skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In reading this the idea that sociopaths and psychopaths pass as "normal" springs to mind.

> Is what an LLM doing any different than what these people do?

I think it's too big of a question to have any meaning. Which sociopaths? Which LLMs? For what differences? It's like asking "is a car any different from an airplane"? Yes, obviously in some ways. No, they are identical in other ways.
So, Acropalypse is “people use image snipping and markup tools to redact images, but those tools often allow the unredacted images to be recovered”? Yeah, that’s a pretty big violation of the implicit expectations of users.
The flyover is free. The sears tower collects rent. If you pay for fast construction with the tower, that means less time not collecting rent which might work out better. If you pay extra to expedite the bike bridge, whats the point? Its a cost center for the city either way. Getting it done faster just wastes the public's money giving them the same thing they would have gotten anyhow.
Yeah, I should've been explicit that I was updating for new developments, rather than criticizing how it was written at the time.
I have ~200 lines of scripts that use fzf and mblaze (https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze) as the ui for my very own mua. It's all Unixy and lovely. I should write a page about that
The Problem with Don Norman
Is this sarcasm? I thought a reason of choosing the name “lululemon” was that it can be difficult to pronounce for some

https://www.businessinsider.com/history-of-lululemon-2015-9?...

Edit: the linked article suggests it wasn’t “a reason” but rather “the reason” for the name, I was being too forgiving
I love this one https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole
There is an interesting assertion in there:

"because when combined with sulfur it made an excellent lubricant,"

Almost anything is a good lubricant when you add sulfur. The reason why sulfur isn't added anymore is environmental reasons. Newer diesel fuel isn't as good of a lubricant as the old fuel was because highway diesel has to be low sulfur now.

So if sperm oil was only a good lubricant when mixed with sulfur, then it's a pretty average lubricant.

Also the article says 5500 transmissions "failed prematurely" 1973-1975. In the US, 5550 transmissions might as well be zero. Even in 1975, most cars were already being sold with automatic transmissions. This whole thing sounds like GM was using sperm oil because it was available and known to work. Then the ban comes in & GM made some poor decisions, then blamed the whole thing on "conservationists".

If only whalers had managed to hunt all whales to extinction in the 19th century GM could have been saved the total embarassment of selling junk cars.
Why not $LANGUAGE ?
There seems to have been a similar issue with gun lubricants - sperm oil was used for that, as well, and for similar reasons, so when transition happened, it affected reliability:

https://www.cherrybalmz.com/history-sperm-whale-oil
This is worse than breaking your computer.

Plenty of people send images around after cropping out sensitive parts.
Which we have regulations to force these platforms to open up.

Asking for users permission should and is slowly becoming the default on phones as well.
That's fascinating. I genuinely believe you, but in my personal experience, I've felt the opposite way.

A first-year computer science course I took required all the students to develop a basic understanding of LaTeX in 1-2 weeks, and we used LaTeX the rest of the term. I then got used to LaTeX commands, because in my personal experience, I've had plenty of opportunities as part of coursework to use LaTeX (oftentimes, it was required). In the meantime, I haven't yet learned Vim because I've read that it takes a while to learn—at least four weeks of consistent practice, often even longer, e.g. according to this discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15414544

