skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, accessibility is my concern. Think about the most vile, extreme porn you've seen. Now multiply that vileness by 10. That content is just as easy to access (via the Internet) as some innocent nude selfie.

Again, I think adults should be able to watch what they want. The concern is for the children who are given unrestricted access to the Internet from a young age.
This is a good bill, but I’m not really sure why the government thinks they should be free. On Amazon now you can get them as cheap as a quarter each.

Surely a bubble gum style vending machine and selling them at cost (or quarter or less) would be possible as well?

I think I’m mainly jaded of the government giving away things and the generally negative outcomes it creates sometimes.
You must have missed the news that a certain group in the USA enjoys attempts at specifically controlling (genetically) female sexual activity, and people who want to do normal human things are sometimes legally forced to put as many compensating controls on the (genetically) male part of the population. And then there's the collection of non-pregnancy related issues that are mitigated when using a condom, so perhaps birth control is both more relevant and less relevant than you might think.
I didn’t say “LLMs solve all problems” or “there will be no place anywhere for code anymore.”
> There needs to be an unbroken verbal chain between the person who saw an event and the person doing the law enforcement

Leaving everything else aside, how would this look in practice? I think these conversations would need to be in person, since voice can already be faked. Would I need to run to the police station when I need help?
I'm not sure why it's a concern to you.

If it works well it's great news, and if it doesn't work, then it won't be used. Companies will not make their AIs less intelligent on purpose.
Edit: I repent for being misinformed.
It'll be useful, I'm sure, but if it can't match styles then you can only use it with itself. Clashing styles inside the same image is a terrible look.
David Liu, Founder of Prime Medicine and Pioneer in Gene Editing
Show HN: Chat AI v1.0.0
Chat AI allows you to experiment with Google T5-Flan models locally without the need to install additional requirements.

Obviously this is not a replacement for ChatGPT, but you can sometimes have more fun with uncensored local models and put your graphics card to use for more than just video games.

I will be updating the tool in the future to allow easy local fine tuning and will introduce different chat models as the landscape of AI continues to evolve.

I also created a toy chatbot that allows you to have conversations between whoever you wish. You can generate character names, swap characters and more. It tracks the emotions and history of the chat. Chats can be saved and Sometimes it gets repetitive, but some of the conversations I've had are pretty hilarious.

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*More information*

* My goal is to release AI tools for non-technical audiences who would like to use AI models with their own hardware.

* Chat AI is built using QT. I have opted to create tools that are not built with browser based GUIs. I believe the future of AI should not be cloud based.

* This is the second tool I have released. The first was AI Runner (which I am still actively maintaining). AI Runner is similar but works with Stable Diffusion and includes simple drawing tools, a large canvas and many more features https://capsizegames.itch.io/ai-runner

* All of this is built by one developer (myself). I also use my own products, so bugs are patched fairly quickly. I am Charging for Chat AI. I'd love to keep offering free tools, but I'm going broke.

* I am considering open sourcing portions of both Chat AI and AI Runner in the near future if there is interest shown.

My Patreon is here and has more info about me

https://www.patreon.com/w4ffl35/about
They did this at my college years ago, and they were the industrial strength, extra-thick, completely lack of any sensation type that was only to be used as a last resort. I hope this has changed since.
Birth control requires a prescription. Potentially a giant barrier, even if only mentally.

Let the guy share some of the responsibility.
This is HN, not /r/antiwork. Back to Reddit, you go, troll.
Like all US states, California is a collection of dense progressive islands in a sea of sparsely populated and variously conservative space. Any progressive policy still has to get buy-in from moderates and conservatives.
Well, I'm not diagnosed as any of that and most people would describe me as popular and friendly in real life so it seems unlikely I'm undiagnosed but ill.

And I thought it was bloody amazing. In such a short time, highly precise motion capture. This is tremendous technology. Looks fantastic!
Im sure you have a good point, but its difficult to grasp with such hasty writing :/
It's probably from the editing, but the way he speaks sounds so unnatural. His syllable stress cadence and tonal stresses, is so similar recent tts engines.
> This is the classic notion of cryptocurrency, but the field has grown and changed a lot

Maybe?

It's pretty hard to tell, though, because 90% of the cryptocurrency advocates I hear are from the "government is evil" crowd.
It also is one of the art styles that turns dated / bad quickly. Any stylized art with a decent to strong design will still look good for years and years.
This sounds quite cool. Is there any working demos online to try it out?
Two notes:

1) less than half of Americans vote in each election (less than 63% if you restrict to the voting-age population, less than 70% if you apply the scummy rules that restrict to the voting-eligible population)
And 2) it's a false dichotomy to say that US elections have ever been "whatever we have now VS communism". Maybe you could say socialism was on the ballot all those times Eugene Debs ran for the presidency, but there hasn't ever been a communist on the ballot that I'm aware of. Also, it sounds like you would struggle to define communism if pressed.

