skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah exactly! Especially the whole Wayland and Snap experience. It seems like it is not quite there - I understand the benefits but just not right there.
Reasons for Hope in Our Troubled World
These control feedback loops (sentient or not, it does not matter) which can outperform us (because we keep pushing until they can), or can self-improve, can make a mockery of our attempts to stop them.

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The concern is about Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI), or Artifical General Intellience (AGI) that is more advanced than humans.

Understanding inductively how chimpanzees don't compete with humans, and couldn't fathom how to cage a human (given that they want to create one, keep it alive, and use it), nor ants plan for an anteater, we're faced with the same problem.

Our goal is to make something that performs better, on relevant metrics that we care about. However, we're using systems to train, build, guide, and direct these nested, (maybe self-improving) control feedback loops, which do not care about many values we consider essential.

Many many of the likely architectures for control systems which can (e.g. trade faster to make profit on the stock exchange, or acquire and terminate targets, buy and sell goods, design proteins, automatically research and carry out human-meaningful tasks), and ideally, we might like self-improvement—these systems do not embody human values that we consider essential...

These control feedback loops (sentient or not, it does not matter) which can outperform us (because we keep pushing until they can), or can self-improve, can make a mockery of our attempts to stop them.

And the point is, there will come a time soon when we don't get a second chance to make that choice.
> Yeah, have to wonder how many people, if they had the money, would want to buy out Twitter just to wipe it out. Doesn't a huge chunk of HN hate Twitter and wish it were dead?

> (Regardless I think that would be useless in the long run, since the millions of stranded users will still want another Twitter-like platform.

If there's not an obvious successor, right when its shutdown, a lot of those people might get their habit broken and find something better to do. I know Mastodon was held up as a successor, but it's unclear to me if that's actually capable of scaling to that level.
It seems the only reason why people wouldn't show up then is that they got shadow banned or at least have some deboosting applied. So the algorithm thinks they are spam?
Hmm, is this an AI response? How could Apple break linux sw?

I use four personal machines pretty frequently (a few hours, a few time a week), one Mac Mini, a recent all-AMD Asus laptop running Ubuntu 22.10, an old Dell laptop (with a discreet nVidia card) running Ubuntu 22.10, and a really old Toshiba ultrabook running Pop_OS! None of them break regularly, though the Asus (probably from being the newest) has a fingerprint sensor that has never quite worked right under Ubuntu. Other than the slowness and clunkiness of snaps, Ubuntu seems fine to me? Going forward I will probably stick to Pop, it seems a little better thought out than plain ol' Ubuntu, but the differences aren't night and day.
Not able to because my main machine is Mint now.

But, even on the Ubuntu box, running the deb version is not (generally) possible any more?

Also, I see no reason a compilation flags could be used inside a snap but not out of it, other than a policy choice.

Finally, what about every other program that uses snaps? This doesn't solve any of the other poor design issues.

Like I said, I used Windows for years and ad-hoc is how software is installed there. But even on Windows, installing a program doesn't involve bullshit like spamming Explorer with disk images.
The Persistent Effect of Corruption and the Rise of Populism in Italy
It's cool though not very stable in details over temporal axis.
Scratch was what got me into programming around 10 years ago! I was in middle school at the time and now I've just started working full time as a junior engineer. Without Scratch, I probably would've pursued something different. Thanks for your work!
Great suggestion, running memtester now.
I would very much like politicians that knowledgeable and articulate in my country.
Twitter reveals some of its source code, including its recommendation algorithm
On the contrary, I think saying "there is no universal truth" is a foundation of for those discussions of first principles.

I wasn't arguing against "responsible ai", I was replying to someone who made their implicit assumptions clear, even if I agreed with who I was responding to, which I do for the most part, I was trying to dig down to the granularity of their assertions. Because it's easy to make sweeping statements about what's 'good' and 'bad' (but who makes those distinctions in which context is more important than just saying it's one or the other).

