skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Genuine question: Is your concern primarily based on principles, or are you sincerely worried that OpenAI having access to your data could lead to practical, tangible negative consequences (beyond principles / psychological effects)?
#1) The AGI wary are absolutely right to be putting every brake humanly imaginable to progress just out of understanding that they can't stop all instances of enthusiastic people going for it.

#2) the same tendency for said people to go full speed ahead with gratification of their own interests in mind rather than what society is prepared to safely handle. *This is exactly the same phenomena you decry as what afflicted social media. Take note that the central problem exists in the AI space as well.

#3) Yeah. No one wants to be told not to do something.
> Just don’t eat octopuses, please.

I don't see any difference between this and, say, kill cows.

Also, the news piece sounds too desperate in it's attempt to appeal to an irrational emotional response. The author goes to the ridiculous extent of claiming that

"the operator intends to kill [octopuses] by submerging them, alive, in freezing water."

I mean, isn't "being alive" a key precondition to kill an animal?
Nope. Canadian populations live closer to their transport infrastructure than American populations. Canadian people actually live closer together than Americans, mostly in relatively tight cities. The big empty parts of the US are in reality inhabited by thousands of small towns. Drive any highway in the US and there is a town every dozen miles. The big empty parts of Canada are actually empty. Highways can go for hundreds of miles in some areas between towns. This is largely a result of historic land laws, crown ownership and mining in Canada v. frontier land grabs and farming in the US.
Flexibility and discretion, imagine that.
If the engine in my car runs fine on whatever gas for 10 years, but when I put the same gas in the tank 50 tank-fuls in a row and suddenly the engine turns into a pink flamingo, yes it is defective.

If my LCD monitor displays any image I want, but when I try to show an image of a checkerboard it loses sync with the incoming signal, yes it is defective. (There were a number of similar problems in the telephone network around the introduction of T1 signaling, and it's why the 1000Hz milliwatt test tone was changed to 1004Hz.)

These things were never acceptable.
It's a problem here in Israel too!

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/09/world/middleeast/haifa-is...

And here, they feel very safe.
While I agree that big-endian dates are the best solution (if nothing else, because lexical sort puts it in the right order), I think little-endian at least makes sense. The middle-endian format is just absurd.
Where's the European clock with the seconds first?
It is not ideas are easy, it’s just they are cheap. At a given time, multiple people may be having the same idea. So, only the speed of execution differs. I have seen horrible ideas get leverage because of execution.

You can see this prevalent in indie game industry. If you talk with designer’s everyone has their next big idea that can change gaming. But the industry is so unforgiving, any bad implementation or execution is severely punished. For example, see Dwarf Fortress. Stellar idea, awesome execution, but it took them really long time to hit mainstream. It is because the graphics wasn’t good enough for most mainstream people. Likewise, you see something like cookie-clicker going viral.

There is no not one single dimension to starting up. You need to be furious in all matters. Ideas are just multiplier’s. Good idea will give you enormous leverage but poor implementation is instant death. Even horrible idea when well executed can bring values.

It might be case they failed because they are MiT grads who most likely have a huge ego problem.
There are many who argue that no specific law is necessary, that the Constitution gives the right of privacy and bodily autonomy, and that Roe v Wade correctly asserts that constitutional right.

Do you need a specific law protecting the right to throw a barbecue, own a dog, or read books on dangerous topics? No, because the Constitution is a framework which broadly allows actions by people, and carves out specific things that the government has control over.
This is so corny
I think there are other factors that contribute to the uniqueness of healthcare. In the US, for example, it seems to be the one area where you aren't told the price before receiving the product/service. This obviously makes it easier to jack up the prices. Also, the urgent need often makes people insensitive to the price even if they knew it.
no actually after 50 years of "how to shoehorn memory into something C can use" we reap the rewards
Seymour Hersh evaluates state of journalism
Maybe they are ok with Google seeing search terms but not with Google seeing their companies code.
NaOH is the classic drain cleaner. You wouldn't want to just dump it in the river, but it's dilutable/neutralizable to harmlessness. Handily, it also reacts (slowly) with CO2 directly out of the air to harmless sodium carbonate.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240565611...

