skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO, Facebook's problems (body image issues, fake news/clickbait) aren't caused by a genuine inability to control their "AI" algorithms[1]. The root cause is they prioritize profits over user well-being. Framing the issue as "AI safety" feels like blaming a slot machine's bytecode instead of the casino owners.

But I appreciate the reply. I'm heartened to learn that people (besides the NYT/WSJ) are genuinely concerned.

[1] I'd expect the algorithms are pretty similar to 'show me things like the ones my friends interacted with.' And if they really cared about addiction, they could just disable infinite scroll.
> If you’d have presented anybody reading this with ChatGPT two years ago, they simply would not have believed it was possible.

2 years ago, Google Lambda was available internally for dogfooding. The hype was high for a couple months, and then it dropped off after the entertainment and novelty value wanned. It even led to a series of articles about a person claiming it to be sentient.

So yes, 2 years ago, plenty of people would have believed it was possible.
> in readme.md somehow

In GitHub repo its impossible to insert interactive <iframe> into Markdown files (and wiki, comments in issues and pulls).[0]

But for GitHub Pages site it might works (just use HTTPS).[1]

[0] https://debug.to/5532/how-to-embed-iframe-in-github

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48612913/simple-iframe-i...
At the very end of the day, I think some people just don't like JavaScript.

At the risk of speaking for people other than myself, a lot of people don't want to write code in JS and if they don't have to, they won't. Frameworks/tools like Phoenix and HTMX or the fact that many languages can compile to javascript/wasm mirrors this opinion
Lighten up, Minkowski.
It makes me wonder, what is the energy consumption of a what it takes to nurture a human to be an expert in something?

Discussions of the intelligence in the LLMs as an emergent property of differentiating the model on troves of quality data, raise the question of how a human gains its intelligence. Starting from scratch, a child and a LLM, how can you compare their intelligence when provided with the same training data? What happens? What is the comparable intelligence of the two?

We sit here analyzing the energy cost of training a LLM, developing artificial intelligence. We have to compare that to the energy costs of human intelligence. One may argue we are here because of the previous energy use of civilizations prior.
> It's really not that difficult.

What exactly isn't?
Same in another school (EPITA).

You start with 2 weeks of only Linux C + POSIX shell, and during this you're only allowed to use i3 + vim/emacs.
Pick your top 10-100 large enterprises, especially those with a major internet presence. Use whois to find the registry they use. See if you can get sales to call you back.

My experience is many years old now, but when Network Solutions's incompetence resulted in our glue records getting changed by hackers, the startup I was at switched to MarkMonitor. At the time, MarkMonitor charged a large premium per domain year, and a significant annual cost to setup 'registry lock' (which prevents the customer or the registrar from making changes to the domain without going through a proccess with the registry), and they had IIRC a $10k/year minimum spending commitment. A lot has changed since then, it's probably worth getting them on the phone if you're serious about your domain, but it's probably still going to be expensive. Get on the phone with at least CSC Domains as well.
Stop shirking responsibility for security off to centralized third parties. If you decide to type out a URL rather than copy it, and you mess up the URL, that's your fault and no one else's.

Hilarious, how we demonize NPM and now we're wondering why Deno doesn't handle dependencies like Node. Sometimes I hate the shit out of this field.
Nobody actually cares about these things except HN and perhaps a few other people.
Collaboration is the work. Meetings are a potential form of collaboration, but not always the best.

Sometimes it is better to collaborate in an issue because then there is a litigation trail and it gives people more time to think.

Sometimes it is better to just have a quick Slack message to confirm something.

And yes, sometimes it is better to have a meeting where you can whiteboard or brainstorm ideas interactively.
> really need to spend about 500

for an electric machine, yes, this is the basic minimum, but not for a manual lever machine (i would expect brand new to cost less than $250, and second hand to be around $150 in good condition).

The most expensive part of espresso machine is the pump. If you for go that with a manual, lever espresso machine, you bring the cost down drastically. Ditto with grinder - a good manual grinder with good burrs capable of the fine grind for espresso can be had for around $100 bucks brand new.
A video on the same subject: https://youtu.be/e0elNU0iOMY

I really enjoy Tom Scott. Everything he puts out is wonderfully concise.
Yep, it's not stupidity, it's life inexperience. At that point in life many people have only vague ideas on how money is really earned in the real world, and get-rich-quick schemes seem at least plausible. Didn't fell into that trap but my sister had to go through some small "make money from home" scam to learn that lesson.
> while the doers keep-on building and making bank.

