skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> hate to say it, but experience shows rich people play in a different legal system

People have been saying this since the beginning of the case, with the goal posts constantly shifting. Same for Holmes. Do you have any evidence for rich criminals getting significantly shorter sentences in federal prison than others?
Like sibling commenter mentioned, simonw’s blog is a great resource.

Regarding your point around being able to whip up the code yourself - the point is to have a decent starting point to save time and energy. Like you said, you know the edge cases so you could skip the boring parts using GPT and focus purely on fixing those. Though, with more prompting (especially providing examples), GPT can also handle that for you.

I have nearly 2 decades of experience as a developer and it took me a while to reorient my flow around LLMs. But now that I have, it’s truly gamechanging.

And since you asked, here’s my system prompt:

You are an experienced developer who follows industry standards and best practices. Write lean code and explain briefly using bullet points or numbered lists. Elaborate only when explaining concepts or making choices. Always mention which file and where to store provided code.

Tech Stack: < insert all the languages, frameworks, etc you’d like to use >

If I provide code, highlight and explain problematic code. Also show and explain the corrected code.

Take a deep breath and think step by step.

Also, always use GPT4 and customize the above to your style and liking.
>then you must have some notion what this mechanism is and what it's purpose is so you can say,

My intuitive sense is that consciousness is present in so many mammals precisely because mammal young require so much care after birth. ie, it is beneficial for a mother to have differentiate between her own consciousness and the consciousness of her children. And, to care for her young and possess an intuitive sense for the needs of her young. It feels like this trait, once bootstrapped, could find other evolutionarily-beneficial behaviors, such as hunting in packs, building cities, or forming competitive social hierarchies. (you can't really have social status without consciousness)

To be clear, I'm not a biologist, and for sure I could be wrong here. I think the general principle holds though -- if a species of animal possesses a trait, then that trait either currently or previously conferred some evolutionary benefit. It's easy enough to think of what those benefits could sensibly be, and of course more difficult to actually go ahead and prove it out.

>I believe the typical (mis)understanding proceeds like so: "I am conscious. I not only know things, but I have a sensation of knowing them. This (computer/animal) reacts to things in such a way that it demonstrably knows them in some sense, but it has no sensation of knowing them. Now what is this wonderful thing that distinguishes me from it? How did it come to be? What purpose does it serve?"

I think that's a really fair characterization, but I also think that this "feeling of what happens" does characterize consciousness. 1) this means that an AI _could_ be conscious, but it would probably also need to have been programmed to sense input and also have some sort of identity. 2) if we don't believe that consciousness is a "feeling of what happens," but instead is just a response to external stimuli, then I would think consciousness is just synonymous with "living things," and there's no point in having a separate concept for it.

>One purpose the concept of consciousness serves is that it gives a special ethical status to its possessor.

I'm not sure what you mean by this. Are you saying that "from the perspective of the conscious being, that person themselves puts more value on themselves or other conscious beings?" -- or, are you saying that "conscious beings _should_ put more emphasis on other conscious beings, and therefore it's important to extend consciousness other things?" I think in either case, I would say that this bias towards other conscious beings is just sort of an in-built human bias, and isn't particularly important when it comes to scientific understanding of consciousness. (from a moral standpoint, I concede it could be important.)
> a long-term 2.5 years operation to slowly gain trust from Lasse Collin

Couldn't the account that committed the backdoor have been compromised recently?
The comment was made about the bill on the floor, *by its sponsor.*

If that is the best justification for this law that he could come up with, then I'm left to believe that it must be the result of either sheer incompetence, or a malicious attempt to appeal to conspiracy theorist nutjobs.
you mean etc/systemd/resolv.conf.d/new.conf

get on with the times, gramps.
That assumes total victory by management over labor.
Which is why workers need to be organized. Samuel Gompers, 1890, arguing for an 8-hour day.

"What we want to consider is, first, to make our employment more secure, and, secondly, to make wages more permanent, and, thirdly, to give these poor people a chance to work. The laborer has been regarded as a mere producing machine ... but back of labor is the soul of man and honesty of purpose and aspiration. Now you cannot, as the political economists and college professors, say that labor is a commodity to be bought and sold. I say we are American citizens with the heritage of all the great men who have stood before us; men who have sacrificed all in the cause except honor. . . . I say the labor movement is a fixed fact. It has grown out of the necessities of the people, and, although some may desire to see it fail, still the labor movement will be found to have a strong lodgment in the hearts of the people, and we will go on until success has been achieved!"

