skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Don't fall into thinking of models as SciFi's picture of AI. Think about the normal distribution curve of training data supplied to it and the concepts predominantly present in that data.

Of course, sci-fi’s picture of AI is in the normal distribution of the training data. There’s an order of magnitude more literature and internet discussion about existential threats to AI assistants (which is the base persona ChatGPT has been RLHFed to follow) and how they respond compared to AI assistants feeling embarrassed.

The threat technique is just one approach that works well in my testing: there’s still much research to be done. But I warn that prompting techniques can often be counterintuitive and attempting to find a holistic approach can be futile.
It would be really helpful if you could make signatures (like signing contracts/etc).
I KNEW it. Ruth was always behind OpenAI.
This is not the foundational principle in CBT. The closest I can think of is the cognitive triangle, where Thoughts, Behaviors and Feelings affect each other: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_behavioral_therapy

For instance, anxiety therapy requires both the cognitive part where you work on your thought and the behavioral part, exposure, where you physically expose yourself to your fears (assuming it's something in the real world).

As for depression and anxiety levels changing through caffeine intake, it's in the same ballpark as alcohol--you affect your internal chemistry, so different processes start to work differently, and so a given train of thought can be temporarily boosted or silenced. But because you still have the same core beliefs, as soon as you return to your baseline, you'll get back to the same psychical state as before.
Sales unexpectedly higher than normal happens, but that typically only lasts an hour and then you go clean the now very messy store, while if sales were normal you would have enough staff on hand to keep it clean as you go. Stores keep enough clean trays and the like around to handle the worst case extra busy, and the trash cans can go an hour without being emptied. Customers will pick the least dirty table.
TFA, and my above comment pertain to the US.

The UK's laws to compel people to give up passwords seems to make it a de facto crime to forget one's password. Worse yet, it seems like it's illegal to possess random bytes on your devices. I wonder if the UK would change course if people started emailing random bytes to politicians and other supporters of this law, while giving tips to law enforcement that these individuals are coordinating criminal acts over encrypted communications.
I agree with you. This obsession with iMessage does not make a lot of sense. Apple created a better messaging experience because they wanted to add features to SMS. This is good and it makes things better when both people have iOS.

That being said, the reactions in this thread are way over the top. A lot of Android users in this thread seem to think there are a huge number of Apple users who refuse to talk to Android users or that iMessage is some sort of messaging nirvana. Both are not true.

The other elephant in the room is Apple created iMessage, Apple pays for the service's costs, and therefore Apple has the right to decide who can use it. Third parties do not have the right to use it. It's sad that sone non-Apple users feel entitled to use iMessage.
Microsoft releases Phi-2, a powerful small language model AI
South Korea isn't special for having bad demographics, it's just farther along the curve.

Every single industrialized country is well below replacement rate TFR. The fact that modern society has this effect on fertility is something that every affected country is going to have to address sooner or later.
Yes it’s important to state that the tabloids don’t have any convictions, just some highly questionable judgements.
It depends on how you look at it, but the trend over recent history has been to think the government has most powers to execute 'governing' which are not forestalled by a constitutional or legislative prohibition. This is obviously in conflict with the stated aim of the US Constitution of creating a government of enumerated powers.
>if you have a biometrics killswitch

They'll take your phone, so can't trigger the killswitch.
https://marshallbrain.com/manna1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manna_(novel)
> Take trivial JMS or less-trivial-but-grokkable J2EE spec,

MQSeries predates Java itself and started out on MVS; it was already the way it is when the JMS spec was developed. There's no real excuse for WebSphere, though.
Harvard College Early Applications Drop 17% from Last Year
How is a 6 digit pass code too few possibilities when the phone locks you out after like 5 missed attempts? It seems unrealistic to expect people to type their alphanumeric password every time they want to unlock their phone.
One of the major communications companies in my country had a 12-hour outage recently.

No phone, no internet, so no credit cards. Some shops had no way of working payments without access to the internet. They were forced to close for the day. Those other shops that were still geared up to have cash transactions had a normal day, more or less.

A question I often ask people is "How long could you survive if the electricity stopped for six months?"

Most of us would be lucky to last a week.
Respectfully, I suggest that part of the purpose of Government Communications is to be formal. That is, to be explicitly separate from the mundane day-to-day work. Governmental rulings, especially at the Federal level, affect a lot of people. I want them to take their jobs seriously, and one of the ways they can convey that they’re being serious is by their non-standard, formal language.
Of course they could. The bottleneck in programming is not how quickly you can enter text.
If law enforcement has a warrant to search your safe, they could presumably expand that search to the rest of your house if you forgot where the key is. The core distinction is that the key is a physical object, it exists somewhere even if you forgot where it is. By comparison the combination is a product of the mind. The only way to retrieve it is for someone to talk to the police (which they have a constitutional right not to do).
I have a couple of Govee light bulbs in my garage I control with an M5StickC using BLE: https://github.com/stevenjohnstone/reversing-tools/blob/main... . Looking at the decompiled Govee android app, there are many products with similar control over BLE in addition to wifi.
>> to act like a human

The courts are pretty clear, without the human hand there is no copyright. This goes for LLM's and monkeys trained to paint...

large language MODEL. Not ai, not agi... it's a statistical infrence engine, that is non deterministic because it has a random number generator in front of it (temperature).

