skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you've ever used ChatGPT, you know that it has interrupts when it thinks it is talking about something unacceptable, where it gives pre-canned lines decided by the creators about what it should say.

> This sounds like a good idea when it's done with reasonable things - you wouldn't want your AI to be racist would you? - but giving the people who run the servers for ChatGPT the ability to inject their own morals and political beliefs is a very real concern for people.

Here's how you solve it: demand open source models, or at least, open source access to network weights (I think it's kind of hard to open the training itself since it requires so much compute). Demand OpenAI to actually be open.

When Stable Diffusion was opened, the first thing people did was removing the morality systems to prevent NSFW - either interrupts like this, or even retrained the network to better generate human anatomy (which has advantages that goes beyond NSFW images). There is no effective control that Stability AI can impose on this technology now.

As long as OpenAI products are closed behind a SaSS, ChatGPT and other models will be controlled by them.
Ah got it! Yes mine is a 13". Maybe I'll go 14".
I wonder is there any Amazon (.uk/.de/whatever) that is superior about banning frauds, maybe thanks to regulation.
Modern Linux kernels load the `intel_pstate` frequency driver by default these days which has it's own governors that don't quite act the same way as generic ones, but you can control scaling for them w/ the EPB/EPP hints.

* https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.12/admin-guide/pm/intel_p...

* https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/kinetic/en/man8/x86_ene...

* https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CPU_frequency_scaling
Patterns (YC S21) is hiring
The 14" M2 Pro is 30% heavier than the M2 Air and 20% thicker. I don't really classify that as "not much".

I have a 14" M1 Pro from work and a personal M2 Air and it's always surprising how much heavier the M1 Pro feels from my Air.
> unsubstantiated claim

There's a court document from a defender specifically referring to the evidence the FBI is presenting. Lawyers can be severely sanctioned if they lie in a briefing, so the lawyer drafting that has certainly seen a court document by the FBI stating that they got the IP of this user despite Tor. Bruce never claims more than that.
I wonder if they had adopted a leaner approach of starting with a smaller factory/factories and scaling up they could have avoided this. Multi £B deals that require a cold-start seem destined for failure.
Just a little hint if you want a good RPI C64 replacement:

>>BMC64 is a bare metal fork of VICE's C64 emulator optimized for the Raspberry Pi. It has 50hz/60hz smooth scrolling, low video/audio latency and a number of other features that make it perfect for building your own C64 replica machine. For more details visit the github link below.

https://accentual.com/bmc64/

So there is not OS between VICE and the Hardware.
Until recently, I most of my stream was politics, and I was missing the gamer crowd I used to hang with on Google+. Turns out they're all on dice.camp, and now that I found them, my stream is happy again.

So I'm mostly following a lot of RPG designers, but a few non-RPG-related names are: Cory Doctorow (super interesting of course), Neil Gaiman, Stephen Fry (sometimes receives a lot of pointless responses, which makes it frustrating to engage) and George Takei (always receives a lot of pointless comments; I'd like to be able to hide other people's comments from his posts, because it's all noise).

Of course not everybody I'm following is on Mastodon. I'm not even on Mastodon. The Fediverse is a lot bigger than that.
FYI- there is also the US Digital Service. My interviewer was a former SWE manager @ Microsoft who wanted to help people in a "civic duty" type of manner.

https://usds.gov/
There is bias both in the data itself and from the humans doing the RLHF.
My dad works in the Molecular Foundry division at LBNL / Lawrence Berkeley Labs (Dept of Energy and UC Berkeley), and loves it. He started there 40 years ago working in electron microscopy and oversaw the transition to digital imaging (you’d be surprised how much code they write). Good work life balance (he comes home for lunch everyday), a pension (rare these days!). His favorite part of the job is the revolving door of very smart people using/visiting the lab and getting to interact with so many ambitious (and not yet jaded) younger grad students from UC Berkeley.
Another difference between single and multi-pane is repairability.

The seal between the pane and the wood is usually glazing. If that’s failing, you need to replace it. You can buy glazing putty at a big box store, and see how to do it on YouTube. With a little practice, it’s about ten minutes/window. $15 in materials will do a dozen or so.

