skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was kind of hoping the inner orbitals rotate faster than the outer ones, with the rotation speeds in some "orbital resonance" whole-number ratio.

That would be a more complicated device, but maybe there's a reasonable way to do it with timing belts or gears.
I'm not overly familiar with US constitution but isn't it just about the right of carrying guns ? being a militia is quite different
I've only done a masters in cog sci and just heading into a phd, so I certainly won't claim to be an expert. However, I read the experts. I don't think there is consensus. A prediction of 25 years is not better than a prediction of 400 years. Our current lack of AGI is not for want of computing power (at least, not that alone; i.e., not remotely the only bottleneck).
Not even OpenAI seems to know. They put some perfunctory disclaimer on economics into their risks section of the GPT4 report, but their lack of understanding the consequences didn't seem to prevent them from pushing this development, so uncharted territory it is.

It should anyways be up to governments to reign in this technology for the benefit of humanity, though I'm afraid this won't happen.
> I'm currently experimenting with doing 30 minutes of enjoyable, productive activities once a day for 7 days

Carrying out your original intent is sometimes not possible. It's called whisky dick. But who knows; you might end up having a good conversation instead of your planned run. Turn off whatever app you use to manage yourself. Fuck up sometimes. Refusing to go on a run is just as good as going on one, usually better.
Ask HN: Software license that excludes using code for training ML models?
Does anyone here know if it would be possible to draft a software license that excludes using the software code for training ML models? Can this be done at all or is reading/analyzing code always considered fair use, even if it's done for model training?
> Not only async, but C# had LINQ, lambdas, records, pattern matching, pointers, hardware instructions via intrinsics, stackalloc etc. before similar constructs came into Java, if they ever did.

Just a clarification regarding one statement which I know for sure is not true: Java team started working on records before C# started similar work.

I don't know about the rest.
Then I guess I can ethically pirate anything I want, since I'm not "stealing the money from a human creator" anymore, huh?
That's been their excuse for most of their past invasions. Russia did not feel secure enough with East Germany, I guess it won't end until Portugal is secured.

Anyway, I think the chance that Ukraine would continue beyond their internationally recognized borders is close to zero.
Ask HN: .com is parked at an expensive dealer. Is .org a good choice?
Is it okay to run a commercial business entity on a .org domain name.
Obviously, .com is the best for SEO.
What are the disadvantages of a .org domain. Difficulty in convincing Google that its a commercial product offering?
I'm glad at least this one gave you some clarity. We surely learned our lesson regarding our messaging here today.
> both don't take too long to create

That's what I've been noticing, and why I gravitate toward those comments about AI which are like, "have you thought about using an if/then for this thing?"
Or you could press hide once you've seen a story.

I sometimes use hckrnews.com, but not for that reason - it's good for catching up on what's been on the front page if I haven't been here lately.
Watch: Zipline, autonomous delivery in the air from the future
Wouldn’t the right way to create AI guardrails is to to have an antagonistic AI act as a moderator? Like you have one model trained to be as accurate as possible in fulfilling the prompt, and then another AI trained based on how human moderators apply the terms of another, “moderation” prompt. Then you have the two fight on a large training set and when you’re done you have generated a moderated AI.
The same mindset can be seen everywhere, even in opensource:

-Build shiny new replacement -> HN front page, exposure, kudos
-Fix bugs in existing thing -> No recognition

Rewriting is so much more fun than hunting after obscure issues
This assumes that humans in knowledge-based industries will maintain a significant cost-effective edge over AIs in some economically relevant skill domain. There's no reason to believe that will still be true in, say, 10 years.
Interesting. Is it just a hobby and complementary income for you? I see you still have a fulltime job. What's the ROI if you can disclose it?
in my eyes the big problem is that these model are purely statistics and are unable to apply logic
You have to start the word in the first square. I've just added an error message to highlight that when you try submit. Thanks for the feedback!
> Ireland, Austria, Malta must have become equally rich. But ... they aren't.

You might want to look at some recent GDP growth charts for at least Ireland and Malta ;-)
To be clear, by "current working directory", I mean the directory returned by os.getcwd(), not the directory where the script is located. This is what I think the problem is:

1. One might want to run utility programs from arbitrary working directories, for example running "ls" in another user's directory (the example I gave in my first post), with "ls" being the utility program in this example.

2. One might want to implement such utility programs in Python, which is the case with e.g. "ufw", "hg" and "smbinfo" (the examples I gave in my second post).

3. If the suggestion to load Python modules from the current working directory is implemented, and a utility program is implemented in Python as in (2) and one runs it with a current working directory controlled by another party as in (1), then that party is able to execute arbitrary code as the user running the utility program, resulting in privilege escalation.

