skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most of those individuals have absolutely nothing commercial to gain from stopping AI research.

Most individual trying to stop vaccine research and rollout have nothing to gain from it; that does not mean they are right. Do not conflate action and intention.
Thinking and pontificating about AI safety is literally his job, and Less Wrong is a thing he founded, so whatever else Yudkowsky pontificating about AI safety on Less Wrong might be, it isn't "popping up in the most random places".
https://archive.is/yJaph
Wouldn't they be on O-1 visas. Still, I get your point.
I recall watching Marco Reps' video[1] where he built the (relatively) high-speed high-precision ADC they designed and published as an open hardware project[2], to be used to accurately monitor current in the magnets.

A small but important piece of a giant machine puzzle.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D28uSzCs7-k

[2]: https://ohwr.org/project/opt-adc-10k-32b-1cha/wikis/home
…they’re doing a SupermanIII??!?
The question is asked already, but when are you planning to support private models?
This is really impressive.

I think part of the issue building the 'metaverse', is that content generation is just so incredibly labour-intense.

I think visual AI generation and this kind of tech will really help a ton.
> Alone the Paradigma shift from doing things step by step vs describing what you need and than things happen on it is a game changer.

I've actually used both in conjunction and it was decent: Ansible for managing accounts, directories, installed packages (the stuff you might actually need to run containers and/or an orchestrator), essentially taking care of the "infrastructure" part for on-prem nodes, so that the actual workloads can then be launched as containers.

In that mode of work, there was very little imperative about Ansible, for example:

- name: Ensure we have a group
ansible.builtin.group:
name: somegroup
gid: 2000
state: present

- name: Ensure that we have a user that belongs to the group
ansible.builtin.user:
name: someuser
uid: 3000
shell: /bin/bash
groups: somegroup
append: yes
state: present

This can help you setup some monitoring for the nodes themselves, install updates, mess around with any PKI stuff you need to do and so on, everything that you could achieve either manually or by some Bash scripts running through SSH. Better yet, the people who just want to run the containers won't have to think about any of this, so it ensures separation of concerns as well.

Deploying apps through Ansible directly can work, but most of the container orchestrators might admittedly be better suited for this, if you are okay with containerized workloads. There, they all shine: Docker Swarm, Hashicorp Nomad, Kubernetes (K3s is really great) and so on...
The slot machine is regulated so that it has fixed odds and isn’t rigged against specific players
Ooh I didn't realize Steve Yegge was at Sourcegraph -- I think this might explain some of Gergely Orosz's interest / recent deep-dives into the company. This is going to be an exciting one to watch!
I mean Arizona. He was aware his business was not legal.
My "not on the run" t-shirt has a lot of people asked questions already answered by my shirt.
Yep. And it's worth saying that, contrary to my previous over-simplification, the trade-offs change once you give up on single-cycle instruction decoding. With a longer pipeline, you can do a split into 16 simple, small pre-decoders, that basically just extract the length of the instruction, /then/ mux on the inputs to just five full decoders. It adds a pipeline stage, but it can be lower area for the same sustained performance.

Trade-offs are everywhere. But certainly fixed width instructions, or variable-width-but-trivial-to-determine-length (Thumb before Thumb2, RISC-V compressed) have real advantages.
I agree, not just for the SharePoint but for things across our wider intranet that are completely undiscoverable except by word-of-mouth.
Wow, another example of a Jack Dorsey company being just great for our world. When are people going to realize that this guy is a total shithead?
When i started at Shopify we had to setup a store and do some customer support. It was a great way to understand the product, especially since my role wasn't going to be customer facing at all.
> Learning is good, knowledge is good. Giving people the ability everywhere to learn at their own pace is important.

Agreed.

> More important that paying authors.

It's the same thing as paying authors. Stuff that is worth reading is rarely written for free, out of the goodness of the author's heart. It is written because the author expects to make money to at least somewhat repay the effort.

