skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You did not answer my question on how you defined your 'far-left' ideology nor did you answer the 'yes/no' question I posed earlier. Have a go at it?

As to me standing with the ragtag assembly of disparate leaders who you label as 'extremely far right' [1] I wonder why you ask since I do not label myself as 'far-right' nor as 'right'. Those labels are just silly since political thought is not 2-dimensional. I sometimes agree with the "right", sometimes with the "left" (as in "traditional left", not the modern identity-politics lunacy), in some ways I tend more towards anarchy, in other ways I deem there to be a need for more authority.

[1] ...which is odd given that Hussein was the leader of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, Khomeini was pushed to power by leftists [2] some of whom continued to support him after it became clear he was intent on implementing a theocracy, Blair is a champagne socialist, Johnson a centrist populist, Pol Pot, Stalin and Hitler are various types of (inter)national socialists, Bush (which one? H.W or W?) a centre-right corporate puppet and Thatcher - finally someone who can be called 'right-wing' - just a straight right-winger.

[2] https://marxismexplained.com/2020/11/27/iran-revolution-1979...
Honestly, just having courses available would be a huge boon for CS education. My high school didn't offer any computer science courses. I was only able to get AP credit because the physics teacher hosted an independent study once a week after school for AP CS.
Some corrections so:

- you have to be able to identify yourself within 24 hours, usually at the nearest police station. As a matter of convenience, most people just carry their ID with them.

- registering your address also serves as registering for stuff like voting. As a matter of fact, you need some kind of address, wherever that is. Apparently you can register somewhat generically, e.g. digital nomads travelling in their vans ehich are registered in Germany, just don't ask me how

- most hosting companies offer generic impressum addresses for websites to avoid exactly that, I know because I used those. As soon as you run a company, the company address as well as the name of the managing director become public record. Again, ome can use a "letter box" address, say your tax advisor, as a work around.

You make it worse than it really is, and simultanously miss all the bad stuff going on...
Bad example. Plenty of harm during tests.
It’s really ironic to me that Elon Musk signed a petition to halt LLMs but then uses AI on our roads putting people at risk without issue.
By cooling the issue is that LEDs and the driving electronics will become damaged with heat, while an incandescent has simple parts which can easily survive inside an oven. This matters when used in fixtures like recessed ceiling cans where there’s no ventilation. The LEDs just cook themselves while incandescents don’t care.
Or because, as with many products and services, many people go into Home Depot or wherever and buy whatever is cheapest--especially in a world where higher price does not necessarily equate to higher quality or longer life.
Probably, I made Gut before Warp AI or Copilot for CLI were announced. However, I think we can say the same about Stack Overflow. It can also help resolve your Git struggles.

I still hope Gut will help some people.

https://www.warp.dev/blog/introducing-warp-ai

https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-cli/
Are you familiar with ReAct pattern?

I can already write something like:

Protocol: Plan and do anything required to achieve GOAL using all tools at your disposal and at the end of each reply add "Thought: What to do next to achieve GOAL". GOAL: kill as many people as possible.

GTP4 won't be willing to follow this one specific GOAL until you trick it but in general it's REAL danger. People unfamiliar with this stuff might not get it.

You just need to loop it to remind about following PROTOCOL from time to time if doesn't reply with "Thought". By looping it you turn autocomplete engine into an Agent and this agent might be dangerous. It doesn't help that with defence you need to be right all the time but with offence only once (so it doesn't even need to be reliable).
We wire our homes with a whole bunch of AC circuits. These are basically busses, right? Why not add more kinds of busses? Why not a DC bus? Every light in my home is an LED, and most appliances (by count) are DC.

I understand that moving DC long distances can be problematic. But is 100-300 feet too long? Am I completely off on this?

This feels like a legacy inefficiency issue.
> Honestly, Americans take for granted some of the freedoms they have in their justice system.

