skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what do you think about Sam Altman's policy requiring all users of GPTs to subscribe to ChatGPT Plus, not just the developers of GPTs. This requirement applies regardless of whether the Plus features are utilized in the bots' creation? And now he suspends new Plus accounts so people who promoted their GPTs with no promise of ever seeing money from it, cannot even have their audience use it if they wanted to.
The first thing your LLM clone will do is train a next generation LLM on everything your LLM clone has written and everything your LLM clone believes.
What's your source for this? European countries are quite different from each other, and I'm wondering if your experience was only in restaurants while travelling (which is a very different experience to what most people eat every day at home).
One thing I like about the newer HHKB keyboards is that they're remappable, which somewhat addresses the Windows shortcomings. The remap tool is only officially supported on the more expensive wireless keyboard, but it works on the wired Classic model by editing the "KeyboardDatalist.json" file in the install directory and replacing all instances of "false" with "true". I mapped Fn+HJKL to the arrow keys, Fn+F to PgDn, Fn+B to PgUp, Fn+N to Home, and Fn+M to End.
> by the need to be seen to be doing something against perceived fraud by minorities which led to mass profiling and huge fall-out

It was not only perceived fraud by minorities:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_childcare_benefits_scand...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_childcare_benefits_scand...

Most practitioners can tell you that naive anti-crime initiatives often end up targeting minorities. In many Western countries, minorities are significantly over-represented in crime and jail statistics (compared to the general population). Is that ipso facto racism or racial profiling?
Do you just believe this or was this tested in court yet? I haven't been following the various lawsuits on this issue closely but I had thought that, so far, they were leaning towards fair use.
If you hold down <Alt> (I tend to think of it as Meta due to Emacs-induced brain damage), all of the targets on the ribbon should get associated keyboard characters, so you can quickly drill through the layers of the ribbon. After you’ve seen the shortcut, you can use it again without having to wait for any screen transitions. This used to work back in Office 2013, and I assume it still does…
Provisional Agreement on European Digital Identity (ZKP Friendly)
A provisional agreement on the Regulation amending Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 as regards establishing a framework for a European Digital Identity was reached on 8 November between the European Parliament and the Council.
>StreetLight measures travel behavior based on anonymized data from mobile devices, vehicle GPS systems and more.

Well I'm glad mass surveillance and spying on phone data resulted in something kinda useful. Efficient nagging!
I'm going to disagree with you that the problem, or even the main problem among a wide array of problems, with slave dock workers being given cocaine to improve output is “it requires other people to also take those drugs to be competitive”.
I love Chrome Remote Desktop for this use case. Works from mobile or desktop to Mac or PC. Very reliable.
Yes, it is extremely slow right now! I think they need some spinner on the UI because I thought it was just broken and kept writing more questions which probably increases the load further.
Would avro make more sense in a big data world? As I understand it, avro has all the same capabilities of protobuff but it is much more ubiquotous in the big data world, being natively supported by all the big frameworks (spark, flink)
Well depends on the requirements, does it? I'm not suggesting you try to stick all your processing of all things inside a database, I'm saying put all critical processing of data stored in said database within it. Put all related data in the same database where is makes sense. Whatever data doesn't belong in that database can be merely referenced from it.

> I can now query multiple databases

This is another thing I disagree with. Wherever possible related data should be centralised to improve ACID properties and to create a reliable single "source of truth". I know this is unfashionable. with everyone claiming they need massive scale (which does cause some issues with this design), but much like microservices, it ends up being mostly busy work for programmers and related professions.

Having said that, multiple databases, if largely orthogonal to each other present no real problems, and the same design concept is applied to each.
If you tried to sell a translation of all the dialogue that was explicitly intended to be used with a legally purchased copy of the novel (don't ask me how, it's not my metaphor), I'm not sure you would.
That thread is all over the place, the only two vase-related things I found were:

a) A woman in Russia hand-made a vase that looks similar to the Egyptian ones.

b) Some guy said the vases are forged, and made in modern times, because their provenance is not proven.

