skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they can't just hand a warrant over to ByteDance get the data they want

Are there any examples of ByteDance refusing to hand over data in response to a warrant?
I used AWK for many years, but one day I realized that I had pushed AWK beyond whats its meant for, same as the author here. classic red flag from the article:

function NUMBER( res) {
return (tryParse1("-", res) || 1) &&
(tryParse1("0", res) || tryParse1("123456789", res) && (tryParseDigits(res)||1)) &&
(tryParse1(".", res) ? tryParseDigits(res) : 1) &&
(tryParse1("eE", res) ? (tryParse1("-+",res)||1) && tryParseDigits(res) : 1) &&
asm("number") && asm(res[0])
}

why put yourself through this, when you can just do something like this instead:

package parse

import "strconv"

func parse_float(s string) (float64, error) {
return strconv.ParseFloat(s, 64)
}

func parse_int(s string) (int64, error) {
return strconv.ParseInt(s, 10, 64)
}
I'm struggling with those numbers personally.
CoT prompts don’t help with “system 1” thinking, and other prompting principles
Does the Apple Classical app include non-Western traditional music?

It's interesting, what even is classical music? I bet there's music that crosses boundaries, like jazz-classical or pop-classical. Are those subgenres on the app?
yeah I thought by paying the 20 I would have API access but sadly this is not the case thus the web interface.
> Staff complained, and management (to their credit) wanted to address the concerns. So where do they go? To talks like this, etc.

Honestly this sounds apocryphal.

What is the type of racist that accidentally doesn't promote any black people? Furthermore, what is the subset of those racists that simply stop once they get lectured about their obviously racist practices? If they're promoting the wrong people (ie the ones that don't do the job the best) they get fired.
Agreed. There are a hundred different kinds of information processing that go into a human-like mind, and we've kinda-sorta built one piece. And there are a lot of pieces that it would neither be sane nor useful to build (eg. internalized emotions), so we might not see an AI with all the pieces for a very long time ("never" is probably too much to hope for).
>I see no reason to give up on the ideal.

I don't, either, but this really depends on how one treats this ideal. Everything can and will be abused, so, simply not caring about this angle is irresponsible. Technology _can_ however also help people a lot, and I appreciate that about it.

>In the end, it's in the interest of those who control the technology to make the end-users happy.

That's definitely, provably, empirically untrue. Making the end user happy is just one of the ways that service providers can make money, they can also, for example, make them miserable in a specific way, and then offer the cure. They can also, for example, try to reach for a monopoly position. They can identify the true end users, and those who make the decisions for them - their managers, or regulators, for example, and use them to shove their service down their throat. There's plenty of ways to prevail that don't seek to create happiness, and they are often more in reach than providing happiness - including situations where the end users themselves don't strive for their own happiness, thereby rejecting the happier service or product.

I kind of agree about it being a useless channel. So, why haven't everyone turned off their notifications? There are, for example, people so lonely that a device that competes for their attention doesn't seem like a bad idea. Others say that they don't mind, that they are so good at filtering out on the mental level that it doesn't affect them. And the list is endless - bottom line is, people often keep the defaults, and so, notifications reach a lot of people.

Also, about turning it off - sometimes you just can't. Even if some callers annoy me a lot, I don't turn off my phone because there are callers that I expect a call from. So, I put up with the annoyance. (This story is for illustration.) So I'm in the camp that haven't turned off the notifications.

TL;DR In my experience "tech = good" is naive. It's worthwhile to bother with technology, but it's far from an "inherently good" ideal.
“To understand a bicycle, you must first understand Newtonian dynamics.”
Nope, with single speed/hub gears chain wear is still a problem, it's just that they're less sensitive to it and there's fewer parts to replace. When the chain gets longer it gets loose, but it has to be very loose indeed to fall off or skip on a single speed. With a derailleur setup there's a tension arm with a weak spring so when the chain wants to skip that tension arm lets it. Derailleur setups commonly have some cogs with fewer teeth than single speeds so the problem is more obvious. Also, often derailleur cogs are aluminium while single speed ones are steel (not always!).