To make this more concrete, let's say we reimplement "ls" in Python as "ls.py" and install it in /usr/bin. If we then (quite reasonably, I think?) use our "ls.py" as root to list the files in /tmp, which is writable by other users...

# cd /tmp/
# /usr/bin/ls.py

then, if Python loads code from ".venv" in the current working directory, whoever created "/tmp/.venv" is able to execute code as root.
Had. It was a fad related to the scammers on the roads, and peaked a decade ago. Scammers disappeared/shifted to something else, barely anyone drives with a dashcam now.
Kind of. Credit rating agencies in most countries effectively have this data (or can get it, at least), but they won't release it to the public. That said many companies that receive money via bank transfer seem to post their bank account details on their websites.
Apple could abuse USB-C directive in the EU and get away with it [video]
There are 1000 doors. You choose 1. Anyone knows it's incredibly unlikely that the correct one is chosen first time.

Now 998 doors are removed. There is 1 door from the others and the door you choose. Given that your choice is almost certainly wrong, and that your opponent couldn't remove the correct door from amongst the 998, that means the other door is the correct one.

Is that convincing enough?
If ya poop, ya have time for dadagrams!
Forget AGI, just make a robot that can fold laundry. I'll be here waiting :)
Yolo. It’s fun it’s like a novel videogame.
Just realised that glades in Against the Storm are basically this.
You could designate some handlers to be “frontend-only” and then compile them to wasm or js and run them in the browser. There might be usability/ergonomics issues with having “special” functions that don’t really work like normal ones.
It sounds like they "locked" the account. It should be time to see a lawyer now, depending on the balance.

Edit: why disagree?
> She said artificial intelligence could go in one of two directions over the next 10 years. [...] AI development is focused on the common good, with transparency in AI system design and an ability for individuals to opt-in [...] Ms Webb's catastrophic scenario involves less data privacy, more centralisation of power in a handful of companies

Umm... so are we just not going to mention the elephant in the room at all? I mean, I know everyone finds “the singularity is near!” people annoying, but there’s not any mention at all of some type of existential risk? The “catastrophic scenario” relates to things like privacy and fairness?

Someone commented in another article about AI safety being composed of two types, those focused on “AI alignment” and those focused on “AI ethics”. I increasingly find that the latter group seems to be putting the cart before the horse.

Hypothetically, if you were to poll the research scientists at OpenAI (anonymously) on which type of AI safety they are more concerned about, I would be really curious what the results of that survey would look like.
Of course decision making has been automated, that's literally what computers do. This will just streamline the process of pushing it into more problem domains. Everyone thinks their job is special and that automating any part of it will be the end of the world.

Eventually, with full human level AI yes, sure, at that point we'd not be augmenting human intelligence but genuinely substituting for it. We are a long, long, long way away from that though.

I edited my post above, so you may not have read the last paragraph.
That's really fun, it's somehow totally doing something to know I'm in competition with someone's dad

Two suggestions, you need to put an actual URL in the "share" text in the clipboard. With https:// before the domain. It's so that people can click the link on instant messaging platforms for viral traffic

Then, I need some dad lore
This isn't what I was talking about, I'm all for being as pure as possible, dial the reproducibility and isolation to the max. Unfortunately, Nix itself as an application is not isolated. It requires a unique installation process to be available for users, because it wants to manage its store at the root level (/nix/store/), but I hear the situation is different on macOS. Applications packaged with Nix also require special treatment to run in Nix environment, with paths rewritten and binaries patched to support Nix filesystem structure instead of the traditional Linux one.
That's what should have been in the article.
Always to the disadvantage of society as a whole too.
great. I just followed you on Twitter. I have a similar idea - I'm building a software testing tool using 100% Rust and serverless. Do you regularly post updates of your works on twitter?
I think mainly to not allow voting until people are of "voting age".
I've noticed this as well, and not just on HN.

If you do a bit of knitting that is obviously an amateur's attempt, people will say "wow, so cool that you can knit". When you work hard and get better at knitting and you produce stuff that is so good that it's commercial-product quality, people will say "what's the point in spending all that time and effort when you can just buy one?". Only when you become so good at knitting that your output is of a quality that is not generally available commercially do people find it interesting again.

Replace "knitting" with anything you like: programming, painting, woodworking, welding, electronics, 3d printing, pottery, basket-weaving, card tricks, ...

People are interested in things that seem cute and homemade. They're interested in things that are better than anything they've seen before. They're not generally interested in the mediocre middle, even when it has been created by 1 person who spent a lot of time and tried hard, rather than by a faceless megacorporation.

