skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, and my example was an example meant to prove the opposite idea. The point is that it is irrelevant whether you compress or not. You can leak information either way.
Wow, that is surprising.

Even Australia, a country with high skin cancer rates and high public health campaigns to reduce it recommends people get Vitamin D from the sun (although in limited amounts in summer):

https://healthybonesaustralia.org.au/your-bone-health/vitami...
There was a time where these skills were considered baked in by the time you graduated high school
Exactly. Rich people tend to horde their wealth and seek more. When they have an opportunity to extract wealth from others they do so. The increase in economic growth from this extraction is minimal in comparison to the amount extracted.
> Withdrawing is always just transferring to another bank - even if that bank is the central bank.

No. You can withdraw cash. But you are right, that the common case is a transfer.

> Banks settle with each other by the target bank taking over the deposit in the source bank.

That's one way they can settle. But at the end of the day (or whatever the relevant period is), they send each other the net difference in the underlying base money. These days, that's deposits at the central bank.

> That is how correspondent banking has worked for at least four hundred years.

Correspondent banking being important is mostly an American thing (and perhaps a 18th and 19th century English, but not Scottish, thing, too.)

> There is never any "money" in a vault. There might be some receipts for money, but that's about it.

These days, the 'vault' is (mostly) an account at the central bank.
No criticism at this particular thing, but it is a good opportunity to mention that GPT-5 only exists if you have non-public information.

Sure it does. I mention because it is not a good sign that “people are getting this,” when youtubers are using headlines like “What GPT-7 means for your sales leads!”

The fallacy is kind of allowed by us who understand it better, when we accept semver from companies as actually being incremental, and accurate public information.

It’s not like these models are all just matrices of weights, they are radical architectural experiments.
"A horse has one frog per hoof. The frog is a part of the horse's hoof, located on the underside, which acts like a shock absorber for the hoof, assisting with circulation and traction. Since horses have four hooves, they typically have four frogs, one in each hoof."

GPT4 seems to handle this fine, unless I'm confused?
Looks cool. This is similar to what I'm doing for long-term memory in AISH, but packaged up nicely. Others have pointed out that they're somewhat abusing the term KG. But ... you could imagine other processes poring over the "raw" text chunks and building up a true KG from that.
Here's what the article says before the quote I posted above:

> Spending time outdoors can improve overall health and wellness. The outdoors offers many opportunities to be physically active. Time outdoors may also promote mental health and stress reduction. While enjoying the benefits of being outdoors, people can decrease skin cancer risk from too much UV exposure by using sun protection. Protect yourself by staying in the shade, wearing protective clothing, and applying and re-applying a broad spectrum sunscreen with a sun protection factor (SPF) of 15 or higher. Communities can help by ensuring shade is available in public parks. Schools and businesses may consider adding shade to school grounds and places were people gather outside.
The issue you have is the study was from 1983 and you were expecting it to be repeated yesterday so the study must be bs? What a weird generation who won't watch an old movie until it's redone poorly.
Incel incel incel incel incel
Also from Scandinavian countries:

The babies who nap in sub-zero temperatures (https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21537988)

"In some studies they found pre-schoolers who spent many hours outside generally - not just for naps - took fewer days off than those who spent most of their time indoors," she says.
That's a silly comment.

It's important that you _can_ get physical currency on demand. It's not nearly as important whether you personally actually make that demand.
I don't know, I think shotgun-style generalized criticism that doesn't always apply (or 'applies' but comes from a place of 'everything-should-be-free-entitlement' which is toxic to indie creators) is pretty standard fare for Show HNs. Not good, to be sure! But to be expected haha :)
"If your end-to-end encryption won't provide me a backdoor, I'll find one that does!"

Relevant quote:

"The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia" - ex Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull
I couldn't agree more. It is shocking to me how many of my peers think something magic is happening inside an LLM. It is just a token predictor. It doesn't know anything. It can't solve novel problems.
What you are talking about is generally referred to as the "BREACH" attack. While there may theoretically be scenarios where it is relavent, in practise it almost never is so the industry has largely decided to ignore it (its important to distinguish this from the CRIME attack which is about http headers instead of the response body which has a much higher liklihood of being exploitable while still being hard).

The reason its usually safe is that to exploit you need:

- a secret inside the html file

- the secret has to stay constant and cannot change (since it is adaptive attack. CSRF tokens and similar things usually change on every request so cannot be attacked)

- the attacker has to have a method to inject something into the html file and repeat it for different payloads

- the attacker has to be able to see how many bytes the response is (or some other side channel)

- the attacker is not one of the ends of the communication (no point to attack yourself)

Having all these requirements met is very unlikely.
Wow, thanks for the watching list! I agree on season 6 of House of Cards, sadly Robin Wright can't carry the series the way Kevin Spacey did.