I didn't bring up anything to do with minorities at all, following my logic, the question is, "which minorities and where?" It's in line with what you say about privacy, "who's privacy, what's their definition of it"
It’s also probably nearly a year old and constantly being tweaked and refined by humans ?
I fully agree with you on all points. I’ve been thinking about your last point about where would the money go. Even if it was used to buy Bitcoin, for example, the money wouldn’t actually ‘leave’ the system.

I do find this confusing in a way - need to think about it some more.
> does this tool provide massive value and productivity boost

And the «philosophical arguments» there highlight the other side, about the limitations. Are they relevant? Surely, if they are not evident to the user.
FWIW, I couldn't answer your question, because when you said Roro was rotating "alongside" Z I didn't know that meant the same thing as rotating around Z. I also agree with GPT that the question seems very underspecified and that there are lots of other things that might affect the temperature.
You say "even" but for all his genius (gravitation, discrete calculus) Newton was a bit of a crank:

1. Drinking mercury in pursuit of eternal life

2. Predicting the apocalypse in 2060 (yet to be disproven)

3. Superstition around the number 7

4. Attempted alchemy

This is not to say he was more or less superstitious than others. Just that extensive expertise in one or even many domains does not translate into expertise in all domains.

I think you are onto something with the allure of quick wealth. The decision makers at SVB and Credit Suisse were paid to be prudent.
A group is a non-empty set and an operation that combines any two elements of the set to produce a third element of the set, in such a way that the operation is associative, an identity element exists and every element has an inverse. /s
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/

https://github.com/pluja/awesome-privacy

https://ssd.eff.org/
Sounds awful, but as long as they only use it for free users like the article states, I don't really care I guess. If I ever get ads in an audiobook I paid for, I'd be extremely upset.
As fucked up as death is, I wonder if a lower life expectancy isn't the worst thing in the world.

To some extent in the West, but especially in Asia, we're really starting to see the demographic issues that come with people living for too long.

Aging populations, plummeting birthrates, redirection of public resources away from children and families...

Maybe we shouldn't be trying as hard as we are to drag on life into the late 80s and beyond.
> Cars are getting so big that people can’t drive them.

While controversial because car companies in the US intentionally chose to market large SUVs to the public, there is some evidence that smaller vehicles are safer and that auto manufacturers have doubled down on unsafe vehicles. Why this is the case, isn’t exactly known, but one of the theories is that bad drivers will get behind bigger cars and take more risks.

I’ve driven both large SUVs and smaller subcompacts, and I can talk at length on the pros and cons. However, as a driver, I can tell you that smaller cars are often bullied by larger cars, and this gives weight to the idea that people driving larger vehicles take larger risks, resulting in greater danger to the driver and to other cars and pedestrians.

There’s also the mistaken perception by older generations that smaller cars are inherently more dangerous; this was once true, and everyone can point to disastrously unsafe compact cars in the 1970s and 1980s. But due to modern technology and safety enhancements, this probably hasn’t been true for the last two decades or more. This older, erroneous belief continues to underlie why people choose larger vehicles today.
+1 for linux
Didn't expect to see two titans today: ggerganov AND jart. Can ya'll slow down you make us mortals look bad :')

Seeing such clever use of mmap makes me dread to imagine how much Python spaghetti probably tanks OpenAI's and other "big ML" shops' infra when they should've trusted in zero copy solutions.

Perhaps SWE is dead after all, but LLMs didn't kill it...
A cautionary tale here: when you are testing, if you mock out even low-level I/O utilities, you’re vulnerable to those utilities changing specification subtly. You can supply-chain attack yourself by simply updating a library.

Full filesystem/service-engaging integration tests are helpful but far from exhaustive - here, one wouldn’t have just needed to read the cropped file using standard display systems and count the pixels, but hash the underlying file in its entirety.

