skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> when you repeatedly try to knowingly break the law

IANAL but I'd add "blatantly", "brazenly" or some such here. This cannot be in line with things like "it must be as easy to opt out as to opt in" (paraphrasing GDPR) and they know it.

IMHO this (like, sadly, many examples before from Meta) could be a perfect occasion to pierce the corporate veil. Whoever signed off on this should never be left in charge of customer data again.
I don't know, it seems only one side says that. If it were true, wouldn't both?

Further, only one side takes some ignorant position like 'doing nothing is taking sides!'
My hunch is that a few million objects is pretty tiny these days - you could probably write a script to import all of them into PostgreSQL in a few minutes and try it out yourself to see how it behaves.
syntax < semantics
Drivers always want to drive as much as they physically can as they are on mileage-based contracts and/or get paid for successful deliveries. So that incentivises more successful deliveries made. Back in the analog days they could use a magnet to stop the road tracker so it recorded a break when in reality they kept driving.
Greed overrides safety in many industries, sadly.
I understand that point of view. I simply don't share it. If I can't tell the difference between AI and a human being in my conversations, that would undermine my trust in some extremely important things. I'd withdraw from such fora entirely as a result, because there's no way for me to know if those conversations are real or just me engaging in mental masturbation.
Yes, he can be prosecuted for all 3 simultaneously.
They are different cases, in different jurisdictions which will be handled by different prosecutors and different court systems.
What we have is a heirarchy of laws, ranging from constitutional to federal to state to county to local. I think this is a great idea. But it doesn't mean that we're "just" a republic of states.
>They would roll out software updates and vehicle locks on 4 million cars across the U.S.

>In a statement, Kia said it has distributed more than 23,000 locks so far and would continue providing locks to affected owners.

In large cities the widespread ease at which these cars are stolen results in numerous high speed chases and lost lives. It sounds like they are continuing with the low-tech and opt-in approach requiring owners to use a special lock or initiate the fix on their own at the dealer which is unacceptable.

Not a great response from Hyundai and Kia.
Snowflake is much slower than BigQuery in my experience.
Floyd had traces of fentanyl and meth in his blood and had used them in the last several days. He did not have enough to be "on" them at the time of death.
I never understood the steam deck.

Most smartphones are much more powerful in terms are hardware, better screen technology (OLED and high refresh rates)

More importantly, you can easily stream games on to them.

So why on god earth is everyone so excited about a crumby screen that can play a few games on medium settings?
The wealthy and powerful. Same as now.
> Here's an example of that not being true:

That's not an example at all. I'm talking specifics here. The GDPR is the first law of it's kind that just outright asserts jurisdiction anywhere, as long as the origin took some data from an EU citizen. That is absolutely unprecedented. I'm not aware of any remotely similar law in commerce or communications in any other country.

Megaupload is about an international seizure of a specific company, not farreaching broad open-ended legislation.

COPPA only applies domestically, and is significantly more narrow in scope. I know wiki says the FTC asserts it has international reach, but the actual text of the legislation (https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-I/subchapter-C...) says no such thing, and the wiki says that opinion isn't taken seriously.

Also, in the case of Bytedance, they have a US presence which is why they were able to be sued in a US court: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ilnd.37...

So yeah, I would still say it's unprecedented, I really can't see how there is anything similar.
The steam deck on paper has higher specs than a PS4. PS4 can push 1.8 tflops on an older architecture and steam deck can do 3.3 on a more modern architecture. People’s real world experience on several games seems to put the Steam deck consistently ahead by a comfortable margin.
> bi-model just means there are two modes.

Which confirms what I said. Two modes means two peaks, which means there’s a dip between them. You’re not disagreeing with my definition, you’re confirming it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimodal_distribution

This definition is important because this is what you’re misunderstanding about both my argument and your own. You are drawing a line between the inputs in the distribution, but failing to understand there is no line in the outputs. The distribution of pay and outcomes is not bi-modal, regardless of the fact that any given individual either did or did not go to college. The collective aggregate behavior of the system has a smooth distribution, where you cannot see two different lumps (modes) that identify the degree holders and non-degree holders.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/203183/percentage-distri...

> Or are you really contesting the notion that a person may not obtain a job/career with their degree?

This isn’t just a straw man, I already explicitly addressed this at least twice. I did not claim that people with degrees can’t fail; they can and do sometimes. I even gave an example of how they sometimes fail, no need to misrepresent me on the very thing I’m agreeing with you about.