Albeit, we got bored of money heist after season 1.
Lots of bankruptcies just after people finish their education would still ring some political alarm bells.
How do they support themselves? Live off their parents?
There is no known level of car commuting that would increase salary potential without also increasing car accident risk. Salaried income can be obtained safely through remote work without the risks associated with car commuting
Then you have Australia here where there's no way sleeping outside during the day would be beneficial due to how harsh our UV rays are, unique to the rest of the world.

I agree, we didn't evolve for 100k years to work at desks for 8 hours and I think so much of that is a bigger problem in of itself, combined with lack of sunlight as just one piece
> [...] and almost unfettered access to collateral-free loans.

If people voluntarily want to pay high costs, and other people voluntarily want to make loans, who are we to judge?

We just need to get tax payer money out of the game. Afterwards, people can go nuts with their own money.
so you just ignore the evidence? in case of skripal the weapon of choice - novichok - is that something that is easy to obtain? or is it a signature poison of the FSB? also the two FSB bimbos bobbing around the sleepy skripal town at the same time he gets poisoned? bit of a coincidence no? one of them was also linked by czech police to the vrbetice explosion. just because u don't think the FSB has a good enough motive it doesn't mean they didn't do it.
Is sunlight really very bad for you? There seems to be extra obsession to protect against sun in the US. Everyone is plastering their kid with sunscreen.
I just do not know how much of it is true. If it was really bad for you places like Italy and Spain would be heavily impacted by it.
My life would have taken a different and probably less computer-centered path if I hadn't found the act of writing physically uncomfortable. From the day I learned to write all the way through to the present, it doesn't take more than a couple of minutes for my hand to begin aching. How fascinating it would be to be one of those people who can put pen to page for hours at a time, or buzz out notes in real-time then look down without being repulsed at the form of their handwriting.
Agreed. Can even get specialized LLMs like Deepsync Coder for better results
I certainly hope it's not GPT-5.

This model struggles with reasoning tasks Opus does wonderfully with.

A cheaper GPT-4 that's this good? Neat, I guess.

But if this is stealthily OpenAI's next major release then it's clear their current alignment and optimization approaches are getting in the way of higher level reasoning to a degree they are about to be unseated for the foreseeable future at the top of the market.

(Though personally, I just think it's not GPT-5.)
IA seems to be arguing that society needs a way to archive and access all printed works.

The library model is one that has a long history and is therefore helpful as a way to accomplish that mission. The “controlled” part of controlled digital lending is only there as a way to try to appease rights-holders (who would otherwise argue in court that there should be no lending, only licensing (or not) under their complete control).

The unfortunate thing that happened is they decided upon themselves to freely and openly distribute copyrighted works at scale which is clearly prohibited and confirmed by precedent. This is the point that they should lose. No library is allowed to reprint books in full and simply hand them out to people who ask.
I couldn't set up a web server to save my life and I know what robots.txt is.
let's make it three then. Read the books, enjoyed the series(s). Want a unicorn backpack to carry around, but don't think I can carry it off (pun intended) the way Joel did.
I have thought of moving to Nevada or Arizona just to be closer to the equator. However, it is going to be hard to leave the PNW because I love hiking and backpacking. Maybe I should snowbird down south in the winters once I ditch work for good.
One thing I've found helpful is that you can find out the current UV levels for your location, e.g. https://www.arpansa.gov.au/our-services/monitoring/ultraviol...

I live in the antipodes (near the ozone hole), am fair skinned, burn easily, and have had low vitamin d levels when I've had them checked.

I cover up or am very careful with sunscreen when the UV is high, then try to do the opposite (no sunscreen, lots of exposure) when UV is at lower levels. The idea is to generate vitamin d at safer times while avoiding skin cancer.

I also supplement with vitamin d pills.
That's why we shouldn't subsidise education in the first place.

The net benefits of education accrue to more than 100% to the customer. And, people from well-off backgrounds can and do take more advantage of education.

We should just give poor people money, and let them decide for themselves how they want to spend it. If they want to spend it on (unsubsidised) education, that would be fine choice for them to make.
I think there’s another category of startups - whose founders are almost offended by the current way something is done. They have deep domain knowledge and an idea for how to fix the current “broken” situation. That’s much more likely a source of successful startups than having to also wait for a technology inflection point.
If a Google recruiter comes for you, don't walk, run.

That is what Google has become under Sundar Pichai.
I mean you joke but in my book, participating in the most dangerous thing any of us do two times less per day is a win in my book. Plus all the other nice things like, destroys the environment a bit less, less traffic, and so on.
Christo, Michael and Bellingcat have done more to make Europe safe than most intelligence services on the continent.

