skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ultimate failing of Clojure as a tool is its inefficiency measured in $ per feature.

The language is not very approachable for junior programmers. You can grab a Python programmer and graft them on a Java or TS project and the same week they will deliver features and bugfixes. Reading other's people code in Clojure is much harder especially when coming from imperative world. The language is terse. The documentation is terse and lacks examples. Library documentation is insufficient or non-existent. You have to read other people's code. It is a really demanding activity aggravated by lack of static typing. You cannot just hover over a map in your IDE and see its structure. The value may have come through several transformations that add, transform and remove fields. To understand what arguments a function expects you have to decipher destructuring bindings which in real code can be ingenious, i.e. unreadable. And hold on to your butts when a clever teammate invents a flow of control macro and uses it throughout.

These and other reasons make the pool of candidates small, candidates "over-qualified" and expensive. If your expert quits, your whole endeavor is screwed.

I helped to rewrite a Clojure project that stalled due to lack of affordable talent. It's been chugging along since then at a considerable pace. The new language is very popular and much less affected by the mentioned problems.

There is a mention of Penpot in this thread. Mark my words, when it comes a time to scale, they will rewrite the whole thing in a popular statically typed language.
The primary use of natural gas is heating and in moderate climates burning natural gas to heat your house is under half as efficient as burning natural gas at a power plant, moving the electricity to your house, and using a heat-pump to move the outdoors heat inside.

Making houses energy-agnostic seems like a big win if the cost is low and it can be, especially on new constructions. Plus if you assume that natural gas is bad then it should be obvious that thousands of houses directly depending on it is much worse than indirectly depending on it via the local plant. The local plant centralizes safety and pollution measures (e.g. no domestic gas leaks) and it allows a much quicker swapping of energy sources by the city when the time comes.
Outside of philosophical zombie thought experiments, there is not only the implication, but the necessity that a system exhibiting sentience and consciousness (via human-level intelligence) should be assumed to have it.
thanks for feedback, this is important point I missed
Not a lot of people are migrating to or from Earth.
Yeah. For anyone who appreciates really, really good cinema and hasn't seen Passion—I dunno, drop everything and go watch it, I guess. It's one of a handful of silent films that truly, today, "historical importance" entirely put aside, stands with the rest of the greats—and might even shoulder past more than a few of them.

Sunrise is great and important—sure, yes, it's good, even, kinda. Metropolis looms large—yeah, true, and I enjoyed it, but it's clunky as hell, if we're being honest. A dozen other greats—yes, they're good, but I can name a hundred ways they could have been better. A bunch of others are more-or-less flawless but are also weird and niche. Passion? No notes. Perfect movie.
What was system/3 used for?
I just tried asking for the population of Neptune:

> "Neptune has a total of 32,465 people and of those residents there are 15,209 males and 17,256 females. The median age of the male population is 36.8 and the female population is 40.2. There are approximately 8,127 births each year and around 5,425 deaths." --Bing

Then it linked me to https://www.movingideas.org/neptune-nj/ But it stilled showed me, on the search results page, a picture of the planet Neptune to go with the response text.
I got 0 for Mars but 231 million for Saturn. The answer came from something called kingdom wiki
the firings will continue until morale improves
Iosevka has a large number of variations, weights, widths and styles.

He just cherry-picked one and decided he didn't like it.

Based on his preferences, he should try Iosevka Term SS10 Extended instead.
tv shows get cancelled all the time because there aren’t enough viewers to warrant subsequent seasons. it is better to spend that money on other shows that you bet will be enjoyed by many more people, otherwise you’re wasting the subscription people are paying.
Musk's entire save humanity speal is about enforcing an end to nuclear war (not the sun in 400 million years)

That's why he started SpaceX with Mike Griffin, who offered a technological solution to the problem (global missile defense), which is finally being realized with StarShield

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Griffin#Career

Problem is only those with Asperger's believe it would actually work.
> send a message [..] to improve morale or get out

The saying "the beatings will continue until morale improves" is supposed to be a joke, not a guide for management.
Zuck: “I take full responsibility this time too!”
Metropolis, though overlong and a bit hammy, pulled me through with the music and the visuals. Even when the effects aren't believable the design is stunning.

