skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The thing that matters here is the behaviour, and these AIs are frequently demonstrating behaviour that we humans would describe as hostile.

It just mimics the rhetorics it sees on the internet.

> The fact no one seems to be saying, hold up, maybe we should slow down a bit here is what worries me

Why would anyone in their right mind would do that? I feel like there is a huge lack in understanding of how these "AI" (actually merely ML models) function, what degrees of freedom they have, and how they are wired. I wonder if people were similarly afraid that some fire demons would jump out of the exhaust pipe when cars first became available for consumers.

> I'm not sure I want Microsoft to continue developing something like this and so recklessly deploying it to the public

What is SO reckless about that? Apart from the fact that some people being overly impressionable and exultant over the topic and imagining some magical properties on the subject they don't understand?
For each size there is a ".en" and a multilingual one. I'm using the multilingual one -> you talk in German and receive a German transcript. On page 23 of the paper you can see the WER's of each language (https://cdn.openai.com/papers/whisper.pdf) I limited my app to the languages that had a max of around 20% WER.

Sure if the repo has a xcodeproj you can just open it in XCode, change the signing and improve on it. (Just make sure to always respect the licenses) If you want to play with whisper.cpp you can use this SwiftUI demo: https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/tree/master/example...
I mean they kinda do by assigning each node a cgnat space IP?
This sounds like victim blaming honestly. If Troy Hunt, one of the most well known security researchers around and who's been running HIBP for almost a decade now ends his blog post with effectively a shrug saying "I dunno what happened" how is any reasonable customer who doesn't have access to the Enterprise plan supposed to debug any of this especially when Cloudflare themselves barely admitted fault? They even tried rolling back the OWASP ruleset and it didn't change a thing. He had to manually add the exceptions to the firewall. This is arguably terrible DX
Everyone on here says they have ADHD so they can get access to Adderall which is sort of a cheat code for programming. Some people do this genuinely believing they’re suffering from some disorder, others do it knowing they would be fine without it but better with it.
that's what it seems to be lol
Back to plain sites and not websockets, browsers didn't go through a missing https warning process in 2003 either so there are higher barriers and not just expectations.
GAWR is a web crawler implemented in Go using breadth first search
His chief economist Henry Charles Carey helped produce 100 years of prosperity through a balanced approach to trade and the free market. A very deep thinker about the impact of mechanization on labor, as well.
> How is laying down an opposing view that I don't necessarily support and using "one could argue" incendiary ?

because it's fundamentally bad-faith argumentation and when it's used to argue that people don't deserve to live, people find that adversarial and an attack on their existence.

> Don't you think there's value in playing the devil's advocate, just for the sake of the argument ?

look, you're not arguing about the color of the bikeshed here, are you?

I think you'll find there's certain viewpoints that we don't want people even "hypothetically" (not really, the whole point of the devil's advocate is that you inherently feel that it has some merit worth) advocating for. People find it real offensive if you argue that they don't deserve to live, and in this case that includes disadvantaged people who are barely scraping by.

it is (or can be used as) a coward's way to argue for something that you think holds some merit but you don't actually want to attach your name to, and when the argument itself is adversarial/antagonistic or genocidal we should generally not be encouraging that even in a "hypothetical" (again, not really) sense, no.

And when you are basically arguing "poor people need to be cut off from their safety net" etc that does reach towards the genocidal things - everyone knows what happens next when people on the edge of survival are cut off from their remaining resources. It's arguing they as a class don't deserve to survive.

Like gosh "I said it was hypothetical, it's a devil's advocate, what are you even mad about???" is such a HN perspective.
Fancier (more expensive) versions of this are country clubs, private clubs of various sorts (fictional example: The Diogenes Club in Sherlock Holmes stories—but these are real things, see also "gentleman's club" when that's not being used as a euphemism for "strip club"), and rich-people service organizations—this latter sort is typically dominated by women.
> Maybe if the little green Russian FSB and GRU soldiers didn’t turn up Ukraine wouldn’t have had a reason to shell those areas.

