skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The OpenAI team cares about harm reduction.

They were founded on this idea: if the CCP is the first to create AGI, there will be great harm to anyone who values personal freedom. Perhaps the open source community could instead be the first to create it, preventing this harm. Hence, Open AI.

However, the CCP making AGI is only one possibility for harm. After OpenAI made GPT, they realized that bad actors could use GPT to flood the internet with propaganda.

That would, of course, create harm.

OpenAI were naive with their plan to make the precursors to AGI open. They had picked a bad name for themselves, because they don't care merely about open sourcing AGI. They care foremost about harm reduction.

When we think of sacred things, it's hard to think logically. Many people on Hacker News hold two things as sacred: open source and unfettered freedom of speech.

Whenever these sacred ideas are infringed upon, many people here can't see nuance. They're blinded by rage.

I wish more of us could see that the OpenAI team are American programmers. They like freedom of speech and open source, just like us. They're not evil villains. Many of them read Hacker News.

To understand their decisions, we need to understand that their core value is harm reduction. When open source or freedom of speech is incompatible with harm reduction, they're going to choose harm reduction.

They're also not going to let themselves get destroyed by bad press after somebody makes a Nazi bot or whatever.

I love what they're doing, so it makes me sad to see all of this hate. I wish their projects were more open, because I really want to play with DALL-E, but I think ultimately OpenAI is moving us forward. They're an asset, and vitriol toward them is misplaced.
The problem, in all cases, remains the long standing oligarch families and aristocratically rooted institutions, and their captive “public service” institutions, some of which are global in scope. Not wishing to engender a flaming thread, I will simply state that certain aspects of “institutional capture” are very much du jour topics of global interest and impact.

A global reset of “free markets” via a ‘day zero of capital accumulations’ could provide a solution. Many of the established capital hordes are legacies of activities that are now understood to be anti-social at best, and predatory at the extreme.

Coupled with this, we need pedagogical guidance to inform the new generations who are not to manor born. Almost none of the new blood born to middle or lower classes are educated in the necessities of generational wealth preservation and applications of wealth towards affecting societal outcomes. At best, we have children of Marxists and pseudo-Marxists railing against “Capital” without understanding the dynamics of societal power based on multi-generational societal networks, which transcend mere capital.

Primary sources working against such a program are precisely the “entertainment” complexes owned stock, lock, and barrel by informed and purposive societal networks, which at this point in human history have fully transcended ethnic and national boundaries, and clearly aim for stupefying the masses. There is a reason you have been treated to 2 decades of Marvel comics in films.
My favorite way to think of it is that the speed of anything is measured in distance per unit time. You can’t change the constant that is the speed of light, but what if you could change what “time” means? The constant holds, but time doesn’t; it varies among observers. A second from the perspective of observer A is not identical to a second from the perspective of observer B.

Freaky, but true.
Brevity law (Zipf's law of abbreviation)
I apologize if my comment made you think that I was accusing the researchers of not caring about privacy. If I had said that they "read" people's emails, that would have sounded ambiguous, but I only guessed that they ran a script, which seems to be completely accurate.

I'm not sure what the period of "27 years" refers to, since the paper "Why Johnny Still, Still Can't Encrypt" was only published 6 years ago, but I stand by my use of the word "pity". If someone is making a measurement of an ecosystem which has been static for a long time, but has recently undergone a hypothetically dramatic change, it's a pity if the data only covers the static period and can't really test the hypothesis about the recent change.

You're right, though, that it is much more of a pity that it's taken Thunderbird this long to support OpenPGP natively, and equally a pity that there hasn't been any published usability testing of its new version, or K-9 Mail's, as far as I know.
I had a similar experience. I was in the Army and had just completed a 24 hour duty at about the same time the first tower was hit. I was finally about to get some sleep when there was a pounding on my barracks room door. I spent the next 24 hours on guard duty. Quite a long day. Consequently I completely missed all the live coverage and have only ever seen news blips.

Prior to 9/11, one could freely drive on and off of Fort Benning. There were no security checkpoints whatsoever, which is unimaginable these days on a major military installation.

On 9/11 we first had to secure our unit's compound and then eventually fanned out to lock down the roads on and off of post. We had rotating duty manning makeshift entry control points in the weeks and months that followed until permanent ones could be built and a (civilian) force could be stood up to take over the duty. Thousands of soldiers and civilians commuted daily between work on post and local off-post residential areas. It was quite a mess with extensive traffic and delays in the early post 9/11 days.
You think rappers are faking smoking weed?
> Unfortunately, it is really difficult to measure the opportunity cost of lost data and lost users.