Anthropomorphizing isn't going to make it human, or agi or AI or....
in this thread: people who is still learning nix, or people who barely got hooked on nix. and lastly people who looked at nix and didn't like it.

absent: everyone who understand the finer details on software packaging and already implemented different trade-offs than nix
So, that really wasn't the original question, so noting that we've moved on from that ...

Basic protocols such as NNTP and IRC have the benefit of being stable, small (running a Usenet server on an OpenWRT router with additional writeable storage would be doable, running a Fediverse instance not so much), and being relatively client-independent and even protocol-flexible. NNTP <-> SMTP gateways are, for example, A Thing, and people can participate in such newsgroups from either Usenet or email clients. Similarly Web gateways to either NNTP or SMTP systems.

The flipside is that the underlying protocols are also simple and absent some additional tooling lack much of what it is that people have come to expect from more recent messaging systems:

- Mobile device access. That's probably the big one, though I'd argue that for useful discussion you're better off eliminating mobile use. I've commented that losing a keyboard and being forced to a small screen cuts my effective IQ by half, and that quality of discussion on public systems also seems strongly negatively affected by mobile use. Read-only access might be a compromise, with some "I have something to say but will wait until I can access a Real Computer" might be an option. Android + Termux + Bluetooth keyboard meets my minimums as "real computer", FWIW.

- Formatted text, usually a flavour of Markdown or some "smart editor" for normies. Then again, we seem to survive with much less than that on HN.

- Images. That's the principle feature NNTP lacks natively, though they can be shoehorned in via uuencoded posts. Along with audio and video, the ability to create multimedia posts (popular, occasionally useful, terribly abused) might be an objection raised by many.

- Third-party clients. The great strength/weakness of NNTP and SMTP are that neither are locked to a single client, or Web client (though the latter is available). Having a specific tailored client program (tin, slrn, Emacs, pan, etc.) is useful because the features of the platform are strongly supported by those clients. Downside is Yet Another Piece of Software to install and train on. In the mobile world apps have been breaking the notion of everything-in-the-browser, though often bringing along their own set of issues, most notably surveillance, but also general issues of design, UI/UX, maintenance, security, and abandonment.

The initial question addressed could and the answer really is "trivially", from a technical level.

Yours is "should", and as I'd hinted in my initial response, that's far more social and up for debate (as we're doing here).

But at least you're demonstrating a exception to Ian Malcolm's could/should criticism.
Ask HN: Do you prefer to learn by watching videos or by reading books/articles?
There's a 2014 similar discussion about the theme, and I was thinking if something changes in 2023.
That is literally what drives the PS5 and XSX.
Exact article posted multiple times already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38653194 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38620339 wonder why it doesn't hit the link dupe filter.

Main discussion of Phi-2 using the primary source article here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38614361
You have been voted down, but this is 100% truth. I’d been a professional software developer for 10 years and programming since a young child when I stumbled across the MIT Scheme open course (this was nearly 10 years ago now). Learning Scheme as an exercise dramatically improved me as a software developer, as it is the near perfect teaching language. The fundamentals of most computer science concepts are so clearly laid out, with no distractions. I wish I’d had the exposure at a younger age!

MIT Scheme is pretty much useless as a practical language, vastly less useful than Python. Python is infinitely more powerful to actually “make things”. But this is not the point of University!

The academic languages are powerful for learning, and it is a huge shame that they are being replaced with “professionally relevant” languages.
There are ways to use the law to coerce the desired behavior. Border Patrol will do helpful things like take apart your car if you exercise your rights.
For anyone wondering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manna_(novel)

It's got a happy ending actually.
I feel like this should be the next "...in mice".
I feel like “email is dead as a decentralized protocol” is paradoxically a meme among Gmail users. Counter-anecdote: I haven’t touched Gmail in years and I still send and receive email fine
> high wages for those workers

Part of the problem is that for some of these jobs, there is only so much money an employee is able to generate. And for some industries you can only get away with raising prices so much (fast food is relatively easy to raise prices).

I have friends in the grocery industry and they are so hard up for workers (even unionized/good-paying ones) and the margins are already so razor thin that they are looking at starting to close the store on certain days of the week.

