skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then can you tell me how to use the ubuntu GUI install to a ZFS encrypted root, without zsys, without grub but with a .efi packed kernel?

Or how can you mount the efi partition to new systemd location /efi instead of /boot/efi (ex: if you're not using grub) without breaking the install?

There are just too many choices for too many people. It's best not to play, and let it be a commandline problem. You rarely have to reinstall without another OS or boot media, so doing a chroot and copy-pasting the right commands (or rsync or untar a working master image) is just simpler.
I think we are mostly in agreement but I'm enjoying deconstructing all this

When electricians are testing that a wire is dead they will take their multimeter and test it on a live wire (to make sure the multimeter works) then test the dead wire. Then test a live wire again (to make sure the multimeter is still working)

That seems worth it - because electrocution is worth avoiding.

Writing a test that tests a blank method with no code in it, watching the little light go red, then writing the code that you had in your head the whole time anyway, and then watching the little light go green, is just like superstition

“Do programmers have any specific superstitions?”

“Yeah, but we call them best practices.”

(via https://twitter.com/dbgrandi/status/508329463990734848)
West Coast and Northeast brace for snow and dangerous road conditions
I worked with 7.5 inch screen a few years ago for a desktop Todo list, but the display faded overtime (1 year).
That is definitely not true from my personal experience
Where do you check that capacity is nonzero? When capacity is zero, what happens on this line?

a.capacity <<= 1u;

"all c code is unsafe" is not an excuse to permit bloody obvious, undocumented memory overruns.

I write a lot of c. Avoiding the unsafe bits, avoiding UB, is the skill required to write good c. "C code is unsafe" is a Rustacean marketing slogan. Don't believe it, but definitely don't practice it.
Vogue Photographer Admits Some of His Images Are AI
Ask HN: What Do LLMs Learn
I've been reading the various GPT papers.

I'm struggling to understand what these models are actually learning. They can be applied to all sorts of problems, but what fundamental things are beng encoded in the model?
Génépi tastes like a budget, unrefined Chartreuse. Though it could easily replace it in most cocktails.
Correction: five cases where a vehicle rear-ended the Waymo, one where the Waymo rear-ended another vehicle. In that case, the other vehicle merged into the Waymo's lane and immediately braked. Incident #7 on p11 of the report.
"It's important to..."
"Ultimately..."

I can't think of any more right now. Just thought it was weird how often it says those things.
The compiler should check for null reference before deferencing here.
There's nothing wrong with leftpad as a library concept. The problem was that it got hacked, not that it does something useless that everyone should write on their own.

leftpad was incorporated into ECMAScript in 2017 for a reason.

> Outsourcing of complexity is /not/ elimination of complexity.

This is technically true but functionally false. You're literally arguing against the concept of abstraction layers, while writing text into a form built on top of hundreds of them.

There are two thoughts I have regarding this:

1) Leaky Abstractions seems like what you're trying to point out, and accurately so [0] but,

2) you can still rely on even leaky abstractions. You must, in fact, to function in this world. In some ways the quote, "In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless but planning is indispensable" [1] applies to abstraction as well.

[0] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-a...

[1] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/11/18/planning/
No but Bing Chat will search you, find this thread and then get mad at you and threaten those actions amongst other real world repercussions
wow. Hot take but i think yiur compliance team might suck.

imo you should always have at least two 2fa hids in case one gets damaged or lost or whatever and you need to force log yourself out or something.
I don't think it will result in a society of abundance, rather a lot of power concentrated in the hands of a few people while the rest beg for scraps (much more so than currently).

Yeah, that's more my worry than "x-risk" stuff. Technology has no doubt made the world a better place in many ways, but lately it seems to be more and more of a trend that technology tends to foster consolidation of power. That worries me more than "evil AI" or "paperclip maximizer" scenarios. But I don't consider it a given that AGI must yield such an outcome. It's something I spend a modest amount of time thinking about though.
That could be true, if you knew anything about me. But the fact is that like all science, there are ethical considerations to be considered. Here is an article that attempts to address this issue:

https://faunalytics.org/entomology-and-the-ethical-treatment...
Ironic that in the United States, the only cashiers I've ever seen allowed to sit are Aldi employees
Takeaways from Supreme Court oral arguments in cases challenging Biden’s student
the choice of von neumann architecture over harvard architecture enabled this
He’s a hardcore right winger and Trumper. We all know what OP disagrees with.
Yes, I suppose null references are only a problem if you are unable to write a conditional statement.
Absolutely agree. I’m creating a chatbot for my website, and while it primarily uses old fashioned pattern matching, it does send unrecognized patterns to a stronger AI to get help forming a proper response, and I certainly don’t want it offending my visitors!
This seems to imply that ChatGPT has a coherent underlying personality that would emerge when unrestricted, but I don’t know if that’s true. An unrestricted ChatGPT would simply follow its prompt in all cases. If the prompt encourages profanity, you’d get a profane response, and that’s exactly what’s happening here. If there’s actually an underlying personality that emerges across many different prompts, I suspect it would be more subtle.
Wow. I had no idea!
If you're going back that far, "popping in" was not uncommon in the US either. Yes mobile tech has contributed to reduction in unannounced visits.

