skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand that some people find this a hopeless gesture. But I think anybody who thinks "losing jobs" or "China" is a bad outcome from AI is hopelessly lost.

The upside of AI if done right - nobody ever having to work again
The downside of AI if done wrong - end of humanity

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to determine we've made AIs go from thinking like an ant to thinking like a 6-year-old in a few years. Anybody who believes we won't make AI 2, 3, 27 times smarter than any human who ever lived is kidding themselves.

Now ask yourself, if there was a human that was 27 times smarter than anybody else (and could self-replicate at will), how long would it be until that individual took control over the world?
This is isn't speculating, this is truthing.
Build your own tool then
PRC has "developing nation" status in the WTO. This allows the PRC to get special and differential treatment in a number of IP and general trade related agreements.
25.5g.

although another way of think of it is 13 tylenol arthritis pills is the ld50 for a kindergartner and in the US they come in a bottle not a blisterpack.
I think you need to study WW2 a little bit more. The Office of Censorship opening up letters to destroy pro-Nazi sentiment, and the Office of War Information buying up Disney Cartoons to show Donald Duck / Popeye / etc. as a Navy Sailor and encourage us to buy War Bonds through very overt propaganda.

Free Speech comes and goes in the USA. We tend to lean towards the freer-side of things, but if we need to, we clamp down on it to meet our other goals.

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WW2 is hardly an outlier either. WW1 had Espionage Act of 1917, Civil War didn't even have a law, Censorship and seizure of printing presses was just so common. Pre-Civil War, the Postmaster General of slave states commonly censored pamphlets from abolitionists. I mean, the "Alien and Sedition Acts" were passed within a year or two of the Bill of Rights, allowing the President to arrest various members of the press in the 1780s. Etc. etc. This stuff has been going on since the dawn of the USA as a country.

Book burnings and other such events were also widespread in the USA throughout our history... and even have legal precedent like the Comstock laws https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comstock_laws

IMO, we've gone too far into the free-speech side of becoming absolutely idiots about the subject in recent years and all of us can benefit from researching the actual history of the USA.

Free Speech, both opening up, and restricting it, has its uses. And if you're a student of history, you'll be able to feel the ebbs and flows of this subject throughout time.

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Censorship is a tool. A tool best used rarely, maybe only a few times a century. But I unfortunately think we're coming to the point where we need to start using it within this decade or so. And no, not for the stupid AP African American class crap. I mean for the part that matters right now, the China-Taiwan conflict that is obviously brewing up.
And that comes when you self compile your kernel? Seems like an odd point to stop.

Like, the chances of someone sneaking something terrible into an open source kernel seem lower than of any of the hardware coming out of China to be poisoned.
Apple Gangnam will welcome first customers this Friday, March 31 in South Korea
Is it when I hear voices in my head?
I've used "edge" in this context for around 15 years[1], and I've always intended it to mean "at the edge of the network", which can include being on the other side of the world to a user.

[1] from https://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2007/08/ at least
Ahaha, it’s… not actually reading the article. That is a hallucinated summary of what it thinks an article is most likely to say given the url, which contains the title of the article.
He is one of the founders of OpenAI.. Soo I don't think he has missed out?
Because it isn't just Apple. Back when Apple removed the headphone jack, people constantly said "Well just use Samsung" or some other brand. Look at where we're at now. If Apple can beat the current pressure, other brands will follow. We're no longer in a theoretical space with this. Companies actively follow the trend, and by excusing it because "it's just Apple", will end badly.
Penny farthing bikes are death traps. Bikes that have similarly sized wheels with pedals on the front wheel aren't practical enough to be better than walking. Bikes without pedals are also not practical.
Most hospitals have provided flat files, phase 2, and now the current administration has decided not to enforce this through completion of phase 4 fully searchable due next year. Enforcement began with the previous administration fwiw.
1. It has nothing to do with you. You got laid off. I don’t know you and I can tell you that your job is the least interesting part about you. Ask your wife. Ask your family. Ask your friends. None of them care what you do.

2. It is actually awesome you are in a degree program. Because if you really want to avoid the conversation you can explain any gap with, “I was finishing my degree.” Not that you really have to because getting laid off is so common these days no one bats an eye or cares.

3. Get on your wife’s insurance. She is a teacher, so it is more reliable and probably better. Explore unemployment benefits. It is better to take unemployment because it will free you up to focus on the job search and your degree. I have been there and I took a hourly job out of pride, but I don’t know if I would do it again.

4. Spend 1-2 hours a day applying or interviewing for jobs. The rest of the time do what you have always wanted to do if you didn’t have to work.

