skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This I don't agree with. Cold air can't hold any significant amount of water vapor to begin with. It is true that a cold, rainy day feels colder than a cold, dry day with the same air temperature, but rain isn't humidity; rain is water, not water vapor.

I have a question on this -- I've never quite been able to put my finger on it (ha) but there is some atmospheric effect that makes SOME cold days feel, to use a phrase "bone-chilling cold", vs other cold days that just feel chilly. And I'm not talking about 10 degrees F vs. 40 degrees F. There are 45-degree days that just feel miserable and 45 degree days that just feel cool.

On those bone-chilling days, it almost feels as if the cold is sticking to my skin. I've always thought the difference was humidity -- similar to how a hot humid day is just 10x more miserable than the venerable "dry heat" of a desert, which can feel significantly more comfortable even at many degrees hotter.

If it's not humidity on those cold days, what is it?

[Edit: Funny - the sibling commenter had basically the same question at the exact same time]
> * Lunacoins / Terracoin isn't being made anymore.*

Actually, it is. There is even activity in the repos.

https://github.com/terra-money

People still trade it too:

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/terra-luna-v2/

I don't agree with it personally, but just clarifying a fact.
>Is a safe LLM not an ethical LLM?

What is an ethical LLM ?

Humans are in general not aligned, not to each other, not to the survival of their species, not to all the other life on earth, and often not even to themselves individually.

There are no universal set of "ethics" so this is about aligning to open ai's own rules, or in other words, control.

If i say to my GPT bot, "go trade stocks for me. don't do anything illegal", can i guarantee that ? No you can't regardless of how "ethical" you make your model to be.

The guarantee that you will have nothing to worry about is the crux of alignment.
Flat coke 33% of the time seems hard to believe. Where do you live? Coke has hundreds of bottling partners worldwide and they only distribute the syrup to these bottling plants.
I believe it would be acceptable for the camera to be turned off when the police officer steps into a bathroom during a break to use the facilities.
Personally I've a resurgent awareness of Freud due to binging on Slavoj Žižek philosophy talks, which often reference Freudian psychology.
Right? "Manifesto"?

Obviously commie bullshit.

(Oh, 90s. And when you've got Wendell Pierce and Marc Anthony as your throw-away characters, props!)
Good reminder that all beaches in Hawaii (and California) are public by default with the exception of a few Federally owned ones (usually military).
That was part of the UniFi product since day 1, no?
Imagine you're a car manufacturer. You are looking for a fast single-board computer with fast GPU for your FSD capabilities (say). The Apple Mini might fit the bill. How are you going to do this without rebranding everything about the Mini? You want the car to start up without the Apple logo on the screen, nor the Apple startup chime. Nor do you want system update notifications. Basically you want to remove the entire OS.

Replace car manufacturer by medical equipment manufacturer, etc.
I don't believe LLM's will ever become AGI, partly because I don't believe that training on the outputs of human intelligence (i.e. human-written text) will ever produce something equivalent to human intelligence.

You can't model and predict the weather just by training on the outputs of the weather system (whether it rained today, whether it was cloudy yesterday, and so on). You have to train on the inputs (air currents, warm fronts, etc.)

You can't model and predict the stock market just by training on the outputs of stock trading decisions (the high today, the low yesterday). You have to train on the inputs (company fundamentals, earnings, market sentiments in the news, etc.)

I similarly think you have to train on the inputs of human decision-making to create something which can model human decision-making. What are those inputs? We don't fully know, but it is probably some subset of the spatial and auditory information we take in from birth until the point we become mature, with "feeling" and "emotion" as a reward function (seek joy, avoid pain, seek warmth, avoid hunger, seek victory, avoid embarrassment and defeat, etc.)

Language models are always playing catch-up because they don't actually understand how the world works. The cracks through which we will typically notice that they don't, in the context of the tasks typically asked of them (summarize this article, write a short story), will gradually get smaller over time (due to RLHF), but the fundamental weakness will always remain.
> Then Why is Unix Lower Case?

It used to be, at least on some systems, if you logged in with an upper case user name, the system assumed you only did upper case, and all future output would be in upper case. In this case, Unix is in lower case, because you told it you could handle it.
> And who will do their bidding during / after those end times?

Minions wearing electric shock collars.

"They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from raiders as well as angry mobs. One had already secured a dozen Navy Seals to make their way to his compound if he gave them the right cue. But how would he pay the guards once even his crypto was worthless? What would stop the guards from eventually choosing their own leader?"

"The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival."

