skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like a great starting point for an idea, but it also seems like they (/Mr Altman) just leapt with it too early in an effort to gain some FMA or keep the hype going…? Even the name ‘GPT Store’ sounds a bit too much like something ChatGPT itself would come up with. It sounds like a parody of a product announcement!
You have to get creative sometimes, but you can almost always get it to slip up and provide the prompt
That's a great point. Not having comments at all sidesteps the conflicts of interest, or appearance thereof, in moderating the comments in any manner.
Along with taking pictures, they'll probably remember it better if you make a scrapbook for each trip and look at it every so often after getting back.
My toddler has a similar back story (flight hype -> loves planes). This inspired me to finally upgrade my iOS.
The downside here is, should any vulnerability be found in the One True Implementation, every consumer is now vulnerable as well.

Just as you shouldn't let a crop go monoculture, your software should not all be built on one or two pieces of tech.

What happens when dbus is replaced? Now you have to move onto the new, broken thing, and change your code to adapt, giving control to others over your program.

There are valid reasons to not just cargo cult dbus.
live by the whim, die by the whim

maybe should follow their own whim
Sorry, the situation is complex and I should have been more clear. As long as Tesla tries to operate normally in Sweden despite the strike, it probably won't be an issue (might go to court but it will win). If Tesla leave Sweden however, and the strike stops, Tesla might have to open source its hardware for local mechanics.
This very much gels with my own experience.

It was my first time working with Pulumi and despite not being sure yet how I truly feel about TypeScript - it was a pleasant experience to be able to use programming constructs I'm already familiar with.

I think that's the real leg up that Pulumi has on Terraform.

With HCL / Terraform - you're supposed to be dealing with configuration, but - we also need loops and maps - so we sort of get a mix between a configuration language and a programming language.

As soon as you need to do something even moderately complex you're in a world of pain (automatically deploying and validating Route 53 records via DNS in AWS, I'm looking at you...).
i mean i respect that but it makes me uncomfortable that you have to prompt engineer this. uses up context for a lot of boilerplate. why cant we correct for it in the training data? too hard?
Companies are not citizens.
> UCCA, AMR, ...

Are descriptions for these available anywhere? (The articles on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Conceptual_Cognitive... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Meaning_Representatio... are not very helpful.) I did find an interesting description of UMR https://github.com/umr4nlp/umr-guidelines/blob/master/guidel... , which looks like it might be intended as a generalization of AMR and quite in line w/ what the project is looking for.
> I don’t know if this is a self selecting group on HN but I’d think a disproportionate amount of us read it growing up.

I am a member of that group. This was one of my favorite magazines growing up. And I do have to say I felt a twinge of sadness to see this article on HN just now.
It's the slave morality for an inflation-based economy.
i discovered a month ago that there is "VoLTE Roaming" that phone must support in order to be able to roam. looks like it specific for phone models/operators and not generic
Big, if true.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and I'm not sure that single study meets the bar.

It is certainly a valid issue to measure starting point as well as ending point to measure learning rates, but to claim that this entirely accounts for apparent differences in learning rates such that there are no differences exceeding 1% just strains credulity.

Just looking at my own learning rates on different fields I can see myself picking up some things far faster than other things, and the reverse in friends and family (e.g., quickly picking up things I'm slower to learn).

Seems more like an intriguing start to more research rather than the conclusive tone presented in the article.
> Just wait a year when tons of people start to lose their property.

Even the trough of the decline started by the Great Recession was only down about 6 percentage points of the peak of a little over 69%.
Which MTA light rail lines are you referring to? Last I heard construction hasn’t yet started on the first one.
People own homes, sure. But who lives in them? Young couples? Families with young kids? Multigenerational families? Empty nesting retirees? DINKs and prestige professionals?

Or at least: how many people live in each owned house now vs in the past?

Total ownership numbers aren't the ones that matter to people right now. If owned homes used to be populated by multigenerational and nuclear families, while elders moved in with their kids and bachelors rented apartments in the city, but are now populated by elders and high-paid professionals while families with children are generally left to rent, it's a whole different world even while your quoted figures remain the same.
The whole problem is employers abusing employees by firing without any reason, and using the threat of firing employees if they complain. That is used to force employees to accept unsafe and illegal working conditions, because if you're an employee who's choice is "report workplace problems" or "pay rent" you're kind of forced into accepting unsafe or unreasonable work places.[1]

Because it turns out that is what employers do. That's why most countries have have laws preventing employers from arbitrarily dismissing employees unless you have an actual reason.

If you have a bad employee, you can fire them. You don't need at will employment for that. Unless you mean "I don't like this employee, who is doing their job properly" in which case you don't have a bad employee, you're an asshole.

