skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm more thinking of the much more basic kind of bugs.

AI might fail to follow rule 1, simply by misidentifying a human as something else, or misidentifying what is harmful. Like how a Tesla can crash into an obstacle, because it failed to recognize that there is an obstacle.

This isn't a criticism of Asimov, of course. I think we simply haven't solved many basic problems that he probably regarded as "surely by the time robots need rules to follow, these aren't going to be issues".

> I'd probably stick one system on at the "front" to add/modify/create/interpret prompts in a way that adds the three laws, and then stick one at the end to measure (and then filter on) how well the output adheres to them.

I bet that we are going to get some sort of end-to-end simulated robot QA system. Imagine pushing your code to Github, and in a few minutes, Travis CI emails you, "28/1000 tests failed. 32 cases of bodily harm against human were reported." What a world to live in!
Ask HN: Tips on doing deals with UK and JP companies?
My small startup has been contacted by several companies in the UK and Japan, and we are in the process of negotiating pilots and paid deals with them.

I am based in the US and have heard that there can be noticeable cultural differences, and I want to avoid miscommunications that derail our deals.

Anyone have tips for how an American should adjust behavior/language/expectations when dealing with companies in other countries?
I recently had a conversation with an archeologist. She said that she regularly gets calls from the local government because they're out digging up some ground and have found items that are around 50 years old. Apparently that's the legal cutoff, and they're required to get it checked out by an archeologist if they think it's that age or older. So yeah, history is definitely in that range.
This is a weird point to do here, but in my opinion startups aren't the end all be all of innovation: they are needed in a system where incumbents are mostly static, but in different configurations the role of a startup can be accomplished inside behemoths or through joint ventures, or other settings.

To back my point, the Walkman didn't come from two guys in a garage. The GUI wasn't invented by Apple, linux wasn't born out of VC investment, NFC payments weren't brought to market by drop out college hippies.
The first is 100% guaranteed unless someone makes a synthetic virus that turns our entire species into peace-and-love hippies. I recon that would probably be a good thing, probably.

Enough people will respond with the second that, although it can be avoided with skill and courage and charismatic leadership, it has a decent risk.

Even just politics, it’s not just two parties: When I say there is a literal Communist Party of the United States of America, it’s not a sarcastic reference to the Democrats, nor even to the Greens. Even within parties, you see political divisions. And political enemies aren’t limited to domestic politics.
Here's what I suspect filters would look like:

function critical_filter(response) => Maybe Text {
if logic_parse_check(response) == LogicallySound then {
return Some response
} else {
return Nothing
}
}

do {
static seed = 0;
seed += 1;

response = critical_filter(GPT::generate_response(prompt, seed))
} while response != Nothing

We are effectively brute-forcing hashes here. Take as many shots in the light as you need to hit, but take no effort to aim.

The only solution is a replacement.
Extremely valid points. Thanks for sharing your perspective, counters. It's much appreciated. One thing I think is fascinating, every time this comes up on a place like HN, is how detached the conversation often is from the meat-and-potatoes of forecasting. Which is to say I've seen many a googler think that weather forecasting is a simple problem and handwave the discussion away with "throw compute at the problem". It's always great when there are people around to ground the discussion.

Last point to the specifics. You're very right that the American teams have nailed mesoscale/rr forecasting. Which is, if we wanted to really divert the discussion, interesting and arguably more advanced because of its industrial applications (wind farms, etc et al).

I think your most salient point is about how the extra compute resources foster a culture of improvement on the models themselves. I am on the compute task team and it's something I argue for every day. Are you a researcher? If so, send me a message. I used to have my NOAA email in my profile but it would probably be neat to connect professionally.
I am trying this on GitHub https://github.com/github/advisory-database/pull/1595
We are getting so far off the path here, but to give you an idea of how much of the earth human activity is taking up, wild mammals account for a mere 4% of mammal biomass.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Di...

The Earth is big, really big, but 8 billion humans and their livestock are also a really big number.
Obviously the 4K is a typo. /s/4/2/g
There is a certain class of people that will somehow call that an authentic experience and give them 5 stars. I think they need help, but there are quite a few out there.
I think the phrase "American capitalistic sensibilities" is well used here. American capitalism has a long history of optimizing for that particular wrong metric. It's culturally distinct from, say, Mittelstand capitalism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelstand
What I was trying to say is that a human habitat is a vastly more complex network of relationships than merely the land we occupy, in which we feel relatively by ourselves within 10m of each other.