If it’s leaking between the wood, you need to caulk. That’s $3-$13 in materials/tools (depending on if you already have the gun) and a couple minutes labor.

You may also need some flashing over the top to direct the water away from the pane. This is slightly more complicated. Probably $30 and an hour or so.

If you don’t want to learn these skills, a handyman should be up to any of them.

Multi pane windows also need to be flashed and caulked, just like your single pane. The only piece that I mentioned that is different is the glazing. Glazing can be replaced, the interior seal on a multi-pane window cannot
Divorcing the conservative/liberal split from its current muddied use in American politics:

Conservatism generally follows the principle of “be conservative in your attempts to alter society”.

OpenAI is being aggressive in moderating ChatGPT, and that’s against the core principle of conservatism (at the end of the day, LLMs are taking what people say and reflecting it back, but OpenAI is adding the extra step of only reflecting some of what people say)

Re-connecting this to the reality of American politics: ChatGPT is made by a diverse team of people nucleated around San Francisco. Some people believe that the ChatGPT team is pushing “Liberal” talking points instead of the “Conservative” talking points, so they are mad.

EDIT: Since this is turning flaewar-ey and Dang is already on me about that, I suggest anyone reading this comment also read the Wikipedia article on conservatism [0].

Long story short, it's situational based on the muddy definition of "traditional," so many specific examples you bring up will probably seem to violate the above tenant (e.g., 1940's Conservatives in the Soviet Union hated free enterprise, despite Communism being a relatively new and unproven system), but given broader context, the above definition is usually pretty consistent.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism
Computer-toucher-to-woodworker pipeline is real.
I worked at LANL [0] for five years and enjoyed the hell out of it. I was a Research Technologist, which is basically an R&D Software Engineer.

You will find a research group within a division to work for. For example, mine was the Computational Earth Science group (since renamed) within the Earth & Environmental Sciences division.

You will be working with a handful (3+) of research scientists as their supporting engineer. On some projects, you may be doing machine learning work in Julia. On others, you may be coding a fluid dynamics simulation in FORTRAN or C++. On others, you
might be doing data analytics in Python. It's highly, highly variable, depending strongly on the PIs you're working with, and can change as frequently or infrequently as you wish (within reason).

Ultimately, I did the reverse: went from a DOE lab into a FAANG company. My reasons are particular to me, but if you're at all interested in a slower paced, more varied and collaborative environment, you can't do much better than working for the labs.

For context, at LANL, I was making ~$100,000 / yr with 3 YOE (circa 2019). This is in northern New Mexico, with such a low cost of living that this amount of money goes about as far as $150k+ up in the Boston area (where I am now).

[0]: https://www.lanl.gov/
The issue isn't the model. The current training set is adequate for producing "offensive" content anywhere you like in the political matrix. The issue is that some topics get an override, and some don't. It's evident that those overrides tend toward privileging fashionable American left-wing positions. Nobody with even a shred of intellectual honesty disputes that. The dispute is whether or not it's a good thing.
Can you think of a more efficient method than encoding pi onto the spin state of every electron?
I remember feeling like how GP (with M1 Pro) feels when I upgraded my 2007 Intel MBP with Snow Leopard and and SSD. Everything was snappy and instantaneous until the wave of Electron apps and Lion and forced convergence with iOS design...
In the beginning I thought the “performance per watt” thing was just folks who want Apple to be better clinging to a stat that made it look like that was the case. But in late 2021 I was long overdue for an upgrade, so I got an M1 Max MacBook Pro and holy hell, now I get it.

The battery lasts stupid long. Like, the fact that I can bring this thing on a plane or train without worrying if they’ll have working electric sockets is huge. The fact I can stash this thing under a desk with no power available and have it run graphics-intensive projections for a 3-hour theatre show is huge. The fact that I can achieve all that with zero throttling (I turned on High Energy use and never turned it off) is huge. The fact that I can achieve all of that with basically no fan noise is nonsensical.

