skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lol, how do you head an institute at Oxford while being so clueless about the relevant subject matter? This stuff is good emotion-grabbing speculation, but it has no bearing on developments in the real-world field of artificial intelligence. Replace "AI" with "fancy regression" and see how serious these claims sound.

To be clear, there are serious ethical concerns and threats to human life associated with modern AI, but they have to do with technology shifting the balances of power between groups of humans (country vs. country, in-group vs. out-group), not superintelligent Terminators hiding nerve gas in your shoes.
TV display quality is dogshit compared to monitors. Even cheap low-end monitors tend to have better displays. They aren't the same panels at all.
> “Expected value” is a very basic term of art introduced in stats 101.

I already know that.

My point is it's shitty terminology, even though it's somehow become a standard.

Stats 101 also does NOT tell you to "expect" the expected value to happen.

GGGGGP however seems to actually use the value to formulate a strategy, and that's where I'm pointing out that this entire formulation of using stats to approach this problem is flawed. You don't have enough chances at the game such that the mean is a meaningful number to consider.

That's also why I always refer to it as the mean even if other people call it "expected value". I hate the term with a passion and I will not yield to the wise guys who wrote the books.

Honestly I'd rather not have this discussion in English because this isn't a problem in many other languages. In many languages mean is not called "expected" anything.
I wonder how many users of MacBooks and even iMacs and Mac Pros actually set up multiple user accounts on their machines? I would conjecture that the number is pretty low, perhaps below 10%. Furthermore, I think the majority of home users (the bulk of Apple users) have no network storage at all. Why go to the trouble of setting up and maintaining a file server at home when your files get backed up to iCloud and you can AirDrop anything you want to your friends? Traditional file sharing is more of a power user feature.

But besides that, there is a solution to the problem you described: make the spatial information local. Each user gets a different view of the world.

As for dealing with millions of files, the classic Mac Finder had list view with disclosure triangles on the folders. If you added a modern indexing search to that it would be better than anything we have today.
Food and water aren't as easy to restrict as medicine of any kind. Just think of the patents, with the right tricks they could even half ass the first version and patent every individual improvement over decades.
It's amazing how much more expensive those are than traditional TVs, non-starter even.
Feedback from Qatar is always taken with a grain of salt given the long history of Akbar Al Baker using fallacious pretexts to engage in ruthless contractual fights.
My first reaction to that headline was "Employing teenagers in the sex trade isn't something people should be trumpeting."

The internet has changed my expectations of news reporting.
Interesting take. I do think that social media is driving the selection of increasingly unfit political candidates worldwide, which is a big problem. In an environment where the objective is to share things that get the most “WTF” comments from those with whom you disagree and the most applause from those with whom you do agree, only the most extreme and/or inept candidates wind up getting attention and the resulting votes.
>all validators could be owned by one person and you would have no way of knowing.

all bitcoin miners could be owned by one person and you would have no way of knowing....

>it's effectively centralised

so your argument is not that it is not possible to have security AND decentralisation with POS, but that it currently is not the case, right?
Wikipedia Is Down [edit: back online]
Wikipedia isn't loading incl status page.

Looks like it's affecting different language subdomains too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/
Move Over, GE. The Tech Conglomerates Are the New Leaders of Industry
You can get OTA tuners for incredibly cheap. Like $30 for a basic one. These come with the bonus of allowing you to plug in a USB HDD and record live TV. For a little more you can get a HDHomeRun or Tablo and have a network connected tuner so you can stream live TV to tablets or phones and streaming boxes like the FireTV.

Powered bookshelf speakers are also an alternative to soundbars.