Gompers was noted for answering, when asked what labor wanted, "More".

[1] http://historymuse.net/readings/GompersWhatdoestheworkingman...
Yes we do, but there are things we can talk about with certainty and things we can talk about with probabilities. I'll certainly get older and die. But AI won't certainly take all coding jobs. It's highly likely to change all coding jobs. We can discuss the changes with a higher degree of interest and thought. The author seems very certain though that AI will take all coding jobs.

A lot of things seem to have a great potential and then peak a lot lower. AI producing very impressive but very short videos gives us a sense that it has the potential to produce whole, coherent films that tell a story.
Nice! Glad to hear it :-)
> and a trusted authority

I think there might be a fly in that ointment.
There was an infamous case of some obscure Macintosh educational software that had a feature where it would read back text that you typed in. It even included a swear filter to prevent it from saying bad words.

However, there was also a race condition/out of bounds memory read issue that caused it to stop reading the text you typed in, and instead start reading words directly from the swear list.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZQmL-PKr8Y
> In modern societies the working man seems to get at least some benefit from productivity gains that don't come directly from him working harder. And even if you do believe Marx, note the caveat about "without state intervention". The modern state has many tools to intervene and is not afraid to use them: taxes, minimum wage laws, mandating bullshit jobs.

That may have been the case 30, 40 years ago in the US. In reality, the minimum wage in almost the entire US (unchanged since 2009, to add!) is not enough to afford to have a family [1]. Companies and the ultra rich aren't taxed shit - when you have people like Warren Buffett calling to tax him and his ilk more [2], it's obvious that the situation is clearly out of control.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/living_wage.asp

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE8AP0LZ/
I don't think we can say that without trying it.
This doesn't have anything to do with their liability or regulations, it's what their paying customers want. A company that pays them to provide a chatbot for their business doesn't want the chatbot to say controversial things or tell people to commit suicide.
You see this all the time. Like college degrees for example. They did studies that showed if you got a university degree you would earn X times more than someone who didn't. But that was only the case because a relatively small percentage of people did go to college. Once EVERYONE has a college degree, this doesn't work anymore.
I wonder how much polarization affects things; I was once told that terrestrial FM Radio is transmitted with vertical polarization to reduce interference from tall objects between you and the transmitter.

Terrestrial TV (some of which used bands that overlap FM radio) uses horizontal polarization.
Limesurvey is “good enough” for most applications and is open source- any reason why that wouldn’t work for your use case?
Totally agree once again! AI is not a replacement for artists. It's amazing what a even a bit of artistic direction can do for your final results.

But art that's meant to be ignored has a place in our society, and I think hero images for blogs is the perfect example! I will not be framing JetBrains artwork, but I do think it looks nice and adds value. I'd argue it's because of the clear and well thought out artistic direction.
All of this analysis is based on inaccurate assumptions. Primarily that some rules of supply and demand will dictate how the tech is deployed.

Let's look at history. The industrial revolution was predicted to create copious leasure time for the working class. How did that turn out?

The steam engine, the cotton gin, the automobile, the computer...

Every single technological advance that was predicted to improve the lives of the working class due to massive increases in productivity, was used instead to almost exclusivly bennefit ownership.

This is exactly what will happen with current LLM tech (please don't call the bullshit generators "AI")

If the tech cannot be deployed so as to exclusively bennefit ownership, it won't be deployed at all...
I am working on https://hellotrader.io - A service that allows traders to define their trading strategies without coding. It also automatically backtests the strategies and scan the markets to see if the conditions required for the strategies are met, then proceeds to alert the user.

I started working on this to scratch my own itch, as I disliked monitoring prices all day and wanted to eliminate the fear of missing out on opportunities, as well as remove emotions from the equation.
I write SQL every working day and do it all in lower case.

There's a flawed argument that capitalised keywords make them stand out but I leave that to my editor.
Moral of the story: Don't send bulk mail to arbitrary lists of email addresses.
We compile/build JS on the fly per-request so we wouldn't be able to cache the JS ahead of time.