EDIT: I think I did the faceless megacorporations a disservice there. Faceless megacorporations also make high quality products through the hard work of their employees, they just do such a great job, and they mass-produce so efficiently, that the products end up inconceivably cheap and we take them for granted.
Could just do a minimal outer box shadow/glow around the tile in the color of the DL or TL to remind people where they are once letters are laid down.
Atlas Icons
May. May not. We don't really know. Lets pretend we did some science.
It s indeed amazing. I work in a big bank myself and the old arguments repeated over and over about our evils is completely incoherent from the inside, where there is an incompetent apathy group crossing a passionate group of financial stuntmen, balancing each other, under the very low tolerance eyes of various regulators fining us for the smallest fart.

It simply doesnt fit the narrative outside that we re helping drug cartels or shits like that.
My gut says that the purpose of the .org domain runs counter to a commercial business, and may confuse users.

.co is a suitable alternative, if that were available?
Now get the best privacy while surfing online. Use enhanced security and Privacy and surf .onion websites
You have to leave extra space somewhere when shortening it, and if you already like the page layout this guarantees you don't mess up anything else.
AI is not in and of itself an existential threat, and is unlikely to be one within our lifetimes. The singularity, in this sense, is not near, and state-of-the-art machine learning does not resemble general intelligence.

Focusing on the misuse of this tool by people is the most prudent worry to address.
Hack the planet! (into tiny pieces and then consume them as fuel)
I did some work on a project using these last year.

My findings were:

- couldn't get them onboarded into intune/active directory

- camera wasn't good for task past 1.5m or so

- screen was too low res for required use (see features on a chart)

They were cheaper than the latest iPhone... I think this is the error that they made - if they had gone for a top of the line device then they would have been closer to the expectations that our customers had.
This is the answer, I think. What most people think of as tech is a perfect example of capitalism ruining things for the average person while a small group get rich.
It's missing the 50 point bonus for playing all 7 letters :(
At tremendously steep premiums – RAID1 (or equivalent) is a must, after all. Some combinations are confusingly not possible (adding two NVMe SSDs – gotta select “Datacenter Edition” SSDs).

Might as well get a bigger server for the higher price.
Oh so it doesn't have to use all seven squares. Interesting
> 2.8M active connections per server

I think this is a use-case best left for nginx and other proxies written i C.

Java should be easy to use. Leave weird specialcase programming to special tools. Don't try to make java solve all problems.

Java nio became a monster of complexity which made implementing an http server much more complex that it should be.
Why, given the power and flexibility of ChatGPT, would anyone in their right mind ask it to write a shell script instead of a Python script?

Whose time and effort do they think they're saving by bringing more shell scripts into existence, anyway?

Shell scripts are objectively and vastly worse than equivalent Python scripts along all dimensions.

It's like having a food replicator from Star Trek: TNG, and asking it to make you rancid dog food instead of lobster.
What is "conclusion" if not belief in the limit as strength of belief goes to infinity.

Besides, every "fact" is actually a belief that something is true. Every fact is stated by a speaker, and every speaker may be out of sync with the underlying reality.
> We're all just remixing ideas we've heard before.

We're largely remixing ideas we've heard before, but not just I think. If you're just remixing ideas that came before... where did those ideas come from?

I think you can get quite far remixing ideas but for more novel concepts to emerge you have to actually create new stuff.

In biology it seems that evolution has found it worthwhile not to minimise mutations too much. In genetic programming you need both mutation and crossover for evolution.

I don't think LLMs really have that mutation of ideas (at the moment!), and I suspect humans create genuinely new concepts in a much more sophisticated way than mere random mutation.
The author has made some really great points. The comparison between french aristocracy and us tech megacorps is spot on.
It is a text based massively multiplayer online role-playing game, you need to score enough to end up in top 10 at least https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
I don't know what it's like in other countries, but in the UK it pretty much feels like property has gotten so out of whack with the rest of the economy that working only really makes sense if you don't own your home.

A house that was 150K in 1999 is now almost 1.5 million.

Realistically wages might have doubled or tripled in that period.

There is just no purpose to it. Let's say you're 50, your house is paid off, and you have some minimal pension. You could work for a year, earn 100K (top percentile), earn maybe 60 after tax and... there kind of isn't really an and. You can't sell the house and buy another one without paying 50-100K in stamp duty on the transaction.

That's an entire year of working just to sell your house and buy the identical one next door.

The entire economy seems to rely on people who are forced into working because they're poor. There's very little carrot for people who are secure.
up for a nuclear war? Fresh start. Clean slate.
Go to archive.is and paste the link in for yourself, or ask GPT-4 to do it.
Well, this is very frustrating. I really wanted to play, I like the idea of competiting with your dad.
But as a non native english speaker, my vocabulary is too low to give me a chance.
Anyway, great idea !