I personally use a monitor as a TV. One con is that some devices like the Fire Stick don't send HDMI display off signals but instead a black screen in sleep mode which wakes the monitor and keeps it on. You need a smart switch to easily turn it off.
As I said, I think it’s a fair question. But having shopped for a TV in the last 18 months, you get a worse TV if “dumb” is your goal. I mean the giant colorful thing showing your content is worse, in the products without smarts. It is what it is.
My experience with an LG panel was it slowing down to wait for network requests that would never complete and asking for wifi every time it was turned back on. I just use a projector now; it's a dumber, bigger screen (and as a plus it encourages me to limit screen time to after dark for better picture quality)
> It is in the public domain.

Not by the accepted definition of "public domain":

"The public domain consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply." -- Wikipedia

Trademarks are specifically listed as a form of intellectual property that does apply within that article as well.

> You can play the cartoons in your bar, you can sample the recordings, etc, etc. You cannot violate the trademark which is different than violating the copyright which you still do not seem to understand.

I do understand that actually; but we weren't discussing the technicalities of how you violate IP. I was discussing why Mickey Mouse shouldn't be in the public domain.

> If you aren't purporting to be Disney or to use the Mickey Mouse trademark to confuse customers into thinking you are Disney, then you aren't violating a trademark.

In theory, yes. But companies have successfully upheld trademark disputes where one could reasonably say no confusion exists. Plus the threat of legal action from Disney (even if it wouldn't be upheld) is enough to bend people to their will. So in practice it's not so simple.

> It might behoove you to do some minor research on the law if you are going to type pages about it here.

That's ironic given your points are more factually inaccurate than mine!

Also there's no need for that tone in your post. We are all peers.
In addition to that subtle memory issue, it has no reference at all to the space/time world we people model mentally to think with. So, basically, there is no I in the GPT-3 AI, just A.
In Java there's another popular alternative to ORM/Hibernate, JOOQ (https://www.jooq.org/). Which is basically type-safe SQL.

The idea is to
* start from an existing relational schema

* run a CLI tool to generate Java code that represents all the tables/fields,

* write queries in the application code that look like ".select().from(AUTHOR).join(BOOK).on(BOOK.AUTHOR_ID.eq(AUTHOR.ID)).fetch();"

So you don't need to mess up with strings anymore or learn any DSLs. Your queries look exactly like regular SQL and so are very readable. This approach is well aligned with schema migrations represented as SQL scripts too. But not everyone is comfortable with using code generation.
This is very specific to GPT-3 and not generally true though. And GPT-3 is not an agent per se but rather a passive model (it received input and produces output, and does not continuously interact with its environment). So it makes sense in this context, and just goes to show GPT-3 needs to be understood for what it is.
There's a whole book, "Hatching Twitter" about the sordid founding of Twitter and how Dorsey and Noah Glass were the main originators of the concept at oOdeo, then Ev eventually fired them and removed them from the history. Only to have Dorsey come back later and remove him.

Seems like a bunch of people had a hand in creating it in various ways.
I don't agree. Every year, a max of 18 million ETH is created through mining every year with no hard cap on # of ETH.

Starting August 5th for the first time, coins that were created were literally destroyed.

You can see the profound impact this has had on the total ETH supply in the chart below. You'll see the growth curve largely flattened out.

https://ycharts.com/indicators/ethereum_supply
It's a grand putdown without any supporting information.

Comments get more shallow as they get more grand and generic. "Vanishingly little value" is a dismissal. Note also the dismissive use of the j-word ("just") and the implicit admission that there's no particular support for the claim ("I'd bet"). Also the snark ("Careful, you're dangerously close to realizing"), which invokes an entire genre of internet putdown.

