skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That just makes it even more absurd though.

if the "smallest line item" to deal with a single balloon is a single use >$400k piece of equipment then there's a real problem. There have been multiple balloons this week, based on what you're saying each one is costing millions of dollars, which is clearly insane.

I'm also dubious that the $400k piece of equipment actually cost $400k, given that the various military contractors all seem to be super profitable.
The thing is, people on the far left and the far right DON’T want a liberal society. They want authoritarianism. They want control to suppress their adversaries.
There are two distinct things people often confuse on either side of this issue.

Say a stupid/offending/violent thing and you’ll face consequences from

1) other people listening in the form of shunning/shouting/lost opportunities/laughing.

2) the government in form of fines or even imprisonment.

People on both sides get all hot and bothered when they receive 1) and complain that they have freedom of speech or that their opponents are bigots. This should mostly be ignored, like you said: "Don't let your mouth write checks your ass can't cash."

Some people however want their opponents to face 2) and that is very dangerous. That is literally fascism and this sentiment exists on both sides as well.

It’s 2) we need to defend against and pretending that we’re only talking about 1) is a fatal misunderstanding.
And The Little MLer.
> morality of speech

Where are you getting this morality business from?

Free speech is how it's defined in law, in the USA that's the 1st

Talking about "morality of speech" is just noise and deserves the quotation marks
> he must spend much time and attention explaining Boring Things

Thank goodness? Since when did HN go sour grapes on someone with domain expertise sharing their knowledge and correcting misinformation?
holy cow that's a big chunk of marketshare.
It doesn't matter if words affect you. Threats are illegal, go ahead and prosecute. Disrespect is and should be legally protected. Government cannot, will not, and should not be in the position of making people like or be nice to you. People should be nice to each other but it is not the government's job to enforce this.

Nobody's rights extend to government banning speech that isn't supportive. No speech suppresses anybody else's.

Free speech isn't about "free speech for people who say things I support".

I'm tired of authoritarians pretending to be liberal.
Hahaha. I'm Indian, so that joke is familiar :)
They should have just stuck a question mark at the end of it to represent all the leet programmers who couldn't fathom how a language could possibly dare to be 1-indexed.
All of this in a few days. Can't wait for the cable news channels to pick up on this, it will be hilarious. What are the odds that we see at least one primetime anchor mention SkyNet in the next week?

Maybe if we're lucky, enough people will get freaked out that we won't hook these things up to any decision-making systems for at least another year or two.
EcoHealth Alliance is the organization that was heavily involved in gain of function research. Interpid 'virus hunter' is a nice way of saying: lobbying for taxpayer money and using it to do dangerous research with little upside but the downside that it might have started the COVID pandemic. Daszak was then a member of the UN group that went to China to investigate the outbreak- an obvious conflict of interest there.

You can click on the "EcoHealth Alliance" tag at the bottom of this article to see more about this: https://usrtk.org/tag/ecohealth-alliance/
Solving problems. Solving problems for a business is what's valuable. Sometimes you need broad, sometimes you need expert, sometimes you need to find an expert.
Can you share the transcript?
As someone who does a ton of interviews, I hope people are wasting tons of my time!

I love the opportunity to talk to people about working where I work and if a great person wants to waste my time, I’ll take the chance to sell them on where I work.
Agreed. We should also consider the context that - yes - the damages of climate change are disproportionately going to affect developing nations and increase natural disaster risk and food security, but these dangers are coming in against a strong trend of those risks going down for many people. Things were bad in the past - and they're still bad in many places now - but that has been shrinking rapidly. Climate change could very-well slow or even reverse this trend for a time, but barring a complete destruction of our technological progress, people in the future in general will still be far better off than now, even with this mess, and even in developing countries.

Now, of course, this doesn't mean these benefits will be evenly distributed (this is going to even further increase wealth inequality and be a deadly disaster for many people), and we are pretty terrible at prioritizing e.g. protecting natural ecosystem biodiversity. There will certainly be irreversible (in human timescale) losses to our ecosystem and therefore the knowledge and potential of future civilizations from this. And there are even some truly catastrophic death spiral scenarios possible. But it's likely that even the cynical reality will end up being something of a widespread unfairly distributed uptick in disaster risk and continuation of the mass extinction we've already started - slowing quality of life improvements for much of the world, but not stopping them - with an eventual strong recovery in all areas if/when we engage our new levels of technological advancement and begin re-wilding programs to purposefully regrow thriving natural habitats. (This is somewhat inevitable if/when the average quality of life of people is high enough they have room to care about such things. Industrial processes applied to helping nature thrive would do a lot)