Typically a safety bike will get through 3-5 chains before needing to replace the rear cog, and many more before replacing the chainring(s). But Pinion gearboxes in the bottom bracket often run small chainrings that are similar in size to the rear cog, and I suspect they need to replace both rather than just the rear one.
It's too late. Anyone who pauses will simply be left behind.

This is especially salient if you think US domination of tech is better for the world than Chinese domination -- if the US pauses, China certainly won't. (And yes, US domination or Chinese domination of tech really are the only realistic outcomes.)
Paid users get priority access, with quotas. Free users get to are often shown a "Sorry, at capacity" type screen, that I suspect will increase through time, suggested by the fact that paid quotas are already shrinking, with ChatGPT4.

I suspect these models will usually have a "free", highly limited, option. It's the perfect bait! (worked for me)
Even with modern medicine, sedated patients sometimes perform involuntary movements resembling sleep myoclonus[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnic_jerk
The position known since the Kama Sutra as the Aztec Sacrifice. However, in the next edition it will be renamed the "Praying Mantis" in order to be less offensive.
Only available for Apple. Not interested.
Who is relying on the cashflow from these loans that haven't been paid in 3 years? With every other loan or bond, someone's business model or ability to stay solvent relies on interest payments coming in.

Apparently student loans exist in the ether where pay or don't pay for 3 years, whatever, it won't make a difference?
I can't tell which logical fallacy that falls under. It's a kind of red herring or appeal to consequences.

Maybe a bit of Argument from incredulity and appeal to emotion? "i can't see any other solution, so this is the only way."
Intuitively I feel the right one should be reverse threaded, but I'm always mistaken. This question has the same thought process as me, and an answer https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/6488/why-are-bic...
Ah shit. Here we go again.
> a Chinese psyop marketed as a social media app

Do you personally use tiktok?
Your devices are not only one around you.
Realistically speaking, how long would it take for someone who has college-level Linear Algebra and multi-variable Calculus knowldge and rusty familiarity with ML (via Andrew NG's matlab course) to learn the concept of LLM and state of the art algorithms behind SDs and GPTs?

Would it even make sense if one's interest is not image or text generation?
What’s a prol?
I would love to watch a reboot or remake.
It's more of an outlier than a norm IMO. It is wrong to say everyone has particular preference about height, but for majority there is IMO, even though it's not what we want to see/hear. I was significantly more successful in dating, when I had height filter set to women 2 inch shorter than me (right from getting matches).
Physical mail delivery exists. What's the point of email?
I certainly support the idea that alternatives to what we currently have are
needed. But I must admit even as a software developer I feel confused when looking at https://github.com/social4git/social4git/blob/main/doc/walkt... how this even works.

Maybe some illustration would help to explain data and/or control flow?

The number of pilot users would still deserve growing: https://github.com/social4git/social4git/blob/main/doc/direc...
There was google before chatgpt, and google always did just as good a job at finding things to cut and paste. Sure, it was a few more clicks, but for a motivated student that's no barrier.
I believe there was some skullduggery where M$ encouraged Wordperfect and Lotus, who dominated their markets, to focus on OS/2 as the future, while preparing to release or further promote Excel and Word for Windows with the release of Windows 3.0. (and possibly sabotaging the OS/2 effort). They also started the practice of bundling them up as "Office" which made Powerpoint a freebie, thus killing the market for presentation programs that had had competition at the time. I worked in an Egghead Software store while all this was going on.
I find a certain sense of irony in the Chinese propagandists touting arguments such as 'this is authoritarian", "this is anti-competitive", "this is because TikTok won't let the US spy on its citizens" and so forth when ALL OF THESE THINGS are done by the CCP and worse.