There's no information here other than booing a class of people. Most people enjoy that when the class is high-status, but we're trying to optimize for curiosity on this site, and that genre is something else entirely.
Nope. I'm using an OLED TV as a monitor on my main PC, and it kicks the pants off any monitor I've ever used before, including the 2021 MBP monitor I'm typing this on right now.
there are so many music players that can do mp3, why winamp source code is of interest still?
Remote IDEs aren't necessarily about subscription based SaaS. For me any editor that can't be run by ssh into a workstation within the build-farm is a non-starter.
This seems like a very naive perspective to me. CEOs are generally not "exposed to all the risks of the real world". If they get fired it's often with a golden parachute and the ability to live comfortably without ever worrying about money or employment. Many times, people become CEO precisely because they aren't ever exposed to real risk, and if something goes wrong they can fall back on savings or family or a debt-free prestigious degree.
> a [50%] probability research-related leak for the current pandemic (simply calling this 50% for this post's purposes because nobody knows and probabilities are difficult to weigh absent more data)

Or when a certain country applies pressure to other countries to dismiss the idea as "racism" while destroying evidence for international neutral investigators to shed light on what really happened.
Oxide Computer's Rack Switch
SIV modes fix this.
(This post should read "Argo tunnel" instead of just "Argo")

I did the same to enable secure access to services via SSO at work. I used Harbormaster[1] to deploy Compose files, but it's otherwise the same setup.

One of the big advantages this has is that the services can't be accessed any other way (not even from the same host, as they only listen inside the Docker network). That makes it hard to forget some port exposed because you listened to 0.0.0.0 instead of localhost.

Cloudflare access is very easy to set up SSO with, as well. I'd recommend this setup if you need it, though for home usage I usually just set up Caddy as a reverse proxy with basic auth, as I'll be the only person using this and I don't want Cloudflare MITMing my personal stuff.

[1]: https://gitlab.com/stavros/harbormaster
He tends to focus on one or the other at a time though.
The big tech CEO attitude is that all of these issues stem from human behavior. They just sit back and stroke their beard at everyone blaming them. They ignore it and move on.
As far as I can tell, the children are playing with a box that is painted to look like a bomb. Machine learning is not real AI. But that's where all the money is going.
In my experience, such arguments don't move the needle on adoption. "Hegemony" of a specific useful product is a concern to such a small number of people that even getting 100% of those people who are concerned or could be made to be concerned to use an alternative will not make a dent in the "hegemony."

The only thing that I have seen work is shipping a better, cheaper, and more useful product and focusing marketing on why a user would prefer to use it on its own merits. Everything else is preaching to the converted.
Trucks travel far though. I wouldn't be surprised that they would be a significant vector of road etiquette.
> I think the point is just that for most applications, the reverse proxy server is not a performance bottleneck

I'm not commenting either way on Caddy vs. other solutions, but whether or not a reverse proxy is a pure performance bottleneck, it can become a cost issue. If a reverse proxy is capable of handling twice as much traffic as another solution (through some combination of simultaneous connections and raw speed), it'll cost half as much to operate. Especially at scale, those costs can really matter.

Raw speed for speed's sake is only sometimes the most important factor.

Edit: grammar.
I just never use any of the smart features...
Economies of scale, and subsidies. TVs that ship with Netflix buttons on the remote, Prime Video app, and built-in crappy ads all over the place are being subsidized by those companies.

Meanwhile, no one is buying non-smart TVs, so lower quantities are more expensive.

(Or they know that non-smart TVs are a niche product that they can charge more for.)
The "adversarial" language around this feels like blame-shifting. If your algorithm thinks a flower is Barack Obama, it's not the flower's fault.
More context: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/barbados-...
Author here, would love feedback / thoughts / corrections!
Monitors are built for being an arm's length away. TVs are built for being several yards away. The pixel density changes accordingly
Sounds great. I am reading through C.S. Lewis currently. Chesterton might be next.
That wouldn't explain the delay, and do they really expect to sell $3000 of ads per customer? I have doubts.
They have a Markdown-like syntax, but AFAIK it's only for notes stored in their cloud service.
Unless the frame is metal or otherwise reinforced, it's not overly difficult to split the frame where the lock pockets are with a couple of good "donkey kicks".
It's a kind of hackey way of handling this, but what I do is open up the TVs and removing whatever components are required for the WiFi to work.

