skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was a public defender representing the mentally disordered, literally all of my clients' mental disorders had been triggered by marijuana use. Cannabis (along with other psychoactive substances) is known to trigger latent mental disorders (like schizophrenia, etc.). This is one of the justifications given for continuing to keep it illegal at the federal level.

This doesn't mean that marijuana causes mental disorders; it only triggers latent disorders, meaning those already present in the brain due to genetics, environment, or brain damage (caused by concussions, drug use, etc.).

Other psychoactive substances (especially meth) can actually cause mental disorders due to the structural brain damage they inflict.
Facile comparisons like this are very frustrating. Two thoughts:

i) What makes you believe that they weren't correct, and the timespan for this annihilation isn't e.g. 100 years? That would be an instant in comparison with the timespan of humanity. Indeed, in the present, we have gene therapy and genetic engineering. It's easy to imagine these technologies might go off the rails.

ii) Another doomsday prediction from a UN official in the 1970s: anthropogenic climate change will make the planet uninhabitable by year 2000. "That was 50 years ago! Clearly nothing to worry about! The UN lied! Al Gore lied! This party will never end!!"

As you know, such attitudes are widespread. These are the attitudes which express the notion that since one past prognosis didn't manifest according to schedule, then it never shall. They are common in response to climate change, but not only. This is the same facile reasoning your comment endorses.
Phone knows if its portrait or landscape
In regard to nuclear weapons the high barrier to entry is mostly because the international community made artificial difficulties in obtaining and purifying the materials. Do not forget that the first nuclear weapons were created with tech from the forties in just a few years. Since then the challenges and possible approaches have become better known and if given the chance and will, any modern country can create them if not for the international backlash.
This is the major problem we have with Retool. We have a handful of creators and hundreds of end-users (customer service, sales) where we're paying $50 each. Will inevitably tip the balance back to building these high usage apps by hand.
Who do they have naming these things, and is there some other job they could give them instead?
Stretching the expected whataboutism to before the US actually existed as a country is friggin' hilarious.

Yes, oddly the the US does enforce the CCP's "Chinese companies automatically win" laws. How strange.
I’ve seen all these people post on Twitter how cool it is that GPT4 wrote code that works. I keep thinking just what is going to happen when the machine is made to not just write code but run it? I could see this spiraling out of control and for all we know it has already happened. Although I don’t think the models are near advanced enough right now for it. But I’m certain they will be eventually.
I'm not worried about AI taking over the world and more than I'm worried about a nuclear weapon unilaterally declaring itself president for life.

What I am extremely worried about is that generative AI will pollute the information environment so completely that society will cease to function effectively.

We need a healthy information environment—widespread access to true information—so that we can have the consensus that every single social system implicitly relies on to function. Shared ground truth is what allows individuals to coordinate together to build things bigger than they can create on their own.

Generative AI can destroy that just like dumping chemicals kills a lake and puts every fisherman on it out of work.
Macron Pushes French Pension Bill Through Without Full Vote
It isn't. My state is looking into making the penalties stronger and people are generally favorable for that because they still see people driving every day with their face glued to their phone.

The only people against distracted driving penalties are people who are entitled and think they should be able to put others in danger for their minor convenience or libertarian assholes who think seatbelt laws are oppressive nanny stating.
He seems to be a (former) independent contractor rather than an employee/representative, so I think this is more just misguided fanboyism rather than intentional astroturfing/reputation laundering.

Karat is probably the best/fairest you can do for purely algorithmic interviews, but I'm not sure they're even able to do anything else (the parent commenter's experience suggests not).

I would also consider it more of an exam than an interview - the process is very standardized and sterile, and obviously since it's being outsourced there is no way for the candidate to ask any questions about the company.