The reason for banning it is simple: it can be used as a first-strike weapon to influence an entire generation (or two) of Americans in a conflict with China that is almost certain to happen. Keeping it under Chinese control is a bad idea.

China has the option to sell it to an American company, take the money and build more guns to shoot at us. Honestly, it's a win-win.
Do I support TikTok? No, not in the least bit. Their privacy controls are horrendous and, at this stage, user info and content is undoubtedly siphoned and delivered straight to the CCP. Where it goes beyond that is undoubtedly in some Tom Clancy novel, of which likely pales in comparison to some even more grim reality.

Was TikTok a net good to American society? Depends on who you ask, but if anything I think most people would agree that it only exaggerated the decline of the average attention span. This moves with the larger movement to commodify clicks, quick ads and lowers the threshold towards late stage capitalism. In short, this speeds cultural decline ("I said what I said").

Would I support an American TikTok? No, see above.

Should TikTok be banned by the US congress? When is the last time you ever saw a ban of something that didn't include any overt pocket lining or omnibus-style overreach? Read the bill, the language is broad and sweeping; certainly kin to the CFAA and COPPA.

So what then? Well we're certainly at an impasse here, right? We can't rely on tech businesses to turn their shoulders to cold hard cash. We can't rely on our elected officials to "Do the right thing" without lining their pockets and sharpening their knives. Truly a conundrum with no good solution.
The “kerb sucks you in” phenomenon is target fixation, you’re getting closer to the kerb because you’re staring at it. It’s a common cause of motorbike accidents, among other things.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target_fixation
I buy these kind of smaller value items from my local drug store, grocery store, etc. feels wasteful to ship and add more layers of packaging to small goods like this.
Elon Musk can't manage to come down on the right side of any issue these days.
I'd say that people who would find Spain and Iceland appealing for this sort of thing are two different demographics (of course, not without overlap). Much as I love Spanish food, culture and my Spanish friends, moving to Spain for six months holds little appeal. Iceland, on the other hand...
They could potentially be trained on applying diffs though. Wikipedia has full source control version history of how things evolved, and so do most of the source code corpuses they use like github.

Google has keystroke by keystroke history of all google docs, could pull an Adobe Stock and opt everyone in with some TOS update but the blowback would be huge.
Locally run a ChatGPT-style LLM Trained from 800k GPT-3.5-Turbo Generations
Yeah it is not and never will be Linux or whatever HN poster child that will kill MS. It is smartphones.

Which MS was aware of but we all know what happened with Windows Phone.
The last month of the quarter (except for June) is usually the best moment to look for a job - people all over the hierarchy have KPIs to meet and whatnot.

Now is the time to send out CVs because you might well end up as part of someone's target for the quarter. The window gradually fades and closes by the end of April and what's left are companies which hire continously and they are very picky.
> How the hell did Trump make it on both lists!? Clearly lots of work to do

1) For what it's worth, I'm not personally offended by this kind of mild joke. But making this kind of joke is probably not the way to become seen as the most trusted and impartial platform. You're not doing anything to set my mind at ease that you'd never put your thumb on whatever algorithm you have.

2) As for why somebody might like Trump? We recently had an era of relative peace and prosperity. Kind of hard to be up in arms about a few mean tweets when the world is heading closer to a new Cold (or even Hot) War and the wheels are falling off the economy. You of course don't have to agree with me about that, but as somebody with a ranking site, you ought to recognize that there are perspectives which can make you have radically different opinions with others.
But isn't this a bill of attainder? It's a bill specifically against one company.
Indeed, SWEs often glaze over Ops, Analyst, and PM roles, but those usually (broadly-speaking) have a lower qualifications bar than SWE, and pay much, much better than McDonalds. Plus it gets you in the door somewhere to start hacking on some pain points, transfer laterally to SWE, etc etc.
Quantum computing is theoretically able to attack many of the public key encryption algorithms we use. Hardware encryption of HDs doesn't use those algorithms, it uses symmetric-key algorithms, that are not vulnerable to quantum attacks.
They have 900 signatures already..
> Emergent properties of systems aren't less real just because they exist in a different regime than the underlying mechanics of the system.