Sometimes you can just remove the network card easily, but usually the easiest thing to do is find and break the antenna. It's inelegant, and of course the smart features are still there, but it at least reduces or eliminates the tracking crap.
It depends on how much you can invest (time and money) vs the risk for your business.

I have 2 projects running a similar setup as yours: everything on a single machine. So far, running since 2014 without any large issues with both of them.

Once, I got locked out of the provider (due to my fault, but it doesn't matter). They've kept the server running, even though I couldn't ssh to the machines. I was ready to redeploy everything on another provider in less than 1 hour, with a DB backup of the day prior of the incident.

If my DB crashes, get corrupts, etc. I have a couple of backup for the last day, week and month, all saved in a different provider.

Thus, in short, I don't think the managed DB really worth for me. I also don't have HA, but I can cope with that. I'd rather get beefier machines for the extra price.
I would assume most setups leveraging a monitor as the display would also be going through an AVR and that should take care of this kind of thing?
Looks great! There's a real need for an easier video editor for people making social videos and not 4k movies.
When I last complained about not being able to buy a dumb TV someone linked me a Romanian electronics site. There where so many option, but non of them are available in Denmark.
So in other words then, you don't have a viable business...
They also had XULRunner… I was even lucky enough to have been using it in a professional context. Unfortunately it wasn't well supported; trying to submit patches was always painful, and framing issues as a Firefox bug was slightly more likely to get things merged. I imagine it's easier than landing changes in Chromium (because Electron is a completely separate project), at least.
My Bravia runs Android TV, which I legitimately have not seen even one frame of in over 2 years. There is a spectrum of the kind of thing you’re describing. I wouldn’t buy a Samsung for that reason. But it’s not like all smart TV’s are dystopian.
You may be able to disable non-GDPR TVs by telling whoever is in the support phone line that you are a citizen of an EU country (lying may work) and that you don't agree with any such abuse of your private information.

I also strongly suggest voiding the warranty and disconnecting the wi-fi antenna. That's usually easy.

Dell has a 43" 4K monitor that, with a soundbar, can probably be a reasonable TV, but it lacks a tuner. It's, however, 3x as expensive as an average Smart TV from a rent-a-brand like JVC. Mine (5 yo, FHD) has an ethernet jack but all it ever did was getting an IP address from the DHCP server and nothing else, ever. There hasn't been any traffic for a month or so, before I just disconnected it and reused the cable for a small cluster.
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On the other hand: who cares? IETF standards only matter if we let them matter. No cryptography engineer believes that XChaCha20 is problematic for lack of an RFC.
how is this different from calibre?

a quick check seems like this is a docker(running ubuntu inside, code is in CSharp) with a web interface, while calibre is a binary to install directly.
In that case, Dorsey brought in Bret and he's now become board chair. Whereas Dorsey now has stepped down as CEO.

But more importantly, he says he eventually will leave the board?
Yeah, those guys are gonna love it!
Researchers and engineers are by and large trying to solve concrete real-world problems and don't care what label the public puts on them. Media darlings and lay people are the ones concerned with whether something is "real" AI or not.
Ha ha, I was a teenager.

Formula 1 though were never looking for 50-year integrity for their cars. While your example establishes the beginning of the use of carbon fiber, it seems otherwise orthogonal to its present use in commercial aircraft.
Interesting. Would/could this be a motivating function for open source alternatives?
reminds me of an episode of planet money where they read a whole book that just entered public domain: https://www.npr.org/2021/01/14/956800308/the-great-gatsby
Texas lt. gov argued for exactly that:
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/04/21/texas-dan-patrick-ec...
Which one are you using if you don't mind me asking?
Good question. I don't have the answer, but maybe it has to do with the market game theory? I mean, there's easier ways to make money. Like, copypasta smart contracts from Ethereum to EVM-compatible chains. But, to fork Solana or another distributed state machine that's currently in beta and quite unstable (and has an unintuitive programming model) is to take on immense complexity, and therefore liability.

