skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's probably fine if your goals are already covered by a well understood acronym. Its not really a counter example to "chatgpt might lower barrier to entry".
The effectiveness of persuasion depends on the appeal of the idea. AGI is going to have the credibility to make very appealing claims.

For an evil example, I imagine it would be easy to convince animals to eat poisoned food.
> I still cannot understand why I paid to get a specific streaming service (Sportsnet) and had to sit through Wayne Gretzsky ruining his legacy by selling sports gambling to my 3 children.

Why did they do it?

Money.

They wanted more money and you wouldn't stop watching your sport.

It's not a surprise. If given the option, people will actively shop to get the best bang for their buck. Given two options, they will opt for the one that gets them the most of what they value.

Why did you do it?

Because you valued your viewing habits over other things.

It's all really simple.
What is an awkward amount of time?
You don’t think we’re already in the greater than zero intelligence era?
If the operators are in Russia how would the US touch them?
After thinking about this I think capitalism, which has been working pretty good for me might be the cause of my existential depression. I never considered until I read your comment and it resonated with me.

All my decisions are based on efficiency and ROI. I have build up a decent net worth but my happiness has been trending down.
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The law doesn't restrict itself to perfectly generalizable rules to be applied strictly algorithmically. It may and does consider intent and consequence.
Thanks for sharing, found this interesting. Presumably this could be quantified/tested empirically? Are you aware of evidence in favor? What would be the strongest case against this position?

Presumably there are NBER papers etc arguing this to death, but I don’t know the literature.
I don’t see how you could describe it that way. He’s not ridiculing poor people. His target houses are usually fantastically opulent, selling for well over a million dollars. It’s the same genre as publishing pictures of Donald Trump’s gold plated bathrooms.

In fact, the article you posted here traffics to a large extent, with either implied or explicit ridicule, in the attempts of what look like struggling and desperate people to sell their neglected properties.

One should not laugh at people with bad taste. It’s bad taste combined with power and money (Trump: a convenient example) where the lack of taste makes the world uglier, because it’s jammed into the public eye.
On the other hand, many ads are deceptive, which is also a form of theft. If ads were honest, they wouldn't be effective.

And ad blocking is self defense.
FWIW the USDA says plain paper towels are fine to wrap food while microwaving [1]. But I agree with the notion of wanting to minimize exposing food to toxins. I try to limit my microwave usage all together and prefer the oven for reheating food.

[1] https://www.fsis.usda.gov/food-safety/safe-food-handling-and...
> From the site, I assume that a McMansion is like a mansion, but made with cheaper components and without the taste and class that comes with an elite upbringing.

General consensus on definition seems to be "very large house, not designed by an architect, cheap construction". So they are both expensive (because they're really, really big) but also, well, cheaper than something that big done properly.

On the 'elite upbringing' thing, well, ever seen photos of the interiors of Donald Trump's houses? An elite upbringing does not necessarily imply taste.
Drastically lowering the cost of access to orbit, potentially providing affordable worldwide internet coverage with performance that isn't dogshit, providing competition for terrestrial cable and traditional satellite networking companies.

If one day we do end up with colonies on the Moon and/or Mars, historians will point to SpaceX's drastic lowering of the cost of making it to orbit as one of the critical stepping stones that made it happen. Not only does it directly make such things more possible, but it increases the amount of economic activity that can occur in space, which grows the entire industrial ecosystem and indirectly unlocks even more possibilities in the long run.
We should do both. However, the Dem leadership are not interested in doing both, they only want the quick and easy win (which turned out to be neither).
You probably will understand me when you are expecting very important business call but your Android phone doesn't ring because the operating system decided to crash.
Although that's not really a good argument: (1) we don't know a lot about anything outside our solar system and (2) if this has happened a second time on earth it would be impossible for us to know since that thing would most likely have been destroyed by one of the first generation organisms.
Yeah but if they are simply detecting user agents with ad-blockers (which is often the case) then it won't matter
This is an excellent & undervalued point: chromeos is basically an easier to use and maintain iPad Pro at half the price, with a performant Linux container

I’m really pleased with my $4K MacBook Pro M2, really amazing device. but after 3-4 years of chromeos before that, I’d trade it for a $1000 i7 Chromebook in a heartbeat, if it wasn’t for darn local LLMs. They’re not even good or fast but I need them professionally.
The broad authority was already approved by Congress in statute.
“We have the popular copyrighted stuff too”?
Yeah, Google has me by the balls because they have my Gmail account. Time to write to my representatives telling them that Google is too big and I support anti-trust enforcement.
I'm in the middle of switching now, from Silverblue. It's a lot of fun. The Arch wiki to do something will have you changing three files and restarting 2 services, while with NixOS you add a line to your config and you're done. And when something doesn't exist as a Nix package/config, it seems somewhat easy to build your self (compared to other package managers, at least). I realized there's no "game-devices" package last night, for example, but I was able to get this working in about an hour of Googling:

https://github.com/pkulak/dotfiles/blob/nix/nix/gamedevices....

