skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That too, but dismissing AI safety entirely because big companies are cautious not to get sued if their chatbots parrot hate speech is missing a large part of the picture.

In the coming years 'free' AI will no longer mean just rogue chatbots and deepfakes, but start looking a lot more like cars, weapons and heavy machinery; you can't really postpone talking about safety/ethics/reglementation.
OK. That puts some context.

It isn't like there is some fancy new interface or paradigm to the language.

It is using "Joy" as in "Joy to all", "be joyful", "Have a nice Day".

Think the title of the post was maybe misleading that way.
Didn't at least one major theft occur just as Altman was forced out as CEO?

And, in any case, avoiding attribution would be important whether or not he was CEO and especially if done when FTX was still pretending to be a viable business, since embezzlement isn’t legal and the CEO running off with a bunch of corporate assets kind of kills trust in the business.
Feedback to the student about their level of mastery of the coursework (relative to the coursework itself, not the rest of the class).

Of course, that doesn’t have to be a letter; percentages along with specific corrections would do as well. But once there’s a convention people often use it.

Grading students relative to each other gives different information and probably not precise across cohorts at that.
But doesn't that explain the reproducibility crisis, in a nutshell? If you work backwards from a dataset and look for correlations, doesn't that effectively set the p-value to 1?
Yes, but even then, you can disable a cellular transmitter (cut a trace) without disabling the GPS.
> I do suspect that Microsoft may have been behind Starfield releasing in its half-baked, dumbed down state though a la “We need it on game pass by X, make it happen!”

In fairness to Microsoft, "half-baked" would be how I describe all of Bethesda's previous releases as well. I don't think Starfield is that far off how Skyrim or Fallout 4 was on release. Starfield's a long shot from where Skyrim and Fallout are now after years of patches and DLC, but I think not far from where they started.

> Regarding at least the Blizzard side of the acquisition, I feel like Microsoft ownership may end up being a good thing for their underused IP. Microsoft has strong incentives to release RTS (StarCraft, Warcraft) games to bolster PC usage for gaming and maybe bring more attention to the Windows Store (IMO forcing minecraft onto the Store was a blunder as the upgrade experience was fucking terrible) if they choose to use it.

Blizzard needs focus, though time will tell if Microsoft can help with that.

Overwatch is a mess right now. The release of Overwatch 2 has gone poorly. The balance is poor. They only do patches like twice a quarter, so it feels like they always have to make very conservative changes because who knows how this change interacts with the 30 other ones in the patch notes. It means heroes that are broken or unplayable tend to stay so for months on end. The pro league is in shambles in the best case, and dead in the worst and most likely. They've been losing players. PvE never really launched, and now they're charging extra for the shitty scraps that came out of it.

Diablo 4 is basically dead. 5 million players on launch, 300k last month. They're down to ~5% of the players they started with a year after launch. The core gameplay was not fun, and I can't believe no one noticed it forever ago.

WoW is WoW, but it's stale. The most exciting thing they've done in ages was re-releasing old versions of the game. They're basically just waiting to get upended by something actually innovative.

At this point, I love Blizzard's characters and worlds, but I think their games are D tier. They have the half-finished feel of a Bethesda game, but they don't have any of the fun. They don't resemble the same Blizzard that originally released SC2 and WoW.
I've pretty much abandoned the idea of ever owning a car newer than 2010 or so.

I know what happens when you buy into closed, adversarial technology for convenience.

Fool me in virtually every corporate interaction over a period spanning decades, shame on me...
EcoAssistant: Using LLM Assistant More Affordably and Accurately
I'm not the one who originally commented to complain about your capitalization, but sure.

Even if not in this specific comment thread, maybe having correct capitalization here means someone else knows how to write the one they mean to talk about in another conversation later, and then it will have been helpful.

If everyone went around calling both of them LORA all the time absolutely that's going to sometimes have people talking past each other about different technologies. Even with them capitalized correctly it's still going to, but not as much.

Too bad Microsoft didn't call theirs LoRaA and it would've been more obvious.
Err, yeah - the airliners still mostly use INS for their navigation (with corrections, either manual or automatic, depending on equipment and age), but ADS-B indeed needs to report its location from a GNSS "High-integrity position source". So scratch the INS part.
Ancient Greek and Phoenician Colonization
I've noticed I do this at classical concerts vs listening at home, and I haven't been sure if it's because it's really true or I'm just more conscious of the noise I'm making in public. I also kind of wondered if people were stifling coughs until between pieces.
The point of tests is to determine if the student learned what they're supposed to learn. If everyone gets 90% or better on a test that reflects what you're supposed to learn then it should be celebrated as a teaching success. It is not a problem.

A perfect educational system would have every student getting 100% on every test, right? That's the ideal. Unless, of course, that the purpose of the educational system isn't actually to educate people but instead to weed out certain classes of people.

