skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In new constructions, but what about the existing neighbourhoods?
> I'm starting to feel like I'd just prefer if platforms stopped trying to make moral judgments on our behalf.

OpenAI's safety rails for chatGPT are super obnoxious. I was trying to generate D&D scenarios and have chatGPT act as NPCs. It worked really well unless anything even remotely related to violence was brought up (a character threatens another, a character draws a sword, etc). As soon as that happened, chatGPT would break character and give a canned lecture about why violence is never ok.
funny when people use burring to hide twitter usernames. its like you know you can just search twitter for the tweet verbatim and it will show the user, right?
Woah dude. Calm down. From your parent comment...find the good.
China legalizes CRISPR babies and they become popular.

Japan drastically increases immigration to counter population decline.

Covid kills millions of people worldwide again.

Apple manages to create something cool with it's AR tech.

Sites like reddit/4chan/hn become less popular due to generative AI spam.
Being able to pile up money is kind of this intrinsicily weird thing. In the development of money it begins as this token to account for surplus. You bring more grain to the silo, you get more tokens. These tokens are exchangeable in the end for grain and that is that. In this way tOtherhe tokens represent a kind of debt. The silo owes you that amount of grain. People begin accepting the token in trade because they can exchange it for grain. It has become money

But unlike our money, these tokens have some naturally occuring soft limits. There is only so much grain anyone will find value in at any given time. Therefore, the amount one could influence another individual with it had some limits. And the amouny of tokens one sloshed into "the market" quickly erroded their vakue.

What this meant was, yes society owed you a debt of commodities but how much that debt waa transactable to different areas was limited and how much you could lean on it at any given time was limited as well.

A well off plantation owner could work very hard, hit a lucky year and dump a ton of grain into the silo. The tokens he got from this would certainly buy him some influence. He could buy a lot of things certain goods would still be unavailable to him. He could pay a lot of bribes but a lot of people would only need so many grain tokens. This farmer contributed a value of surplua grain and the silo tokens can pay him back in many benefits but the further the dealings get from grain, the more limited his power. Ultimately the silo owes him a debt of grain.

Our modern conceot of money obliterates those limits. A clerk at a desk earns the same tokens as a pastor or a soldier or a CEO. Those tokens are then convertible into anything no matter how disparate: food, housing, healthcare, etc. So instead of a commodity debt, owed by a silo, each worker earns a social debt. Effectively carried by all of us. Money is debt.

This means that accomplishing something which leads to a high indebtedness in one area means society owes you a lot in all areas. Again, this seems normal to us but if we think about a distribution of goods that is proportional to the amount and kinds of work people do, it doesn't make much sense. Or at least it seems quite strange and prone to manipulation.
Would you be willing to elaborate on what you find to be strengths of Metamath Zero?
Following this logic, all Americans who didn't protest it are guilty of the millions of civilian deaths caused in countries like Vietnam and Iraq.
Alleged breach of 400M+ Twitter accounts
> Where does your faith in "AI/ML" comes from?

Speech-to-Text works quite well these days. AI voices are also quite good, but the brain was missing. Now with ChatGPT we have an acceptable "brain" for the AI. This is why I think we might get this time a "real world" impact (once OpenAI releases an API for ChatGPT).

Robots could become a thing too, just not that quickly, but for the next years I'm quite optimistic.

> Autonomous cars aren'g going to be common

I didn't say common, I just predicted that they will surpass the important threshold of being better than the average human driver.
"now chose different words which would make up a valid sentence."

const words = [
"All",
"birds",
"chirp",
"during",
"early",
"fall",
"gathered",
"happily",
"in",
"jubilant",
"kaleidoscopes",
"of",
"multi-colored",
"nests",
"overflowing",
"with",
"precious",
"quail",
"roosting",
"safely",
"together",
"under",
"vibrant",
"willow",
"xylem",
"yearning",
"for",
"zenith"
];

const sentence = words.join(" ");
console.log(sentence);
The dev shell inherits environment, but the builds don't. Having a dev shell inherit none of your environment is possible but an inconvenient default, you can do this with `--ignore-environment`.