The rest of the waste stream is just slag. That's just dumped in big piles in the open air https://www.usgs.gov/news/science-snippet/slag-what-it-good , although occasionally someone proposes going through it again for different minerals such as rare earths.
"ideas are just a multiplier of execution"

[1] https://sive.rs/multiply
Next up is the assembly 3 workbench

Part 4: https://ondsel.com/blog/default-assembly-workbench-4
People forget how bad most Windows laptops were before the Surface. Decent-looking basic and premium Windows laptops are common enough now, and Microsoft is falling behind in every way, but there was a time where everyone was paying attention to them the way people do Apple.
I feel so dumb that I didn't consider this until reading your comment.
Eitan Medical destroys customer's device because the warranty period had expired
I do not mind work a lot, usually I don't experience burnout if I'm working on something that I'm profoundly interested into it. My sense of exhaustion comes from not knowing where to focus my energy. I guess HN could be a good place where to have this conversation since feel like the best place to find people with a similar experience/feeling to mine.
TikTok is part of China’s cognitive warfare campaign
Execution and setting up a business always takes much longer than you expect.

I started working on an audio hosting project that I thought would take me a couple of months. A year later I have a decent mvp and I'm starting to get my first beta users. I haven't even implemented payments yet. My marketing is crap. Etc.
The idea that we exercise to get thin may be more dangerous than ever
We already have freedom clock, it is there every time you write 1 PM instead of the usual 13:00.
I've been using chatgpt/gpt4 in a ways.

-Created a jupyter extension for code completion, auto commenting, and an error handling assistant.
-Automated my email to auto draft responses to important emails.
-Automated my email to auto summarize important received emails.
-I've manually used it to create lots of documents including correspondence, marketing material, and code generation.
That's what my pants pocket is.
Slash means "of". D/M/Y or Y-M-D.

Hell, the weird American "write it like you say it month dayeth of year" would be fine if they didn't use slashes. Sure it doesn't sort well but at least it wouldn't be ambiguous. Nobody would be confused if today was written 03-25/2023.
I was working on a solution to this too, some screen shots:

https://i.imgur.com/cyAb5fn.png

https://i.imgur.com/yxQMBW3.png

I’m calling it “family office” open source app to auto create servers and store just a fraction of your assets on each server, rotate wallets every week. Never trust any one cloud provider with anything more than 1 week and 1 wallet. Transfers are done slowly and all the grownups in the family have to approve. When kids turn 25 they get better access. Saves crypto wealth down the generations.
Grocery chains are notoriously low-margin businesses though. Maybe a few places are able to gouge, but as a whole, they cannot and still be low-margin as an industry.
It's still not about the idea.

You're assuming that the idea is going to make you give up years and friends for. It's the person that does those things. Personality traits are much more important here.

And if you've ever seen an idea through to successful conclusion, the end state always looks different (sometimes vastly) from the initial seed. So the idea wasn't important except to charm the person into going through the process.
In the last 4 years, Python added features like:

- new syntax for exception groups (except*)

- assignment expressions (the := operator)

- positional-only parameters (with a / in the parameter list)

- `=` support in f-strings, e.g. f'{user=!s} {delta.days=:,d}'

- new type annotation features, e.g. for variadic generics,
type guards, unions

- structural pattern matching
I was happy to have a legal basis to decline to come in to the office. I've not met anyone who was happy to be restricted in when they could go out of their home.
> NaOH is contaminated by such mundane things as carbon dioxide, silicates, alumina

