skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Imagine a world... where farmers start using tractors to plow and seed their fields. First the tractors will roll slowly, and they will pretend to be driving straight as they are told. Soon farmers without tractors will realized they need to have them to in order to be competitive, and before you know it everyone will have these gas guzzling beasts rolling across the lands. Farmers will be out of a job because of all of this greed, and lust for money and power. Eventually only a few people will do all of the farming with an army of tractors, and everyone else will be lying in poverty begging for food."
What's there to integrate, really? You click a button, the URL of your current opened page is transmitted to their service along with your user ID, they scrape the page content, and voila.
Is this the most expensive LotR memorabilia? A first edition printing of "The Hobbit" was only worth $210,000 in 2015. Maybe one of the movie copies of the One Ring is more expensive? Or Tolkien's drafts?
Hard to say. General consensus seems to be “appearance” but others go by the one drop rule.
> your premium subscription will start to have a few premium, curated ads, and you'll have to buy the next tier up to get ad-free again.

This has never happened to me even once with any service that I pay for. Hulu is the closest, but they replaced a free tier with a cheap-with-ads tier. Their expensive tier at least once had "some ads that were contractually required" but i never saw them.

And I think if "most people" paid for YTP they'd be drowning in revenue so I doubt that they'd be desperate to screw that up by repositioning YTP as something other than "ad-free."

I might get flamed for this, but while I see the reason to hate and adblock mainstream sites that have awful ads and have no paid ad-free option (see most newspapers and TV stations, especially local ones, everything that has those idiotic bottom-feeding ads at the bottom of an article, Yahoo, AOL, Newsweek, Gizmodo etc.) ... in contrast, YTP is there, it's twelve bucks a month, I don't see why anyone wouldn't pay for it instead of trying to cheat. Not saying it's a crime or even immoral, but they don't owe you video content and trying to subvert the conditions they place on access seems like basically cheating. Kind of like not paying your water bill (when you could afford it) and just using the public restroom next door 10 times a day. Not illegal, but... seems like a bad plan.
A non-monetised video gets recommended though, albeit fewer times than monetised ones (even to premium users!!).
> Do most "AI Engineers" actually understand what's going on in that function, beyond what they learned in the "LLM 101" videos and articles that have been flooding the web over the past year?

Do they need to, to be effective at their jobs?
Mega Thread? Really?
The article is fairly hostile to Reddit, I'd say. Consider this excerpt:

> As Reddit flexes its control, it’s playing a risky game ahead of its long-gestating IPO. Even though many third-party apps will likely go away, Reddit’s attitude toward the users that have made it into the giant that it is could harm the platform more than any apps ever did.
One of the most misunderstood concepts about algorithmic trading is that speed is not a critical factor for the majority of systems. My systems like https://grizzlybulls.com/models/vix-ta-macro-mp-extreme have been crushing the market with live trading for 3+ years and yet trade on a frequency of only once ever 18 trading days on average (some a little more often, some even less), and are set up to only generate signals around hourly breakpoints.

The last 18 months have been weaker than the first given the enormous structural shift in the market in this high inflation and rapidly rising interest rates environment, but we've still managed to deliver a return of +14.11% since the site launched in Jan 2022 compared to -7.83% for the SPX. We've managed to do it without any use of leverage and also with lower drawdowns as well of -16.48% vs. -27.57% for the SPX over that time frame.
The innovator's dilemma on display.
Yes. Companies get paid to use psychological weapons on you.

Would you tolerate a cafe in Ukraine having reduced prices because it informs Russia when soldiers are visiting, so Russia can use weapons on the soldiers (i.e. shoot them in the face) and Russia pays it for that?
MPT-30B Chatbot with LangChain [video]
How did you get into this kind of shady arrangement? This is not how it works if you go to a reputable prop firm. Also sometimes they already have infra setup for you to build on.
In concept, the threadiverse (Lemmy/kbin) should be able to overcome a few of these. In practice, we have yet to see
OP is very clearly able to make some guesses himself, as he does so in his comments.
But, the justification is a non-sequitur. The ruling is that the content, not the customer, was the determining factor in refusing the business, and therefore legal.
I've seen a link on HN in the past where the author was questioning why we think it only happened once - and whether every puddle on the planet might have the early stages of life appearing, only we discount it because we assume it's contaminated by the rest of the biosphere on the planet leaking in. I feel like it was some researcher rather than some conspiracy theorist, but I don't know where the article was or what the context was to find it.
sure, I only compare it to an improvement over incarceration or getting fingers chopped off.