Additional data could be considered more of a liability than an asset, as it's more data to protect and store and more data that could potentially be exposed in a breach. Likewise, it may be good to lose users who aren't paying but are storing tons of data with us -- which as we've already established can be thought of as a liability. It's good to have a free tier to show the customer the value we can deliver, but if the customer doesn't get enough value from us to pay the (IMO very reasonable) prices for what we're offering, then maybe they would be better served with a different provider -- at least for bulk photo and video storage. This is not a bad thing, IMO.
It's not really a matter of education, I'm in the bottom 50% and after rent and bills I'm left with very little. It's a highly competitive system, with winners and losers.
That is the thing I don't understand. Who do these vaccine cards protect?

Anybody can get a vaccine that keeps them out of the hospital or dying. There is no reason for a vaccinated individual to give a single hoot about the vaccination status of person next to them.

The idea that the vaccinated population needs to be "protected" from all the unvaccinated individuals is absurd. Covid is here forever and we will all probably catch it at some point. If you are vaccinated you'll at least not have any serious complications from it, which is pretty damn good...

So yeah, I haven't the faintest idea who vaccine passports actually protect?

Also, all these pro-mandate arguments never discuss if boosters will be required to remain a "vaccinated" status. Does that mean we are now obligated to get a booster every time it comes out?

And when does this all go away? At what point to we drop this stuff? Or are we seriously gonna be "carded" at the door of every business from here on out? Again, covid is here forever and there will always be some level of "cases" provided we continue testing for it...
Yes, but the GP's idea extends to larger infinities.
High stock prices aren't considered inflation by economists, they're considered asset bubbles.

They're not wrong, they're just speaking a different language than you are and don't agree with the definition of inflation.

This is because asset bubbles tend to pop over the long term and come back down to ground.

There's the idea of Cantillon effects where there's inflation in the kinds of things that rich people spend their money on. But that theory has attached to it the notion that inflation necessarily trickles down from there as the wealth trickles out, and economists will object to that because like the quote says it just hasn't been observed to happen (consistent with the fact that the rich keep getting richer and the poor keep getting poorer in this economy, and we're doing the opposite of "raising all boats").
The sample size is too small to be definitive. But that could be fixed by doing the same tests in smartphone voice recognition programs and providing the results to advertisers. Facebook probably has enough information already to recognize cannabis users.
I think a big part of the population believes 80-90mph is perfectly fine (of which I am a member) so everything is kind of working as intended. I don’t want the speed limit increased, and I don’t want the law to be religiously enforced. To me, we are in the perfect balance.

However, my world view is that all rules should be written to be broken in the right hands, with just enough pressure for someone who shouldn’t be breaking the rule to be discouraged from doing so. Nothing is perfect in life anyway, and you can never truly capture a complex world, so I think you might as well consider it in rulemaking.

That said, it does open the world to profiling, but that will already happen regardless. Racists will always find a way to be racist.
The financial derivatives markets do dwarf the stock and commodities markets.
Having never been in the old days, the word scuttlebutt isn’t in my vocabulary, but I do know scuttle (scamper) and butt (buttocks). Scampering buttocks, the meaning I would surmise in the absence of your history lesson, is indeed an awful choice of name if the network is aspiring for general appeal.
Copy and paste your bullet points into Google and you’re 99.5% of the way to getting concise answers to your questions.

“Work was hard so I quit.” isn’t going to generate much sympathy from the people who put in the effort to learn this stuff.

If you really want to understand CSS, read “CSS: The Definitive Guide” cover to cover. I’m not kidding. Take notes and write code using every single property. Read the Flexbox and Grid chapters TWICE.

Oh, and if you’re upset about the distinction between inline and block elements just wait until you hear about the inline-block display value.. Which, coincidentally, will answer your question about inline heights.

Every browser on the planet makes use of CSS. Every non-trivial website uses CSS. It works. It’s not a toy. Approach it as you would any other advanced technology.
Public opinion is the weak point in many systems that are supposed to converge to an optimal socially-beneficial equilibrium.

The way competition and free markets are supposed to work, someone else would've introduced ethanol as an anti-knock additive, sold gasoline cheaper (and healthier!), and everyone would've benefitted. But Kettering & Midgley went on an extensive PR campaign after their invention to convince the public leaded gasoline was safe, and they had GM and Dupont's full advertising budgets at their disposal. The public wouldn't know any better, so they believe what they're told and leaded gasoline becomes the standard.

You can hear echoes of that with many Facebook advertising & misinformation campaigns today.

This also causes stock market bubbles & crashes. People are supposed to independently value securities, and then their errors cancel out and you get a very good statistical approximation of true value. Instead, they invest in what everyone else invests in in, until prices have been bid up to insane levels, then run out of gullible buyers and the price crashes.

And brand-based monopoly. Instead of judging product quality for themselves, they buy products that all their friends are buying, "trusted brands", and this creates a barrier to entry that new entrants have a very hard time surmounting.