(disclaimer as well: went into the interviewer onboarding with them as a contractor but dropped out as I wasn't comfortable proctoring tests that I myself wasn't an expert at).
NSFW means not safe for work. I work at a university and there is no way this is an acceptable video to play on my work computer. So save your judgment for someone else.
The product is deterministic so as inelegant as "dumb box" sounds, its in the ball park isn't it?
The US doesn't abide by those laws though so our government would be hard-pressed to use them as justification for anything. See the Hague Invasion Act for instance, we will literally invade the Netherlands if they try to hold any US citizens to account under those "laws".
Thank you – it definitely scratched an itch of mine. I knew my way around a lot of the compute from working at DigitalOcean but wanted to make accessing data/databases easier!
Waiting for the propagation of errors in complex prompts.
I do not want my surgeon to 'have a god complex'. I want them to reasonably weigh the relative risks and payoffs of every job.
The standard length of 5 bytes has some advantages when it comes to looking up variables. But, I agree, integer is really more like a clamped float in Commodore BASIC. (However, integer array values are stored in just 2 bytes, each, hinting at it's really about traversal time.)
Not really, see:

http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-y...

https://alexyakunin.medium.com/go-vs-c-part-1-goroutines-vs-...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70501171/are-golang-goro...
I am a tenured professor and I can get fired if I play this video in any of my classes including in the PhD seminar.
If it was truly borrowed, how would it have been repaid? From future compensation. It's just shifting compensation in time.
Does or does this not limit the impact of this RCE in ping, which could easily be rewritten in Rust?:

chmod ugo-sS /bin/ping
setcap cap_net_raw+ep /bin/ping
How to Measure the Earth
TypeScript could be used with React at least since 2015, that's when I first used that combo in production.
You assume I’m American, I’m not. Also the article is about Dutch people.

CO2 is only one metric of pollution. And as India is 4x the population of the US what difference will the amount of Nitrogen Dutch farmers use make once the Indians achieve a US style standard of living? Bugger all that’s how much. So they’re correctly asking why on earth they’re being put out of jobs over this at this time.
Weird, I linked directly to the image as a PNG file, and checked it on my computer, it is just the image, nothing else.

Based on your comment, I just tried clicking on my phone instead, and sure enough, imgur intercepts and redirects to imgur.io on mobile. But it still didn't break my back button on iOS, so I'm not sure what's different for you.
I love the hand-wringing. I can hear the South Park, "They're coming for our jerbs!"

The problem is going to be the what people do with the AI. Imagine our good friends over at Meta setting the AI on its products with the express purpose of driving engagement. Optimize for the maximum possible amount of usage. They already do this but now they'll have AI to make it even better. And then we've got more people wasting their lives on their phones.

Or casinos - have the AI optimize for the maximum possible reaping of gambler money.

Or marketers having AI improve their ads so we just can't keep from clicking on them.

Or script kiddies using AI to compromise systems.

The problem is the people, people.
In TypeScript, type guards are considered to be exhaustive, so if you have a string | number and check it against a function that says it returns "x is number", then TypeScript will think that in the negative case, it's a string.

If isInteger was marked as a type guard, then you could write code like this:

function f(s: string | number) {
if (!Number.isInteger(s)) {
console.log(s.substring(0, 0));
}
}

which is clearly wrong.

There's an open feature request for a new kind of "one-sided" type guards that don't cause narrowing when they return false.
It's well known that long-dated treasuries are highly volatile. I think the lesson we've all learned here is that they didn't have a viable business. It seems like they were offering a product that was not profitable given their competition and reasonable risk management.
Torrent use has been slowed down by Netflix, Spotify and Steam. I haven't pirated a song or a game for more than a decade.

Carrot is stronger than a stick.