"We want the best" is what every employer will always say but the truth is that they really only need someone who can do the job. We as a society put way too much importance and faith in credentials.
I had an actual laugh out loud when I scrolled down and noticed that they publicly published the "harmful instructions" yet concluding this was so terrible that Meta should stop publicly releasing models.
The notion that one should always pin their dependency version falls apart when considering that package managers like cargo when considering libraries. Libraries hard pinning dependencies causes a world of trouble.

This is exactly why cargo uses a lock file that does pin your dependencies as described for binary crates, but does not use the same mechanism for libraries. https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/faq.html#why-do-binaries-hav...
I think the root problem here is that some people see grades as an absolute measurement of whether someone has mastered the material, and other people see grades as a way to rank students relative to each other. If you believe the first, then it should be possible and expected for a class to be able to get all A's. If you believe the second, then it makes sense to widen the dynamic range such that you get a clear rank ordering.
I was absolutely bored by age 4. I really like age 2hd however.

where is hellbender. hover 95. ski free?
I'd actually argue that ROM is still expensive unless you are making a lot of units, and it's been pretty much replaced everywhere by flash which can be commoditised leading to better economies of scale as well as having the advantage that your "ROM" can be upgraded without wasting a lot of old stock.

Where hardcoded ROMs do exist in designs now, it's usually still as a glorified stage 1 bootloader, albeit now usually with signature checking as well.
"If you're not paying for something, you're the product."

I feel like $25k+ is paying for something. Stop it you jerks.
"hidden, internally poorly labelled '@SBF retirement fund' account"
Sounds entirely legitimate.

Actually I looked closer, and I cannot see any such thing.

In fact, even refurbished 2nd generation AirPods are $93: https://www.amazon.com/Apple-AirPods-Charging-Case-Renewed/d...
Haha! I haven’t seen anything from the onion in years. They kind of became irrelevant at some point :)
It's fine on Android. Or at least, it's about as good as desktop. Cookie prompts are on everything. They're timewasters, and essentially train people to click accept without thinking, but it's the same on any platform.

My biggest complaint is the gestures. I hate pull to refresh and swipe to change tabs so much. But then again, on desktop we have the same crap, middle click to close tab.
A lot of techniques unrelated to fine-tuning destroy safety training on LLMs.

A trivial example, and one that I describe in this paper: https://paperswithcode.com/paper/most-language-models-can-be...

If you ask ChatGPT to generate social security numbers, it will say "I'm sorry, but as an AI language model I..."

If you ban all tokens from its vocabulary except numbers and hyphens, well, it's going to generate social security numbers. I've tested and confirmed this behavior on a range of open source language models. I'd test it on ChatGPT except that they don't allow banning nearly every token in its vocabulary (and yes, I've tried via it's API, it doesn't work).
Isn’t that the shortest sentence in the bible or something?
She must've been unaware of her legal requirements under FOIA, that her husband signed into law, when she ordered the people's emails destroyed.
Plenty of actions are crimes without real victims. Not having insurance while driving is an example. Possession of explosives is another one.
man every time I want to respond to a message in telegram I end up in the forward mode, it's so intuitive in whatsapp but so backwards in telegram. Likewise when trying to react to a message with any emote other than the one set by default. And then I couldn't even find the setting to change the default emote reaction. So I guess I disagree with that assessment. I do agree about discord tho.
Execution is everything, especially when shooting someone with a gun.
Actually, that's a good point... outdoor companies tend to be great at that!

Patagonia repaired/replaced damaged clothing for me, Yakima and Specialized sent me free parts, NiteRider fixed a bike light, ReeLight sent me a replacement from overseas, Osprey replaced a backpack after my dog chewed it up... all for free.

Maybe it's just electronics companies that's bad at this stuff
The selection filter is having rich and connected parents + not being a complete moron.

On a side note the bigger joke are the scholarships for sports - you dont even need to be able to read if they put you on the football team.
Complacency in/of social Attenuation.
"The important selection filter is entirely in getting into Harvard."

You are confusing cause and effect there. By giving everybody high grades, they are reducing the ability to tell Harvard graduates apart, thus increasing the desirability of getting into Harvard and decreasing the need to put in effort after being accepted.
While a mild pain, I don’t see Russia really having that many issues if they can’t just wire money from A to B.

Russia sells oil to India, India puts rupees or some other representation of currency into an Indian bank account and then Russia buys some finished Indian goods from that bank account.

This isn’t far from regular banking where everyone just tries to keep flows balanced. All that’s new is being unable to directly “balance” payments if they go out of whack too much.

Do they lose a few percent doing this? Probably, but the spike in oil prices makes up for it.
You make it sound like the poor gaming studios didn't read the contract documents and got trapped in a draconian nightmare.