For myself, as someone without personal experience using Vim, LaTeX is essential to my work with commands that I've internalized, whereas Sublime Text and IDEs like Visual Studio Code and PyCharm have been great for editing code (though I recognize that Vim can be an essential tool for editing remote files). I'm curious to learn from others about why Vim can be a better tool for certain tasks, even for local files, in contrast to Sublime or IDEs.
Im using it now and its not really anywhere near as good or useful ast Chatgpt. It feels rudimentary, incomplete, superficial. If this is the best Google have then they've lost already.
Apples and Oranges. There are no jobs in Sweden that pay $300k.
This can happen even with small numbers of managers. It only takes one territorial or poorly-communicating asshole to fracture a broader organizer. If anything, a small number of managers exaggerates the damage that one bad manager can do.
Ask HN: How do you deal with spring allergies?
I typically get hit pretty hard, but learned from an allergist taking a shower and changing clothes after you go outside have been helpful, but curious to here experiences from other people.
Nvidia, I believe, might be the only major tech company besides Apple that hasn't pursued any mass layoff plans yet. Curious if that speaks favorably of their planning abilities.
That might be right, but I'm not familiar enough with early Smalltalk to say. Self was a bigger inspiration than Smalltalk.
I love fzf because it's so much more than a shell history explorer!
tbh, according to another FT article [1], UBS plans to fire up to 1/3 of the combined 120k workforce, and announced previously the cuts will be pretty much all CS. So up to 40k employees out of 50k. So these deferred comps wouldn't be worth much to them for very long anyway.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/c22e5235-6947-4781-8fce-d510914cb...
That’s why most innovation is coming out of the US. Gotta have consumers to be anti-consumer and to continue to have consumers you need products worth using. Europe has none. Just worse local copies of ideas that have been pioneered elsewhere and often wholly owned by US companies.
Back in 2016 me and some collaborators used perturbation theory to calculate the stable modes in a nonlinear PDE that describes lasers.

see "appendix C" on p17 of the pdf in https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.01676

The basic idea is that we started with a basis of solutions to the linear equation (d=0), then expanded the nonlinear equation order-by-order in the small parameter d. The math was pretty messy since it was a system of linear equations (involving both E and B fields) but conceptually it was pretty straightforward. It was pretty cool, and definitely very satisfying when the resulting eigenvalues agreed nearly exactly with numerical simulation.
> Latex is "typesetting-complete". This language is not, so it's not a replacement.

Based the documentation (and the title), it isn't meant to be _a replacement_, but rather _an alternative_ and that's totally OK. Not everything needs a drop-in replacement.
Definitely noticed this at Linden Lab. Fewer than 150 people, it felt like a big boisterous sports team with everyone focused on the same goal. Over 150, started noticing infighting, office politics, etc. become more and more of a problem.

The irony is, Philip Rosedale often talked about the Dunbar number in relationship to how virtual communities were best formed/organized!
Why do you think this is coming from "GatesNotes"

This guy needs to GTFO out of Humanity at this point.

ANYTHING this guy says about AI is ging to be because he is going to fund AI-Malevolence-Protection-Racket then sell some pre-planned AI-cyber-storm solution that every computer on the planet will be mandated on installing.
That slideshow was great! Thanks for posting this link
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> The syntax does not use escape sequences for functions/symbols, i.e. phi instead of \phi or floor instead of \floor. You will inevitably run into situations where, for instance, you want to write the letters phi, and have to resort to some ugly hack to write the natural language. This is not okay.

Down in the README it's written that you need to put identifiers into quotes to write them in math blocks
It's interesting, but I don't see any way it might be adopted.

The existing directions are "From Osnabrück Hbf platform 11, take train IC2241, IC245, IC141, IC143, IC145, IC147 or IC149 with the direction 'Berlin Hbf'". The old timetables (not sure if these are still present in German stations) would give information like this:

From Osnabrück Hbf:

...

Stendal Hbf: 06:04 IC2241*, 08:05 IC245**, 10:08 IC141, 12:08 IC143, 14:08 IC145, 16:08 IC147, 18:08 IC149. Plat. 11.

(I have made up the * and **, which might annotate things like "Mon-Fri only".)

Given a current time of 16:00, that becomes "From Osnabrück Hbf platform 11, take train IC 147" or "the 16:08 train from platform 11".

The platform number is useful, as they're almost always numbered and signed in order. Once there, matching "IC 147" or "16:08" is easier and more reliable for most people than a collection of shapes and symbols.

You will note that in the 1990s, it was perfectly reasonable to give an 11 year old the directions "take the train from platform 9¾ at 11:00".