I’m in favor of private sector solutions in the absence of policing.

solutions that are even more tolerable when there are additional options, as I mentioned above. if there was a real denial of service I would find that as egregious as you do.
long ago they taught us in linguistics class, deaf people signing will also say (the equivalent of) "wa wa" to their kids for "water".

they also told us that signed poetry "enjoys" a physical movement sort of rhyming (which is also the oral origin of sonic rhyming anyway, i suppose)
I'm curious about this sort of use case - how long does it take for a GPT-based system to process a bunch of documents it's never seen before so that you can perform NL searches on them? Assuming something ike a million total pages of text are we talking minutes? Hours? Days?

And is it at all feasible to ensure whatever factual information is returned is only sourced from said documents, vs being "hallucinated" by virtue of whatever weights exist based on the core training corpus?
I got lucky in that I joined early enough to get an annual raise + performance evaluation while being under a year in.

This is a pretty standard offer at meta/google in NYC or the bay area though; I didn't negotiate equity at all so I know a few people making more. I think it's definitely possible to get into meta/google without any of those things but tbf I was very fortunate because I did 4 big tech internships and came from a top 5 school.

I know people making about as much who didn't do internships or go to a top school, though but were able to get noticed by a recruiter and then pass the interviews

edit: also i looked at https://www.levels.fyi/2022/ and applied to all of the top companies I saw
Was $120k/y AUD, 20 years of experience in a variety of settings, mostly Senior DevOps in the last 5 years.

Then burnt out.

Now $24k/y AUD passive income, not working. Much happier life just parenting my kids and keeping fit.
You can't not view the standing question together with the standing for the discrimination case, where the court ruled that the possibility of prior restraint that the government had not undertaken, over actions the plaintiff had not taken, in a business that they had not started, constituted an actionable tort/harm that gave plaintiffs standing.

The court is now allowing hypothetical harms, pre-crime. And the worst part is, we know that's not going to be evenly applied.

The old regime is being swept away, this is now The Terrors, where different groups of people receive a different process with a pre-determined outcome based on which group you fall into.

Even if you didn't like the court before, everyone got the same process, and that's different now. Nobody is even pretending there's any legal basis to these standings anymore. If you're in the right group, you can sue over harm to a business you didn't even start yet. You can sue for damage to someone else's business that you're not even a party to (as Missouri did).
> SLOEB

Excuse me, I think you mean “SLÖB”!
Are there use cases beyond testing that anyone here has actually done?
A lot of the PhpBB and derivative sites are still up and active, they're just extremely undiscoverable on modern search engines.
It looks like embeds are still working so who cares to be honest. It’s only a nuisance for the one time you have to create a burner account.

It’s not like a free account gave you much ability to browse the site anyway. And Instagram is doing exactly the same.
How the Hell did you get two wildly different economic beliefs from what I wrote? And is that meant to be some sort of “gotcha”?
> if there's a possibility that this will shake Youtube from it's dominance.

Yes, I'm sure everyone is fighting for an audience who refuse to pay and block all ads. And of course the audience who do sit through ads or pay are therefore not going to switch and stick with YouTube.

So unless you want to burn money, I really don't see a viable business model there. Unless you think you can take the initial hit to grow a big enough audience and then force ads and paid subscriptions on everyone to make that money back.
> YouTube is not free.

Hahaha you need to tell YouTube that, not me. Lol why are accusations of bad faith always made in bad faith? I guess you just don’t want to address your own inconsistency? You didn’t answer the question of why you consider sneaking into a paid concert to be not stealing yet claim you must pay for YouTube somehow. That makes no sense. You could be fined or jailed for sneaking into a concert because it’s illegal, it’s stealing by definition. You cannot be fined for not watching YouTube ads.

What, exactly, is your definition of free? Does YouTube agree with your definition, do they say it’s not free? Where? Can you link to language that outlines the non-premium YouTube payment procedure? Can you demonstrate that failure to pay could result in legal consequences?

YouTube is in fact free in the sense that it does not cost the viewer money to watch. And unlike concert tickets or any other paid product, there is no legal obligation or expectation to “pay” for YT with time or attention, and there is no tracking or record of any such payment. Just because they want you to watch ads while not asking for money does not make YouTube not free.
> Should those who used SVB have been bailed out?

No. Absolutely and most definitely not.
The fantasy is that you get to stay in your house while its value rises. Having to leave (because they need to build the apartment complex) is less appealing, not least because now you have to find a new place to live and, if nearby prices have gone up, you're not much better off than before (this is especially true of the huge number of people who bought houses at extremely low rates since 2008, since they'd have to refinance at current rates), or else you have to move further away from your friends/family/community.
Is bun actively participating in these discussions, or are they just implementing whatever they wish and not participating in the chicken-and-egg process?
How does burning a school, a tram and sacking then burning a shop helps? Because these are the "riots" we see.