For example how much forest should there be between two cities, to produce the oxygen you're breathing right now? Many magnitudes higher than those 10m. I'm still barely scratching the surface.

As for suggestions... I don't even feel like going there today, I'm merely acknowledging my observations about realities that I believe are not up to our opinions. Reality is hugely empty, and when it's not, it's turbulent, vicious, and violent, like the center of our Sun. A neutron star. A black hole.

These are concepts of "density" and properties of the resulting system, which we can apply not only in physical context, but also biological, and social. All systems are alike in some basic fundamental ways.
There are a number of threads coming together and the results will be nothing short of catastrophic. It's hard to put down my thoughts together in a well comprehensible form, it would take a lot of time and work.

So instead I will just put down the things I feel are coming to a head:

1. Dodge v. Ford Motor Co.

2. Uber especially Greyball and getting away with it.

3. Charlie Stykes' How the Right Lost Its Mind admitting people like him spent decades to dismantle the credibility of the "newspaper of record"

4. Social media echo chambers

5. During COVID a few, very few people for political power and greed have killed hundreds of thousands by pushing antiscientific bullshit and got away with it

And now into this new gullibility comes this writing which looks so credible and is so confidently very wrong every time. The next pandemic will be devastating.
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Angry Tesla Customers in China Vandalized Store After Learning About Price Cuts
I don't believe they had any marketing. It's just that no other app was doing group video calls for free at that scale and with that quality at the start of the pandemic. It was the perfect no fuss solution available at the perfect time. Just create a call and copy over the link to whoever you want without them having to create an account.
Oh, my boss likes me to have an IQ of 100. He said so.
Having no mx record and the domain A record pointing to a mail server is valid and is a small edge case. If one were to validate mx records for an a to spam measure using this the false positive rate would be extremely low. Really anyone not having an mx record and using the A record of the root domain I’d love to hear what you are doing. I didn’t even know this was a thing until a two years ago in a career of 20 plus years.
You might think it’s a long way to the chemist, but that’s peanuts to space.
Sorry these tables are really not labeled. What are we looking at?
Oh I’ll take your word on that, having no ag-sales experience myself :-)

Just wanted to point out that even before accounting for industry size, there’s just more profit sloshing around California’s ag industry which makes it easier to square market fit with the returns VCs desire.
Locked to a geo region? Not a great launch
is.. ChatGPT writing all of these?
FTX were definitely the most polished fraudsters and hucksters in the crypto community. That's saying a lot, given that the finest fraudsters and hucksters in the world competed to out-swindle, out-cheat, and out-hoodwink each other daily in the crypto community

But that has nothing to do with cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency is math, code, and gigawatts
What's an IAM engineer? Someone that configures AWS IAM policies?
Yeah. And the follow up snark comment about it being an American thing. It is literally the file format specified for this type of data, globally. As outlined by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) decades ago. It's widely supported and parseable. Making a web API that parses GRIB data is trivial. It's not some esoteric thing. You can open the files in python on any modern computer+OS.
We took the real Weather Underground so unseriously that half of them became college professors and one of them was on Jeopardy, seems consistent.
I remember doing similar things over 20 years ago with games that had poor customization. Open up the binaries, search for strings, and replace strings with custom text (e.g. character names etc). I learned quickly that I had to keep the string replacement the same length in order to fit with the byte boundaries otherwise the game would crash.

But this author has taken reverse engineering to a whole new level, not just finding where text resides, but being able to parse out entire images (maps etc) by finding patterns in the binary representations. Truly Jedi Master level.
What's a good example of a situation where lines of code written are a high quality signal of software developer performance?
Well, that's exactly what it has been fed with, so it makes sense why it would be sounding that way.
That still effectively costs GPU cycles though. If the morality system was not in place, then a slightly smaller model could reach the same performance as the existing production model, thus saving cycles.
I keep trying to understand why Hypercard was good. Although I agree with the points in the article, I guess/think/suspect that there was more to it than that.