It’s spelled Doerr
I used KDE Connect in the earlier years and am totally blanking out on what it is or does… I assume it forwards data from a KDE desktops widgets?
My school handled this cleverly by taking people with prior programming experience into a Haskell sequence, which suitably kicked our asses to the same degree as what the first-time programmers were getting.
Programmed in rust.
Not speciesism. I'm biased against anyone who has a history of bullshitting. In general I would like to know before I read something whether an LLM wrote it. Why not just read it and see if it's good, you say. Because the thing about bullshitters is that they can waste a lot of your time before letting you down badly. The ones who are good at it are the worst.
Headed for the Tail
This is probably not a helpful answer for most people, but the Shield has an unlocked bootloader, and it's popular enough to have lots of custom ROMs that you could flash that don't have that problem.
This is a different situation from when one normally might use the phrase "correlation does not imply causation", but it applies here.
Node is working to add module based permissions: https://nodejs.org/api/permissions.html

This might help against the supply chain attacks which node is also prone to after adding support for url imports (Yes, you can import directly from url in node too).
LaTeX? Is this a dual math-cs program?
You Might Not Be Hungry After a Workout–But You Should Still Eat Something
Well, it is an original implementation, but you have to admit, it sounds pretty similar to optical compressor, just with temperature sensors instead of photocells.
Reminds me of the mid-90s "it's just the yellow pages" hot takes about the internet.
Do check this discussion the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34816184#34826067
> The jobs are pretty terrible.

Not really? Factory work is hard, but generally pays well and has consistent long term demand (aka job security). Machining is skilled labor and paid like it, and factories that work with metal are far cleaner than others. Ironically, the dirtiest and most hazardous factory I've seen/worked in was a laundry soap factory, hands down. Nobody making parts that require consistent quality can just not give a fuck like that or depend on a pipeline of disposable desperate temp workers for production.
The biggest hurdle for beginners when using built-in IDE debuggers in my experience is the requirement to set up the debug run configuration to properly execute their program. Even though this amounts essentially to "how do you run the program on the command line? Write that in the IDE configurator", newbies don't know how to run the program from the command line (and can't debug any startup errors they might get), so can't properly set up the debugger in their IDE, and revert back to print debugging everything.
Y'all just have extremely weird meetings. I almost never meet with managers and almost always with coworkers to plan out work that affects multiple people's deliverables. Those are meetings too, and I find them very productive, in the sense that they directly reduce time to task completion.
All of politics is an Optics Problem :-)
TBH, this is exactly the kind of innovation that patents are intended for.
As a former Sr ML researcher at Google, I do have a cursory understanding of AI and its risks. But as I mentioned in another comment, the current discussion feels like we're blaming a slot machine's bytecode instead of the casino owners.
Taken literally, it’s when a person takes an action or says something -- the “signal” -- based on some principle -- the “virtue”. I think when it’s used as a pejorative (“this is just virtue signaling”), it’s being called out as disingenuous in some way. For example, if a fossil fuel company publicizes work they did to remove carbon from the atmosphere but doesn’t talk about (or even calculate) how much carbon they introduced. I could see someone calling that “just virtue signaling”.

I’m sure there are many other examples but that’s generally how I understand it. I don’t intend for my example to reflect any specific event in the past, if that matters (ie. “I made it up”). Hope that helps.
There seem to be two kinds of people: ones who see the mistakes ChatGPT makes and the ones who don’t.

If I was a scam artist today I would be very happy to find people of the second kind to victimize.

Secondly I’d be very concerned that the second kind of person is working at the hospital dispensing drugs or on the beat as a cop or doing any kind of job where mistakes could have consequences. They're not just going to be making mistakes and letting other people's mistakes go by, they are going to be denying it and making excuses about it.

If ChatGPT has a core competence it is that people give it the deference that they give to high status people, who are used to just saying whatever comes into their head and having people just nod. I think of the story of “the Emperor’s new clothes” where the Emperor pulls off something that not everybody could do.

These concerns converge in the 419 scams which deliberately filter for the second kind of person with deliberately poor grammar and spelling. Amazingly there are people who have $10 million dollars to lose who fall for this! I wonder if there is somebody evil, bright, hard-working and ambitious who is HFRL training a model right now to do romance scams.
Most laptop speakers can be significantly improved by applying a calibration profile using a program like Fxsound. Took mine from "godawful" to simply mediocre.
I'm definitely not trying to argue the validity of the patent, just saying that if you're trying to argue against the (beyond broken) patent system there are far better egregious examples of completely ridiculous patents that have been granted.
I think the context that you're missing is that the author of the post is one of the main developers for the Asahi Linux project that is porting Linux to the Apple M1/M2 family of Macs. They're trying to implement for Linux software support for all the Mac hardware capabilities that macOS already supports. Since the speaker safety model is apparently done in software under macOS, an equivalent needs to be reverse engineered and implemented for Linux in order for Linux to be able to use the speaker hardware as effectively as macOS does.
That's a bit different; it doesn't have the feedback where the JxB force pushes matter around, altering the flow.
selling courses on how to use a chatbot to get rich
Once you have ~50 satellites, what are you gonna do, tuck away things every 15 minutes?
It's a phone app that allows control of your desktop. you can control music, send files, use the camera from your phone to get pictures on the desktop, etc
>"would each panel really be $6,250"

In US taxpayer dollars maybe - but in CCCP money, its paid with slave blood, just like how Appl likes it.
Sono had thousands of pre orders, made millions with them. The overall package made sense to those people. And Sono didn’t lie on numbers. You need to spend more than 2 seconds on the target market before making snap judgements.