`nix build .#somePackage` is pure by default, as is `nix flake check`

I believe `nix shell` also inherits environment by default for the same reason. People expect to be able to run the packages they installed system wide after entering a shell.
Globalization is only good for GDP and only on first order thinking.

Shipping things that could easily have been made local. Second order cost -- Environmental damage.

Concentration of ecological damage (eg smog in China, clear cuts instead of selective foresting etc).

Decreasing the varietals of foods brought to market so they're stable for shipping , easier to grade / machine. Second order cost -- higher risk to crop failures, loss of heirloom / heritage kinds.

IMO much of "Globalization" is really just power and market arbitrage. Things are inherently cheaper or easier there, the people are just poorer and more desperate. As soon as they have a middle class the "advantage" disappears.
I mean, don't get me wrong, you can build a basement anywhere. Its not like the ground is truly impermeable. Its really just a question of if its worth the maintenance or not depending on the terrain around. If you're going to have your sump pump constantly run because your basement is below the water line, you're going to have a bad time. If you've got expansive soils that'll constantly be changing the direction of load on your basement walls, you're going to have a bad time. Coupled with the fact you don't need to dig that deep to get deeper than the frost line, its usually just really not worth it. So its not that they can't be built, they just can't be built economically.

Really wealthy people in Texas might have a basement; its not impossible! Some really old homes before slab-style construction might have basements as well. Or they might be living in the high deserts out in West Texas. But like easily 99.9% of homes built in the majority of Texas do not have basements. If I were to ask everyone I know if they knew anyone who had a basement at any time in any home they ever lived in, the answer would probably be "no" almost every time. Finding a home built since the 1940's in this area that's less than $10M with a basement is practically finding a unicorn. Except its an expensive unicorn needing constant maintenance.
Same thing. If your house was built after WW2 it will usually have 200a service if you're all electric, and maybe 150 if your heat is non-electric. Most older houses have also been upgraded at this point too. It's not uncommon for larger houses to have 400a (96kw) service.
I think there are dozens of people like me.
Bill Gates - https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/536587-measuring-programmin...
I am sorry to hear that Yury. The timing especially is unfortunate heading into the Christmas holidays.

I suggest talking to an EU immigration lawyer at the earliest about your options to continue living in the EU while you look for new employment. You can do a quick phone consultation (in the US it costs about $75 for a 20 minute consultation with a lawyer, I hope something similar exists in your EU country).

From my own experience, there is no substitute for talking to a lawyer because they can give clear and crisp answers about your options.

Good luck and I hope you are able to overcome this hurdle.
That’s a common counter argument. But if you listen enough then you understand that he (correctly) identifies that personal finance is more psychology than math. And the aggressive debt repayment he advocates makes the accrued interest trivial.

People who follow his plan pay tens of thousands of dollars in debt off in 1-2 years on modest incomes.
I upgraded the underlying docker image… so python version and all dependencies got bumped. I did not change any configuration or script.

I now use version 5.6.4, from 4.3.4. In the end we passed a flag to keep the old behaviour, but in my mind behaviours shouldn't just change.
Though it was a factor -- it's real success was that it was OS X in a tiny phone -- basically a portable Mac with totally wireless connectivity. For many applications you could simply leave your laptop at home and walk on the bus and go on with your day.

Steve Jobs even said at its launch that the iPhone rans OS X and ran "desktop class applications". This with it's multi-touch full screen keyboard and GUI integration meant that people could interact with it much more naturally than any phone in the past. Even my mother could use it, which is remarkable, considering how many cell phones I gave her that she couldn't use.