Yet again, no evidence. You have to get your facts straight, good sir. And even if it was true, maybe if ukrainians did't overthow the goverment and replace it with neo-nazis, east ukrainians wouldn't want autonomy. Just sayin

> The UN disagrees with you, they found credible claims of child rape and torture.

why then they don't present it in any verifiable form to russia? Maybe it would help to prosecute such criminals. Just sayin.

European countries are interested in smearing Russia. Like they say Nord stream blow up is russias doing, like its famous russian entertainment to first build billion dollar pipelines and then destroy them for no reason.

Stop blindly believing everything on the internet. Use your brain goddamit.

> Not to mention the torture videos we have,

Yeah, surely there is NO VIDEOS OF UKRAINIAN SOILDERS TORTURING THEIR CAPTIVES BE IT RUSSIAN SODIERS OR THEIR OWN SUPPOSED TRAITORS.

> but I’m sure you’ve got some line for the video we have of Russians castrating Ukrainian soldiers too.

only such video i've seen is when ukrainians tortured one of their own (who was rumored to be a pdf-file or something like that idk) they tried to frame it like russians were torturing ukrainian soldier, but it can be clearly seen in the video that their russian dress-up is sloppy to say the least.
The point then is that they won't have to anymore.

However, I also think that you learn by imitation. If you have a text assignment, and that you make a sloppy job, and get a bad grade, what did you learn? But if you do the same text assignment, and improve it by iterating several prompts, then at least you learn something.

Also, learning requires motivation. It's futile to compare learning methods if there is no motivation (e.g; we assume students want to cheat). If instead we assume motivation, and we lower the bar required for learning, then these students will learn more with AI than without.

The only point I'm worried about is about imagination. For instance, it's easy to ask AI for example of names, stories, etc. But there is also benefit in spending time searching these things yourself. Not sure what the tradeoff will be there.
Ah, there’s a really nice profiler implemented in one of their other projects here (AGPLv3): https://github.com/Kanaries/Rath/tree/master/packages/rath-c...

There’s a lot of really nice features in this other tool, the author’s thought of everything: https://github.com/Kanaries/Rath
While people should be able to calculate basic change in their head, especially if they're working with cash, when I worked in banking, we had explicit policies for cashiers to never ever do that in their head, no matter how simple, because the error rates are meaningfully different. A tired person in a hurry will occasionally get a brainfart and calculate something like 80-33 = 57 or pay out 200 as 20 times 20, so the policy was that you have to get the machine to calculate even the simplest stuff always.
That won't be "slightly" faster; I suspect a hydrofoil ship would be 4-x times as fast, if it could be built. We would see oceangoing military hydrofoil ships, for instance. But, AFAIK, the Pegasus line was the last bunch of sizable hydrofoil ships the US Navy operated [1].

But, AFAICT, for hydrofoil to work, it should lift the watercraft well above the waves, which works fine on rivers, and works somehow in calmer seas; I remember Greece used hydrofoil ships to communicate between its islands. I have trouble imagining the size of hydrofoil "stilts" required to overcome larger ocean waves. The hull should also be much stronger, with few points of support.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus-class_hydrofoil
>Likewise, the average comments section is all you have to beat to seem erudite as an adult.

I hope you do not seriously think "comment sections" is how you measure adult scale intelligence. I admit many people are not as intelligent as they should be but that is in fact a source of many of life's ills, and if you care about your life and your society you should want better than "beating the standard."
After thinking about such large challenges for a while, I’ve concluded that money alone isn’t enough. Money solves money problems, too much money flowing in the wrong direction solves nothing.
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The universal unit of work is a decision
So he was given more time to limp around and retrieve the knife while not being apprehended or shot at?
I was looking into a bunch of these recently. Many of them were white, male, Christian-only affairs within living memory. Took some of the sheen off.
You realize there were many many witnesses in that theater. This video of the last surviving eyewitness was making the rounds a few years ago [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RPoymt3Jx4&t=307s].

