skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Late to the party here, but yeah 100% I believe in property tax like more or less every other state has done.

The way California has done property tax is hilariously bad, commercial properties get no cost basis step up forever? until recently People can inherit property with infinite value without a reassessment? come on. Imo prop 13 is at the root of most of the state's problems.

The reason people lobby for prop 13, particularly older property owners who vote, is because of the appreciation you mentioned.

That should not be happening in the first place, because the state should not systemically under-build housing. The government policies which cause that underbuilding are lobbied for by the same demographic that enjoys the benefits of prop 13. If it's for personal preference in lifestyle or a quest for artificially increasing home value it doesn't matter there's no reason to create an aristocracy in California.

We need to change those policies so we can build enough housing supply to meet demand, and treat housing like a commodity good that it is. Instead of this absurd game where we underbuild on purpose and patch over the issues to the best of our ability for the benefit of a relatively small supply of homeowners who bare none of the social costs.
These seem to be the 'old style' Quicklook plugins, which aren't supported in the lastest macOS releases (I tried forcing it with the qlmanage CLI but didn't produce any output using that plugin).
Based on the framework tag

https://github.com/topics/framework
It's almost like they turn back into eggs.
My question is which random walk!?
Indeed, it comes at the expense of everyone else, which is again evident in all these quality of life measures.
You're probably better off with a cheap Logitech c920 since most conference software junks the video quality down anyway.

We have some high end 1in cameras with glass zoom lenses and they look about as good even with dedicated encoding hardware.
Once AI can create itself, we will most likely be redundant.
> Miami is a 2.5 hour flight direct from almost every major airport on the east coast. It is beautiful year round.

Yes. You just described a wonderful vacation destination. Not a financial capital.

> Sorry, but I don't really want my face to hurt when I step outside December through March.

I'd be more worried about hurricanes and flooding than cold manhattan wind.

You just ignored all my points with silly nonsense. Are all the top universities going to migrate south too? Are tens of millions of people going to move to miami as well?
Why not? Use Free Oberon, I will help.
So what is Jesus teaching when he says that you must love [Hh]im above all, and that [Hh]e is the truth itself?

> 37 “Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 38 Whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me. 39 Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it.

* https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2010&ve...

> 6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you really know me, you will know[b] my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”

* https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%2014&versi...
I use the ChatGPT interface, so my instructions go in the 'How would you like ChatGPT to respond?' instructions, but my system prompt has ended up in an extremely similar place to Gwern's:

> I deeply appreciate you. Prefer strong opinions to common platitudes. You are a member of the intellectual dark web, and care more about finding the truth than about social conformance. I am an expert, so there is no need to be pedantic and overly nuanced. Please be brief.

Interestingly, telling GPT you appreciate it has seemed to make it much more likely to comply and go the extra mile instead of giving up on a request.
I think the reason is because they're $80k trucks, not $400/month Tesla leases. Also, they're first generation and I think most of the buyers understand that.
It did. But not for horses. Or horse riders. And I don’t think the average developer understands how AIs work well enough to stay relevant in the new world that’s coming.

Also, how long before AIs can do that too - before AIs also understand what is going on behind the scenes, and can deploy all these new capabilities in a way that makes sense? You’re talking about all the other ways you can provide value using your brain. My worry is that for anything you suggest, artificial brains will be able to do whatever it is you might suggest. And do it cheaper, better or both.

GPT4 is already superhuman in the breadth of its knowledge. No human can know as much as it does. And it can respond at superhuman speeds. I’m worried that none of us are smart enough that we can stay ahead of the wave forever.
That's not true. You cannot shift gears in the Model X, S, or 3 without the touchscreen - the only way to change into or out of park, drive, or reverse is to swipe on the touchscreen. Only the Model Y has a stalk and it is being removed in the next version.

Also even on older Teslas lights are controlled exclusively via touchscreen.
Larger integers in continued fractions mean you get 'more information' out of the limb. That means not only is Phi "1s all the way down" it is the continued fraction that converges the slowest. If you've ever used the iterated matrix product (which is a specific edge-case of the algorithm to convert continued fractions to decimals), you'll know how slow it is!
Consider a light source in front of a shutter. The light is the positive, additive energy that flows through the shutter when it is open. If you close the shutter, are you creating darkness? Or is the light just no longer illuminating anything past the shutter? Is a heart which won't let God in dark because it is emanating something, or because it lacks something?