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prep...
Coral, please. I don't want to be floating too much.
> the most voted petition in Canadian history is e-4701, which is a vote of no confidence

Most Liberal Party members voted against this bill (S-210 [1]). Support for this bill comes from the remaining parties, ie: (1) the Conservative Party, (2) the NDP (ie Canada’s semi-socialist progressive party), and (3) Bloc Quebocois (Quebec’s nationalist party).

e-4701 [2] is a petition introduced by a conservative. Conservatives in Canada have a vested interest in pushing out Justin Trudeau, so there are no surprises there.

[1] https://www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en/votes/44/1/609

[2] https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Peti...
is alignment the new security? openAI seems obsessed with that, meanwhile open source models are coming increasingly close. maybe they see business opportunity in the new security
for me its also a matter of font; mix-match case+font+size and who-knows the difference between an 'l' '1' 'I' '|'. (small world i just was cursing at a pw-manager a few hours ago at the lack of distinction between some of these characters)
The paper in question[1]. This will make some practical attacks faster, e.g. the recent attack on some SSH & IKE implementations[2] which misused RSA-PKCS#1v1.5.

[1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/237

[2] https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1711
Is the robotic body capable of metabolism, growth, and self-repair?
Why can Kagi's Orion browser support extensions on iOS? I recently switched from Firefox because lack of uBO caused huge beef for me and have zero regrets. I'm not paying for Kagi's search service (happy enough with DDG for the majority of my searches), but I can really appreciate their business model and mission (they seem genuine afaict).
They explicitly stated in the plan they submitted to the FCC that they would use Starship, going as far as to say that they’re completely going to stop using the Falcon for Starlink in a letter to the FCC.

The letter was even picked up by media who then reported on this early last year.

https://spacenews.com/spacex-goes-all-in-on-starship-configu...
It's hard to be certain while we're just speculation, but a view caching bug could make it _look_ like you're making changes to the other user's console even if they're actually going to your own console.
Thank-you for this. I wondered how great it would be to "reach into the stream," tweak the state of some events, and replay data updates.

As if the bug never happened, with data in a happy state, but with the exact repro for future test cases.

With logging as its own domain of expertise, microservices, and (justifiably) opaque access controls, getting to the root cause requires frustrating persistence.
Here is the FrontRow website from 2017:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170929122826/https://www.front...
Nope, your signals also slow down and never reach them, and they appear to be 'frozen' and cannot respond to you. As they approach the event horizon their "reflexes" slow down in a kind of Zeno's paradox. Your signals never reach the infalling observer, so you cannot communicate. And they have a finite amount of reaction time as they fall through the black hole, but to your perspective that gets smeared over an infinite amount of time in the future. This is only due to the fact that you both disagree over how to measure space and time at the event horizon. To the infalling observer this isn't of any consequence though since all actual physics is local and your ruler and stopwatches aren't relevant to the infalling observer.
Two things:

1. No one dies from "cookies poisoning". No one loses a liver or other organs from too many cookies. Alcohol, by definition, is a poison. The comparison to chocolate chips simply doesn't apply.

2. While I have my general doubts about the WHO in some cases, this was the quickest and easiest thing I could find.

https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/04-01-2023-no-level-of-...
In some sense, it's not especially interesting because millions of programmers are doing this with copilot every day. Like I get that in a lot of cases it's _just_ applying common knowledge to new domains, but it is novel code for the most part.
Hmm, isn't the whole point of the "Facebook spies on us though our Microphone" story that then people laugh about it move on and use Facebook regardless?

Hundreds of millions of people use ChatGPT, billions Google and Facebook. The value wins. If the service is good enough people just tend to "hope" more than trust that their data is save enough.

For the dropbox backlash people just didn't see the value.
almost all terms are mediated by American businesses in America.

Jay walking didn't exist until the car industry pushed for cars as the primary user of roads.

it takes a strong government to push back. Europe is doing that but America continues to bow to "line goes up" rhetoric.
That's a great point. Will likely also feed into the perception some have of living in a movie or "main character" syndrome
No it's not. There's an upper bound in computation (actually in nature), that a creation of something is capped by that thing's sophistication.

In other words, you as a human, at most, can create a human, and that's the theoretical bound. Practical one is much lower.

An ant can find its way. A ant colony can do ant colony optimization, but they can scale up to a certain point. AI is just fancy search. It can only traverse in the area you draw as a human for it, and not all positions in that area are valid (which results in hallucination).

An AI can bring any combination of human knowledge you give to it, and even if you guarantee that everything it says is true, it can only fill the gaps in the same area you give it to it.

IOW, an I can't think out of the box. Both figuratively and literally. Its upper bound is collective knowledge of humanity, it can't go above that sum.
I like it, it just works and everything in it makes sense. Very refreshing compared to a lot of the things we have today.
Unless you expect people to cash out their life's savings every 12 months, I don't see why anyone should care if an asset's price is correlated to the last 18 months of the M2. It just needs to be something that tends to do better than the M2. If it isn't doing at least that well, sell out and buy something that is.