My point, to state it yet again, is that people getting degrees and ending up no better off is a small minority of cases. Similarly, people who don’t get degrees and end up rich is a small minority of cases. The majority of cases, as the data proves, shows that people with a degree are statistically better off than people without. Not always, just the majority of the time. Unlike your argument, this isn’t logic, it’s just a fact.

> median is not a very useful concept […] college might be a statistically beneficial choice, but it is a risky choice

Hehe this argument is getting funnier. You’re effectively saying don’t look at the data, don’t look at the expected value or the probability, only look at the loss of a low-probability event. This is wrong, IMO. The whole reason that median is a useful concept is because it tells you something about the expected value. Both the probability of success of getting a degree, and the expected value, according to the data we have, show that it’s quite a bit riskier to forego the degree than to get it. You can fret about how risky getting a degree is, but that’s not helpful if you ignore the risks of not getting one.

I also don’t agree with your conclusion, and the data does not support your assertion that people either win or lose, nor that they “lose big” when they “lose”. It’s not binary. There’s a wide range of outcomes for people with degrees, and the whole distribution skews toward positive outcomes compared to not getting a degree.
What are the inflation adjusted returns for investments in the indian market? What are the tax implications?
I actually asked this question multiple times on HN and other places, asking "what if we take hubble and point it at earth? Now that you have that thought, dont you think there are many objects that are "micro hubbles" that are already pointed at earth? MIC bots downed me to heck.

Lets just imagine, in a sci-fi/Black-Mirror sense, that all the constellation class of satts (starlink, the EU one, the chinese/russian one) have additional sensors for 'ocular-patt-downs-from-sattelites' -- Lets get our hands on some of these units and inspect?

Is Starlink a classified object?
And a lot of unconscious thought for the biomechanics of the body.

https://radiolab.org/episodes/91524-where-am-i

The section on Ian Waterman.

Another article about him - https://mcneilllab.uchicago.edu/pdfs/IW_lost_body.pdf

> Mr. Ian Waterman, sometimes referred to as ‘IW’, suffered at age 19 a sudden, total deafferentation of his body from the neck down—the near total loss of all the touch, proprioception, and limb spatial position senses that tell you, without looking, where your body is and what it is doing. The loss followed a never-diagnosed fever that is believed to have set off an auto-immune reaction. The immediate behavioral effect was immobility, even though IW’s motor system was unaffected and there was no paralysis. The problem was not lack of movement per se but lack of control.

https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-man-who-lost-his-body/
Because learning new things is hard and hard things tire us out. we should endeavor to learn new things everyday.
Akamai Cloud/Linode has a significant price increase going into effect tomorrow as well https://www.linode.com/blog/linode/akamai_cloud_computing_pr...
You can shop around a bit for AWS for spot instances. Spot prices in eu-west-3 (Paris) are not that wild yet for the same c5a instances. Somteimes, a region has all its spot instances near the on-demand price. At least they seem to be smoothing out their changes over days. (I think it used to be more wild in the past.)
They've consistently lowered them. But that makes sense, as they want as many companies to go all-in as possible. Because the egress is still egregiously high, there's terrific lock-in for big clients. They wouldn't raise prices until the exact right moment.
Hey couple of ideas you might want to explore with specific outcomes:
- Could you build a project that generates alerts for when it's detected someone has fallen?
- Could you explore a project that predicts weaknesses, diseases, faults in trees so that homeowners and others can take preventative action.
- Could you explore a project that takes satellite imagery and predicts where the location of the image is?

Plus if you check out this list you might see some other ideas that are emerging from the industry: https://twitter.com/i/lists/1589644342746021890 or https://twitter.com/i/lists/1588109045902319616

All the best!
no drama straight to the point, i like it
Yes, I was very upset about the lockfile format change when we hit that; seemed like a very shortsighted thing to have done, but I guess I don't know the actual motivations or what was being achieved with it.
I suspect this is the result of an overbearing importance on cycle time. I know a colleague who is founding a company solely based on reducing CI cycle time because business owners seem to view it as a critical measurement.
I'd also guess the correct take to see LLMs as human magnifiers more than human replacers* -- most technology does this, magnifying aspects of the human condition rather than fundamentally change it..

But that doesn't make me sanguine about them. The printing press was amazing and it required new social conceptions (copyright). Nuclear weapons did "little" other than amplify human destructive capability but required a whole lot of thought on how to deal with it, some of it very strange like MAD and the logic of building doomsday devices. We're in the middle of dealing with other problems we barely understand from the extension of communications technology that may already have gotten out of hand.

We seem like we're limited in our habits of social reflection. We seem to prefer the idea that we can so we must, and if we don't someone else will in an overarching fundamentally competitive contest. It deprives us of the ability to cooperate thoughtfully in thinking about the ends. Invention without responsibility will have suboptimal and possibly horrifying outcomes.

