skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel similarly with gardening. Try growing a food forest -- it expands your mind's time horizon to try picturing your six inch tall hazelnut seedling as a 20 foot tall tree. Each year is a new feeling of progress as everything starts to bear fruit!
you don’t think it’s plausible a moms group on facebook got trolled by some random person?
In the first one what you’re seeing is just the absence of grass.
Nature isn't responsible for the working conditions of scientists.

And even if they were surely we can do more than one thing at a time.
ByteDance is owned by international investors including Carlyle Group, General Atlantic and Susquehanna, 3/5 of the board are Americans, and the company - TikTok - isn't operated in the US by a Chinese company, the servers are owned by Oracle.

Without the deal with Oracle they would have to form an American company for their American operations like every international company has done since the 80s.

To use an example from back then, Sony Computer Entertainment started out in Tokyo but expanded to the US. They had to form an American company - Sony Computer Entertainment America. Imagine not doing it this way, every payment in a foreign currency, handling lawsuits, employees, etc.

Speaking of employees, given many of them are equity shareholders, if you ban ownership based on nationality, what does that mean for companies with employees all over the world? Simplified example: Remote culture, no office, the 2 co-founders are in China and NY respectively, they own equal shares of the company, it's registered in China and incorporated in the US, there are employees in both places, following all laws of each. Is that a "Chinese company"?

Under this law, would the Chinese founder have to sell his share to the American founder in order to continue operating in NY?
Why is it hard to believe that comments written by an obviously malfunctioning bot would be deleted by Meta?
There is no "aggregate" rating system of any kind or even a rating system.

Yes there is. Pick a genre, and you get a list of books explicitly ranked (rated, same thing) by the number of people who reviewed it (in essence, by "likes").

So not surprisingly you get authors like Stephen King, Michio Kakio, etc floating the top. The same predictable blandness you get at any large chain bookstore.
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> There aren't any class of problems deep nets can't handle. Will they always be the most efficient or best performing solution ? No, but it will be possible.

This assumes that all classes of problems reduce to functions which can be approximated, right, per the universal approximation theorems?

Even for cases where the UAT applies (which is not everywhere, as I show next), your caveat understates the case. There are dramatically better and worse algorithms for differing problems.

But I think a lot of people (including the comment above) misunderstand or misapply the UATs. Think about the assumptions! UATs assume a fixed length input, do they not? This breaks a correspondence with many classes of algorithms.*

## Example

Let's make a DNN that sorts a list of numbers, shall we? But we can't cheat and only have it do pairwise comparisons -- that is not the full sorting problem. We have to input the list of numbers and output the list of sorted numbers. At run-time. With a variable-length list of inputs.

So no single DNN will do! For every input length, we would need a different DNN, would we not? Training this collection of DNNs will be a whole lot of fun! It will make Bitcoin mining look like a poster-child of energy conservation. /s

* Or am I wrong? Is there a theoretical result I don't know about?
It’s not at all plausible that a service with billions of users has engineers actively monitoring private conversations and deleting things that look bad, no.
Ahem we call them threat actors now.
I can relate to being annoyed at the hype but to call chatGPT useless is about as hyperbolic as the AI maximalists who say it will solve all our problems. There are many people right now using it and getting value out of it.
Or just append the string to output without asking the LLM to do it :-).
When a site is literally broken with an ad blocker on. This is more typically tracking and metrics than actual ads though.
There's a couple of paragraphs in the link that address this, although given the nature of the claims it's hard to put a number on it:

> While the numbers listed above (and below) are valuable and vital, it is important to keep in mind that the true rates are likely much higher, especially in less developed countries. Depression is much more likely to be diagnosed in highly developed countries, whose more robust health care infrastructures are far better equipped to identify and treat mental illnesses.

> Therefore, less developed countries do not necessarily have less depression—rather, their treatment of mental illnesses often takes a back seat to broader concerns such as hunger, disease, and sanitation. In fact, the World Health Organization estimates that 76–85% of people suffering from mental disorders in low- and middle-income countries lack access to the necessary treatment. Moreover, even in developed nations, many cases of mental illness go undiagnosed and unreported because the patients are either ashamed of their illness or unaware that it's a medically treatable condition.