So if you want the material that allows people to learn at their own pace, you need a way for the authors to get paid.
It reads like people who understand that under US law Block were expected to actively search for and fight criminal activity on their platform. If a rapper raps about their fav sports car then whatever, car companies aren't expected to stop criminals from driving. If they rap about paying for murders through your app, that's actually a serious legal problem for the company providing the service.
It’s a conceit, not a joke. It’s serious satire.
To preface, nothing against the poster since I know they were just copying the article title.

This article headline is a bit misleading, as the FTC is not looking to ban the subscriptions themselves. Rather, they would like to implement a rule that requires servicers that provide subscriptions to make it as easy to cancel as it is to enroll, rather than the current jumbling mess that is trying to cancel something like a gym, Amazon, news, cable, or other subscription where servicers try to maintain retention by putting in a ridiculous number of hoops to jump through to cancel.
> It's sad that it needs to exist but that's the current state of engineering.

Wait, wait. I'm trying to make friends with React for less than a month and I do appreciate this article giving me some understanding about the primitives react gives me and when to use it (Or how you called it screws/nails)

I did understand more, but I'm left with a feeling I cannot follow the "flow" of the useEffect as I couldn't understand how can items !== prevItems EVER be true?

// Better: Adjust the state while rendering
const [prevItems, setPrevItems] = useState(items);
if (items !== prevItems) {
setPrevItems(items);
setSelection(null);
}

useState doesn't return immediatelly? Or does it cause immediate re-render? I kind of gathered from the article that all useState calls cause re-render whenever it encounters return.
I'm sure Singapore and the US would like to have a word as well.
> Modern porn isn't like your grandpa's playboy magazines

I'm sure there was very extreme porn when grandpa was reading his magazines. Maybe access to it is easier today, but I'm sure humans have been into extreme sexual activities for a veeeeeeery long time.
That sucks, public library memberships should be free.
I guess they can cut 50% HCs if they can use ChatGPT 4 correctly.
I can't imagine the thought process by which a niche Hi-Fi company decides the best way to automate their production system is to custom develop a totally new class of CPU... which is why I am glad there are at least a few people in the world that make the attempt.

(This whole thing also reminds me of the Intel 432... had some similar properties)
Yeah we follow a mirror concept, which is cancelling should be at least as easy as signing up, and ideally easier. We don't have 1 click cancellations because we don't have 1 click sign ups. It requires an hour onboarding to use our service so they have to send us an email or a message in our chat bat to trigger a cancellation so we can sure they understand all the consequences.
A “tool to get things done” doesn’t seem to contradict the math or engineering point of view. Which is to say, a screwdriver is an engineered device that is also a tool (it also has a mathematical description I guess, just, a fairly boring one from a pure math point of view I guess).
I doubt it's obvious in the sense that you can tell in general case that it's not losing image quality due to upscaling. So no, thanks. Upscaling by definition implies image quality loss.
> The CEO will quickly spot broken processes and inefficiencies.

They will quickly spot what they perceive to be broken processes and inefficiencies, but they don't have real experience of the actual work at that level to be able to safely move Chesterton's fence.
The main reason you do this is to weed out executives who are mostly interested in the prestige. People like that are much more likely to be good at shifting the blame for problems than actually fixing or preventing problems.
I didn't get five times as productive yet. It's something closer to a few percent or less, which makes LLMs about as useful as syntax highlighting. It's nice to have, but not essential.

We will see in a few years.
Of course education is important to entrepreneurship, that is why I donate my money to those causes.

Instead of yelling at HN on how Gates or Musk should spend their money, you should, first, actually look at their donation records and see that they do in fact give significant amounts to libraries. Gates has built more libraries than you can visit in your lifetime.

Second, you should walk the walk and not just talk the talk. Talk is cheap.

You would benefit from reading up on those "bailouts" by the way. Whether you mean TARP or the recent FDIC actions, as you seem to not understand them. The recent FDIC action was paid by a banking insurance pool, not tax payers.