Edit: I'm mixed up. German stations seem to have the backward timetable (ordered by time, so I can arrive at the station at 16:00 and can see where I could go). The easy improvement is to format them like the British do.

British stations have an indexed timetable. Every directly-connected station is listed in alphabetical order, the trains listed by departure time. If appropriate, important towns needing a connection will also be listed.

Here's a general image: https://www.alamy.com/stock-image-national-rail-notice-board...

And here's a higher resolution part of a different one: https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-uk-railway-train-timetable...

Even works at the largest stations: https://www.alamy.com/paddington-railway-station-london-uk-w...
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If you want to write the letters phi, you can write p h i if you mean implied multiplication or "phi" if it should be a single unit. In general, Typst's syntax is designed to make every sequence of characters expressible, just like TeX.
They're pretty good at it, too.

You can set RDX (the explosive in C-4) on fire, and it'll burn, not explode. Even small arms fire won't trigger it.
As much as the rest of the Nordics hate to admit it, Norway's economy is far more stable than those of their neighbours, including the Swedish one.
> If Iraq wants to sanction all western companies, they are certainly free to do so. So far I don't think they had a slightest inclination to do it.

So with that you are basically suggesting that it's completely fine for the US to fight the wars of aggression and not be punished for this in any way, just because of its dominant economic position? And if Russia were a technological powerhouse like US, it would have been fine for it to invade Ukraine? This is disgusting.
I'm not sure it true that creators are owed nothing further... It seems analogous to a musician signing over rights for one thing, like recording rights on wax disks, records or whatever. Then along comes radio, after the artists signed away a smaller set of rights. The radio companies claim that they owe the artists nothing. But is that true?

And that's a different question from whether or not they deserve extra compensation. Is it moral or ethical to use their work to directly undercut them via ai 'copying' their work?
First: Thank you for sharing your experience! But I have one question, I'd be glad to get some clarification.

> I'm pretty sure once you're L4 or so you can pretty much coast. I heard a similar thing when I was at Google, but knew of many counter examples within my circle of coworkers.

Do you mean that there are employees who were below L4 and have not been promoted in the past two years?

Or do you mean that you know employees, who are L4, but haven't promoted to L5 in the past two years?

In general, it seems (judging from HN comments) like L4 is the minimum growth expectation.
> Philanthropy is my full-time job these days, and I’ve been thinking a lot about how—in addition to helping people be more productive—AI can reduce some of the world’s worst inequities. Globally, the worst inequity is in health: 5 million children under the age of 5 die every year.

One great first step OpenAI can take towards this is by actually making their models open. As long as the models are intentionally kept back and intentionally profited from by already wealthy private citizens, inequality will grow, not shrink.

Not to mention that people in poor countries (which as Gates cites as the "hotspots" for inequality in health) won't be able to use some HTTP API based in US/SF. Not just that latency will kill requests, some of the places don't even have internet connectivity. How is OpenAI supposed to help those communities if the "inequality fighter GPT-4" is gate-kept behind a centralized HTTP API?
Is it possible to sync between Firefox, Chrome, Brave, Edge? I assume we're limited to the same browser only though?
Feels like a reddit thread, small minded and bitter.
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Even that's one click too far away.

Think of it like how the expectation for apps is that there'll be a screenshot (or video!) on the homepage of the app doing its job — i.e. of the user experience of the app.

The first thing you should shove in my face, when I land on the home page of a programming language, is the user experience of writing code in the language. Which is to say: the syntax.

But also, if your language has a REPL, or an IDE, or a weird graphical virtual machine like Smalltalk, then that's part of the language's UX as well — so show that too! (And if you can, integrate the two together. Show me a cohesive example of what the syntax looks like inside the REPL/IDE.)