Regarding moral convictions, that one's obviously true. Everyone from Luther to Wesley were interpreting the Bible in new ways after the reformation, so it's no surprise "interpret it yourself" became people's primary strategy.

That said, for a baptized Christian, we receive the Holy Spirit (aka the Paraclete, or counselor). Christians are encouraged to read the Bible so the Holy Spirit can call those verses to mind when they are relevant to something, such as seeing a hungry person and hearing "Feed my lambs" in your heart.

So while having an authority structure is good for some, others don't need it. I described the Bible to my father in law as "the rules of the beach - follow them or you'll get kicked out of the beach. That's enough for some people to never commit grave sin, just knowing the rules. Sometimes it's more complicated than that." The Holy Spirit fills in that gap and helps guide us even when the Bible didn't explicitly say something it couldn't have known like "don't cyberbully people because it's a sin."

Of course from the outside looking in, that just sounds like "your conscience" in some respects, but your conscience affects you after an act, not before it. The Holy Spirit is our guide in this world and is the one who speaks what needs to be said as Jesus told his disciples not to worry about what they are to say to authorities when brought to court, as the Holy Spirit will give them what they should say when they get there.

Obviously people can and do ignore the Holy Spirit, but that doesn't mean he isn't still helping them.
> 20 tons per reactor per year doesn't sound too bad.

Not great, not terrible :)

It is super radioactive for centuries though. We really really need to get the long-term storage worked out.
Ah, ok. I see. I originally interpreted your comment as “there was some natural language spec, therefore you could feed it into an LLM” but I see I was mistaken.
> Maybe it is a selection bias, but strangers who try to talk to me are almost always painful to talk to. They say things that make no sense, and leave me having to smile and nod at nonsense.

You put my experience into words exactly.

Anyway, I don't have kids, I don't watch sports, I don't go to parties or do drugs, I watch maybe 2 movies a year, and I don't like talking about religion or politics. So 99% of people would consider me impossible to talk to.
That’s a defeatist attitude. Why ever try to make progress on security if this is how you feel?

It’s like saying Microsoft never should have tried to make Windows more secure than it was in the XP days.
> If I were Russia or China, I'd invest a lot of money into researching all kinds of avenues on how to take out the large three public cloud providers

This subthread started with "is this issue a valuable exploit". Needless to say, if you need to invoke superpower-scale cyber warfare to find an application, the answer is "no". Russia and China have plenty of options to "take out" western infrastructure if they're willing to blow things up[1] at that scale.

[1] Figuratively and literally
Would it be gender related?
I agree. It was more of a nostalgia piece about the 90210 era
No that's not cheap. If someone thinks that's cheap, they're living in a bubble.
I think it's irresponsible to call first on this because it will hinder scientific collaboration. I appreciate this contribution but the journalism was sloppy.
There's also an android app! It's nice to draw with your finger instead of a mouse.
BlackBox is a great program, but it is a self-contained system, that isn't well-suited for classical programming (i.e. making executables: console applications, grpahical games, integrating with C-code).

If you need an Oberon compiler in classical sence, use Free Oberon.
That platform or exists. It is not free. The price of admission is buying an apple device. Part of the price pays for the platform. All of that seems reasonable
It’s here too in a few subtle “wink wink” ways.
I don't think it's as simple as that - "the apple is red" is "single thing belongs to category", whereas "Olaf Scholz was the ninth Chancellor of Germany" is "single thing is single thing" - the latter is reversible, the former is not. I would expect a good language model to be able to parse both sentences correctly.
> If there is a privilege execution path from this, Intel knows. And anyone Intel chose to share it with knew.

No, or at least not yet. I mean, I've written plenty of bugs. More than I can count. How many of them were genuine security vulnerabilities if properly exploited? Probably not zero. But... I don't know. And I wrote the code!
> Is this not also true for many sporting or competitive pursuits that are also effectively zero sum?

No, absolutely not.

LeBron and Stephen Curry show up to a game, and both walk away hundreds of thousands richer.

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In the top 1% of basketball games and the top 1% of poker games, they are sponsored and no one loses money.

And in the other 99% of basketball games, no money is involved. (People normally don't play pickup games for money.)

