skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> OpenAI learned about the project and gave Rohrer the option to either dilute the project to prevent possible misuse or shut it down. Rohrer was also asked to insert an automated monitoring tool, which he refused.

Why is this article so vague, as are the Tweets by the project creator. What actually happened here, concretely?

What, specifically, did OpenAI want to 'dilute' and how? What does the automated monitoring tool do? I expect a news article to explain these things.
Other discussion from today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28501901
They're trying to be clever and punish people who enjoy their rights of GDPR. The EU will not find these patterns cute or acceptable, and fortunately their fines are large enough to cause the offending business real pain. It's only a matter of time!
> Not calling them stupid for not having a PhD.

GP simply stated that we should be consulting experts in the fields, not laypeople, when it comes to things of a scientific nature.

These were your words, not theirs.
Add in a requirement for politicians to share wives, and I think you have Plato's philosopher-kings.
What Makes for Truth in Acting?
Just like how, according to the 9/11 commission report, on the morning of 9/11 there was a "chance meeting" between the two guys who ran the investigation into attacks (Porter Graham and Bob Goss) and the guy who wired 100k to the lead hijacker (Ahmad).

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter_Goss
This is a hilariously terrible name.

It’s like starting a brand new car company named Toyota
The article touches on it a bit, but I think it also highly depends on the person.

Some people are really good at leading large teams, others are better suited to smaller teams. It really also depends on the makeup of the team and how much you can trust them to execute without you intervening.

I've lead teams of ~20 without issue as a first time lead. It went very well, both for me, and based on feedback, for the team as well.

However what worked well there was that I could trust my team to both execute their work and stay on top of things.

What I found helped was making sure that everyone on the team was made aware of everything going on (in summary of course) so that there was less need to act as the central knowledge store, which is quite common for a lot of leads to turn into.
Sure, also don't offer services to the obese or smokers either (/s)
I think it’s a case of people hearing jargon and using it without understanding.

Like people who don’t realize that the “ugly american” was the hero of the novel (being unlike the pampered, out of touch elites).

Language is weird but this kind of thing makes things people say quite hard to understand.
Thank you. Didn't know about Thanos.
This also has the benefit that your code is likely to keep working in 10 years.
> instead of saying ‘fuck no’

This is only possible for people whose job stability or financial situation is above average.
Very well summarized, particularly about the point of locality.

In terms of intractability large graph problems, here’s an example of a scalable solution that provides incredible performance (measured in terms of response times, queries per second, etc) by Facebook to represent the social graph
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/atc13/atc13-b...
Guinness World Record for biggest strawman. As if anywhere close to that number of people would be permanently "zonked out", or that the "zonked" ones wouldn't aready be as such on alcohol or illicit cannabis, or that the government should have the right to tell you exactly which mood-altering substances you can enjoy, or that cannabis isn't actually a beneficial mood-altering drug for many people.

In other words, I disagree with almost every premise you've established.
Isn't this the whole point of passing the law and others like it while they still can? To scare off the "liberals" who are dangerously close to flipping Texas blue.
About 10-15 years ago I went to download a torrent. It never had many seeders and got stuck at 94.8%. It was there for a few years. One day one of the very few, if not the only, humans with the whole torrent must have connected as it was 100%. Serendipity.

And then about 5 years later I lost the files in a hard drive crash. Tried to grab the torrent again and all this time later it is sitting at, you guessed it, 94.8%.
If it's a good quality mask, that would be misunderstanding the words on the box.

Masks provide some protection against the spreading of liquid droplets, as it says on the box. (Quality of mask varies a lot, though.)

In the case of Covid-19, droplets are believed to be the primary way it is suspended in air and breathed in by the next person.

Although that type of mask doesn't protect against pure airborne virus transmission without droplets, that is more applicable to other viruses than Covid-19.