And why would a German go to a torrent site? They have lots of money.
Why were 5 different exposures needed?
> A channel I like is having to test various patterns of swearing and swear-bleeping to try to narrow down what exactly suddenly changed that wrecked their monetization

This seems like such a stupid, pointless effort. Instead of pentesting to find exactly where the line is so you can toe it perfectly, why not... just stay far away from the line and stop swearing. Wouldn't that be much less effort and less risk?
It’s non-deterministic for all temperatures T > 0

I had bing make a graphic for me of a goal post with “1 MILE” at the top yesterday. It’d be too flippant to share here, I hear ya, but…
(TB's head of product for the last ~year and a half here - I wasn't involved in the decision to pivot away from the old model, but I'm retroactively aware of its reasoning.)

This is essentially correct.

Our original model worked, more or less, for a small pool of candidates. But acquiring those candidates was extremely expensive in ways that scaled poorly as Triplebyte grew. Basically, we were dependent on ads for growth (anyone who used Reddit at the time probably saw a lot of our ads, shout out to /r/againsttriplebytemike), and the marginal cost of ad conversions grows as you try to scale how many people you're bringing in.

Slightly less cynically: if your business can't exist without VC funding, but can't justify the expectations of that funding, you never really had a business to begin with. You borrowed one temporarily. This is normal for startups, and VCs know that they won't always (or even usually) succeed, but you can't sit on your break-even-ish business when that's not what VCs were funding you to do.

For what it's worth, early TB's efforts (and for that matter, late TB's efforts, both before my tenure and during it) were sincere, it's just that that sincerity is predicated on actually being able to make a working business out of it.
Linux Torvalds Joins the Fediverse
Is this the most white collar comment on HN? I'm sure you're also in favor of prosecuting the guys stealing detergent at CVS right?
By selling perpetual per-seat licenses and an integration contract, same as everybody else who works with corporations. It’s not exactly novel. Software existed before subscriptions.

I don’t think the GP comment mentioned open source in any way.
FWIW it is actually worse than it looks like. Even when Xiaomi did/do provide some kernel sources, it's never anywhere near the production code you're running on your smartphone!

It's hard to believe, but the "GPL release" they made were actually full clean rewrite of the hardware support made on top of SoC vendor's (say Qualcomm) kernel release. I have a very hard time understanding why they did, but there were definitely inconsistencies that are very hard to explain another way.
You're responding to a different claim than I'm articulating. I'm just tired of people handwaving away high driving as "high drivers are harmless and slow." I am not making the claim that legalization increased rates of high driving; and personally, I support legalization.
After two years, the SFC is escalating to "asking publicly". Wow, they really are great stewards of the copyrights which have been assigned to them!
Lena Dunham? The girl who molested her sister?
The scary part is that you can give it instructions in plain language, and it will follow those instructions, in a semi-intelligent manner, without necessarily having seen those specific instructions before.

That a language model is able to do that is surprising, and it puts it much closer to AGI - not sentient or sapient, just general - than one might think.

Sure, it's "just generating text". But if it can sensibly and correctly generate arbitrary text, it's an AGI - it can solve any problem presented to it, as long as you present it in text form and accept its output in text form.

The variety and complexity of tasks it can solve is what's surprising.

"Here is the VHDL description of a CPU. Optimize it to make it faster." is text in, text out. Almost certainly not something it can solve now, but it may already be able to produce valid output for toy-style versions of the problem.

GPT-4 apparently can take images. It probably still won't be able to usefully respond to "you are seeing an image from the camera of the robot you are mounted on, you can say 'left' to rotate 5 degrees to the left, 'right' to rotate 5 degrees to the right, or 'forward' to drive 5 cm forward. Respond with the sequence of words that will navigate the robot through the maze you see."

but it seems no longer obvious that the same approach, just with more training data and compute thrown at it, won't be able to solve this.

And from there, it's not far to add "fire machine gun" to the command list and replace "navigate through the maze you see" with "dominate the battlefield you see".
Why not restart your project? What are you scared of? HN comments? No funding?