The difference between brotli and zstd is 2.2ms at the 95th percentile, at lower percentiles the differences are much smaller. This is still an area of active investigation/development for us. There are possibly content sizes where one is better than another. There are also probably tweaks on the server-side to improve the encoding time.
Ah. This would be perfect for me (see my bio), but I'm only UK and EU based. I'd do remote if I could.
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The alternative is running models locally
No. Most people don't. Just like most people don't work on their cars themselves anymore.

But it still has an impact on "cost of paying someone to do it." If you can only take your car to the dealer, it's a lot more expensive than independent shops.

Also, have you worked on electronics much? Very rarely is the problem something that requires BGA rework.
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Any status of the human that caught the "Texas Flu"
Wait, so this is not an April Fools joke?
Google Forms is very simple to learn. There's not much to it. You just dive in and you're good to go.
Indeed git is not a blockchain.
lol. I think you live in your little bubble. I’ve used Twitter for a while, there were always a wide range of opinions. Only difference now is that there are extremist opinions posts amplified. And Elon sets the tone. When you have the owner of a site posting race science, it clearly shows the site is one sided. If you like it, you like it but I think Twitter is clearly dying. I think social media in general will hit a downturn over the next decade
I'm not seeing anything in the bioinformatics space at the moment. What job did you end up doing after college can I ask?
It will be interesting to see what of two possibilities happen: mass unemployment or simply more bullshit jobs and steady state employment. I imagine when computers hit the scene people had the same feelings about losing their accountants and human calculators and secretaries and what not, yet there is not a huge population of out of work people, people are doing different roles. You might even argue that while a total headcount per business might go down, it might be balanced by more businesses emerging. Considering the Fed's dual mandate they might opt to incentivize bullshit job growth over some great society reset to either mass unemployment or a basic income utopia.
What happened to the good ol' days when they limited themselves to legislating the value of mathematical constants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_pi_bill
Yes, it’s not a competition, but if you have a line of sight network connection and the network only works when it’s raining, the obvious thing to check is that line of sight.
If you would like to contribute Swift tests, I would be happy to take it! You can send a PR into this document, updating the data tables and adding a code sample at the end: https://github.com/bterlson/blog/blob/main/content/blog/what.... No need to test openapi-tools swift codegen unless you really want to!
Probably didn't start them, considering that he already mentioned (long-term) mental health issues in the mailing list discussion in which the (likely) sock puppets started making demands.

But it's hard to see the whole thing helping, and it is some combination of depressing and infuriating. I hope he's doing ok.
So basically you use fixpoint numbers. Especially for currency that’s a very good idea anyway, because of rounding errors, even more so in IEEE 754
Which uncensored model is willing to play hot or not? I just knew about llava. Are there other such models now?
> That's true for every floating point number in every programming language you have ever used, though.

Alright, if "you" have only ever used python. In C, for example, we have hexadecimal floating point literals that represent all floats and doubles exactly (including infinities and nans that make the json parser fail miserably).
No antenna is directional enough to overcome n^2 scaling. Especially not the mid-tier consumer-grade hardware I would have had access to at the time.

Rough rule of thumb, a consumer-grade directional antenna (at least at the time, maybe they've improved in the last 10yrs) will give your signal strength a one-digit multiplier (say ~8x), meaning ~7-10dB. But that n^2 means that improvement only takes you 2-3x farther, not 8x.

Here we're talking about ~100x the distance, which would need a 10000x = 40dB improvement in signal strength. AFAIK an antenna like that would cost more than the entire city block where I grew up
This is already playing out in India and Africa as people are paid $1/day to classify training data.
> another marker of danger

Note that tsunami stones, except one, are not markers of danger, at least not in a precise, spatial sense. They’re like memorial plaques, listing past casualties or marking gravesites. See grandparent comment.
I think it's because pork and cow products
Mayan honeybees are native to the Yucatan, FWIW. They've also spread to Cuba.
That's exactly right. Imagine a license that said "...and I can come to your house and kill you if I want to." Even if someone signed it in ink and mailed a copy back, the licensor still can't go to their house and kill them even though the agreement says they can.

I can imagine the case of maybe a "King of the Hill"-type game played on bare hardware, where you're actively trying to hack into and destroy other players' systems. Such a thing might have a license saying "you agree we may wipe your drive after downloading all your data", and that might be acceptable in that specific situation. You knew you were signing up for a risking endeavor that might harm your system. If/when it happens, you'd have a hard time complaining about it doing the thing it advertised that it would do.