(I don't know if you are aware, but in French speaking countries, competition are mostly played this way, everyone with the same letters. At the end everybody got its own points and the best word is placed on the board)
How is democracy a stochastic process?
Those AIs still need the ability to manipulate the physical world at scale, otherwise they can be as intelligent as they want.
Anyone else witnessing a panic inside NLP orgs of big tech companies?
In this case Chotiner didn’t come back at weak arguments as much as he often does. In particular Frank downplayed the importance of stress tests, arguing variously that they are procedural, mostly about contagion, don’t concern the “physical”, i.e. capital, condition of banks, and wouldn’t have helped because “this all came up very suddenly”. This is all incorrect.

Likewise when Frank argues in favor of his working for the banking industry, this raises conflicts of interests for legislators and potential for undue and hard-to-detect influence in a way that e.g. taking an academic position concerning banking or lobbying for gay rights would not.
Also, just making a profit isn't enough, the profit margin per person supporting it must be huge or they can it.

What could be just fine small company doing their product is canned and engineers are moved to look for another big thing or to support other big thing
Does Stereotype Threat Contribute to the Political Knowledge Gender Gap?
I'm not sure that's a difference. The core problem seems to be that the value assets acquired during the COVID years are falling rapidly as interest rates rise.
How does your neat "I have the conclusion before I even collected the data" explain Singapore, for example?
The software that runs on the airgapped machines is generally authored on internet connected machines, or using software compiled on internet connected machines.

I audit airgapped machine setups for a living and most are nowhere near as isolated as claimed.
Query ChatGPT from the Clojure Emacs REPL
Execs Make Millions via Timely Trades of Competitors’ Stock
I think you’re spot on, except it’s simpler:

- Support shiny thing -> it’s not incentivised, valued, or promotion-worthy

I don’t think it’s a necessarily a value judgement on support or maintenance being easy (it’s not, necessarily) - it’s just not Google’s current culture/process to value this work.

If Google switched to incentivising (something like) cumulative user engagement or happiness, it would both incentivise longer-term thinking (as growth in users and also growth in engagement over time would be valued) and also probably help solve their reputation for poor customer service.
GPT 10 will follow GPT 8
Well he explains he wants to make money, and I want to make money too, so I dont get the terrible problem here: why not work in a company hiring you for the highest possible salary balanced by keeping your integrity ?

Having made the mistake to have been an elected official in the past should not ban you from high responsibility jobs, maybe ?
I can't hope to beat an experienced native speaker at this game, but it might be useful for expanding my vocabulary.

Case in point: my language doesn't really have a word for "almonry" - there's usually no dedicated space for collecting/dispensing alms.

By far the best Scrabble player I ever encountered was a former corporate drone in his 50s, who hiked 40km+ daily in the Carpathians and was in charge of maintaining a mountain shelter there.

When he wasn't out hiking, chopping wood or collecting water he would be sitting in the common room absolutely dominating the Scrabble board. I don't know his story and he didn't talk much about himself, but with age I increasingly get the appeal of such a life.
This assumes that a human with a chisel will maintain a significant cost effective edge over a CNC machine...

It's the same thing. These things are still just tools that need to be used by humans. Fair enough, I can't really see 10 years into the future, but I don't think anyone can, and there's nothing about these tools we're developing today that makes me think they're immune to the economic effects of automation throughout the last 300 years.
You probably know this already, but something cool the Raylib project does is offer a detailed description of their C API in JSON/XML, meaning that data-driven binding generation can be done.

https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/blob/master/parser/output/...
How Fast Is Your Computer?
Well yeah, there's no doubt that dictatorships/autocracies are faster at implementing bad ideas. That's the whole point of democracies/bureaucracies: to have a chance to weed out the obviously bad ideas before people are harmed.
It will, if anything, cull the bottom performers. It's essentially an incremental improvement on a script which searches stack overflow for a query and copy/pastes the first result into your program. Having tried it on more interesting systems-level work it does little to nothing to augment productivity.
You cannot go to the supermarket in Colombia and buy cocaine either.

They had some really good prices on US brand toothpaste the last time I was there though
I too have a PhD and a few papers. If you think generating a good hypothesis wasn’t the hard bit then in my opinion you never did get what science was about. In my opinion. Which is the minority among todays scientists. It’s like People dont even know what they’re doing wrong.
This is one of the reasons I love reading British publications like the FT, Economist etc. While they are serious publications, at the same time they do not take themselves too seriously. They seem to be keenly aware of their standing and how they (and their readers) are perceived and communicate this in subtly humorous ways.

Come to think of it, this seems to go for basically all British people I know.
Could be inderectly or subtly using e.g. social media to nudge people in the desired direction, like the Russians do