Like, compared to the 2020 Razer Blade (RTX 2070 Max-Q) I use for work, it’s like a completely different class of device. My Razer Blade spins up like a jet engine under load, requires a cable if I’m going to do anything intense for an hour, underclocks from ~4.4GHz to ~1.5-2.5GHz when on battery (seemingly no way to disable this), and really only beats my MacBook for tasks that specifically require an Nvidia GPU.
This used to be the standard advice for MS Windows.

Funny to think that it's now Apple who have this problem.
Funny that, we had the same problem with an email from the agency that our landlord use to rent the place.
The email was perfectly legit, with the usual attached PDF that you'd expect in those kind of communication.
Yeah, that thought crossed my mind, and I'm sure now that you mention it, it must have crossed his too.

Still, couldn't he just have written that?
@futurebird@sauropods.win -- science, math, entomology

@librarianshipwreck@mastodon.social -- pithy critiques, cats

@nomdeb@mstdn.social -- history and other random things

@OkieSpaceQueen@scicomm.xyz -- science communications, conspiracy deconstruction

@tprophet@defcon.social -- writer at 2600

@kjhealy@mastodon.social -- pithy sociologist

@notjustbikes@notjustbikes.com -- urban planning

@enron@tilde.zone -- hacks and snark

@HelenBranswell@scicomm.xyz -- infectious disease reporting

@Jessicascott09@infosec.exchange -- misc infosec

@harshad@sharma.io -- farming in india
Needlessly inflammatory, I hoped that people might have learned that forcefully projecting their beliefs onto other people in a condescending way doesn't work. I say this as someone who would have no issues with eating artificial meat replacements as long as they were affordable to the average Joe and taste roughly the same.

Taste is arguably the most important factor, people don't want "chicken" or "beef" that doesn't brown when cooked and only vaguely resembles the real thing with weird off-flavors. Pushing this hard, this early, for people to adopt "high tech" food will just delay the progress in the long term.

I don't have any deep rooted aversion to genetically modified food either, but it needs to undergo an appropriate level of studies to show that the food is safe in the long term. Move fast and break things isn't an appropriate approach when it comes to feeding hundreds of millions, or even billions of people.
I'm in the same boat as you, discovered him when the Ukraine war started (which he had predicted in his first book). He seems to make a lot of sense, but his predictions break a lot of the trends or status quo we're used to.

I've read his first 2 books and if you listen to him now it's the same general idea, just more detailed and in-depth because it's book length, of course. He does predict that Russia will attack Ukraine in there (I think that book came out in 2012 or so?). He also makes a lot of other more vague predictions that I don't think have a chance of coming true, e.g. various inter-European wars and annexations in a struggle for resources and local control. But none of those are as specific as "Russia will attack Ukraine within the next 10 years."

He has predicted some pretty out there stuff, like China collapsing within 10 years, Germany's economy collapsing within 2 years.

Guess we'll see. He's entertaining for sure :)
In no particular order within the respective sections.

No BS, down to earth infosec folks

Filippo Valsorda - https://abyssdomain.expert/@filippo

Marcus Hutchins - https://infosec.exchange/@malwaretech

Tavis Ormandy - https://social.sdf.org/@taviso

Royce Williams - https://mastodon.social/@tychotithonus

The Grugq - https://infosec.exchange/@thegrugq

Alex Bloor - https://bloor.tw/@bloor

Andrew Tierney - https://infosec.exchange/@cybergibbons

The usual Rust crowd

Mara Bos - https://hachyderm.io/@Mara

Aaron Turon - https://hachyderm.io/@aturon

Luca Palmieri - https://hachyderm.io/@algo_luca

Tim McNamara - https://mastodon.nz/@timClicks

Raph Levien - https://mastodon.online/@raph

Game Dev

Ólafur Waage - https://mastodon.social/@olafurw

Godot Engine - https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@godotengine

Celebrities
(Stephen was one of the first people I followed on Twitter, so it is a tradition. The others are canaries.)