Regarding your second loose point, the US restricts the sale of a lot of products to the public (eg nuclear weapons, biological weapons, raw milk, copyrighted works you don't hold the copyright to, etc). Personally, I think it's pretty reasonable to restrict the sale of some things, even if the potential sellers know a lot about the product.
> free and open source is usually important, but due to the unique dangers of AI...

Sadly, cherished principles often perish on the horns of "But this time it's different."

> the "for profit" and "AI safety" explanations are not contradictory

Indeed, they can reinforce each other into a runaway feedback loop. Once you buy into an all-encompassing mission of preventing apocalypse, maintaining perspective or proportionality become almost impossible. The moral hazard of not pursuing almost all available measures justifies taking $10B of MSFT's money to fund the defense of humanity. Add to this the ego-stoking existential importance of such a "noble cause", the global media attention and the social elevation in the tight-knit, closed-circle of the AI Alignment community and you've got the perfect drug.

Given the intense forces shaping the worldview of the "AI Safety Noble Warriors", it's reasonable for the rest of us to question their objectivity and suspect claims of "we are keeping this from you for your own good."
lol, trust me, I've been following very closely too since about 2017. I think these folks are S tier. Not that there's not a ton more. It's hard to point to someone who did more damage to the space than Kwon in terms of sheer notional value and confidence destruction. I mostly follow this space for the drama and crime so I'm pretty up to date on the, er, personalities involved.
> > capitalism has been inching towards its end game

> 100% incorrect, Most of the western world has been moving AWAY from free markets

Capitalism does not equal free markets.
For all the good properties that a free market has it is not a stable property game-theory wise.

Unless a god-emperor intervenes to prevent (natural) monopolies and unfair competition free markets are bound to degenerate at least a bit.
I agree that the report is low quality, but if Block has issue with the truthfulness they can sue the short seller.
Because unless I want to be one of those snotty mothers who will only allow my child to associate (play, do sports, go to school) with the children of other parents who don’t allow their children unsupervised access to mobile devices, my child will effectively also have unsupervised access to mobile devices. Probably not when he’s 6 or 7, but definitely by the time he’s 9, if one of his less-supervised classmates has a smartphone, my kid will be seeing all sorts of things I’d rather he not see before he’s in his teens.

I’d like for my kid to grow up with kids from all backgrounds, not just the children of those of us who have been exposed to tech for so long and so deeply that our concern for its downsides on our kids outweighs the temptation (which is less when your life is easier) to shove a mobile in a fidgety toddler’s hand or pay 10 EUR/mo to give a primary school kid a reliable distraction.
google 'felon warrant fires police'

I'm honestly shocked I'm forced to even cite that this happens. Although I suppose if someone has lived in America and made it to adulthood without acknowledging the stories they aren't going to be convinced.
Her first smiling mouth gestures in the playback definitely looked like the mouth of Wallace (from the clay animation in Wallace and Gromit), not entirely human.
> There's a difference in many US brokerages between having your stocks held in your name versus having them held in "street name" (i.e., in the brokerage's name).

This is irrelevant - a US brokerage cannot arbitrarily trade your shares, whether or not your shares are held in street name.

> GP could probably purchase the shares and be issued stock certificates that they could physically own, in which case there would be no chance of a brokerage being able to sell them.

This is equivalent to suggesting someone put their cash in a mattress rather than using a bank. The real solution is to find a better bank.
Human: write a scientist skill classifier in Python.

GPT: is blatantly racist and makes syntax errors.

Other human: It writes a Python program without getting the indentation right!!!

Made my day, thanks.
I think you're giving FAANG undue credit. These are rich companies - their competence is in investment, technical competence is not required.
There is a nationwide project now that aims to get collections of curated independent eBooks into public libraries:

https://indieauthorproject.com/iap-select/

It started in Illinois in 2014 and is now in 17 US states and Canadian provinces and growing. Book publishers just might innovate themselves out of business. Libraries aren't going to die :)
> Justin Sun and Do Kwon are the worst of the space...

Among the worst, I would say; the other three top spots go to Sam Bankman Fried of FTX, Changpeng Zhao of Binance, and whatever specter is running Tether.
I wonder how much of it is legitimately just because this stuff is insanely expensive to run, and they needed the money?
I've been saying this for a long time, ever since ML seriously entered the scene:

The singularity is the least of our worries, AI will fuck up society beyond repair long before we reach that point because we give it way more trust and responsibility than it deserves. It's the Eliza-syndrome, as long as a computer shows the least sign of possessing human qualities we're more than happy to fill in the blanks with pixie dust and unicorns.
Curiously, I have opposite experience. Teams works well (web and unofficial client) while zoom has sound problems.
Do you also think women shouldn't be allowed to abort Down syndrome babies because "that's eugenics"?
The devil music accusation predated rock'n'roll with early blues artists taking gospel music they learned in church and making the words about day to day life. Stories about Robert Johnson meeting the devil at the crossroads and adapting the minor pentatonic (and ancient) scale but adding the flat blue notes have a very rich history. It was something that got in your head and changed how we experienced the world.