Still not all the way in. Like, I'm still going to use Chezmoi for my home directory because I don't quite see the value-add of Home Manager, but who knows; maybe I'll be a super fan next year and move everything over.
And it doesn't even need to be some sort of authoritarian thing. Someone could just offer really cheap, highly functional devices that just happen to also have ads.

You can get your own doorbell, but if everyone else has a doorbell with ads on it, then you kind of still have to deal with it.

"It's okay, I'll just text them instead of going to their front door." Oh they'll consider that too. The free monthly subscription is only valid when you end up with at least 10 ad plays during that month. You don't even have to push the button, the doorbell sees you and plays the ad. And your friends have an incentive to take just a few extra seconds to get to the front door even though they texted back that the door was unlocked and they're right there.
Not OP but anecdotal experience: Every once in a while I'll go to a store and wander the isles. I see things that I find interesting, but most of the time I don't buy them. Sometimes I think to myself: I would love to know more about topic X. So I use search engines and forums to look for more information on topic X. I happily filter ads because there is no net positive benefit from them for my life. I get excited about things without them, find things I need without them, and have no trouble with either.
But enough where my app supports both and will support both for the remainder of time!
I also block ads - BUT I do go pay for services that I use daily and get benefit from. Otherwise, the sites that I love would go away because it's not sustainable to employee people to write code and run servers without some sort of revenue.
Disappeared off the front page almost as fast as it arrived.
You knew you owed money and have payments. Why didn’t you?
> You are not allowed to:

> access, reproduce, download, distribute, transmit, broadcast, display, sell, license, alter, modify or otherwise use any part of the Service or any Content except: (a) as expressly authorized by the Service; or (b) with prior written permission from YouTube and, if applicable, the respective rights holders;

> circumvent, disable, fraudulently engage with, or otherwise interfere with any part of the Service (or attempt to do any of these things), including security-related features or features that (a) prevent or restrict the copying or other use of Content or (b) limit the use of the Service or Content;
It's important to remember when talking to friends, that people are the heroes of their own stories and have a naturally biased perspective.

For my entire twenties, I could have been one of your friends complaining about the burden of my student loans. Nowadays I complain about the burden of my mortgage. But in both cases I got loans for valuable things on very reasonable terms. Just because I feel personally burdened does not mean it's a crisis for society.

It also doesn't mean nothing should ever be done. Personally I think income based repayment is a great policy. Maybe we should make that more generous for its current beneficiaries can't afford housing or families at its current level (anecdotally that wasn't the case for my friends who took advantage of the program, but it's a statistical question and I don't know the answer).

But many people seem to act like blanket forgiveness is the only workable or fair policy, and I'm just not convinced.
> Investing in Americans education is single handedly the best investment America can make as a country.

Loan forgiveness is not an investment in education
Neither is it my job to buy the advertisers' product. Why should the advertiser have to pay for being shown to people who are so hostile to advertisements that they would block them if they could?

When I used to watch broadcast television I used to do the utmost to avoid the ads by muting during ad break. However, on the occasions that an ad would actively interfere with my watching experience, such as an animation on the channel logo, or a sudden ad break with an ad premeditatedly designed to catch you by surprise (often by "sponsors") I made an explicit decision to boycott said product if I had an opportunity. There are brands that I stopped buying because of these things.
Wait, the police held your passport? Why?
> Who is "having to do without" because they can't pay?

A very large segment of the poor and even middle class in the US who work jobs that don't provide insurance.

> In the US you can't be refused life-saving healthcare.

You're probably thinking of emergency room care for immediately life-threatening accidents. For those yes, the emergency room is required to stabilize you in the short term. You'll be billed for it of course, causing bankrupcy if you had any money.

But if you have advanced diabetes or cancer or any other life-ending conditions that aren't going to kill you right now, you will not get any treatment in the US if you can't pay for it so you can be left to die.