In fact, it's pronably not until the 80s with skmething like Blade Runner or Brazil that you get a film so thuroughly designed and detailed from a visual perspective.

Edit: Though Tati's Playtime just came to mind.
The biggest threat I see about AI is concentrating power over many in the hands of the few. Kind of like atomic bombs.

Some manifestations of this are how the tiktok algorithm that is rewiring the attention span of millions globally is controlled by a single corp. Likewise, the almighty google algorithm that can decide to shut down your account and there's practically no recourse.

As long as AI will remain the preserve of those with large amounts of data and big infrastructure this will be the case
The shape and origin of the Earth are central questions of the relevant scientific fields. They've received centuries of extensive debate.

By contrast, the questions that this book explores haven't received nearly as much expert attention. And if you poll the experts on whether those questions should receive more attention, they mostly say yes!

>69% of [ML researcher] respondents believe society should prioritize AI safety research “more” or “much more” than it is currently prioritized, up from 49% in 2016.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/H6hMugfY3tDQGfqYL/what-do-ml...
not very english
miny typo
much grammar
wOw
How do we know if the article was not written by an AI?
I put my car in storage, it was doable but it wouldn't have been without uber, going anywhere via transit would've involved at least one twenty minute transfer.

I mostly just hoofed it everywhere, but it did limit my access substantially.

Meanwhile, unless it's very cold or I'm going to a different city I have much less of a need for a car in my more rural locale.
In Australia that distance is certainly enough for completely different weather. But local geo-climactic conditions in Japan might be completely different; it's probably not the distance as much as prevailing winds, geography, etc.

Interestingly for any type of generation - Japan runs two different grid frequencies, which limits cross-flow from one half to the other half. They do have HVDC interconnects, but are rather limited (they're building more, in no small part as a result of Fukushima)
That’s just for the US though. I’m in Canada and you absolutely don’t need to prove malicious intent for a civil suit. And new Bing is being rolled out here.
Not understanding how this is the best strategy to find success. A straight direction would be quicker and travel further.
Until Kotlin creates its own ecosystem, based on Kotlin/Native or something, it isn't competing with Java at all, regardless of the features, it isn't the target language that JVM designers care about, or use in the standard library.

Which is so mature that JetBrains is using Rust instead for their Fleet backend.

Only on Android has Kotlin an advantage, thanks to Google pushing it as a replacement.
Keystole XL was halted to "save" the endangered species, you can't make this shit up. The animals need us to use the most dangerous and least efficient methods possible.

On April 15, 2020, District Judge Brian Morris issued a suspension for the pipeline's construction after the plaintiffs, the Northern Plains Resource Council, alleged the project was improperly reauthorised back in 2017.[94][95] In the summary judgment, the judge agreed that the Endangered Species Act was violated, thereby voiding the permit.
I think this is right.

The chats I've had with it are more thoughtful, comprehensive and modest than any conversation I've had on the Internet with people I don't know, starting from the usenet days. And I respect it more than the naive chats I've had with say Xfinity over the years.

Still requires judgement, sophistication and refinement to get to a reasonable conclusion.
Well with that logic it's the same for clojure, Lein and deps.edn they both use the very well documented, incredibly successful, Maven Central repository. They are just two different implementations using the same, reliable, battle proven approach to dependencies. You need a library? Add it to your build file, with its version, and you're done.
I wonder what the real story is here. When I left Walmart last June, the Portland office was already 100% remote, with no intention of reopening the office (it had been WeWork space before the pandemic). My team had been 100% remote since it was formed.

