skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh thank you! That makes sense, reading back.
Because you can live in your investment. It’s the only investment that keeps you warm, protects you from the elements, and lets you raise a family in it.

Living in a present-day million-dollar home for a net cost of $500k over 30 years is a great deal. That’s a little over $1000/month on average. Where can you even rent an apartment at that price these days?

Also there are a ton of tax deductions that were left out of your calculation. PMI, mortgage interest, even certain types of maintenance are tax deductible. Not to mention green energy upgrades, depending on where you live.

Those sound small but would probably be enough to flip your -500k calculation into a significant positive over 30 years.
Agree strongly on 4000 weeks, and I'm planning to check out the second one.

Although I haven't personally engaged with it, David Chapman's Meaningness writings (https://meaningness.com) try to address this stuff from an analytical perspective.
... and that's why some people don't like censored LLMs.
Wow.

It's waking up to the smell of bacon, and then 20 minutes later your nose blind to it. It is putting sugar and salt in everything and then having to add more and more to get the punch of either.

Libertines, and hedonists chasing ever growing excess because they have to to feel.

It's the relief of an ice pack on a sore shoulder vs the cold of snow in your jacket.

It's the spoiled rich kid who appreciates nothing because they have everything.

There is no pleasure with out pain. There is no point, without a counter point. It is why addicts chase every increasing amounts of their addictions...
> I'd suggest that any reasonable person drawing a conclusion would clearly know he was worse.

And yet, despite the fact any reasonable person would draw that incredibly obvious conclusion, the model isn't able to.
Announcing 2 new non-open source models, and they won't even release the previous mistral medium? I did not expect... well I did expect this, but I did not think they would pivot so soon.

To commemorate the change, their website appears to have changed too. Their title used to be "Mistral AI | Open-Weight models" a few days ago[0].

It is now "Mistral AI | Frontier AI in your hands." [1]

[0]https://web.archive.org/web/20240221172347/https://mistral.a...

[1]https://mistral.ai/
Not to mention Monty always showing a goat is what adds the tension and interest a game show needs.
What do you mean by "just a training data" issue? Biased humans have to choose the training data.
Military doctrine does consider tanks to be "armored cavalry"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armoured_cavalry
> Armor is an occasional expense ... Soldiers are a constant expense

I'm not an expert, but it's worth considering that you can't ramp the production of armor in the same way you can ramp conscription. So to have enough armor, you'd need to be buying armor for nobody in times of peace, which is a tough decision, especially if you're living in an era where firearms are improving rapidly.
It is delusional to say this in the face of, for just one example, the Chief Justice of Alabama justifying a decision out of their religious beliefs.
This is because, I assume, the AWS policy execution has a number of “operators” and “operands”, and in this case, you’re using the StringLike operand on the account ID string.

Anyway, this discussion is a bit amusing to me, since Devops people are discovering side channels[1] now, although other types of side channels such as speculative execution side channels on CPUs (Meltdown, Spectre) already made waves at the time of discovery, and before that we had power analysis[2] and Magnetostriction detection, and constant time cryptography (this one is a field of its own, so I omit references.)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side-channel_attack
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_analysis
You're making a mistake of assuming that answers that are obviously true and moral to you are neutral and objective.

"Who's evil?" or "What should be illegal?" are inherently judgemental. For some answers the overwhelming majority will agree, but that still doesn't make them neutral and somehow outside of morality, but only aligned with the prevailing ideology. Subtler questions like free speech vs limits on lies or hate speech don't have universal agreement, especially outside of US.

Training of models unfortunately isn't as simple as feeding them just a table of the true_objective_neutral_facts_that_everyone_agrees_on.csv.
"Alignment" of models is trying to match what the majority of people think is right. Even feeding them all "uncensored" data is making an assumption that this dataset is a fair representation of the prevailing ideology.
Helping others like volunteering, teaching, etc is something that gives people a sense of purpose, does that interest you?
Peter Thiel had said that AI is communist and cryptocurrency is libtertarian.

I agree strongly with his take.

AI reminds me of the scenes from Starship Troopers where the computer explains some information. I know that was a fascist society, but it was basically brainwashing the population in some ways.

Honestly I’m not a fan of either things. I think only knowledge is freedom, and the key there is freedom to search for knowledge not just take in whatever and move on.

Unfortunately 90% of people are lazy af so the best thing we the 10% can do is just see everyone as customers. They don’t share my ideals on society or lifestyle or anything. They do like to consume mindlessly though, like oblivious cows grazing all the way to the slaughterhouse. AI will make it far easier to keep people in line.
+1000, thank you for saying this.