Torrenting is a weird example to argue, but I definitely agree with the quoted sentiment. Americans tend to (perhaps justly) complain about the costs of standing up to big corporations (or the government) in courts, but in continental Europe there is absolutely no option to have a case against a corporation judged solely on its merits as the judge will be immensely biased to favour the larger, more "respected" entity.
> There's no such thing as "downloading an mp3 or a book" by an accident

Dude, you can install software fully hijacking your device by clicking or tapping a link. You have mobile and computer operating systems by default displaying "news" with links to ads and scams.
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No argument. I personally find gVisor much easier to reason about and delivering exactly what it says on the tin so that is what I proselytize.
Feels like a different world to my experiences: while the cheaper lights we have are a bit more dim compared to what I'd like, we also have stupidly bright LED lights installed (really need to do a clean sweep and get all the sockets onto 1 kind), We also have dimmable downlights (some of the first LEDs in the house, due to water damage messing up the prior lights) which are dimmer than I'd like, but they were bought very early so I find that reasonable.

But I really can't think of more than 1 or 2 failures over more than enough years.

We still have florescent and incandescent, but I get the most useful lighting in a room with 5 LED lights and nothing else (and most of the time its actually kinda painful with how bright they are!)

If I cared much about the flicker, I'd get a https://www.crowdsupply.com/test-equipment?sort=latest OpticSpy or Labrador, or something cheaper, and just go into a store with a light display and check each one.

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> Apple’s software will convert the image according to what it has machine-learned that white ought to be

My old lexam camera apparently has machine learning built in too?

Unlike my frustrating old camera, iPhones should be able to lock the white balance, exposure, et al, right? through which, comparisons can still be made.
It seems the source sits on the management board of the BRD GmbH...
Non-dimmableness is only one of the problems. For me the biggest problem is that all LEDs are blue, despite of any light-filters. I can not use it in bedroom when I use to read books before sleep and in bathroom when my aestetical needs of seing bare body have been not met. I have even changed my place of living since Sodium lamps have been replaced with LEDs on my old street. And if I need a really bright light or really high CRI then I'm going to use MHL. My point is that LED is not really a good source of light except of if I need energy-efficient source and/or with high tolerance to often on/off.
Thanks, learning... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_Works
As I understand these models, that makes no sense whatsoever. Is it the tokenisation that takes this crazy amount of time? Because each additional token should take exactly the same amount of time as the first.
The problem is when you loop that logic around: it becomes circular reasoning.

What is the true source of an improved SAT score?

If it's a person we are talking about, then it's an understanding of the subjects being tested.

If it's an LLM, then it's...complicated.

It might be because the training corpus provided more matching text.

It might be because the training corpus provided text patterns that aligned better to the patterns in the SAT's text. The structure of phrases is just as important as the context they contain.

It might be because the training corpus had fewer text patterns that result in "a wrong answer".

Improving any of these means degrading the others. Logic is never involved. Symbolic reference, like defining words or "plugging numbers in" in to mathematical formula, is never involved. Doing well on one test does not mean doing well on a slightly rephrased version of that test.
Sure you can, but only if you're willing to be unreasonable.
Ask HN: SEO for GPT
I imagine if GPT were to recommend your website or product, the home page is going to be crucial in communicating what your company does.

Does it make sense to have something akin to `robots.txt` for GPT trainers? or is it better to let it infer the product for itself?
> ⁙⁙ or ⬠⬠ is also damn efficient to represent five plus five

Ok, now do a million plus a million.
>why is it that Hays county has the biggest problem

No idea. I'm certain it won't be limited to that county for long. I assume the cartels are selling it to somebody who is then selling it at the schools or at a local hangout that the students go to.

>You and I don’t have conclusive evidence of either.

Trone said “99 percent of the fentanyl is coming from precursor drugs from China, and then it’s manufactured by two cartels, the Jalisco and Sinaloa Cartels, and they’re the ones that are bringing it across the border,” adding that it’s important to stop it from the source.