The key difference: "Airborne virus" means virus without droplets (or such tiny ones that it's not what we mean by droplets); it does not mean the same thing as virus carried by small liquid droplets of the size normally breathed out by humans, and attenuated by cloth masks.

Maybe some Covid-19 is transported without droplets, but quantity of exposure matters, and suppressing droplet transmission, as done by good cloth masks, still has a significant effect. There are better, more thorough mask types available, of course.
The problem with my F91W is that it doesn't sport a calculator, had to get myself a DBC32 for that.
Yup. On his Meaningness blog, Chapman posted extensive essays about Western Consensus “nice” Buddhism, and critiquing it. There were also a suggestion the Buddhist Tantra was more in lined with Western values (and an analysis on why), but it was not “nice”. (There were also issues about not getting proper training, or practitioners trying to fill in gaps with Shaiva Tantra and derivatives).

He had mentioned the vampire stuff on those blog posts, but I had thought he was satirizing by exaggerating the content. Hence the surprise for me: the content was not dramatized, just some superficial window dressing. That really tickled me.
Nunbelievable Keto Cookies Review, Work or a Scam?
I remember trying out Skeleton many years ago. Skeleton's Github repo has not seen an update since 2014. A fork of it can be seen here:

https://skeleton-framework.github.io/

https://github.com/skeleton-framework/skeleton-framework

But it too has not seen any activity in several years.
All technology that is not impossible is inevitable. If the only thing between humanity and malevolent AI is OpenAI "safety" policy, we're screwed already.

If there is a real safety risk, we need to develop countermeasures that work in the new technological environment that sophisticated AI creates. Blanket prohibitions and monitoring agents are not only unnecessary intrusions into experimentation and brakes on progress (insert Catholic church analogy here), but are also reckless, as they create moral hazard and give people a false sense of safety.
> The Java classpath is "flat" by default: you can only have one version of any given class [...] This has advantages: you avoid the Rust problem of "Foo is incompatible with Foo" because you had two different versions of Foo in your (transitive) dependencies.

The Java classpath is "flat" only if you use a single classloader. If you use multiple classloaders (for instance, with a plugin system where each plugin is loaded on its own classloader, to allow it to be dynamically loaded and unloaded), you can have multiple versions of any given class. At work, we have more than once had that "Foo is incompatible with Foo" problem (made more maddening because the "Foo is incompatible with Foo" error messages don't mention which classloader each "Foo" came from).
I was planning on eventually moving to Austin to be closer to family, but I won’t do it now. Will stay here in Washington, even though housing is very expensive here.
People seem to be forgetting that the fuel is also a heat sink, and is often used to dump heat from the air conditioning systems. Planes can and do take off in +100 degF weather, I'm not entirely sure how you're going to manage all that heat on an electrical plane with no readily available sink like a wing full of fuel.
But to use your example, the Kardashian’s are billionaires, meaning they could impact the world should they choose to. And Murdoch, to use your other example, didn’t start to build his global influence until the 1980s, some 30 years into his career. And although the global influence of his media groups isn’t debatable, it is important to note that the vast majority of his newspaper properties are tabloids.
> My expectation is that the work would be soul-sucking and the pay very low.

FWIW, I've not found this to be true. My Enterprise IT stints were enjoyable, with lower pay, but not so low as to be unworkable. I'd say they fell around 80% of SaaS rates, not the 35% you proposed. They were exactly the type of day job I'd want if I were really putting my energies into growing out a new side gig.
> An intact hospital / critical care system.

Given that there are many nurses protesting vaccine mandates, it could be that putting such mandates in place will lead to a lot of them quitting, which could make the hospital system less "intact" and resilient.
> let me offer some purely anecdotal evidence that has a bigger sample size

That is not how science works.