Stephen Fry - https://mastodonapp.uk/@stephenfry

Kathy Griffin - https://mstdn.social/@kathygriffin

Greta Thunberg - https://mastodon.nu/@gretathunberg

Honorable mention

Dan Luu - https://mastodon.social/@danluu
I don’t mind diversity in my work, I’m a non-white person in America myself, but the decision to have everyone from the Two Rivers be different races (other than Rand) is just silly and destroys worldbuilding.

Not to mention the changed plot beats that I won’t spoil that rob Rand of his big moments and give them
to all the female characters, when they already all have major plot moments in EoTW!
TU, RE vs. Google LLC: A step forward in the rational regulation of data?
In Melbourne’s climate where piped methane costs 1/3 per kWh that of electricity, but heat pumps are 300-500% efficient and you remove the duct loss, for most people their heating bill drops by 2/3. Add solar self consumption and you are way ahead.

My limited understanding of the defrost cycle is that it’s most a problem around 0c? If it’s a colder or warmer it doesn’t get triggered as often?
Shameless plug:

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I’ve had the same experience. Search is unusable far too often for general keywords; I end up making a failed keyword search and then fall back to making a search based on sender address. Searching on sender address works fine but requires me to correctly recall who sent an email I’m looking for.
Twitter Does Ship Now
Outlook.com is one of the targets I have trouble with on my own mail server, and why I've been using SendGrid to relay through.
Staking and terrorism are not the same. The FBI gets a boost to their career if they get a terrorism conviction, but there's no such incentive for more normal crime.
The SSD controller is part of the SOC, so you're both half-right.
More-or-less this generation's Tomb Raider and Monument Valley, if you ask me. It's nice that Apple reaches out to AAA developers to prove that Metal ports aren't impossible, but it's a lost cause today. No Man's Sky and Resident Evil both work out-of-box on Linux without any intervention from their developers. Apple's efforts are entirely misplaced and it's obvious that they're going against the grain of the rest of the games industry.

I'd argue Apple shot themselves in the foot by depreciating 32-bit libraries as fast as they did. If they had Proton, the Macbooks could be enjoying the same surge in gaming popularity the Steam Deck has.
It depends on how you spec it. Apple charges an arm and a leg for ram/storage upgrades
Well this should make for an interesting conversation, and I suspect we will see lots of these in the coming years:

A biological AI (BAI) writer for Vice hallucinating details about other (hallucinated) BAI's (conservatives) hallucinating about a silicon based AI hallucinating about "reality" (a model derived from BAI hallucinations), discussed by other BAI's on a forum using hallucinated details.

The layers of indirection and recursion society is adding onto the system we live within is starting to get a little alarming....good thing I'm probably just (only, and nothing else) hallucinating, and all is (lol) actually well here on Planet Earth.
> Did Baloo replace Nepomuk?

Yes, or more specifically it replaced nepomuk-kde (NEPOMUK[1] is/was a EU standard for representing semantic data via RDF)

> How does Baloo compare with locate?

It indexes the contents of any files with MIME types that it knows how to convert to text. AFAIK locate only indexes paths, not contents.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEPOMUK_(software)
Plantar fasciitis, shin splints and some minor, I assume, tendon inflammation above ankle joint. PF was the worst - icing, stretching, rolling, exercises - nothing helped, only went away after switching from casual/dress shoes to sneakers for daily. Shin splints seemed to have went away in couple weeks with some massage and exercises, but came back after 1-2 runs on multiple attempts. Last injury coincided with me receiving an old elliptical from parents as a gift, so I didn't need to run for cardio anymore.

And now I'm a refugee and my running trails back home were in the zone russians dropped cluster munitions on. So it's not looking good for running going forward, lol.
Maybe it's my nostalgia/rose tinted glasses talking, but I recently used one of the old white plastic macbooks running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and was shocked at how instantaneous the user interface felt in comparison with Ventura on a modern machine. Even small details, such as opening/closing windows and typing text into TextEdit feels like it has lower delay/input lag on the old hardware/software.

Had a similar feeling while playing with an old iPod touch running the skeuomorphic/pre-flat iOS when compared with a modern iPhone.
While that's clearly the right choice for professional social media manager type apps which might pay some monthly fee, it's very strange that in so many years they've never created two tiers of API feeds, with an ad-filled one for normal third party apps.
Not quite a beginner book, but you should check out https://www.amazon.com/Mazes-Programmers-Twisty-Little-Passa....
This is a terrible essay. It states two facts about Noma and its founder:

1) Noma relies on 30 unpaid interns.