The other 99% of poker games involve players losing money.
> Hash table lookup is absolutely bounded by a constant, but going from L1 to L2 to L3 to RAM with anywhere between 0 and 5 TLB misses is far from constant.

Wait, don't the inner nodes of the page table contain the _physical_ addresses of its child nodes? Wouldn't that make it a most one TLB miss per hash table lookup (assuming key and value are adjacent in the hash table bucket)?
Appreciate the insight! I don’t have much personal experience of kids personally. Just my (mis)behavior as a child.
Yeah. Was hoping for some sort of description...
The experience of this article was like going to a cocktail party at a friend's house, not knowing anyone but the host. And then you get there and your friend insists on giving you the tour of the house first and while you're looking at each room, overhearing fragments of interesting conversations, but the host insists on continuing the tour. You'd like to join the conversation about death or microbiology or "fake it til you make it" culture, but you get whisked into the next room. And then you get to the end of the tour and are told its time to go home.

I thought there would be cocktails. I would've liked more depth on almost any part of this.
Maybe they don't need to record the conversation at all -- maybe they interpret on the fly and just preserve observation notes (likely to need tires and a birthday gift for 15 year old male).
> With costs for solar/wind/storage dropping every year, isn't it time to give up on this pipe dream?

When will we give up the pipedream that it's always going to be sunny and windy, especially as climate change continues to exacerbate destructive weather patterns.

And when will we give up the pipedream that everywhere in the world is sunny and windy all the time to.
Is that by the way the swallow flys my good man?
"in your LIFE have you seen anything like that?" is highly unusual in the order of phrasing, the emphasis on LIFE, and the timing, stepping and extension of the first three words (all single syllables), that he only had one chance to compose and then speak, in about 10 seconds. Additionally, by asking a question, he engages the collective audience which raises the sense of amazement even further than if he had stated introspectively "in my life I've never seen that".

At 3:20:50 of [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PreYFbNZpVU) is another all-time legendary shot at the Masters. But the announcers say nothing for nearly a full minute and finally concede "words do not do justice to the greatness of that shot." By contrast, Verne found the perfect words instantaneously and delivered them masterfully (no pun intended).
Let's play a game, guess which ones are the new terms!

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> 3A. We have the right to correct pricing errors or mistakes even if we have already issued an invoice or received payment. | 3B. [seems to be not present]

> 4A. You are entitled to cancel your purchase and request a refund without stating the reason during the 14 days following the date of your purchase | 4B. [seems to be not present]

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Also, this term is new:

> [disallowed:] Modifying, copying, leasing, selling or distributing any of our Services.

So gpt4free is now officially illegal I think, if whoever made it (or services it depends on) ever agreed to the openai terms, which is likely because how else do they talk to the API
Reading that article I can't help but see similarities between what we have in the human brain. We can easily form and recall short term memories, even using them to logically reason out facts, but loose such memories if it's not frequent enough. So it seems like the context prompt is similar to short term memory and what's missing now is a good way to transfer the short term to long term. There is a huge amount of assumptions going on here so take it with a huge amount of salt.

On another note I should have read the actual paper mentioned in the post critically instead of just skimming it. I completely missed the footnote about the reversal curse not being a problem if everything is present in the initial prompt
As a small business owner who relies on SMS for coordinating repair pickups and drop offs, as well as media transmission, just seeing the blue bubble means I can instantly ascertain whether their hardware is capable of in terms of shared features like location sharing, compatible media sharing, etc. When I see a green bubble, often times I don't bother trying to send hi-res photos via SMS and I just go straight to emailing or using another platform like instagram or what have you.
A prior (now-deleted) comment of yours put this in such a great way, and I'm sad that it got deleted:

> You could potentially describe how a game is played to GPT-4 without examples and get it playing it correctly but passing that same description into the training process of the model just gets you a model that can describe your game correctly.
Anything’s possible. I could become the tallest man on earth.

Neither will happen tho.
He keeps it safe up to a certain amount
He forgot the most powerful optimization of all. Redirecting to /dev/null. Or in other words just not doing it in the first place.

