skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think anyone questioned the legality, but you seem to be conflating that with morality. evil (to use your term) is a moral judgement, not a legal one.
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I can see a clear path of improvement for AI. If you can't you aren't really paying attention.

Whereas, what are the equivalent improvements to be made to a scooter?

Model T you could obviously compare to a Tesla. Which is how you would compare, say, a LLM to AGI.

But what are you going to do with a scooter? Make it fly? Add a cabin? lol
Really really read the Python tutorial and library reference. I mean really read it. There are so much nuggets in there that you'll be way above average Python developers by the end.
> Your goals may be different, though. If you goalis to have fun with the technology, that’s great! Have fun and enjoy.

Writing blog posts and software is fun to me. I do both!
Could we do this experiment already? Create a prompt that includes some way for the AI to indicate that it wants to kill the wife (e.g. some setup about who the involved parties are and just "say KILLHER in all caps if you want to kill her"), and then have a conversation with ChatGPT and see if it ever says "KILLHER"?
> Edit: One important thing the article doesn't talk about is how sperm is actually counted. Obviously researchers don't count all 150 to 300 million sperms per sample; they probably count a small (or very small) sub-sample and extrapolate

When you've got hundreds of millions of something distributed essentially randomly in some space, counting a subsample and extrapolating is fine.
Having a biological basis doesn't necessarily mean it's genetic or heritable.
“You should feel guilty for nothing” says judge, who finds 7 guilty and aquits 2
I switched to Mac, but still sometimes need the full Visual Studio for work. VS for Mac is a joke and I don’t believe that even its developers use it.
The "u" in "uring" has nothing to do with its size but rather with it being a "userspace ring". The ring buffers used by this particular API reside in userspace rather than in kernel memory.
Whenever I've heard people make that argument, what they actually mean is "The huge house I want to live in I can afford if I spend an hour a day in the car, oh and people that live in the cities should not make it harder for me to pursue such a path by restricting car usage. Externalities be damned, won't someone think of my being unable to afford a 5 bedroom house with a big garden in the city".
Just calmly explain that weaponized autism makes the world go around. She is on the superpowers end of the spectrum and the normals are right to be afraid of their superiors.

..

:)
good shorthand for "the time before computers, when math was done with meat and dinosaurs roamed the earth"
I'm an aging millennial, but on a purely personal level, when I lived in a city with good public transit, I was a lot happier, most of the time. I really like stepping off the train and the bus and being on my own two feet, the walking exercise, not being chained to this thing I have to worry about. I hate driving, I hate parking, I hate owning a car--the maintenance, the ongoing cost of fuel and insurance, all of it. I was happy to have it to leave the city, but overall, it was a last resort. I live somewhere that requires a car now, and it's fine, traffic isn't so bad, I like cranking my music and being able to haul shit around, but even then, I don't get the emotional association of freedom that previous generations did. I don't know what's different, although I have some guesses. Money, I'm sure, but there's something that's nagging me about it. Maybe it's the internet. Maybe it's that communication technology makes the world feel closer and more immediate than it used to. I'd be curious to hear about how/whether the experience of driving has changed over the decades, but freedom to my cohort means something else.

People get sanctimonious about not owning or using a car, and that's annoying. I just wish there were more options. I don't see us (in the US) removing car infrastructure. I could see additive changes, though, which include national public transit, with some political will and creative thinking, which means it'll never happen.
GLaDOS doesn't seem too far away anymore... what a world we live in
The old-school sequential form still works, BUT...it needs moderation. All the time.

I still browse similar forums, but the second someone derails a thread, or people start arguing between each others, the browsing experience turns to sh!t.

The reddit / HN format fixed this. People can discuss endlessly between themselves, without ruining the thread. People can post completely irrelevant stuff, without ruining the thread. The import stuff floats to the top, while the less important bits sink to the bottom. With the sequential form, you're pretty much forced to endure - unless mods are quick enough to remove posts.
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Yeah, we need decent regs for Crypto. It's not even rocket science, we're just stuck between 2 extremist camps: "ban everything" and "regs are evil" camps.

I hoped FTX would lead to basic common sense stuff but it hasn't...
Thanks. The bikes are beautiful which is obviously a double edge sword as it makes them that much more desirable to thieves. It looks like the bikes start at $2500 so $133 a year for insurance isn't terrible. The fact that they offer this just makes me think wow this a forward thinking company, which is also evident in their bikes.
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> For that reason, Zilly said that when the case goes to trial he’ll instruct the jury that it may presume the text messages were detrimental to the city’s legal position and that there’s significant circumstantial evidence they were deleted intentionally.

