skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Predicting the set of words that constitutes a helpful response when given a friendly question is still valid in the world of stochastic parrots.

Reducing it's actions to "just predicting the next word" does a disservice to what it's actually doing, and only proves you can operate at the wrong abstraction. It's like saying "human beings are just a bunch of molecular chemistry, and that is it" or "computers and the internet are just a bunch of transistors doing boolean logic" (Peterson calls this "abstracting to meaninglessness"), while technically true, it does a disservice to all of the emergent complex behaviour that's happening way up the abstraction layer.

ChatGPT is not just parroting the next words from it's training data, it is capable of producing novel output by doing abstraction laddering AND abstraction manipulation. The fact that it is producing novel output this way is proving some degree of compositional thinking - again, this doesn't eliminate the stochastic parrot only-predicting-the-next-word explanation, but the key is in the terminology .. it's a STOCHASTIC parrot, not a overfit neural network that cannot generalize beyond it's training data (proved by the generation of compositional novel output).

Yes, it is only predicting the next word, and you are only a bunch of molecules, picking the wrong abstraction level is meaningless
In this scenario “buggy” products would still be sold as is and EU citizens would be incentivized to purchase them, as they currently do, by circumventing EU laws or regulations on products “unfit.”
How about you stop using YouTube? Getting annoyed by ads is understandable, but server space isn't free.
Won't comment on this now, but will follow up once it launches. I've been working on this now for 3 months. So it isn't simple aggregator. There is a lot of data enrichment happening by collecting auxiliary data from LinkedIn, Crunchbase, GitHub, etc.
After over a year of hearing people say this, at some point the burden of proof shifts to the people making the claim.

There was a period where LLMs were extremely inaccessible to train where it would have been reasonable to say "the mitigation is easy, but OpenAI hasn't done it." But nowadays, indie models and freeware models are much more common, and there are even models with open datasets. Fine tuning can be done on a Macbook. Purchasing compute to fully replicate a smaller model is within reach of a lot of people.

There is still a cost involved, it's not trivial -- but it's a lot more accessible than it used to be. So at what point is it reasonable to respond to the people saying, "it's easy, just do X" with "well, do it then."?

If the training method you're describing works, then what is preventing someone from training a 7B model over the next week that's invulnerable to prompt injection?
Despite the Beeching cuts the UK still has a pretty dense rail system. I think the bigger problem has been the lack of S-bahn like development in the major cities outside of London.
Unless you bust into the OpenAI headquarters at gunpoint and demand some answers it's about as good as you're going to get (please don't do this).
At Wegmans you weigh the produce & print the labels in the produce department, before you ever get to the checkouts. At checkout you scan the barcode that got printed. Fast, efficient, and painless.

Of course that's one regional grocery chain, and typically a more "high end" one than Walmart. But that furthers the point, self checkout can be nice, it just depends on the implementation.
> like a movie theater? But with a restaurant?

The article explicitly states "Netflix has not announced what it will be selling at the locations," and "it sounds like Netflix is trying to do what Disney does". Disney doesn't operate movie theaters.

I could totally see a Stranger Things, Squid Game or Bridgerton theme park bringing in a billion a year. To the extent we have evidence vindicating the existence of a well-paid C suite, it's companies like Netflix and this comment.
I understand the point you're making, but it's probably best to avoid gatekeeping, especially when it comes to an inexact term like "poor".

"Living in poverty means not being able to afford medical care or access to basics such as electricity, shelter, and food. Improper nutrition can cause stunting and wasting, permanently impacting children’s development. Poverty in countries lacking access to clean water and sanitation leads to the spread of preventable diseases and unnecessary deaths, particularly of children."

https://www.worldvision.org/sponsorship-news-stories/global-...
The phrase “from the river to the sea” was used by the PLO since 1964, a time when Jordan controlled the West Bank and Egypt controlled Gaza. It’s unambiguously a reference to eliminating the state of Israel.

I agree that we shouldn’t criminalize political slogans.
Have many major cable companies actually stopped offering (non-IP-based) TV? I hadn't heard about that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridge_failures#2000–p...

I admit it’s not great data, but I think it’s a step better than drawing conclusions from a single event.
This article was both exactly in line with the point I was making and excellent.

Thanks for sharing!
Mochizuki is unenthusiastic.

[1] Section 1.12 of https://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~motizuki/Essential%20Logic....
And there are 2.7 million software engineers in the US.
Crypto Crime: Caroline Ellison Alameda Research All Hands
Which I've always considered a weird anachronism, because 'space' isn't represented any differently than any other character, U+0020, unless you really want to get into the variety of "whitespace" elements. Same with newlines. It's all bytes.
None of which would be possible without mothers giving birth.
Metro's take on this problem is to add more police to the equation, but that's a sisyphean task. As long as there is no way to ban people from the system for bad behavior, having a few random cops walking around isn't going to change things. There's also a problem of people who behave badly but not in a bannable way, e.g. behaving creepily toward women but not fully crossing a line.

