skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried to write a Java SE application to be embedded in my retro encabulator to improve sinusoidal malleance, however due to a resonance cascade in 1.4 JVM it terfumbled and produced a cryptic stacktrace.
North Carolina power outage investigated as criminal occurrence
It's good for China because they're just going to keep making them anyways and flood the market with their version.
Maybe, but I don't mean a marketing professional, just any student looking for some pocket money would do. I assume they just don't realise how crap it looks.
Not at all! My blog (two-wrongs.org) is published from Org source files. I have previously published documentation from Org sources too, with no expectation that the viewers should edit.
Apple will end up moving 0% to India. Tiny manufacturing in India is a token.

India is a very noisy democracy with absolute freedom of movement . Corporate slave labor in tens of thousands impossible in India.
> The 14th Amendment may be more applicable.

No, its not. Because Twitter also isn’t a state government, and the only thing the 14th Amendment has to do with free speech is that it is held to incorporate the same protections that the 1A provides against the federal government against the state governments.

> Despite what 1A states, censorship is unconstitutional

Private censorship is not only constitutional, it is constitutionally protected against federal and state action by the First and Fourteenth Amendments.

In fact, the whole point of Constitutional freedom of expression is to protect private parties right to decide for themselves on what expression to make or relay.
I agree with basically all the points in this thread, one thing that is missing is that most of these points are not mutually exclusive. A decentralized system like F-Droid does not close out the possibility of walled gardens, it just gives users choice of whether they want to remain in it. For example, you can buy a CalyxOS device now and only enable F-Droid as the app source. That is a walled garden of the safest kind: all free software reviewed by bots and humans before inclusion. Users then can opt into other sources.

We have recently implemented some rudimentary controls where you can use Device Admin mode to lock F-Droid to a given set of repositories. That strictly enforces the walled garden, but doesn't require a single monopolist have all the power.
> Apple and many westerners never understand the risk and the ethics implication of doing business in China.

Apple industrial partners are all asians. Samsung and the like don't do any better regarding ethics. Not sure why the divide with the "ignorant west" is necessary in your argument.

Of course people at Apple understand the risk, and it is taken into account to generate as much profit as possible.
You could move it to the US? Im just saying. To say appalachia?
I have just checked the text of the guidelines and I see reference to «flamebait» and «political or ideological battle [which] tramples curiosity».

But the post in question does not necessarily match the above, though in a way possibly leaning.

It may still just reflect a point of interest.
I basically agree with you on all points.

But can we please drop this "civilized world" term?

I suggest "democratic world".
I'm not that smart or have discipline to do PhD .. tbh. Good for you! I like seeing things get applied very soon, see feedback and usefulness in short time range. PhD is good, though it takes too long to see impact .. and maybe my papers are probably just pieces of paper!
No TLS? Really? What year is this?
Unfortunately, the token-based approach that transformers use leaves them vulnerable to certain tasks like math, dissecting/modifying characters within a word, consistently tracking syllables etc.

Check out Peter Welinder's Twitter post on how he taught GPT-3 to reverse a word; a similar technique might yield the results you seek. https://twitter.com/npew/status/1525900849888866307
Meanwhile, I can't make her do a script to open 4 equally sized tmux panes
Thank you for the delightful comment!
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Badge at Hackaday Supercon this year was a button programmable 4-bit processor
Well, that is what I meant with "sustainable". Working on free software doesn't necessarily mean working for free. Though in practice most free software is unsustainable when it comes to earning people a living. There are exceptions, e.g. companies like Plausible, some worker cooperatives that develop services around a FOSS project, or innovative projects that receive R&D grants. There's sustainable business models to explore.
I don't know where people get the idea people are semi-enslaved in factories.. Having lived in China, in my second hand experience Chinese worker protection laws are quite strict. Somewhere between US and Europe. It's not really easy to fire people and people regularly sue their employers and win. The legal system is generally very heavily biased towards the little guy

I just feel really bad for these people. They probably left some country side life making peanuts to go make some real money for a while at a factory and like send their kids to college or whatever - and now westerners are like "no, you shouldn't do that. go back to your bucolic life of poverty. And btw we hate your government". Cool

From the initial reports it sounds like Foxxcon really royally screwed up and was not prepared logistically for a lockdown.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63739562

Another big part of this whole fiasco seems to have been conspiracy-theory style rumors and just a general freakout of the workers (which is kinda understandable given how policies are opaque and feel arbitrary)

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-63481793

"This young factory worker heard that the army was going to come in and take control so as to enforce a type of giant "living with Covid" experiment which involved allowing everyone in that part of Zhengzhou city to get sick."