I’m pretty bad at the rumors game, but even so, by the time I left, it was clear to me that Walmart considered its IT future to be based in India.
>Again, the difference here is that the cat is already out of the bag and AI technology is widely distributed and integrated into everything, including the iPhone I am writing this on. Non-proliferation has already failed.

If you read the book's chapter headings under the "HOW TO AVERT AN AI APOCALYPSE" section, it seems to me that the author is cognizant of your iPhone.

I think the title is meant to be somewhat tongue-in-cheek btw.

It seems to me that the anti-nuclear movement had an overall positive impact, because lack of nuclear power, while undesirable, is a far more desirable outcome than nuclear holocaust.

And we had enough nuclear close calls (see e.g. Arkhipov or Petrov) that I'm not comfortable with the conclusion that anti-nuclear activism was unnecessary.

If humanity had been more fatalistic about nuclear proliferation, and there was never any anti-nuclear activism, nuclear weapons probably would've proliferated a lot more, there would've been more close calls, and some of them would've been catastrophes.

Of course, it would be ideal if we had both nuclear power and lack of nuclear weapons -- I'm just pushing back against "anti-nuclear = bad" oversimplifications.
I had to look it up, it is the ancestor to the as/400 family of computers.
I suppose they trained the AI on scifi novels.
Is there proof that this is secure? (ie that no information can be found on the plaintext when only having the ciphertext?)

I'm hoping something of the like of "this is secure if AES is secure"
(Industry has developed open specifications for running commands on remote computers:
Instead of keying SSH over IP for all devices in a LAN/WLAN, Thread (2014) and Matter (2019) transmit task messages with just AES over IEEE 802.15.4 protocols over WiFi. Thread is designed to replace existing, older protocols which lacked security features. Thread_(network_protocol)#IoT_protocols_landscape
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_(network_protocol)#IoT_...

Thus there is also prior art for running remote commands on remote devices (whether they be PCs, Macs, Linuxes, or mobile devices)
The Most Complete Guide to Stable Diffusion Parameters
Yes, that's exactly what they do.
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Jbom – Dependency Analysis for Java Apps
I’m in the public and I used it and it was pretty shocking how quickly and confidently it asserted a false and damaging fact about a non-public figure.

How would you feel about BingChat being convinced that “LinkLink’s real name” has been fired from multiple jobs for fraud and it kept repeating it until pressed? That’s basically what it did in the convo I had
The Treasure Map
This feature was proposed by Webkit years ago, but Chrome was "nope, Javascript all the way" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34786257
Last time they did a big layoff the stock went up.. so I guess keep firing people as long as the stock keeps going up is the plan for say people who own lots of the stock.. I wonder who might benefit?
Stop giving your employer free labor. It sounds like you're on your way to burnout, and your misplacing some of your frustration onto the Jr devs.

Let me ask you this: What $$ will the current level of work be acceptable? My guess is that it's well above what your employer is willing to pay.

I'd suggest you do what your Jr peels do + 10%, that'll fulfill the requirement for bump & bonus. Also spend some time building relationships. If your manager mentions you no longer doing XYZ, show off your +10%. Politely and tactfully deflect if he tries to press the issue.

To answer your fairness question directly the system sounds inefficient and currently not fair. I think it could be fair(for whatever that means), given the right environment, and attitudes.
> (potentially setting time back to 1900)

Not 1900 but rather:

$ date --date='@0'
Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 EST 1969
Europe launches €3.75B fund to try keeping late stage startups European
Problem is some people do think it's the other things like in Terminator or 2001 a Space Odyssey, and they're co-opting legitimate arguments and conversations on AI safety and ethics.
What about the raises, bonuses, and stock awards this year? Will they also be cut?
If you have good job skills, it isn't much of a risk.
It’s a good deal older than that.

If you’re talking about something like just React (the view layer), you can certainly go back well beyond 2010.