I'm not claiming emergent properties aren't real. I am claiming the nature of the word consciousness itself is loaded. We are dealing with a vocabulary problem when it comes to that word... we are not dealing with an actual problem.

For example take your chair and table example. Let's say someone created something that is functionally and looks similar to both a chair and a table. Is it worth your time to argue about the true nature of chairs and tables then? Is it really such a profound concept to encounter a a monstrous hybrid that upends the concept of chair and table? No.

You'd just be arguing semantics. Because chair and table is really a made up concept. You'd be debating about vocabulary. Same with consciousness.
The trading desk is not for investing by the Fed. That's for influencing interest rates based on inflation/deflation concerns and overall employment.

Investors buy or sell securities to earn a profit. Not the Fed.
You are overestimating how much of a concern 2 is for lawmakers. Meta getting its ass kicked is a happy bonus for both political parties.
But the given examples are basic procedures like “wrist x-ray” or “endoscopy”. Surely they have simpler rate calculations than the potential special cases you mention?
Completely agree. The modern equivalent of the Berlin Wall has already gone up (i.e. sanctions and divestment) and will stay up for at least one generation.

However, Americans underestimate how much our own influence is shrinking. I traveled to many countries in the last two years, and found that most people associate America with its most extreme ideologies (QAnon, gender theory, Trump policies, etc). The Russian bloc of the upcoming Cold War v2 will likely coalesce around the notion that America/Europe has no right to dictate global policy.
Perplexity $25m Series A
Ya seems he is upset he missed out
Kagi is $10 and the search results are great.
You’re getting those benefits in general, though not at that instant, but is the tax you pay on march 28th making every street you drive on that day better? No, it’s smeared around spatially and temporally.

If you’re in Iceland for six months you might not even owe taxes in your home country for that period.
Everything is out in the open now. The methods, the algorithms, heck even powerful base model weights from Meta. The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is clearly visible for all. The capabilities are emerging. The race is on. It’s not going to stop till there’s a winner.

You laugh but I think your view is flawed because your belief is, “we have to create an AGI because everyone else will if we don’t”

The definition of a world ending arms race ?

This topic amongst others should be a good time for people to actually come together, reflect and and talk about the future we want to create rather than just LOL about it, start wars with each other etc ?

I guess your just being cynical but really? LOL?

Even ChatGPT would probably tell you this isn’t a smart way forwards.
I can jerk quite strongly when falling asleep, much to the annoyance of my girlfriend and, presumably, our dogs.

I really wouldn't want to do the same when someone has a scalpel in my guts.
> John Searle, broadly, framed the issue correctly in the 80s and the standard critiques are wrong.

The standard critiques are not wrong, IMNSHO. Searle's Chinese Room is facile mind-poison. It is an unfalsifiable hypothesis.

What if I could simulate physics down to the molecular level, including simulating a human brain? Would that be conscious? If not why not?

And if I ran that simulation (a bit slowly, granted) by having that guy from the Chinese Room manually run the simulation, painstakingly following the instruction code of that simulation, would the fact that the simulation is being implemented by someone who unrelatedly is conscious himself, have any bearing on the scenario?

Searle's argument here is "Not Even Wrong".
I'm fine if TikTok gets banned, but I feel like Facebook and all the other social media incumbents owe Americans a bunch of money for their biggest competition being banned.
Some of these distros are not approved because they talk about or make it too easy to acquire nonfree software.
The prefect was also involved at some point, I might well have mixed that up. The structure honestly seems quite convoluted from the outside, but the responsible party seemed to be a part of the executive. (I tried to check whether a tribunal of some sort belonged to the judiciary, because it looked like it didn’t, and gave up. No deep knowledge here, sorry.)

> [The mayor] can refuse an organized protest [...], but cannot prohibit protests.