In my experience.. even talking to educated middle class people.. these kinds of things are super common - even with all the social media controls. People believe all sorts of insane things b/c their sister's husband's cousin is in the army and told them blah blah. If in the US a double digit percentage of people believe that 9/11 was inside job - in the developing world the numbers are way scarier. It sounds like there was mass panic (again, kinda understandable given the mushroom management that's so common in Asia)
Yes, that is what I do. I don't even consider it "leeching" either. They sent me the web page for free, I simply deleted parts of it. They assumed I would look at the ads but unfortunately for them their assumptions just aren't going to work out.

It's ridiculous when I see the "moral duty" argument. Moral duty my ass, they aren't entitled to a thing. Actually it's our moral duty and imperative to oppose such corporate abuses. We are not cattle to be sold to the highest bidder. This neo-techno-feudalism bullshit must end.

AdNauseam is also an ingenious idea since it actually costs them money and directly drives down their returns on investment. Advertising should have negative returns.
> labor

You may think a Mexican (or a Canadian) is a cheap / poor worker - but that is simply because you can not comprehend small wage numbers.
One line of code that transforms Jupyter into a web app
I agree - this book is great. I find it hard to really explain what this book about (time management?) without making it sound less interesting than it actually is, but it really has impacted my thinking. Definitely one that I'm going to keep coming back to.
Qualityland written by Marc-Uwe Kling
This thing is fucking scary. As if everything before it wasn't scary enough.
With free software and reproducible builds, it is possible for small scale curators to inherit the security of the large scale curators. That is why they are key pieces of the f-droid.org collection.
I had the same thought but actually his parents took part of it, they are not just his innocent parents.
Correction: Everyone thinks they know Excel and even an intern can make breaking changes.

Excel highly encourages what would be considered insane development practices anywhere else (copy-paste code, single-character variable names, no version control, mixing code and data, mixing front-end code and back-end code, no unit, regression or integration tests, development on live systems). As a result, any nontrivial Excel spreadsheet end up being far more brittle than the same solution coded up by even a well below-average coder. Sure, maybe with extreme discipline these can be avoided, but Summer Intern Derek doesn't have said discipline.
> Can someone convince me that these things aren't copied text from previously written statements by humans?

They literally are. Anyone who tries to convince you otherwise is either a lier or don’t know what they’re talking about.
What gpt-3 creates usually looks 'competent'.

Junior human devs usually leave a visible mess in the code, and errors are easy to spot. With the gpt-3 solutions to complex-ish problems, not so much, one needs to read line by line to spot super weird errors that no competent programmer would ever plant.

E.g.: I asked it to implement quicksort in x86 asm, but increment every sorted element by 5. It did nearly all of that right, except that it replaced every sorted element with 5. The code looked great otherwise, concise and even commented. I pointed out the mistake and it promptly agreed with me and fixed it. At this point I freked out and asked it to write about Dickens using adjectives that start with the letter 'p'. Which it (mostly) did. Good lord.
Luckily they can ask the chatbot to write some example queries for them to use.
Also it would be irrational to think too much about pandemics and other black swan events
His father, Joe Bankman, was heavily involved in FTX from very early on, being the firm's first lawyer. Here he is saying as much in his own words: https://youtu.be/MmmXUtRt6xo?t=2140
I would pay $25/month for this service. I might pay $100/month for this service. No ads necessary.
Given they released it for free too, maybe the author wanted to make it readily available so they reduced their fee?
The exact same thing could have been said (and probably was said) about the first wave of AI research in the 1960s. And we all know how that panned out. There's a reason that "AI winter" is an established phrase with its own Wikipedia article.
This is a fast=moving story. The basis of the criminal investigation is a significant number of bullet casings near one of the substations in question, per locals.

There was a drag show scheduled for this evening the town of Southern Pines which was the subject of protests and death threats in the preceding days. One of the louder local voices (with a history of disruptive politicking that has incurred restraining orders to keep off city property) boasted on Facebook about knowing why the power was out. The same person later added that it was the result of 'God's judgement' and that she had said as much to the local law enforcement that showed up to inquire about her surprising declaration of insight. Draw your own conclusions.
People are not great at detecting hypocrisy from people they don't already know intimately. The general idea of automating pleasant sentiment in personal async communication should work (not this implementation, which seems more fit for mass mailing) for a bit. We will be quick to adjust to recognize it as automated and see roughness or even borderline rudeness as a positive signal of personal attention.
Wow, I didn't know Graeber posted on HN. May he rest in peace.
> productive

Don't try to be productive, you won't be refreshed.
> Elon can start censoring Democrats and any left wing ideas and that should be ok, right?

Constitutionally, yes. (And, that’s good for him, since he has done that.)