And a study isn't absurd just because you don't like its conclusions.
Are you saying he is pontificating to be counted among the elites?
Modern compilers generally prefer register-sized data.
It will be over, but it’s not over yet. Your link says that it will both take a while for it to come to market and also be more expensive to produce…an expense that will likely be balked at by the airlines until forced to use it at which point it will be the customers that pay.
In Chungking Express, canned fruit plays a pivotal role in the scene transitions of one character.
Surely then you could provide a single link that supports your claim that covid mortality in children is higher than influenza?

Go ahead. I'll wait.

https://freopp.org/comparing-the-risk-of-death-from-covid-19...

"Based on that analysis, what is striking is that those under the age of 15 are at significantly lower risk of death from COVID-19 than of the flu. Under our assumptions, for example, children under the age of 15 have a 1 in 155,535 chance of dying of influenza, but a 1 in 1.2 million chance of dying of COVID-19."

"For toddlers, the relative risk is even more pronounced. We estimate that Americans between ages 1–4 are 3.4 times more likely to die of influenza than of COVID-19."

In an attempt to head off your inevitable criticism that I'm citing "conservative propaganda", here's an article from New York Magazine making similar arguments:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/07/the-kids-were-safe-f...

"according to the CDC, among children the mortality risk from COVID-19 is actually lower than from the flu. The risk of severe disease or hospitalization is about the same."

"the infection fatality rate for those aged 5 to 9 is less than 0.001 percent"
I like a little bit in my coffee in the morning, however.
The whole concept of a dangerous response from a chatbot is anathema to a society that values the free exchange of ideas.

Who gets to decide what's "dangerous"? Why? Over and over in human history, we've seen speech restrictions ostensibly to protect the public used to impose orthodoxy and delay progress. Even if some utterance might be acutely dangerous, the risk of restrictions being abused to cement power is too great to tolerate them.

I reject AI safety rules for the same reason I reject restrictions on human speech. There is no such thing as a dangerous book or a dangerous ML model. If such a thing is dangerous, it's a danger only to those who have done wrong.
>Check the security of my device and my data?

A phone operating system probably uses hundreds of libraries/codebases. Are you seriously keeping tabs on all of them?

>It's not about FOSS but basic freedom & security here.

Sounds like you're more objecting to the "FOSS" label than the general attitude of "the entire software/hardware stack has to be open source".

>As opposed to preinstalled roms which have exactly zero external people reviewing them. Yes, the standards are THAT low.

exactly zero? https://twitter.com/topjohnwu/status/1234547148785475585?lan...

>No they don't. Some people are trying to replicate the ROMs for other phones (like https://download.pixelexperience.org/ ) but that's some community effort. There's nothing vanilla about motorola or google phones.

1. I said "mostly" vanilla

2. what's your definition of vanilla? If google makes android, then arguably whatever they puts out can be considered vanilla, even if it isn't part of AOSP. Of all the chromium based browsers out there, I'd still consider google chrome "mostly vanilla", even if it does has proprietary bits that aren't part of the chromium project.

>Why though?

Because you're making the claim.

>Even Android admits it, just go into Settings > Security and Settings > Account and look the amount of stuff that they say runs in the background.

"There's a lot of stuff running" =/= "The most common security threat aren't coming from the trusted boot but play services blobs & manufacturer blobs"
Hm, but if I can make my angle orthogonal to the time axis, isn’t that like instantaneous movement?
If you used a different strain like UK cheese it would provide an anti-anxiety effect to that group. Mint Diesel and AK-47 sounds like it would make you ampped and confused. Finding/using the proper strain for the effect you want is the missing context from your comment above.

The discussion of the consequences were raised 50 years ago and the accepted conclusion was the biggest harm was it acting as a gateway drug to crack specifically in the 80s. I don't think that belief is as accepted as it was before.

Your fears of a lost generation and losing a trade with China as a result is not based in reality. The economic loss to China is a result of large companies trying to open the market to their product while giving away too much and inbalances in currency and trade barriers. A super motivated extra 10-15% of the under 29 age group just doesn't matter when weighted against those bigger policies.
It’s not like we haven’t been trying! Just see how these map to the issues I originally mentioned:

https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Ao...
I don’t know what you mean. I have dozens of stories showing components of all layers in the hierarchy. I have single button stories, stories for entire views, stories of entire apps.