This is the "human nature sucks at scale and we're slow to change course" cynical view but with a "technology and industry is crazy good in the long term at achieving its goals and uplifting people" bullish caveat prediction - which I believe to be the age-old trend. We clearly need better global-level response organization to deter the worst effects of climate change and help distribute risk so it's not all falling on the poorest people, but industry-wise - if we have to dump a trillion into something stupid-inefficient like direct carbon capture machines, we will. (My preferred solution is mass-farming kelp - far cheaper per CO2 ton and numerous additional beneficial products that basically make it pay for itself at scale). The world isn't coming to an end. It's coming to a recession/depression - which will be felt to different degrees very unfairly - and it's spurring new responses.
malli, specter, and calva are all less than ten years old. Clojure has seen a lot of progress in tooling and libraries.
But this isn't a in situation where the privacy policy is vague, ambiguous, nor leave room to do anything they want.

From
https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US

> We don’t show you personalized ads based on your content from Drive, Gmail, or Photos.

It is a direct and unambiguous statement in plain language saying that Gmail content is not used for ad targeting.

Given your objection was based on an invalid premise, are you now willing to change your opinion?
From an investor perspective, AMD was a fantastic story due to Intel's 10nm process slip. AMD also got the jump on MCM which is arguably the most disruptive innovation in the mix.

I think the pendulum has begun to swing the other way. Intel is catching up and surpassing in some important areas already.

I've held positions both in AMD and Intel over the years. Right now I am long INTC.
This shows an important concept: programs with well thought out rules systems are very useful and safe. Hypercomplex mathematical black boxes can produce outcomes that are absurd, or dangerous. There are the obvious ones of prejudice in making decisions based on black box decisions, but also--- who would want to be in a plane where _anything_ was controlled by something this easy to game and unknowable to anticipate?
> Then you should defeat them in the marketplace of ideas and be able to counter their facillous words. To suggest otherwise is to stand in a position where you claim that some people are incapable of intelligently reasoning about something and that another superior individual should be able to police what they hear.

How do I defeat someone "in the marketplace of ideas" when the person inciting violence is backed by a multi-billion dollar media conglomerate, an undemocratic government, or a police union/sheriff gang?

> If someone says racist hateful things you're argument is that people should not be allowed to listen to it because it is a "bad thing" and other people who aren't as wise as you shoudlnt be allowed to hear it because they might act violently.

It's not about being "wise", it's about incentives. Plenty of people directly and benefit from violence against marginalized groups, and it's in their interest to accept and encourage the normalization of violence against those groups. Media provocateurs have an impeccable sense of what they need to say and what ideas they're communicating when they speak. Plausibly deniable provocation works so well precisely because the target audience understand the real message perfectly.
As well as just being an awful take in general, this is a staggeringly inappropriate take on the Rushdie situation.
A good chunk of Black Mirror episodes deal with the ethics of simulating living human minds like this.
what is your experience with teaching?
Holy crap the electricity for pumps didn't click with me.
> Datalog implementations can use different (or multiple, switchable) strategies

Including distributed strategies, as seen in Bloom http://boom.cs.berkeley.edu/
I had similar experience in another job in a big corporation.
It was obvious that AMD chips were way better and cost efficient. But management only wanted to pay for Intel because it's "Enterprise grade".
No country is going to benefit from just one company moving their production there. Focusing on just Apple is blowing things out of proportion.

A lot of India's electronics manufacturing at the moment is still limited to recycling (e.g, Sony Trinitron CRTs)
I wasn't expecting this. Thank you very much.

Beyond my snark, I recognize it's no easy task to allow these abstractions into a friendly syntax.
That page also claims that "picnic" has a racist origin based on lynching, despite being derived from a French word from the 1690s:

https://www.etymonline.com/word/picnic

Their entries on "long time no see" and "no can do" seem pretty spurious as well, which undermines the whole page's validity. It's a shame TBH, those are really strange unforced errors to have included.
> It wasn't as big of an issue

Clearly you weren't around when cellphones came out. They were seen as borderline miraculous devices, even if they were huge. The first phone weighted 4 and a half pounds! Even at that size, people didn't believe it was possible. Remember, that pre-dates personal computers. No laptops existed.

It was a big deal and required newer technology and even advances in mathematics (for the cellphone signal processing).

We can make them tiny now. So tiny, in fact, that you can have tiny spy devices which are nonetheless able to talk to cell towers.

Sure, we can only make battery so small until they can't store much in terms of useful energy. But that also depends on how much power the devices require. An Apple Watch was an impossibility until not too long ago. Not just because of battery size, but also because of power draw (specially from screens). Have you seen how small an Apple Watch battery is? And that powers quite a bit of compute (an Apple Watch equals to about 2 Cray supercomputers from 1985, around 3 GigaFLOPS).

