skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yes, but you cannot trust anyone, sometimes not even your own family. You become increasingly paranoid that you will be stabbed or poisoned or taken hostage or something. You, or your family.

This really isn't any different to anyone else on the planet save the hostage situation. There are plenty of people living in rough areas who could easily be in the wrong place at the wrong time and be a stabbing victim. I would argue that your chances of being a victim of violence as a CEO are significantly lower than your average citizen.

> So you isolate yourself, and all the shit you mentioned is really the cost of your freedom. I don't give a fuck about being in a mansion, superyacht, private island or plane if the cost of that is my freedom and the ability to socialize with other humans.

I'm pretty sure they have healthy social lives. In fact, the reason they can do what they can do is precisely because they have healthy social lives. They constantly network with other people at the same level and help each other out.

> If the price of my fortune was having a large amount of people making minimum wage, using medicare/medicaid and wearing diapers to avoid productivity penalties for taking a restroom break, I would not fucking do it.

So why are you trying to make out that the people who don't have to do these things have a worse time of it than the people who do?
I'll save everyone here the read: according to Howard, the Jews are behind it all. Of course.
I edited quickly since I misspoke.

To be specific - they edited things like “But Augustus was deaf to everything except the call of his enormous stomach” to “But Augustus was ignoring everything”. It's not just the description of Augustus they toned down, they even literally removed lines from the book which explains he was motivated by hunger.
But eating at home, close to your loved ones and avoiding traffic (or insane city center renting) is preferable to all what you just said.
It is, in fact, so thoroughly banned that it's available with free shipping from Barnes & Noble.
It sucks but that's the whole point of hiring and being a contract worker.

It's an even more tenuous position than full-time employee and frankly I think it's good that contract workers were laid off ahead of any full time workers. I'm not sure why some people are trying to frame this as bad or immoral. It's the entire point of contract workers and you know that coming in as a contract worker. It's disappointing but that's the reality of the situation.
The problem would be not much worse than with popular music where you try to stuff artist+album+track into just the filename.
They removed the word "fat", not the word "enormous".
Several different teams at Amazon were trying to get me to join - from my home nowhere near an office - less than a year ago. Are they literally firing everyone who isn’t commuting distance from an office?
Bullshit Has Dominated the Tech Industry
> In fact, I wonder what would happen if we dedicated a supercomputer to running one single long-running session of a GPT3.5-sized LMM. Further, I wonder what would happen if we connected it to a robot body where it could control motors, read sensor/camera info, and generally interact with the world. We could then give this system a clock which ticks at regular intervals, where the AI system is simply prompted to perform some series of actions if it "wants".

> This is all stuff we have the technology to do today.

No, not even close. Language is a completely different domain from interacting with the physical world[0]. In fact they're wholly unrelated. LLMs are highly specific neural nets that have nothing to do with being able to interact with sensors or talk to motors. And how you would cross that bridge and hook the two up is completely unknown. It's like saying if we hooked up AlphaZero to a robotic arm it would suddenly know how to move the pieces on a physical chess board. If we performed the experiment you described exactly zero would happen because there's no capability for anything to happen other than create continuations of sentences.

When I see comments like this on Hacker News with gross speculation I wonder how many people here in the comments section even have a basic understanding of the technology.

0: https://www.noemamag.com/ai-and-the-limits-of-language/
If this were the case, I'd expect them to keep selling both the original and rewritten versions, since for both, there's at least a few people who'd be willing to buy one but not the other.
Yes, though their selection is usually more limited than other supermarkets in the same locale.
Subscription unlocks all the functions you can't use in demo mode. Once you subscribe you'll have access to all present and future collection types, image upload and daily statistics.

Please remember that Sora is (and will remain) completely ad-free, and it was built by only a few people. We aren't a big company (yet ;) and we aren't vc-backed.
I did. It’s not at all clear to me.
Doesn't Apple's family sharing have a big problem with IAPs not being shared? So maybe you get the base game (but maybe not if it's an IAP on a free title) but not the expansions?

The consoles all have a pretty similar system at this point. You get a master console where it can play everything offline/online and any user account can access anything the account set the console as master owns and then you can log into another console and use everything the account owns while online. There might be minor differences among platforms but that's the jist of it. It's kinda bad for Nintendo Switch with the second system being a handheld though. Still better than Steam's. In the good ol' days Sony allowed you to have 5 PS3s and there was no difference but it got abused so they cut it to two.
https://github.com/robinmoisson/staticrypt#encrypting-multip...