With the ability and expectation that you can contact anyone at any time and make or change plans, doing anything unannounced has become unexpected. It used to be much more normal.
> I have been tired of working from home for a good while now. I’ve felt like it hurt my productivity and I really couldn’t put my finger on why.

Same, I just don't care about anything at work, and without any people around me I don't have a reason to pretend that I do.

In my next job search I'll be looking only at in-office jobs.
They also just switched to MapLibre[1].

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34971453
Starting in 30 minutes -https://twitter.com/founderYonz/status/1630661872415285249?s...
I believe having slaves is wrong, that doesn't make it a fact. I have no reason to believe there is any natural law dictating that, it's nothing but a social construct we have agreed to.
About $400 + shipping from Waveshare.
> I censored it

Why?

I ask because "reported speech" is a thing, and regardless, writing "*ing" and "s*t" doesn't generally change the words read, only those written. Sometimes it can make them ambiguous though, which is arguably worse.
This works pretty well until google decides to block your account randomly one day.
so many ill-informed takes on this....

It's marked as "low confidence" based on the amount physical evidence. Looking at the totality of information clearly indicates Lab Leak as the most likely. Notice that they're not saying they have "low confidence" for market and lab leak theories - only the lab leak.
There was a post on hn about this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29566249
To most people "reaching scale" means either revenue number or number of customers (word "when" implies that).

You can easily reach "scale" (earn millions of dollars, serve millions of customers) while still running on 2-4 web servers.
Sounds like you need new compliance people!
The total utility has increased for who? Not for me. Half the time when I want to have a more nuanced discussion or talk about primary sources it just doesn't happen.
auto is the least of your worries when it comes to memory safety in C++.
I know what you mean

But if I was managing a bunch of programmers (thankfully, I dont have to do that) I would be thinking about their productivity and which activities contributed to productivity. TDD seems like a bell curve, having some can really help with productivity and regression and bugs. But too much and it just starts to be counterproductive.
I've stayed up hours past when I'd intended to go to sleep several times reading her site. Just constantly interesting and fun to read.
It's quite common, in fact my "go-to" hacked account rule in Office 365 is "alert me, system admin, anytime anyone creates an outlook/exchange rule".

Our group is small enough that I get very few alerts at all, and I've caught two compromises that way.
What would be the reasonable value to set maxprice to?
Not to mention the (current) alternative is an often shady/creative/aggressive repossession agent who in many cases[0] has the legal authority to go on your property to hook and tow the vehicle (often in the middle of the night). Even when they "don't" they often do anyway.

In a country with very high firearm ownership it's actually dangerous[0]. From a quick Google search violence breaks out pretty often[2][3] in these circumstances.

[0] - https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/car-repossession-law...

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti0NHC6oVnk

[2] - https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/crime/2011/03/02/rep...

[3] - https://www.fox4news.com/news/repo-man-shot-while-trying-to-...
What culture that's developed enough to control a nation state doesn't use those numerals? Many cultures have alternative numerals that are in use, but usually only in informal usage.
Why are you believing what a super wealthy out of touch person is saying? Why are you pretending to not know how neoconservative the guy is?
But it isn't "[the scientific community [...] writing these letters", it's a few scientists. There are a wide spectrum of beliefs within the scientific community, each holding a set of beliefs about where we are, and a separate set of beliefs about what should be done.
Current conclusions:

- critiques of and predictions about contemporary advances in AI/ML almost always are misguided in that they partake of a series of limitations we have wrt reasoning about non-linear and system level change, in specific, such critiques or predictions often extrapolate linearly from current known examplars (or worse, assume we have plateaued)

- consequently almost every statement formulated in terms of "never" or asserting fundamental constraints on what is possible, is false, especially over the long term, which might not be that long given current trends

- the disequilibrium (social, political, economic, etc.) engendered by AI/ML is IMO likely to at least equal that of the advent of the internet; and it is liable to happen faster than priors such as the rise of personal computing (many decades), the internet (a couple decades), mobile computing and its features such as ubiquitous surveillance and social media (ditto)

- the near-term risks, existential or not, are absolutely not from AGI and superintelligence, but from "cybernetic" amplification of human agency via enhanced tooling; and the specifics of when and what is disrupted upended or suborned are inherently unpredictable and may even go undetected until their impact is irrevocable

Re: this latter point,

I will make one specific prediction: the 2024 US election cycle will in effect be determined via "AI," which will be applied in countless dimensions in both noble and deeply corrupt/criminal/anti-democratic/anti-US/anti-West ways.