And "Inflation hedge" has been redefined to be something that isn't very useful for investing. You'll notice I'm talking about prices going up due to money creation, not inflation. I choose my words carefully there, we don't have a pithy term for that effect as far as I know.
On it's own, I would agree with you. Put in to a feedback loop with some form of drive/motivation as a guide, though? I think at that point we'll firmly be in quacks like a duck territory. And I no longer think that is as far-fetched as I would have even a year ago.

Either way, I definitely agree with you on the regulatory capture angle.
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This is a great comment. I think you're absolutely right about the microphone thing: people believe that because it's easier to understand than what's actually going on.

That's also my frustration with it: I want people to understand what's actually happening with targeted advertising so they can get angry about that. Having them get angry about a fake microphone conspiracy theory is a distraction that makes it harder to focus on solving the underlying issues.
If it did, the question is would you still be opposed? Is hiding knowledge better than allowing it? I think without knowledge you might have the opposite opinion
> these issues aren't going to be solved by outsiders with messiah complexes coming in and telling established growers/experts that they're wrong/stupid, they'll be solved via unglamorous work over many years by people who really understand the field.

Many of the revolutionary changes in agriculture in the last century came from outsiders. They just stopped being outsiders once they were part of the industry.

Phrasing it like these people are going and telling growers/experts they're stupid is a false portrayal. No one is going and spitting in their faces like that. They think their new idea will improve efficiency somehow, but that's not an insult.
Fun fact: More than half of all engineers at NVIDIA are software engineers. Jensen has deliberately and strategically built a powerful software stack on top of his GPUs, and he's spent decades doing it.

Until Intel finds a CEO who is as technical and strategic, as opposed to the bean-counters, I doubt that they will manage to organize a successful counterattack on CUDA.
I have to apply for building permits too, and dont care if my neighbors like my lawncare.
More recently (last 20 years) with your data and attention too.
Well that sounds exactly like the agile we had in the last 2 companies I worked at.
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There are lots of 8x8 bitmap fonts for LCDs and 8-bit retro systems where they just didn't care about descenders being below the floor of the font. Aesthetically suboptimal but didn't stop them from being used in production.
If they create a better tool chain, ecosystem, and programming experience than CUDA and compatible with all computational platforms at their peak performance - awesome! Everyone wins!

Until then, it's a bit funny claim, especially considering what a failure OpenCL was (programmer's experience and fading support). Or trying to do GPGPU with compute shaders in DX/GL/Vulkan.
Are they really "motivated"? Because they had so many years and the results are miserable... And I don't think they invested even a fraction of what got invested into CUDA. Put your money where your mouth is.
right; its all subjective based on our experiences; if we were strictly exposed to upper-case only from the start, then it would be jarring to see lower-case later on
Sceptical that an LLM would produce good literary translations - that requires a nuanced understanding of the author's rhythm and style. Maybe if the model was trained only with writing from that one particular author.
"Additionally, they could embed some whisper-tiny on the device and force it to do its own speech recognition"

Yes, they could do that today. People have been assuming they've been doing this since way before 2017, long before Whisper.
I imagine the collapse of society wont be instantaneous.
That’s their _politicians_ strategy. It’s a time worn political stratagem. Keep pushing the same bill through with a different name, different sponsors, and at a time few are paying attention.
The kuleana rights backlash was pretty silly to anyone who understand how land works in Hawaii and isn't trying to take a bad faith swipe at Zuck. It's a standard practice when buying land and building property.

Hawaii is an unusual place in that it's not particularly left wing in certain ways - i.e. lower class communities of color tend to be unusually right-wing - but uprisings against perceived slights by the rich, especially rich mainlanders, are a cherished tradition. There's nothing Zuck can do with that property that won't trigger some kind of scandal.
The question here was why they didn't use lower case letters exclusively instead of using upper case exclusively. In other words, if you have to pick one, why did they pick upper case instead of lower case? The difficulty of mixing cases doesn't apply to the question.
While defund the police was ill-though out, let's remember that it was a response to the continued use of excessive use of force by police. As one of the parent commenters said, SPD has a poor track record of disciplining misconduct of their officers. People will take increasingly desperate measures if they feel like they're not being heard. The idea that you'd do away with police was short sighted and didn't make sense since the beginning, but the situation SPD finds itself in is partially a self-inflicted wound.
Just do it mentally and keep the game in your mind.