Do you live in one of the city that was under attack?
The original ToneMatrix was in turn a knockoff of the Yamaha Tenori-on, which was actually a hardware product - a really pretty sophisticated if sometimes frustratingly limited self-contained controller/sequencer/synthesizer.

Yamaha stopped making the hardware somewhere in the early 2010s, but released a couple of iOS software versions (TNR-i, emulating the original Tenori-on sounds, and later TNR-e which changed the sounds to be more EDM and less... Yamaha).

Inevitably, as software is an eternal treadmill, Yamaha never bothered to update the apps past iOS 13 - but my TNR-W hardware still does the thing, much to the delight of my kids. (I bought one on a whim when my eldest was a toddler - it has survived 10 years of her and then her younger sister's bashing. They're teenagers now! Yamaha makes quality stuff when they feel like it.)

While it never set the world on fire, it also sold enough that used models are still around. If you do buy a used one, note that the original model with the metal case and white LEDs (TNR-W) are worth the premium over the newer white case/orange LED (TNR-O) models; the former are sturdier, have lights on both sides, and can run on AA batteries (TNR-O requires external power).
At the dawn of browser sync technologies, it was possible to self host a Firefox sync server. I think I remember there was a component for authentication and one for storage proper. You could use each one of them, or both.

Is this still a thing? How would today's firefox handle a custom sync server?
Let's not pretend that's driven by anything except protectionism of an existing industry. They simply don't want almond milk anywhere near cow milk in the grocery store.
If you have to rely on the computer to validate a proof you then have to rely on the whole supply chain that generated the computer as well as the software for the proof checker. Proofs need to be dense enough that we can discover them in a long lost tomb and eventually figure out what that collapsed civilization had learned.
Yep: "why isn't my fuel scoop working??" was some motivation to look up star types.
I'd suggest reading David Graeber. Smith's characterization of human economic behavior is... very narrow vs historical evidence.
If buyers found that Amazon was structurally refusing members of a protected class they could be sued.

Nobody thinks Amazon is purposefully refusing business with protected classes.
As a counter I had some VW shares I couldn’t access for 6 months because they were moved to another exchange. 20 calls to the broker to find out what had even happened. Eventually I was able to sell them.
We are already cognitively irrelevant without the assistance of books, pens, paper, and to a great extent computers.

Most of what we do is far beyond what can be held wholly in a single human mind or passed on exclusively verbally. A lot of it from vehicles to architecture to electronics couldn’t even be attempted without CAD and simulation. Without automation we would be unable to even feed and clothe the current population.

We are already way past the point where a naked human is enough.

AI will let us tackle problems that are even further beyond us like fusion, incredibly high density cheap batteries, high temperature superconductors, fully coherent theories of cosmology, and many other things we are not intelligent enough to do without augmentation.

There are of course huge risks around AI like all other technologies. Most of them revolve around people using AI to do bad things more cheaply and at a larger scale. But the same is true of computers, cars, etc.
Summary of the video by Louis Rossmann:

A Massachusetts ballot initiative, that passed with a landslide 75-25, despite $26 million in ads that automakers spent fighting it (claiming it would help racism, redlining, and stalkers), mandated that car owners be given access to their own car's diagnostic information.

Automakers, represented by the legal firm Mayer Brown, tried to get an injunction against this law. During the 2-year long case the judge asked the NHTSA for input, but it remained silent. Only a few days after the judge ruled against the injunction, did the NHTSA speak up and tell the automakers to ignore the law (because it supposedly conflicts with federal safety regulations, based on the evidence-free assertion that people having access to their own diagnostic data is a security risk).

The assistant chief counsel for litigation and enforcement at the NHTSA, who signed the letter telling the automakers to ignore that, law is Kerry E. Kolodziej, who had previously worked for 6 years at Mayer Brown - the same Mayer Brown that represented the automakers.
> Its such BS that you have to pay back a debt you agreed to!

It's horrible enough that we invented "declaring bankruptcy", didn't we?
Yet here you are talking about old spice due to their ads. It worked. They got what they wanted from you.
I think you have that backwards. They exist to preserve privilege for legacy kids. They let in some of the best and brightest so that some of the prestige from their accomplishments rubs off on the legacies.
I didn't flag it.

I'm not improperly judging anything. I have lived this for too long. "No good reason" is a fantasy.

There is "no good reason" other than the real world standing in the way, which is an economic motivation you keep neglecting, not a racial one.

You are either a racist, unintelligent, or else ignorant. You do not write as though you're unintelligent. I do not personally assume that people are racist because I disagree with them (though your writing makes me challenge that). I can therefore only conclude you're ignorant of what real people do at real jobs.
Goldman is looking for a way out of its partnership with Apple
Additionally, who wants another man’s soggy taco?
There's a 402 PAYMENT REQUIRED[0], but apparently it's been reserved for future use forever. I'm surprised there isn't a scheme by which websites can charge micropayments for content. In principle, I'm not opposed to loading up an account with $20 and paying $0.10 for an Economist article or $0.02 for a YouTube video or whatever.