If you’re talking about something more full-featured, like Next.js today, the oldest I can think of is Ember with its FastBoot, which was becoming usable by the end of 2014 and well-established by mid-2015 (even if 1.0 took until mid-2017—and there was a major internal restructuring to how building worked). https://blog.emberjs.com/inside-fastboot-the-road-to-server-... is good background on that, showing also the attitudes of the time. https://blog.emberjs.com/tag/fastboot/ for the other couple of posts about it.
We were using Envoy Proxy
Section 230 was about hosting user comments though. A company is still liable for what they publish.

Microsoft, for example, can’t publish an article on Microsoft.com defaming people and cite section 230.

However, they can link to defamatory sites and excerpt snippets from them, for that isn’t considered publishing.

Bing chat seems an awful lot more like publishing.
Untrue. I get a tremendous amount of utility. It’s generative (new compared to traditional search) and I think I get valuable responses for maybe like 85% of my questions. Incredibly helpful for navigating new domains (when you don’t know what you’re looking for)
AI safetyists producing more of what they're masterful at producing: blog posts. AI safetyism is all just "awareness building" and blog posts. Sorry, man, e/acc takes the day through knowing how to make things. AI safety blog posts will eventually just be constructable with AI.
I'm still waiting to see still images that aren't 10 days old

Kinda over it, hope Bethesda is excited about doing a Fallout Ohio
Sorry, I was obviously a bit grumpy and interpreted your comment wrongly.

As a blind guide, tracking sighted visitors is easier then you might think. Most sighted visitors will tend to be slow movers. If you ever loose track of one of them, and they dont verbalize on their own, you can always ping 'em by calling their name. For added smoothness, give them a small task like "can you figure out what is sitting on the table in front of you?" afterwards, and they will never even know you lost them for a second.
The problem is that it will always give you an answer even if none exists. Like a 4 year old with adult vocab and diction, wearing a tie, confidently making up the news. People may make decisions based on made-up-bullshit-as-a-service. We need that like we need a hole in the head. Just wait until people start using this crap to write Wikipedia answers. In terms on internet quality, I sometimes feel like one of those people who stockpiles canned food and ammo: it's time to archive what you want and unplug.
Edit:

> but it seems that the person most involved with everything around making it possible for orangutans to take photos owns the copyright, and not the orangutan.

These photos are not copyrightable.
Engineers vocally advocated for hiring more people because they have “too much work”. Engineers are on the interview panels and so are also responsible for hiring standards to drop (if, in fact, that is true).
Supabase (YC S20) Is Hiring a Technical Documentation Lead (Remote)
Logic checks out. They can keep doing layoffs until Zuck is the only employee left and the stock is worth infinite dollars.
If I was working at Meta and that's how they chose to improve morale, I would be getting out.
Metropolis is a front-runner for most-influential-movie-ever (assuredly not at the top, but—it's a contender), and it's largely the visual design that does it. It is, indeed, captivating throughout, carrying one through the film's... less-endearing qualities. Blade Runner is absolutely one of the most important films to owe it a huge debt, and it's no accident that Blade Runner went on, itself, to influence the visuals of so many later films. It's (Metropolis) the kind of film "visionary" ought to be reserved for. There are a few very-famous bits that even people who've not seen it might know about, but the whole movie's full of that kind of thing.
I see publishers making money off of public domain books all the time. They usually do it by making handsomely bound editions you can show off on your bookshelf.

Germany didn't have copyright in the 1800s, and the publishing industry thrived.
AI doesn’t have the capacity to think critically.
It's an old phrase meant to be humorous

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/371325/origin-of...
Not so much a matter of safety as that it’s the freight railroads that own the rails, whereas is most of Europe the infrastructure is mostly government owned, or in some cases was and is now (sorta) privatized but still under a sort of open access model.
We are already merely agents acting as part of a larger semi conscious whole. I have as much of a problem building AI as a T-cell in a baby human hates that the human is growing a brain.

