skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn’t matter, once a tax is enacted it’s always permanent. At least in the US. The politicians may talk temp, but it’s always BS in the long run.
Aaron Gordon over at Vice says that NYC is going to screw up congestion pricing due to these capital projects that aren't going to be realized for years and it's basically a way to make money plus make up the debt load in the short term. https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy343y/new-york-city-is-abou...

Related (now archived) discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37475743
It's great that you generally believe in FOSS. You deserve to profit from your work. I wouldn't be opposed to paying (the app looks interesting). But I'd definitely want the security that, should you abandon the project, someone will be able to perform some maintenance. This is why I'm fairly okay with releasing the code late or licensed as "FOSS if unmaintained". Ardour's model of charging for binaries doesn't seem too bad either.
That assumes the environment the aircraft flies in, behaves predictable. Sometimes it does not.

Turbulence is an obvious one. Downdrafts another. You can have a perfectly functional aircraft, but if the whole air column it's in goes down faster than the aircraft can climb, the aircraft will go down with the air column no matter what.

Reminds me of an Air Crash Investigation episode: some volcano had erupted, ash was high up in the air, air traffic control wasn't aware of this, and iirc it didn't show up on weather radar or similar systems (or on the planes' systems).

So it looked all clear. Meanwhile the whole plane was getting ash-blasted. To the point that paint was stripped, cockpit windows went from clear to matte, and ash attached itself to engine fan blades. Obviously trouble followed...

Bottom line: the environment a vehicle moves through, is always a factor. Sometimes an unpredictable, uncontrollable and/or hazardous one.
Yes there is lots of empirical evidence, children acquire language with very little data, all languages are structured in basically the same hierarchical way, etc. You can try reading what he's written.
That sort of arrangement tends to favour anti-mainstream extremists in the long run. Then you'd really be in trouble. Study Weimar.
And this is why fully autonomous flight control systems won't be certified for airliners in our lifetimes. While autonomous systems are capable of taking off, navigating to a destination, and landing they are largely incapable of handling major emergencies. It's impossible for engineers to foresee every possible failure mode and program for it.
I think this article makes some interesting points, but it's not exactly on the money (pun intended)

Quote:

What are AIs of the GPT-4 generation best at? It’s things like:

- writing essays or short fictions
- digital art
- chatting
- programming assistance

The author lists these points yet fails to realize that these four activities succintly sum up the major part of Internet-as-we-know-it. Add media management for streaming and we're basically there. Also:

The issue is that taking the job of a human illustrator just. . . doesn’t make you much money. Because human illustrators don’t make much money!

This is direcly seeing things from the wrong perspective. On average illustrators may make little money individually due to a huge over supply in their market, but still those that depend on their services would probably not agree to calling these services "cheap" or that this part of the budget was neglible. This is not about wage competition at the producer stage - it is about cost savings at the consumer stage.

As for the question:

How precisely will AI capture a portion of the $300 billion movie and game market?

...the author tries to brush it off referring to some strike at one particular place called Hollywood. Well, that market is larger than any particular place, and... it is evolving too. And, at the core of it is exactly the services that LLMs excel at, be it storytelling or hallucinating.

Clarifying my point it seems as if the author makes the claim that extremely lucrative fields are in fact not.

Last, I should add one particular multi-billion dollar industry in which AI seems to have quite some potential: Crime. Specifically, but not limited to, fraud.
For example, Silicon Valley, had a handful of co-producers who went to niche tech conferences like dweb camp and got attendees on consulting contracts for the upcoming seasons they were writing.

I presume the conference circuit was still where they picked up the contacts in 1992

Coincidentally, staff of the internet archive co-produced and sponsored dweb camp :)
I'm not able to use this locally on Alpine Linux because ollama needs glibc.
You didn't understand what he said. The topic is on universal grammar as a way humans learn language.

He is saying that LLMs tell you nothing about how humans learn language, and he is correct.

It tells you as much as a submarine tells you about humans swim. It doesn't.
Braco? Not the guy who heals by staring at you…?
I'm not sure if you've built a PC recently but 2016 is about when Ryzen was truly the better choice and gave Intel a swift kick in the butt. CPUs since then have gotten very nice gains YOY.

Granted, GPUs are the usual bottlenecks for gaming yes.
actually, my argument is against digital rights management meaning digital exclusive property

I'm aware that's a bit of a leap to get from "lowering quality" to "drm sucks and is a terrible idea", but as I see things, drm defeats the purpose of having an internet

and it is an even bigger jump (at least 16-bits? ahaha) to understand the connection between twich and south korea (who pays for the bits?)

it's remarkable how you critizice my 'lack of perspective', because your comment requires that I narrow my perspective enought that I can fill in the gaps in my own opinion such a way that you get what I'm trying to say
How do you get value from chatting with documents? I can scan and read a pdf faster than I can chat with an AI about it. There must be more to it than I realize.
> You're still using Safari when you use Firefox on Mac.