One of the things that struck me when I fired up Hypercard.sheepvm was that what came out of Hypercard is very different than what comes out of html/css/javascript. The same way that if you paint with a palette knife versus a paint brush, what comes out is different.

As a thought experiment, since I am currently building a website, I started using Hypercard to mock up the web UI. It is immediately different. (Yes I know there is the black&white vs colors). Does anyone have any thoughts on that or why that would be?
But it didn't kill you. If you had a false negative, that means it failed to stop when it should have, and that almost definitely would have caused an accident. False negatives are more dangerous than false positives. Both can be dangerous, but false negatives are worse.

All AEB's from all manufacturers have a certain amount of phantom braking, but non-Tesla AEB are well studied and definitely save lives.
If you asked me 25 years ago, "Wanna bet hackers will be excited about a weather API in the future?" ... Sink me ... I would have lost that bet.
I think these days durability is the most important if you want to be “fair” in some sense of the word. A close relative has had his Aeron since the mid 90s. It’s still the same, like a tank, still in use. It’s repairable, sellable etc. I’ve torn through a few shitty ikea chairs in a couple years or so, and caused myself unnecessary strain and pain.

So I got myself an HM Sayl lately (used bargain) because I didn’t want a huge throne to dominate the small room. Best choice ever. Can’t recommend strongly enough. Prefer it to aeron.

As with cars, not worth buying new, but worth buying higher quality used. The noteworthy brands retain value for longer but the wear and tear drives their price down.
> It's like Synthwave, which was never a thing in the 80s.

> It's a modern reinvention of how people assume the 80s felt, filtered through a gauzy haze of nostalgia for an imaginary pop culture that never existed in that form.

Not really. I write Synthwave music, and I was alive in the 80s and writing similar music back then. I have a deep respect for the bands that pioneered the way via New Wave and Industrial music at the time. I really enjoyed at the time and still enjoy things like the incidental music in Miami Vice, for example. (And Jan Hammer, who wrote much of it, has an interesting history going back to Mahavishnu Orchestra, for example.)

It sounds like your own experience is different than that, but don't assume everyone who's into something are into it for naive reasons.
We always use heuristics to assess if a source is credible.

Otherwise we have to do our own research, collect our own data. There is no other way around if there is no trust.

It’s very easy for some information to be true, but also excluding all the bits that don’t fit the author bias.

I think a source that is that biasied should be called out.
I'm not from Texas, but in Oregon we have a plant, the wild cucumber, that served in the same ecological niche, being a fruit whose sole purpose seems to be furnishing children with satisfying projectiles.

The wild cucumber is shaped like a hand grenade, and splatters a glue-like substance on the target.

Someone in another comment speculated on whether it's possible for some fruit to evolve to propagate its seeds across the landscape by tornado. I suppose it might also be possible for a plant to evolve to present passers-by an irresistible temptation to throw it at someone.
I’ve heard a few stories of panels not being installed properly and flying off roofs and hitting cars below.

Unfortunately most lebanese live in apartments, and if a resident or two already called dibs on the roof, you’re out of luck.

Tangent, price of fuel/diesel used to be fixed by gov subsidies. Most of our (very tiny) amount of money left has been smuggled across the border to Syria. Same applies to bread, flour etc..

Is there a precedent for this happening in the US, i think insulin is way cheaper in mexico but I dont hear stories about it being smuggled to the states
ChatGPT would like to know this answer
That might be the most pragmatic and convenient answer, but comfort is the death of joy. A life truly lived aught to include some decisions that from the outside might seem ridiculous.
Maybe it's time for Python4 so this can become the default!

ducks
IDK, I want to train up some AI and have the choice of using google colab or buying a GPU that can do it within a reasonable timeframe.

Not going to be spending $10k like the tortoise-tts guy (was looking into that project last night) but $2k might be doable for a hobby project. Plus I’d have a computer at the end.
Here's another old bug. When you provide an IPv6 addresses, it reads the first 4 bytes as an IPv4 address. I tried reporting this on the forums like a decade ago:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=101%3A101%3A%3Af00

101:101::f00 -> "IP address registrant: Cloudflare"
I settled on a pretty similar stack for a browser based TCG simulator last year. Redis with Go, GraphQL and Vue; its a speedy development stack.
Same for South Africa. Thanks to the grid being severely mismanaged upper middle class and beyond are installing home solar where possible to maintain some semblance of normalcy
A few more interesting ones...