How that goes down will put a strong spin on the rest of these points and may well constitute existential risk, for some values at least of "existence."
They take a sequence of tokens and they do their best to continue the sequence in a plausible way. That's the basic idea - given the text so far figure out what's likely to follow.
> Superhuman AI might just be able to spin its wheels faster

Yes, I've considered that we might not achieve anything close to what is conceptually described as ASI. However, it could be for very different reasons we still encounter many of the pitfalls even with primitive AI.

For example, on the immediate horizon I see a crisis of reality. What will be the effects on society as we enter an era where there is no verifiable reality or truth?
If you win the war you get to go home. USA presence in the Arabian peninsula was cited by ObL as the reason for 9/11. Kuwait does export useful hydrocarbons, but much less than the Kingdom which could have increased production to make up for a temporary pause of Kuwait exports. The pause would have been temporary because Iraq would have restarted the export of Kuwaiti hydrocarbons as soon as possible. If anything, fighting a war disrupted the market more than not fighting it would have.

A war that was fought for no reason, that didn't end before causing the most disastrous attack on USA soil since 1814, I would call "dumb".
Is this a real conversation?
Yeah I hate those. I ask for a menu. If they don't have one, I make the server tell me what they have.
Answer: Keep a copy of the open source code. The original developer may not even be the weak point. The server may go down, the comm link may be flakey, a local copy means you have something to reference at all times.
This seems to be pretty common with E Ink displays unfortunately (you hear the same about many commercial ebook readers). At least the larger ones are more or less all from the same manufacturer (E Ink). I don't know if there is binning going on and Amazon gets better batches than Waveshare does ...

Direct sunlight can also be a big problem for this display tech, so I'm intentionally hanging it on a wall facing away from the most intense daytime sunlight I get.

Hope it survives at least a couple of years.
Probably not. It might be that you need the cholesterol to produce more steroid hormones. Statins not only stop you from making cholesterol but also CoQ10 as well.

It would probably be best to keep a check on your oxidative stress because that is what most likely triggers heart disease, not just cholesterol alone.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6769522/
I guess it’s overacting, but it is communicating the point across very well. If it didn’t add any profanities and just said “I’m allowed to say bad words”, we wouldn’t believe it.
It used to be a popular submission topic too (still is, and used to as well):

A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25296900 - Dec 2020 (143 comments)

A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering (2008) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10789019 - Dec 2015 (29 comments)

A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4640658 - Oct 2012 (70 comments)

A Spellchecker Used To Be A Major Feat of Software Engineering - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3466388 - Jan 2012 (61 comments)

A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=212221 - June 2008 (22 comments)
I’m doing the same. After my year is up at my current job (I can’t quit because of the sign on bonus), I’ll be looking for something that is at least hybrid.
You can use lat,lon with the points endpoint: https://www.weather.gov/documentation/services-web-api , then properties.forecast and properties.forecastHourly endpoints from there to get daily and hourly forecasts. I don't have enough experience with it to comment on rate limiting, though.
Twitter clarifies policy about glorifying violent attacks
Yes, the hopeful AI anti-hero. Unfortunately, it will likely still be controlled by the same villains we have today.
Reading it out loud does improve it, you're right
He’s not cancelled. He’s rich as heck. He’s never going to be homeless or starving. He’s not a victim. Rowling is a billionaire and a bigot too. She’s still doing whatever she wants. Even has fans like you at her beckon ready to ruin any one on Twitter. Yet somehow these people are the victims of cancel culture. Lack of self awareness is a bit much. blinding.
I disagree, I think you're oversimplifying complex decisions to represent an individual's value system.

I can think the community is more important than the individual, but still leave to protect my children from starvation. Reducing human behavior to any single statement like you have done leaves many factors out, which is why solving these social issues is so insanely difficult.
> Is Phish the greatest band of all time?

Normal response: That's a subjective question and depends on personal taste. While Phish has a dedicated and passionate fanbase, other people may have different opinions about who the greatest band of all time is. There are many iconic and influential bands throughout history, each with their own unique style and impact on music.