I can see how people could think folk music had some kind of altruistic purity, but it's still a viral expression of a certain kind of animus that distinguished it from country. I also think this kind of folk-animus is related to how it may be worth reflecting on why others tolerate it when you imply someone is racist or insane, almost to the point of ignoring it altogether.

I would bet LLMs are already able to create similar "scissor statements" that are as viral as pop songs, and comments like mine in the previous sentence that are structured to provoke specific anxieties and reactions in their readers. It's one thing for an LLM to write little essays, but once we train it on literary fiction - which is designed to speak the language of memory and provoke strong emotional repsonses - it becomes much more viral and dangerous socially. Imagine a catchy song we can't get out of our heads, but instead of dancing or laughter, it provokes humiliation and cruelty? My asshole-statement was manually calibrated, and it has the same abstract form and structure as a joke, but with the edge of that negative form. An LLM can do it at scale. Someone using an AI model to produce those won't be doing it to improve human discourse and relations. That's the risk I think is worth addresing.
Game of Thrones used tons of CGI too. But they did it right. They built out parts of the set, then did the rest in CG. This allowed them to create something which looked real(for the most part).

Problem with these Marvel "films" is there is so much CGI there's nothing left to ground them in reality, and then it looks fake no matter how many millions they poured into it.
> I’m not really sure why the government thinks they should be free.

Why do you think they shouldn't be?

> I think I’m mainly jaded of the government giving away things and the generally negative outcomes it creates sometimes.

What are your predicted bad outcomes of more-freely available condoms?
Almost all shares are held in street name, but as a shareholder you have the option of either having the shares registered directly in your name through the company or their transfer agent or to be issued physical stock certificates (usually for a fee).

As an example, I used to own a couple of shares of both Apple and IBM. My shares were held directly in my name by computershare, which is the transfer agent for both companies.

When I sold them, someone _probably_ bought them through a brokerage, which means that computer share updated the registration to name Cede & co as the registered owner of the stock, and cede updated an entry indicating that the buyers brokerage owned the shares, and the buyers brokerage updated an entry that said that the buyer owned the shares.
I haven't read the paper yet, but I can give a general idea based on my experience working on similar experiments.

The W boson doesn't live long enough to make it to the detector. All they can see are the decay products. The detector is like an onion, with different layers measuring the energies and/or momentum of different decay products.

So what a search like this is trying to do is look at these decay products, figure out which ones came from a W boson, combine the various energy and momentum measurements, and use that and relativity to determine the rest mass.

The measurement process always has some error, so you want to combine multiple measurements. This is how you get the statistical uncertainty. As an oversimplified example, imagine averaging multiple measurements. The more measurements you get, the smaller this error gets as your average gets closer to the true value. In actuality they're fitting some distribution to the mass measurements, but the same idea applies. The key thing is that the more data they collect, the smaller the statistical uncertainty gets.

But there's also systematic uncertainty. Lots of things contribute to this, and it's effectively an indicator of how well they understand the detector and how well they understand the decay process. For example, the various systems need to be calibrated to convert their measurements to actual energies and momentums. These calibrations aren't perfect, and so the measurements aren't perfect. Or, when they determine which events look like W boson decays, they might be selecting some small fraction of other processes, or rejecting events in a way that biases for higher or lower mass. These will throw off the final measurement. They try to correct for these, but there's never enough data to do so perfectly.

The key thing about systematic uncertainties are that no amount of measuring more decays will overcome them. There are other things you can do to bring them down, such as improving your detector simulations and doing additional calibrations. But there's a limit to how much they can bring this down.

As an example, imagine trying to measure the height of a building with a long measuring tape. You might measure it many times and then average it, and that would give you some very small statistical error. But you don't know that the measuring tape was printed completely accurately, you don't know that it isn't stretching due to gravity or temperatures, you don't know that you got the tape perfectly lined up with the building. Those are all systematic uncertanties, and so when you report your measurement, those will be included in your total uncertainty.
Low cost, high return, seems to be the strategy here.