Democracy is affected too. In theory, the best candidate should win. In practice, the candidate with the most money to buy ads wins. People's opinions are mutable; they don't rationally seek out information independently and make an informed, self-interested choice. They tend to trust what they hear a lot, which creates a market for influencing people's opinions.

I can't think of a way to solve this, though. The "solution" would be to go from a high-trust society to a low-trust society, where everybody basically assumes that whatever they're told is a lie and ignores it. Societies like this have much higher transaction costs, much lower rates of innovation, and much higher rates of violence, which is not an improvement.
It's the same in America
Are you sure it's free thought ? When a record label tells you what to listen to ( by paying the distributor) it does not look like free thought. More like paid thought.
Honestly, I actually don't understand how that can be beneficial.

First we all know that increased loading time also increases the bounce rate - so we are all working really hard to minimize it.

If you add a fake loading time you actually say that you don't want particular users. Why then they don't just block the site if cookie policy is not accepted? Does anyone actually accepts cookies and expects website to work faster? That sounds very counter intuitive to me.

Actually wondering what you can achieve with introducing a fake loading time and how can company benefit from that.
I haven't tried it but you might look into AVLinux, it's supposed to be more real-time performance friendly.
Also, a <<< b connotes that for all practical purposes a + b = b.
I've generally regarded his motivations as "be supine" and "pander to the right", whatever his role. His position on "papers please" type issues is mixed, saying one thing and doing another. I can't tell if that's because of his own personality, or because of ongoing prejudice in the British system and in the Conservative party, requiring him to not be too challenging. The way he was pushed out of the Chancellor position by Dominic Cummings sounded awful; I'm surprised he accepted another job under the present governent.

He was Home Secretary before being Chancellor, and in that role opted to keep up the Hostile Environment policies and Deport First, Appeal Later policies.

I mention those two, because they are indicative of a "papers please" type of culture.

The former requires every minor landlord to perform a "right to rent" check on every tenant or lodger they suspect to be not British, or face a large fine. Inevitably leading to landlords choosing not to rent to non-British people to avoid the hassle and risk of getting it wrong, an increase in homelessness among people without the right papers to prove they're allowed to pay for a home, and an increase in abusive housing relationships.

The latter ensure that illegal actions by the Home Office go unchallenged despite statistics showing the Home Office often acts unlawfully and often loses in court. It's very difficult for a person to conduct an appeal after they're removed from their own documents at home, legal support, income, friends, and other resources; this is also borne out in statistics: No appeal lodged in this way has succeeded, which stands in stark contrast to appeals lodged in country.
(The UK Supreme Court just ruled this policy unlawful. I expect the Home Office will try to continue the policy anyway.)

Point is, Javid said he was going to address injustices in the immigration department when he became Home Secretary, and then he didn't.
shrugs. A bit underwhelming. Mr. Torvalds is (or was) well known for his rants. And he was usually, even if not always, right. He took bold positions too, like when he dismissed SCSI in favor of IDE. That was unorthodox in the early nineties, but with hindsight, right. There are number more of those, hence the success of Linux.
So... it's a GUI package manager with extra steps?
I've replaced jack by pipewire for all my audio work. It works pretty well, still a few xruns occasionally but it has been really transparent with pw-jack and reduced a lot the various crashes I would see with jackthat would kick all the clients from time to time.
Java modules haven't been adopted because people are still getting off of JDK 8 as it becomes deprecated.

It will only make sense for library and framework maintainers to invest in modules once there is a large user base on JDK 11.

Either way, modules are still useful for application development. I used them years ago to close off internal APIs in one of my applications, which helped me to not cross levels of abstraction accidentally.
On the basis that all the spammers have moved onto riper fruit such as Facebook and Twitter, I do wonder if Usenet will see a resurgent, after all in the good groups it's just a federated version of HN in style.
"Stagnant" definitely has negative connotations; better words might be "stable", "steady", "established"...
I think a lot of people assume that this means you couldn't go more than a few (~100) light-years in your lifetime... But this is not actually correct. Counter-intuitively you can theorically go any number of light-years (essentially) in your lifetime, as long as you are able to approach the speed of light because when you do so the distance is dilated and hence you're covering far more ground within your reference frame (of course you'd be in the deep future from the perspective of anyone in our normal reference frame).
I've been trying to understand this since high school. No Eureka moment but I think every year I understand just a little bit more.
OpenAI != Open AI

Or maybe: OpenAI = Closed AI
PipeWire is how audio should be on Linux, and it's ready to use. No more complications between PulseAudio, ALSA, and JACK. PipeWire implements all 3 of these interfaces, which means you can use applications that depend on any or all of these interfaces simultaneously with no conflicts. Playing a video in Firefox and a track in a digital audio workstation at the same time works with no special configuration. PipeWire makes audio on Linux as easy as it is on other OSes.