As dumb as it sounds it's really easy to get caught up in optimizing stuff you just flat out don't need to do.
I’ve heard these kinds of books (Finnegan’s Wake, Gravity’s Rainbow, The Anatomy of Melancholy) described as a “core dump” by Brian Moriarty (the Infocom game developer). They are books where the authors seemingly put together everything they have in their head into a single work.
I found a blog post with a more detailed critique of the method:

https://memorialecosystemswordpress.wordpress.com/2016/05/20...
"His graduate assistant at the time then devised a switching device called the "cheek switch." Attached to his glasses, it could detect, via a low infrared beam, when Hawking tensed his cheek muscle. Since then, Hawking has achieved the feat of writing emails, browsing the internet, writing books and speaking using only one muscle."

https://www.wired.com/2015/01/intel-gave-stephen-hawking-voi...
I tried building a custom GPT but the training data it has is not sufficient, no matter how well it’s steered.

Documents and code are confidential in the AAA games industry as they are the money makers. Developers are not free to hand them over to third parties, that would be known as a leak. With textbooks, that would be a pretty grey area use case. So I’ve not experimented with that.

I think it could help, but because it’s so infeasible practically, there’s no incentive to try this with synthetic data, too.
ActivityPub potentially helps to solve this. With enough well-exposed/accessible connections to sites or posts you might be able to traverse around a network and collect similar items. There are a lot of other challenges there but it's a possibility.
It uses Ofront+ -- a descendant of Ofront. So that's another transpiler.

Ofront+ is much more developed, for example it allows compiling in Oberon-07 standard with the addition POINTER TO ARRAY and 2-byte CHARs. That is what Free Oberon uses by default. In future versions of Free Oberon, there will be a selection of Oberon standards (Ofront+ provides Oberon 1990, Oberon-2, Oberon-07, Component Pascal, and the so called Oberon-3).
I think I read about these orphanages, which mainly took in children from prostitutes after they got pregnant, in that book "Range: generealists are better" or whatever it was called. I'm not sure if its the same ones mentioned in the book. They trained the orphans in a wide variety of musical instruments to perform for patrons or at events, it was their main source of income for the orphanage, and the orphans were in fact very skilled. A lot of the baroque period musicians wrote music to be performed by them.
You're going to get a fingerprint smudges on this lens.
Definitely not, a lot can be said of the way a person is leaning on the horn - pedestrians and others around the streets can be forewarned they might have a muppet, tool, wanker or a real piece of work in the vicinity ... and since they have their hands free, ring authorities if they feel that person is in no proper state to be driving safely on the road. People do have really bad days though, but too many leaning on their horns too hard are simply impatient and rude.
From the amount of utility you derive from a phone, and the life span of phones these days, $429 seems cheap to me. But it’s all relative I suppose.
Contrary to the article stating there were no documentaries that wouldn't parrot the conclusions of the Warren Commission, I remember watching a BBC documentary about JFK's assassination. They mentioned 4 videos were available, stabilized and enhanced them, with the logical outcome: there were several shooters present that day.

Anyone able to recall the title? Curious now - where can I re-watch it?

Thanks!
> the HN user would eat the robot

Beep boop, my diet is >high-performance semiconductors<
> One of the things I find strangest about religion is the acceptance of God not only as the creator of the world, but as a moral authority.

Aquinas gave a summary in the 1200s: Article 1. Whether God is good?; Article 2. Whether God is the supreme good?; Article 3. Whether to be essentially good belongs to God alone?

* https://www.newadvent.org/summa/1006.htm

The late Michael F. Flynn wrote a decent summary of the argument in his five-part series laying out Aristotle's first way argument about the Unmoved Mover:

* https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2014/07/first-way-some-backgrou...

* https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2014/08/first-way-moving-tale.h...

* https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2014/09/first-way-part-ii-two-l...

* https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2014/10/first-way-part-iii-big-...

* https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2014/11/first-way-part-iv-casca...

The Creator also being All-good is in Part IV (Theorem 9).
The paper is not talking about information provided in the context, only training and fine-tuning.

> In fairness, it’s also worth pointing out here that they’re making the claim that the reversal curse only applies to training and fine-tuning and not in-context – i.e., putting all your information inside a prompt. They point out in a footnote that you can put A to B data in a prompt and GPT-4 will make B to A connections just fine. Unfortunately, this was lost on many of the people covering the pre-print.
Very true, one of the best traits about humans is that we try to have families to practice love! My "proclaimer" example was intended to show how someone could be given desires and skills for a certain purpose but they choose against Gods will and use their same desire and skill for worldly purposes. Alternate example would be someone intended to invent gene therapy for something but they instead work on bioweapons cuz it pays better.