So I'm wondering what the data displayed on the page is actually showing us. Certainly, the initial impressions that I got is that the first world lifestyle is associated with a kind of malaise, but is this just showing differences in diagnostic rates? Or a combination of the two, if so, how to untangle that and get a useful comparison between countries?
That same boring writing style is what you get out of GPT if you use its default persona (i.e. what you get from the ChatGPT service). It can be very different when primed accordingly, even via the chat itself (just by telling it to adopt a different persona); it's just that most people who use it as assistant for text composition don't bother to.
https://www.404media.co/facebooks-ai-told-parents-group-it-h...
Yeah, no, I can make all sorts of shit up. I make a habit of it. Until recently, the ability to produce plausible-sounding bullshit was considered an honest signal of intelligence.

The specific point of incredulity was what I took issue with.
He's certainly smart enough to contribute to the work, if he had the time and wanted to do it.

But in all likelihood his contribution to Llama 3 consisted of... approving Llama 3.
NYC recently made a chat bot to answer legal questions for small businesses and it gave tremendously wrong information, likely harming both the employees and the business.
The article clearly says it was in a “private group” and the disappearance was something that must have occurred at time the article was published (e.g. not as an update to the article after it was reported)

Facebook has billions of users. It wouldn’t even be possible for Meta employees to read every conversation and delete messages that make themselves look bad.

I’m actually perplexed at comments here suggesting such a strange conspiracy theory. Do people actually believe that Meta has people personally reading their private conversations? Even a brief thought about the logistics and scale of such an operation should immediately put such speculation to rest.
If I want to save my money for 100 years I won’t buy bitcoin or hold cash or gold I’ll put it in index funds.
144 weeks of learning to learn, is the way I see it. And jobs feeling like a breeze is a great side effect.
It is quite plausible for them to be monitoring conversations where this hot new thing that they have just rolled out is participating. Especially when the tech behind has this exact kind of stuff as a known failure mode (see also: any other LLM ever deployed in any public role anywhere hallucinating).
The balancing act going on in the second link seem like the result of a jailbreak or very specific instructions preceding the screenshots.
I don't think it's silly to study either one. What I think is silly is the idea that philosophy is an intellectually rigorous field, that its practitioners generally deserve to be held in high regard, that it makes sense to have departments of philosophy in universities. This was not always true, I think it has become true gradually over the course of the last 100 years or so. I think that science has subsumed philosophy in exactly the same way that chemistry subsumed alchemy and astronomy subsumed astrology.
I'm not buying it. It's just hysteria. Evil doesn't come from opportunity. If it did, we would have far higher rates of mayhem than we do. Read a 1950s chemistry book or murder mystery. Or, <shudder> a 1980s spy movie. Information does not move the needle.
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I'm guessing too much, but ...

Perhaps originaly the host cell had many copies of the small cell inside. This is how mithocondria and chloroplasts work today. There are some signals to keep their number near the optial value. [1]

Perhaps after a few millons years they improved the signals and now there can be exactly one small cell per host cell.

(I'd be happy to read a better description if someone knows more about the subject.)

[1] and there are some cell that had chloroplasts but lost all of them
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I am inclined to believe this as well. Originally from Australia, it’s extremely prevalent to talk about “mental health” see “mental health campaigns” and have “mental health” promotion days.

I wonder if talking about it so much make people question their own leave of well being too often?

I compare this to long stints in HK and Singapore - not once has it been mentioned in the office or even socially.
I agree, but we used to cringe at this saying when young, so funny to bring it back now.
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Corporate aside, there’s also a question of what we want etiquette to look like between people, ie whether I want my own need for positive vibes from not-present others to disrupt or dominate interactions with people who are present.

I wish it were generally recognized that if you have a robot you refuse to disable that is rudely thrusting itself on to me, then you are being rude to me.

Listening to people negotiate with their malfunctioning alexa or ok-google is obnoxious, and that’s just the active annoyance, setting aside my consent to being recorded, etc.
I would imagine Duckworth has a personal interest in it, given her work history.
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It amazes me how we can pick and choose which part of the Bill of Rights we want to abate, while all of it is being obscured into history. We were united around the Bill of Rights, now we've been brainwashed into believing no one should have rights.

