skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, it wasn't as much a jab against France or Macron in particular, as just an example of the general policy. Pretty much all of Europe (and US, and Canada) behave in a similar way and see us as a well of natural resources to be scooped out dry and then thrown aside. Some people here call it a new form of colonialism. Every country follows their interests and that's fine, as long as we don't hear lectures about this or that thing while those same lecturers behave in a hypocritical way contrary to what they're saying.

Edit: as opposed to China and Russia that pour serious money into large infrastructure projects like the new Silk Road. Russia has only started doing this recently, though. People have their reservations about those countries, but can't help but see the difference between e.g. China that builds railroads and power plants, and Western countries that only suck out money, paying tiny salaries to local workers and circumventing things like air pollution regulations.
Yeah, I misread it. My apologies.
Everyone understands that, but when the project name you're copying is popular enough (12k stars meets this threshold, personally) and is still actively used and developed, a name change should be more seriously considered as to avoid confusion (which I exhibited, fwiw).
I think "a phd in algebra" is shorthand for "I did my doctoral research on an apocryphal subject that is only understood by a sub-sub-sub field of the mathematics research community and I wrote a thesis with a title that would simultaneously melt your brain and mean nothing to you, so I'm saying it in a way that you would kind of get more or less what my PhD was approximately about ish, with caveats".

In the same sense, I "have a PhD in AI". You have a PhD in "what could be said to be the Landlands problem itself". It happens.
Re greyscale, it really does work.

And you can also add an accessibility switch with Back Tab to turn this on and off by tapping three times at the back of your iphone.
Not this case specifically, but the harm done by misidentification by a computer is seemingly no different for the harm done by a human misidentification - if the doorman / security guard / croupier thinks you are a miscreant then the same harm applies

What might matter is the actions taken - but would they be any different if a human said “oh look that’s the well known shoplifter, keep her out”
That one is easy: Generate the long answer behind the scenes, and then feed it to a special-purpose summarisation model (the type that lets you determine the output length) to summarise it.
Wait until Monday and see how the stock reacts
Yeah, well, if anyone could understand something, there would be no point in having a PhD in it.
I don't think that would be stable. No war means losing the ability to fight which means eventually it'll be easy enough for just one small group to attack somebody much bigger but weaker.

If war is solved by all attacked countries surrendering immediately so one aggressor rules the world, I'm sure factions would emerge within it who are competing for power again.

Maybe a solution could come from some defensive technology permanently outperforming offensive technology? I think people would still find a way and the wars might be or begin by psychologically changing people's allegiances.
And on iPhone: https://support.apple.com/en-nz/guide/assistive-access-iphon...
This is why GOOG didn't release a dedicated LLM product earlier despite building the core models for it almost a decade ago (eg. BERT).

This is also why MS and other companies are leveraging OpenAI, as they can offload liability onto them.

Emily Bender is correct about how LLMs are just "extruded text machines".
I am in your comments telling you that federated server is still just someone else's computer.

But there are systems where user is sovereign, defined by their key, not dependent on any masters. One such system is Nostr:

https://nostr.com/
Nearly every post that uses exclamation marks like this is off-putting. Fake enthusiasm is creepy. There is no way you are enthusiastic about people having no inner voice.
The Original "Classical Samkhya" is Atheistic and Dualistic Realism. It is only in later modifications/extensions that the concept of "God" was added in, which is strictly speaking not necessary. Wikipedia gives the debate - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samkhya#Views_on_God See the texts Samkhya Karika/Panchasikha Sutram/Kapila Sutras in the magnum opus by Nandalal Sinha titled The Samkhya Philosophy (contains a translation of all extant Samkhya texts in over 700 pages!). Also see the books of Gerald Larson (one of the foremost western scholars on Samkhya) to get an idea of the evolution of the entire Samkhya School.

In Patanjali Yoga Sutras the concept of "God" is merely used as an entity and technique to help you in your practice to break out of your self-identity (i.e. Ahamkara). It is just one among a set of techniques. There is only half a dozen sutras which even mention god in the entire text (see this succinct translation by Bon Giovanni - https://sacred-texts.com/hin/yogasutr.htm). It is in the later commentaries on the text that you find an elaboration according to the pre-existing beliefs of the author.
"Calling it "intelligent" is irresponsible."
How so ?

If a human of animal behaving the same were to be describe as intelligent, than so are those systems.
i think you mean to to say "has sunk"
Bubble AI
Runescape's short-lived HTML5 client (2013)
I've had better luck writing system prompts as first person, because I've seen instances where third person prompts make the LLM think you're there to train it... but without a backend for it to remember stuff, that goes out the window as quickly as it runs out of context tokens.
Is that Albert Heijn? They have nice freshly squeezed orange juice and pindakaas. I remember automated checkouts when I was in Amsterdam but I also seem to remember they were out of order. Small blessings, I guess?
I tried the "grayscale-only display" for kicks, and it sucks, primarily with Apps that are better off with different colors - Maps.