[1] If you're ever fired and your employer claims they're allowed to do so because "at will" employer, note that "at will" only covers "legal" reasons. Retaliation, bias, anti-pregnancy, anti-child, anti-religion, etc are all illegal reasons. Always ensure that everything you communicate with your employer is in writing. As @nxm is demonstrating your only safe option is to assume that your employer is your enemy.
Yes, and the author is reflecting on their experience until now, which is mostly in the period when the baby’s brain is just forming (I have a 10 month old, and a 2.5 year old with sensory challenges)
github's Original Sin. we could have so much more software training data if they just defaulted (defaulted! you can opt out instead of opt in) to an oss license. so much software is meant to be open source but pple just forgot/didnt bother/didnt know to slap a license on it
The Linus Tech Tips video says that it's a commercial product for use in factories where dust and other airborne material mean they can't use fans for cooling (apparently, similar previous products from this company used passive cooling).

However, the marketing images on the product page don't match with this; there's definitely a lot of images of use at home. I'm not sure whether it's a consumer product or not.
> The only reason modern NNs aren't closer to their biological counterparts is because they genuinely suffer for it.

And yet, there's no ANN that's as good at interacting with the real world as the simplest worms we've studied, despite having many times more neurons than those worms have cells.

We are clearly still missing some key pieces of the puzzle for intelligence, so claiming that the difference between ANNs and biological neurons is irrelevant is quite premature. We are far away from having an airfoil moment in AI research.
Guess it was the good ol' Paypal-style coup. Classic.
that smells wrong. are you quite sure they cant be overridden? or subclassed?
There are a great many possibilities between:

- a fully deterministic machine (even if the interface and the way OpenAI let people access ChatGPT make it seem like it's non-deterministic, there are fully deterministic models out there, who not only only respond to inputs but also always respond the exact same thing given the same inputs [query, seed, ...]),

and:

- god exists

There could be chaos at work when human thinks. There may be interferences at play, say because whatever element that traveled trillion of kilometers just traversed our brain.

While a fully deterministic machine that always respond to the same input in the same way is just that: a deterministic machine.

P.S: I don't know about other LLMs like Falcon 180b but image-generation models like StableDiffusion are fully deterministic. I think a model is using a broken design and shall quickly hit limitations if it cannot be queried in a deterministic way (and its usecases are certainly limited if repeatability is not achievable). If you want different answers, use a different seed or a different query. But the same query+seed should always give the exact same output.
It’s very strange. I wonder if anyone has any idea how to fundamentally fix this sort of prompt leakage with LLMs, beyond just the usual cat and mouse/arms race back and forth thing.
No, the 2G network is still running at least for T-Mobile. I happened to check earlier today.
It will only get worse. Install uBlock Origin today.
Here's a custom prompt that I enjoyed:

"Think hard about every single detail of the image, conceptualize it including the style, colors, and lighting.

Final step, condensing this into a single paragraph:

Very carefully, condense your thoughts using the most prominent features and extremely precise language into a single paragraph."

https://dalle.party/?party=1lSMniUP

https://dalle.party/?party=cEUyjzch

https://dalle.party/?party=14fnkTv-

https://dalle.party/?party=wstiY-Iw

Praise the Basilisk, I finally got rate-limited and can go to bed!
Sincere question - why not? It seems like the idea is that someone owning one cheap house in a rural community is of less consequence than another higher value home owned in a higher value market. And I'm sure some math could be applied in economic terms to bear that out. But looking at it from a human perspective, I have a hard time accepting that one is better than another.
To be fair to Musk, it isn't his fault. It has been a sewer since 2016+ and the growth period ended.

Also he made the team release community notes well ahead of schedule, and this is probably the best feature of Twitter. If that was created in 2017, I probably would still be addict.
Not to mention the irony that they use climate change to support polluting the environment with waste.
It seems unlikely that everyone learns at an identical rate, and the article itself seems to contradict that conclusion:

"The fastest quarter of students improved their accuracy on each concept (or knowledge component) by about 2.6 percentage points after each practice attempt, while the slowest quarter of students improved by about 1.7 percentage points."

That's a small difference in a single incremental component, but it represents a difference in learning rate of a whopping 35%; over ten practice attempt, the fast learner would've accumulated 26 percentage points of improvement, the slow learner only 17 percentage points. And there is a bit of a compounding effect, as the accumulated advantage of the fast learner would unlock progress on additional components that the slower learner lacked enough background for.