Complaining of tone is a defense to the indefensible.
The post I responded to said "especially with minimal regulations". That's what I was responding to. I said nothing about regulations and capitalism being incompatible. Of course they're not, although capitalists love it when people think capitalism means the same thing as "free markets" and therefore regulations are opposed to capitalism. Great camouflage.

As for ordinary people's opinion not mattering, it matters because it affects what the capitalists, and more generally the people in power, can get away with. That's why capitalists like the camouflage of people confusing capitalism and free markets.
I added a small udev rule to send a "change input" dcc command to the monitor when my USB switch connects or disconnects. The monitor has a USB-C input, and I connect the USB ports it provides to my USB switch.

Cheaper than a KVM, though it only works if the computer that has the rules is turned on (that monitor accepts commands from inactive sources).

If somebody knows a ready-made "reverse dock" (USB-C dock connector -> USB-PD out + DP in + USB device), I'm all ears!
So there was a correction here, zsh and fish do wait for processes in the interactive part, but apparently not bash/dash/mksh:

https://lobste.rs/s/om32da/unix_process_api_is_unreliable_un...

As far as your question, shells don't use signalfd() because it's Linux-only!

Most shells predate not just signalfd(), but Linux itself :) I wouldn't use it in a newer shell for portability.

If it ever came up, I probably I would use the self-pipe trick.

BTW I think there was some argument awhile ago that signalfd() is actually quite bad in the presence of threads, but a shell doesn't have threads so that doesn't matter.
Chinese millennials aren’t getting married, and the government is worried
"Xperience Fitness" made me show up in person and sign a document. This needed to then be faxed to HQ. Of course, the gym didn't have a fax machine. So had to find a fax machine, send off a fax and wonder if anybody is going to look at it on the other end. This was in 2015 or so, not 1986.
That seems like a reasonable assumption, especially when the actor's previous work in the same franchise wasn't that overly dramatized, and this was a one time shot on stage sort of deal. I could see them potentially informing her to go big as the capture will work with it, vs something realistic which might come across in the demo as "not working".
California bill would require high schools to hand out free condoms
I would say HyperCard fits here.

The GUI is determined by the interpreter/vm. A spreadsheet doesn't really define it's GUI - the "host" defines it.
A ruby script building a GUI (e.g. shoes) can look like anything. A spreadsheet, word document or web page has to have some basic structure.

Of course with things like VBA/OpenOffice Basic, or SPAs with JS, those distinctions start to blur - it's definitely not a perfect categorisation and it breaks down eventually.

Maybe you could say every document is like a custom plugin. E.g. my spreadsheet is like a plugin to Excel/Numbers/Sheets
I _think_ in fact in MSOffice and OpenOffice plugins actually were just special documents but it's been a very long time since I was in that world.
Nothing wrong, except it's combining ideas going in opposite directions. Upscaling - reducing image quality as a price for improving performance. Ray tracing - increasing image quality (in regards to lighting and etc.).
^ Thanks for that link. The doomerism is brilliant and clear and imaginative and absolutely worth reading and grappling with. I personally have no good response to how we deal with sufficiently advanced AI’s capacity to trick and manipulate us into doing catastrophically bad things.
Cultural attitudes and norms have changed greatly. There would generally be one television in the house and deciding which station to watch was often not an individual decision. People would also think there was something wrong with you if you spent too much time watching television.

Even into the late '90s, I recall people being disgusted and scandalized at rumors that so-and-so spends all day playing computer games. Now that everyone has their own personalized screen wherever they go, attitudes are somewhat different.
In recent times we've already significantly given up on our humanity. The lack of shared institutes (church, bars, etc.), remote studying, remote work, ecommerce, personal contact via chat, social media, these all point in the same direction of a contactless society where we rarely interact with the physical world and its people.