What’s the practical difference? I’m not sure I see one, having seen years of “oh no you can’t have your rally here, there’s extremely unfortunately some other thing nobody’s heard about happening in your primary location and renovations at your alternate one and you’ll have to move to a place two hours from city centre and by the way we sat on your notification for a month and the deadline to resubmit was two days ago”.

(Legally, the Russian system is that of affirmative notifications, not of requests for permission, so you have to manufacture a conflict or a threat to public safety of some sort to really refuse, as well as offer an alternate location. The ECHR had a field day dismantling those excuses with about a decade’s latency, before Russia was drummed out of the Council of Europe to widespread cheering and activists were left to maybe possibly write to the OHCHR in the godsdamned UN and hope it works? I heard they’ve literally sent out more complaints now than the office has handled over the entirety of its pre-2022 history. I guess even the UN needs to have its joints greased from time to time.)
This was an enjoyable read. I liked the prose.
Just before reading the article I watched a VLog by Jisoo where she is exploring various cities as part of the BLACKPINK world tour. I often complain about not being able to travel, and that I’m too passive, spend too much time on my computer, that life is just passing by. Yet here I am making time to watch someone else do exactly what I supposedly would like to do too. And I don’t even have any good excuses.

What I’m saying is I’m a sucker for posts like this since they hit home. Ultimately it’s just wallowing in sadness and self pity. No actual change ever comes from reading them.

Still great fun though!
The confetti has left the cannon.[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35346683
Yeah it's an art. Sometimes you true a wheel and it just works. Sometimes it's like you're stuck in some local minima and can't get out; The wheel is egg shaped, so you tighten the long sides, then it's round but suddenly the wheel is tilted instead, you fix it but now it's off center, you fix it but the tension is wrong, you fix it but now it's egg shaped again..
It's a distinction without a difference. In the past maybe they didn't know there was toxic cadmium in the cacao, but it's obvious now. Yet they continue to make and sell cadmium cacao that is going to kill people for sure. No one seems to care. It's effectively the same as adding cadmium to the official recipe at this point.
Most people use Android nowadays and a lot of the older generation is seeing a lot of Mac usage as well as iOS.

If MS dealt with all their technical debt and built a brand new OS following proper disclosure as well as OSing most of their kernel, you'd see that it would be much harder to exploit.

Think of linux that runs over 90% of all servers in the world. How many ransomware attacks have they been hit with?
I just completed 6 weeks at the Recurse Center. Here is what I learned
Maybe a strange take, but one silver lining to this is AI models can at least capture the essence of human culture and arts in a fairly compact format. Might be a good "backup" of sorts if the world falls apart.
I did not. "Malicious action" is the result of violating informed consent, and as such redundant. I'm not surprised that McAfee left out "informed", btw.
Facial recognition AI is just facial recognition AI, all it will do is pull up that newspaper clipping. It does not and cannot make any kind of ruling on who’s a suspect - that is a decision for the police to make.

Now, if you have a dim view of the police who are using it, you might expect they will see an obituary and close the case on the spot without investigating further; if you have an optimistic view of the police, you might instead expect they will investigate that obituary to validate it - perhaps by asking the newspaper who ran that obituary, which would lead them to you or one of your associates.

I don’t know what happened in that specific case I mentioned; it’s just a story I heard floating around the industry. I tend to have a positive view of police so my assumption in the absence of evidence is that if they cared enough to investigate a cold case, they would also care enough to do some digging on the obituary that turned up, but I don’t know. It’s valid to have a negative view of police! In that case, your assumption might be that they saw that obituary and used it as a convenient excuse to close a case and improve their metrics.

This is part of why I say face rec inherits morality from its users.
We’re dealing with all the dynamics of a not only the superorganism of humanity, but of the the biological reality of the earth as whatever it is in the soil of the stars. It is indeed about to get very interesting. All the ingredients of emergence are quite rich these days.