skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the article says no, then there's a paragraph about how barometric pressure predicts incoming weather and that can be felt in sensitive joints. Which is the mechanism I've always heard for it.

Kind of a dime-a-dozen article from the Deseret Times of all available dime-a-dozen publications.
Reminds me of the whole walrus operator python thing.

People were using it, they took it away (IIRC, could be wrong about that), people whined, they brought it back as an explicit operator, people really whined and the BDFL walked away.

Telemetry would have told them what exactly?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_okay_to_be_white
> if they had started with an industry survey

They already do regular surveys.
Yandex search is vastly censored. See recent leaks for the list of the keywords they replace in search queries.
The app economy took over just as Flash died. The only 2 niche industries still able to make money from web games are education and gambling. Education because schools require a zero installation process for all platforms and gambling because it’s the most friction-free route to impulsive spends.
I won't describe it as malware. Your link describes prompt injection which applicable to any software that currently employs LLMs (including this package).

To successfully exploit it an attacker would need to place a file with malicious prompt on your hard drive. However, if it's the case then there will be a lot more easier ways to execute various attacks.
CoreCLR is not built for game, the fork from Unity is so there is little chance that CoreCLR is faster.
No it would be the same as me telling you "what do you think of giving up your gun and I could give you a million dollars" any reasonable person would think I was actually offering. You must understand, thisn't court, it is a diplomatic discussion.
That may be an accurate way to read it, but I’d bet that people just casually reading through it will breeze past that comparison and take away “these companies are bigger than most countries”.

Which, of course, is a comparison that Jacobin is more than happy to let slide. Jacobin’s own description of itself is “Jacobin is a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture.”
Very cool, /u/marginalia_nu. From one web crawler enthusiast to another.

But I can’t really call you an enthusiast any more if you’re getting paid!
In regions with depopulation there are disused buildings, unoccupied school rooms, and even churches in some cases. This is not a thing in big cities, and there are no facilities freely available to anyone.

It is possible to get subsidised rooms/studios through "study circles" for music or theatre (for example), under certain conditions for accountability.

"Folk high school" is equivalent to community college.
No worries. Plenty of North Africans to fill the dearth
> What does anyone care what that war criminal Kissinger thinks?

I addressed that point elsewhere. [1] I'll expand on that here by saying that I don't know or care what Kissinger thinks, but as an eternal student of the present moment I do pay attention to what he says, because so do a lot of other people and because he hasn't spoken only for himself in public since well before I was born if ever. One doesn't therefore need to believe what he says, of course, but petulantly refusing even to attend or consider the fact it's him saying it is like disregarding Cicero's place in Roman history because you think he personally was an asshole. (He was an asshole! But an asshole can still need taking seriously.)

The opinion section of a modern paper is written for the rubes. The Journal's is no different - which is why Kissinger is a sometime contributor there, in general. Even so, finding Kissinger there alongside gray eminences drawn from both the academic and the industrial tendencies of computing is novel. The byline is a tour-de-force performance of authoritative knowledge, partly to reassure any rubes who do remember Theranos, mostly on behalf of arguing that AI is a new thing in the world and will produce a new humanity altogether - or, stripping the text of esoteric baggage, that AI is the mother and grandmother of all growth sectors, and can't help but produce enormous returns for anyone who pours funding into it early.

People will act on that, is the point that I'm making, and I wouldn't assume it will be limited only to funding or only to the private sector. More people will be trying to make an AI future happen tomorrow than were trying to do that last week.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34942962
The link shows a "Lindell TV" video.
Yes, the data won't be as good. But it will still be able to catch issues like that motivated this in the first place.

Knowing the goal allowed rsc to make this judgement.
One thing I think is missing in this write-up is the element of autonomy. Yes, it's undeniably degrading that Amazon employees piss in bottles to make sure they meet their quotas. But: they aren't forced to take that job, or to piss in bottles (notwithstanding that getting fired often comes with serious consequences).

And I fully understand that putting food on the table (especially when it's for your kids) and putting a roof over your family's head is important, and needing to satisfy those needs is much easier than adhering to principles of not being subjugated, demeaned, and degraded. "Do I take the shitty Amazon job or do we move a few hundred miles in hopes of a better life" is a tough decision.

Hard problem. No easy solutions.
It's disheartening to have the top comment on this discussion be a discouragement from individual contributions because the solution is imperfect.

Let me suggest a thought pattern which might ease your difficulty.

It's hard to imagine a community better positioned than the devs themselves to evolve better solutions to these problems than they are. So the "ways to fund FOSS" they advocate, by for example asking represent some flavor of best solution we've come up with, despite all their flaws.