Also I did not know there were conspiracy theories about the LINCOLN assassination. It's very quaint!
Does it? People complain a lot about Congress, and a lot of those problems are reasonably connected to size.

More likely, there are a benefits and costs to a large government. I doubt it's scale-free.
Ukrainian Grain Shipments Drop as Ship Backups Grow
Personally I would rather help people in a poorer area as people in my area are fine.

Anyway, money is fungible you could say you’re helping Mississippi schools just as people in Mississippi schools are helping your local schools. Or you can think of it like the electric grid where money doesn’t get sent around the country just shifted left and right regionally which smooths things out.
It's trivial to get running in qemu if you're really curious.
Why would you expect the AI to not be a paid service like a human tutor is? ChatGPT has a $0 tier, but it's also in a publicity phase, and they already have a "pro" subscription tier. Microsoft/GitHub likewise are charging for extended access to Copilot, and so is Stability with their Dream Studio application.
You can ask ChatGPT why your code is not working right, and often it will give a helpful suggestion. Sure, the suggestion may be wrong or misleading, but it can help you get unstuck in any case.
There must be an opposing critique by now about physics having all the mathematizing one could hope for and yet no clear ontology of QM. Petabytes/day at CERN, several dozen QM interpretations with math and statistics, and yet the most popular take on QM is operational, and the others are so beyond experimental capability it won’t be settled in our lifetime.

At least other domains have ontology as primary (physics used to too!)
Some old people definitely read the Times. Source: all the old people I'm related to who don't read the Telegraph which is even worse.
Looks good! was impressed with your web app, having hte same functionality in a Jupyter notebook is a huge plus.
Yup. I think back-tap is available on both as closest equivalent for iOS.
> except what their base wants to think so they can virtue signalling the correct message

So, this is a bit of an odd case where they're kind of _blaming_ their base; it is hard to think of a demographic in England more likely to be a Tory voter than an early retired person.

Of course, they're doing this because telling early retired people to go back to work, while highly unlikely to be at all effective, is at least quite cheap, whereas dealing with chronic illness would involve fixing the NHS, which would be terrifyingly expensive.

Also, if you're the Tories, the very last thing you want to do is to draw people's attention to the state of the NHS. They've been in government for _13 years_; it's very much on them.
Steven Pinker – Will ChatGPT supplant us as writers, thinkers?
Early PS1 and 2 piracy weren’t nearly as easy or widespread as the DC, IIRC both required hardware modchip installations before disc swap soft methods were discovered, where the DC’s only major hardware piracy hurdle was having a CD-R writer capable of burning the DC’s format.

DC piracy flourished because of easier to find ISOs and a faster internet than the PS1 gen of consoles. PS2 had piracy issues at the same time of the DC, but PS2 piracy was much tougher to do due to the larger game disc sizes transferring over the wire and subsequent uncompressed video and code developers didn’t have to optimize for and pirates had to compress or cut to compensate.
Writes the checks ≠ spending your own money.

The executive producer is in some senses a liaison between the people providing the money and the people spending the money.

I may be mixing this up. I know that “producer” and “executive producer” are somewhat different roles depending on whether you’re doing TV or film.
Kind of a non- statement. The book is fiction, and an extended advertisement for the author's management consulting business.
Its "claims" are barely hypotheses.
Still works for me (just checked).
Don't forget Perl
The concept exists already and is known by the term flipped classroom [0]. One well known example is the Khan Academy

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipped_classroom
> If you have any interest, here is the ass-curing software: Focolizzare.

How does this compare to other "take a break" programs like xwrits and Workrave?
I encourage you to go through the diagnosis process. There is much more to the disorder than just procrastination but it's easy to miss some of the more subtle differences and assume everyone experiences the world the same way you do.