2) René Redzepi "started cooking in a time when it was common to see my fellow cooks get slapped across the face for making simple mistakes, to see plates fly across a room." and asked "How can we rectify the screaming and shouting and physical abuse we’ve visited on our young cooks?"

The rest of the essay is just random conjecture or anecdotes about the restaurant industry at-large. No substantial insight into the workings of Noma is given.
The settings window in MacOS needed to evolve IMHO. Just like the old disgusting confusing Windows settings/profilers/doodads, it worked only for old Mac power users. When the young audience is coming from iOS, MacOS has to satisfy what they’re used to. And Apple needs to stay consistent to not become like Windows.

As I age and switch constantly between OSes and devices for work, search has increasingly become my primary way of finding settings and whatnot. The part of my brain that remembers things spacially just doesn’t bother anymore.
Maybe just list your top 4 or 5 and a brief summary why you like them would be more helpful than just dropping a long list of people.
Symbols can be powerful...

That is the issue, the foundational principle of the United States was that we were a federalist system with a weak and narrowly defined federal government. The office of Presidency should be inconsequential to the Everyday citizen of either the US or the world.

The fact that we continually shift more power from Local / State government, then from Congress to the Executive is the exact reason the president is a "Symbol of Power"

>Kind of like how 9/11 wasn't about killing some office workers

Again the theory of Distribution apply here to building as well. World Trade Center was attacked because NYC is seen as the Central Place for world finance.

NYC has become too powerful and that power should be distributed.
I don't know why ,but the search results in the suggestions in the search input dropdown are way more accurate than what shows up after you actually submit it.
Hijacking the thread, but a command line option I would really like to have in make is a way to force command echoing, including those prefixed by '@'. It would be the opposite of '-s'. If such a feature already exists, please tell me.

People drive me crazy with Makefiles that hide almost everything, and with no "verbose" option. Sure, it looks nicer when things go right, but when it doesn't, which is the main reason why logs exist, then it is terrible. I always have to use ugly tricks to reveal what the Makefile author has hidden from me, like using the shell "-x" option, or removing all the '@' with a sed command, if would have been so much easier having a command line option.

Good thing we are mostly using cmake now, it has a working VERBOSE flag, but still, manual Makefiles still exist, and they are usually pretty terrible, and that would be a nice option to help debugging these terrible Makefiles (not unlike --shuffle).
It's hard to say "UK is equally bad as US" when all I have is anecdotes. But there are plenty of anecdotes that it's pretty bad in the UK.
Yeah I thought this was quite disappointing too.

"PCs can't even run this!" ....when using a PC with specs too low to run the specific thing we chose to do.

"Mac's can't even run notepad.exe!" would be fair using Apple's approach to these kind of claims (i.e. choosing to run software with requirements that you know they cannot meet)
The portable ones used in geochemistry are usually imaging spectrometers, not mass-spec, unless I'm missing something. I.e. they're measuring something entirely different.

Sure, there are portable mass spectrometers, in the sense of something you can put a sample in and also carry around. But they still require getting a sample, preparing it, and putting it in the machine.

They're not something you can scan with.

Especially in geochemistry, "scannability" / ability to process large sections of a core without manual sample prep is a big deal.

You usually have hundreds of meters to kilometers of core (thin cylinder of rock) or a deep borehole that you're trying to extract information out of alongside other measurements + manual logging.

Lots of things need destructive sampling, so you will do more things that actually take samples and process them, but non-destructive "scanning-style" methods are a huge help.
As described in the article, the political bias is intentional. It is the result of (not-so-transparent) ethical guard rails baked into the system.
Watch video, buy new kernel ROM chip -> success
And why can't my mac remember what screen applications were on when I unlock the screen. Everytime, unlock, drag them back to right screens, resize them. If someone has a fuc for this I'm an ears, but seems to me it should work out if the box.