That's a naive take if I have ever seen one.
Yea. I've long since given up on that ever being correct. Too many people with too many mail clients. Thus for many mime types I just force that to be redone:

mime_lookup application/octet-stream application/x-gzip application/gzip application/x-bzip2 binary/octet-stream application/x-download invalid/octet-stream

Not that that's a good answer...
It's not, though. I don't think Starfield is bad -- it's well-produced and rich with many widely beloved game elements from earlier Bethesda project -- but it focused on the ElderScrolls/Fallout bits that I didn't care so much about and pushed aside the parts that absorbed me into those games.

Specifically, the other franchises let you literally just wander around through a hand-crafted world stumbling into who knows what. There are very few games that can deliver that because the hand-crafted thing is sooo labor intensive and expensive.

But Starfield failed to deliver on that. There are countless quests and destinations and rich dialog trees, but if I just push forward on my control stick, I will immediately leave "hand-crafted" behind in favor of "procedurally generated" and then I will hit a wall in at most 30-40 minutes. That's so tremendously different than what I was able to do in the other games that I just didn't have a reason to play anymore.

Bethesda wasn't obliged to deliver on the bits I personally loved about the other games, but I (and some others) were legitimately bummed when they didn't.
A super intelligence wouldn't be resource constrained. The most unrealistic thing about "I have no mouth, and I must scream" is that a god-like AI which hated humanity wouldn't find a way to torture more humans.

Plus, you don't have to be kept alive. You could theoretically be brought back after death either as a simulation (like Soma), or physically by an AI with an advanced understanding of biology and physics.

Even if you killed yourself today we couldn't say for sure that a sufficiently advanced AI a century in the future couldn't find a way to bring your consciousness back. For example, what if our consciousness is finger printed to our DNA in some way? Unlikely, but who knows.

With extreme intelligence and knowledge all kinds of things start to become plausible. It's going to be exciting to see humanity open that pandoras box.
Most elite universities have been forced (by market forces) into doing what Harvard is doing. The proportion of firsts being awarded by Cambridge, for example, had already inflated substantially 20 years ago.

The solution involves having, relatively speaking, "low" absolute grade boundaries (first-class honours at Cambridge is usually set around 70% of the marks in most subjects, third-class honours is 50%, pass without honors is even lower) on genuinely challenging exams, then using the raw grades for things like PhD admissions and scholarships. The notorious Maths Tripos is an extreme example of that strategy.
The sensors aren't physically wired to the car; they're radios inside the tires, and as edrxty noted, they transmit a unique ID.
I've watched core values get rewritten at multiple companies. Usually happens when new leadership comes in, there's some kind of culture clash and failed change management, managers can't get people to behave how they want so they go deep into a rewrite of the cultural tenets to shake out longtime employees and develop new mantras to enforce. New core values set almost always ends up being a word salad that's less precise and meaningful than the original list.

If you look at OpenAI's original list, they were all adjectives to describe how the team operates. Nice and clean. Consistent.

The new list is a vague, unfocused mish-mash of concepts ("Team spirit"), adjective pairs ("Intense AND scrappy"), and phrases ("Make something people love"). Some of these things should have been initiatives or objectives for the quarter instead of core values for the whole org.
Unfortunately, yes. On top of that, they keep adding new devices in RC, keep bumping the kernel version (minor), introducing new code base (such as the new refactor on hostapd/ucode/netifd) and sometime cherry picking commits from master which I would have not chosen (not just bug fixes but features).

Don't get me wrong though, I very happy that such project exists but OpenWrt could be more stable and reliable with a better workflow. Anytime you flash a new version, you have this small fear of bricking your device (especially the exotic ones as Openwrt mainly relies on external testers).
Why wouldn't they? If you think of embeddings as a learned hash, and your hash space is wide enough, the embedding would simply be another, lossless representation of the input. The challenge, of course, is that inverting hashes is difficult. Except in machine learning, the hashes are typically intended not to be so; to preserve semantic and syntactic relationships, as word2vec famously demonstrated. And there are even text embeddings that use sub-word information like character n-grams, which can trivially represent rare words, like the kind embodied by personal information.

edit: Given the author agrees, I suppose the research question is how well and cheaply you can do it, across different embedding algorithms. For practitioners, the lesson is to treat embeddings like personally identifiable information, as the authors state in the conclusion.
Another question is how many times they warned before and attacks didn't happen?
And there are plenty of jobs (see IB, consulting, etc. mentioned) that have an endless appetite for young, hard-working bodies that you only really expect some percentage of to work out anyway. If you miss some diamonds in the rough or late bloomers, they probably wouldn't have fit in anyway and you're fine with your simpler heuristic.
Who cares? Your car has, and is required by law to have, a unique identifier that is clearly visible from 100 meters away.
Forget Starfield, anyone remember the disastrous Redfall release earlier this year?
> We still don’t know what LLMs are for

I have found the LLM concept to be tremendously valuable in illuminating my understanding of the operation of human brains (both mine and others). This mainly arose after reading Wolfram's article, then continued independent thinking along the same lines. Honestly by far the biggest coin dropping moment for me in 40 years, since I first heard John Searle talk.