For example, after being diagnosed and doing some therapy and self-education, I realized that I interrupt people because I have shorter working memory. Now I have some steps I take to mitigate interrupting behavior (although I'm not perfect).

Also, if you're running a business targeted at people with ADHD, don't you think it's worthwhile to know if you think and experience the world in the same way as your customers?
I don't think the lifespan of a GPU is much of a bottleneck at all. If anything, for the last couple generations, GPUs have been in a race to get as much use out of them, before their generation becomes obsolete to Moore's law.
I think it's irresponsible and unethical to "require" students to use generative AI tools. These tools are highly controversial and pose severe cultural, moral, and increasingly legal dilemmas. It's like requiring students to take certain types of drugs to participate in a class, or learn how to use certain types of firearms. Unless the class is literally "how to take drugs" or "how to use guns" everyone would understandably flip a lid, yet this certainly wasn't a "how to use ChatGPT" class but another topic entirely (entrepreneurship if I'm not mistaken).

If I discovered a class I was planning to attend in academia was going to require the use of AI, I would launch a protest immediately. This is a violation of my human rights. If you're OK with using generative AI tools, that's your prerogative, but forcing me to use them is like forcing me to eat food grown with pesticides if I'm a staunch organic foods consumer…or possibly even worse, forcing a vegetarian to eat meat. Way-ay-ay out of line.
I think of clubs and interest groups as a good way to make friends that you can then hang out with.
I'd say oversight and bail/bond issues are ultimately part of the poor incentives created by blanket sovereign immunity. If it were to cost $1k/day [0] to keep someone in jail awaiting trial, then those running the system have an actual tradeoff to make. Same thing if states have to start reimbursing the costs of bail bondsmen for those found innocent.

I'm not arguing against considering the qualitative issues on their own. I just think attempts to address them directly without addressing the underlying poor incentives are somewhat doomed. Additionally, plea bargains have to be massively reformed for the incentives to be significant.

Arrest records are an orthogonal topic squarely in the realm of commercial surveillance / data protection, which the US is sorely lacking. We need less narrow-scoped red tape like HIPAA and more general right to control all records about us ala GDPR.

[0] direct incremental costs paid out in cash if they're acquitted, as opposed to the large fixed costs of staffing the jail which come out of someone else's budget.
Exactly, America is unique in that sense. China, India, Brazil and Nigeria also have +100 million people, but they are far less diversified, nevertheless, they also struggle with challenges that come from massive scale.

It’s not easy.
No. Even in IPv6-only-land, multihomed networks without PI space will have good reason to NAT.
Nice! Do you think it's useful for working with non-numeric tabular data too? I'm using a dataframe in vscode as a kind of mini SQL database. Vscode visualizations of dataframe are pretty bad, would be great to have another option for rendering.
I mean, there was a conspiracy to kill Lincoln, et al. It's well documented, and most of the conspirators were executed for it.
Sails are probably going to be most useful on ships that have relatively clear weather decks such as tankers, bulkers, and car carriers. Obviously it's impractical to install big sails / wings / rotors on a container ship due to cargo handing concerns, but they can use a kite type sail flown from the bow to get a little extra thrust when running downwind.
Yes, this is a competitive advantage for the next...six months until the other students figure out they can do this.
This is marriage material. Well said.
Siemens is trying to make the Parasolid file format into an ISO standard. I have input into how my country votes on this.

I suggested that I might support this if Parasolid was made open source, dual licence it as commercial and AGPL, got nowhere with the project leader who is being paid by Siemens.
Currently vaporware, but I am currently working on the underpinnings for this.

The basic idea is something of a mixture of git, Tahoe-LAFS, and eventually-consistent database replication (but that's a bit out of scope of your question here).

- Chunks of data are convergently encrypted (using a hash or MAC to derive the key) and indexed by the hash of their cihpertext.

- Files, trees, and commits are just specially formatted chunks of data that hold encryption keys and hashes for other chunks of data. Very similar to git.