My wife tried using the bus system for her first six months working in downtown LA, but ultimately gave up because she was getting harassed regularly. I stopped using the metro after a rider on my train walked up and down the train threatening to stab everyone and nothing was done about it.

You would need a uniformed officer on every single bus and train in the city to begin to chip away at this problem. I suppose it's a budget issue in a way, but it's more of a culture issue.
NYC interestingly does have a lot of fiber. It was supposed to be citywide, but then there was an argument with Verizon over it and the suit was settled in 2020. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/11/verizon-wiring-u...
You probably can’t put your finger on why because it’s not.

They are earning royalties for the amount of times people listen to their audio. And use the royalties to pay for trees.

If anyone is stealing anything, it’s Spotify. Most artist are paid pennies for their music even when a lot of people listen to it. Spotify is great for consumers, but not so great for most musicians.
Origin is maintained by the original µBlock author.
Exactly, and I think we as humans also read it differently. To me "3 years ago" reads "sometime in 2020, who knows?" but it might be "October 2020" to someone else. It's so imprecise as to be rather useless.
I usually follow the approach of first writing my feature in the most dead simple way. Only after I finish it I do a pass where if needed. Only if needed I refactor it based on convention and architecture patterns.

Ive found this a good way to first understand my solution before I optimize the code. I create less confusing abstractions and more code that’s easy to change. If i try to architect it first I end up always getting the abstractions wrong.
They are master practitioners of Calorie Restriction, a diet whose central, radical premise is that the less you eat, the longer you’ll live.

It would seem like it is intentional, going by the article. They are trying to lose weight to maximize lifespan.
>The crayon eating has gotten out of hand

Beautifully put.
The entirety of HDCP exists to prevent this. That has literally been the driving factor in Secure Enclave adoption since day 1 too (along with bitlocker, but, video DRM has always been the other big one).

There will always be vulnerabilities and improper implementations and workarounds, but, the entire point of secure enclave is for someone at netflix or your employer's HQ to be comfortable knowing they have a toehold in your machine that can't be broken via Remote Attestation, and that there is no way for you to get the keys out of it when it's acting as a HSM.

You can always disable it/etc, or use another browser (like firefox) that doesn't provide a secure enclave. But then, google won't serve you video, just like netflix reduces the stream quality for people who don't have the hardware DRM set up right.

Since 95% of the world is already using chrome anyway (other than ios), this is a pretty low-risk move.
> highly motivated employee

Is there any evidence that writing a cover letter means they will be a motivated employee? What motivates me is the problem that I am solving on the job. I am extremely motivated to solve that specific task. If you ask me to write a cover letter about myself, I have zero motivation to do that because the evaluation criteria are unclear and half the companies don’t read them to begin with.

When I’m evaluating candidates, the only useful thing about a cover letter is as a disqualifying factor. If I see they’re bad at writing, I’ll likely reject their resume as well. Being well-spoken isn’t a positive, though.
> keeping my stock artificially high with buy backs

How do buy backs artificially raise the price of a stock? A stock among ten is worth more than one among a million, ceteris paribus.

> a VC-backed money pit

Netflix went public in 2002 at $15 per share [1]. After adjusting for stock splits, it's now just shy of $5,000 on the back of billions of dollars of annual profits. Not VC backed. And not a money pit.

[1] https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/if-you-invested-%2410000-in-...
Would you still be upset if I told you it has a hobbit setting where you get times like "second breakfast" and "elevenses". I'm sure you're a cool person and I don't want to denigrate your lifestyle, but the thing I'm talking about is a humorous desktop widget on an eopen-source desktop. You are certainly not obliged to use it, I'm fact you could even send in a patch that represents you - and have "only meal of the day time - ish" or "time to not attend a religious service".
> Regardless of Mozilla being an "opensource friendly" company, this is perverted.

Mozilla's messaging over the past few years has always been perverted, all talk and no action.

They "care about your privacy", yet their tracking protection was for a long time whitelisting known malicious domains from trackers. Their telemetry implementation in the browser to this day does not comply with the GDPR as it's opt-out rather than opt-in.

The browser, despite being free, open-source and supposedly on your side (a purported user-agent), uses many user-hostile tactics typical of malicious closed-source software such as frequent nagging, bad/annoying defaults, etc.
The risk of AGI with as much as 60 points of IQ, is the emergence of private robot armies and neofeudalism.
They are A/B testing various anti-adblock strategies. You might be in the control group
His 'threat' is a desire for empathy and a call to action for intervention.