Language home-pages doing this right: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ , https://elixir-lang.org/ , https://www.python.org/ , https://www.haskell.org/ , https://nim-lang.org/

Language home-pages that get a B+, for putting the example on the homepage, but below the fold: https://go.dev/ , https://crystal-lang.org/

Everybody else (Rust, PHP, Java, Lua, etc.) gets an eyebrow raised in suspicion, because their home-pages feel like they're ashamed of what their syntax looks like :)
Look again at that chart. It's even worse for cameras. It's almost a 75% decline.
Isn't it the same? Laws of physics describe how the physical world works, similarly to "laws of math" that describe how the mathematical world works. In both cases we tend to define our laws in a way that's easy for humans to use and understand.
That's easy with plastic explosive. It's a putty like consistancy. It's explicitly designed to be sized and shaped in the field.
It's very uncommon in the US too, and I'm having a hard time believing it could be true at a Fortune 500 company. Big companies go through all kinds of audits and certifications that would definitely require all employees to sign contracts and NDAs.
I've read good reporting, sure. Good reporting isn't mythical. People worried about modern journalism's lack of objectivity or reliability just strike me as folks learning for the first time what journalism's usually like, is all, and being surprised and thinking that it's a new development because they just learned about it.

I'm not claiming there's no such thing as good reporting.
I didn't see this before I posted, but I'm glad that's the case. In fact, it might be great for contributors that don't have a large library or aren't ranked as well.
Thats sometimes because the teams are not in sync because there's often more work than labor or budget. sewer work has to happen but the sewer team is busy with 10 other streets that will be completed first, so the paver team has to wait. It's not like work isn't being done, its more like work is being done elsewhere and you aren't there to see it.
You need reinforced values/mission to care about the bigger things. You may not care about your company as a whole. But if your company's strength helps it, say, reduce climate change, and you care about climate change, now you can care about your company.
I like to think its more the age of the Genuine Personal Digital Assistant has begun. The LLMs are great at assisting you to do your job but they wont take over yet.
Great to see these direct comparisons.

Bard feature I hope others clone: See other Drafts

Perplexity AI feature I hope others clone: Citation and links to sources. Bard has a little of this, but Perplexity does a much better job.
I chuckled at one of them. They're not that bad.
You said "were" part of PRISM, so I thought you were thinking of the related MUSCULAR program, where "GCHQ and the NSA have secretly broken into the main communications links that connect the data centers of Yahoo! and Google" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSCULAR). Presumably Google's deployment of TLS for internal traffic after the Snowden leaks put an end to that.

If you're thinking of PRISM itself, I'm not sure in what sense Google is "part of" it? Google sometimes provides data in response to court orders, but there's not much they can do about that.
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Mountain View. In fact during the nest debacle there was a whole office building of people doing nothing with a clock on the wall which was "how long until Tony Fadell no longer controls you" counting down the days.
How does limiting the timeline to 5,000 years enhance our ability to predict the future?
Raja Koduri, Chief Architect and Founder of Arc GPUs, Leaves Intel
And have you ever been to a government office to pull a permit? Or dealt with government procurement? Or attempted to get paperwork through the FAA?

Yes. It was relatively straightforward, as long as you followed the rules.

The hard part is following all the relevant rules, almost all of which exist because people have tried to rip off the government or lawmakers decided to impose unrelated requirements on procurement. That's not the fault of the government workers whose job it is to carry out the requirements that have been imposed on them.

And what does an opinion piece about teachers have to do with procurement? Those are completely separate things.
> In my lifetime, I’ve seen two demonstrations of technology that struck me as revolutionary.

> The first time was in 1980, when I was introduced to a graphical user interface

> The second big surprise came just last year. I’d been meeting with the team from OpenAI

I guess it's not surprising since Microsoft was late to the game with IE, but it's interesting he never mentions "the internet" in this list.
What would Daddy Marx say?
What's the downside for consumers? I don't think they lose out.
Between fire risk, lack of environmental logic and sheer expense in multiple areas I can't wait for battery powered transportation to enter the trough of disillusionment and for realists to put some checks and balances in place.