That's true of iOS, not of macOS.
You're confusing macOS and iOS. Only Firefox on iOS uses WebKit due to App Store rules.
I've stuck with Firefox since 2008ish and .... it works well?
Reread what I wrote. I'm not saying they're sane technical decisions and I'm definitely not saying that electron is an objectively good architecture for user-facing apps, and I'm definitely not saying that profit is a good way to determine an ideal engineering strategy. But trying to discuss the viability of an option in real-word software creation without acknowledging that profits are often the driving factor in these decisions means you're not really discussing it.
Why is computer science high paying?
It's Chomsky being dismissive at LLMs having something to tell us about how humans learn language, which they do not.

You're responding in agreement with Chomsky. That by spending a lot of money on Submarines, they can swim better than humans, then it's well worth the effort. He agrees.

But he says it tells you nothing about how humans swim.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk2CMtBAe8k
The real biggest thing so far is agency. You can make LLMs agentic but the current state of the art is still behind median human ability in this area. I think this will fall too but that's the current state.
It's the same with countries. I've heard conspiracies where the whole of NATO has put Zelensky as a puppet president in Ukraine so they could start a war with Russia for political gain or something like that, I don't remember the conspiracy having a real motif.
Is $132,250 attractive relative to the constant high stress and everything else involved with the job?
I like the pragmatic engineering point of view described in the article:

> For engineering purposes, disk fragments are assumed to have infinite energy at the moment of release; they will cut through any reasonable material and cannot be contained.
Using a password manager introduces a single point of failure. My biometrics are leaked every time I post a selfie or a picture of myself holding something. The idea of something like an "emergency kit" being extant for something I care about makes my skin crawl. They say you should put it in you cloud storage!!! What the actual fuck. The only points of vulnerability in the chain for the things I have passwords on is keylogging or a system breach on the provider side. I can rest easy that until I have my brain chip I'll lose at most one thing at a time. There is zero chance of a massive failure, and there's a very low chance that I'll lose access because some part of the chain is missing, and my vulnerability surface is much lower than if my passwords existed anywhere outside my brain.

In any case, I'm far far more worried about not being able to log into something because there's too much security than I am worried about someone accessing my things when they shouldn't. The former has cost me many more productive minutes than the latter.
The article said LLMs make Chomsky incorrect about how humans learn language.

I posted quotes of his indicating that isn't true. Because it isn't true. It's absurdly obvious it isn't true.

Everyone replying is talking about other things instead of the topic. LLMs have added zero to the learning about how humans learn language.

They've added other value.
Flow Club. Hands down the best thing I've ever done in my life.
"If it's Apple, then I think the biggest question is - if Apple truly cares about the privacy and security of their own iPhone users, why would they try to kill a service that enables iPhones to send encrypted chats to Android users?"

"Why force iPhone users back to sending unencrypted SMS when they chat with friends on Android?," he asked."

Thought experiment: What if Apple trains an "AI" on peoples' text messages. What laws could stop them.
Errol Morris made an exceptional documentary about UA232. One of the pilots just looks into the camera and tells the story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf33RDu_D6M
You mean the ceasefire stopped (again) by hamas?

Oh and sorry, it wasn’t 40 beheaded baby, it was just killed babies and separate instance of beheadings, with goddamn shovels. Much better. Also, to question the mass rapes is just vile and utterly disgusting propaganda on your part - these untold evils have all been uploaded on hamas telegram channel by themselves and can easily be seen.
single dose
The way it typically works is you go out aiming for a specific lifetime in button presses and study the ones that come back from QA after dying around that mark.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel?useskin=vector#...
Lighter roasts channel more than dark roasts and also make more of a mess coming out of a grinder (more static).
Your example of being food secure during your lifetime, a very pro-human thing, shows how investment in fertilizer is net good. However, this article equates fertilizer to being nature-negative. The government in Sri Lanka, using ideology similar to that used in this article, switched to a different farming system, which has devastated their food security. [1]

[1] https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/03/05/sri-lanka-organic-farmi...
I don't really see how that's related though
Well said. Maybe I should have made it clearer, but I read the article, so I thought it was obvious in a thread about the article.
No, I don't. I don't want my browser to be cobbled together from plugins that may or may not work well together. I've played enough modded video games to know that this is hell. I want it to work because it was created and tested by a single person and not a dozen independent people stepping on each other's toes.
Per that chart, flying is about 3x as deadly per journey as a car. Many people take a car to and from the airport, which means it nearly nets out already.
Chomsky himself says it's extremely primitive ("pre-Galilean" he says). "Where thoughts come from" is probably too vague too even consider as a scientific question but very few things are known relative to the rest of science.
Did you read the part about 10 hour days and 6 day workweeks? I wouldn't do that for $132k.