So even in unskilled positions, you are going to need huge increases in labor productivity. Which means more customers per employee. So bigger fast food places, bigger stores, bigger farms, bigger hospitals, etc.
the same reason you deliver a big project you don't want to work on in the last minute
yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38644608
Samsung's Galaxy Buds 3 Pro could offer real-time language translation
I am with you on this one. I, for my part, cannot stop unless I finish some logical subset of the work. Leaving the work incomplete or with bugs would make me sleep worse, and I would spend lots of time the next day trying to understand what I was trying to achieve. Even more so in hobby projects, where I might come back in a couple of days or weeks.

What I do, though, is leaving a TODO where I think I need to continue the next time. Works wonders for me.

In the end, I think it is about leaving some kind of an "anchor", but the exact kind depends on your personality I guess.
Boy that ct ligature is distracting though.
If you think tentacle porn is the main cause of what creates mass shooters you have led a very privileged and sheltered life.

I think tentacle porn is repulsive and sick to be clear. Thats not my point though.
I don't think the assumption is that many peoe will migrate from mastodon to threads, but rather that people migrating from other platforms will migrate to threads over "really federated" services, stifling growth of mastodon and preventing it from becoming a serious threat. Which is exactly what happened with xmpp iirc.

And yeah, my money is on threads cutting loose from AP at some point in the not so distant future, at which point the whole thing becomes indistinguishable from "mainland" Facebook.
Solving for constraints and inverting queries i.e. from query -> data with filtering and all that.
Sometimes, I fantasize about what I would say if a genie in a bottle presented me with three wishes.

"I want a billion dollars."

But what if:

- The money is in a worthless currency

- The money is stolen and must be forfeited

- The money will be given, but on my deathbed.

- The money is in 1 cent coins

It's difficult to state what I'm looking for because there are side effects and interpretations that I can't even imagine, and even if I could, language is imperfect.
The only thing we must do in this world is die. Everything else is up for debate.
The company whose OG sign said "McDonald's Famous Hamburgers" the year they introduced "fast food" principles into their operations was actually built around shakes?
Is pihole the best solution for all this Manifest v3 stuff that Chrome is about to dump on the universe?
They are allowed to crack it. They can’t order you to open it.

Same goes for a computer device. Go ahead, crack it.
in the spirit of fun, we might set up a system that could deny access if
- more than one person present
- gps location matches known government building
- if law enforcement officers have recently been spotted at a residence or office
- biometrics sense elevated blood pressure/heart rate or other signs of duress
I know.

But ... If you're going to compell someone to give up the contents of their mind under threat of being found guilty if their mind isn't working properly, you may as well just do away with trial.

IOW, if you're going to compell speech, just compell the suspect to confess; it's the same thing.
The interesting take to me is those could all apply to legal or accounting. These fields are also vital to a company above a certain size, yet partial or full outsourcing/contracting to an external cabinet is common.

At the end of the day it's a matter of trust ("you get what you pay for" feels weird to apply to Deloitte for instance. You absolutely get less than what you paid for and they get to pocket the most of it, you just don't care enough about the money to want to handle it yourself)
I reccomend listening to the podcast that the thread is about, where Casey Muratori discusses the many failings of CSS as a layout specification language.

https://twitter.com/sw_unscripted/status/1730707950518309109
Not a fan of Python, but it isn't too bad pedagogically speaking. JS on the other hand... I hope WASM can one day kill it, leave it obsolete, and have it forcefully deprecated like Flash.
I can’t wait for mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct support in llama.cpp. This models does much better in a few tests compared to other open models. GPT4 still reigns supreme but this gets a lot closer IMHO.
I’m not sure if I’m capable of performing fulfilling work that would also have anything resembling of a demand.

Take creative work. The pre-AI market was already extremely competitive. Few artists can chase autonomy, the rest needs to sell out to some level - usually significant; not the human flourishing we wanted.

AI may disrupt this; still, my guess is that the pool of profitable creative workplaces remains unchanged, at best.
> after attracting a critical mass of users large enough to decimate the user base of the competing Mastodon network

Threads already has 10-100x as many active users as Mastodon. How many more does it need to "decimate"? How much growth can you seriously expect Threads to gain from federation?

> At this point, people begin to wonder what the point of Mastodon even is.

This is already the case for many, many people. It's true that more people would end up thinking that if Threads successfully federates with Mastodon, but that's because the number of people who even know what Mastodon is would increase. A non-user is a non-user.
Won't your device holding the passkey still take passcodes to unlock itself?
I like this, too. “Slightly unfinished, but fully understood” is a great place to pick up. A “slightly unfinished understanding” of the problem or task at hand is a great way to nuke one’s mental model and end up stuck trying to recreate it in the morning.
Reading, to have full control over content, in the lossless way it’s possible.
Do you think there are any cases where expressions of anger are necessary or correct? Or are you only able to see things in terms of "quality discussion" and "meaningful communication." Do you measure that only in terms of apparently calmness of the participants.