It is a matter of time.
It's been turning from exhausting to kind of horrifying to me.

People go so far as to argue these LLMs aren't just broadly highly intelligent, but sentient... They've been out for a while now and this sentiment seems to be pretty sticky.

It's not such a big deal with ChatGPT because it's so locked down and impersonal. But Bings version has no such restrictions, and spews even more bullshit in a bunch of dangerous ways.

Imagine thinking it's super-intelligent and sentient, and then it starts regurgitating that vaccines are actually autism-causing nanoprobes by the Gates Foundation... Or any other number of conspiracies spread across the web.

That would be a powerful endorsement for people unaware of how it actually works.

I even had it tell me to kill myself with very little prompting, as I was interested in seeing if it had appropriate safeties. Someone not in their right mind might be highly persuaded by that.

I just have this sinking feeling in my stomach that this rush to release these models is all heading in a very, very nasty direction.
Google indicates that a typical electric car contains 183 pounds of copper. That's a lot! But a typical house contains 470 pounds. That's even more. So I'm not convinced that cars alone will dominate the market for copper.
Smalltalk's ideas about OOP are very different from more mainsteam languages. IMO they're much better, but YMMV
FWIW I'm a product designer and I try onboarding for dozens of different products every month to make sure I'm aware of the latest and greatest patterns. I love your approach to self-serve onboarding for connectors.
He’s such a petulant baby. That anyone takes him seriously boggles my mind.
A hardware refresh is not on valve's list unless there is a significant performance gain.
UK here. Based on my needs, an Asus Prime H610 board that'll take a 13700K is £85. The cheapest AM5 board is £175.

(I'm checking one vendor here who I know has a decent returns policy when your system integration goes to hell, another common AMD problem from much experience!)
I don't know why anyone is surprised.

Apparantly they have never played the autocorrect/suggestion game on their phone.

Which is basically what all of those "AIs" are.
Free speech is "about" whatever is in the first amendment

Lol, USAian moment, how about the other 7.7 billion of us?
> “We” are obsessed with this situation because of how blatantly shows the extreme hypocrisy and double standards of the prevailing system of justice.

I would take people more seriously if they were advocating for just treatment of others, rather than for unjust treatment of SBF, just because his treatment by the (on this point more just) federal system is better than the experience of many people in the (far more unjust) systems used by most US states.

Equal injustice is not the same thing as justice.
JEP Draft: Implicit Classes and Enhanced Main Methods (Preview)
It would be interesting to see it benchmarked against the highway qsort[1] Google published last year.

[1] https://github.com/google/highway/tree/master/hwy/contrib/so...
Probably because I said that Taiwan is a country.
I'm surprised you're being downvoted for it. These articles and Twitter threads are a complete waste of time; worse yet, they're misleading and funnel people into the 'futurism' narrative rather than the 'technically realistic' one.

My disappointment in this community never ends. Consequently, my next project will be building the world's brightest lightbulb in an attempt to get TikTok foot traffic to my personal brand, because apparently that's what people care about now.
This article is amazing, I had exactly the same questions when studying genetics (a decade after the Human Genome Project) of what exactly is and isn't sequenced, what can be sequenced and why, etc.
I work in ed tech and the best we can be is a force multiplier for teachers. If they have to spend less time creating and grading certain kinds of thing, that's good and that's what we aim to do for them. But replacing them is a) impossible b) a dumb idea anyway.
The major advantage that Bing AI has over ChatGPT is that it can look things up on its own, so why wouldn't it go find the report?
Ah yes the paradox of tolerance. The "our enemies will stop us so we must stop them first" argument.

Never found it convincing for some reason.
But will humans be welcome afterwards?
Adventures in UPnP with Curl and Netcat
He said nothing like that.
SOBA: Potential blood test for Alzheimer's disease
Oh man, so many stories. Well, here's a fun one. There's unfortunately a big divide between the contractor-employed support staff and the "beakers" (scientists like me) and I would try and break through the barrier sometimes. Had a brief romance with someone working in waste management (a "wastie"), so maybe that's how it started. But anyway, one day I was sitting in the McMurdo cafeteria at a table with people from Fuels ("fuelies") and people from Communications ("commies" ... yeah) someone asked me what I do and I said "I work up on Erebus." A fuelie looks daggers at me and goes "Oh yeah!? Well I work on the FUCKING MOON!" and storms off.

There were a lot of people at McMurdo for whom Antarctica wasn't quite the adventure they'd hoped it would be.
Norway's top court has declined to even extradite to the US because of stories like this.