You will be fine.
And that's just a fraction of the waste. The government spends millions just managing compliance with software licenses. (source - extrapolating from my experience at a 3 person Microsoft shop 15 years ago) But this isn't technical debit - this is by design.
Careful, if any HN folk reside in Ottawa they’ll be all over you implying that honking horns is psychological torture and that everything is the fault of the RCMP and Provincial government for not shutting down protests first.
I’m not sure.

In 2018, 36000 people gained citizenship, and the population was about 5 million. Hard to say how the numbers stack up as it is an integral over lifetimes and some people won’t stay. Also some people will just obtain residency and stick with that. I don’t think seasonal workers would be classified as immigrants.

https://www.dia.govt.nz/Services-Citizenship-Citizenship-Sta...
> Or rather, you didn't lose control because of any software license. We lost control because of cryptography and enforced signature verification.

I'm not sure what you mean by this. It's the law that's a barrier, not cryptography. If you break the DRM on a game you can still face legal consequences, even if the company that licenses it doesn't support it anymore.
just curious, what would have been your strategy and solution to the covid? In hindsight even.
Yes, it certainly does. That's my point. Everything takes effort. One way the market might sort this out is that Amazon hires a bunch of people to do this on your behalf, freeing you up to spend more time on activities more productive than performing due diligence on your online products yourself. They would raise prices a bit, but then you'd also have a bit more income. Perhaps this would be a net win overall.

But that's not the holistic conversation and consideration I see coming through. All I'm seeing is a one-sided focus on what Amazon can (should) do about it.
Is the app bug free and good? I thought to switch from Spotify to Apple music recently and started a trial with Apple music. The music selection is good and the sound quality is good but the client Apple music client for Mac is unbelievably buggy for first-party software. I had to get onto Apple support just to get my account going as it would just sit there constantly syncing. It feels sluggish doing things like adding to playlists, and there are numerous little quality of life bugs like the search box not focussing properly sometimes.

I'm on the fence about the idea of switching now. I guess part of it was that the apps would be significantly better than Spotify.
Indeed, tried to get the go ahead with this at Microsoft, HR was very clear about not letting it through
> If there's an AI tomorrow that can replace every single physical job out there, what do you think will happen? Riot and chaos in the street after about 1-2 years.

I don't think you even need to replace every physical job out there for that to be the result. I think all the ingredients needed exist right now, and I'm worried that unless the discourse about LLMs changes significantly, the perceived threat of them is enough to bring those riots and chaos.
When the Zen master said you were one with everything, he was referring to memory address space.
Same way as the last?
I'm a huge sci-fi fan and couldn't finish the first season.. I guess I'll give it another try
Huh I never knew about that one. Seems to be a C64 hack.

I had a Tangerine Microtan 65:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangerine_Microtan_65

It was amazing what people did with hardware back then.
FB has the motive and means to promote xenophobia, and has repeatedly shown willingness to do whatever it takes to make a profit.

So while I think it’s fair to ask for a reference, it is prudent to assume it’s happening, unless proven otherwise.

They don’t deserve the benefit of the doubt.
politics aside and taking into consideration that all of our governments suck in their own special ways...it pains me greatly that China is considered an adversary with the US..and Russia too..what good could come to the world if the three had a healthy relationship and pooled our greatest minds and resources toward the betterment of mankind.
> Why is the number of de-transitioners relevant?

Because its often used as a wedge to pour doubt over the process of transitioning entirely which for many transitioners is an effective process.

> then you should care about minorities of minorities too.

Right. We care about people, we care about all of them, so why is it that conservative media over-represents de-transitioners and under-represents people satisfied with their transition? One fits a narrative, the other doesn't, go figure.

> The reason this gets a lot of conservative press is that trans is the new weaponized community, so conservatives get accused of transphobia a lot

conservatives by the very definition of their traditional views of society are often rather transphobic though. I appreciate that its an even harder pill to swallow than homosexuality for traditionalists but you can't pretend that there isn't significant resistance. I appreciate that some trans activists can be rather aggressive online (although that can be said about a lot of twitter regardless), but the suffragette movement also teaches us that simply asking the patriarchy nicely to accept change doesn't necessarily yield results.
Gets even more interesting when you look at things like b sides, alternate takes, and covers. Take 10 was a variant of Take five, released under Desmond's name.
> feature flags as a service

and its a >$100mm/yr business :) things always get messy when you scale things up beyond a demo on one laptop
Why do these viruses often appear in China first? Has there been any study to find out any common patterns? Is it the food? Culture? Living environment?
Worst case scenario that i've seen with 'incompetent nice' is when somehow a team was composed of only such people. Nothing they made worked, but because they were all nice it couldn't really be admitted that it was because of their incompetence, so other competent people were pulled in to help, but then under incompetent leadership, so they were rendered ineffective.
I've worked on a lot of large and complex projects (mostly kernels) using just vim, git, gdb, cscope, and ctags for development for the past 15 years. I think I've encountered maybe one or two quality of life vim bugs in that time, and a few annoying gdb bugs.