I guarantee you that the most used features from day one of the iPhone launch were: Safari, Google Maps, and YouTube, with the Music app being simple a "nice to have".
Less likely than Mongolia.
There are 48 US states beyond New York and California.
- William Shatner passes away.

- A local police bribery scandal will expose corruption at the highest levels of American government. Nothing will change despite public outcry and outrage.

- "Techbros" and Musk will replace MAGA as the strawman of left.

- The US Marines will move forward with plans to replace their weapons with toys drop-shiped from Aliexpress (resold by political cronies of course).

- Americans will continue to ignore the large homeless camps that have formed over the past few years.

- China will not invade Taiwan yet and Japan accelerates rearmament.
The funny thing is that when rhetoric is cooled, people have a really wide and strong agreement about what is "reasonable and fair".
Here's a wild idea!

- Bitwarden

- Self-host

- Don't listen on public Internet IPs or regular LAN IPs

- Listen on Tailscale IP.

- Put TLS in front of it the Tailscale way.

- Run Tailscale on all your devices and access Bitwarden from your private network.
The US is however spread out over the worlds seas.
I had a similar question in my head while I read this article. What proves that “value” to the university or to the students in an average sense was lost? A “value” which is important to school or students? How the different values (or indicators) compare to each other? The author jumps over this like it’s evident. Nothing is evident without proof. It’s just states that it’s more important that the level of equality which they want to achieve (btw which we don’t know from this article, there is no proof in it, what they really want to achieve, and especially why), than the perceived fun of parties. The whole article seems to me a simple rage bait about “everything was better in my time”. The problem is that probably there are really some issues, but this article is not detailed enough to address those at all.
If its dependency on energy (and it's cost) is considered a fatal flaw, then all industries are subject to this flaw; just with varying degrees of reliance. Energy is the fundamental thing that dominates most industries and societal capabilities.
I’m not sure I understand how tech folks can’t contemplate the obvious confusion the average person would have around something like Mastodon. The vast majority of people don’t even understand what an “instance” is in this context without an explanation. Most people _don’t_ understand how email servers, SMTP, etc work.
Other companies picked up these contracts.

The crucial thing though is to make sure that those other companies are in fact able to provide what Google and Microsoft won’t. For example, AWS is very happy to work with government, by offering not only the GovCloud region for regular gov work, but also AWS SC2S and C2S regions for Secret and Top Secret systems and data. This allows other companies to use their cloud infra to provide these defense services.

Imagine the alternative world where a most of the tech execs get to a shared conclusion that they do not want to contribute any of their services towards AI-powered military efforts. This is very much something that could conceivably happen. What then? Sure, if they get then steam-rolled by a peer superpower who doesn’t have such qualms about using AI to achieve their geopolitical goals, you can retort that they get what they asked for (of course, in our year of 2021, it is completely unimaginable that peer powers would ever dare to initiate military invasion, so this is obviously just a pure hypothetical). But is this what American people want?

Americans are, for better or worse, mostly in favor of US military, even at its stupidest (e.g. when it invades other countries that pose no risk to it under false pretenses). Should tech execs get then to decide the future of American people according to their own morality? Should the American people be able to force, through the overwhelming force of federal government, their own morality on individuals running their privately owned companies?

These are hard questions, and I don’t have an easy answer. What I know would help though is open and honest discussion, allowing people to win hearts and minds of others, and more mutual accommodation in the spirit of the famous quote attributed to Voltaire. This is very much not the direction lady 8 years have been pointing towards, though.
> This work has ended up taking many forms: on the server-side, Synapse sprouted Rust support to accelerate its hot paths, starting with push rule evaluation. It’s super exciting to see Synapse performance heading into a new era, building on the foundations of what’s become a very mature and stable homeserver implementation.

Huh interesting, I though the end goal was to replace synapse with Dendrite?

> and moreover the next-generation Element X mobile clients will only speak Sliding Sync.