So do what they ask, to the extent you find their packages useful.
I am kind of surprised there isn't an add-on to have my lips molded so others can get a more "realistic" smooch.
Here you go: https://archive.md/8ziZM

If you already know about sleep architecture this article wont tell you anything new. But as an intro it’s good.
>In my opinion we haven't made a lick of qualitative progress in recent years in the "IQ" of AI

We've gone from not very good to beats all humans at chess and go, and passing exams in medicine and law, all of which are things that I can't do myself. When AI can do all things better than a human would that qualify as a lick of progress?
I don’t want to rain on your parade but Germany had just been unified and was quickly liberalising and Russia was so conservative the communist party would successfully take control of the state in 1917.
The lesson there should be that projects get funding when they have advocates. The importance of a project to the world means nothing: it’s the importance of the project to people willing to fund it. Your co-workers should feel empowered by this: if some inconsequential software can make money, your co-worker’s advocacy can surely help a piece of business-important software make money :)
> American media

Huh? The previous President of the US frequently called it the "China Virus".

> GOP conspiracy to bring down Biden

Biden wasn't President for the first year of the pandemic, not sure how that works out.

> Are American progressives so fragile in their identity that they avoid agreeing with conservatives for fear of guilt by association?

I personally don't care whether the virus was man-made or natural. It bares next to zero importance on my life. At the end of the day what are we really arguing about? Lab practices in China? The Chinese should be better about lab safety and wet markets. But there was a pandemic which has killed millions of people. It seems like the people most invested in this question are also the ones most invested in downplaying the pandemic, which is just evil.
I am not so sure about your claim that Germany in the indicated period was "much more conservative" than Britain.

The heart of German economic development was in industrial Prussia, resulting in enormous growth of left-wing politics. Bismarck's anti-socialist laws were repealed in 1890 and the SPD since then got the plurality of votes cast in every election to the Reichstag.

Rural Bavaria was much more conservative, yes, but back then it was an economic backwater. Bavaria only started industrializing after 1950.
Go running down the tracks, money falling out my pockets all the while, just in time to get flattened by the much larger train full of revenuers and regulators coming to clean up all the scams that haven't yet cashed out? No thank you.
What are the specific requirements for games? C++ is also not built for games. It’s built for anything, including games.
I'd say there are times when bad data is worse than no data.
Consider that the farther away you get from it, the parties involved are either unaware or unwilling to treat it as bad data, so they make make harmful decisions.
I don't think we know enough about it, other than to say, "sleep is important and disrupting it should be minimized."

There's a medication called trazodone which is used off-label for people with issues falling or staying asleep. It increases the total percentage of time spent in slow-wave sleep (stage 3).

Even though this comes at the expense of REM, in elderly people with cognitive or neurodegenerative issues, this appears to confer a protective benefit (the rate of deterioration is slowed comparatively).

That said, it would probably be ideal if they slept well without medication and altered sleep architectures.
> Most people would call that a culture.

Sure. But in Europe that culture co-evolved with more than a 1,000 years of Christianity being central to society. The cultural inheritance of Christianity survives whether people go to church or not. The same is true for those Muslim immigrants. They are culturally Muslim. It’s those differences in culture, rooted in religion, that are the source of the conflict, not theology in the abstract.

> One were most people do not go to church on Sunday and politicians, even if they’re from a religious background, like Angela Merkel, don’t ever talk about God.

The German system of offering education in Christianity in public schools would be illegal in America. In Germany abortion is still technically illegal, and is restricted after 12 weeks, whereas in most of America it’s available up to 24 weeks. In Bavaria the government can require Christian crosses to be displayed in all public buildings. In America that would be illegal.

So why doesn’t Merkel talk about Christianity? Is it because Christianity has less influence on government and society in Germany? Or is it because Germany secularism carved out a sphere for Christianity in society, and, unlike in America, nobody is trying to eliminate that sphere?
I often wonder if that's the key to why I feel different whenever I'm able to quit weed for a while. It doesn't help to just limit usage and dosage, it still affects my REM sleep.
This argument is not new: it happens also with regular charities. You could donate to the charity with the highest impact (measured by QALYs per dollar or whatever) but a lot of people donate less efficiently. Sometimes they even get criticised for it. But maybe an inefficient donation is still better than no donation, and should be lauded to encourage more people to donate, however efficiently?

At first I was going to suggest, that someone set up an effective-altruism-for-open-source type of project, that ranks open source projects by how efficiently they can use donated money.

But then I realised also that would fall for the same trap. Why donate to give libcurl higher revenue when you can donate to save people from malnutrition?