The conscious planet builds itself a better mind and far be it from me to stop the agent that I am a sub agent of.
The article paints a picture of a spunky tight-knit startup operating as a family, but they had a headcount of over 4000 and have enterprise-level pricing ($42/user/month for authoring) in a world were many open source alternatives exist.
The IBM 701
Isn't it at all possible that having a more detached view of your own brain, and a disconnection from society causes one to be more likely to be aware of the distinction between gender and biological sex.

And therefore be more willing to go through transition, instead of being more concerned with the impact the process has on your social standing, your friendships, your relationships.

I genuinely wonder if the incidence rate of transgenderism amongst autistic folks is actual the real incidence rate in humanity, but the rest of us (I am mostly neurotypical, just ADHD, and cis-hetero) are more likely to repress any transgender thoughts or worries.
mfw the average "password protected secure-boot UEFI bootloader" can just be resetted by removing the internal battery
Needs (2022) in the title.
The folks had it all wrong, it wasn't the Year of Desktop Linux, rather the Year of Desktop POSIX, that most people cared about, by investing into Apple hardware.

Even if WSL runs Linux kernel, macOS definitely not, and both combined make OEMs selling GNU/Linux proper almost irrelevant.
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/telemetry#_dis...

Does a singular setting actually turn off telemetry in VS Code? (aside from Extensions telemetry)
Mostly RPG rather than scientific computing, though you could get COBOL, FORTRAN and of course an assembler. 500 KIPS and very small RAM so likely those compilers were multiple passes and required a disc.
If people had given up on anti-proliferation efforts, it seems likely that additional nations would've had nuclear weapons, and maybe one of those nations would've been desperate enough to push the button. So I don't think the example of nuclear anti-proliferation tells us that we should be fatalistic.
I thought it was understood that 100 was an exaggeration. But yes in my circle almost everyone has 5-6 media subscriptions. Some niche some not.
I’d normally ask you (or anyone else reading and relating) whether you are also habitually late, have difficulty organising (things/items, thoughts, life) but I’m moderately sure the answer is yes. The “good” news is you probably have A(D)HD (Good because an adhd diagnosis is generally helpful - you had it but struggled all your life without knowing why, now you know it’s not your fault).

The not so great part is I haven’t figured out how to fix it so I can’t answer that lol (also adhd myself). Meds can hep but only to some extent, though med + therapy + healthy habits might be very effective.

To OP - go to your doc/gp and ask for an adhd evaluation.

(I’m normally very cautious with medical suggestions online but tbh this reads like a classic case of adhd to my moderately-well read self. If any medical professionals/folks who are aware of this field/fellow ADHDers want to chime in/correct me, please do!)
> basic business and industry concepts most people should know

got a list of them for reference ?
> The concern with the 'AI' is that it's copyrighted content being recombined in ways that don't create a new copyright, so the output can't have a new copyright.

I believe the conversation was with respect to copyright ownership of the transformation applied to the training materials, and not the training inputs itself, (to the extent that the AI has been so poorly trained that its outputs aren't sufficiently transformative of its originals; A transformative work with a human author is copyrightable and does not infringe on the copyright of the original work).

On a liminal case, are song performances by songbirds who have heard it on the radio copyrightable?
> the floggings will continue until morale improves

FTFY
It looks like Bing has fixed it. The screenshot I took was my own. Originally seen here https://fedi.cpluspatch.com/objects/6dc3bee4-1ff0-4cae-8994-... . I wish I could have posted the link to this directly but it only shows up properly from a federated instance. It can't be viewed at the link above.

Original shows as follows when viewed within my mastadon timeline: https://imgur.com/a/DxAHOWG
Is Puerto Rico inside the "non-integrating gap"?
So I just asked Bing how many people live on the sun, and apparently 50 trillion people live there.
The first one, for now I'm a solo developer on this thing :(
> M (… this is maybe the most modern-feeling of this whole bunch)

Because it has sound?
Yeah, artificially inflated prices and yet very little to the people that own the land.
They're leading white supremacist and neo-nazi thought leaders. Also a failed dietician on Petersons part who's drug-fueled meat-only diet landed him in a coma