Add these two effects over the thousands of components that would make up a curriculum throughout a K-12 career and it wouldn't surprise me if you had top learners accumulating over twice the progress of their slower learning peers, and much of that knowledge would be in higher value components inaccessible to the slower learning students (eg, learning calculus and AP biology over geometry and basic science).
Burns made him safety director and gave him a raise strictly as a PR move. (S1E3 Homer’s Odyssey)
AMR: https://github.com/nschneid/amr-tutorial

UCCA: https://aclanthology.org/P13-1023.pdf

And yeah, you could consider UMR an improved version of AMR. AMR is often lampooned with the false name "American Meaning Representation", referring to its unapologetic focus on English only. UMR tries to undo this sin and has a lot of the same people behind it, as well as some new features such as document-level context.
Ever since the ACA passed, you can jump right onto a marketplace plan with very little out of pocket (based on your income, which is $0 if you’re unemployed!). And they can’t exclude preexisting conditions anymore. Would be even better if employer-based health insurance went away completely, but at least it’s better than the old status quo.
I believe strongly that maladaptive behaviours like tantrums require the presence of another caring, supportive person to help establish and nurture positive adaptations. If the individual hasn't learned to manage their emotions safely and constructively, it's unlikely that they'll suddenly figure out better ways of behaving without having it modelled or otherwise shown to them.

A big part of tantrums in my experience is that a child is overwhelmed and has no idea how to express what they need. Usually the tantrum is not a great indicator of what the child needs. They say they need the iPad or fruit loops. What they actually need is layered under that, and they're likely unaware of it. Walking away from them won't help them uncover that, nor will it help them feel like these bad feelings are manageable.

Occasionally you need to walk away because none of us are perfect. I think if we want actual growth and progress though, we have to meet these things head on and help our kids learn better ways to live, feel, and adapt. This is a hard answer because this is usually non-trivial and arguably something many of us as adults haven't fully figured out, either. We've all got bad behaviours we still hold on to from our early days. Who are we to work these things out with our kids? And yet, this is why so many maladaptive behaviours propagate down through generations. It doesn't go away if you don't step up to it.
> Suppose that the universe is ultimately discrete at its smallest scales, bounded by some finite length, and everything advances in discrete 'ticks' of time. There would be no physical realisation of the real numbers.

I'm not a mathematician, or a physicist for that matter - but is that true? You've precluded "infinitely small". But you didn't exclude "infinitely big". If the universe contains infinitely big things, then to it anything finite sized is infinitely small, isn't it? To finish off the thought bubble, as far as I know the universe may end up being infinitely big.
Parenting young children taught me everything I know about bribery, threats and diversions. Negotiations get real fast when the kids don’t have the judgment to stay safe.
> [0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RHORUSQ156N

"The homeownership rate is the proportion of households that is owner-occupied."

Which seems contrary to the story being told that more and more homes are owned by corporations. At least this is a reason being tauted when questions about single family housing inventories are low.

Also, that stat conveniently stops before 2007-2008 housing collapse. So maybe that's where the disagreement begins???
Lots of people work together and vote in their local unions, that then is taken into account when the the terms of a collective agreement is negotiated. That seems like the definition of democracy.
It looks like the two instances I was thinking of have been fixed:

https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/blob/master/libs/l...

https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/blob/master/libs/l...
There are two classes of hosting companies, enterprise and small business. Enterprise hosting companies serve enterprise fortune500 customers. They are VMWare. The ones catering to small business are using everything but VMware because of costs. They are not typically large, digital ocean and linode aside.
FMA?
This is part of what's trying for me to take language studies seriously.

Giving credence, and noting common MISusages directly in the dictionary is going to be interpreted as "yes this is correct" when it isn't.

"Language evolves, get over it." Okay, then accept evolution doesn't always get it right, and shed the bullshit. Start calling people out who misuse words. Hyperbole is a literary device that can be used anywhere, not just on words like 'literally'.

I realize I'm preaching to the choir but it's irritating. I can't take dictionaries or lexicographers seriously. They just report what's popular. Useless for actually studying words.
Certainly, personally I think at that time I did not see the overall vision of what I had to offer. Then like a miracle I start diving deep into philosophical way of thinking then my skills seem like God sent.
Specifying multiple passes in the prompt is probably not a replacement for actually doing these passes.
I'm currently on my own break. I'd encourage you to do it. So many people have this unchallenged assumption in their minds that you simply have to be working and never stop working or you're an irredeemable failure of a person.

At a certain point you just have to block these people out. It takes real inner strength to do that frankly.

One thing I've found helpful is describing the break as a "sabbatical". I think that's helped me not only feel better about it, but also reframe it in my mind as a purposeful (notice I didn't say "goal oriented" or somesuch) departure from working.

As for worrying about your career, you need to ask yourself whether you can continue to do this nonstop for the next 30-50 years. If the answer is no (which I would expect would be obviously the case, given your present state). Then it's really of no consequence to your decisions.