For critical libraries in an I/O pipeline, encourage team members to read CHANGELOGs - both before choosing a library to make sure they’re maintained, and closely when even doing a minor upgrade.
It's strange to me that Apple Maps is the only app I know of that works this way.
Elon just said in the space "that shouldn't be there. Consider it gone"
Yea this is kinda nutty as a solution. How often does it break?
Yes my cousin's pet ferret's website desperately needs the burden of a GDPR-compliant Cookie Consent Notice. It has made European online web presence so burdensome.
Funny, I just found a new job where I got a MacBook Pro for the first time in my life, M2 chip.
I am Linux user for 7 years now, and I use OpenSUSE Tumbleweed + XFCE + NVIDIA card, and I literally have 0 problems with it for 2 last years

Opinion on Mac book after using it for barely 3 weeks:

Excellent:

- battery life

- sound

sucks, out of top of my head:

- when you press Enter it wants to rename a file (?? lol)

- terminal hotkeys don't always work (Ctrl + back doesn't delete a word...)

- "fn" is the most left key... instead of control...

- windows management is trash, i cant "magnet" to borders of the screen

- I wasn't able to plug a LG usb mouse (?? apparently I need a tutorial to plug a mouse)

- hotkeys in Pycharm/Intellij are different and not interchangeable

- brew is not as good as zypper

- need to use AppleStore for some applications

- when installing applications they don't seem to be available in terminal ...
Also transportation sec Buttigieg just casually saying not to worry we have over 1,000 train derailments a year: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11760173/There-roug...

Over 1,000 derailments! Maybe we should work on getting those down before patting ourselves on the back for job well done.
Asahi Linux M1 GPU drivers can now run Windows games via Steam Proton
I’ll admit I didn’t look up those numbers but I read about these things way too regularly.

But that’s of course not the main thing about guns and kids in the US like everyone knows.
I am arguing that whether the notion of TikTok or Apple or CocaCola is reified for you or me is absolutely irrelevant. They are reified to the vast majority of people so much so that even if a significant portion of their material substrate would be lost, it would be recreated because the brand is just that important.

The mocking was because it derailed the thread. The discussion was about a piece of legislation that has many undeclared goals and whose declared but unwritten goal is to ban TikTok. Whether TikTok is tangible or not, reified or not, an idea or something else is just besides the point. Thinking that it can not be banned is foolish.

Let me remind you that your argument was:

> You can't touch a platform, TikTok included. It's an intangible construct and as such it clearly falls into the category of ideas. Everyone knows this. The only reason someone would think otherwise is that banning an idea is a yucky concept and in a fit of cognitive dissonance, it must therefore not be an idea. Let's not fool ourselves.

You did not say "let's discuss about whether Tiktok is reified and how it could be de-reified". That would have been an interesting discussion.
Not really.

Athena lets you run SQL queries on datasets in S3. You can do something similar in BQ with external tables. BQ is much faster. Athena will easily be more expensive on larger datasets, because you pay $5 per terabyte scanned.

AWS doesn't have a service similar to BQ in terms of performance.

I think the 3 main players in the Analytics space are BQ, Snowflake and Databricks.
I have been a happy Ubuntu user for years. For ke the OS is completely stable and never crashes. It's also very efficient with resources, compared to Windows.

I have a music production hobby and the main obstacle for me in using Linux is no drivers for hardware and no VSTs.
They don't ask permission when they're stealing users' data, so why should users ask permission for stealing their data?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2022/09/22/facebook-meta...
Not according to this statement from the Fed itself. It applies to all depository institutions.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm
A Good Fountain Pen Lets You Enjoy the Finer Things in Life (2022)
That's a very strange post that doesn't sound like it's coming from a professional programmer. "Do everything in C" really misses the value of using a glue language. Furthermore you overlook the cost of python as glue, which can be relatively quite low under the right circumstances. Everything is a trade-off.
Actually, increasing rates of inflation do mean people are better off sustaining themselves and leaving the credit based economy that has a rising inflation rate with its credit based currency. The weak buying power of an individual currency unit, like a United States dollar, indicates a geopolitical state and economy that is beginning to lack the ability to sustain further revenue increases in a generalized shareholder account of wealth. And middle class or bourgeois laborers are those general shareholders in the hypothetical credit based economy and state I'm talking about here. Basically, a credit bubble is naturally popping to combat real overpopulation and making a lot of money (like a billion dollars, actually) here might actually be a fool's game. So investing in outside assets, relative to the indicated failing state and the credit based assets its domestic production offers its domestic shareholders, is the rational move to make in this theoretical game.