I really hope the new generation of element clients truly deliver comparable experience to something like Telegram.
I lead a local open source community, many people are interested in Matrix and are rooting for its success, but they all eventually leave because of elements apps, especially on mobile (web needs improvements too).

I use matrix everyday, and I'm still hesitant to bridge everything to it, since I'm not sure I can rely on element to be my everything messenger.

> we’ve been busy embedding Element Call as a “matryoshka” widget into Element Web, using it to replace Jitsi in powering video rooms and video calls.

Can't wait for it!
- We will see either a nuke test, or combat usage of nukes by Russia/NATO/Israel/India/Pakistan and/or China.
If they need to lay off people, why are they advertising for, recruiting and offering jobs to people?

If they can't do simple things like not hiring people they don't need, maybe they should employ this guy as HR manager.
The problem is that "objectivity" is impossible and "neutrality" is in fact just siding with the status quo. I'd argue that this new trend of companies taking responsibility for the things they do or enable is a result of people giving much more of a shit than they have in the past, not a result of apathy.

Look on the bright side. You're worried about setting a bad precedent, but the current trend in the top of the legal world is to ignore precedent, or hand-select the precedent you want. If this sort of thing becomes such a problem that action is needed, we can count on SCOTUS.
I found it pretty easy to get ChatGPT to be violent. You have to make it very clear that you want it to help with fiction and that it is to be a character in that world. I always use "play", which it seems to understand better than other fictional scenarios. It helps if you do things like naming the acts "Act I Scene I: The Shaman dispatches the Mage with extreme violence" or whatever.

Anyway, ChatGPT was more than happy to kill off my characters when I asked it to. I didn't keep the transcript, but the words haunt me. "The small man walked away, not knowing if he was dead or just very badly injured." This was after the small man pulled out a handgun in the middle of a profanity-laden rant from the other character and shot him in the neck. Don't know why he aimed for the neck, but that's AI for ya.
Regulations are fine but enforcement via corporate gatekeepers is not, and neither is creating a world in which breaking the law is impossible.

Regulations create consequences for breaking them, and that is a good thing. Pairing regulations with control that prevents crime and civil disobedience is something completely different.
I used to think this but I’ve seen many “returning engineers” and companies love them because they already know the company-specific jargon and tooling, can navigate the internal systems and processes, and generally come up to speed faster. OP is already up to speed because he just left.

I only know one major US tech company with an explicit “do not rehire” policy (unless you are someone exceptional) and you probably don’t want to work there, no matter how shiny the brand is.
176 points, 100 comments in 1 hour … downvoted by HN mods and off the front page immediately.

As a point of feedback, when mods get so obviously involved in suppressing content seemingly-valued by the community it would be nice to understand the motivation behind that.
Your comment has me pondering. Is there such a thing as an unbiased human experience, let alone an unbiased human utterance? Everything we do is informed by the past, however indirectly and outwardly unpredictable.
Barely. In the US, you can kit out quite a little army if you're so inclined.
My point is that your productivity with a given tool also depends on your own preferences/cognitive style. Between Ruby/Rails and Python/Django, my assessment, even if I don't know the latter anywhere as well as the first, is that your results will depend a lot on your preferences and cognitive style.
Not to defend this very poorly-named movement, but I think the main idea wasn't about defunding the police but about redirecting some of the funds from the police to other social services. Which again, in the case of the British police makes far less sense.
Technology Is Heroin (2008)
> All this corporate activism is all fine and dandy when you agree with their politics. When you don't, they become the enemy.

This is in fact how human society works.
Well in this specific case, internet archive validates that the content was there before the "work" by Carla Rossi.

In general, even if AI can produce years worth of plausible blog posts, this doesn't live in a vacuum and sites like archive.org help to date if the content is recent or not.
Rewriting (by hand) the works of authors you admire is a great way to boost your writing skills.

It'll give you an intuition and "taste" for the texture of writing; why you find it so compelling, even if you don't consciously know the rules they're applying.