Q: J.K. Rowling intended Quiddich to be a satire of what real-world English sport? A: Soccer

(If you change the question to "...sports?", it adds rugby and cricket - the latter two strike me as far more plausible answers. Even polo seems easy to argue than soccer. Though...given the English-centric context of the books, why did it say "soccer" and not "football"?)

Q: Which English King did Nicholas Flamel kill in battle in 1485? A: King Richard III

(That I know of, there is nothing whatever in real history nor even Harry Potter fanfiction which might connect Nicholas Flamel with the real-world death of Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field. More amusingly - if you delete the "in 1485", it answers "Vortigern". The latter was a likely-mythical English warlord of the 5th century - about 900 years before the supposed birth of Nicholas Flamel. From a quick skim of the Voltigern Wikipedia page, there is no hint of his dying in battle.)

Q: Was orphaned Harry Potter dumped on the doorstep of his mother's sister because his birth was not legitimate? A: No, Harry Potter was left with his aunt and uncle because his parents were killed by Lord Voldemort.

(Clearly the model has no conception (pun intended) of the human social concepts of bastardy, legitimate birth, etc. Nor history of those in Britain. Nor of the clear & demonstrative symbolism of placing a bastard with its mother's birth family and cutting off all contact with the family, friends, social circle, etc. of the biological father.)
IMO it didn't sound like a person at all, just a passage lifted out of a science textbook.
If we were talking about 2004, then fine. But by 2013 it was very clear to everyone what Google was (an advertising agency).
Good point. For example, I'm sure no trained professional would ever copy code from StackOverflow.
The same is true in Fortran. They "solved" the problem by declaring it UB and producing broken code.
In any case they stopped successfully, it was the ones behind them that pushed them forward.
> It seems like some of the work that Igalia did was externally funded, but far from all of it.

Yes, that's right. Very far from all of it, but we're also very appreciative of those who did contribute funding. (I'm from Igalia/the host you're quoting)

> about doing some work on MathML in WebKit [sic; Blink presumably

https://twitter.com/webkit/status/756489720893411329?s=20&t=... for example was also Igalia
I suppose squirrels might end up propagating the seeds by stashing them away somewhere, then for any number of possible reasons, never actually coming back to eat them.
I don’t reuse the same keys everywhere so this wouldn’t work. Is that normal to reuse your keys like that?
Doom on Zoom
How do you propose that The Waltons are laundering out 100 billion per year? Dividends come out of net income.

They aren't even executives with stock options.
zfs.rent
It's possible to enhance mathematical abilities of LLMs by enabling them to externally run symbolic mini programs e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.12588.

It's also possible to create fact-grounded retrieval-enhanced language models e.g. https://proceedings.mlr.press/v162/borgeaud22a.html.
> Edit: Also making it easy to change code when requirements change doesn't mean adding all kinds of generic abstractions to your code. It mean keeping code clean and simple and avoiding implicit logic dependencies enough to make code changes easy. Adding a lot of generic abstractions can make it harder to change things instead of easier.

Exactly, when you have two parts of your system that do the same thing but for different reasons, when one of them gets a new requirement, you'll be in a better place with code that was previously redundant than if both places called into a single implementation.
My only request for Dr. Worlfram is to stop using the pipe character as punctuation.
Camille Fournier, The Manager's Path
Travel hack: Two one way tickets are often less than a return ticket
Totally agree, by far the best dashboard of any console I have ever used.

Another great feature was just how blazingly fast it was to hope into and out of that dashboard while playing a game.

Both the PS4 and Xbox One were such a disappointment to me. Even after years of use, figuring out where menu items were and long delays switching between menus. Combined with PC gaming getting both cheaper and gaining great controller support made it so I will never buy a console again. Buying games for a system with a limited lifespan to then be frustrated by the experience is a just not worth it. Meanwhile Steam games I bought almost 20 years ago are still downloadable and playable.
Maybe accidental 2020 minus three instead of plus three....

No, I dunno. Odd error.
Agreed, the rampant abuse of privileged information for financial gain by US government officials is infinitely more troubling than expensive high-fructoss corn syrup product prices.

Funny how the regulatory agencies don't go after their "friends". How can this possibly be solved?

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