It stands to reason that AI will only accelerate this further. It will be convenience on steroids. Your AI ear piece isn't going to tell you to throw it into the bin and go for a walk in the forest. It's going to tell you that you need to buy more stuff and it knows exactly what it is that you need. It's also going to feed you non-stop ultimate entertainment, custom generated for you and you only.

In a rare moment of humanity, one of your friends calls you. AI knows all about your friends and their recent events so had already summarized talking points. In case you can't be bothered, AI will carry out the actual conversation, it's trained in your voice.

A long running trend of outsourcing humanity to technology.

Good news for philosophers though, they finally might have their moment of actual relevancy. In particular to answer the question: what is the point of anything, really?
> I want to live in a world where I can trust a random stranger

This is and always has been utterly delusional.
Solid has very similar API, but much simpler concept (and of course performance), it's just a plain js signal library with some ui helper functions no dark magic, whereas react is the most framework framework out there.
Ask HN: How can a Backend Engineer make the most out of AI trend?
Assuming AI is going to trend like crypto or cloud in the coming years, how can I, as a backend engineer, capitalize on it?

What languages, skills, frameworks, technologies, or concepts will be in the most demand?

Is it worth trying to pivot to an MLE/MLOPS role? Is it even possible for this matter?
A personalized sociopathic fabulist for all!
How it just takes these implicit assumptions in stride makes me worry that in the future these chatbots will be fine with assumptions and me - human - has a too square brain to go on without definitions. :)
fwiw the nintendo switch has a userspace GPU driver (it's a microkernel architecture), but client apps talk to it over IPC
> Buying books in bulk (not for reading) is a standard way to bribe a politician

Also a standard way to propagandize that the ideas within, and the author, are popular, whether or not the author is a politician.

OTOH, with a relatively young (for leaving the White House) and active figure (or couple), establishing a relationship as their publisher may have worth beyond the immediate book.
How do you use Git to deploy things? Sorry if it's a dumb question, I'm unfamiliar with Ansible.
Slow Glass
I'm not sure why, but collecting and looking at occult material that is old/rare is extremely fascinating to me.
Clarkesworld AI Submissions Update
Either allow labor to always move as freely (or a un-freely) as capital & profit, or move back towards less international trade, certainly between countries with highly disparate income levels and legal systems.
And this is exactly what people complained would happen back when the piracy blocks went into place. "this is going to be abused to block other things".

But at least piracy has been solved /s
So what should Europe do? Ban US and Chinese companies?

I thought we don't want a great firewall like China because you know "freedom", yet we are running down this path.
Between this and the Justin Sun news yesterday is this some kind of crypto crackdown?
I think we'll need to define what "human trafficking" means in order to have a productive conversation about it. It doesn't need to be defined the same way for every context, just for the one we're talking about in each case.

So in this particular case, what do you mean by "human trafficking?"
Looks like all the highlighted questions are of the form "Has a doctor or healthcare provider told you X?" and "Has a doctor or healthcare provider diagnosed you with Y?" They seem to be controlling for the usual Education, Age, Gender, Income, and Race. Are they controlling for who tends to use / trust the medical establishment? There are religious sects who discourage going to the doctor, groups who deny the existence of mental illnesses like ADHD and depression, and growing general distrust of the medical establishment (all heavily weighted on one side of the political spectrum).
is there a link to provide public commentary?
So you have little experience with what you're talking about, but it doesn't stop you from claiming things about their effects with a high degree of confidence?
>> the usual debate on emerging technologies between Thymoetes and Laocoon.

> Could you expand on this?

Not important, it's just a rhetorical flourish. In the second book of the Aeneid, Thymoetes is the guy who says (paraphrasing) "let's bring the horse inside" and Laocoon is the guy who says (literally) "beware of Greeks bearing gifts".

> This suggests that the big deployment of AI will be in areas where there is no clear boundary between right and wrong answer.