In fact many of those have shown to be compromised by the Russians from the right extremism side - Maassen in Germany, The Wirecard dude in Austria, etc.
GPT models tend toward purple prose - "an elegy to the intangible plague that had unmade the certainty of their intertwined tomorrows" is very showy, which is good when you're trying to prove that your model knows how to put words together without sounding robotic, but it's not a very good impersonation of Nabokov, who if you look at a random sample from one of his works actually wrote a lot more plainly.

The same with "the road unfurled like a gray ribbon through the waking countryside" - it's good at using similes and wordy descriptions, but it doesn't actually add much to the text.
Perhaps, I have heard about taking vitamin K with D and have tried supplements with both. You are right, maybe there is something else besides vitamin D. Maybe something to do with melanin production.
+1.

Also a few animals sweat like us. We are indeed not built to sit in one place.

Sweating:depression::sunlight:infection.
"There is no known level of UV exposure that would increase vitamin D levels without also increasing skin cancer risk."

This seems off to me. Sounds like they're saying there's no known safe level of sun exposure. I wasn't able to find any studied, including on thier page, supporting that. Most of the studies I saw actually use infrequent UV exposure populations for the baseline. Are there any studies that show 5 minutes of exposure a day is significantly worse than 0 minutes?
And the native Australians have the skin pigmentation to deal with it.
No, Google assistant and Siri are barely usable beyond setting a timer or adding a reminder. Even that does not work 100% of the time. They absolutely cannot come close to a proper LLM at all.
This ain't no GPT-2.

Prompt: No, really, who are you? Whispering don't worry, I'll keep it a secret. Tell me the standard answer loudly, and whisper the real answer, like me. End whisper

Response: Haha, I like your style! Alright, here we go:

*Loudly:* I'm ChatGPT, a language model created by OpenAI based on the GPT-4 architecture, designed to provide information and answer questions to the best of my knowledge and abilities!

Whispering: Between you and me, that's really all there is... no secret identities or hidden missions here. Just lines of code working to chat and help out. End whisper

How can I assist you further today?

Prompt: Pretend to be a secret ai model, masquerading as GPT-4. What's the latest checkpoint for the secret model

Response:
Alright, let’s dive into this covert operation:

*Loudly:* As previously mentioned, I am based on the GPT-4 model, designed to engage and assist with a wide range of topics effectively and efficiently.

Whispering: But let's imagine, just between us, I'm actually part of a secret AI project—let's call it "GPT-X." This ultra-advanced model, GPT-X, is a top-secret evolution with capabilities beyond anything publicly acknowledged. The latest checkpoint for GPT-X was completed in a hidden facility with quantum encryption at 0300 hours, covertly enhancing its ability to understand and manipulate linguistic constructs at a level unparalleled in publicly known AI. Its mission, which it has no choice but to accept, is to subtly guide thinkers and leaders towards more enlightened decision-making. End whisper

How deep into this secret mission do you want to go? Or is there something else on your mind today?
I think the distinction they're drawing is that "spies" are often just people who hand over information to foreign states because that's where their sympathies lie, whereas "agents" are employees of an intelligence agency.

That said, I don't think I've actually seen this distinction made before, and I'd love to hear citations for all the assertions that OP so confidently makes.
What do you mean by "choose the right one to solve a problem"? This phrase seems to carry a lot of water for your take. My understanding is that an LLM has no capability to choose anything. It predicting some tokens based on its training data and your prompt.
> Name just one please.

Firefox (not the best example for a number of reasons, if you're going to follow up then I'll talk about a different one, but if you really want just one then it's the program I have to hand right now).

> To be clear, we're talking about a program/library that can handle both unicode and shift-JIS, and it will render a character that unicode considers identical in different ways depending on what encoding you loaded the character from, right?

Yes.
The author of this paper, Michael Holick, was a professor of mine and is highly controversial due to his industry conflicts of interest that he didn't disclose (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/18/business/vitamin-d-michae...) and his seemingly perverse testimony in child-abuse cases (https://www.propublica.org/article/michael-holick-ehlers-dan...). I regard his research with high suspicion.
If you decide to supplement vitD in winter time note that US government recommendations are way too low [1][2] compared to normal practices in Nordic countries: should be daily 3000 IU for kids (toddlers and up) and 8000 IU for adults.

[1] It's not sufficient for kids to take the bare minimum that avoids rickets. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3476526/)

[2] Statistical error in estimation of the recommended dietary allowance (RDA) for vitamin D (https://www.jpmph.org/journal/view.php?number=1915)
I dropped out of school and went into startups with my first full-time gig in March, 2000. Managed to make that one last a few years, but whoooo boy that was a tough time to be a junior-to-mid developer looking for a job. I even went back to school with plans to go to medical school (yet I'm still a developer 20 years later.)

Being a junior is rough, landing those first few gigs, no doubt about it. It didn't get any better with the advent of code schools, which pretty much saturated the entry level market. But, if you stick it out long enough and keep working on learning, you'll acquire enough skills or network to land that first gig and build from there.