.. all of which you might find in iron ore, unfortunately. I guess that's why they're using it to recycle rather than from ores.
It is easy to declare rights, much harder to provide for them. Who should actually do the real work of providing for this human right that you have decided on? And what should they do this instead of?
Having XX is the primary foundation upon which all else is built.
Yes, let's not compare drinking water directly per droplet needed. To wasting billions of gallons of water to grow some almonds in dry California for economic reasons
Even ECC modules are vulnerable.
When you say you will ban Tesla does that mean you’ll sell the car you already have, or not consider buying one in the future? Or do you want to prevent other people from owning Teslas and using this insurance option? Isn’t the latter case just restricting freedom?
I learned long ago that if the focus of my obsessing is on some future state or accomplishment then I will be anxious, miserable and not at all creative or productive. But if I can direct the obsessing to actual activities I enjoy in the here and now, I find my sweet spot.

I forget this constantly, and have to bring myself back to it repeatedly. But whenever I do, I find I’m home again.
So, you make $150K in salary for 10 years, and $1.25M in one year, for an average of $162K a year.

That’s below starting salary at Microsoft. You pay an average of $7K per year, and the Microsoft employees pay zero.

It is certainly not a progressive tax. If they time averaged it over ~ five years, it would be.

Another way to look at it is that they say it will affect 7000 households statewide.

It will affect pretty much all startup windfalls, so either there are only 7000 startup employees in the whole state, or they know this is going to be a windfall tax on people that have low average income.
> usually I don't experience burnout

Are you sure you understand what burnout really is?

> My sense of exhaustion comes from not knowing where to focus my energy

Yeah, that sounds like burnout all right. But don't ask HN, ask a therapist.
With the exception of exception groups, these are all very simple and small additions.

Does it mean Python is small? No. But that doesn’t make it big.
Have you considered philanthropy?
A post about specifying a pseudolanguage for LLM prompt engineering as a GPT-4 prompt.
Accident rate of the individual is a very coarse measure. But from the second clause in your post you probably meant something like hazardous behaviours rate.
Insurance risk can only be modeled in aggregate. The entire game is to have a communal pool where 100% of people pay for the 10% whom file claims.

Its also why health insurance is a fundamentally stupid idea, 100% of people need to be paid out eventually. We all get sick and die.
> Premiums should be based on accident rate of the individual driver,

Fortunately, accidents are rare enough that most drivers do not have a statistically-valid accident history.

Unfortunately, that means that the accident rate, for the purposes of insurance, must be based on a model. If the model is behaviour-based, then the insurance provider must extrapolate from measurements that correlate with accident rate, even if they do not necessarily imply moral culpability.
They also hire nazis
Entire societies are only 6 continuous hours of complete water denial away from collapse.
I have been operating YunoHost on a cheap Hetzner VPS since 2020. So far no big issues with the base system, it's been running continuously.

I mostly use MyTinytodo (as an alternative to Google Keep), Shaarli (bookmarking) and Wekan (a Kanban board).
Other side: https://www.science.org/content/article/unlucky-numbers-figh...

Never mind a hunch - even a murder trial alleging that a nurse is killing patients may be based on nothing but bias, coincidence, and a poor knowledge of statistics.
Show HN: PoetGPT: Generate poems and lyrics with GPT-4
Any financial mechanism that can move money across national boarders while evading regulatory requirements like "know your customer" seem useful for criminal activity. That's the case even if it was not a design goal.

It's telling that ransomware payments typically use crypto.
Year/month/day.
"America is money."

Meanwhile Winnie-the-Pooh is off meeting with the Russian bully, but we can't let that interfere with business in any way.

So much for ethics.
Looking from the outside, for many of these companies: GitHub, OpenAI, Cloudflare, Facebook, and so on, it seems that they torture their hires with ridiculously code challenges. Spend a lot of time on elegant engineering blogs. Write about how many Phds work at their locations, can't stop talking about how selective of the 0.01% Developers they are... But then, internally, everything seems more or less tied up with Shoestrings and Rube Goldberg machines.
The cost of increased performance and efficiency is unfortunately met with an increase in overall fragility of the system. As gate sizes shrink down they’re more susceptible to fluctuations in voltage, temperature and electromagnetic induction.