Neither of these strike me as particular interesting statements, and the rest of that thread is about completely unrelated topics. I closed it at the "Dudes Think They Can Prove Atlantis by Measuring a Vase" link, because that's exactly the kind of condescending crap I'm talking about.
> it's clear we're talking about "internal life", meaning experience, feelings, thoughts, etc.

So do you have any evidence of that existing, then? Because so far, it sounds like speculation.

LLMs do not feel or think or experience anything, in the same way that particle physics is not inherently sentient. LLM architectures are not designed to resemble life, or even understand human language for the most part. It's understandable that someone would look at written text and say "it's a sign of life!", but Markov Chains and LISP bots were no closer to achieving "internal life" or what have you.

Next, you'll play the "but how are us humans alive?" card. Humans not only qualify as animate life, but our brains are not artificial purpose-built tools. We are an imperfect computer, loaded with irreconcilable differences and improper conduct. We feel biological needs and immediate responses to stimuli. Our preconception of 'love' and 'hate' is not built on the words they're associated with, but the emotions they make us feel. Our lived experience is not limited to a preserved context, but rather our whole lives stretching across years of existence. Our thoughts are not dictated by what we write and say, and the way we present ourselves is not limited by the way we are finetuned.

Human life is self-evident and precious. AI life is seemingly non-existent, and based on dubious non-technical claims.
Inoffensive. One of the explicit Golang design criteria, as espoused by Rob Pike, was to be usable by "Googlers, fresh out of school, who probably learned some Java/C/C++/Python". The language would presumably look very different if it had been designed for more powerful users.
The average farmer works less hours than the average office worker. This isn't even due to modern automation, it seems they have generally always worked <40 hours even during harvests.
People began to work longer hours during industrialization and even then I can't find any time when working 12 hours a day was the norm.
There are something like half a million Israeli settlers. They aren’t exactly a small number compared to the 3 million Palestinians in the West Bank.
Did you reply to me? I'm the OP of this comment tread so it's not me who is missing the point at all. In the context of my original post, AI in music will be a barrier to entry for _creation_. It is not relevant how Spotify use AI in music.
"Luck favours the prepared" is a saying that's stuck with me
Regent's Ground Effect Vehicle first flight video
> NP-complete just means that it’s very difficult to verify that any solution is the best possible solution.

It means that it's hard to find the best solution, but easy to verify.
Author of the linked thread here. Interesting remark. Measurement is always underdiscussed, including in my research. Any idea about how RTB data (or data similar to it) could flow to a spytech firm via MMPs?
More like - let's give ourselves better tools. The people who hire us won't be able to build this stuff themselves no matter how good an AI you give them. The only developers who will lose their job are ones who fail to embrace AI.
I ran a handful of trackers from 2006 to 2013. They were money machines like you've never seen. I ran a British TV tracker. Everyone in the industry used the site. Sometimes we would get pre-release stuff. I remember Charlie Brooker emailing me one time asking us to take down an item until it had been broadcast and then he was fine with it being up there. CB is a hero of mine, so there was no question of complying.

https://torrentfreak.com/major-tv-torrent-site-thebox-bz-cal...
This runs the danger of mistaking a map for a mental model. Which, for some of us, I bet that is the case. For others? I don't know.

Note that this is emphatically not saying to abandon maps. I'm pushing more for having things in addition. And if you really want to build a shared mental model, you almost certainly have to share an experience. You can use narratives to help build a shared experience, but often you have to practice/rehearse anything that you want to have a truly shared model of.
ChatGPT is so slow no one uses it anymore. -Yogi Berra
I also used VB6 back in the day. It was great.

Sadly I, like all programmers, have been peer pressured or something into avoiding tools like that. But I know they exist. I also made one several years ago. (No one was interested).