The problem is that in 5 years they didn’t make it to production. And they needed a bunch of money now, just at end of the EV bubble. They also did an IPO way too early, and in the IPO didn’t raise enough to get to production. These are all timing and execution mistakes, not market match/product issues.
I went with a Breville Barista Touch at the beginning of Covid and my experience mirrors yours. I can even get locally roasted coffee delivered to my door. It was a big upfront investment, but it has already paid for itself by curbing my partners Starbucks habit.
So if sometime in the future, a pregnant human left Earth (say, through MuskTech's wormhole), and gave birth on a world orbiting Proxima Centauri, Earth's registrar shouldn't record it without adding an additional 4.3yrs?

And when should the family back home celebrate?

Defining the actual timing of events based on the presently available methods to perceive or communicate them seems odd if not also a bit impractical.
We are moving to a regime where every app you run must be sandboxed and containerized (à la Flatpak). But that won't be enough. The next step is sandboxing and containerizing every library you depend on.
I use Zorin connect, seems to work pretty well. This one looks cool too though.
You know, reading the article would have answered your question, saving your time, my time from (voluntary) responding, and everyone else who reads this comment and subsequently also responds it.

I don't mean to be harsh, but really? There is entire bullet point list on the page, and yes, I didn't include it in my response. Ironic.
NPM can specify GitHub URLs as dependencies, so I don't see how this is a problem exclusive to Deno and not Node.

Also, this problem can be mitigated by static analysis. No reason why a pre-push hook can't look at all the import identifiers and restrict them to a whitelist of domains.

But having mentioned this before in another recent thread about Deno, some people are under the impression that statically analyzing imports is really hard, despite how even a junior engineer could figure it out with an AST parser in a day.
Ah, so we're arguing in bad faith. In this case, I won't try to keep some semblance of a useful discussion going. For your interest, most of our integration tests are written in a cucumber dialect and contain very verbose "business-y" messages passed in and out of the system under test.

But then, I'd guess from your tone that this won't stop you from misreading another comment of mine and accusing me of lying, so I'll just wish you a nice weekend instead.
I don't think you addressed any of his points.

Let’s say americans don’t understand what their rights to speech mean. It doesn’t matter since you didn’t repudiate the fact that they may have stronger speech rights.

You are glad that you don’t have the right to bear arms. But that does not seem to me to refute that a constitution is important to prevent erosion of rights or that the US is ahead in terms of rights. Just that you personally don’t care about that right.

Finally, you state that in the U.K there is also a protection from unreasonable search. Fair enough. But is it stronger than what is in the US? Is it protected in form of a constitutional right or just a law that can be repealed at any time?

The strongest argument is that despite these apparent constitutional guarantees, it has not prevented police from infringing on these rights. I would agree. But that seems to me to be an issue of enforcement. Not having these would mean there would be no legal basis to change police behavior, only a social impetus. That may be enough but I would like to have both options.
Tech entrepreneur to talented youth: Skip college (reviews “Paper Belt on Fire”)
There are a multitude of stepping stones between a computer in your friends basement and an app with a distributed database hosted in AWS.

Literally hundreds of thousands WP hosting sites

I get that it's not always a cost exercise and more exploratory learning to change your blog around, but that stuck out as an odd complaint when justifying a shift in your stack.

So.. is it still hosted in your friends basement?
Any new technology is going to be used by hucksters, everything is, religion is. It doesn’t matter what it is. What is the problem here, how do we improve society, such that hucksters don’t need to huck? There are absolutely segments of society that are seemingly perpetually going to huck and be hucked. This is a property of humanity. If anything the pandemic made the flaws of humanity even more apparent and speed-runned through various scenarios.
In Europe, PayPal is a bank: https://edesk.apps.cssf.lu/search-entities/entite/details/70...
What about Meson? Apart from CMake it's the build system I've seen the most recently. Personally enjoy it a lot. Popularity of tools at least for me is always a consideration since it means it's easier to get help from other people or assemble a team of contributors to a project.
It could just be me, but a skull and cross bones "poisonous" type icon seems more effective. I don't see the problem with using a symbol already associated with death/harm. I remember seeing a skull/bones icon as a kid and the message was clear. You could paint this in pink - or use in on a bike helmet - and the meaning isn't lost when labeled on a hazardous substance.
I don't think the same is true for the logo they chose.