The Arch Wiki page describes some of the use cases for PipeWire: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire
Because they don't want to teach terrorists how to take down skyscrapers?
Question really seems to be ‘how many people can someone manage’ not lead.

You can lead far more people than you can manage.
> Polls show 60% approve of the idea, with 27% opposed.

Tyranny of the majority. Just because 60% support some crazy idea doesn't make it right.

Also the average american thinks if they catch covid the chances of dying are 10%[0]. For most age groups that is 100 or 1000 times off. People are wildly off on their estimates of how bad covid is. How can the average person make an informed, rational decision about public health policy if they think Covid is Black Plague v2.0?

[0] https://covid19pulse.usc.edu/
...can you elaborate?
> Subtle differences in speech timing, vocal effort, and voice quality may exist between cannabis and control groups, however data remain equivocal.

Sorry but this is straight up goofy. Stoners maybe sound a little different subjectively sometimes in a subtle way but scientists can’t prove it?

Who is this information for? What is the purpose of this?
" You see this sort of motivated reaction to a study every time there is one that triggers a population. "

This is true, but in both directions.

Because unlike you said, they actually only tested 31 cannabis users against a controll group of 40. And found that maybe subtle differences exist.

"Speech samples were collected from a carefully described cohort of 31 adults with a history of cannabis use (but not use of illicit stimulant drugs) and 40 non-drug-using controls."

"Subtle differences in speech timing, vocal effort, and voice quality may exist between cannabis and control groups, however data remain equivocal"
Believe it or not, League of Legends actually works pretty well on Linux (I run it through Lutris). It takes a while for the launcher to initially load on startup, and the launcher is a bit of a slow/laggy mess, but from what I hear from my Windows friends the latter at least is just a general LoL launcher problem more than a Linux problem. Once you actually load into a game it runs completely flawlessly, with great performance.
I'm tired of this world covered with fucking idiots, and each one thinks they have the special golden morals that can inform us properly on when to interfere with others.
Stop trying to be in charge of shit, reddit.
Oh, this is a good time to remember Prolog exists. Assignment isn't even a concept there, but equality can act on so many different ways!
I Am a Meme Now – and So Are You (2019)
Would agree partially.

5-6 seat abreast planes can be switched to powerful turboprops for practical use.

Widebody airliners, not at the current level of technology.
it could be yes, but there are a lot of variables to take into account here. what audio system were you using what were the settings.
Myocarditis is not a "minor and transient" complication. While it is not immediately life-threatening, especially when detected early, it can have a significant effect on mortality risk later on.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5951175/

It also often goes undetected, so the VAERS data should serve as a lower bound.

> pulling from VAERS, which is problematic for a number of reasons

The FDA also uses data from VAERS for its assessment:

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-...
> "netsplits" exist in every distributed system, be it a chat app or a database, it's just the CAP theorem

Well let's not get carried away. Network partitions happen everywhere, but everything is not about the CAP theorem. CAP theorem is a very specific model that a lot of apps (even ACID databases) don't conform with. Comparing IRC to CAP theorem is like comparing it to ACID and saying, "IRC decided to sacrifice transaction integrity".

IRC didn't explicitly sacrifice the C in CAP, they designed a simple server protocol. They could have added a bunch of weirdness to hide splits from users, but it would have been unnecessarily complicated and not contributed significantly to the user experience.
> If you're vaccinated, you can still get and transmit covid. You just don't get as sick. The vaccine protects you.

While you still can transmit COVID-19 if you're vaccinated against it, it's far less likely (the time during which you can transmit the disease is far shorter).

So while your statement might be technically correct, it is also very misleading.

> In fact, there is an argument for how over-vaccinating will be harmful to the unvaccinated.

What is over-vaccinating (and in a pandemic, no less)? And what is that argument you speak of?
When is the last time you needed to show your papers to enter a mall? Or a library? Or a museum? Or a public restroom? Or a McDonalds?
Java in the browser (Applet) is unsecured, because it can download and run untrusted code in the user machine.

Java in the server, on the other hand, is as secured as any other runtime, i.e only as good as the application written on it.
> All that work, which broke plenty of Java applications, violating main Java mantra of backward compatibility, all for nothing.

How did modules break Java applications? Having recently upgraded a number of applications from 8 to 11, none of the things we had to fix were due to modules. They were largely due to libraries relying on internal implementation details of Java 8 which needed dealing with, the exact sort of thing that modules are looking to prevent going forwards (see "strong encapsulation" in TFA).

We've ignored modules so far with no issues.
Ron Paul ignores the entirely possible alternative of "you may just be an idiot", though.