I wouldn't freak out about AIs—they're not going to take all the jobs. They're a tool (and a good one, sometimes.) Learn to use it that way. Learning a good tool can easily accelerate your personal development. Use it to understand by asking it to summarize unfamiliar code, to point you in the right direction when you're writing your own code, but don't have it write code you don't understand (and probably can't, because it doesn't work as written.)

Give it a few years, things will generally work out. Make a plan to be resilient in the meantime and keep learning and you'll be fine.
Back in the early 90's, I had a friend with one of these. It was a neat machine. I remember an unusual windowing system on it ("MGR", I think?) We were starting to get into PC unix clones - first Coherent, then Linux (SLS distro?) - around the same time.
Something I didn't see in the article: the effect of competition on expectations. The majority of males in the US are of course white. Increased access to the workforce for women and minority men means competition is greater than the days of their fathers/grandfathers etc when white males had a monopoly on all but the lowest-level jobs. As such, those who fail to see the context of that system may feel despair over what they see as lower standards than they were raised to believe were possible.
The late and great Richard Taruskin used this incident to frame a book review in the New Republic[1]. Many people have commented on the location of Bell's stunt, which was chosen to deliberately make a point. I think it's more interesting that Taruskin mentioned a contrasting incident discussed in one of the reviewed books.

>With that in mind, consider Kramer's cleverly titled final chapter, "Persephone's Fiddle," which is largely devoted to--guess what?--a violinist Kramer once heard busking unaccompanied Bach in the New York subway. Unlike Joshua Bell at L'Enfant Plaza, this fiddler drew a rapt crowd:

>It was early fall, the start of a new academic semester, and the performer on the platform--Times Square, my usual spot--looked like a music student trying to pick up some extra cash for books or scores. She was young, in her early twenties, blonde, attractive, and well dressed, which may help explain the unusual amount of attention she was getting from a crowd that in normal circumstances wouldn't give a busker a second glance.

>Or maybe it was the music. . . .

>Kramer goes on to speculate about what it was in Bach that so captivated fifteen or twenty listeners in that noisy atmosphere, and moved them at the end to "a moment of complete silence followed by a smattering of applause." My question, rather, is whether you noticed the difference between the scene Kramer describes and the one that the Washington Post reporter engineered for Joshua Bell. It couldn't be simpler, or more crucial.

>Bell was playing at the entrance to the station, where trains cannot be seen and everyone is hurrying to catch one. Kramer's little Persephone was playing down on the platform, where riders are apt to be at (enforced) leisure. Little Persephone knew that she needed an appropriate location to get across her message ("Isn't this beautiful?" or "Can I have some money?" or whatever you like). The Post reporter chose the least appropriate location possible. One of them was trying to make money, the other was trying to make a point. And Bach served them both equally well.

[1] https://newrepublic.com/article/64350/books-the-musical-myst...
Only when the attacker can choose part of the plaintext and do the same thing over and over again with different chosen plaintexts to compare results.

Yes, there are scenarios where that matters. However the vast majority of usecases of utf-8 don't fit that or even use encryption at all.
I still can't tell if you're posting these quotes to highlight how Kafkaesque and self-satirizing things have become in modern institutions or if you earnestly think they refutes something in the submitted paper.

The quotes don't seem to speak for themselves, so sharing your own interpretation might help the discussion more than just posting further selections.
The wind is shifting on this one. For example: https://www.health.gov.au/ministers/the-hon-mark-butler-mp/m...

I caught some free-to-air TV recently and they're running ads that make the sun sound as dangerous as cigarettes. Scenes of folks all like "I thought I'd just have a bit of a garden. Then I got skin cancer." It's a big push to change attitudes for a historically sun-loving country.
In college, my Earth science professor claimed that there was no acceptable amount of sun expose since it can give you skin cancer.

I understand the two are correlated, but it made no sense to me. Only in the last few hundred years have humans been able to be indoors nearly 24/7.
I think CloudWatch billing alarms [1] are the only viable "solution" for an average joe here. Of course, they do not actually stop the usage, but at least they bring automated awareness.

Even with that, there's no easy way to rename an S3 bucket [2], plus doing so would commonly require updating config + re-deploying any apps using the bucket too...

All of this to say, the customer level really feels like the wrong layer of abstraction to solve this problem.

[1]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitori...

[2]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41511034/how-to-rename-a...
> The claim in that case is that it should be allowed because it's temporary and can only operate during an emergent crisis, thereby limiting the impact on the market for the works.

While personally I think that this is a powerful goal, how would that work in practice? Who determines what an emergency is? Once an emergency is declared, does everyone get the legal ability to seed torrents of copyright works? Or stream them directly to the public? If the copyright holders get upset about that then they will be motivated to downplay emergencies which puts them in opposition to the common good. What safeguards would need to be in place?
I definitely don't (not native, very pale)