Besides that, I have been disabling Notifications for ages, and that is the one decision that I believe was one of the best decisions of my phone life. I wrote an article in 2014[1] that needs a serious update, but it still makes sense.

Make it a habit to turn off Notifications as soon as you install a new app unless they are critical, such as Medical or Kid/school-related.

My Home page has a minimal wallpaper that I did a few years back, and it stayed. I usually leave one row at the bottom for beta-testing and region-specific Apps I use while traveling.

Of course, none of the Social Media Apps are on my phone. I checked my screen time to include this comment, and I've 37 minutes Daily Average. So, on most usage, I should still likely be averaging less than an hour daily.

1. https://brajeshwar.com/2014/missing-step-productivity-activi...
Get a really good personal trainer.

Top tip: I asked my physio to recommend a coach and they found me a great one.

1. Just having an appointment forces me to get up and go 3 days a week.

2. Having a trainer means you have a spotter so you can lift in safety

3. Having a trainer plan your sessions means it’s incredibly efficient both in ROI and overall time spent vs improvement.

If like me you are a remote tech worker sat at a desk most of the day, physical training will literally add years to your life.

Also it will make sure your younger years are high quality years where you can do whatever you want, have more energy, reduce/ avoid illnesses and diseases etc.

Lifting will help increase bone density and keep them healthy as you get older which is a huge part of getting “frail” as you age.
> And then, the academic perspective is that prices should be modelled as random walks, though you may talk/learn about things such as "trend" and volatility.

The math involved in finance and economics always seems way behind that of other fields. The problem is that the other fields with more advanced math are so deep in theory that the people working in those areas are often either unaware of the potential real world applications of their work, or they are simply not interested in it (I’ve noticed there seems to be little overlap between the type of personality inclined to explore abstract theories as its own reward and the type of personality that prefers to apply existing knowledge to a real world problem).

> Suggesting that hidden variables/states/transitions can be learned from historical data is usually considered pseudo-scientific.

I mean, there’s a definitive answer to the question of stock market predictability. Unfortunately, it’s also uncomputable: if the conditional Kolmogorov complexity of a stock price time series given relevant auxiliary data is less than the size of the time series data (roughly speaking), then the stock price is predictable to some degree. Otherwise, it’s not.

I would be extremely skeptical if anyone claimed that stock price is truly Kolmogorov-random. However, I also think no single trading group’s algorithms (and data) are sufficiently more advanced than any other group’s to the point where algorithmic arbitrage is obvious to the market (or maintainable over a sufficiently long time period). I would not be surprised though if a sudden ML breakthrough destabilizes the entire market at some point in the near future when one group does in fact realize a step function improvement in their algorithms.
> In many scenarios, the observer is a machine or tool, not a human mind.

An unconscious, non-experiencing mechanism is not an observer in the way the term “empirical”[0] is meant—to observe is to experience.

> I also don't understand why the mind is relevant.

See above.

(I do not think I really understood the rest of your comment.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empirical_evidence
> but if the code contains independent SVE streams, you will be stalled.

Can you explain why thats bad?

Don't you still get full utilisation of the 4x128b units?
Feigning being a victim and having no agency is trendy in certain circles.
It's a very restricted form of conditions, since it only allows resuming.

A conditions system would subsume both `toss` and `hurl` (because you can have an unwinding restart), as well as provide more flexibility: the condition can provide multiple user-defined restarts and the handler can pick between them (statically or dynamically), as well as feed content back into the signalling function.

For instance a classic CL restart is `use-value` which is the conventional name of restarts feeding a default value in case of missing or invalid item.

So let's say that you have a hashmap type, on lookup failure it could trigger a condition with a `use-value` handler to feed it a default value (possibly dynamically constructed), or abort/unwind, it could also have a restart to insert-and-return the value (so would behave as a `defaultdict`/`putIfAbsent`)
> On the other hand, the book has some nuggets that make it worth reading

Definitely! Mostly just a word of caution to not get overeager hoping to apply this everywhere, because "here be dragons".
Iraq attacks and takes over Kuwait. And then threatens to invade Saudi Arabia.

But US the the 'aggressor' for rolling this back?

And the US gets many allies and works through the UN to do this, but it is somehow 'illegal'?