(On the other hand, you could argue that the productivity gains afforded by libcurl would allow us (humans) to allocate more resources to victims of malnutrition. So what do I know.)
I'm sure. But I have no use for that aspect of it either, seeing as I'm not in the market for drugs, child pornography, or fascist insurrection.
Right, but Nokia supposedly fixed that with this phone.
(to have the audacity to do something unacceptable)
Yandex sold off the news to VK (ex Mail.Ru) some time ago. Along with Zen blogging platform.
I'm not sure if I want to increase my caffeine intake further. I'd rather decrease it progressively. But thumbs up for the Theanine. It helps that I really don't enjoy the taste of green tea (while I really enjoy a properly prepared cup of coffee :/)
Sure, the solution is easy. Provide workers with more protections. Whether that is done through regulations, unions, or something else can of course be debated, but this is a very solved problem in most of the first world.
People who conquered space but running an economy was where they drew the line.
The This Week In Virology podcast has been talking about the lab leak concept since the early days of the pandemic, with various experts opining on the likelihood. In [1], the expert discusses how the virus itself does not seem engineered; it’s most likely a naturally created virus.

However, this is exactly the sort of virus that they study at the BSL4 lab in Wuhan, quite legitimately - and they produce good science from this work. But because this is China, if a lab accident happened, it won’t be getting reported in the media. It’s a state secret.

The Energy Department gave a low probability to their assessment, but this is still a bombshell. Imagine the legal liability for China in international courts if the evidence is solid enough for litigation.

1. https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/tag/lab-leak-hypothesis/
> The closest I can think of in the US is Trump banning immigration from majority-Muslim countries under the pretext of links to terror.

The Trump travel ban is weird in its various iterations. On one hand Trump was on the record during his campaign as wanting to ban Muslims from entering the country entirely, but on the other hand the ban completely omitted the largest predominantly-Muslim countries (Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh). For a sense of scale, those three countries make up about a third of the world's Muslim population. (Add on India and Nigeria and you're looking at half of the global Muslim population.) There was also criticism for omitting places like Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Lebanon (and Egypt, in earlier iterations) which actually had demonstrable ties to 9/11.

But, the original list was mostly consistent with restrictions on the visa waiver program, which is to say the administration probably wanted to start small with the most legally defensible subset before expanding it more broadly. In practice, said restrictions were uniformly blocked by the judicial system.

Ostensibly the first amendment's establishment cause prevents Congress from passing laws that are overly religious, although that doesn't entirely stop them from, say, passing the Defense of Marriage Act or attempting to explicitly opt out churches from COVID restrictions.

These days it's mostly about putting ideologically-aligned judges on the courts and letting them choose which laws to block or precedent to overturn.
Libraries are already free. The money here is supposedly used for coffee (or whatever) while meeting and discussing books.
> Fear not, you can also introduce infinite loops with a good old code editor

Well, when a developer writes code in an editor, they probably are working in a development environment with tests and version control, etc.

Why is there a web editor that changes the application's own running code? And why in the world would I expect that that would exist, and be on by default, for me to have to go and figure out how to turn off?
Sure, but how often do you search for "old fart" and expect to see Putin?

OTOH, their image search is way better than google's.
It is not the system I have a problem with. It is your statement that all Indians must pay for the behavior of some (i.e., body shops). Also, your claim of Indian friend reminds me of [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_not_racist,_I_have_black...
I'm not sure what world you're living in but we've been shooting missiles at Chinese military objects and restricting their access to semiconductors. I have little doubt that if the CIA or FBI had information it was actually a Chinese plot they would have released it by now.
I'll start with a quote from gwern on LessWrong: "... a language model is a Turing-complete weird machine running programs written in natural language; when you do retrieval, you are not 'plugging updated facts into your AI', you are actually downloading random new unsigned blobs of code from the Internet (many written by adversaries) and casually executing them on your LM with full privileges. This does not end well."

The instructions are manipulating the LLM itself. Making it exfiltrate and collect data , fetch new instructions from an attacker etc. All the connected applications can be fine but it's basically turning your assistant into a compromised, attacker-controlled version of itself just because it looked at the wrong news article. From our GitHub:

We demonstrate the potentially brutal consequences of giving LLMs like ChatGPT interfaces to other applications. We propose newly enabled attack vectors and techniques and provide demonstrations of each in this repository:

Remote control of chat LLMs

Persistent compromise across sessions

Spread injections to other LLMs

Compromising LLMs with tiny multi-stage payloads

Leaking/exfiltrating user data

Automated Social Engineering

Targeting code completion engines

All of these are completely new but unfortunately it seems more difficult to explain the impact to people than we had anticipated.
I've run it on a PC using QEMU a few years back, though maybe the hardware detection has improved. I followed instructions similar to this:

https://blog.agchapman.com/using-qemu-to-emulate-a-raspberry...
Will AI generate new jobs? I can’t really imagine what those new jobs would be. The seem to be more like the popularity of automatic forums in medical settings: they made it so doctors didn’t need to hire a person to do all their paperwork for them, but it burdens them to do all their own paperwork.
How is this lab leak theory anything more than an attempt to excuse Trump from any blame for his pandemic response failure?
By "replace" do you maybe mean "alias"?