What I mean is, to summarise, if your chosen career is unattainable without working nonstop for the next 30-50 years, then you're already screwed, and it's a fact you'll be forced to accept when you have a full blown breakdown. So you should take the break now before you do yourself further damage.

Otherwise, if a sabbatical to travel and recover is not a career ending move, then go for it and come back to building that accareer afterward.
You would have to fundamentally change how the models are structured/trained and how the data sets are presented to the training process in order to make this work and it would dramatically limit the model's generality as a result.
I've never gotten to an airport two hours ahead of my flight, not even for international travel. For a short, frequent flight like SFO-LAX, I arrive at the airport 15 minutes before boarding starts. I'm not at all worried about missing my flight. Worst case I'll get on the next flight.

The reason I didn't add travel time from LAX to Union Station is because LA is incredibly spread out and most destinations are not downtown. To get to where you want to go in LA, you'll need a car.

And don't forget that this is a comparison of a trip you can take today versus a hypothetical train that will cost you several times more. In real life the train is unlikely to run as frequently or to be as fast as claimed. Honestly, I'm not sure if anyone will ever take high speed rail from SF to LA. The current plan is to finish Merced to Bakersfield some time between 2030 and 2033. Will the political willpower to continue the project still exist a decade from now? I don't know.

We can go back and forth arguing about which is faster all day long, but the real problem is the finances of CA HSR. I've yet to see any figures that show it being financially competitive with air travel. Is the plan to increase taxes on everyone to subsidize ticket prices? Considering the clientele of high speed rail, that seems rather regressive.

What would change your mind about this? I'd be in favor of CA HSR if costs were significantly lower. (I naively assumed government competence when I voted for prop 1A.) It looks like that's not an option, so the best course of action is to stop wasting money on this boondoggle.
Totally agree. At least the base functionality is solid. Doing nothing would have been better.
Picked up where you left off. It seems that VMware was pulled apart and its carcass was sold off
If you invest, you invest in 'real' things, and you make sure you can physically control them. Numbers in a computer are not 'real', they can be altered at will, unlike a bar of copper or gold or iron.

Numbers in a computer, or your things in a Bank's security box are not yours at all. They can be taken away from you at a moment's notice, or without any notice at all.

There used to be the old joke that you should keep your money under the bed. Like all jokes, it has a core of truth. Cash under your bed is yours for sure. Your cash in a Bank is dependent on the Bank letting you have it back. Read up on 'Bank Runs' and 'Cyprus Bail-Ins'.
Very cool and inspirational!
Technological Stagnation Is a Choice
If they studied the Amazon playbook, GPTs is their market research divion.

They'll see what catches with these thin crowd-sources veneers then displace the best with fully developed, uncredited productizations at scale.

Not half baked. Fully baked and straight out of the 2020's MBA program oven.
A snob is someone who makes shoes, otherwise known as a cobbler.

You can't make the argument that words starting with sn- must have something to do with noses by reference to developments in the sense of a word that occurred many decades after the word was already current -- or by reference to developments in other parts of the language! By your standard, every word in every language "has to do with the nose".
This is just how labor unions roll in the Nordic countries. McDonalds learned this in Denmark [1]. The sooner Tesla realizes they need to negotiate labor contracts through the unions to operate in Sweden, the more money they can make.

[1]: https://mattbruenig.com/2021/09/20/when-mcdonalds-came-to-de...
Are you saying "the laws of mechanics are time reversal invariant"?
My point isn’t about whether ANNs work, it’s that they’re so fundamentally different (both locally at the level of the neuron and globally at the level of the brain) that calling them both “neurons” is pretty imprecise.

Silicon simulations of brains may “suffer” from being faithful but this also discounts the advantages that brains have. As I mentioned for example, brains can repurpose neurons for other tasks. Brains can also generalize from a single example, unlike neural networks which require thousands if not millions of examples.

Brains also generally do not suffer from catastrophic forgetting in the same way that our simulations tend to. If I ask you to study a textbook on cats you won’t suddenly forget the difference between cats and dogs.
just because i know our dear @simonw will be along in 5 mins with his spiel, just saving him the trouble and dropping his explainer: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Sep/17/prompt-injection-more-...

and his admittedly-not-perfect-but-would-work-ish? solution https://simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/25/dual-llm-pattern/
C-orgy vs papereclipse?
New T-Mobile SIMs haven't been able to work in 2G phones for a bit now. If you have an older SIM that's still active you can use it in a 2G phone but they don't want new customers using non-VoLTE devices on their network. They also haven't invested in expandning their 2G footprint since about 2015 when their network was significantly smaller. The 2G service will be discounted in April.
> They are basically just prompts that consist of a few sentences. There's no value add, and the more ChatGPT improves the less prompting will be required. These GPTs feel closer to bookmarks than an actual program.

So basically every ChatGPT wrapper startup