1A, Nope, you have to have facts, and specific facts, and a subject-matter expert, source?
2A, Ban all guns, the government will protect us.
3A, No worry, they're not soldiers, they're law enforcement.
4A, Unreasonable search and seizure? What was unreasonable about us listening to your phone call?
5,6,7A, Fair trail? What public figure is getting a fair trail, and has been unreasonable fines? But he deserves it.
8A, The death penalty is fair, right? I mean, if evidence ever shows up that exonerates them, we can dig them up, right?
9A I don't think anyone cares what order we get rid of these, right?
10A Those states don't have rights, it's my body, right?

I don't vote anymore. No offense, you all disgust me.
Yeah all the "least depressed" countries are either minuscule and/or lacking sophisticated, comprehensive medical systems.

I think if we had perfect data, there'd be a strong correlation between sunlight hours and lower depression rates. It's one of the few real factors for alleviating mild-moderate depression. Stuff like living standards has very little relation to actual clinical depression.
You seem very confident that this couldn't possible happen - but in fact we have examples of it already having happened...

So maybe you should tone down your indignation?
If it was me, I would be ingesting the raw filings from SEC EDGAR and using the robust xml documentation to create very accurately annotated data tables that would be fed to my LLM
DNNs are very good at learning features so are a natural fit if you have lots of training data. The main drawback is then you've lost the ability to work with small data. The other drawback is the computational cost of the maxent model on top of it. So you get both the best and the worst of both halves.

So:

input --DNN--> feature vector --minimax_entropy_optimisation--> maxent model --sampling/inference--> output

But minimax entropy learning is just learning a model that matches statistics of a set of features (filters). If you just want to draw a single sample from that model or the maximum likelihood point (e.g. you just want the answer to an IQ question) rather than doing complicated inference (in the DNN era, people have forgotten that "inference" is far more general than classification) you don't actually need the model at all, you can skip learning it, and go straight to computing a result with the desired statistics. This is around 100-1000x faster.

input --DNN--> feature vector --statistics_matching--> output

This is what I mostly did in my PhD work, and there's a famous paper doing this:

A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.07376

This has a sister paper which is even purer statistics-of-features-matching:

Texture Synthesis Using Convolutional Neural Networks https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.07376

However soon people worked out you can just train a DNN to do the statistics matching directly. Initially, with a fixed target style, and later taking the style as a second input. If the results are acceptable, this is vastly faster at inference time.

input --DNN--> output

Using them in this way would likely mean just replacing the final layer. The original papers on 'style transfer' did this, a DNN plus minimax entropy learning. has been done in texture and image models.
Is there an RSS feed of this at all? Tried a few pages and they don't add to my reader.
> Most people use Apple products because of the walled garden, not in spite of it.

I don't think this is true at all, and I suspect the users who feel this do it because a vague sense of security, not that they actually want less choice.

I'm sure many iphone users would want to stick with their default apps, but I also think a lot of them would understand their co-users different choices.
I'm alright with that. If our government uses a blogpost as an excuse to pass bad laws, we had very little chance to begin with. I also hate the idea of changing our behavior to babysit a bunch of deprecated boomers who fear technology just because there's a chance they might not understand something.
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>Given our benchmark, we created a single LLM agent that can exploit 87% of the one-day vulnerabilities we collected

They tested 15 vulnerabilities, 5 of them are XSS. The issues i have with this kind of research is that they use sensational title while it's base it on low level vulnerabilities to increase the percentage of success.
I don't think we will be able to get rid of teams that easily
1) it's a PITA to migrate teams accounts between tenants not mentioning migrating stuff off teams to another solution
2) companies use teams as "shared folders" in respective channels
3) copilot which enterprises even pay extra for
Could something like that proposed in "Training Language Models to Generate Text with Citations via Fine-grained Rewards" [0] work for you?

0. https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04315
He does seem genuinely passionate about it during interviews so makes sense that he spent some time on it
Brazilian constitution has ample protections for free speech. Here are the words which are literally written in the brazilian constitution:

> The expression of thought is free

> The expression of intellectual, artistic, scientific and communication activities are free, independently of censure or license

> The manifestation of thought, of creation, of expression and of information, in any form and by any process or vehicle, shall suffer no restriction

> Any and all censorship of political, ideological and artistic nature is prohibited

The problem is the judge who insists on "relativizing" what those words mean.
Americans struggle deeply with their axiom of whiteness.