> This allows encrypting multiple page on a single domain with the same password

This might still work for you if putting everything on one page isn't a requirement. Using the "remember me" checkbox means the user only has to input this password once.
NO
as each is complementary other
The most valuable piece of advice is: make your decisions based upon what you plan on using your workshop for rather than following generic advice. Analog differs from digital, low frequencies from high frequencies, repair from construction. Even once you know your domain, how deep you plan on pursuing it is also a factor.

Advice like that provided in the article rubs me the wrong way since it both throws away nuance and deters people who are even mildly price sensitive. On the one hand they suggest that the equipment facilitates learning, on the other hand they are suggesting a $400 soldering iron. That iron will make things easier if you already know what your doing. It isn't going to protect the learner from destroying their first tip, even though the tip will cost as much as a cheap iron. It isn't going to protect the learner from applying heat improperly or for too long because, at best, the learner will only have book learning to guide their use.

But it isn't all about deterring price conscious learners, there is also the issue of encouraging them to succumb to temptation. I mean, who doesn't want a good oscilloscope? Oscilloscopes are awesome. That said, a logic analyzer is going to be more useful if you're working with digital circuits, even once you factor in the sophisticated triggering and (limited) decoding abilities of modern models. They also require a fair amount of experience before purchase or you will end up with one that does not meet your needs (unless you have extremely deep pockets).
Historically, the kinds of people who engage in such naked acts of demoralisation don't end up on the 'right side of history'.
Note that I didn't say you couldn't write bad PHP3.
Moving backwards in usability but forwards in profits for the rich!
I'd think so, if there is some asynchronous processing involved that requires lots of intermediate bouncing to disk: do the input queue on logged tables, the WIP states on unlogged ones and when they are done push to output queue (again logged) and remove from the input in the same transaction.
Thank you so much for reminding me! I remember Hillel Wayne’s post about it from a while ago, and I had only gotten through the first couple of chapters before stuff got in the way. It might be a good long weekend read.

Great suggestion!
I agree it's facile to argue about dictionary definitions. There's several distinct topics people are thinking about when they talk about AI sentience and it's more productive to address them directly. Namely: (a) practical implications for what AI enables and how it will impact the economy and our lives (b) safety concerns about how the tech could do damage, even posing an existential threat (c) ethical concerns about machine rights.

Philosophers can sit around and debate sentience all day, but it doesn't answer those practical questions. It's usually circular reasoning arguments about definitions and, worse, those definitions are engineered to drift so they're always out of reach of the latest AI advances ("shifting the goalposts").
This hasn't been my experience at all. I'm doing a pretty comprehensive remodel and swapping out 3 furnaces and I've done my own manual J/D/S calculations.. I've compared my cost of electricity & gas and while natural gas may be marginally cheaper if I were to upgrade to high-efficiency units, I've decided to install HPs anyways since our electric costs are much more stable here and our electricity is lower carbon. I literally can't find a company to install them. It has nothing to do with callbacks or expense, it's just that most of these companies are staffed/run by older guys who want to install the same massively oversized low efficiency furnaces and SEER 15 AC units they've been installing for the past 30 years.

The only people willing to install heatpumps are from an hour away and who spend their time building luxury homes. It's crazy to me that the rest of these guys aren't out there working with those Federal IRA funds and installing heat pumps left and right. We're climate zone 4 with a design temp of 6ºF, just about every modern HP will spend 99.9% of its time working at full BTU here.
Google takes your privacy very seriously.

Where ‘privacy’ is defined as ‘giving you control over who Google shared your data with’, of course.
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered... Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right. - George Orwell
Ugh. I liked Matilda. But Steinbeck? Seriously? To each his own I guess. How Matilda would have been a fan of Steinback is beyond me. Much less Austin. Matilda would have been a fan of, er, uh, Dahl. And maybe Oz, Baum, Seuss, and Carroll. And any other author whose general vibe was "I kinda like to mess with the world." Definitely Orwell as she got older.
This reminds me of Bookmark OS but not in the browser https://bookmarkos.com
The article says it is stored.

The documentation on feature says it is only truncated on crash.

Where did you read it is not saved on disk?
It's an irritating policy because it illuminates the fact that you don't actually own the games. If you actually owned two games you could play them on two separate systems, while being logged out of steam.
The Cult Record Label That Brings Forgotten Music Back from the Dead
ImageMagick is vastly more powerful than sips. There's little reason not to use it when it's available. However if you're writing a script for macOS and sips suits your needs it's really nice to have. See also the avconvert tool, it's not as capable as ffmpeg but it'll ingest and convert any format/codec supported by AVFoundation and comes with the system.
DNA doesn't know what intelligence is, yet here we are.
Like others responding here, I was lucky to see the LCM just before the pandemic killed it. Truly sad to see it go.
Things do have a historic context, if one admits to hating Jews in the second half of the twentieth century then that speaks an awful lot about his attitudes as a writer.
Remote work is already established industry wide and it works. It makes me think capital just want to show's the boss.
> I can't even buy multiple copies of a co-op game on the family Steam account that the family can use to play together.