And storybook allows to show the code of stories, which is equivalent to a « getting started » or usage example for each of these components in docs. Except that it is guaranteed to be evergreen, since if these examples break, my CI wouldn’t pass.

Labelflow is a public repo I manage with storybooks like that. We use Chromatic with storybook in there. Search for folders named « __stories__ » for stories at all level of the hierarchy. https://github.com/labelflow/labelflow
Ah thanks, that's what I was thinking. But somehow I got caught up in unaligned cacheline accesses, which are much larger than 32-bits. It's early where I am. :)
PulseAudio was and is the disaster that the LAD community has already predicted. Whenever a package manager forced it onto me, I had to figure out how to get rid of it again. Hopefully PieWire will improve things.
I haven't set any xiaomi account, and usb debugging works just fine.
> Well, imagine the case where a loner looses their best friend, and goes to this website to "talk with their trusted friend again" instead of getting some real help. Will GPT-3 reliably counsel this sad and lonely person to "stay behind", or will it suggest the should "meet up"?

So we should shut down the internet in general, because people ought to go outside instead too?
Storage at the Edge: Frameworks and Attributes
I guess we live on the shoulders of nastiness and things get better. So TEL was part of our boot sequence. What nastiness are we subjecting ourselves to today?

BTW: The guy that invented TEL also invented CFCs!
See Thomas Midgley Jr:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.

This guy who invents awesome working chemicals that are tragically bad for people on a worldwide scale manages to exit life dues to his own inventions, unrelated to chemistry... Kind of Ironic! Thomas Midgley, Jr. (1889–1944) was an American engineer and chemist who contracted polio at age 51, leaving him severely disabled. He devised an elaborate system of ropes and pulleys to help others lift him from bed. He became accidentally entangled in the ropes and died of strangulation at the age of 55. However, he is better known for two of his other inventions: the tetraethyl lead (TEL) additive to gasoline, and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).
George W Bush and his colleagues and successors and all their families deserve to be drone striked for what they've done. The political class of this country is rotten and needs wiping out entirely.

Eventually, there will be a reckoning. And I look forward to the inevitable collapse of the USA and the end of its abuse of humanity.
Which US policies involve workers owning the means of production? Because that's essentially the definition of socialism.
> In the long run though, electric airplanes look far more attractive for the short-haul prop-driven world.

In the interim, the Rotax 912/914 series is a nice, modern, reliable powerplant for smaller/lighter airplanes that will happily burn autogas.
Why is 5 on each wings a stretch? With electric motors you have a lot more flexibility, and distributed propulsion has some significant benefits.

Check out maxwell X-57 for research on this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_X-57_Maxwell

Electric planes will probably look very different from modern turboprop/turbofan planes by the time they’re fully optimized for electric propulsion.
Yes, which is why a photon experiences zero proper time.
> right now it seems that 100% of Ruby advocacy comes out of the halls of Shopify

While we're sharing anecdotes: I like to advocate for Ruby but have never been a Shopify employee or even customer :)

e: where 'customer' == seller
Venus changes its astrological sign (ie, moves 1/12th of its way through the sky) roughly monthly, and Mars changes about every two months; noticing these changes doesn't require a complex multi-generational oral tradition. Jupiter and Saturn are slower, but still complete a full cycle within a person's lifetime.

https://www.elsaelsa.com/astrology/how-long-do-planets-stay-...