Add in the fact that the FAA is about 50 years behind the times in understanding mental health, so you might lose your entire career if you are diagnosed with depression (even if it is a result of stress at work).

Plus, you have to be younger than 31 to start an ATC career, and are required to retire no later than 56. So for good, not great, pay: you have to pick your career before the age of 31. Pass rigorous training. Have a plan for starting a new career if you ever have health issues, or when you turn 56, whichever comes sooner.

In a vacuum, the pay is attractive. In context, it doesn't seem much more than "above average", at best, for a VERY hard job.

In any case, the proof is in the pudding. If people thought the pay was generous and worth it, would there be a shortage?
what if you want to extract certain information from 100 pdfs?
I rinse my spoon in water but i don't do anything else.

here's the full protocol if you're interested! I highly recommend doing it sometime, just get a few different coffees, ideally with a roast date < 4 weeks old. "best by" dates can be like 6 months post roast.

the rating system is for professionals, but doing each tasting focusing on specifics like acidity, bitterness, body, etc is definitely valuable!

https://sca.coffee/research/protocols-best-practices

or if you prefer a video, James Hoffmann has a cupping walkthrough.

https://youtu.be/cSEgP4VNynQ?si=JM8DBxMUEaxyh5HZ
You are the one literally questioning the mass rapings.
He is also a content creator, so his main goal is to milk youtube views.
The most fascinating example for that is SimCity: They noticed it didn't run under Windows 95 as Windows 95 reused freed memory pages, but SimCity did a lot of use-after-free. This would have been aborted by Win95. Microsoft developers however knew that people would blame Microsoft not Maxis, thus added an extra routine I. The memory manager, which detected SimCity and then didn't reuse memory as much.

I don't want to estimate how much such hacks they accumulated over time to keep things as compatible as they could.
It Sure Looks Like a Hacking Campaign Messed Up People's Spotify Wrapped
Not them, but tree tabs + auto tab discard is a great way to browse documentation when working on a project. That can easily use up dozens of tabs.

3000 seems excessive, but tabs are better than bookmarks since they save page state like scroll position, so many people use tabs instead of bookmarks. That's more a lack of useful functionality in existing bookmarks than an inherent advantage of tabs IMO.
> Let me repeat your point just to make sure I am understanding it correctly: "The US should have known that meddling in Ukraine would start a war. Therefore, they shouldn't have meddled in Ukraine."

No. I am saying that I believe US/NATO by proxy intentionally provoked war with Russia.

No should haves or shouldn't haves on either side. Not interested in subjective moral debates.

There was much provocation against Russia post 2014. You can go back and read the Russian propaganda and compare it to the US propaganda and maybe find some truth between the lines https://www.rt.com/russia/551314-putin-explains-ukraine-tact...
I guess one upside is that the building is probably newer
For a multiplication, I can work out any problem, and I have a sense of what it will do under any circumstance.

> Are you saying that you need to have developed high level descriptions of the behavior of a system in order to feel you understand it?

Yes. That's almost the definition of "understanding."

> What if there are no high level descriptions?

There are things we don't or can't understand. That's approximately Godel's Theorem. That likely includes some phenomena in fluid mechanics and in quantum mechanics. It may or may not include large-scale deep learning models.

It's okay to admit we don't, or can't, understand something.

> Or perhaps you mean that you already have a set of categories for output behavior and to truly understand something you need to be able to categorise the inputs and know which broad input categories result in which output categories?

There are different levels of understanding. However, with LLMs, I don't have a clear sense of under what conditions one might decide to, for example, eradicate humanity. I'd say that suggests I have a very limited understanding of them. I don't think there are many people with a better understanding than mine, and no one with a good understanding.

I feel like I understand a multiplication algorithm well enough to know it won't do that ever, however. If I multiply two numbers, I won't get a humanity-ending answer out.

I don't know if deep learning models have some analogue to emotions. I do know multiplication doesn't.

And so on.
> It’s mostly downstream of COVID and specifically the lies around COVID.

I agree it’s about the lies around COVID, but not in the way you meant:

Over 40% of US adults would sue the vaccine manufacturers in a class action; about 25% know someone injured. Texas is suing Pfizer for fraud.

How much more “mainstream” do you want?

But the distrust in those communities stems back to opioids and replication failures — and you only became aware of that sentiment during COVID.

You’re saying that sentiment was generated by Bad Men (TM), but you are ignoring the real devastation some communities faced from the opioid crisis and distrust caused by flagrantly non-scientific “science”.

I think it speaks to a real lack of empathy on your part: you’re dismissing whole groups as “alt” without substantively addressing their claims.
Somewhat related:

https://comfybox.floofey.dog/
> By being artificial and generally intelligent. I don't see anything about "self-awareness" (ill-defined as it may be) anywhere in that acronym.