He can see the breakdown coming, it's self awareness and a fair warning of his feelings (to himself and others).

That's how it used to be.
I am confused by this. The guy who runs Cryptome (which is arguably a thorn in the side of the US intelligence services and US government) is telling the US government that if they don't charge him with a crime (which if convicted could probably lead to the website being shutdown.), he's going to shut down that website that exposes US intelligence secrets.

Um. I just don't know what to say about this. I'm so confused by this logic. I'm sure the people in the US Intelligence services are going to be crying themselves to sleep because Cryptome closes. I bet they'll be begging US prosecutors to charge him with a crime just to keep Cryptome open. I just don't get the logic behind this. Someone please explain it to me.
I mean I know a lot of the West are big on thought crimes. Hell people in the UK get arrested for being too mean in tweets now a-days. I don't think that's going to happen here though.
> We had the "old" internet and we had ads... a text banner here and there, and then an image or maybe a gif banner on the other side. Noone really cared, sites got ad views, users got content.

The "old" internet was also run by hobbyists without a profit motive, and did not have sites that hosted your videos for free. A few static banner ads might be able to keep the "old" internet afloat, but it certainly would not be able to keep today's internet afloat.
First saw this talk from Michael Levin on HN a few years back and it blew my mind. Ive been following him ever since.

https://youtu.be/RjD1aLm4Thg?si=nL9EtRqdwconRpuW
Have you found a method to exchange your pride for goods and services or have you overcome the widespread addiction to food and shelter that most people seem to still have?
I homelab a huggin instance to scrape my favorite channels for new videos and then send them to a ytdl like program. Then it dumps them in Jellyfin. No ads, and no rabbit holes :)
It makes it harder but there’s no technical reason why they couldn’t assemble the video on the fly and splice in ads seamlessly based on the same selection logic they used now.
Speculating about existential risk is certainly important, but way too easy to overstate. It can easily become distracting and actually dangerous in itself.

Here’s a good take on it: https://www.ai-breakout.com/post/ai-alignment-and-the-messia...

I also think we would all be very wise to remember the story of Henny Penny / “Chicken Little”. https://americanliterature.com/childrens-stories/henny-penny...

Specifically, the danger brought by hysteria. In our case, Alignment is probably much more effective and achievable when the widest possible community of researchers and engineers have access to knowledge, and much more perilous if they don’t because deluded parties thought it should be contained to a much smaller elite “secure” group.
To be fair AMD/ATI had two driver rewrites since then and probably also fired all the devs in the mean time.
I feel like at a 7% stake, all of these are wholly unreasonable complaints. 7% of nothing is nothing, and 7% of Google is massive but relatively speaking unimportant. If you get to become a successful business via YC you will be making more than enough money that 7% shouldn't matter. OP uses the analogy that small companies getting wildly successful is the best for the 1%, and that is true, and that YCs rates are great but still very small, which is also true. Then simultaneously implies that even though YC may be your best bet at getting huge, it is still a bad investment.

If you want to get to the 1% you need to take all the help you can get
Michael can stand up in the morning, let alone jog twenty miles a week. But jog he does, and if the results of both his latest physical and the latest CR research are anything to go by

This is 3 miles/day. not that much. Minnesota starvation experiment subjects had to walk 22 miles/week.
We treat google how they treat us, as exploitive as possible.
You seem to be in a somewhat reactionary state right now, so it might help if the parallels are made a bit more clear.

People getting out of prison:

* Have an employment gap in their work history

* Are overcoming stigma that makes it difficult for them to get most kinds of jobs

* Have to overcome the catch-22 of trying to find a decent place to sleep while also trying to find money to afford such a place

* Don't generally have a ton of connections for entering the non-criminal workforce

* Often don't have property or other assets coming out of prison

While you don't have a criminal record, and therefore may have to overcome different types of stigma, it sounds like you share all of these. It does sound like you have a place to stay at the moment, and some assets (a laptop?), so in some ways you may be even be able to skip a step or two of the advice that might be in that video.
Ok, in that case you don’t need a lengthy cover letter. The only thing it needs to say is “At my current company I did X. You need X to be done. Hire me and I will do it.” However very few job descriptions give the kind of info which would enable that.
I think that’s a useful metric.

About 10% of US households experience food insecurity [0] — and that overlaps very heavily with the poorest US families, who have 32% experience food insecurity.

I’m pretty comfortably saying that if you always had enough food as a family, you were lower middle-class, not poor.