If you're using Steam Big Picture, you can leave multiple accounts logged in to every device and buy games on them; I did this when I ran fighting game tournaments during COVID--accounts named [channel]1, [channel]2, and so on. (Why you can't do this with the desktop UI is certainly a wart, though.)

Given this, rearchitecting their infrastructure (which pretty universally considers a single account a single active user) for a fairly niche case is probably low on the list.
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The artist is dead. This is absolutely being done with the permission of the copyright holder.

But what if it wasn't authorized? What if it was public domain? Would you make the same argument about a modified Shakespeare performance?
While I love GNU Parallel there's also the venerable (and installed by default) xargs.
You can run a docker container inside an lxc container. Which would give you the GUI controls over the near docker equivalent.
Not very often but it's an annoyance and I always forget how to do it when the time comes, so I have to web search it.
Contempt and patronization of modern human intelligence.
What are the real terms of being better off?
The Schools That Ban Smartphones
I only ever used one MUD but I remember it well, it was hosted on Pipex Dial (UUNET), I think as a personal project of one of the employees. It was called Neverholm. There was rarely anyone else on there, I would spend hours roaming around exploring. Loved it.

Best thing was that you could access it, along with many other things that you probably shouldn't have been able to, from Pipex's freephone sign-up number (0800 056 2110) so it didn't even cost a penny, which was great for 15-year-old me trying not to land my parents with a huge phone bill.
"Computers wipe the floor with us anywhere we can keep score"

No they don't.

They cannot do any complex task unsupervised or at all. They cannot drive better, where you keep the score by accidents. They cannot program or engineer better. Where you can keep score with, does the program meet the requirements or not.

So personally I don't consider us End-of-History humans, except if too many people believe this trope. Computers are made as our tools, but I won't let my hammer command me, even though it contains more data.
Antimatter: How the world’s most expensive – and explosive – substance is made
Session store is obvious enough use case. Anything that's essentially a cache or copy of data existing somewhere else
What’s Behind the Chinese Spy Balloon
I don't know either, but my father-in-law claimed to have got drunk there during prohibition. He died a decade ago, but by my calculation he would have only been 17 when prohibition was repealed in '33. Only know that because he was 24 when he was called up for WW II. Could be true or a very old wives tale.
Thats if you take what a small number people say at face value and then apply that to everyone.

We can each only work with anecdotal evidence. In my working life I've not been able to observe a lot of people switching between in office and WFH. But those I have observed either got on with things in either location or carried on not really doing much, regardless of kids.

It would be cool to see some actual evidence... of anything really.
I think the more important factor is that it eats runway and takes longer to reach safe speeds. If there is a problem at rotation you want as much runway available as possible. If you delay rotation not only are you further down the runway before "really rotating", but you're traveling faster. A 10-knot increase in speed means 20% more energy to disipate. And you're even further above the brake's certified performace. And you've dawdled in getting to safe climb speeds; you accelerate more slowly rolling than flying.

Edit: Actually, that probably doesn't even come into it. Not a pilot, but don't imagine "barely rotate so the nosewheel is in the air but still have negative angle of attack so no lift" is very easy, or very stable if possible. Even if you could do it, you'd risk slamming the nosewheel back into the runway.
No, you’re supposed to resign. They are too cowardly to perform another layoff, colluding with their competitors to exploit a labor market, and don’t want to pay severance.
In imagination land, sure.
They have already removed Praat in later versions.
Yep, back around 15 years ago when I had data caps I used to use that feature all the time. Not to copy games between PCs, but to have backups in case I reinstalled Windows etc so I wouldn't have to download them again.

The feature's still there: Right-click a game in your library -> Properties -> Local Files tab -> Backup game files.

It creates sort of an installer with all the files in it. It's less useful in these days of frequent patches though, because the game will still have to download any newer updates after installing.
Games on CD allowed you to play on LAN with 1 CD for 3-4 players. It was actually a documented feature.

How is this better than it was?
At these voltages, water is way too conductive.

You can use pumped oil though.
The problem is that everything below the file surface is proprietary, so to speak, and that the file interface doesn’t give you a standard way of discovering the file format or (for command pipes) the commands it understands. What’s missing is a standard way of querying schema information about files/pipes. In addition, like in the TFA use-case, not just individual files have schemata, but whole directories and directory trees have. Those are not communicated by the file system, but have to be known out-of-band for each specific purpose.