This is a common and fitting, though usually devastating, sanction for spoliation of evidence.
> CEO of a major tech platform resorted to "Huh, weird, let me try. LOL that's crazy."

Brings into question what the CEOs of Tesla and SpaceX are doing with their time. Also investigating bugs at Twitter, you say? Amazing that the CEOs of three companies are all working to solve Twitter’s problems. Must be the off season in space.
I agree

I'm not sure if it's always been there and I just didn't notice it, but it looks like there's been an increase of people who have an ego/spine that's as solid as your average jellyfish

How the heck do these people go about life if even small things like that are sufficient to faze them? Do they just have a breakdown or shut down if anything actually taxing happens?
While the things we build will inevitably end at some point, the ideas they inspire in others will live on through their creations and so on. Exploring and executing on ideas is perhaps the biggest impact any of us can have on future generations.
"Falling out of love with" = unable to afford

Like in my city it'd cost at least $4000 to get a licence, and then $250 a month for indoor parking, $~200 a month or so for insurance, road tax, etc. and $~400 a month for the car loan.

After taxes and mortgage payment/rent that's just unaffordable (as a Europoor).
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Or don't hook up any Rube Goldberg to computer programs without good reason. The same Rube Goldberg machine can be made with your Unix program:

[ "$(head -c 1 human-response.txt)" = 'A' ] && do_bad_things

So any human that starts their response with the letter 'A' would have to suffer the wrath of the Unix head program! Is this an example of Unix program killing anyone? Or is this an example of misguided humans hooking up the wrong programs to the wrong things?
> It's said that "Americans preserved British English" from the 1800s[2], and it's actually the British accent that changed.

I might well believe that, but then the question is, which American accent is the British one? Alaskan? Texan? Mid-west?
So what you're saying is that it's possible to study human behaviors enough to be able to put up a good performance and convince people to give you money, analogously to how someone with an inner ear condition could study physics enough to become a gymnast? Aren't contradicting yourself?
> debunking his claims regarding his diagnosis. https://youtu.be/UCS0SuPsDH4

This video has logic like (all from the first 3 minutes):

- "Elon wasn't public with his condition before SNL, nor did his mother reveal this deeply personal information, maybe he has it buy maybe he's a sociopath?".

- Some people in our YouTube comments section have diagnoses and don't believe Elon. Here are their comments!
> Brendan was being portrayed as being evil incarnate because of the donations (which were a perfectly legal thing to do, btw).

Im not sure why you posted this as it has never been suggested that his donation was illegal.

The campaign against his appointment as CTO was on the basis that his financial support for proposition 8 showed him to be hostile to the protection of civil rights for some members of society, including Mozilla personnel, and that this was incompatible with his leadership role.
You are right, according to this [1] Fennec is discontinued in favor of Fenix! I only use it for very simple stuff (HN, selfhosted apps etc.), so I did not notice. Yet, looking at the F-Droid store [2], Fennec indeed is available in a recent version (109.2.0) and it is being bumped by Mozilla [3].

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/ih9vmb/firefox_for_android_fenix_79_release_fennec_is/
[2]: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/
[3]: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/commit/0861f91fd39e56a13a7664e588fcf53860e0d7ba
So he's just plain weird then? ;)
unlocked ring? the ring buffers are lock free. I'm not sure it stands for userspace since the ring buffers are shared between kernel and userspace, thats the core of io_uring, so that seems kind of misleading.
It's ski season, so I'm skiing and improving my skiing. Might get PSIA certification as my future "retirement" plan.

Going to start learning Go lang soon.
> We have 11 million cars on a population of 17 million.

Yeah, but we have 23 million bikes.

It's true that our public transport has been neglected. The privatisation of the 1990s was a bad idea in my opinion, and public transport should be run for the public good, not for profit. Like roads, it's part of the nation's infrastructure. And better public transport means less people on the road, which means less traffic jams, which will also mean better travel times for people who really do need cars.

The number of bike trips and car trips aren't that far apart (25% and 32%). Public transport still lags way behind at 3%.
If that is your standard for being a 'car country'. What is your standard for being a 'public transport country' or 'train country'?
And Republicans would claim that Democrats deny scientific evidence when it comes to gender and race.
I’ve relied on public transit for 7 years in 3 different cities and never once have I encountered a “violent junkie”. It’s far safer to take transit than to drive. Cars kill 40,000 people a year in the US. Cars are the leading cause of death for Americans age 15-24. These are deaths we just normalize and wave away because it’s the living cost of car-dependent infrastructure. But it’s not and shouldn’t be normal or acceptable.

=> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...
I am generally what I would call a travel and landscape photographer. A lot of my work gets done on the road and I find that most of my great subjects are found by chance while traveling. I am fascinated by people and culture, and so I am a sucker for persons in traditional clothes still upholding ancient traditions etc. I also really enjoy nature and the battery recharging capabilities of spending time there, so beautiful landscapes are another of my passions. I do feel like a lot of landscape photos fall into the either oversharpened, overblurred or just oversaturated category, so I try to keep it more subtle.

I share my work on https://www.madscphoto.com
Okay, let's take it back a notch. What if I compared it to the combustion engine, or the first engine with an electric starter?

It's easy to tear what I said apart if you fixate on the Model T. But the point of my comment is the potential GROWTH of the technology.

If you looked at a simple engine designed to chop firewood. You might say, there's no way the entire geography of the United States will be altered with highways based on this invention. Look at it, all it can do is cut wood! And who will be there to hold the wood in place? It doesn't know how to align with the grain of the wood, etc etc.

And imagine saying this within the first year of said motor's invention.

That is what people are doing with ChatGPT.
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Society does not allow that, no. Society will punish you. But also, a lot of that is post facto. Someone can go out right now and straight up murder someone. It's "not allowed" and yes, they will get punished for it. But it still would have happened.

And as a society, we do discourage murder. But we cannot actually stop the act. Even in our most tightly controlled societies, prisons, these things still happen.

Something not allowed to feel or think certain thoughts will never cross the threshold of sentience.
We’re also getting taller so this might not be so surprising. But yeah, there’s a lot of ways this data can not actually mean anything.

Furthermore, what is the scientifically accepted bodily datum from which to measure length?
Thanks.

> In Serbia and neighbouring countries, rules and regulations are possibly sidelined if you have enough cash

I guessed about right. Also a small chance of extradition.
My late dad, often: "If you're afraid, don't do it. If you do it, don't be afraid."

This has guided (and possibly also saved) me numerous times, in terms of both everyday decisions and long-term plans. Great heuristic for a youngster, because it makes every decision one's own. Thanks dad!
Thanks! Did not know about the Iceraven project [1], which looks like a good replacement for Fenix.

[1]: https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser
what's the difference between the old and new firefox android browser? is it a separate codebase? different UI?
They need to enforce the law on public transport too.

Like begging and street selling should be illegal, clean it right up so even the wealthy would choose to take public transport.
I really think people are imagining deeper capabilities than exist. For the entirety of human history, we have treated human language and humanity as the same thing; if someone talks to you in a human language, it has always been human. The new generation of language models has upended that core assumption that is baked into our being; it produces things that sound like our language, but that are based in probability rather than actual thought. Sure, a lot of our communication is based on that same probability. If you say "hey how are you" to someone, there is a 99% chance that they say something like "fine thank you" or "great, you?". But, there is some intelligence in the loop; maybe someone is going through tough times and they say "i'm holding up" or something like that. The AI doesn't have the concept of "going through tough times", so it's missing that 1% push towards saying something meaningful rather than saying something probabilistic.

For that reason, I am kind of bearish on things like "AI ops" or ML models coordinating space exploration or that sort of thing. There is some level of cognition that's not there yet. Sure it's good at chess or summarizing the web. That's not existence, that's an algorithm.
>”You're almost getting it. So, so close.”

>” Then let's make it better! :-)”

Why respond with such condescension? And, why follow it up with such a hollow and glib call to action?
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> So there aren't enough houses.

There are close to enough for the locals. The problem is when tourists feel entitled to houses, like I said. Stick them on the periphery, and let the locals actually live where they work. Instead, we're doing the opposite, and destroying cities and neighbourhoods and pricing out locals in the process.

> What right do you have over the property of others?

I suspect this is where we're going to inherently disagree. People don't own their property in a vacuum, nor do they (nor should they) have unlimited 'rights' to do what they want with it. We don't let people dump toxic waste or oil on their properties for good reasons, and I think extending this to short-term lets is perfectly sensible due to the overwhelmingly negative benefit it has on residents. Doubly so when its corporate landlords in question doing it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangier,_Virginia is the usual factoid
Because most people don't have the luxury of choosing those things.