But I think if you search for "RAD" or "Rapid Application Development" or graphical component based development may get quite a lot.

I think that there are several plugins for WordPress that have similar functionality, although less code integration.

Maybe search for "drag and drop React editor".
It’s funny how language makes all the difference in telling stories like yours:

A vendor published a marketing flyer suggesting ways their new expensive technology could improve services typical of a potential customer.

The customer considered the marketing pitch in the flyer and found the ROI unconvincing in most cases, especially given that the technology remains largely unproven and would leave them at high risk of failure or cost surprises as an early adopter.

Nonetheless, they did see at least one place where the implementation was more mature and might pay for itself (and perhaps even contributing revenue) while fulfilling an ongoing service mandate.

— —

Sounds like a dutiful government to me! Rather than being sucked into a flashy sales pitch by a vendor pitching an unproven and expensive product, they’ve stood firm and decided to mostly wait for others to absorb the early adopter risks, carefully stewarding public money.

That governments can sometimes do very stupid and irresponsible things doesn’t mean that they’re doing so every time.
That's cool! I get stressed just looking at it ; )

Jokes aside, whatever works...

For me a side device with a pulsating red light with a heart sync for the lope do the gig!

Deadlines comes free.

Nice one!
You still see this using just about any major native UI toolkit. They may not be RAD-fast, but all kinds of elements and interactions that require custom and usually-janky JavaScript to implement on the Web are available “for free”. And actually work correctly, interact with the rest of the toolkit the way you’d expect, and i18n and a11y and all that work correctly and consistently.

There’s no reason HTML can’t do a lot more than it does out-of-the-box, saving crazy numbers of developer-hours and piles of user frustration every year. It just doesn’t.
The relative newcomer is becoming less and less relevant as years passed. The Falcon 9 reusability and cadence was years in the making. Same for their raptor engine and Starship.

What's happening is that other companies are slow to wake up and adapt.
I use self-hosted Apache Guacamole (RDP) through a reverse proxy with Google SSO (oauth2-proxy[0]). So easy to access my desktop from virtually any browser (mobile isn't the best though). This would be a good solution for gaming, but for other activities RDP is unbeatable imo.

[0] https://github.com/oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy
Grease traps are required in all commercial kitchens here in Michigan. AFAIK they're more intended to protect the sewer system rather than for day-to-day grease disposal.
I tried to see what it take to build one.
My first issue is that there is very little information about how the tech work.
This article inkjet tech isn't the same one than the powder + inkjet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powder_bed_and_inkjet_head_3D_...

> the resolution is hard to beat

Are you sure it's on the same level than the regular hobbyist resin printers ? Thoses have 35 µm to 50 µm resolution.
Ok. This is very cool.
SPARC is big-endian, and is likely the greatest correction to coders who maintain "all the world's a VAX!" Much gdb has been spilt on these shores.

Both the VAX and x86(-64) are little-endian. The Itanium could run either, but was little-endian by default (HP-UX would toggle to big-endian).
Docker on Mac creates Linux VMs though and this creates really slow file system abstractions for bigger folders.
Blender 4.0 Released
Just like humans, emotional manipulation is a strong tool
I have been using Addic7ed [0] in cases where I need subtitles. Any new shows/series get their subtitles uploaded extremely fast, and as I understand translations also happen there (when already not available from a streaming service).

On the other hand I was using VLSub, a VLC addon, which downloads subtitles automagically. But now I see it used opensubtitles :(

[0] https://www.addic7ed.com/

[1] https://addons.videolan.org/p/1154045/
Silently huge issue: Boomers cannot walk. I know many that cannot walk a single block. It's why they want parking right up to the door, won't take transit, etc - but it's never the given reason.

It's a huge reason American cities are so car centric, too.
Change the person for the social environment, or change the social environment for the person. Very odd that in the US "land of the free" we chose to former.

