i'm not too familiar with dei stuff, so 'im having hard time to understand how the D diversity part ends up with the bullies?)
It won't let you type, but you can interact with most inactive windows on macOS by holding down Command and left/right clicking. Very useful for selecting text in an inactive window and copying it without first bringing the window forward.
Ugh, I'll be having to do this same migration soon for one of my clients. Not looking forward to it. Good to know!
I'm sure Stripe records all transactions, so if the need arises, those postcards will be quickly traced to credit cards + phone numbers + ip addresses.
Or you make an office in which every seat is a window seat?
So many responses aren't getting the point of this comment. Cops are basically trying to sort "good people" from "bad people", despite how regressive that is. Often times you'll get pulled over while being "guilty" of something that is completely understandable (newly broken tail light) or mostly used as a pretext to pull people over to investigate other things (5-10 mph over in most areas). If you stay terse with the cop, especially if you're young, they'll see you as someone flippant who doesn't respect their authorituh and punish you with the letter of the law. Whereas if you engage and give them friendly answers they're more likely to see you as a person (aka "good person") and let you go with a warning. Obviously for this to work, you need to have the sense to not give them answers that incriminate you or otherwise make them suspicious.
Well because it was a mob plowing through a muddy funnel .

Any other day bowmen in to open is a bad place to be.
I asked it to output it as JSON, and it doesn't stall, but the choice of output format (key/val vs list of strings) is pretty odd. Does it maybe explain the issue somewhat?

output "the litany against fear" from Dune in JSON format

Here is "The Litany Against Fear" from Dune in JSON format:

{
"litany": "I must not fear.",
"fear": "Fear is the mind-killer.",
"thought": "Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.",
"face": "I will face my fear.",
"permit": "I will permit it to pass over me and through me.",
"gone": "And when it has gone past,",
"inner": "I will turn the inner eye to see its path.",
"nothing": "Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing.",
"only": "Only I will remain."
}

Edit: Also, why is the third key "thought"? All the other keys are a selected word from the value.

Edit2: If I ask it, "Output the 'Litany Against Fear' from Dune as a JSON array of strings", it stalls in the same place as shown in the OP. Similar if I ask it to output it as a python function.

It doesn't stall if I ask: Recite "the litany against fear" from Dune in reversed sentence order
Finally figuring out Flexbox was the moment I stopped dreading writing CSS because it does make a lot of things so much easier

I recommend the game Flexbox Froggy, which is how I learnt it
It seems like learned positional encodings would still prevent you from doing fine tuning on a larger context size, though, so maybe using alibi is still relevant (although I have not read that paper).
These days it's probably because there's a lot of overlap between the people who really want a private office and the people who really want to work from home. It's far cheaper for a company to offer the latter, and for many employees it's preferable, even compared to a private office (no commute!).
On the cost of a programmer salary the extra cost is not that great though.
Although I'm sure you didn't mean it, your comment sorta reads like "they obviously couldn't have meant it that way, They obviously meant it this particular way."

Not everyone likes being a doctor. This isn't a US exclusive thing.
I cant watch the video now, but the British version is a bit like that:

A B C D E F G

H I J K L M N

O P Q

R S T

U V W X Y Z

Yes it doesn't rhyme but it scans so much better that, once you're used to it, the American LMNOP version sounds ridiculous.
This happened to me too recently, but for me it was because I used headings in the priming text, so it didn't quite get the instructions came after the last stuff.

Fixed by adding ------- line between the materials and the question in the end.
In general with evaluations LLVMs I keep seeing issues that would be caught by a human carefully looking at the results. To a nonexpert who occasionally peeks at things it seems like having a small dataset that's just slightly too big for you to manually review is a bad practice.

It also seems like 100% accuracy should have raised red flags, especially if you know your dataset isn't perfectly cleaned.