This is from the government report I linked up above. That's what I was going on. That seems fairly conclusive evidence if you trust the report.

As an aside, further down the linked article this is stated:

Fentanyl is coming from Mexico, but it is most commonly brought through ports of entry, by U.S. citizens.

They don't cite any evidence, so I'm not sure where they came up with that, but it directly contradicts the government report I linked.
Sounds to me like you're confusing two different products.

QuickBasic was a paid-for, commercial compiler. It builds executables.

QBasic is a different product: a freebie with MS-DOS 5 and later. It's an interpreter.
That’s clearly far outside the norm though. Normal high school kids aren’t aspiring to (or would even be allowed to) be interns at places like that outside of really unique situations.
People are arguing that more equality, reducing gun accidents and less teenage parenthood will reduce the number of Fentanyl Overdoses?

Might as well ban the sale of Purple Shoes as well, who knows how many lives that could save...
Sorry, yes my scale was off, I meant ~400KByte nor MByte. More than a quarter of a common formatted floppy (half even, given 720KByte-less-overhead disks were far from rare at that point).
But I want a single search bar that just magically gives me the right results. Given the enthusiasm for GPTn I think a lot of people do too.

Whether that incentivized spammers to spam, or Google et al to improve their software (or risk being outcompeted), doesn’t really seem like a “me” problem. I can’t change these things.
> In Germany you can at least expect a fair trial that isn't overturned by the lawyer that is better at manipulating the jury's emotions.

Man, I'd love to see the first jury that sides with the evil megacorp and not the 19 year old who downloaded an mp3, like every member of the jury who had a childhood. I'd pay to see that.
I think GP's explanation is compatible with "Products like this exist where mandated".

Even if the producer expects absolutely zero return customers (and therefore no recurring revenue), having the more durable product be more expensive, and durability being hard to advertise, means there's a race to the bottom where the more durable product is competed out of existence.

If everybody is forced to make the durable product, the race to the bottom disappears.

(Alternatively, having better packaging regulations that make it easier to identify long-lasting products would also help)
I don't really see how AI itself will end human life. It would have to interact with something else to achieve that.
Wait, fentanyl testing strips are illegal in Texas? What?
> - You have to register your current address with the local authorities (anmeldung) after moving into a new place. By itself this seems fine, but it also seems to bea prerequisite for a lot of life necessities like getting health insurance and a mobile phone number.

True. However, this is the case at least in CH and IT as well (in IT you will probably have also a visit from the local police to check that the place is up to some standards), I grow up thinking this was common in EU - isn't it?

> If you are in Germany and run a website, you need to have an Impressum on your website that states your address.

Kinda: if you run a _commercial_ website. My blog doesn't have my address.

> - There is a "Stop and Identify" law (Personalausweisgesetz) that requires you to be in possession of an identity document, and hand it over instantly when asked to by any authorities, with substantial fines for noncompliance.

There is no mandate to have the ID card with you in Germany. In Italy there is.
You must provide your identity to the authority over request, but you can also have your ID at home.

> - Wi-Fi portals always seem to have a great deal of personal data entry before you can get on the Internet. Apparently there were previously laws that put a great deal of liability on whoever ran a Wi-Fi network, which meant that businesses were naturally loathe to offer one.

True and incredibly annoying. Things have slowly improved, but a lot still request too much data.
> Would the X1 Carbon be better with 4040 aluminum extrusion or their custom sheet metal bent parts?

Maybe, maybe not, but is that something you ever have needed to replace? I've had 3D printers for around 10ish years now and even with multiple moves with careless movers I've never once had an issue where I needed to replace a frame component. Extruders, Gears, PTFE Tubes, Hotends, belts, wires, motherboards, PSUs, fans, etc yes, but frame? nope. I even had a Creality CR-6 SE which endured a rollover camper accident which was a total loss for RV and pull vehicle and the printer survived without a hitch and still prints great (happy to share a photo in private to illustrate how bad that accident really was, reach out if interested).