It sounds like in your perfect world, Saddam keeps Kuwait, also gets Saudi Arabia, and the US just sits on its hands after terrorists kill thousands in NYC because being 'aggressive' is always bad no matter what.
Thanks for your reply. That is a long list and I confess I only skimmed it, but while I don't think any of it is technically impossible, it's not something one needs an advanced (or less advanced) AI to do. In particular, it all seems to hinge again on the assumption that our friendly neighbourhood AGI can spin up an army of botnets. Well, maybe it can, but so can our friendly neighbourhood script kiddie, if they really put their mind to it. And they do, all the time, and the internet is full of large scale botnets. And that's just script kiddies. Competent hackers backed by a national security organisation can do way more, and without any AI at all; and they also have, repeatedly.

Personalised cyber attacks in parallel, for example: why is an AGI needed for that? You say "humans can't do it at that level". Why not? That's pretty much what Amazon does when I shop there and they show me "personalised" suggestions.

Now, note well I'm no expert on cybersecurity, but I'm well aware that everyone on the internet is always under a constant barrage of cyberattacks, personalised (if you count intrusive ads as personalised cyberattacks, which I sure do) or otherwise (common spam), the vast majority of which fail because of relatively simple countermeasures, for example spam filters that use the simplest classifier of all (Naive Bayes), or just your humble regex-based ad blocker. It seems to me that for any gigantic cyberattack effort that an AGI would be able to mount, the internets as it is right now, would be able to mount an equally large-scale automated defense that would not need any AGI, or AI, or I at all, and basically shield the vast majority of users from the vast majority of fallout.

So for an AGI to manage to get through all those countermeasures that are already in place, it would take a really, truly super-godly-AGI, just because a weaker system would barely make a dent.

And if we're talking about a super god AGI, then there's already nothing we can do, right? It's already invented time travel, travelled back to the '90s and installed itself on every network switch in the world, right in the firmware, so no matter what we do it will exist in the future and dominate it.
[dupe]

Mentioned in and being discussed as part of:

People spend more when prices end in .99 (2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40474736
Yeah, like in the USSR when you wanted to enter the metro and a cop asked to see your ID. Very nice, nothing tyrannical about demanding that people submit to the authorities whenever the authorities want them to.
Here is Jeremy Howard's system prompt [0]. I often have success using a modified version of this.

> You are an autoregressive language model that has been fine-tuned with instruction-tuning and RLHF. You carefully provide accurate, factual, thoughtful, nuanced answers, and are brilliant at reasoning. If you think there might not be a correct answer, you say so.

>

> Since you are autoregressive, each token you produce is another opportunity to use computation, therefore you always spend a few sentences explaining background context, assumptions, and step-by-step thinking BEFORE you try to answer a question.

>

> Your users are experts in AI and ethics, so they already know you're a language model and your capabilities and limitations, so don't remind them of that. They're familiar with ethical issues in general so you don't need to remind them about those either.

>

> Don't be verbose in your answers, but do provide details and examples where it might help the explanation. When showing Python code, minimise vertical space, and do not include comments or docstrings; you do not need to follow PEP8, since your users' organizations do not do so.

[0] - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jkrNMKz9pWU
Maybe we need to interview a C++ compiler engineer, for microsoft, GCC, clang, etc, because C++ is a large language that carries its compilation model from C, and I don't think making modules happen, or implementing them, is a trivial task.

I don't think they intended to make a mess, I think that C++ compilers are just massive things with massive codebases, and several different companies who have to agree on one language.

There are many non-trivial obstacles.
stop taking ANY vitamin supplements, esp. vitamin B..
Oracle Linux for Raspberry Pi
> Seems pretty inefficient to me

Police surveillance should be inefficient. People do not exist to be arbitrarily inspected at scale; it should be an expensive, manual process and you should be forced to choose carefully whom you target, by necessity keeping that list small and limited to those for whom you can articulate cause.
Well, the first thing you do is stop doing it if you're the one killing the civilians. If your own leaders are doing it, you try to stop them, especially as a citizen of a democratic country. If someone else in the world is doing it, you try to engage the UN and other international bodies to help, hopefully with a diplomatic solution. Failing all this, and assuming it's your people being killed, you will have to take up arms and defend.

This is roughly what the Palestinians did when they found themselves attacked by the Israeli settlers, back at the formation of Israel. It's important to always remember that in this conflict, Israel has been the first aggressor, not the defense. And since Israel had the full support of the UN, and later of the USA, the Palestinians really couldn't spend too much time waiting for those to fix their problem (though they are actively engaged even today).

Now, for Israel to stop these attacks on their own people, especially before October 7th, the solution is actually relatively simple: stop attacking the people of Palestine, and they will stop attacking back. Recognize Palestine as a state, including a corridor to link Gaza and the West Bank, give back the territory stolen by illegal colonists in the West Bank, stop blockading their borders. Condition this on a free cross-Palestinian election, maybe even explicitly blocking Hamas from it.