So the question now is: what can we do and invest in as part of our survival motivated escape from the failing society?
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> Heat pumps have always had a built-in resistive heating element as a backup option for when it gets too cold out. This is terribly energy inefficient, but if you're talking about a few days a year at most it is fine,

Won't it be a problem if heating becomes much less efficient across an entire city, just as demand for heat is at its highest?
I started using Bittrex in 2017 because they had support for altcoins I wanted to gamble with. Sadly, over the years they abruptly dropped support for coins with barely any notice, and it was a pain to keep up with them. While I'm sad to see them go, I'm sort of looking forward to being forced to move my coins out of their exchange. Unfortunately none of the other exchanges I use have support for some of the altcoins I had on Bittrex, so I'm either going to have to dump those into BTC/DOGE/etc. or spin up my own wallet.

I guess this is good for Bitcoin in the absolute shortest term... I expect Bitcoin/maincoin dominance will go up if Bittrex has any reasonable volume.
They weren't even minimally produced until recently!

If any "better versions" were actually a real part of the market 20 years ago, then you could buy a laptop with one today. You can't. In a $140 billion market, there is not a single laptop manufacturer producing laptops with an ergonomic or ortholinear layout. That can only be the result of conformity.

> The fact you could buy such a keyboard demonstrates that conformity or convergence or whatever you want to call it did not inhibit you from getting what you want.

Not 4 years ago, but it certainly did 10-20 years ago. They simply didn't exist back then.

And it's not a binary, either: just because there is one company mass-producing one does not mean the problem is resolved. We are talking about one of the most commonly produced objects in the world. Practically every single computer (bigger than a hand) that has ever been made has a traditional typewriter-style keyboard!

And the fact I (and many others) an willing to pay >$300 for one is clear evidence that the market for ergonomic keyboards is incredibly diluted. If I could buy a poor quality one for $30, I would do it in a heartbeat. The average traditional typewriter-style costs well under $1 to produce. Starting that kind of production scale would take a huge investment.

The fact that no one has tried once in the last 30 years to mass produce a cheap non-typewriter keyboard design is proof that conformity, and not convergence is the deciding factor.
We have these guys calling themselves "experts on intelligence" just because they know the structure of the components of the neural net. It's like neurologists saying they are experts in consciousness because they know how neurons function and grow. Thankfully doctors don't have nearly the same levels of hubris as tech bros.
I'm sorry but "the natives"? That's a hollow cliche. What does that mean? Just native New Yorkers? Because it's a city of transplants and immigrants. Tense relations between citizens and NYPD is not new. See Amodou Diallo, the 2004 Republican National Convention protests, "Stop and Frisk", Eric Garner, the list spans many decades. People also realize that realize that crime and public safety are a concern and that police have an important job. The tension between police and residents has been a near constant for decades. It ebbs and flows and there's fundamentally no more or and no less respect now.
have you never heard of the many times we almost came to setting off full scale nuclear warfare because of the bipolar power war of the ussr v usa et.al.?

the only thing that saved us was cooler heads that prevailed on both sides.
Yeah definitely weird and it didn't happen before. I am running a memtester as mongol suggested.