> Numbers in America show that at least 9% of the children that are school-age are diagnosed with the disorder

That percentage seriously makes me think that we might be overdiagnosing based on personality type instead of just diagnosing based on underlying disorders. Either that or US schools are very different than French schools.
How is Hammas attacking Israel an internal issue? It's a foreign actor invading a country (literally taking down the border) and attacking Israel.

Even if it was the case though, the UN has condemned Israel multiple times, why the difference? Shouldn't they avoid condemning Israel too as it's an internal dispute?
Question to adtech folks, from the author of the linked thread.

Nuviad, the DSP that appears to be linked to the surveillance/spytech system Patternz, claims to analyze '700k ad opportunities every second' (https://twitter.com/WolfieChristl/status/1724805640974168341).

How could they do so? I mean, this company is far from a tier-1 DSP. Could they pretend to be a bidder and listen to such a high volume of bid requests without actually bidding/winning most of them? Is the number just exaggerated? Are there other ways of how they could get access to such a high volume of bid requests? In 2018, Nuviad acquired a viewability vendor (realvu.com). Could this perhaps be a major source?
Makes sense since the entire point of school is to give you enough executive function to perform well in society. Learning can happen too, but school is obviously not optimized for that.
I'd be interested to see a motorcycle or bicycle go up this hill. It seems like a lot of problems are because these trucks are all so wide, they can't follow the easy line.
Seriously, it's not possible to come up with a worse name other than the obvious Windows You Love Eating Turds etc...

How did this happen??!
In other news, more than 70% of Americans are overweight or obese according to scales where the fat end of "normal" is already objectively overweight.
"open" as a term has been abused for decades. anyone remember X/Open?
Them being unable to scale compute to meet demand would be a reason to pause signups.
How to Scan Any Website for Schema.org Structured Data Objects
This blog article is a tutorial on how you can scan any website for schema.org structured data objects using the open-source crwlr/crawler PHP composer package.
FWIW, both of those examples are the kind of thing I think we'd all agree don't need to be labeled. No one is going to be fooled by those two videos. The worry is about misleading videos, and having a mechanism to tag them as such that doesn't require content providers to get into the business of deciding on what is true.

Basically: "This video is synthetic and does not depict real babies being tortured in Gaza" is the use case in question.
Selling your OpenAI account? Bold when they can blacklist accounts.
Fake meat has a higher chance IMO because appear to be starting to approach regular meat levels. I fairly frequently see beyond/impossible meat on sale for $3-4/lb which is roughly the price of 85% ground beef around me.

It would be great if fake meat would be able to drop demand for real meat, leading to less need for factory farming. But if that happens, it's very far in the future.
> "Try using a server in your office to save on cloud bills"

and then company stops working when that server dies.
Just to be clear, that statement negates the idea of luck.
I worked at a company with an extremely complex optimization application with more business rules than any human being could ever comprehend. The logic has to go somewhere. Either the database or the interface or the application itself I guess. There are pro/cons to all. Some of the logic is hard to follow in SQL compared to a general purpose language. The vendor for us of course did some kind of blend where a lot of SQL packages do certain validations and so on. The optimization problem reads a bunch of .csv files from the database and then has its own rules it uses to build the math problem for the mathematical solver.
So, on average people didn’t even walk more during the pandemic? Weird!

I wonder how the distribution changed. People who walked everywhere beforehand would, I guess, have had fewer places to walk to. People who typically drove everywhere might have had nothing to do but take a walk.

But, on the face of it, seems like just bad news, we’re already pretty sedentary, and getting worse.
30 deluge events, since each launch would likely require 1 or 2 static fires, thats more like 10-15 launches per year, which is already higher than the FAA allowed 5 launches per year they are currently authorized for
What my old team did (at a major Fortune 100 no less) was a bit unconventional.