Some states are better than others with options for the poor, but many are atrocious.
Yes, Netlify is free for a 100GB per month.
Part of their value is insulating creators from this. It's like Ticketmaster protects artists from pricing concerns.
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Tesla is a wildly different story because they're quickly becoming the Apple of cars. They've convinced all the American automakers to use the Tesla charger, they're setting themselves up to basically own road charging
And indeed, Mediterranean cultures tend to favour moderate (if steady) consumption of alcohol, rather than binge drinking.
Because the math you were forced to do was caused by very specific policy decisions at the government level that radically changed how schools were publicly funded directly(lower costs to all students) to one where it is "public funding" but private risk by student loans that drove up perverse incentives to bloat school bureaucracy and lower the educational standards and raise costs.
https://educationdata.org/average-cost-of-college-by-year

While you were in a position to make a certain career decision due to the field you wanted to go into (tech), other field require schooling. For example medicine doesn't have on the job training that allows one to be a nurse, radiology tech, respiratory tech, dr, surgeon and so forth. Do you want there to be even less of those people?

What about accountants? What about engineers? Should they just "teach themselves". The idea was that all these roles are publicly beneficial and we used to recognize that.

The "Policy" of student loans was a government decision and directly created this problem and it is what needs to change to solve it.
> So, on the one hand you have people who use ad blockers. The first retort that comes to mind here is: Well, we'll take our business elsewhere. Which is odd because without ads they aren't paying and them leaving is the goal.

I use an ad blocker. If I can no longer block ads on YouTube, yes I will just stop using YouTube, or use an Invidious/Piped instance. I think your mistake is believing everyone who uses ad-block also believes ad-free YouTube is worth paying for. I do not.

Further, if Invidious, Piped, NewPipe, and yt-dlp stop working as well, I will simply just watch drastically less YouTube, which is what Google wants.

> Somebody has to pay something for youtube to be viable.

I don't care. Would I care if YouTube was run by a small company that didn't employ dark patterns or fuel unhealthy addiction of innappropriate content in kids? Probably, but YouTube is run by megacorp, so no, I don't care about their server costs.
Did you ever get any replies?
Yeah, or they just reuse the photos from a listing in the early 2000s, which is the lowest res camera phone picture. Seriously? just go to the property and snap a few pics with your phone.
If your wife and you took LSD and it "appeared" to you that all doctors do is run around in stupid white coats, would that reveal more about the field of medicine or the two of you?

"It requires professional help to facilitate emotionally charged, million+ dollar transactions" would be the more useful insight.

Very few people chose to forego aan agent when dealing in RE, there's a reason for that. I am a finance dude quite capable of negotiating etc and I still found out agent super valuable and would use her again.

It's possible you know crappy agents who deal in low-end transactions but again that may reveal more about you than the field.
This isn't specific to Linux

Raymond Chen has a tangentially amusing story that I just found while trying to google the win95 screen: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20160419-00/?p=93...
Yes, it's called an iPhone. There are no options for Android unless you flash it with your own ROM. Your best bet is a Pixel running GrapheneOS if you're adamant you want to be on Android.
I studied in a university in Hong Kong. What I found interesting is that our universities are considered pretty good (decent ranking), but in reality we lack a lot of courses that are offered by other universities (e.g. theoretical computer science), what we mostly have are courses in hot topics such as AI and CV, and a lot of professors can only do research and are terrible in teaching...

So yeah, you can have much worse education...
I get very suspicious of things I see advertised too much. It either implies that the company has way too much money and is blowing it on ads, implying some predatory monetisation, or that it's spending money it doesn't have on ads, which means it's going to either implode in a few months or have to jack up prices.

Remember: "Ad-supported content" isn't really ad-supported, it's supported by the customers of whoever's buying the ads.
I generally agree with your point, but feelings are a bad metric to, essentially, annihilate someone's livelihood. Especially for questionable -- but consensual -- contact with a client.
>what’s the alternative to ads then? How do you find new stuff that you might need?

How did it we accomplish it for the earlier 99.99% of human history?
The new capital gains tax in Washington state seems to be doing better than expected: https://crosscut.com/politics/2023/06/was-new-capital-gains-...
I can't recommend enough of the spiritual successor to Vanced since the article briefly mentioned that. It's called Revanced. It requires more hoops than usual but I'm sure the intelligent folks here won't have a problem with that.
It's on Github. Other results are probably fake.
You realize that many people with student loans are no longer students, right?
Most of the world’s population lives in regions without “911 or equivalent”, ever thought about that?
If I recall correctly the financial crisis caused issues with funding for student loan issuance. Cutting out the middlemen was a bonus.
> And how can you put that straw up your nose, when you know how coke is manufactured?

> It's made by children for the immature.

> It is made by babies who've been captured.

> It's a sin against their fellow man!

> It's a sin against your fellow man.

https://youtu.be/2zpSflrnj-k
Nah, whoever chose that photo knew exactly what they were doing - they chose a photo that will appeal to their target market, which is people looking to get deal on buying a house that they will repair and flip for a profit.