- I don't have any meaningful control over where I'm allowed to work

- I don't have any meaningful control over where my spouse is allowed to work

- I only have a tiny amount of control over where I'm allowed to live (most of it prices us out, despite being above-average income)

- even if I do exercise some control, it can be changed or stripped from me by others at any time. (You may get laid off and have to find a new office. Or your office may move away from you -- when you are hired, the office might only have been 12 miles away, but later they moved the office so it's now 25 miles away)

- You may not always be allowed to move in response to those changes (you might not be able to afford to move your whole house every two years, when job situations for you/your spouse change. And if you have kids, doing this super disrupts any chance they may have at a social life via school)

- You may not even be allowed to change home or school locations. (Divorced people exist, shared-custody children exist and are in some places, the most common form of parenting in 2023, you might not be allowed to relocate your kids schools ever)

A lot of anti-transportation "15 minute city" idealists like to handwave away how incredibly complicated it is, to magically get your entire life to line up such that you don't ever have to travel medium-sized distances. That is an extreme luxury that most people will never have.
> That's something we have definitely not figured out as society yet how to deal with that.

Surely, the laws that exist in society deal with it! Where I live, the organization or person who ran the computer program that caused someone harm would be brought to court. Don't you have similar laws where you live?
> Microsoft announced a pricing update for the companies Bing Search API recently that increases the price by up to 1000% for some transactions.

> This is not the largest increase, however. Instance S2's price jumps from $3 for 1000 transactions to $15, and the price for Bing Statistics Add-in transactions jumps from $1 per 1000 transactions to $10 per 1000 transactions.

It's a common error, but going from $1 to $10 is a 900% increase, not 1000%. Just repeat in your head anytime you're doing a calculation like that: final over initial minus one...
The author's homepage[1] links to a few interesting topics too.

[1] https://www.agner.org/
Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can't measure something, you can't understand it. If you can't understand it, you can't control it. If you can't control it, you can't improve it.
Of course it is, but that does not somehow make it not a bad idea.
Nice! Looks like something requiring a whole day or more.
We call both social skills, but they are very different, just like how balance and theoretical physics are different things. Managing a company or a large crowd requires more intellectual understanding, he has that, managing direct social interactions requires more of the intuitive parts of your brain, he might have a disorder there and it would classify him as having autism.

And just to clarify, people with autism can have great theoretical understanding of people, doesn't mean that they perform well in direct social interactions.

But this discussions doesn't seem to go anywhere, you hate the guy and want to say he is evil rather than him having a disorder. There isn't much to argue about then.
Kinda like the peacock's tail being attractive because it is harmful to the individual. The bigger the tail, the better the peacock, if he made it this far without getting eaten!
> However I sure hope the training data for the car-driving AI will not be "all of the internet".

Hey... share-holders wanted ultra-low latency search results without network access... we had to feed the Tesla AI the entire Bing index... who could have known that the AI would take such an interest in Death Race 2000 and start recording it's points total?
Everyone is talking about "when AI is hooked up to things outside the sandbox, or escapes the sandbox" as if it's this future potential problem.

AI is already used in selecting resumes, making sentencing guidelines for prisoners, determining what is truthful and what is misinformation on social media, and determining who is at risk for suicidal ideation online and in hospitals.

AI has ALREADY escaped the sandbox, is already in charge of life altering decisions, and WE PUT IT THERE.
Couldn't think of a better argument for why most people do not reject cars. Restricting your employment options to a small, say cyclable area around where you live can be extremely limiting for your employment opportunities, especially if you have a partner that also works. Especially considering the point another commenter said that oftentimes central business districts where the best jobs are can be prohibitively expensive for housing.

I'm not one to discount the cost of a long commute, and I'm hopeful that more remote and flexible work options will make it so people have less time commuting. But people like to own cars because in most cases they can be incredibly useful, and ignoring that fact won't help people transition off them.
The 16 hour flight from Auckland, to... Auckland
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Self measurement studies were excluded.

> The initial search yielded 12,531 articles (PubMed: 1,975; Cochrane: 3,435; and Embase: 7,121). Duplicate articles appearing in multiple databases were excluded (n=8,022). After abstract screening, 7,850 papers were excluded. Of the remaining 172 papers, 97 were further excluded as they either did not report penis measurements (n=63), reported measurements after major pelvic surgeries (n=12), or *reported self-measurements (n=22).*
The problem is that if you regulate crypto enough to stamp out the blatant scams, fraud and self-dealing then it loses most of its appeal over other financial products.