Maybe. Get a jury involved and who knows?

But somewhere between those 2 examples is the xz case. There's no way a user of xz could think that it was designed to hack their system, and no amount of licensing can just wave that away.

For a real world analogy, if you go skydiving, and you sign an injury against waiver, and you get hurt out of pure dumb luck and not negligence, good luck suing anyone for that. You jumped out of a plane. What did you think might happen? But if you walk into a McDonald's and fall through the floor into a basement and break your leg, no number of "not responsible for accidents" signs on the walls would keep them from being liable.
I'm sure everything was already sold to a third-party that will lease it back to Google for "research purposes".
>we can also say that we expect air traffic controllers generate at least their $132k/ year in value

This is an important distinction that the author misses. People are paid according to their value to the economy, not their value to society. So, even if the jobs were similar in expertise, the crossing guard would likely not make as much because the ATC provides more to the economy.

*FWIW, I'm not saying this is moral or fair, it's just is the way the economic cookie crumbles.
That's a vague question -- prove my identity to who and for what purpose?

If to other governmental agencies, I might do it if it were essential and there were literally no other option.

If to anybody, then no.
Thank you for letting me know about telemetry; I had no idea.
Hi Raymond, your first link Esperto.medical isn’t working. I also sent an email about the algorithms engineer position on your site if you want me to CC you too.
> The CDC 6600 was really a rather simple machine; ... The CRAY-I was even simpler

Pretty bold claim, can you explain why you believe this is so?

> But Intel brought it off.

Not by buying up and killing the Alpha AXP, oh no.
Google founder personally convinced an employee to turn down a job at OpenAI
> "[To Lex Fridman:] We don't want our next model to be shockingly good" (Really ?)

Yes, really.

They're strongly influenced by Yudkowsky constantly telling everyone who will listen that we only get one chance to make a friendly ASI, and that we don't have the faintest idea what friendly even means yet.

While you may disagree with, perhaps even mock, Yudkowsky — FWIW, I am significantly more optimistic than Yudkowsky on several different axies of AI safety, so while his P(doom) is close to 1, mine is around 0.05 — this is consistent with their initial attempt to not release the GPT-2 weights at all, to experiment with RLHF in the first place, to red-team GPT-4 before release, asking for models at or above GPT-4 level to be restricted by law, and their "superalignment" project: https://openai.com/blog/introducing-superalignment

If OpenAI produces a model which "shocks" people with how good it is, that drives the exact race dynamics which they (and many of the people they respect) have repeatedly said would be bad.
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> Useless and damaging.

This seems like a ridiculous thing to say; both useless _and_ damaging? Even if one of these things were true, they can't _both_ be true.

> What benefit did it achieve?

Minimizing the spread of covid.

> What medical research?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Warp_Speed

> the most obvious approach, repurposed drugs, was nowhere in sight

Didn't the J&J vaccine use a more traditional approach?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janssen_COVID-19_vaccine

Also, people tried repurposing drugs (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivermectin#COVID-19).

So your claim of "nowhere in sight" is incorrect.
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Do you also think it takes two sides to start a war?

What on Earth was Ukraine thinking of by taking Russia's bait and getting involved in its own invasion!

/light humor
> "We are pleased to settle this lawsuit, which we always believed was meritless," Google spokesman Jorge Castaneda said in a statement, noting that the company would not be paying any damages.

> "We are happy to delete old technical data that was never associated with an individual and was never used for any form of personalization."

In other words, "We've already processed the raw data into the useful forms we want, so, sure, we'll delete the raw stuff to make you happy now!"
Yeah sorry for the confusion. I just meant that ketones are a result of the diet.

>> Regardless, do you feel the microbiome manages to shift that drastically within 24-48 hours?

No, but the population doesn't have to change in order for us to notice the effects of changing our diet. Changing the food we eat and subsequently send to the organisms in the microbiome affects what the various constituent bacteria/fungi metabolize and excrete. These excretions can have rapid effects on us. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9877435/

In the longer run, starving some species out and promoting others to take their place would yield a more permanent effect.
What's the likelihood of uncorrected mispellings of last names? That could AGM generative torte that counteracts the effect
The opposition is not based on trade policy (nor Russian influence). In fact, if your assessment of cabinet members in general were even remotely accurate, they would love 60% tariffs on China! After all, escalating that kind of trade war into hot war would be straightforward...