[0] - https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/ag-and-food-statistic...
A good story is Rich Roll’s Finding Ultra. Or a good technical read on nutrition is Julia Ross’s The Mood Cure. But I read about 50 non fiction books cover to cover each year, and learning about your health is a big area, made harder by the reality that for every good book on the topic there are 19 others that are bad. There are lots of bad fads and actors, and they can include pill pushing doctors, sadly. The only real way to figure out how to get healthy is to experiment until you succeed at it. I guess one piece of specific advice I’d give, is if you have long term high cholesterol, and high blood pressure, take your doctor’s advice and take a statin if they recommend it. I think that was a huge boost. Also, when you want online advice on health, add ‘site:.gov’ to your search so that you get good sources and not health blogs.

Ultimately I think you’ve got to come up with a good model of your physiology based on uncontroversial science. So in the case of your training, you’d figure out you are draining yourself of more than sodium chloride but rather the broad spectrum of minerals that you typically sweat out, so your ‘salt intake’ is a multi mineral supplement and not actual salt. Which is what I imagine you figured out.
Downloading the videos is always an option, but I’ve found it’s too much of a hassle when browsing content. It works really well when you’re planning on going offline, though!
not sure why youtube premium asks me `CA$12.99` (canadian dollars?) with mullvad & youtube location set to Ukraine
Yeah the linked post rubbed me the wrong way too. I don't know anyone who grew up poor who didn't know they were poor. Not being able to afford vacations or nice things isn't a sign of being poor

Being poor is dealing with housing instability, untreated mental illness, not calling 911 during likely medical emergencies, not being able to afford gas or bus fare to go to work, and generally catastrophe after catastrophe. People around you are also dealing with various catastrophes: abuse, imprisonment, alcoholism and addiction, and loss after loss after loss.

Being poor is traumatic. Even after you claw your way out of that hole, into a comfortable life funded by a comfortable tech salary, you never feel quite secure. You keep waiting for that next catastrophe to hit, and to be back in another job where you have to ask permission to use the bathroom or plead for time off to attend a funeral.
Just wait ~5 years when they have to show more growth by adding newer tiers of subscription, and making the current one ad-lite.
Because you are demanding and may rise up with pitchforks if the corporate class asks too much.

At the same time, humans are also unreliable as hell , push us much more than 8 hours a day of actual thinking work and our answers start to get crappy.
Rejected New Yorker Cartoons
The (80-bit) floating point in historic Intel processors is deprecated, FYI.

After the exchange of MMX and 3d-NOW, it was AMD that adopted Intel SSE into amd64.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_SIMD_Extensions
Mostly because the browser Javascript API for Date is kind of crap for dealing with timezone info. There are some efforts to standardize on a better API, but it's going to take time to migrate.
Either atom (early 2010s), or quark (late 2010s) I think. My point is that those were actually sold relativity recently. Not common, not that recent, but plausibly still worth creating about today. (Though IMO possibly fine for 2028)
Anecdotal but this is my experience as well. The majority of my friends with compsci bachelors/masters degrees have been gainfully employed for years. Those with 8 week code camps are unfortunately always going to be at a competitive disadvantage, particularly if it's their first job.
The Google seems to be surviving.
Creators get even more money if you instead donate to their Patreon or click the big "Thanks" button under the video to contribute to their channel directly. Best part is you don't have to turn off your adblock!
Chromebooks and Defensive Computing Checklist
I’m not worried about AGI at all, because the rise of generative machine learning has taught me that humanity in general is so bad and/or uninterested in verifying facts that we will likely wipe out our species through the stupidest possible propaganda campaigns before we ever achieve AGI.
just fyi, but this already exists via platforms like invidious, which is like a self-hosted youtube proxy that you interact with, and it dumps files to disk/etc. there are some other similar things already too.

not that you shouldn't use yt-dlp, because it's great!

and yes, as others mention - you can have yt-dlp use sponsorblock to cut out the ad sections too.
But you can turn it off. It’s basically AV for Android.
That’s a fair position, but shouldn’t you simply shorten it to not using YouTube? Your activity helps their ad system and using it tells creators that they get more views by putting things on YouTube.
> A part of me wants to believe this madness would end. Another part fears that we would try, at least for a few months, total surveillance and bisections as a form of capital punishment. But on the bright side, we would be able to correct for bad legislation much faster.

There is a better way: Checks and balances.

Suppose that in order to pass anything of this nature it had to go through more steps: The union legislature had to agree, then a majority of the member state legislatures had to agree, then the general public had to vote in favor of it too. But to repeal it, it only takes one of those.

That doesn't make it impossible for something terrible to happen -- in waves of populism everyone will vote for something terrible because to do otherwise is seen as siding with the "enemy" -- but it helps. Raises the threshold before something dangerous makes it into law.

And it's the easier path to repeal which is the thing we most lack. It should be much easier for bad laws to be removed.
Regardless, these are great. The New Yorker just isn't ready for this yet.