I honestly don't know if this exists now or has ever existed, but I would love to directly support content creators without the total garbage game theory equilibrium we seem to have settled into of every expert hocking their nutritional supplements.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes#4xx_...
I would expect the solution is to take the NL question and get GPT to transform it into a SQL (or similar) statement to extract the data. Then another call (or set of calls) to generate "reports" summarizing the data returned by the DB query.
> Much of the world is wary of the United States and thinks it is an out-of-control bully that answers to no one.

I mean, bully is an emotionally weighted term; but that is precisely the situation. They're the hegemon/sole superpower. It's what nations in that position have done since time immemorial.

On the flipside, Pax Americana has been undeniably the most peaceful time in recorded human history. Conquest is nigh nonexistant, most empires are dead and war, poverty and sickness are at an all-time low. With many of the geopolitical and technological advances that led to that directly attributable to the United States and it's allies. The question isn't whether they are "bullies" or not, it's whether or not you think they're abusing that status and that the other options are nicer bullies. Empires fall throughout history, them losing superpower status would just be a footnote for those people's "gotcha"; so they better be sure the alternative is an improvement.

> That Russia invaded Ukraine isn't unnoticed by these countries but that doesn't give the US a free pass to do whatever it wants, wherever it wants.

Clearly it does. Unless/until someone wants to dismantle their position. Are they playing with fire by overutilizing that position? Certainly. But they're willing to risk that when it is particularly beneficial for them/their allies. What is Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Mexico, etc going to do about it?

> Lots of countries would like to see the US embarrassed for its continued overreach and bullying of smaller countries.

Lots of countries would like to see them embarrassed even if they did absolutely nothing. Again, that's the risk of being hegemon.
Appreciate the consistency, thanks.
Harry Potter and the Uncertainty Reduction Theory (2018)
This was one of the best books I have ever read.
Absolutely recommended.
There are some books for which official ebooks don't exist.. but those ebooks appear on Anna's archive. And they are well done conversions, not just OCR copies.

There are books on the archive that do exist in real life but are _extremely_ rare or may as well not exist.

I'm lucky enough to have a real dead tree library in my home but I still use ebooks heavily, and often duplicate books in both collections.
I don't know that it's only American culture, but it definitely is American culture.
I am also very tired with parsing of social media trends to prove a point. These are a subset of a subset of the population and don't mean much when we account for curious viewers, casual viewers, ironic viewers. Also, the subset of the population perusing social media is low. Even lower when we divide this subset by social media platform. The trends and fleeting passions of the ultra young do not reflect 100% of the population at all.
> "Eventually only a few people will do all of the farming with an army of tractors, and everyone else will be lying in poverty begging for food."

I mean 1) yeah kinda and 2) I feel like this is unironically an argument against capitalism.
It would be a nice story.
Yes that's what I'm talking about because that's what the article is talking about! The article is explicitly not about the ML / AI academic research. I agree that's well established.

What the article is about is the current hype cycle of people trying to take the newest generation of "AI" tools, of which GPT-4 is the leading edge and most widely known, and make useful products with them. And whether that is going to be a big deal or a fad is, as yet, unproven.

It is super easy to say, in 2023, that "blockchain was never going to revolutionize finance". But in 2013, that was an unknown. For what it's worth, you could go back to my commenting history in that period of time to find me saying "bitcoin is never going to revolutionize finance"; I was a skeptic then. But that doesn't mean I was definitely going to be right, I was just educated-guessing, just like the people on the other side of the conversation. That guess looks to have been prescient with the benefit of hindsight, but I've been wrong about lots of stuff too - I thought the iPad was stupid, I hated "Web 2.0", I thought the Facebook IPO was doomed, the list goes on and on.

My best guess is that building products on top of "generative AI" is going to prove to be a big deal, but I don't know that, and it's hard not to be influenced by an ongoing hype cycle, is all I'm saying.

> For any AI application, the world is different. If we simply replace AI with “automated system” we can see why. Pretty much every company would like to replace their workers with machines. And maybe machines can do things that humans would never be able to do (for example, search the entire internet for a very specific topic).

Sure, but again, we just don't know yet if the "AI Engineering" thing this article is talking about is going to, in any way, turn into any of that, or if it's going to be more of a bust.
For a while there was an announcement that pocket would stop working on kobo devices, due to this announcement. But now it seems kobo will be given an extension and will make their pocket integration work with Firefox accounts.