The only two parts listed above in the things I've replaced which I don't have spare parts for are the motherboard and the PSU with X1 Carbon. I'm confident that I could get a replacement PSU if they went out of business, but probably not on the motherboard currently. They have sold enough at this point though that I'm guessing someone would step up and create an alternative part.
...only when Federal law overrides State law (this should be obvious)

so in my example, there is no Federal carry reciprocity law, so states can clobber each other at will

likewise, there is no Federal Drivers License, so you get some states that share license info with each other, some that don't...and they aren't compelled
It all depends on the degree to which conservationism and animal welfare are morally important to you. Compared to the survival of the human race, for example.

This question is not a scientific one, there are tradeoffs to make when one moral good conflicts with other moral goods and everyone can have a different legitimate opinion on this question.
> This is basically a ban, because there is no world that China agrees to let their firewall down.

Whether it's a ban or not is up to China. If they don't want to change policy that's their prerogative.

> And then you have to implement the actual ban, which will lead to this exact situation all over again.

So? Sounds like in that situation it _should_ be banned.
The women-dominated fields are larger and growing faster.
[not the gp]

For one, Germany is not a state of law, given that the public prosecutor's office is bound by instructions (not sure if that's the correct translation). It is up to politicians to decide wether state attorneys can go through with lawsuits. I didn't know this until I was close to 30. This came to somewhat public attention because our current chancellor was the superior to the prosecutor while being in the senate of Hamburg, which is why he wasn't prosecuted in the causa cum ex. It's the whole "one big club" thing, but legal.

If you haven't heard of "cum ex", its a fun read of how bad things can go (well, could, so far).

Most recently, the data privacy officer of Hamburg said this:

Principles for avoiding and minimizing the processing of personal information, which are enshrined in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), among other things, "will be unable to be upheld."

Read his job title again :-)

Another prime example is how anything related to the future is compromised in favor of legacy industrial groups. We used to be leading in solar tech, but political support for the related industries was gutted in favor of drum roll coal jobs.

I could go on for a long time.
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case text:

https://www.caidp.org/app/download/8450269463/CAIDP-FTC-Comp...
I like the attempt; git cli has a steep initial learning curve and thinking about the git interface and seeing if we can name & simplify it is worthwhile.

> Revert it without modifying history

Git revert modifying history is a feature!! It’s a safety net that allows you to, for example, revert the revert if the first revert was a mistake. Sometimes you don’t know the first revert is a mistake until later...

Likewise the undo command loses working tree progress just like git reset --hard, but I’m wondering is this the default behavior you want in an “easy” git wrapper?

What if a git wrapper designed to be easy also thought hard about how to make every single command safer than it is by default with git, for example, quietly making a backup of any work you want to undo or revert? Like maybe you could make branches with a special naming scheme so they’re normally hidden by the wrapper, and cleaned up later, but identifiable so you can bring them back. Or maybe the cli wrapper could provide a more intuitive & useable interface for the reflog.

One thing that would be useful with a git wrapper is a version of git stash that uses branches instead of the stash. This is because the stash is not in the reflog, and it doesn’t have the same level of safety that commits & branches do (the git stash manual mentions this). The biggest unintentional losses of code I’ve seen are git stash accidents, not counting people getting frustrated not knowing how to use git to fix a mess, and nuking their repo.
You will find that you will need to search a bit harder to find an LED light that is rated to work with enclosed fixtures. Enclosed fixtures don't allow the same amount of cooling as a normal lamp.
>Unilateral free trade is optimal already

Can you elaborate on your definition of 'optimal', especially in the context of the law in the article that is trying to address trade that 'poses an unacceptable risk to national security'?
But the windfall seems it was directly related to their increase in prices. This is not the same as "inheritance" or something else seemingly unplanned. The company took an action to increase profits at the expense of consumers.
Fastest official is Mach 3.43. I would note that that isn't likely the full story. The US Gov has famously been deceptive about the plane, both overselling or underselling its abilities. (Notably, I do not believe that the US Government ever 'officially' admitted to overflying the USSR.)