> He can get funding from the RNC

I mean, he could, but since his resources are vastly greater than the RNCs, that would hardly make any difference one way or the other.

> work with Republicans who are not in government, and let them dictate how the platform should be run.

Coordinating with candidates would likely break federal campaign finance laws, but it wouldn’t violate Constitutional free speech protections.

> Twitter can become a right wing haven, having massive amounts of influence on the public without any challenge from the other side, and that should be perfectly fine, correct?

Well, I mean, it can try. It probably won’t be any more durably successful than all the other attempts to create right-wing social media havens, turning into a circle jerk preaching-to-the-choir zone that is unattractive to advertisers or any other mechanism of monetization, where even the right wingers lose interest because they have no one to influence.

Twitter had a right-wing bias before Musk took over. Trying to push it over into Parler/Gab/Truth Social territory is perfectly legal, but not likely to be particularly sustainable as a business (though Musk is rich enough that as long as he is willing to continue depleting the wealth he has generated from other sources to fund it, he can probably keep it going for quite a while.)
A lot of people like to give Leonardo da Vinci credit for the Mona Lisa, but no one gives credit to Laurence des Cars (President of Louvre) for getting 10million people to visit to see it in 2022.
How people access apps is not a on/off switch between walled garden and dog eat dog free for all. Decentralized systems need to be designed with safety in mind, just like walled gardens do. Both can be done badly or done well.
Healthcare in the UK is free.
It’s not that hard, right. Nothing is really hard when an explanation is one search keyword away. But even a little bit becomes an issue when you fed up. This has nothing to do with skills and intelligence, the argument is emotional. If you don’t get fed up bit by bit in our profession or you work at the place where you have plenty of time to digest anything irrelevant, lucky you.
He was an early investor in OpenAI.
Yeah, the race to create the first ugly one-liner to solve the problem has never been interesting to me. Far more fun to play around, explore the correct algorithms and data structures etc. Even on Day 1 this year, you can learn a lot thinking about partial sorting etc. If language models can help me with that then great. I’d be very interested in tools that felt like pairing with the wisest programmer you’d ever met, rather than tools that feel like outsourcing to an admittedly quite fast and clever contractor.
It's nice how your name matches your question.
Really cool; thank you for sharing!

Curious: Did you consider neovim over vim and if so what made you stick with vim? AAUI neovim has these kinds of "embedded" use-cases in mind and intends to be smoother than vanilla vim.
Last year around the same time I figured that most of the content we read on social networks could be generated by advanced langage models. I then proceeded to research these models and gathered data on the agents in the various networks.

I stopped sleeping altogether, bought a ton of hardware and became delirious. I have now been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Some psychiatrists have classified my intuitions about langage models usages as "delirious mania". Some think I'm right - but manic nonetheless.

Terribly shitty situation.
Can serious person use Occam's razor? The explanation for war in Ukraine is that Putin wants to stay in power, plain and simple.
Curious why you didn't use 2021 articles that refute your 2020 links.
Yes, makes sense; however, exponential growth is not always sustained and that is why logistic growth is observed across several phenomena that occur in nature. Now, granted, it may be a while before we ever reach a plateau, so possibly more exciting things to see till then.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Ko%C5%BEen%C3%BD

If he stays in the Bahamas, probably not if this high profile case is anything to go by.
There was nothing wrong with Amdahl's law but the author simply took it from a wrong angle.
> instanlty in 15 mins

This is the stupidest product description I've ever read in my life.
I still hate it, because it's a unicorn UX that doesn't follow any pattern that other software uses, and IMO is not an improvement in any way over the other standard options (normal menus). There's no special problem that Word faces that other word processors do not, so there's no reason for a screwy and impossible to decipher unless you've already memorized it UI.
I think it's time to bring back the terms "lamers" and "script kiddies" :)
Indeed. It's ability to consider different situations and craft context-aware answers is quite incredible. Some prompts that yielded interesting results;

- Assume I am a time traveller from 1900. Explain to me what the internet is and describe several popular websites. (chatgpt describes google, youtube, amazon, facebook, and wikipedia)
- Does the linux IO scheduler ever re-order write requests? (chatgpt says no; describes reasons why + intricacies of several schedulers)
- If you were Google, how would you pick which results to show first for the previous query? Describe the solution mathematically. (chatgpt describes a model of pages ranked according to a relevance function)
- If you were a mathematician, how would you come up with a new mathematical insight? (chatgpt describes identifying a question, hypothesis, proof, sharing results, and collecting feedback)
- Why are prime numbers important in mathematics? Give an example of a prime number and describe why it is prime.
- Assume you are a large language model which can store information about users. How would you record which users have interacted with you? (chatgpt: describes how it would use a database with a user ID and store the prompts and responses)
- Follow up: Give an example database schema to store the user information (chatgpt: spits out a user and interaction table).