As an open-source solution you can a have higher chance of succeeding and a higher retention rate than proprietary ones. You can raise a seed round just as they did

Feel free to e-mail me, I have sold a open-source startup in the past and co-founded another last year
Indeed, that’s why the absurdity is so stark. There has to be a better answer to the problem than bs regulations like this.
If it gets to write those damn SQL queries for us, now that is a big leap for humanity.
Appreciate that! So we do have a web app, that you can utilize from anywhere, some have even used their phones, not sure I recommend that experience yet though haha. I need to optimize it more.

SQLite should work, I just want to test it more before launching. If you'd be interested in beta testing that with me would love to chat more!
I think google needs to stop launching new products under its own name.

If they dont explode as desireable but are sustainable, spin them out.

Then again, maybe we are all over estimating how sustainable these products really are.
China said didn't want to recycle plastics. It did pile up in US while figured out where to send it. I don't think the US waste processors have found another place to send it so it is going to landfill. There might have been some plastics that got trashed by foreign recyclers but it shouldn't be common thing now.

The solution is to have more regulations about where US waste processors can send recycling to prevent sending to dubious places that throw it away. It is better if recycling goes to the landfill in US instead of playing hot potato.
Non-paywall link: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2F...
The NPM registry's safe word is Socket
Your regular reminder, that it’s just a regular release, since typescript don’t follow semver. After 4.9 goes 5.0
All it takes is someone with standing to sue and win a preliminary injunction cutting off sales in the US. They'll swiftly comply and the case can be dropped. You'd think the EFF and FSF would be interested in pursuing this approach to prove the GPL had teeth.
I don’t think this is an illustration of “crypto bros”, I think it’s a typical narcissistic tendency mixed with amphetamines.

There’s been numerous other scandals where we look back and could say “do you think we’d really be that stupid?”

But then again that’s a cognitive bias, because we only know of the scams/fraud that have failed
Neither high nor low. I think that the author wants to have that ratio close to 1 and got mistaken because of the bias that high is better than low.

Or an high ratio of done / !done.
ChatGPT is pretty good at giving working code snippets for Pandas, you can describe the transforms you want and a sketch of the data (column names and sample rows) and it will usually give back working code.
In the United States, yes. Tobacco products, however, have been banned on billboards since 1998 in 46 of 50 states.

https://truthinitiative.org/who-we-are/our-history/master-se...
Yeah, I use this thing and I'm quite happy with it, it replaced iTerm for me.
It strikes the perfect balance in UI for me, not over-customizable with pointless options everywhere, yet not barebones. As for Electron, I've seen much worse offenders especially in the messaging space, this is fine in comparison.
By that logic a law requiring banks to hire security experts who can keep their systems safe from hackers is also a tax, do you object to that too?
LLM Test Runners for Content
it will be up to governments to represent the people. A massive risk might be that GPT makes it trivial to simulate humans and thus simulate political demands to political leaders.

I think politicians and organisations might need to cut their digital feedback loops (if authentication proves too much of a challenge) and rely on canvassing IRL opinion to cut through the noise.
I think this was sort of the key issue, it wasn't open source, but the docs / website was. Have been thinking of cleaning it up and open sourcing it.
Fair, though not all printers can accept a NIC. And, we are also back to our of date NIC FW.
It reworks the interactive mode into a chat interface, which -if my code was cleaner- could have just been a pull request.
That is a strange take. It sounds like you think the reason people don't use Typescript is because of performance and not what some would consider a irresponsible ecosystem of abandoned frameworks and a language that provides little actual safety while still being unpleasant to use.
No chance I'd be able to run this on an 8GB M1 Mac mini then? Looking to hook this up to an IRC bot for a bit of fun with my friends and have this spare Mac lying around.
Rust does not have sum types outside of enums. Other languages have sum types, and may or may not call them enums depending on the language.
If you look carefully, I think you will see that I am simply responding to spam about China.
I’ve honestly been sceptical for a while that these “troll farms staffed by humans” weren’t just LLMs in the first place anyway. they’re not that new
The benefits of the "exponentially less air" diminish once you have to slap an aerosurface on the vehicle (added weight + drag) to perform the pitch up maneuver Coupled with the fact that on deployment the vehicle is gaining velocity in the wrong direction until the engines ignite, accelerate forwards, and the vehicle begins the turn. The theoretical benefits of air launch quickly fade away given these practical realities. Nevermind the much more complex operations that comes with air launch.