Note I don't actually use LLMs for anything.
I'm not who you're responding to, but the cropping along with the extreme lack of texture in the building make it seem artificial.
Should it be harder? No, I don't think so. Ideally the classes at any two schools should be roughly on par with one another. But I would assume that disparities do exist, unfortunately.

An anecdote: my father was valedictorian of his podunk high school but nearly flunked out of his first year of college. And he's a smart guy, it was just a mixture of (1) not having study skills, since he'd never really needed to study before and (2) being a little behind on certain subjects (like math) that hadn't been taught well at his high school compared to the schools his peers attended.

In a situation like that, I'd assume that an A in a class whose teacher is just phoning it in is not equivalent to an A in a class on the same subject whose teacher is serious about both teaching and grading.
> How do you tackle this? Or am I just making a big deal over nothing?

I have limited my "pleasure browsing" to very few sites. I don't download apps unless I need to (eg chat).

Most importantly, I have Chrome with javascript disabled on all sites and whitelist the ones I need to access and require javascript (eg. Github, jira). To do that, just click on the lock icon on the address bar and click allow javascript. Simple.

Often, there's an article or something I'd like to read that requires javascript. Sometimes I just close the tab and move on with my life. Other times, I click on Chrome's share button and open the page in Firefox.

On Firefox, I have an adblocker that just makes things a bit better, just enough to get what I need.
> We're talking about game prices

No we're not, we're talking about the total cost of console gaming, because that's what actually matters when you're discussing the effect on consumers.

> It's hard not to acknowledge the fact that Microsoft is getting perfectly positioned to clamp everyone down into their ecosystem harder than ever

No, it's hard to imagine where you're getting that from at all, if you're talking about their gaming arm. Microsoft isn't positioned to clamp down on anything in gaming. They're simply trying to compete against their more successful competitor Sony.

> I don't think the attitude of "let's let them get as big as possible and hope they don't abuse that power" is healthy.

I don't think the attitude of "let Sony's gaming business be as big as it already is, but don't allow Microsoft's gaming business to try to expand to match Sony's" is healthy. That's literally anti-competitive.
Swift Everywhere: Using Interoperability to Build on Windows
With regard to regenerating the desiccant:

Presumably the same heat pump used for the normal A/C cycle would be used to handle this. Add some valves and controllable dampers which are potential failure points but not expensive. Instead of dampers you could have a separate exhaust fan but either way you need to extract the hot and very humid air from the regen cycle to avoid dumping it into the building.

There's a tricky optimization problem for a system like this. In heat pump mode your ideal time of day is around solar noon when temps are hottest... with an inverter (fully variable) compressor and fan you can run both at lower power to generate just enough heat needed for regen. That can clash with your cooling load and electric rates though so it may make more sense to run at night when you need to run longer or higher power to generate enough heat.

Most consumer A/C systems sold in the US don't even have inverter compressors yet so that is some added cost/complexity. Many have variable speed indoor and outdoor fans but not all. There may be some decent gains to be had just by adopting the latest "conventional" refrigeration tech.
Needs more Michael Bay.

I think they're noticing the lighting on the towers looking kinda cgi but it's just a dawn shot so the lighting will always look a bit aggressive.
Same here and I completely agree. I'm somewhat surprised we also don't go the reusable route like Germany. Pick up a case of sodas or beers in glass bottles from the store to take home, then bring back a case of empties when you return. They get washed, refilled, and re-used. I feel like that should be overall cheaper than treating glass bottles as single use.
My window borders are actually 2px by choice, but it's a nice pink that's fairly noticeable.
If you wanna make questions challenge students to think harder, by all means do so.

If you do, and an entire classroom of kids manages to answer them correctly, "I guess I have to still give some of you Bs and Cs" isn't a great response.
> A means "you performed at the level that was expected of you" and B-D are varying magnitudes of failing to do that.

Incorrect! An A just means you got 90% or better accuracy on tests/quizzes. 60% means you earned enough to move on to the next subject.

Therefore, "What's expected of you" is to get a D or better. Otherwise only an A would be a passing grade.
Let's be honest, the NAI leak is what really made it blow up. Ever seen the front page of civit.ai with the filters turned off?
God I hate this take. This mythologizes grades as an end rather than a means. I much prefer the world where tests are written with the expectation that people who've mastered the material get an A rather than the endless hamster wheel where the test gets harder until you get a distribution centered at C.

I would have burnt out on my schooling so fast as to make it worthless. How demoralizing it must be when every test is designed so that you won't know all the answers. Why even bother trying? I'm not in school to compete with other students, I'm there to learn.