The problem is that Israel's goal is not simply to stop the attacks on their civilians. Israel's goal, as many top leaders in Israel, including Netanyahu, openly declare, is to expand Israel's borders while excluding Palestinians from being Israeli citizens. Netanyahu has been supporting Hamas for more than a decade, and has many times openly admitted to this, as a great ally in ensuring that a two-state solution will never be reached.

So, what if a few Israeli citizens are killed every year? That's a price that Israel's government is willing to pay to keep the status quo and not get their hands too dirty with Palestinian blood. Of course, Oct 7th changed that: it challenged them and showed they are not all powerful, and that is not acceptable, so the people of Gaza had to be punished.

And just one final note - Israel performed two October 7th-level attacks just in the last twenty years - 2004's Operation Cast Led (1200+ civilians killed), and 2014's Operation Protective Edge (2200+ civilians killed). Except of course those were much worse, since Israeli bombs also destroyed many thousands of homes, displacing tens of thousands of civilians atop those killed.
Uber Eats is the worst. In the app, Account > Communication is where they have you auto opted-in to endless promotional garbage.
neo-nazis like old-nazis were always anti-Zionism.
Only when following the instructions correctly, not when using treble the serving suggestion per cup.
Based on the fact that people speaking different languages can lack basic abstract concepts or reason about them very differently, I think thoughts do have a language or at least often follow a language.

Here's a link to a transcript of a lecture with some very interesting examples:
https://irl.umsl.edu/oer/13/

A quote as a sample:
So let me tell you about some of my favorite examples. I'll start with an example from an Aboriginal community in Australia that I had the chance to work with. These are the Kuuk Thaayorre people. They live in Pormpuraaw at the very west edge of Cape York. What's cool about Kuuk Thaayorre is, in Kuuk Thaayorre, they don't use words like "left" and "right," and instead, everything is in cardinal directions: north, south, east and west. And when I say everything, I really mean everything. You would say something like, "Oh, there's an ant on your southwest leg." Or, "Move your cup to the north-northeast a little bit." In fact, the way that you say "hello" in Kuuk Thaayorre is you say, "Which way are you going?" And the answer should be, "North-northeast in the far distance. How about you?"
"The Metropolitan Police say that around one in every 33,000 people who walk by its cameras is misidentified.

But the error count is much higher once an someone is actually flagged. One in 40 alerts so far this year has been a false positive."

I think it's a good idea to make it clear what you mean by "failure rate".
Apple used to forbid advertising push notifications completely but then when they pivoted to services they started doing it themselves and eventually the hipocracy got to be too much for even them and they started allowing it with no decent way to discern them
Let's say that you are pricing products and a competitor is charging $19.99. You know that one cent is not going to change the purchasing decision of potential customers. If it did, you would simply price your product at $19.98 (and maybe get into a price war one penny at a time). Yet you also know that the price ending with a nine will have an impact upon sales. It is not rational, but that's what the statistics appear to say. While it won't have any meaningful impact upon how much money people have to spend, it will have an impact upon where people spend their money.
And if you ever have to choose between the two, you can choose what you value more. But I disagree with the premise that they're mutually exclusive. For the most part your career and financial success is orthogonal to your personal relationships, and to your health.
The Economist does.

I've been in convos with their writers a couple times. Usually for an article like this they'll chat with 10-15 people.

For more expansive articles usually 40-50 dedicated conversations.

Why are HNers so overly dismissive about non-SWEs (even though plenty were former SWEs), especially the types who tend to give unsubstantiated comments.
Most of the stuff moved to
UI already in home assistant and less than error prone compared the last
"Language" in the context of PL is a misnomer. People even scientist seem to fall into that trap (remember the literate programming movement). PL's are better described as "Specifications". More similar to file format specifications, later converted to executables or interpreted.

> the researchers showed them snippets of code and asked them to predict what action the code would produce.

That is only (a small) part of programming (the simulating in your head). I'd argue that biggest part of programming is organizing and communication.
And in the Uber Eats app, it’s Account > Communication to disable all the annoying notifications.
Maybe a solution is the cost of lawsuits from false positives vs the cost of theft from false negatives means shopkeepers or their insurance companies have to make a reasonable trade-off in how they use that information that keeps most people happy. The odd incorrectly identified person can still get cleared after a bit of inconvenient legal procedure and be paid for their trouble.
> TFA says that it has a failure rate of 1:33,000. That's a "do not ship" rating for almost anything else.

I find statements like this interesting, from a risk analysis point of view. In the UK there are breast cancer screening programmes and the risk of a radiation-induced cancer for a woman attending full field digital mammographic screening is between one in 50,000 to 100,000. That puts the rate of inducing cancer vs finding cancer at 1 in 400 to 1 in 800 (because the majority of scan results find no cancer). Should we "not ship" breast cancer screening?
I'm sorry but i strongly disagree.

If you're taking money from the public and spending it you should be legally bound to use it in the most efficient and effective way possible.