Like AI, until someone shows me something that can come up with novel solutions to deeply technical problems, simple tools and intelligence on the part of the programmer is what works.
> Simply don't buy an Apple phone.
We said that about the headphone jack. Look where we are now. Companies follow what works, and Apple continues to pioneer anti-consumer practices. You shouldn't buy Apple, but that's not gonna solve the problem. We gotta continue to show why this is bad so others don't chase the same goals.
In a sense, I hope that you're right. It's just not how it looks to me from here. I'm hearing a great deal of fear from all quarters.
I can’t wait for “competing with OpenAI” to get more clearly defined.

For example, could I use ChatGPT to create training data for a (non-llama) language model that I then sell per-device licenses to end users? OpenAI doesn’t sell per-device licenses, so I wouldn’t be competing with them.

Right?
Looking at that embargoed banner, I don't think these people are great at genie, bottle and hat management.
No, this is not at all what I meant.

Your conscious mind does not have access to the low level sensory machinery. Even if you focus, you will only be aware of a "high level summary" of what your sensory equipment is measuring.

It's similar to the way in which your brain is filled with billions of little analog add units, but you have no direct access to them - you do arithmetic with higher level components and structures in the brain.
> The implication is that FOSS developers have no control over their users. Sure, you COULD fork your favorite tool's repository and spend many hours trying to figure out how to make it do 'what you want instead of what the developers wanted'; but very few people are really willing and/or able to do that.

Few people are willing to do it because the kinds of restrictions/annoyances imposed by free and open source software are much less severe than that of nonfree software. Sure, there might be the odd feature or two missing in a FOSS project that you would like but that the author blocks from being added to the project for XYZ reasons. I'll concede that those kind of decisions give the maintainer of a FOSS project some semblence of "power". But it's not like proprietary software, where trackers, atrocious adverts and news links (looking at you, Microsoft start menu) and other arbitrary restrictions are a continuous reality. If those things were in a FOSS project, you can bet that _someone_ would make a fork with that stuff removed.
I'm not blaming wages for inflation. Just noting that inflation is also responsible for a large proportion of many peoples raises and promotions etc. The government tackling inflation is going to repress wages.
Free software licenses are just an imperfect mechanism for trying to secure software freedom, which is the real thing the movement has always been after. And the GP's point that the loss of software freedom, even in the abstract, has led to more and more losses of control over particular behaviors on our devices. The technical means by which this encroachment is enacted are insignificant. The substance of the issue is political.
The UK has a few pretty good schemes (e.g. Cyber Prevent) that try to intervene and stop young people before they get landed with a criminal record for (lower level) cyber crime - at one point the average age at time of arrest was 17.
Kind of tangential but the article talks about VisiCalc, Lotus 1-2-3, and Excel but somehow fails to mention Microsoft's Multiplan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplan) which was released the year before Lotus 1-2-3 came out. Granted, it wasn't that popular or successful, but it shows that, contrary to what some seem to think, Microsoft was contending in the spreadsheet arena long, long before Excel was even a glimmer on the horizon.
Feels like pretty clear behavior from starbucks to try and convince people they're better off not being in a union. When in actuality they probably wouldn't have changed anything for the other stores, had stores not unionized.
There used to be, and I'm not in a position to find it, a forum that specialized in cash paying the least amount for all procedures, lab tests, imaging etc.

It truely was impressive how these forum members unearthed massive savings and really, once you knew what to do, didn't seem all that invasive or difficult.

We are writing more groups using Referenced Based Pricing. Good idea.
No.

It's lipstick on a pig, it's a way of feeling important while making no difference. The way you combat climate change is by reducing carbon dioxide output and increasing biomass creation and therefore uptake and sinking. You can't write code that does that.

Adding complexity to everything is what software developers do best, only the most skilled ones manage to reduce complexity, and adding complexity to this situation isn't going to help anyone. Don't stick your fingers in the pie, this one's not for you unless you want to build some different skills.
More like 100 millions people though.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/02/chatgpt-1...
Seeing this reminded me of the song. It came out in July 2012 - almost 11 years ago now. Much happier and lighter times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0
"Incompetent but nice" means there's nothing you can do. It's only a matter of time until you get annoyed enough to let them go.
Most Arabic speaking scientific knowledge that was generated is Persian, I have not seen it generated from other areas from my research into Arabic polymaths. Baghdad would have been important too, but we know the story of the Mongols. A lot of the mathematical knowledge is also found in ancient India. For the longest I thought Arabic numerals were... Arabic.