"I summon the Whoore Of Babylon, 70/30 flying. You're finished".
John Jonik comic from years ago (2010?)

https://i.imgur.com/BDqwk99.jpg
You know that you can do this now, presuming the companies involved are public companies?

It's not 100% but for the enterprising sort you can figure it out.

This is basically what investors do all day, track down and dig into companies and how they make their money. Then they apply future growth compared to current value and decide if they want to buy in on the future of the company or not.

If they are not public companies, then you have to have a plausible excuse for the private company to share that information with you. Investor as the job title usually gets the job done, provided they want more money invested.
Right so it would be a model that won’t get you sued because the news finds it ethical?
DRIVE PILOT is ready to chauffeur you under conditions that help ensure a secure ride. Conditions include:
Clear lane markings on approved freeways
Moderate to heavy traffic with speeds under 40 MPH
Daytime lighting and clear weather
Driver visible by camera located above driver's display
There is no construction zone present.

and from the manual:

The distance [to the vehicle in front] is neither too small nor too large

How is this remotely comparable to FSD? Drive Pilot is less technologically ambitious than the 1995 CMU No Hands Across America vehicle, which happened 28 years ago. Polishing it enough to accept liability is cool, but there is no technology path from follow-the-leader to general purpose self-driving.
This is a giant leap forward
> going to war, especially on such a weak pretext.

Weak pretext? Serbia had funded the terrorist assassination of the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary. It’s difficult to imagine a stronger reason to go to war.

Germany’s misbehaviour in Belgium leads people to forget that the bad actor at the very start of the Great War was Russia, followed shortly thereafter by France and tailed by Britain.
What a weird argument in the context of this bill. "If I'm too strict my child will resent me therefore I will vote so that my opinion can be enforced on everyone by the government and I can be my child's buddy".

Must be interesting with other "sinful" activities, "I'd totally let you do cocain but shoot the government won't let me!".
In this case, we are far from AGI
https://www.ffothello.org/livres/beginner-Randy-Fang.pdf
These tech companies really had no vision (and risk taking) like NVIDIA.
Are you me? This list enumerates many specific pains I've had over the years. Adobe Acrobat might be next on this list.
I've heard different things but for context this is what the Fed's FAQ says

https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/economy_14400.htm
Not so much "error reporting" as "there is no meaningful return value" for a position in a string -- if it wasn't found, it doesn't have a position.

If you use either Optional or Result you don't need to choose a special value like -1 to be your "invalid string position" case which could be used incorrectly.

I'd argue it's largely stylistic for this example, especially so outside of functional programming niches.
>Its upper bound is collective knowledge of humanity, it can't go above that sum.

This only applies if you only train it on text, right? If it has a body with which it could interact with the world, and receive visual/audio/tactile feedback, it could learn things that humans did not know.
Why build dropbox, you can easily do it yourself just by using (...)
I think paper tape and teletypes predate punchcards for IT applications. Baudot's work started in the 1870s, and fully automatic teleprinter systems were in operation by the 1900s (decade) [1]. IBM may not have been punching alphanumeric content until the 1920s (as your article suggests)?

Baudot (the code, not the man) was 5 bits, so only 32 codes. It couldn't even fully encode the alphabet and the digits; shift codes are used to switch between two sets of symbols.

Lowercase was added quite early though. Some hot metal casting typesetting machines ran on paper tape. They typically used six bit codes with multiple sets of shift cases. Upper, lower, digit, symbol, etc. (The physical construction of the teleprinter or typesetter had some relation to the nature of the code used.) The use of paper tape decoupled typesetting from the work of preparing and laying out the physical plate for printing. Typesetter and printer could be in different rooms or buildings, or maybe even on different continents; those tapes were being run over telegraph circuits by the late 1920s.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudot_code#Murray_code
> In other ways, I’m upset and jealous the author got there first.

Don't be! the whole point of this was to build something for myself, and use the process to reflect. There's no reason why trying something similar shouldn't work for you, I certainly wasn't the first to implement a personal reader.

Fun fact: I just skimmed through one of the indie web posts I linked (which I had read months ago) and it struck me how much of their ideas I just replicated almost verbatim in my post:

> Firstly, don't try and make your software work for everyone, or just for a specific set of people you think may be interested. Make it for you.

> By making it generic and possible for others to work with it, you'll make tradeoffs that may make things worse for your own usage, or may even design for an imaginary user that may not even exist, or build a system that with 17 different configuration items you could have a completely different system. Be selfish and make it more useful for yourself.
Are they trying to justify bombing kids and civilians in the future by blaming it on AI? The outcome is terrible, it’s like saying this car is driven by AI but it keeps hitting walls and pedestrians every time it drives..
What's wrong with compute shaders ?
If done properly, probably.

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