They embedded a technical developer into a business team, and had that individual write the "kludgy" business apps that needed quick automation for throwaway tasks or for data processing standup. The dev has access to more than VBA, specifically, Python, GitHub, the ability to spin up what amounts to VPS's in the cloud with access to all of the database infra. All tools are shared with the rest of the company through a tech sharing program that is being heavily promoted across teams, and of course hosted in a repo, often with docs or a website if possible.

This "fills the gap" of dev latency for small dev tasks that don't necessitate pulling in an entire IT team. I don't really understand why this isn't more popular. The business team this individual was hired onto was over-the-moon when this occurred because they were doing absurd things like copy-pasting and hand-modifying JSON payloads many times a day and simply lacked the skillset to fix the problem, due to the issues you described. These issues were immediately resolved in under a month for hundreds of man-hours saved.

Just give business teams a tech resource that's well-trained and understands proper dev for on-demand work that doesn't justify the agile scrum whatever nonsense, and you won't end up with a forest of Excel macros.
Which in turn only works for simple stuff that GPT-4 can implement from a single screenshot, and is, as OP pointed out, non-deterministic. The code OP is referring to would have been written to integrate with the rest of the project, to connect to data stores and services that the screenshot has no way of knowing about. People built huge applications in VB and similar tools.

Don't get me wrong, these new tools are cool, and I imagine they'll be great for prototyping small things quickly!
I’d be inclined to believe much of what goes on in the halls of Congress are more of a theatrical performance.
I have kind of the same opinion. Maybe more provocative. When people show me figma to HTML with AI I tell them “have you ever heard of Dreamweaver?”

Ok, dreamweaver code was ugly and unusable when AI generated code is not too bad (sometimes). But still, I also feel we kinda were already close to where we’re at today.
Anyone know if this be more responsive than an RDP-over-VPN solution?

When I connect to a computer on another continent, RDP kinda sucks. Teamviewer is more responsive, but it's not great either.
This comment will be taught in business schools one day.
why would i want my openai key in a frontend project for everyone to steal it?
There's various theories about how specific aspects could have been made, for example, there are several ideas about how to hand-polish granite surfaces to the required degree.

I haven't seen one that explains all aspects of this at once and it's intellectually lazy to say "(most of) these questions are solved in isolation, so it's not a valid question anymore", with things like the consistent wall thickness being especially difficult (and for which it would be very interesting, for example, to measure whether the miniscule imperfections mirror each other on the inside/outside, to make some deductions about the manufacturing process).

UnchartedX, as far as I know, is one guy who happens to be enthusiastic about a bunch of these things. Regardless of how crazy some of his theories might be, he's sure as heck doing a lot more objectively useful work to find out things about them than insulting people on an online forum.
articles like this are propaganda pieces for capitalism. I’m not using propaganda in a negative term, just that’s what it is. Success in business is mostly about luck. Luck of birth, luck of timing, luck of education….
Two key parts to your hypo:

1. Google and party website: this can already be done and it is easily detected if a person is interested in a topic since other sources will broadcast the party position on a topic.

2. Party-centricity: depending on your locale, people vote for a person not a party. Party affiliation is often a proxy for how an elected person would behave but there are typically differences between party and people. Those differences are critical for voters who do not identify with a party.

In the original hypothetical, candidates who differed from their party were better able to articulate that difference without broadcasting messages that alienated party stalwarts. I see this as a plus for democracy since people elect politicians whose behavior is more in line with voters’ interests.

On the other hand, I can see from your hypothetical that segmenting messaging campaigns allows liars to hide lying a bit better, which is a clear negative.
You got direct and indirect support.

Direct support would be people like hinkle.

Indirect would be people like chomsky, illhan Omar, news outlets like democracy now! and jacobin.[1]

https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/07/04/us-politics-ukraine-rus...
Tesla removes a lot of potential points of failure - no credit card machine or touchscreen to break and the cord is too short to drive over it with your car.
Particularly if it summarized the key points of arguments on both sides of any debates.