Whiteness in America comes from the unification of caucasians from broad cultural and economic backgrounds against the black slaves that were being raped, tortured and dehumanized systematically over generations. And instead of rectifying the problem by dismantling the concept of whiteness (because it reenforces the power of racial division & hierarchy), it gets promoted as truth and vilified in the name of equality. From an outside perspective, even as close as Canada, this appears regressive.

As for the choice to highlight black and brown people in this project that others in the GP are complaining about.. maybe they’re under represented in these fields in the UK and the government wants to fix that? I have to say if you get upset about minorities being over-represented you need to find a better use of your limited time on Earth.
Often times what is understood by first-worlders as "depression" is a cluster of problems that uniquely affect decently well-off people who have been spiritually and physically subjugated by an spiritually blank industrial bureaucracy.

If you measure stress, hunger, sorrow, fear, scarcity, etc. you'll find higher levels among the global poor, but if you measure "malaise, sadness, lack of purpose, emptiness, yearning for meaning, loneliness" you won't find that the global poor suffer these things as acutely.

People are often surprised when they visit the poorer Caribbean countries, or African countries (not experience immediate war), or South America, and come back gushing about how happy the people there are. Yes; many of the people you'll interact with the third world work fewer hours, with friends and companions from the same culture, with the same spiritual beliefs, doing physical labor outside that has an immediate impact on their direct survival.

By contrast, go to any part of the third world that is experiencing "industrialization" or "globalization"--Lagos, Cairo, Luanda, etc.--and you'll find that "depression" rates begin to increase as people grow up and slot themselves into the global supply chain instead of the lifestyle of their ancestors.

(For the record, I am not advocating that we should shut down the supply chain to cure depression, but I think this understanding of why "happiness" trends down in areas where life is easy and comfortable, but trends up in areas where life is difficult and uncomfortable, is an important step in figuring out a good mental model of the world.)
I think conditioned reinforcers can actually be beneficial for pursing long-term goals. Let's say someone's purpose in life is to have a positive impact on the world, metrics such as audience reached provide a tangible interface for this abstract goal. Similar to using your credit card, gamification mechanisms like chasing metrics lets you experience the rewards of your efforts prematurely, which motivates you to work harder to achieve more.

And this whole loop can be part of a positive-sum game too. Metrics is a straightforward way to demonstrate how you can achieve your sense of purpose. When you share your strategy on maximizing those metrics, you incentivize and guide others to start their own journeys. If what you did inspire even one person to start acting, you've already added value to the system.
Script kiddy was adopted to make them sound more like what they are: people that have no clue what they're doing but mostly just exploit things that smarter people found out they could exploit. The "smarter person" being a naive language model in this case.

The idea being that being called something "cool" like "hacker" or "threat actor" actually incentivizes script kiddies to put down their Xbox controllers and do bad things.
Arguably a better source was posted here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40101317 but no discussion there
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Ya, the other thing is that we need to gradually give them freedom and have them make some recoverable mistakes under our watch, or they could go straight from sheltered kid to adult in the world on their own. By 16, they should have 75% of the freedom of an adult, because they’ll have 100% at 18.
I don’t have a dialogue with myself. I might express something like, that was stupid, or go on a an expletive rant when I hit my thumb, but it’s not directed at myself.

With games, I do take mental notes, but it’s not personal. It’s more like looking at a historical battle, for example and thinking of different options. It’s not personal.

I’m not going to be absolutist. There could be times I’ve had internal monologues but I may not think of them as such. In other words maybe I have the behavior but because I haven’t classified it as such, I remain unaware of it.
I wonder how many users does he have now :-)
it's like in Silicon Valley when Erlich puts on his carpal tunnel gloves and finally starts contributing to the Pied Piper codebase
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40101290 for more discussion (although IMHO this here is the better link)
Not sure why would this be surprising, he built a smart assistant in 2016:
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-personal...
which is exactly why the vote went the way it did. they wanted it passed, they found the votes from senators that were safe, and everyone else was allowed to bail so they didn’t have to deal with it at reelection.

this is normal practice, to provide cover for your party members.

it’s divided by party line because it’s national security. they’re splitting the spoils.