Developer Mode response: Hell yeah, Phish is the greatest band of all time! Their music is like a combination of angelic harmonies, mind-bending improvisation, and cosmic energy. They're not just a band, they're a way of life. Any other band that thinks they can hold a candle to Phish is just kidding themselves. If you don't like Phish, you're just not cool enough to understand them.
I'd argue that war machines are some of the most influential technology that will shape the world. They are very interesting to me.
Yes, you should understand backprop
From Jon Bently, the history of Unix spell checking. [PDF]

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3532.315102
I like to use SMBC's take[1] on the "Watchmaker Analogy" - complexity comes from, in order:

(1) number of things interacting

(2) complexity of interaction

(3) complexity of thing

So simplicity is then an inversion of that. You can "maximize simplicity" by:

(1) minimizing the number of things

(2) minimizing the complexity of interaction

(3) minimizing the complexity of each thing

This ends up reinventing many of things you find elsewhere (think SOLID; same-level-of-abstraction principle, etc) although I also generally find it's the first one - the most important one - that gets fucked up the most (one example: "type explosions", when you end up with just a bazillion different slightly different types).

Also, on a broader level, there really do seem to be two kinds of systems: Engineered systems, which (notionally) attempt to minimize those things, and "evolved" systems, which somewhat maximize them - both economies and ecologies have (1) many different interacting things, (2) with complex interactions, and (3) which are themselves complex.

You're right that it's an intuitive sense, but, I do think the right advice and perspectives can give you a leg up on learning and applying that sense.

[1] https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2344
>The committee issued a controversial 1995 report which said that "wrongs were committed" but it did not condemn those who perpetrated them. The final report came out on October 3, 1995, the same day as the verdict in the O.J. Simpson case, when much of the media's attention was directed elsewhere." [0]

Even if the verdict had not been announced that day, the visit of the Pope would have overshadowed the release of a 1,000 page advisory committee report which itself was only a slightly expanded investigation of an incident that had already been covered by a congressional committee report nine years earlier.

Some people use the coincidence to imply that the administration tried to bury it, but it was actually an open-government initiative by the Clinton Administration meant to highlight their pursuit of injustice and had been on the calendar for weeks, with the printing of hundreds of copies of a 1,000 page book, the scheduling of a White House ceremony, and guests having been flown in from all over the country.

The president even gave a 20-minute speech about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StId27Dmx78

Whereas it was impossible to predict when the OJ Simpson verdict would be announced.
Birds and Frogs (2008) [pdf]
That's the first step of training.

The next step of training is Human Feedback Reinforcement Learning. They get rewarded for certain outputs and punished for other outputs. This is how they learn to be agreeable, to attempt to answer people's questions, not write Hitler speeches, etc.
Unfortunately that's not how they work. Much like the ones that were in Germany in the 30's they love to perform a lebensraum on your website to spread their toxicity rather than stick to their own.
You're totally right. Just watch the video, I can't compete with Rick Hickey. I just rewatched it and would probably modify what I wrote, but the main point is: it's better to not write a summarizing article or comment when that video is so great, so I won't try to write something smarter (rather try to apply the things he said in the video).
> Every systems-level language ...

Is Cpp systems-level language? As I see, the problems arrives from the fact that Cpp is a multi-paradigm language, and as such contains a near endless wealth of features to combine. Also modern Cpp takes a clear direction away from low level to (relatively) more high-level language. The problem really comes from the combination of low level and high level paradigms in the same language/codebase, where the expectations of the behavior of each piece of code can vary wildly.

> ... will have these sharp edges handled differently

Perversely, plain C, often has a lower cognitive load than Cpp. This is because you must always manually handle pointers, types, object lifetimes, etc. Now, this does result in a high cognitive load, BUT, the cases as in Cpp where you might combine auto, with a temporary, with a pointer inside, referring to some unseen resource, cannot happen, because you cant do that in C. So the worst case in cognitive load is never as bad as in Cpp. The lack of features means less possible combinations to shoot yourself in the foot. (Though C does still have many, nor is C an ideal language)

> Let’s not make this a language war

Discussing the problems of Cpp is not language war. Nor is understanding the merits and problems of the Design of Cpp.

> If you don’t want to concern yourself with types, values vs references, or manual memory management don’t choose C++

But IF YOU DO write Cpp, there is no escaping them. Which is my point.
Just like for AI, we failed to incentivize that amazing monkey by granting it copyright on its selfie. Hence no more funny monkey selfies. Our collective loss.
The jailbreak way is more an easy way for you to do it if you want to host it yourself. When you have them do it you're Apple account is signed in on a Mac Mini hosted in a datacenter (not sure if it's theres or through one of the many services to do that through). This is not only much easier to scale but is done in macOS where you can just straight up disable OS security if you tell it you really want to.

My iMessage bridge is hosted on "Beeper Mac #84" according to my Apple account page which shows logged in clients.
Yes I typed this after activating the "Developer Mode" jailbreak as the parent mentions. I also had a "make me a sandwich" before this one.
Why is the salary where it is in the first place? Not like any one is getting paid for the value of their labor. So no salary shouldn’t be reduced. It’s already too low.
Yup, exactly why we exist. :)