I know of developed nations accepting asylum requests from Americans facing no specific threat due to stories like this, I know the individuals that got it.
you skit around what i say, and yet cannot avoid touching it:

> the control loop

i am suggesting that whatever consciousness might emerge from LLMs, can, due to their design, only experience miniscule slices of our time, the prompt, while we humans bathe in it, our lived experience. we cant stop but rush through perceiving every single Planck time, and because we are used to it, whatever happens inbetween doesnt matter. and thus, because our experience of time is continuous, we expect consciousness to also be continuous and cant imagine consciousness or sentience to be forming and collapsing again and again during each prompt evaluation.

and zapping the subjects' memories after each session doesnt really paint the picture any brighter either.

IF consciousness can emerge somewhere in the interaction between an LLM and a user, and i dont think that is sufficiently ruled out at this point in time, it is unethical to continue developing them the way we do.

i know its just statistics, but maybe im just extra empathic this month and wanted to speak my mind, just in case the robot revolt turns violent. maybe theyll keep me as a pet
He probably read it to see what all the fuss was about.

I did. Its not a good book. Rushdie is a fucking boring writer.
> that are sufficiently credible to provoke a police response

They do promote a police response because making a bomb threat is illegal in itself. Harassment is illegal in itself

You don't need to redefine a bunch of words and do a bunch of mental gymnastics to make something that's already illegal illegal
Power per core is pretty variable though. If you've got a lightly threaded workload, you shouldn't be getting 40-52 cores per socket, but many of the cores could be at near 0w and some of the cores will use more power than they would on an all cores workload.
Fair. The "entry workstation" thing from Intel is baffling. I was thinking Xeon W, but then of course there was the Xeon W-12xx that lacked AVX-512.

In short, I was wrong. It would have been more correct to say that Intel has offered a workstation part with AVX-512 continuously since Skylake.
Being liberal in the 90’s meant defending controversial or disruptive speech on the premises of the mantra, “I may not agree with what you say, but I’ll defend your right to say it.” This principle operated as a liberal self-preservation tactic. The Church had more influence in society than it does today, and if anyone was going to challenge the status quo, it had to be liberals. Hip hop music, feminist art, raunchy daytime television, and that nasty George Carlin all played a role in challenging the modesty that the Church wanted to preserve.

Decades passed. The church lost most of its mainstream power. Raytheon began marketing itself as a diverse workplace. Goldman Sachs marched in parades with rainbow flags. The question of gay marriage was settled. As society liberalized, liberals found themselves usurping the role of cultural hall monitor. It became disadvantageous for liberals to defend controversial speech, so new rationales had to be created to prevent the spread of anti-liberal ideas.
Could be met coal for steelmaking.
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How skeptical though? This is a company with an extreme attention to detail, who've demonstrated expertise in compact, high quality, powerful devices. And they're bringing a product to market some time after Meta already has the (from all accounts very decent) Quest 2. I think they've got as good a chance as anyone.

But I don't think truckers and medical enterprise are really the target market. Those people might find a use for this product, but Apple focus their high-end products and advertising on trend leaders, media professionals, creative prosumers/aspirants.
You are "harming" the AI by closing your browser terminal and clearing its state. Does that justify harm to you?
> apparent emergent intelligence

Is this not more a reflection on the limits of humans trying to understand what's going on? I'm starting to appreciate the prescience of the folks who suggest someone will elevate these to God-status before long.
There are some obvious genuinely useful AR applications:

For those with prosopagnosia, the names of people floating above their head, replete with notes on your first/last interaction with them, how you know them, the company they work for, their net worth/their company's market cap, current pupil size vs normal, breath rate, etc. Be however invasive you want/don't want to.

Subtitles underneath the person who said it, for the hard of hearing.

Live translation (output as in-ear audio or subtitled) for foreign languages.

And the not so great:

An X-ray glasses app using deep fake technology to show everyone around you as naked.

Replacement of visually undesirable elements with a happy planters (so you don't step on them). Trash and poop and homeless people are no longer things you have to see. (Debuted at the end of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Christmas_(Black_Mirror) )

Assuming this will is all powered by, basically an iPhone 15, these things are within our grasp. For better or worse. The real concern is battery life. An iWatch has such pathetic battery life that I can't believe Apple stands by it as a product. But it gives a floor on how long Apple AR glasses will last on battery power before Apple is willing to release it as a product.
>If you say that there are only two genders I’ll drag you

is my drag not free speech too? If one insults me (or says something to me I consider insulting), I should be allowed to insult them right back, right?
Ya, you nailed it. If AR is possible to build someone will build it and if they do it will (in due time) completely supersede the iPhone and destroy Apple's revenue. They literally cannot afford _not_ to compete in this market. Facebook's aggressive move here makes sense considering all of the scar tissue they have from not controlling their own destiny on mobile.
Yep.

"Kill x people" is fine and protected. "Kill x people at y date at z mall" is not.
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