I can also understand a skull/bones symbol rotated by any angle. Might it offend someone? Probably...what doesn't.
> The dignity of knowledge work is rooted in our dignity as knowers, a concept from a branch of philosophy about the ethical implications of knowledge and belief. Success in knowledge isn’t about the facts we know, but by how good we are at judging the truth of uncertain things.

I mean, I agree with this in the abstract, but I’m very skeptical of the claim that this process is aided by meetings.

Honestly, my experience after nearly a decade in the industry has led me to believe that the “democratic” approach to management that underpins meeting culture… basically doesn’t work. The idea that the whole team should convene and everyone should give their input and that this process converges on the truth, or the optimal path forward, or whatever… is just not rooted in reality. What we actually need are individual smart leaders who take responsibility for the vision and just tell everyone else what to do. The actual thing that makes a group of people productive is for everyone to know their place/role, and the truth is that the majority of people do not need to be at or contribute to “knowledge-making” meetings.

I also don’t know if I buy that programming is knowledge work in the usual sense. It requires knowledge but the output is not just a report or something, it is the actual product. The only reason it seems more like knowledge work than it is, is that we’ve set up big tech companies in a way where your work is like 40% being an information router, 40% being a politician, and maybe 20% programming. In this context I’m sure it would seem like “meetings are the work.” But maybe we should change that, and not just shove people into more meetings.
Information disparity is unavoidable. You can only learn so much. I don’t mind dining in restaurants even though the food would only cost <30% when I made food myself.
> And if a tree falls in a forest with no one around, it does still make a sound.

I don't think you'll like the reason why. It was Bishop Berkeley[1], who gave his name to Berkeley CA, that originally posited and answered this question, and his answer was that God is always around and, thus, among other things, hears everything, so the falling tree makes a sound.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Berkeley#Contributions_...
I dunno, I hear now is the time to invest in Elon's nuclear GPT coin.
I completely agree about the incentives for supplement studies.

However, the FDA, critically, has totally different and vastly less difficult regulations for supplements as opposed to drugs. Where by drugs I mean things the manufacturer wants to sell as a treatment for a specific condition, for which they were required to provide evidence.

I totally agree that the funding incentives are not good for studying cheap supplements. I have no idea why you think that has anything to do with the FDA, just buy the supplements if you think the circumstantial evidence is good enough.

Edit: For instance, I have been trying R-Lipoic Acid lately. No one stopped me. No one advertised it as a treatment. I found some research papers that said it might help and my doctor said it wouldn't hurt. I don't think it helped, but certainly the FDA didn't get in the way.
Same as it's ever been though: grifters schilling get-rich-quick schemes.

I'm sure in the mid-1800s there were classes you could buy to learn how to invest in future railroad property out West. Or later, how to become a millionaire revitalizing property in the South.

General rule of thumb: never pay for a lesson if price requires an altruistic seller.

F.ex. If I had a reliable way to make millions, why would I be selling that course for anything less than hundreds of thousands of dollars?
"Gary V" is probably the biggest huckster, although the universe of 'hustle culture' charlatans is wide and deep.

Just search "ChatGPT" and look for thumbnails where they're making mouth-agape "I'm Shocked!!" faces and an all-caps title about making money.
Since this isn't a community effort at all but purely done by a consultant agency called Collabora my question would be, who is funding them?
But a real human can still use these tools and pass content off as though they themselves created the content…
Wasted the opportunity to call it Konnect :p
We still have at least one bridge in the UK with buildings - Pulteney Bridge in Bath - https://goo.gl/maps/5DGDvhwEotkz6Kk47

And just one house in Ambleside - https://goo.gl/maps/ray39NX87SPNcPU19
Consider the following people: (1) a pregnant woman, (2) 60 y.o. with diabetes, (3) 16 y.o. female, (4) a veteran with an amputated leg, (5) an ex-athlete with a bum knee, (6) anyone with a 50 pound package etc.... Now imagine it's mid-January and the boss asks the person to stay a bit later, say, until 7pm. It's a new moon and so it's going to be pitch black by then. There might even be a bit light precipitation or maybe some ice leftover from a storm earlier in the week. Would you say that the issues I mentioned shouldn't matter to any of these people? Or would you still say that they should suck it up and saddle up because only bike haters believe all of that stuff about ice or crime or darkness?

Face it: many people don't want to commute by bike because they have good reasons to believe the ride will be dangerous and maybe even deadly.
In its reference frame light moves instantaneously.
Reality is relative
Who Is Science Writing For?
I want to insist on the fact that "get rich quick by picking a trendy topic and selling a bullshit book / story / video that you did not write" schemes have been sold to people for a long time.

Previously those have been written by severely underpaid ghost writers (who, given the pay, have a tendency to mash existing content).

The scam is that the only people getting rich are the one selling the course on how to do it and that platforms have been relatively good at letting this spam content get forgotten.