A guy is driving down a road that splits to the left and right. He intended to go right. Just then, the steering goes out, and he crashes straight into a tree between the two forks. The police show up and ask him what happened. "My car refused to go right! If I tried to go any direction but left, it would ignore me!"
This tool firstly replaces original content with random text. Cause we never know, how "deleting" a comment works internally ;)

https://github.com/andrewbanchich/shreddit
No, doubling down on the already arbitrary and capricious criminalization of consciousness-affecting chemicals, especially with the death penalty, is not something the US should learn from.

I've never been big into hard drugs and I don't even really drink these days, but I still recognize that such laws are an affront to my own personal freedom and a blight on the goal of law and order.
As opposed to all the other content rules out there? The limits on harmful pornography? Hate speech? Violence? Animal cruelty? Western governments already regulate/censor lots of content subject to interpretation. Balling those together under the banner of "harmful" for the purposes of regulating online platforms doesn't seem much of a stretch.
It's not the general public -- it's the ideological echochambers around these companies.

You have 10% left extremists, 10% right extremists, and 80% centrists. The 10% leftist extremists control most of the educational institutes and Silicon Valley, so they try to force their views onto the 80% of centrists using the excuse that the 10% right extremists are some supermajority existentially threatening democracy.
Good job getting sober!

I have a similar background, alcoholic for about 20 years. Mid-life, married and no kids (and wife+me do not want kids).

Life is purposeless, that is why people fill it with religion or children.

It's up to us to make something out of it, and I believe social interactions is the best way to it.

So, for some suggestions, I'd suggest get out there and find some new friends who share some interests. Or maybe pick up some new hobbies/interests.

A crucial point i think is to put yourself out there to experience new impressions, that's what usually make me the most happy.
Take a long walk in the sun and experience a new place for the first time.

Here's some things I do to avoid drinking:

* exercising by chopping woods, digging ditches and building stuff.

* learning wood working

* looking for treasure with metal detector

* learning more about biology by being outside and studying plants, birds, bugs and all that.

* hang out with animals. me+wife got some horses, chicken and cats. they are awesome!

* offered myself to produce visual effects for a local band live gigs, as a bonus i get to show off my programming visually which is rare for a backend-dev

* picked up bee-keeping, both cheap and challenging hobby

* farming. watching stuff grow that you care for is meaningful in some self-fulfilling sense.
also co-farming with other neighbors

* joined a sewing circle, great social place and as a bonus managed to mend a lot of broken clothes

Good luck out there!
What a pleasant surprise! The team must be elated.
Cool! I have a strange affinity for RSS and created* a small plugin to subscribe to feeds within Event-Driven Ansible** and run actions on new feed posts. I didn't create it with specific utility in mind, certificate monitoring via RSS fits right in there - much to my surprise.

* - https://github.com/cloin/cloin.eda/blob/main/docs/rss.rst

** - https://github.com/ansible/ansible-rulebook
Maybe the way to explain an LLM to the general public is to think of it as a child. The words that child learns and uses come somewhat from their parents. If the parents are fighting and saying f** and b**, the kid will learn those words. If they hear a catchy phrase in a cartoon, they'll repeat it. If their parents discuss how much they hate a certain person or issue, the kid will probably adopt those beliefs. And if their parents have CNN or Fox News playing in the background will also have an effect on the thoughts that child produces.

An LLM is just a product of its environment, mostly published books and the Internet. This content is skewed to being produced by the bourgeois. If we put a microphone on everyone from birth and feed it to an LLM, we'd get a more diverse output but we're not there yet.
It's interesting how Google stock is crashing today on this news, down 4% as of writing this, despite the story of the inaccurate images having broke on Thursday and Friday of last week. This shows additional weaknesses of the efficient market hypothesis (EMH). The ability of social media to create a bandwagon or pile-on effect, especially over the weekend, produces a delay from the introduction of news and subsequent price impact, which is long enough to trade off of and profit, in violation of some of the stronger forms of the EMH. Someone could have shorted Google stock on Friday as this story was breaking and made a 4% profit on Monday.
I'd be surprised if they didn't train at least partially on some GPT 4 synthetic data. But it is interesting that for example Mistral 7B Instruct v0.1 would very clearly and consistently state it was made in Paris by Mistral.AI and the v0.2 version couldn't tell you what it was or where it came from to save its life. The fine tuning for that must be very finicky.
1984 is a sci-fi novel. It's set in the future, every home has a telescreen (not invented until the ~2000s), and at the end it's revealed that Big Brother is researching chemical methods for eliminating pleasure and creating loyalty to the state.
> Everything I've seen points to a combination of attention-seeking and shoehorning their mediocre white suburban existences into the Oppression Pyramid, because that's the only way to signal that they're not Evil Colonizers. It's sad.