In any case, the problem is that anything else is also censored. DuckDuckGo stopped indexing RuNet altogether and Google is... Google.
Your statement makes no sense.

To begin with, the terms "objective" and "relative" are not antonyms. A definition can be both, neither, or either one of the two.

And the terms "progressive" and "conservative" in particular describe attitudes towards the status quo and traditional institutions, which means that whatever exact position a progressive or conservative person takes on an issue will depend on context. By their very definition, the meaning of these words is bound to a particular point in time.

As an example: anyone not on the extreme fringes of the political spectrum will agree with at least the broad strokes of the universal declaration of human rights today, but the adoption of a similar document [1] in revolutionary France was a highly contentious act that directly attacked millennia of institutional power (that is, the divine right of kings).

Conservatives at the time fought this tooth and nail and sought to restore the old institutional power. But most conservatives today would for the most part support this text. In the short term, the Revolution didn't succeed, but on the long term they "won", their ideology largely got adopted and supplanted the old feudal ideology: the Revolutionary ideals are now the status quo in many countries, which many conservatives will defend (support for absolute monarchy is thinly spread even among conservatives today). Nevertheless, it would be deeply absurd to call the French revolutionaries conservatives. In fact, the usage of the terms "left" (supporters of the revolution) and "right" (loyalists to the monarchy) to denote political positions originates from this time.

So yes, at the time, the positions of the French Revolution were progressive, even though the Revolutionaries weren't progressive by today's standards (in particular with regards to women). These terms are fundamentally relative, to try to give them an absolute meaning is simply to not understand them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_the_Rights_of_M...
Not unplausible at all.

Has happened before

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laboratory_biosecurity...
Remind me which country is the one with the hijab ban in schools? Is it america or is it France? And you want to tell me you’re not having a religious conflict over there?
> rus disinformation

Specifically Russian disinformation. 'Rus' is a much more neutral term which refers to the shared heritage of the Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian people.
It's extremely versatile which makes it able to solve some neat problems. My favorite example is this was a CodeGolf to find if a goat in an image is upside down. - https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/71631/upgoat-or...
I’ve been around rich people, I’ve been around poor people. I am fortunate enough to be well off today but that’s not where I come from, I grew up around people in poverty.

There are rich people who are bad with money, there are poor people who are bad with money. The only difference is that rich people have a much greater ability to tolerate financial mistakes. I can burn $10k and absorb the consequences, a person in poverty cannot.

Poor people are no less equipped to make use of money than rich people: credit card debt is a huge problem _amongst the middle-class_. For every poor person who can’t afford to feed their family, there’s a middle-class person who can only afford to feed their family because they make so much more money and would be even worse off if they didn’t have such a high income.

There’s no evidence that poor people are any more “bad with money” than rich people.
Heh, I was one of the first in my group of friends to get DSL and the ping trick was a wonderful way to troll people. Before the DSL line, I too had a modem that was vulnerable so trying to send the ping would kick me off instead of the target.
I thought that moving to another country is a multi-variable problem, but apparently it can be reduced to a single variable problem.
The origin of the word sinister...

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/sinister-left-...
To be fair in this instance, this is a wild story that does have all the hallmarks of a wacky conspiracy theory straight out of a Bond film. Some secret Chinese laboratory is doing some secret stuff with some super spreading disease and then whoops it gets leaked and shuts the entire world down.

Also keep in mind where the info was coming from in the US: it was being introduced by Trump. This is someone who regularly spouses countless baseless conspiracies whenever he needs some sort of ammunition to blame a group he doesn't like. There is plenty of fair reasons to not have believed this story.
I like the analogy but there is already a level of safety after a phone reaches EOL. It seems more akin to selling a 5-point harness to somebody who already has a seatbelt.
Same. About the only thing I durably haven't figured out how to do with it is move a branch tag.
Concurrency is a pet use case for 99% of projects. Library ecosystem is the primary and dominant factor when choosing general-purpose technologies and Python has it beat.
This is not correct, as can be readily proven to yourself by measuring.
Why is the thought of other people finding happiness in a way different from you “gut-wrenching”? Such a strong emotional reaction to a lifestyle that has no direct impact on you doesn’t seem healthy.