I said they need to be aware of their own limitations, that is very well defined. Humans might not be aware of all our limitations, but we are aware of a lot of them and that lets us work around them. Working around your own limitations is necessary for AGI, otherwise there are many trivial problems you can't solve.

It is possible that you can make many human crafted strategies and that goes far enough, but I doubt it since trying to make human crafted examples never has resulted in AGI advancements just allowing the bot to solve a specific problem well.
The demolition of the Naperville building is halfway done.

Pour one out for ihnp4.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alleged_military_use_of_al-Shi...
I wish that the OS and shell had better insight on how to run programs without need for specific library parsing libraries.

I'd love to see programs communicate through a typed JSON/proto format that shed enough details to make this more independent, and get useful shell command structuring/completion or full blown GUIs from simply introspecting the expected input and output types.

Today it seems that the best you can get is still made out of carefully placed straws as programs need to export completion files to many shells, there's vastly different styles for flags across programs and parsing libraries, and obviously, there's no GUIs around.
It's clear that any sane definition of understanding would exclude the types of failures that you regularly encounter when using LLMs.
Satya Nadella's son had severe cerebral palsy
No, you yourself said it can only do so in-context.
They don't just blacklist the credit card number you used, but also your name, address, email, and phone number. And it wouldn't surprise me if they also had some heuristic involving IPs, cookies, and device fingerprinting.
I wonder if one could fold up an operating room tent and put the entire thing in an autoclave. Or, maybe more efficiently, have a tent frame that stays up and an inner all-fabric room that goes in the autoclave.
Niiiice! I was just thinking about making something like this. A chrome extension totally makes sense, rather than a separate page just for this purpose.
Also demonstrated by the picture in the op of the brick wall. Note that it wasn't smashed or knocked down, but looks as if it was cut.
Java FX seems better than swing, but it's an external dependency now though, isn't it? I thought it got removed from the jdk a few years ago.
I was under the impression iMessage is e2e encrypted, meaning Apple doesn't have access to them.
Virtually all this type of nonsense goes back to a few places: New Thought, Norman Vincent Peale, and spinoffs like the I AM cult and prosperity gospel. The latest iteration is “The Secret” and all that woo you hear about “manifesting.”

Fun fact: Trump is a devotee of Norman Vincent Peale. This is why he constantly repeats superlatives and refuses to admit any form of failure or loss. He’s basically “manifesting.” You could sort of say he was our first New Age president. The mass conversion of a bunch of New Agers to the Q cult makes more sense if you look at it that way.

Also I highly recommend finding a good history of the I AM cult. It’s some of the most bonkers shit. This intellectual lineage gave birth to a bunch of looney cults like Church Universal and Triumphant, Synanon, EST, and some alien channeling cult I forget, but I AM was the OG. I think NXIVM belonged to the same family too.

It’s all this will creates reality stuff, sort of like a religion that worships con artistry as a holy path.

Doesn’t surprise me one bit to hear that this stuff was around SRI. It had a big moment in the 70s.
>It seems only the linux ABI can be trusted...

The ABI is not stable. Google has to do extra work monitoring for ABI breakages to make sure that pushing out an update of an LTS branch of the kernel does not break people's drivers.

https://source.android.com/docs/core/architecture/kernel/sta...
?? on windows you always have to ship the libc/libc++ along with your app, as part of the VS redistributables. That's pretty much the same than static linking, the symbols are just not in the same binary.
Even if you only care about fish, it is possible that the pursuit of a swimming machine will yield insights into how fish do it.

In terms of scientific understanding in general, I'm not sure why you would say that building a statistical model of a natural process is be irrelevant. On one level, much of science is about building models of natural processes and then probing those models for insights.

On another level, attempts to build artificial intelligence are acts of science. We are studying the limits of statistical algorithms in their ability to pick out patterns from raw data. This study has produced data that has already surprised those who had assumed that a competent language model would need a universal grammar component, as mentioned in the article. If a solid theory is developed, I assume it would yield insights for studies of human cognition.
Interesting how we need to define understanding in such a way that it doesn't apply to LLMs.
Both say they’re discussing US adults, in particular.
Well, the reason a lot of people were interested in computational linguistics and cognition was probably because they want to make robots, and thought that they might need that. Rodney Brooks certainly is interested in making robots in general. I guess if LLMs mean they might be able to get robots without needing cognitive science and linguistics, that's sad for the people in linguistics and cognitive science who have lost that audience for their work now?
That second link is the the sort of thing I wish I saw more being pushed as an example of QT. Looks great!
You know that this makes it only worse unless you go through all tabs manually after starting to make sure they are actually loaded when you need them?

Having to wait half a minute on every tab switch to wait for that gigantic mess of enterprise grade websites served from an ancient box on the other side of the solar system to load is not conductive towards concentrated work.