'EV battery problems also expose a hole in the green "circular economy" touted by carmakers.

At Synetiq, the UK's largest salvage company, head of operations Michael Hill said over the last 12 months the number of EVs in the isolation bay – where they must be checked to avoid fire risk - at the firm's Doncaster yard has soared, from perhaps a dozen every three days to up to 20 per day.

"We've seen a really big shift and it's across all manufacturers," Hill said.

The UK currently has no EV battery recycling facilities, so Synetiq has to remove the batteries from written-off cars and store them in containers. Hill estimated at least 95% of the cells in the hundreds of EV battery packs - and thousands of hybrid battery packs - Synetiq has stored at Doncaster are undamaged and should be reused.'

Thisis madness!
Looks like LaTeX with the learning curve of Markdown, which is fantastic. I will definitely be using this at some point.
And then you open ammo storage when you need it and see it is polluted by 99.9% of irrelevant garbage.

Math is like code: technical debt makes moving forward much harder.
We use other signals as well: time of day, ip address, new cookie logs out old cookie. At the end of day we are dealing in probabilities, but we can definitely find the most aggressive sharers.
Ah, I had no idea that was protected too! That's good. I think the reason I was morally on the fence was that people already put blog posts out with the intent of sharing their knowledge with the rest of the Internet...

So my assumption was that anything trained on it will just help further expand that knowledge.

Although I do realise now as I'm typing this—AI could diminish their audience, clout and motivation, which isn't what I'd want.
Im what aspect is the VM “far superior”? Where are CLR’s state-of-the-art GC or low-level GC? Or does it have observability tools like JFR?
A Decade of Docker
Had same problem just now. Seems like there was a pretty big outage [1] yesterday.

One of the updates states:

> "There is currently a Labs outage due to a failed database migration."

Most likely the database migration intended to extend its capacity.

The resolution tag states the following:

> "We are continuing to investigate more ways to add capacity to DALL·E"

So I guess we'll experience issues for the next days.

Hope that explains it :)

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[]: https://status.openai.com/incidents/4cckbrhr8hr0
Some reasons why generative AI may not be as big as tech boosters think
I think Ruby [1] does a great job of this, making code snippets front and center.

I think the worst way to do it would be to use 13px Times New Roman text with no syntax highlighting on a secondary page. But that's what Io went with [2].

[1] https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/

[2] https://iolanguage.org/samples/index.html
The prior deal was based on royalties for use. Adobe pays you 33% percent of anything they make. It is consignment. So if someone uses a specific photo for $20, you get paid $6.60, no money us paid upfront.

So what should adobe pay you for using the data in training? Some kind of fraction of the overall revenue they generate from the new product? The license currently used for their stock program make it seem like they don't have to pay anything at all, because this use cases wasn't understood previously. Adobe reserved to rights to do it, so legally they can - but if they want to continue getting contributions they will need to figure out some kind of updated royalty sharing agreement.
ControlNet has entered the chat.
You could probably do it with something like Bluetooth LE in the bullet. You'd need some sort of base station, worn on a belt loop or something.

Binary explosives certainly exist so it should be in theory possible. Not sure how well they "scale down" though, and I don't know if any have a blast velocity low enough to be workable. I'm not a gun guy, really, outside of my interest in naval warfare. 16" shells have slightly different design params though.

Actually, thinking about it more would the barrel act like a faraday cage?
It is extremely common for me to realize I don't like the screenshot I took, and to save the replacement over the original file. It is pretty common for me to be more selective about what is in the replacement, and hence for it to be smaller than the original triggering this bug.
Her is a forward looking movie in a lot of ways

Kids born today will grow up with their phones/device being their best friend and pet, like a Pokémon. You will be incredibly socially shunned if you don’t have one, and corporations will have not only data but an emotional hook into you for life