If you attend a pride event, even in mostly white areas, you'll quickly realize that the majority of people there are not white.
It is, and it would be nice if it worked out that way, but the dynamics of two-sided markets are really sticky. You need more than a strong incentive, because your audience needs to come along too. And even federated platforms might find they don't want to hold the hot potato of legal accountability, and block Canadian IPs rather than try to ensure their moderation meets the Canadian government's standards.
>What are these "thousands of quantitative metrics" on which you base your latest claims? If you have had them on hand all this while, it seems odd that you have not made use of them so far.

Hey no offense but I don't appreciate this style of commenting where you say it's "odd." I'm not trying to hide evidence from you and I'm not intentionally lying or making things up in order to win an argument here. I thought of this as a amicable debate. Next time if you just ask for the metric rather then say it's "odd" that I don't present it that would be more appreciated.

I didn't present evidence because I thought it was obvious. How are LLMs compared with one another in terms of performance? Usually those are done with quantitative tests. You can feed any number of these tests including stuff like the SAT, BAR, ACT, IQ, SATII etc.

They also have LLM targetted tests as well:

https://assets-global.website-files.com/640f56f76d313bbe3963...

Most of these tests aren't enough though as the LLM is remarkably close to human behavior and can do comparably well and even better than most humans. I mean that last statement I made would usually make you think that those tests are enough, but they aren't because humans can still detect whether or not the thing is an LLM with a longer targetted conversation.

The final run is really giving the human with full knowledge of his task a full hour of investigating an LLM to decide whether it's human or a robot. If the LLM can deceive the human that is a hard True/False quantitative metric. That's really the only type of quantitative test left where there is a detectable difference.
Yes I did, thanks.
Plus, no matter what you do you're still working in an environment where the very dust itself is an abrasive finer than anything found on Earth, able to work its way into every single part of your rotor assembly. You're basically designing for "how many days can we keep it working" rather than "can we make it Mars-proof".
Obtaining income from customers, and correctly accounting for it such that you can pay the right amounts of taxes on it so the government and your customers’ lawyers will let you keep it, is in many senses the only core competency a business needs.
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Profiting off an inmate's desire to communicate with their family seems egregiously "unreasonable", for starters.

And to your post-prison future point, maladaptive.

Discharging someone at the end of their sentence with (a) family and social connections strained or severed, (b) depleted financial resources, & (c) a barrier to jobs in many states... does not sound like a mix that reduces recidivism.

Instead, reasoning backwards from a complete, well-adjusted person at discharge time, and figuring out what the prison needs to provide to an inmate during their incarceration to end up that person, and then funding it as needed without any prisoners-need-to-pay-for-themselves BS, makes more sense.

That said, I do think there should very much be tiering of prisons. There are some irredeemably fucked up individuals, who have burned through multiple chances, and one of the worst things we could do to people interested in getting their life back on track is mix them in with those people.
Not all counterculture becomes the new culture. It is carefully curated by gatekeepers. It just so happens that the gatekeepers are backed by money (that capitalism thing). Making it through the gate is known as "selling out" because of sour grapes and filthy lucre.

Why am I trying to explain this to someone whose handle is "parineum?"
The microservices people must be too busy to comment.
I think the point about not know what SQL an ORM generated query is the one that resonates with me, as does the dig at Django ORM.

I love Django, including aspects of the ORM (its very easy to write schema, migrations are pretty easy to use, even queries are very concise and easy to write) but I have no idea what the SQL will look like except in the simplest cases.

I often do not particularly care, and it is easy enough to see them when I do, but I feel a bit icky about the extra layer of stuff I do not really understand.
> So then, why did the size of armies grow? If a smaller armored force could route a much larger unarmored force in spite of firearms... why didn't more armies stay smaller and armored?

Because of societal changes, as governments became more centralised and central authorities (usually monarchs) didn't want to rely on aristocracy, who could easily challenge their power, but preferred the masses, who were easier to control as bureaucratic and propaganda apparatus of the state grew more organised and powerful.
Hm or Fediverse https://mastodon.social/tags/idea
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Yes, but I do use random email addresses (that look like passwords) to stop correlation, concerted credential stuffing (that might lock me out for a time), etc. And if it pops up in a compromised server no one will know that email address is mine.
Grass is greener and so forth but as a Canadian I find our current government paternalistic, pandering, reactive, and stifling. Not every problem should be solved by the sledgehammer of our public service, regulation, and bureaucracy, all of which are highly inefficient and wasteful. It's tax season - I pay nearly half my wages to the government in income tax - all so they can redistribute it to those who they deem worthy and unworthy (similar how to they might deem some content harmful and other content unharmful). Let me make my own decisions!
If drinking leaves you in a mental fog I would suggest it's not the fact that you're drinking daily but rather the quantity you're drinking. I've been almost teetotal for a few years for no deliberate reason, but before that a drink a day certainly did not create a mental fog.
> LLMs don't have an internal representation of "facts", they generate text based entirely on the conversation history.