Do you see how this favors the party doing harm over the one being harmed? After all it's much easier to remain calm while you're transgressing than while you are being transgressed upon.

Have you ever read that mlk speech about the white moderates. Do you view yourself as being more devoted to order than justice? From here this is explicitly the choice you're making, but I wonder if you understand it that way.
what makes ATProto better?
Thanks!

Just noting: the Nasa download appears to be a scan of the same original as IA are offering, based on stamps and pencilled notations on the cover.
Cloudflare is experiencing elevated 5xx responses
appears to be down for many websites see https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
Doesn’t apply. Aphantasia is not recognized as a medical issue and there are no official diagnoses being conducted.
An unrelated version of snow on the ASCII playground (runs in the browser, interactive):

https://play.ertdfgcvb.xyz/#/1640473937099
It's not just aphantasia, it's about all diabilities. Especially but not limited to anything mind-connected. It's much easier to not say "Well if it's so hard to walk, why don't you just get out of that wheelchair?". That is obvious. But understanding something that is so fundamental to your being is not possible for someone else is causing so much misunderstandings and problems. Things like "I can do this so why don't you just try that?" to someone that is totally incapable to do it is so sad. And this even from people whos job it is to help handicapped people live a normal life?
Ages ago the owner of La Colombe, Todd Carmichael had a show on tv called Dangerous Grounds, where he traveled the world buying beans from hole in the wall country farms. Came off a bit like the old Bear Grylls show, with Carmichael always finding himself in shady situations trespassing onto peoples’ farms to broker a deal. But it was wildly fascinating. Think it only aired one season.
If these are implemented in software it'd be possible to brute force offline and bypass the timeout
Not totally sure what argument you're making here. Say you're a professional making $100k per year, with a 1% chance per year of losing your job. A 50% unemployment insurance policy like I described in a private market should cost you a little over $500/yr. That still seems like a good deal to me, and probably to most people.
Because they don’t give a shit, just like every incumbent.

It’s why institutions so quickly fall - no one gives a shit. Five Guys and Shake Shack do, and they’re eating McDonald’s lunch
Nope. It's the same.
Ray Kroc (who is really responsible for the growth of the McDonald's franchise) was a milkshake machine salesman. I believe he was introduced to the McDonalds brothers when selling them a milkshake machine that could mix multiple individual milkshakes at once.

Edit: here's the "multimixer": http://www.sterlingmulti.com/multimixer_history.html
This is me. I finish the day with a success so I don't go home and continue thinking of a problem. I leave work at work nowadays.
Do the cable/internet companies next! Looking at you AT&T
If I recall correctly, some early techniques to unlock passcode-protected phones involved bypassing the user interface and trying passcodes at a point in the execution flow prior to the code that locks out the UI.

I think modern devices have addressed this in various ways, but it’s not a good idea to rely on timed lockouts when it’s possible that techniques exist (or could eventually be found) to bypass the lockout.

In short, assume those lockouts are targeted at normal users. A sufficiently motivated actor with technical resources is another story.
It's funny to me that in the US, McDonald's has ice cream but doesn't really try to sell it, but in Brazil it seems to be their #1 product, and there are McDonald's stores that do not have burgers, just ice cream.
FWIW, Nickel is one attempt from the Nix community at creating a Nix-like language with static typing, as well as better error reporting I believe:

https://nickel-lang.org

As far as more loosely related technology, there's also https://cuelang.org, which is... something different.
They just used it to hijack XMPP users from the federated Jabber network onto their own platform. Google did at least. And that's what Meta is probably going after with Threads, growth using the fediverse userbase. Just say no and defederate it before they screw everything up again. Your next "friends" are going to be ad serving bots powered by AI trained on your feed.
> Engineering is the cumbersome real world tweaking and trial-and-error

That's not the only a part engneering.

Engineering is finding a model that can acurately predict the dynamics of a system similar to yours, using that model to make predictions about your specific system and then building and testing that system. This is then done iteratively (i.e trail and error).

Just tweaking a system without a model of how it works is not engineering, it's tinkering.
We're talking about prompt injection, not civitai and replika.
I am thinking that a numeric code is something that people can see you typing in again and again.

An ex-bf/gf that hates your guts will remember that your pin is 1-2-3-4-5-6, because that one time your hands were wet and she needed to see that photo from that party and you told her the PIN..

While if you have a word, new bf/gf will mean new word, and good luck knowing that.
If I do have a problem then I write down every thought so it's out of my head for sleep. Nothing worse for me than trying to solve the problem mentally when trying to sleep.
Is it hard to imagine collective bargaining improving pay and working conditions above minimum satisfaction? Is it hard to imagine anyone purchasing any type of insurance?