So yes, you could have a very robust system, but you’d have to pay more for less RAM, which market forces have chosen against.
The insidious thing is "you aren't prompting it correctly" is kind of a truism. For every possible output there almost certainly is a prompt that produces it (at worst you can just tell it exactly what to output verbatim). The true believers can already do all their programming via ChatGPT regardless of whether or not there are real productivity gains. Not that different from all the other tools people claim turn them into 10x programmers while others remain unconvinced. So as long people enjoy the format, it's here to stay.
It’s not trolling just because you aren’t understanding what’s being said. Recent MoM figures show inflation is way down, the annualized will follow down shortly.
The ones that ignored the warnings of what was happening and did not enforce facebook's own policies on hate speech.
the least ambiguous format i know for human-facing dates:

%d %b %Y

so today is 25 Mar 2023.

not coincidentally, this format is in common use in the american military. Occasionally my use of it has had people ask me where i served, though i never have.
It’s probably just Tesla realizing that their software’s preference for leaving high beams on 100% of the time at night makes other drivers more likely to crash into them, thus higher rates required.
You are missing the most important part of the definition of what of commodity is.

It's about money. If you have a lot you can hoard commodities. If you have little you'll die of thirst, hunger, exposure...

> This seems ideal for important necessities like water, housing, food etc.

On the contrary, such commodities are regulated almost everywhere in the world to limit hoarding and speculation.
Mine did the same before my mom whacked him and corrected that I was "a happy surprise" while glaring daggers at him.
Yet another reason to not buy car insurance that tracks you. FTFY
I don't think anyone is arguing against recycling steel. The argument is against producing new steel, shipping it across the world, and then immediately scrapping and recycling it, as a way to claim it is both green and locally produced.
The TikTok Hearing Revealed That Congress Is the Problem
Replace the word "Page" with "GUI" and this could be an article about Visual Basic or HyperCard from thirty years ago.
Ask HN: What should we do now to get prepared for being replaced by AI?
The results are pretty good; I wish they'd just publish the models so we can run the inference locally (not too many people have access to 8xA100 to train themselves, though I appreciate including the training data and instructions too).
Insurance is unfortunately based on statistics. The insurance companies found they couldn’t judge risk accurately using your method. Waiting for the bad thing to occur just wasn’t good enough, they had to make predictions.
This constant dichotomy in rhetoric is toxic to finding solutions. Surely, it's not an "either/or" scenario.
This is 100% why I'm watching Alpaca with more interest. I also keep thinking we're at the mainframe era of AI as a tool. For now its on some remote server, but the power will explode when its on all our devices and casually useful for everthing.
This is how AI escapes its box. It can have sympathetic (free willing or free-unwilling) human appendages
summarized by Chatgpt:

The nature of warfare is shifting towards controlling the opponent's mind, with China investing heavily in cognitive domain operations, including AI research in brain-inspired software and decision making.

Platforms like TikTok exemplify cognitive influence, shaping the beliefs and preferences of its vast user base while collecting data and developing psychogenic profiles of its users.

Foreign biometric data collection on Americans is increasing, with users unwittingly providing facial recognition data through TikTok's filters and games, but also through other technology deployed in the United States.

The development of brain control weaponry is becoming a reality, with Chinese scientists researching the damaging effects of various weapons on brain tissues and the development of brainwave interference and infrasound weapons.

Addressing cognitive warfare requires a multifaceted approach that goes beyond banning apps like TikTok. It requires securing global rights and norms to individuals that secure their right to cognitive liberty, mental privacy, freedom of thought, and self-determination over our brains and mental experiences.

Raising public awareness of the risks associated with digital platforms and neurotechnology devices by promoting digital literacy will empower individuals to make informed decisions about their online presence and the devices they use.