Which is to say, these are noticeable differences for individuals, especially any who are using the fully-evolved intelligence of a human brain staring regularly at the sky instead of a smart-phone.
Lol no you will throw up everything in your stomach violently until it is completely empty and go to ER mostly likely. Then the doctor will have you stick around for a few hours and make sure you are okay and let you sleep off the headache. Ask me how I know (I was stupid and 10 and trying to siphon gas for my mini motorcycle for the first time, DM for me more for more details).
Unfortunately success in the arts also depends on making a name for yourself and that is directly correlated to how much you sell, who you worked with and how many people heard about you.
Except for tab always being backwards for me. It goes up...
This is the sort of response that makes me wonder: dude, what have you been smoking?

Let's start with the whole notion of organizing our society based on some perceived need to compete with a country half the world away. That's the sort of paranoia combined with hazy connections that I'd expect from somebody who was a bad kind of high.

And then there's the concern about addiction. Marijuana is way down the list of addiction potential. Nicotine, alcohol, and caffeine are much stronger and the former two have widespread proven harm: between the two they cause ~600k deaths per year. [1][2] (People debate the latter more, but most of those arguing in favor of caffeine are addicts themselves, and nobody can deny that Starbucks is a plague upon the urban landscape.) And let's not forget sugar, the white powder that causes enormous medical harm and that whole industries work to hook our children on!!1!

Jokes aside, I'd note that at least here in California, we already have a "middle ground". Marijuana is only available from a relatively small number of places, with production and distribution heavily regulated. Alcohol and nicotine are much more widely available. If anything, I'd expect legalization has resulted in reduced availability to minors, as this has surely driven a lot of the previous weed dealers out of business.

I believe that we have a duty to prevent people from exploiting others, especially to prevent organized commercial exploitation. And I believe that duty is strongest where addiction is concerned, because that bypasses the rational choice that freedom depends on. But on balance I think we do a much better job with marijuana than drugs like alcohol, nicotine, and the legal opiates.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fast...
[2] https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/features/excessive-alcohol-death...
That's correct. As you approach the speed of light, the elapsed time in your frame of reference approaches zero.
I was just suggesting the Iraq war is a mistake.
Tools as Code
It's also worth noting the time delay between winning a Nobel prize and the work for which the prize is received - which generally is 20 or perhaps even 30 years.

They were at a pinnacle of expertise decades before winning the Nobel prize, and arguably might not be there anymore when they do get the award - which essentially is the point of transforming from an expert to elite status.
We know it wasn't engineered and wasn't due to gain of function. SARS-CoV-2, RatG13 and RmYN02 evolved from a common ancestor decades ago:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33500788/

If SARS-CoV-2 was a spike spliced onto a backbone it wouldn't look like they evolved from each other (similar to a photoshopped picture with different shadows and noise).

It also didn't arise from serial passage since the distance is large enough that the 1,000 base pair difference would take passage through many, many millions of animals, not something that could be accomplished in a lab. 30-50 years of evolution is an awful lot of serial passage, and only nature can accomplish that large of a serial passage experiment.

It is also very unlikely that the lab found SARS-CoV-2 or the immediate ancestor and cultured the live virus without publishing the sequence. They did culture WIV-1 and used the WIV-1 backbone, but they also published the sequence years before they did that and did it all in the open. That's the reason why people know about that. Before the pandemic there would be no reason to keep a SARS-CoV-2 sequence secret, and they earned their living by sequencing sarbecoviruses and publishing them. And still its unclear how a lab leak would happen with this virus, since you need to both culture the live virus and somehow aerosolize it and snort it in -- as we've learned it doesn't transmit by surfaces and restaurants doing deep cleaning after COVID issues are just engaging in sanitation theater.

The actual bioreactors where it formed are all sitting right out in the open. All the bat caves across China, all the factory farms which have tightly packed intermediate animal hosts. All the humans interacting with those animals through factory farming or collecting bat guano for fertilizer. All the mixing that occurs by those animals being transported across china. There's a million times more serial passage and animal-animal or animal-human contact happening right out in the open.
Not convinced a sample size of 31 is enough, but imagine the implications of a ML model that can detect if you’ve used cannabis recently. Seems like a privacy nightmare.