"AI" is an umbrella term at this point. If by AI we mean LLMs or similar technology, then my hunch is to agree with the statement. I don't think this is particularly controversial though, IIRC Yann LeCun said something similar.
Have you ever been in a jail cell? Almost every day in the US you see someone who decides to go out with guns blazing rather than go back.
I understand the purpose behind this, but you would be much better off leaving HN for 1-2 weeks when the next cool thing comes along.
It honestly does feel like they have magic screen powers to influence your brain. You'd likely understand what I'm talking about if you'd ever owned one.

Also anecdotally, my (infant) son is absolutely mesmerized by the sight of a phone screen. I don't let him see it generally, but if he casually spots a screen, it's like it's the only thing in the world.
Very nice, thank you for sharing this!
This guy was wrong about Amazon and he’s wrong again about LLMs. Being wrong once doesn’t mean you’re more likely to be right later.

Let me tell you something, I’d rather write code than review code. Reviewing code is very draining, writing code is easy. That’s why I’ll never rely on LLM generated code. Figuring out the 20% you have to tweak is exhausting. Refining prompt after prompt and reading the result is exhausting.
Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I have zero interest in realistic character models in video games. There are limitless possibilities when it comes to art styles in gaming, and the one AAA picks over and over is realism. It's so boring.
The compiler is a deterministic tool (even undefined behaviour is documented). So you can spend some time understanding the abstractions provided to you by your compiler and then you know exactly what it is going to do with your code.

What is the equivalent of this for LLMs? Is there anyway generative models can give a guarantee that this prompt will 100% translate to this assembly? As far as I understand, no. And the way autoregressive models are built I don't think this is possible.

I agree that they are useful for one-offs like you said, and their ability to tailor the solution for your problem (as opposed to reading multiple answers on stackoverflow and then piecing it yourself) is quite deadly, but for anything that is even slightly consequential, you are going to have to read everything it generates. I just can't figure out how it integrates into my workflow.
For most sets of shapes a periodic tiling is possible, but by no means guaranteed.

For example, consider rectangles with sides of 1 and 3 units: they can cover the plane periodically (e.g. in a simple rectangular grid), but also aperiodically, because you can form a square grid of square 3 by 3 units "metatiles", each encoding one bit of information in the vertical or horizontal orientation of the narrow rectangles; then it's easy to break symmetry by orienting metatiles so that for all integers m and n some metatile differs from the metatile m rows and n columns away, so the period cannot be m rows and n columns.
Your first link refutes your thesis:

> Conclusion: The lack of internal consistency of the findings within the current study and of findings among prior studies, suggests that PA contributes little, if any, to the risk of TGCC.

Since you didn't link to the others, I can't respond to them, but I would note that the article I linked to noted that cyclists are more likely to be more health conscious, and thus would see a doctor more regularly and naturally be more likely to be diagnosed, among other potentially-confounding factors.
Hugging face?
Bernie Madoff also outperformed the major banks. I bet you would have been mocking people for not investing in his schemes
Actual context is described in this Reuters article "Fact check: The World Economic Forum does not have a stated goal to have people own nothing by 2030": https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-wef-idUSKBN2AP2...
This isn't about coins, it's about staking.
I don't feel any contempt for Mozilla but at the same time Firefox was never as enjoyable to use once it began chasing Chrome. I would put the high water mark at Firefox 3.6.n.

Generally speaking, FireFox still retains most of the same features, it's just harder to configure it to be well-behaved (tab bar on the side was a native Firefox preference originally- now it is a real learning experience to set up). There is also a lot of stuff bundled and enabled with Firefox by default that ought not be included at all (WTF is a "pocket"?).
> it feels like open source systems and UIs are developing at a glacial pace these days

Check out hyprland: hyprland.org
The CEO is probably independently wealthy, so shutting off his pay for one month does nothing. I think this is a great opportunity to get to know what it's like to work at this level, the type of people, etc. If this person has a heart, it should enable good changes in the company based on bottom-up feedback.
I mean teach them how to program with an AI assistant.
What failed login attempts reveal about password compromise