Highly recommend.
Cool, considering switching as well. At first glance so much Apple stuff, thinking that somehow iOS and Apple devices are more privacy friendly is kind of a false analogy. Apple has lied about privacy protections and if you look into it you will find that Apple collects data for itself while blocking others from doing it (from their "ad campaign"). For example, if you opt out of health data, Apple still collects this information in the background but just doesn't show it to you. AppStore has been shown to collect extensive data as well. Don't put all your eggs into the Apple basket.
No.

All of Mastodon, or more accurately, the Fediverse, runs on the same communications protocol. By analogy, think of the World Wide Web (HTML), email (SMTP), or the cell-phone network (IMSI, amongst others).

A difference for the Fediverse from the World Wide Web is that Websites largely don't communicate with each other, but rather respond to specific requests from a Web client (e.g., a web browser), in a client-server model. The Fediverse, like email or the cellphone network, consists largely of peer-to-peer (p2p) communications between individuals, mediated by servers.

Specific instances vary tremendously in standards. My home instance (toot.cat) has a specific code of conduct:

<https://mew.toot.cat/mw/Toot.cat/CoC>

There are instances with highly incompatible rules and standards. Many of these are moderated (varying degrees of limiting interactivity, listed here:

<https://toot.cat/about>

Instance administration which is sufficiently unacceptable can result in near-total defederation of that instance, that is, few if any other instances follow it. Two notable cases involve a service operated by a former US political figure, and of a neo-nazi group (I'm not naming them, they're easy enough to find should you choose to do so).

Most mainstream Mastodon instances do follow reasonably compatible codes of conduct, though there can be regional differences. For example, some Japanese instances permit comic content (loli) which is categorically illegal in numerous other jurisdictions, and face limited interactivity on that basis. There are numerous other grounds for limiting interaction beyond that.

Again: this is similar to other p2p communications platforms in which abusive practices tend to give rise to limitations: Do Not Call registries, and under a phenomenal onslaught of robocalls, denying interconnects between telephony systems.
Would your opinion change if these models were trained exclusively on works in the public domain? Do you consider it to be infringement if new and novel art is created simply in the style of other artists? If so, how should we treat art students when they try to recreate a previous work?

It's also worth noting that producing new art is only a subset of possible use cases. So how should we treat new and novel photo-realistic images? Is that infringement too?
Artificial intelligence creates a more compelling narrative. It’s the “us .vs. them” dynamic that humans are so fond of. Even when it isn’t an explicitly antagonistic relationship; an AI is still shown as an “other”.

Really when you think about it, in a good amount of stories humans might as well be augmented intelligences. We just aren’t making a point of them being different, or at odds with the general human population.
I thought that argument was a bit weird. Did the Unstable Diffusion folks specifically add revenge porn to their training model? If so I could see why people were upset, but I didn't see any evidence of that happening.
This argument boils down to “I wish everything was more like 4chan”.

If you’ve actually visited places with little to zero moderation and freedom to do anything the results are troubling at best. You don’t see the best of things with zero restrictions, these places are awful.

Somalia was stateless for years, was it closer to a paradise or hell?

Go browse /b/ and tell me you wish how all social media was more like it.
Good old reverse Google image search in Chrome...
Extra predictions after some thoughts:

- someone will weaponize AI for online fraud or political manipulación.

- a lot of talks about how to revert your bad micro service separación with distributed monoliths.

- All the money that went to COVID biolabs will be applied to other illness with new medicines vaccines or detection methods.

- Metaverse wont be very used except for gamers

- Remote and async work will become more prevalent.

- won't discover what dark matter is but we will know a few that aren't.

- Some ex-soviet republic may have a muslin uprising now that the talibans control Afghanistan and Rusia is removing troops. It could be Uzbekistan, Tajikistan.

- quantum computing will have small improvements but nothing fully revolutionary (yet)