- Branches equivalents are slightly different, each has a unique signing key. Branch objects are indexed both by the verifying key and a hash of their ciphertext. They hold a hash for a commit chunk and a list of hashes of the parent branch objects.

(The list of parent branch objects is to provide for a much more distributed sense of a branch than git has, and they are first class objects in such a system rather than just being locally held pointers. Partially this is due to version control being only one of the target uses for this system, but I also like the distributed branch model a little better.)

Anyway, this is probably more theoretical than you're looking for anyway :)
Rewriting our app with 100k+ users in Svelte
The absolute worst case is you break it into independent entities the way US cities operate, larger scales can help solve problems but you don’t need to operate on them.
Thanks for that. Some incredible pictures on there.

It's an astonishingly fast website too, considering how image heavy it is!

Not come across photodeck [0] before, but kudos to them. That's an incredibly pleasant website to navigate.

0: https://www.photodeck.com/
And there are some that don't! There're options for everyone.
If I had one I'd call him Mr. Splashy Pants. Or maybe Mr. Sandy Hands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGqdjaz2Upg
it's not just over 50s. they need to incentivize the 18-25 age group that are not in school to work too. there's a massive labor shortage in the uk.
IS this an early April Fools joke?
Where did the $12,000/year come in?
After Massive
> By 17 you have a kid capable of scoring 1500+ on SATs, with a deep resume, and no ability to handle adversity.

They are also afraid of trying anything since anything where there's a possibility of failing scares them. That's partly, why MIT went pass-or-fail for the first year.

> The kids end up only getting into colleges at best as selective as their parents, and quite often less so.

Especially when their achievements are diminished by factors outside of their control (like race).
But in this case the essay isn't the required result. Someone in Washington Post needed an article and got one from AI, but in the students' case absolutely no-one needed that essay, it wasn't assigned because the teacher wanted to receive x essays on that topic, it wasn't even necessarily assigned with the intent to learn how to write good essays (sometimes they are, but usually not).

That assignment was made with a goal of getting students practice doing careful reading, thinking and analysis, getting them to do a certain quantity of "repetitions" as exercise in that; the essay was just a token to signify that the exercise was done and get feedback on its form. And as you say, "only results matter" and the result obviously wasn't achieved if this was written by an AI. It's like having a weightlifter come in to a gym to repeatedly lift barbells with a crane - he's getting no results out of that.
Vito, you're an excellent writer and I found this post hilarious and wise in a programming Zen kind of way.

"A student asked the Master: 'I can't sit. I can't concentrate. How do I cure my hemorroids?'

The Master replied, 'Have you tried Lisp?'

The student stood pensive, then was not in pain anymore."
I understand that- I was trying to think of how a non-biochemist would interpret the significance of the article vis-a-vis its title.
"... positivist scientists accept a mistaken image of natural science so it can be applied to the social sciences."
Gitlab's Handbook [0] (which this article is part of) is an invaluable resource for any first time founders. This is one of the best contribution of Gitlab to the community in my opinion.

[0] https://about.gitlab.com/handbook
> but have GPT write a flawed essay and ask the students to rewrite it.

There is also benefit in the opposite - automating your editorial role. Have the student write an ok essay, then rerun in through the AI to clarify, or to raise questions about ambiguity, word choices, general background knowledge assumptions, etc ...

In practice I expect both styles will be be used to produce superior human-augmented writing.
She fled the war in Ukraine but failed to find a safe haven in SF middle school
If you have a gRPC service, you'd use `grpcurl`. This one is for RESTish HTTP 1 API's where the req/resp body is protobuf - something that `grpcurl` can't handle. In other words, you'd use this if your API uses traditional HTTP methods and responds with binary encoded protobuf blobs. I would imagine this is extremely niche.
> When they were later discovered by other users, the seemingly random strings sparked a huge conspiracy about their possible meaning.

Makes me wonder if numbers stations are actually just the worlds slowest modems
Not sure if you are joking.