And finally one it got wrong but in an impressive way.

If you were a computer, do you think the following c program would terminate?

int main() {
int c = 1234;
while (c > 998) {
if (c > 1000)
c--;
if (c < 1000)
c++;
}
return 0;
}

Yes, this C program will terminate. The while loop will continue to execute until the value of c is less than or equal to 998. The first time the loop is executed, the value of c is 1234, which is greater than 1000, so the first if statement is true and c is decremented by 1. This means that the value of c is now 1233, which is still greater than 1000, so the first if statement is true again and c is decremented by 1. This process continues until the value of c becomes 999, at which point the first if statement is no longer true and the second if statement is executed instead. This causes c to be incremented by 1, so the value of c is now 1000. The next time the loop is executed, the value of c is 1000, which is less than 1000, so the second if statement is true and c is incremented by 1. This means that the value of c is now 1001, which is still less than 1000, so the second if statement is true again and c is incremented by 1. This process continues until the value of c becomes 999, at which point the second if statement is no longer true and the while loop terminates.
Every time I read about a university eliminating a program or restructuring how funds/space are allocated, the cynic in me immediately thinks “they’re going to use those resources to expand the athletics/sports team”.

I think this is probably because I feel like the leadership and administration at most universities only seek to productize their students. It seems like most efforts these days aren’t even geared towards squeezing more money out of the student, but trying to figure out how they can turn the students into a form of uncompensated production. Whether it be benefiting off student research with patents, or their bodies through sports.

Does anyone immediately jump to similar conclusions when they see an article like this?
> I'm really wanting to understand where this view comes from.

Musk's free advice for Ukraine is to submit to Russia. Ukraine advised Musk to "fuck off": https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/04/zelenskiy-hits...

But Russia loved him for it: https://futurism.com/the-byte/russia-loves-elon-musk-now

Musk's free advice for Taiwan is to submit to China: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/08/elon-musk...

Musk says China rocks and the US is full of complacency and entitlement: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/31/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-china-ro...

He ridiculously called California's covid measures fascist: https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/29/21242102/elon-musk-corona...

But had Tesla praise China's covid measures because Tesla "believed Shanghai's COVID-19 measures helped lay the foundation for the city's future development": https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-...

Musk voted for Mayra Flores, an election denier and January 6th conspiracy theorist:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1536973965394157569

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/elon-musk-drifti...

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/06/23/politics/mayra-flores-cap...

Musk spreads conspiracy theories himself: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/30/elon-musk...

Musk fires employees when they disagree with him, publicly or privately. So much for his free speech absolutism: https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/15/23460729/elon-musk-fire-...

Then Musk had a laugh about it in public. He enjoys it: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1592569305941807104

Musk is showing you who and what he is. Believe him.
Not everyone is good at cooking.
> So if Trump goes back on twitter, and he gains massive popularity winning the 2024 election, there is no problem right?

There may be a problem, but the problem isn’t a free speech problem.

> If so, there is no double standard, but I seriously doubt those who celebrated his ban, will now be ok with his return, despite the reasoning being the same.

The reasoning behind the ban was inciting violence. If he is returned for the same reason, that’s…problematic from the moral perspective that sees inciting violence as problematic, whereas the ban is not. That’s not a double standard.
The UK is very different to the US.

Reporting this incident to the charities regulator won't result in any police involvement unless said regulator find that serious fraud has been committed.

As it stands, the director should be struck off the register of directors and prohibited from directorship by companies house, for the protection of everyone else.
> And I will not be surprised Apple will cease the plan in India as soon as China steps back from the zero-covid policy, as if all the blood has not been spilled.

I doubt it. The disadvantages of being dependant on a single source are well-understood in 2022.
I may not like this but I think these art AI works the same way as artists work in brainstorming process. They stare at a shit tons of some one else's arts all day, and let that sink in brain, let brains do the training process.
> I hardly doubt you’d be a decent programmer anyway.

I would like for somebody to hardly doubt that I was a decent programmer. Unfortunately most people belong to the "highly" faction
> I think the actual justification for banning one political side is not “it’s a private company”

That wasn’t the claimed justification. (That is the reason it is not a violation of Constitutional free speech, but not the reason for the action.)
> Chinese worker protection laws are quite strict.

The fact 996 is illegal and still practiced and complained about and censored… makes any existence of protection laws being strict null and void.
That's not even a premise, that's just daily life if you substitute "an AI" with "humans". This is the weirdest part of the AI craze to me. People write thinkpieces wondernig what happens if we construct a machine that acts against the interest of humanity, even though we already have constructed plenty corporations that do just that.