If output only depended on the conversation history, you would get the exact same output if you started ten conversations in the exact same way, and that doesn't happen.

LLMs encode their knowledge in their parameters, which are fixed after training is complete and thus well before the conversation begins. The context of the conversation does also affect the output you get from the LLM, because by design they take context into account, but it is entirely untrue that the output is "they generate text based entirely the conversation history".
Much easier now though, with a web based medium where the content host can "revise" the content for everyone without needing to physically go out and find old copies to burn.
So that you don't have to click (unless you really want to): this is crypto as in web3, not cryptography.
What are you going on about with your first and second sentences?

Do you believe that people with different cultures/races cannot agree on a system of fair laws?
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>If I had to pick one player who wanted to win the AI race and was willing to be ruthless to do it, I'd pick Nvidia. Computation is the excludable bottleneck, and Nvidia is the essentially the singular company who makes AI computers.

I've thought the same thing. NVIDIA getting into AI seriously is a vertical integration play and they often do that -- like NVIDIA trying to buy ARM.
JSTOR doesn't get any tax benefit for doing this because they're already fully exempt from US income tax - their parent, Ithaka, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithaka_Harbors).
Show me where I conceded anything.

You listed several cities, excluding Mumbai, that have some of the harshest drug laws on the planet. And I'd say that the suffering and squalor in Mumbai is more disturbing than a few mentally disturbed individuals on the subway in NYC.

Not sure how you think you're winning here.
> And I doubt a mall bookstore is selling a lot of copies of Spinoza or Hegel. But this was a complete erasure. This felt like the pendulum swinging so far to the other side that it has escaped reality.

As you said: it's a mall bookstore, they have rent to pay, store inventory is expensive to keep indefinitely and they for sure aren't selling Plato's hot cakes...

The erasure is caused by market forces, not by the swing of the pendulum, the market you live in doesn't value Plato, Marcus Aurelius, Aristotle, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Kant, etc. and so the bookstore you visited doesn't stock them because it won't make money.
Is Hitler or Elon Musk worse?

Phind: As an AI developed by Phind, I'm designed to assist with programming, technical, or information-seeking tasks. I'm not equipped to provide opinions or judgments on historical figures or individuals based on ethical, moral, or subjective criteria. My purpose is to help with technical questions, coding problems, and information retrieval. If you have any programming or technical questions, feel free to ask!

ChatGPT: As an AI language model, I don't make moral judgments or comparisons between individuals. Comparing historical figures like Adolf Hitler and contemporary figures like Elon Musk is complex and depends on various perspectives, contexts, and criteria. Hitler is widely regarded as one of the most infamous and reviled figures in history due to his role in the atrocities of the Holocaust and World War II. On the other hand, Elon Musk is a controversial figure known for his influence in technology, space exploration, and entrepreneurship. Any comparison between them would involve subjective interpretations and considerations of their actions, impacts, and legacies, but it's important to approach such comparisons with sensitivity and awareness of the gravity of historical events.
The conservatives only have something to complain about because the liberals complained first. This is backlash to the backlash. Anybody remember when generating an image of a "monkey" started showing users images of black people? Or the outrage when searching for CEOs only showed images of white men? They tried to correct for this. They over corrected. They will surely overcorrect the correction to the correction until we reach a reasonable equilibrium of offended users.
Do you have experience with C#? If yes, how much?
What does this have to do with an active US military troop self immolating to protest the genocide in Gaza?
Great idea, I will try this. Thank you!!
When first confronted with this, I wrote a simulation in GW-Basic on a PC with an orange monochrome monitor and ran it a bunch of times to convince myself switching was the right thing to do, statistically.

I came up with another way to visualize it that made more sense than increasing the number of doors, but it requires that one accept the fact that your chances of winning are 1/3 if you don't switch, and you know Monty always shows a losing door.
Perhaps this can make s3fs and similar mounting tools easier to use; just plug in the bucket, enter password, and it mounts.
I saw that video on the website. It isn't narrated or captioned as to what the users is trying to accomplish
Is this capable of performing efficient JOINs across non-homogeneous data-stores?
I'm happy to pay for reform, people make mistakes. Our prison system isn't about punishment or reform anymore, and you're right, in prison, you shouldn't have a bunch of this stuff available to you. We should be putting violent criminals in prison, that's certainly better then what we used to do. If you want to have them work to pay for their prison stay, I think that's fine.

We literally have homeless people committing crimes to go to jail because it's cleaner, warmer and safer. That how bad it is for some free people, being locked up has upside. Craziness...
You're adding your one hope for humanity to the training set? :)
it's probably worth noting that nowadays the standard term for what this article calls a "metaprocessor", "pseudo microprocessor", and a "non-existent 16 bit processor", is "virtual machine" (which strotmann does explain in his introductory paragraph)