If you have the skills to maintain a Solana fork, how much harder is it to make your own chain? If the difficulty gap isn't immense, it's more upside to build a new Solana-esque chain from scratch than fork Solana, since you can't easily fork the Solana community/brand/legitimacy.

If and when Solana and other fast L1s have stabilized to the point of being simple plug-and-play software appliances, I do expect a host of forks to appear, but to succeed they will need to do more than reset the cap table and get rid of the leaders.
"it was not clear how a requirement to provide personal details to open an account would reduce online abuse as many people already make cruel comments under their real names"

Yeah, that's the thing. You don't need anonymity. All you need is the distance created by the Internet.

What's needed, in my opinion, is less about unmasking, and more about using existing laws. Police don't take threats seriously, much less mere defamation. There are things that clearly cross a legal line, but can't be prosecuted or brought into court because it's too much work.

Anonymity doesn't help the situation, since one of the reasons they never pursue threats is that it's hard to prove that somebody actually said the thing. It was hacked, it's a fake account, etc.

The bar is high, deliberately, but that puts a heavy burden on those who are the target of trolls. Don't dismiss it; just because most death threats are vacuous doesn't make them irrelevant, and just because it's hard to prove damage from defamation doesn't mean it's zero.

I dislike the notion that the laws as they are are somehow perfect and therefore anything not currently prosecutable is your own problem. Laws can shift the burdens around, and while imperfect, the current situation isn't perfect, either. Even merely "different" can have benefits.
Exactly. So what if Google controls the internet experience through Chromium. The user will have to pay someone eventually. Firefox is not a free magic bullet.

On the other hand, much bigger problems in the world, so we go build something else instead of reinventing what Google has already built.
> How about this for a funding model: tie executive compensation to revenue growth.

I'm not sure this would go quite the way you think. The quick numbers I could find are $104 million in revenue for 2009 [1], $828 million in revenue for 2019 [2]. Your market share percentages sound about right, though (and is more relevant to the success of the mission.)

> Being a browser company and seeing declining revenue during a period when damn near every tech company was printing money because everyone hopped online...that's a real special kind of incompetence.

I would agree, if I were to completely ignore the existence of competition and all other forms of external reality. I mean, look at the size of the computer market these days. What were Cray, SGI, DEC, Commodore, etc thinking? They must have all been unbelievably incompetent!

Sure, the results are not good. It is perhaps true that you personally could have done far better. Maybe you should give it a try, in some other market where a little company called Google decides to move in on your territory.

> Mitchell Baker made $2.5M in 2018 and now in 2021 she's making over $3M.

She's CEO of a company with a revenue of $800M USD. What should the CEO's compensation be? Is $3M too high or too low? Personally, I honestly don't know. My perception is that CEOs are generally paid large sums of money until they're fired. Perhaps that's not the way it should be in an ideal world.

> Mozilla laid of nearly 300 employees post pandemic because of declining revenue.

Yeah, that sucks. It really sucks. (I work at Mozilla.) Though for the record, we're not post pandemic.

Still, when your burn rate is too high for your income, you have to do something. In some markets, it might make sense to go for broke: borrow to fund scaling, and pray a lot. In the browser market, that would be incredibly stupid. You can't crush your competitors with a $0 product and a compatibility moat that it is your mission to minimize, especially when your main competitor is many times your size.

> ...office rant...

Thanks to COVID, the offices are indeed getting pruned down. But you seem to place a lot of faith in your ability to armchair quarterback. Those offices provided value (partly as a result of their locations), they incurred costs, and people did the math on them. You can assume rank incompetence, but why?

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2009/f...
[2] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2019/
My understanding is that in Arabic numbers were also left-to-right which facilitated a left column left-aligned with values and then a right column that with a right-margin with the descriptions. Thus both columns were aligned (for easy scanning and summing) and extra space was in the middle of the page.