The picture simultaneously shows that it is a nice, stately house, and also that it suffered significant damage which it needs to be repaired. It's the perfect choice.

There is zero chance that anyone in the market for a house in general would choose to buy this one, so there's no point in choosing a pretty picture which hides the damage. You'd just be wasting your time and that of your potential customers.
You can certainly have expansive single floor houses--although I'm not sure they're "Ranch" at that point. In general, there is a tradeoff between allocating space for open public spaces and bedrooms. My old farmhouse has (now) a fairly open first floor plan but the four upstairs rooms are fairly small (about 10' x 12').

It's interesting if you look at some old opulent mansions in somewhere like Newport. The public rooms are opulent but even the non-servant rooms upstairs are fairly minimalist.
layered comedy doesn't translate well on the internet.

"the failure state of witty is asshole"
Google kind of tried to do the same thing by building the Fuscia kernel to replace Linux in Android. But that project appears to have failed.
>Just opening a new tab on a browser is tedious

There is a persistent top-level button in Safari's toolbar to open a new tab. I don't know how tedious that is.
> If instead of a list of tokens you want to pass in a list of embedding vectors, that is trivial (assuming you're running a LLM with your own code locally), that would be a <5 line function.

That sounds like what I wanted. I haven't got to the point of running open-source LLMs locally yet, so I didn't realize it's as easy as you say - rather, since I haven't seen it being mentioned as something you do with LLM, I assumed it must be nontrivial.

> However, I'm not really sure when/why I would want to do that

High-level dream: I want to explore the latent space of an LLM. Get a feel for how it's organized, and what of it is spurious, and what structures seem to be common among LLMs. Find answers to questions that will come to me when I "go there" and "look around".

It might be a futile pursuit - but I feel it's not the idea that's the problem, but rather that high-dimensional spaces might be too big to explore without mathematical understanding that's way beyond mine.

> as "[the specific ideas I listed]" are NOT really enabled by that - since that inherently must be a vector of token-embedding vectors combined with positional embeddings, you can't just average different prompts,

In general, or at all?

Am I wrong in suspecting that averaging the embeddings of "orange" and "apple" and "banana" may give us a new embedding that, fed to the LLM, will make it output something meaningful (vs. random)? From what I read today, elsewhere in the thread, it seems that this works as expected for Stable Diffusion family of models.

And sure, if I take two random multi-token prompts, I expect the result will make LLM output some noise in the shape of word salad. But what if it's multiple closely-related prompts? I have my suspicions, but I want to find out for sure.

> and there isn't a clear way how to tweak the individual token embeddings that would map to tweaking the whole prompt in some meaningful direction.

Shifting prompts in some meaningful direction may not be trivial (or useful), but it's not the only interesting thing to do. What if I push a single token in the prompt a little bit in some direction? What if I push all of them? How things change with subsequent pushes?

> In essence, your question seems to make sense if the text was converted to a single "embedding vector", but it's not, at every layer of a transformer model the state is a list of separate embeddings distinctly separated at a token level.

I'm definitely not assuming the text can be converted to a single "embedding vector". My questions boil down to, where is debug-level access to the LLM? Why is everyone focused on stringing tokens, instead of looking at what's lurking between the tokens and their sequences, in areas of the latent space you can't easily get to without embeddings that don't map to any possible prompt.

IDK, maybe my mental model of transformer models is completely broken, or maybe all those questions have been asked, and didn't lead to anything of interest, and I just can't seem to find the right papers covering this.
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I'm not talking about compatibility updates for your network card, but about security updates. That is why you should be updating first and foremost.
Is there actually a problem though?

Affordable education exists. You can get a bachelor's in Computer Science from WGU for a couple thousand. Georgia Tech offers an online MSCS for about $1k per month.

These programs are scalable and practical. They have such high capacities that they don't have to be selective, making them available to everyone. The cost is trivial compared to the potential earnings.

But for this type of education reform to work, people need to vote with their wallets for the most affordable option. That's only going to happen if they are held personally accountable for their education spending.

Why would somebody choose an affordable, practical program over a needlessly expensive program if the government is paying for it? Where is the incentive to minimize cost and maximize ROI?
Austria: Anyone 14 or older can have legal sex with anyone else 14 or older.

Exceptions that would make one a victim and one a criminal:

- victim is <16 and the perpetrator abused the victims "limited maturity"

- victim is <18 and did it for money or because the perpetrator abused the victims "predicament"
I would argue it's not even that hard to find anymore. It's just the user taking the time to do some research and trying things out.
You have to keep the poeple happy enough, not even China could withstand the full force of their own people rising up against them.

So, on the surface, you appear aligned with growth and advancement and all that.

But under the surface, the system is about control, and only control.
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