I really enjoy Linux and the freedom it gives me, but using 30 hours last month getting things to work so I can do work... is not how I want to spend my time.
can some lawyers weight in on this one?
All heat pumps are generally still efficient at well below freezing, and will have a COP (efficiency) above 1 even at -15C. The problem is that they don't generate a huge amount of heat at those ambient temperatures, so you need a backup source of heat. A heat pump should be able to keep your house at room temperature when the outside temp is around freezing, but it will take a long time to heat up your house if you let the temperature drop overnight.

40F seems unusually high for your aux heat set point, unless you have expensive electricity and cheap gas.
This sentiment has high correlation to driving conclusions from a very time limited information set. This isn't the only part that is going to be posted to github.

What is the net benefit from rushing to condemn something that can only be a net positive compared to the past alternatives? I don't understand the purpose of that approach. Help me.
Maybe a better answer would include "Fermi back of the napkin maths", so essentially try to figure out the quantities and geographical locations of train tracks with such setup near any potential bears and determine probabilities from there.
Thank you! Working on a concept for a big org on what may become a large ML-based system one day. I knew about this feedback loop issue, but was too dumb to actually remember and face this problem. :) It's all over today's rec engines -- and yet, just like the things we're not shown in these systems, the problem itself seems to become invisible. Because it requires new thinking.

Worth exploring.
That's an interesting perspective. In the interest of full disclosure, one of the authors (Stephen Muggleton) is my thesis advisor. I've also met Ross King a few times.

Can you elaborate? Why is it a "bunch of hooey"?

And btw, what do you mean by "overhyped"? Most people on HN haven't even heard of "Adam", or "Eve" (the sequel). I only knew about them because I'm the PhD student of one of the authors. We are in a thread about an open letter urging companies to stop working towards AGI, essentially. In what sense is the poor, forgotten robot scientist "overhyped", compared to that?
I think this is why I don't think slander would work. Clearview AI didn't force the cops to arrest him, or say with 100% accuracy it was him. CVAI could have an accuracy of 99.9%, and the defense would be "Well see you were that 0.1% incorrect!"

It's the police that need to do the investigation to make sure the guy arrested is the same person on the video. But then they could say too, "Well CVAI said it was a near certainty -- we just took their word for it! It would have wasted the taxpayers money to do a more thorough investigation -- afterall there's always some implicit uncertainty in standard policework!"

I think a more interesting question is something like: Does Clearview AI fudge their accuracy numbers? Would the true 80% likelihood of you being the perp be more or less slanderous than a 99% likelihood?
Probably just a coincidence
Use Rectangle[1] for magnet snapping window management. For almost every mac complaint there exists a tool to solve it.

[1]https://rectangleapp.com/
It would also be a total Elon move to confuse the open sourcing of Twitter's internal code with actual transparency.

You would need, at a minimum, a neutral third-party audit of Twitter's servers to conclude that the source code we see on GitHub is, in fact, the source code running Twitter. How often will they keep their GitHub repo in sync with their internal code, I wonder.

Presumably Twitter uses a version control system. But they scrubbed the history so that's also a point against their "transparency" claims. Without knowing the when and the why of changes you can't understand what you are looking at. People are pointing to that "author_is_elon" without knowing whether that was done before Elon bought Twitter or after.

But even then, git history can be faked.

> This is a great thing.

I disagree. It's the opposite. It provides the illusion of openness without the quality of openness, thus killing the debate once and for all.
Right, so it's still justified to feel bad for visa workers in this case, because they are stuck at an abusive workplace because of circumstances of their visa.
I moved from the UK to New Zealand and I've subsequently lived in the US and Denmark and now NZ again. I feel like your story encapsulates my feelings about the UK, or at least England. Compared to a lot of other places there's a misery to England. Of course I had some good times growing up there, but I don't miss it. When I visit it's like you smile at someone on the street and say good morning and they scowl at you.

In the US every time I walked into town I'd get a nice chat with a stranger, people were very open to talking. British people regard this with suspicion and it's really common to hear them say it's all fake after a visit. I carry that insular 'stoic' cynicism from growing up there and I dislike it within myself. I'm so glad I moved. Also the money.