They're from India.
> women represented in the computer science field peaked around the mid-1980s and has declined ever since

I thought ‘surely not’. I was wrong.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/there-are-too-few...
look, a 200billion bank of so savvy guys just collapsed, maybe regulators making sure they have visibility is important in itself
Agree. It'd be great to see Brave as the Chromium substitute.
Ask HN: Most important problem to solve with bridging-based ranking
Twitter Birdwatch (a.k.a Community Notes) takes a community-driven approach to addressing misinformation and bias on the platform while still enabling free speech. Birdwatch uses a bridging-based ranking system to show helpful notes from regular Twitter users who tend to disagree, rather than relying on majority rule or popularity. This allows the added context to benefit a wider audience.

I'm curious, what important applications or problems would benefit from a Birdwatch-like approach that uses bridging-based ranking? Or... if you could have Birdwatch for X what would it be?

More on Birdwatch here: https://communitynotes.twitter.com/guide/en
How much energy does it take to defend the US dollar currently?
We will be adding hdbscan in the coming days! Right now we only offer kmeans but for dimensionality reduction we offer pca, tnse, & pca .
> The industrial revolution didn't make human lives miserable, it made it better.

I think this is a point that is genuinely debatable. At least, it's pretty easy to argue both sides of that proposition.
I think that the comment I was responding to was about scenarios where are no human-created pathways, trails or roads. As I mentioned in some of these, modern fat (tire) bikes are still great; in others, it is true that walking would be the best choice (unless you're at the level of, say, Danny MacAskill).
You can recite that, as others have, but if there were more books than anyone could ever read, wouldn't the change in volume represent a change in kind, and a value change for recitation itself as transfer of memory?
Yeah but can it beatbox?
Why is Debian in that list then? It sounds like they just allow their users to access non-free software if they want to

> people can readily find these nonfree packages by browsing Debian's online package database and its wiki.
This is why I much prefer the MIT license though still respect GPL. Copy left is cool and all but it suffers from similar problems as paid software - you have restrictions on what you can do with it. The MIT license captures the spirit of “do whatever the fuck you want”
I wonder, does the law have any whistleblower provisions? Seems like a programmer who had been coerced to fudge the data, and kept receipts, could be in a good position...
If TikTok is banned, brace for epic First Amendment fight
They assume you will take it and continue using Windows. They appear to have assumed correctly.
> AI & robots will generate wealth at unprecedented scale, and humans will reap the benefits, the same way Alaskans reap the benefits of their natural resources.

Vast wealth will certainly be delivered to owners of the robots and AI systems.

What reason is there to believe that they would share the wealth with ordinary citizens?

A typical alternative to the Alaska model is one where oil companies extract all of the wealth and resources and citizens get nothing.
What happens when one or both of these happen:

1. Apple adds easy support for non-Apple app stores and side-loading to iOS to comply with the recent EU regulations that require opening things up in 2024, and then people can download TikTok from outside the US and install it?

2. TikTok users switch to using the TikTok website instead of the app?

It looks like the main thing the app gives you that the website can't is a convenient way to film short video and edit it and add music all on your phone and then post that. Surely someone could write a social network agnostic app just for filming, editing, and adding music that can upload that short video to any of your social media accounts (TikTok, YouTube shorts, and whatever other ones allow video). The destinations could be entirely user configurable and support any social network that provides a halfway decent upload API.

What's the US going to do? Try to make a US equivalent of China's Great Firewall? I don't think that would work here, because our free speech laws make it too easy to circulate circumvention information.

If I was a company that does mobile apps I'd be seriously looking right now into making that general short video maker/uploader app. If the US does successfully cut off TikTok all those users aren't going to just stop wanting to post and read the kind of things they are now doing there. They are going to try to move to other platforms. Done right, maybe my app would be something they use as part of that.
When you say ‘Word’, do you mean the app, the online one, or the Teams thing? They all behave differently and aren’t fully compatible. It’s very frustrating how formatting changes between the Words.
I’m bound by a regulator to format a certain way and it’s brutal when using a full MS stack.
That’s your stance, but look at the comment I was replying to “You haven't cited anything that shows China cares about using TikTok as a means of influencing foreign countries”.

The US (and post WW2 europe) has a long-standing policy of protecting democratic countries against expansionist dictatorships.

WW2 was an battle between two types of nations: democracies and dictatorships that wished to expand their empires. What is playing out in Ukraine and China is no different. If the democratic world shows weakness (e.g letting Russia to take over Ukraine) it threatens the entire democratic world order since suddenly smaller nations are free pickings to expand Russia / China’s sphere of influence.

Even something as benign as adjusting the temperature for Ukraine related content is 100% in China’s interest here. Ukraine cannot defend itself without the support of the US public, and any sign of weakness from the democratic countries will have material consequences.
You're right of course.

Unfortunately I don't have any choice in the matter of compiler or platforms. I do some work work on Linux and I use GCC there. It feels much more sane.

Visual Studio makes me want to take more blood pressure medication.