Providing just a generic interface cuts two ways: On the one hand, you can represent anything, but on the other hand, you don’t know what anything represents without additional information (metadata).
This is a terrible change.
That doesn't make any sense., and there was something else going on. Eich's position was exactly the same as the platform that Obama when he initially ran for president. Somehow that supposedly makes Eich unfit to run a company, but it is fine for Obama to be President.
"Having an exploitable labor pool is the entire point! I'm not sure why some people are trying to frame this as bad or immoral."
>>> If you offer someone a place to live no strings attached they’re going to take it.

There are multiple articles that show the homeless do infact refuse shelter based on a number of reasons so the whole predicate you base your reasoning on should be reexamined.
> It can be a hard choice with young children.

Is it though? A modified version of the scene seems like a dishonest solution to a problem that has good, straightforward solutions:

- Don't show them (if its a conversation you don't want to have yet)

- Show them and then discuss the scene

Norms change time... different people think different things are ok... these are lessons children need to learn just like any other.
Carter was a good man but a poor president. The US was rocked by years of inflation brought on by the oil crises (Arabs embargoed USA for supporting Israel) and deficit spending (Vietnam War). The average citizen did not believe Carter had any solution to the economic turmoil. With hindsight, we can debate if Reaganomics actually worked; but that is besides the point. The voters believed in it; unfortunately, they didn't believe in Carter.

You can contrast this with FDR who was president during the Great Depression. FDR was more pragmatic. He said he was willing to try anything if it helped the average American. That was what voters wanted to hear.

About FDR, one of America's most successful presidents. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/03/04/how-the-deal-w...
Roosevelt was neither self-reflective nor a deep thinker

voters trusted Roosevelt to lead the country through eight years of economic desolation

As Kennedy emphasizes in “Freedom from Fear,” there was no master plan, no guiding philosophy, for the reforms that Roosevelt oversaw. Some were his idea; some were Congress’s; some were left over from the Hoover Administration. Roosevelt was >>improvising<<.
I think calling it simply an LLM is incorrect also. There clearly is intelligence in these models that has _emerged_ that goes far beyond simple “it’s just doing auto-completion”.

I think in general what’s causing so many people to be thrown for a loop is a lack of understanding or consideration of emergent behavior in systems. Break down the individual components of the human body and brain and someone could easily come to the same conclusion that “it’s just X”. Human intelligence and consciousness is all emergent as well. AGI will very likely will be emergent as well.
Do you remember grade school at all. Endless busy work. Teacher hands out a worksheet, any worksheet, just an endless stream of pointless word searches, fill in the blanks, answer these instances of x+y=_ , color by number, write a paragraph in this box, draw hands on this clock etc. Let's be real, below around 8th grade school is mostly socialized babysitting, and these worksheets are in large part there so teacher can keep you all preoccupied with literally anything. Its all equally tedious and just as pointless as say, adding captions to stock photos or pointing out all the traffic lights in an image. The difference is one of them pays and the other doesn't.
Fair. But if AGI takes as long as it took DNA, we won't be around to see it. If we want AGI, we need something better than fumbling around at random in the dark.
I was 10 years old when Jimmy Carter took office and he's always been popular with me.
Excuse me for missing what might be obvious but where did the MyLogger and MyRepository types come from in the second example?
Yep, #defines are non-lexical and add way too much clutter to be useful in this case, even when you’re non-reluctant in general.
Some contract workers are just full-time employees with less benefits. It's entirely normal to expect long-term employment in that case. They are usually not hired for adhoc workloads.
There is historical precedent with Facebook employing armies of people to review reported content. Sometimes it is somebody abusing the report button because someone said something they didn't like; other times it is child rape.

"[The content reviewer] appealed to her manager to see a counselor to help cope after reviewing a disturbing post, footage of a teenage girl being raped by a group of men in the middle of a field with tall grass. The manager did not have an answer, she said. About a week later, she told her there was a counselor available for her talk to, once a quarter."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/05/12/faceboo...

There was even a news story posted here recently about how workers in Nigeria were being paid $2/day to make ChatGPT not a dumpster fire.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34426421

So no, it's not a leap of imagination to assume that underpaid and traumatized human labor is used to improve AI, considering that's what it's always been.

Honestly, if you work in tech you should know how the sausage is made. After the last six years of the "just asking questions" feigning-ignorance ploy, I'm over it and all who use it.
Used copies can go for incredible prices, but the book is still available new from Moore Tool: https://mooretool.com/publications.html

Highly recommended.