There's a reason why air launch has more or less died as an idea. The theoretical savings don't typically manifest once the additional complexities are accounted for.
The llama models were trained with a context size of 2048. By default llama.cpp limits it to 512, but you can use -c 2048 -n 2048 to get the full context window.
https://archive.is/qZXiN
Multiple Internet to Baseband RCE Vulnerabilities in Exynos Modems
My point is that the value is no more 'imaginary' as a balance in a bank account as it is as green pieces of paper.

I'm not sure 'imaginary' is the right word. Value is real whether or not it's a social construction.
In regard to chemical weapons, they are decreasing danger because they are not effective in modern warfare. I'd expect for their usage to decrease. Nuclear is is not something proliferating besides North Korea and even then it is deturance and not an appocaliptic scenario. Space weapons are forbidden by treaty and though some countries are playing close to the read line, I doubt that they will be deployed. They would be political liability while being rather vulnerable in space. Hence hypersonic weapons which work better for the same goals.
I think our perspectives on this are just really different. To me, this is much closer to a natural disaster -- which honestly prompts a question that has been troubling me: we in the Bay Area are in a seismically active region, with fault lines running through much of our urban areas. In a seismic event, am I going to have to first apologize for "the mistake" for where I live? Is FEMA aid going to be couched as a "bailout"? Is this going to be dubbed a "broquake" whereby innocents are made to pay a price because some unsavory people are as affected as they are? If this seems far-fetched to you, it doesn't to me, which may highlight how divergent our perspectives are...
Microsoft 365’s AI-powered Copilot is like an omniscient version of Clippy
The problem with analogies is that you can pick one to say whatever you want. The analogy isn't necessarily true just because it feels right.

Asking a photographer if they use Photoshop creates a framing where the artist still did went out and took a picture to create the work and then Photoshop only modifiers their original creation.

But you could just as easily say "Soon, asking a writer if they use AI will be like asking a photographer if they have a camera". That sounds ludicrous, but that is exactly what generative AI offers: the ability to create content essentially ex nihilo.
Adam Tooze: The meaning of the SBV interventions
They're volatile if you trade them, right? But they're not volatile in the sense that there's uncertainty that they'll pay back. Do banks normally actively trade their long-dated bonds?
Our little monkey brains can't really reason about numbers that big. At some point it just becomes $*illions. The Other Guys played with this for comedic effect, but you see the same nonsense everywhere.
already seeing some tools for hooking up multi-model GPT to Chromium. We're going to need some real-time proof of humanity test or the internet will be bots talking to other bots. Captchas aren't going to cut it and if the problem isn't fixed it's going to be a tragedy of the commons situation. Might end up being a good thing though if people give up on the internet and start doing stuff in person again
The fact that the Software Freedom Conservancy currently has an active lawsuit against Vizio (Founded "October 2002 in Costa Mesa, California, U.S.") suggests the war has not, in fact, been won "in the west": <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vizio#Lawsuit>

More details: <https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html>

Edit #1:

* Also, John Deere: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/mar/16/john-deere-gpl-vi...
Do you generally use Annual Plans or freemium instead? Not the author or affiliated with them.
-y and -Y unused so I patch those in as short flags for --yaml-input/output in my copy.
Boy, if this wasn't literally true before, it's going to be literally true now. One very refreshing thing about VR metaverse apps like Altspace (which just shut down) was that they were very much populated by real people since it wasn't possible for a bot to create content or interaction on the platform.
Does the entire neighborhood smell like alcohol when people use it?