It really costs next to nothing, and prevents both teen pregnancies and STDs.
As far as I know, the resemblance is superficial. (For one thing, the standard dragon curve is based on 90° angles, and this tile has a mixture of 90° and 120° angles, giving it a 6-fold pseudo-symmetry.) There are many other non-periodic or aperiodic tilings that are based on substitution rules, and many of them look totally different:

https://tilings.math.uni-bielefeld.de/substitution/penrose-r...

https://tilings.math.uni-bielefeld.de/substitution/fibonacci...

https://tilings.math.uni-bielefeld.de/substitution/semi-deta...

In addition, the dragon curve is a fractal -- mathematically, it's defined as the limit that the substitution process converges to as the details get "infinitely small", which means that in a sense, the true dragon curve (as opposed to the approximation that you can draw on a computer) has a boundary with no straight line segments at all. On the other hand, an aperiodic tiling is composed of finite, fixed-size tiles that extend outwards to infinity.

Funnily enough, the dragon curve is a space-filling curve that tiles the plane periodically.
> High Schoolers were having less sex than ever anyway.

I thought so too until I moved to a small town in Ohio, and learned about teen pregnancies.

May be less teen having sex but more teens having unprotected sex because they wanted to get their noodle wet.
Yes, additionally I find it somewhat ironic that AI researchers talk a lot about "power seeking" behavior of AI as a primary concern.

However, seemingly overlooked, AI is itself power and we should expect that "power seeking" humans will inevitably become its custodian.
Reducing trust is better in some respects, but deeply harmful in others. What would be great instead is to increase accountability so that it's safer to trust. In the case of scam money transfers, a path to reversal would be a start.
I am not sure I understand your confusion but here's a few pointers in no particular order:

- the argument passed to useState is initial state, not "forever state". It will seed prevItems for the first render. But later when items prop changes, it's on you to detect the change to what you have as prevItems so far and call setPrevItems yourself.

- items is coming as a prop from outside, prevItems is whatever you set it to last time using setPrevItems

- calling a state setter (setPrevItems / setSelection etc) will always cause a rerender. That's why if you don't have the if condition you have just created an infinite loop - you are inside a render, and if you unconditionally call setX that causes another rerender later etc etc

- that's why I am not a big fan of this particular "Better" example and prefer the later "Best". Avoiding calling state setter function from inside render will make your life easier.
I think I have to agree. I much prefer a good stylistic approach over hyper-realism in most of my games. I always point to World of Warcraft, imo the style and 'cartoony' color palette not only looked visually appealing but helped patch over the low poly models and relatively low res textures as the game aged. I understand that recent expansions have given it an HD facelift, yet the style remains strong.
Replying to both responses because they're all good points. My argument boils down to the fact that some private companies end up becoming social utilities and once that happens, the rules (should) change as part of the social contract which means, yeah, they can't simply "pull the rug". The research is important precisely because its into systemically significant systems.

I get that it's difficult to define the line where that gets crossed. But the idea to provide a publicly funded trust that manages legacy versions of things like this is not a bad idea.
This thread confuses me, possibly because I'm not a UWP dev. OP keeps talking about the FileSavePicker being defective, but isn't that just a control? Isn't the actual writing being done by the FileIO classes? And doesn't it just boil down to someone using them wrong?

In the System.IO namespace we can explicitly specify a FileMode to indicate whether we're appending or overwriting. If the UWP equivalent doesn't exist (and you need to explicitly set the file length to 0 to truncate), why would anyone just assume it does one or the other?

"The API is crap" is still not an excuse for using it wrong. Am I missing something?
I see nothing wrong with that. I'm a software developer but the first section of the library I tended to visit as a kid was the Paranormal section (this was shortly before personal computers were a thing!). I probably know as much about it as I do about software, and I'm still largely skeptical.
In a magical universe where everyone's parents are health-literate and willing to take their 16 year old daughter to the doctor's office to get birth control, maybe this line of reasoning might make sense. But in reality, you have a lot of teenagers who are going to have sex but live in a situation where getting birth control is not feasible. This goes a long way toward making sure they stay safe.
If you claim “these [AI risk] concerns make no sense” then you either lack imagination, are willfully ignorant, or are selling something.

It’s perfectly reasonable to say something like “I think it’s very unlikely because I disagree that [insert causal link in the model] is plausible.”

But to claim that the whole set of concerns are nonsensical is lazy thinking.

You see this a lot (and Robin Hanson and PG have commented on this dynamic recently) where a small group makes a bunch of very specific claims, which get dismissed by the “mainstream” without actually engaging with or understanding them.

So in this case, “[the concerns] make no sense” should be read as “I did not bother to try to understand these claims, but I don’t like the conclusion”, not any particular argument about whether they are logically sound.

Ignore.
to be fair half of what made that funny/awkward is Kylo fishing for compliments. If Narasimhan is chill, it might be less super-awkward. Plus, who knows Narasimhan. This is the first I've heard his name. I wouldn't be surprised if most starbucks counter employees don't know the name of the CEO, much less what he looks like.