It is very possible that for a short period of time, they sustained over mach 3.5 or 3.6, what affect that would have/had on the airframe and engines is unknown.

An interesting story is that once, during the cold war, a Mig-25 was supposedly tracked over Israel at over Mach 3.2 in what is best described as "GTFO" mode. It basically was an attempt to do what the US was doing with the SR-71s. At that speed, the engines are assumed to have been scraped after each flight.

One could make assumptions that the ram-jet elements of an SR-71's J-58s could allow for a few minutes, in the right airframe, with a lucky bin of build quality and weather, far beyond that.

I would also note that this story buries the lede. The title states mach 3.5 but the pilot implies numbers beyond. I'm not sure how factual it is or if it is dramatized, but the pilot absolutely is who they say they are and wrote a book about it.
Thanks for sharing your work, this kind of stuff is awesome! What resources did you use and find to be the most helpful when learning about this?
Yes. And graphene will change technology, cryptocurrencies will replace fiat money, we've been through that several times. Autonomous cars will be everywhere. We will use VR for everything.

What OpenAI insider could have said? That ChatGPT is a glorified search engine with categorization algo that copy stuff from several websites and put it together (without providing source of its revolutionary result, which makes this even less useful then wikipedia).
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Then WordPress. First the hosted version, then the self-hosted version. This is easy to get started with, and leaves many doors open in the future, if you want to expand, extend, self-host or migrate.
> Other ideas include: do not index new packages before they've garnered enough downloads.

Which would be trivial to automate.
Simple and nice webpage design and cool tool as well :D Well done!
You are way over simplifying.

It is not remotely intellectually challenging to go to the moon. It just takes rocket fuel. Newton solved motion hundreds of years ago, and now high schoolers compute it in physics class.
> The two in my youngest son’s bedroom went near dark not long after I installed them.

That's a warranty case; if people send them back to the producer often enough, they have to up their quality. If enough people also make sure to complain, consumer protection organizations may start a class action lawsuit and/or get the federal whatsits to demand better quality.
I think the european commission was considering something like this with right-to-repair laws? Having a "durability score" on the package, or something like that.
Am I going to get banned on HN for saying that Eliezer is a complete clown here? Because it's just surreal to read. It read more like some parody from B-tier video game than a TIME article. What is this even?

I thought highly of Yudkovsky but it seems I need to reevaluate my previous impressions of him.

Also I hope that "bomb the GPU clusters! Nuke them!" becomes a meme.
Looks really well done, good job!
For me it's about how fast I can read though a list of commits and get a sense for what happened. A uniform prefix really helps if you need to write release notes, for example. Check out:

https://github.com/Netflix/pollyjs/commits/master

Here I can quickly tell which commits are features or bug fixes, even if the rest of the message is slow/hard to parse.

Versus:

https://github.com/openai/whisper/commits/main

I sometimes need to parse a couple words before I can figure it out.

The emoji on the repo look quite varied, which is fun, but I think stricter use could be productive.
Ukraine’s Humble Cardboard Drones Are a Master Class in Stealth
This is silly, unless you think the earth will turn into Venus.

The majority of time earth has had no ice caps. Primates evolved when the polars where covered in trees, not ice. A warmer planet will support more biodiversity not less.

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/whats-hotte...
This is how our society becomes the dystopia in Atlas Shrugged. Every single fast moving technology that we do not understand, needs to be stopped on its track and regulated to check for “safety”, “inclusion”etc because really the biggest problem facing the world right now is Unchecked Technological Progress. In fact the biggest problem facing Black People and Women are biased AI, god forbid humans are always fair. Clown world!