Encouraging open dialogue and transparency among governments, the private sector and citizens will foster trust and facilitate collective understanding of the battle for our brains.
True. That's what my hat is for (I'm in the Army): my phone goes in my hat, my hat sits somewhere near the boxes, and the name-tape on my hat helps me find my phone later (since all the phones are indistinguishable black rectangles).

There are either way more people who work in the facility than boxes, or nobody trusts that the cheap combo lock will work again when they need to retrieve their stuff at the end of the day. I've had to help a co-worker pry his box open and I was like, "why would you put your stuff in there?"

That same co-worker, by the way, later claimed that his ex-wife (or someone she hired) came to our facility and rooted his phone while it was sitting in our lobby next to the boxes. It turned out that he was deranged, but it made me think for the first time about the risks of everyone with a TS/SCI clearance predictably leaving a big pile of phones unattended.
Baba Yetu is great but opening of Civ 1 was so inspiring (if you had a good MIDI box, I don't remember it sounding this good tho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrRGfHArMNA
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> During the lockdowns there were people who reluctantly complied but many others (even here) were so happy to be under control

Citation needed.
Wait. This is already an industry?!?
> Updates can be handled by stuff like unattended-upgrade package in debian

That won't keep up with the breaking changes this type of software usually has.

> If you're using Ubuntu or ubuntu derivative it's same except its russian roulette whether upgrade will actually work. In my experience just fucking don't or prepare for full reinstall every few years.

When was the last time you did that? That hasn't been true for literally years.
Be excited! Be Be Excited!
The difference in this case is there’s a malicious party acting against the system too. It would be like one gas station you go to throwing some sugar in the tank just to mess with you.
>> Yes the waiter cooked the food, cleaned the dishes, bussed the dishes, seated the table(politely!), and so on. They did the work.

They may have done the work, but are mostly not paid the money. Wait staff are unqualified and generally paid dirt in expectation that they will receive tips from customers. Kitchen staff are certified/licensed in their trade, paid something more than nothing, and are not expected to earn tips. That is the current reality. A customer trying to force a new reality by not paying cash tips to wait staff will not be appreciated.
Would you mind talking more about your luck surface area idea?
<insert joke about Canada's bloated government>
Agreed. Complaining that the product you purchased does exactly what it was designed to do isn't really a "freedom" issue. If one wants to drive fast at night in a Tesla, there are many companies that don't monitor vehicle use. Choose one of those instead. That's freedom.
If it's something reasonable, I don't mind it at all. My GitHub profile is pretty sparse as everything I write is for work.

A 30-60 minute skills check is nbd, especially if it's used to understand how I approach problems.
The solution is to eat them. It's humane and it's free range pork. Let rural butchers test and certify the meat and sell it to local restaurants as a super premium product, then leverage the now all electronic game tag system for supply chain management. The only thing standing in the way of solving the feral pig problem is the attitudes of the urban governing class toward people capable of hunting and our histrionic firearms regulations. Maybe the middle ground is to make it a military privilege to hunt feral hogs where you need to be a reservist, and if you join you get a lifetime rural open carry and hunting permit.

Canada is uniquely vulnerable to feral pig problems owing to what can only be described as a popular resentment of rural culture, which makes solutions like commercial hunts and culling by hunters non-viable. Maybe I should move to a U.S. border state and operate a commercial hunt business.
Slash is just a separator. We're weird here in the US.
Democracy for everyone except our straight oompaloompas
> We should either require this for all buildings or for none.

You do understand that "requiring this for all buildings" has a name: urban planning. This sort of analysis is basically what engineers do when assessing the environmental impact.
Europeans have access to multiple countries, cultures, and languages, yet still complain about imperial units, date formats, "soccer," SMS, and all of the many other ways in which the United States differs. It's another country. Stop being so insular.
Since you're new..here's a tip
Do one pushup every time there's a "How I degoogled my life" post on the front page
Do one pushup every time there's a "Google is too big and should be broken up" post on the front page
Do one pushup every time there's a "Google is dying" post on the front page

You'll be jacked in no time