(* I am much less certain that there isn't some combination system or future development that could result in an autonomous self-directed AGI. LLMs alone probably not, but put an LLM in an embodied system with its own goals and sensory capacities and who knows)
Maybe I should just try it, but I don't feel like there are many situations where the process of "come up with a way to describe exactly what I want, generate it, and then debug the output until it works" would be faster than "just write it myself". And most of the ones I can think of would be in a situation where I'm working in an unfamiliar language/framework, and it's less about not having to type out the code and more about not having to context-switch to reference the docs for something I don't know off the top of my head

Which- maybe that's just the thing, maybe that's what people are using this for right now

(This could change once it gets to the point of stamping out entire projects, but for now)
Wow FUD really has no limit.

It's not FUD, but ironically your hot take (in attempting to dismiss it as FUD) is.

Lithium is fairly widely "available", but its extraction and processing both have serious externalities attached. When people talk about limits of lithium availability, that's ultimately what they're referring to.

Information about this is widely available. It's definitely not FUD.
There's a subsection of Berger&Luckman(1966) on reification that I'm applying. It's not a particularly difficult concept, but it has wide application and describes what we would call today "social facts" are made manifest as reality to some folks. It's a foundational sociological text and I'd encourage anyone who's slightly interested in epistomology to give it a read.

It might resonate with you like it does with others, or either seem completely vacuous, or even provoke a mentally allergic reaction like it does in some. The latter tends to have a load-bearing egoistic reaction to ideas contra to a singular objective reality in which everything must fit to a prescribed ontology, again a theme you might now recognize in the proceeding comments. Some folks desperately want to manifest their views as the correct view of what "being" is and wield it like a cudgel.

Never read Baudrillard; you're more than welcome to revise it to make it sophomoric, or even grad level if you want. Show me up and do it better than me.
Flatcar uses 2 partitions, A and B, you boot into one and then updates update the one that you're not booted into, when you reboot it it boots into the updated one. It's like Android: https://source.android.com/docs/core/ota/ab

I maintain an awesome-list of immutable resources with a collection of talks and presentations from the people making the stuff. They do a better job explaining it than I can in an hn comment: https://github.com/castrojo/awesome-immutable

However the list is currently focused on desktop stuff since this is a fairly common pattern in cloud already, I should probably write it up.

Semi-related, a few of us have started a community around composable OCI fedora images, and one of our images is intended to be used as a home server built on CoreOS with ZFS, cockpit, and all the goodies you'd need. It's still fresh and we're looking for help if anyone's interested: https://github.com/ublue-os/ucore (Disclaimer: I helped start this project)
> Linear git history makes rollbacks easier.

Not only that but it makes it easier to read the history. I haven't yet been convinced of the benefit of merging pull requests instead of rebasing them. The history ends up so convoluted.
I don't want my car to team up with anyone, please. I don't want an already-outdated LCD screen and proprietary operating system in there becoming obsolete even faster than the battery wears out. I wish there were better options for that.
You'd have to be naïve to deny that AI poses a risk that must be taken seriously. But, to think that a moratorium - which would be ignored by those with the greatest likelihood of causing or allowing AI to do harm - is the right answer, seems plainly silly. It's not surprising that several of the signers have a personal stake in attacking the current efforts.

The letter should instead simply have clarified the risks and outlined a sensible, actionable plan to promote responsible development alongside the inevitable march of progress.
Can you write a command-line tool using Java?
Streetmix: Design, remix, and share your neighborhood street
It updates, not restarts. That can lead to problems after restart.
There are 1000's of different ways to be an expert in CS. implementing high performance functions in numerical analysis is only one.
You have to chain prompts to get good results, also the way you say things can be important. Think voice assistants requiring some nuance to their instructions
any suggestions for getting nice graph db-style functionality out of an postgres schema, where you've got the nodes and edges of a labelled property graph spread across a bunch of different tables? (AGE seems to want to create a separate graph object that lives alongside your other tables, and toy examples like this article just dump everything into special tables)

in my particular case i don't actually have a lot of data so i'm not looking for performance, just want to save developer time.
You connecting to the world also means the world connects to you.
One of the hurdles with this approach is that _everything_ has to live in configuration.nix. How are you handling secrets like your host keys? I recently got sops-nix working as a prototype, but curious if there are better ways.

Side note: everything living in configuration.nix makes flake-ifying your system a lot easier, which is a win in my book.
This is a very succinct way to describe the problem. This is "Broken Windows" by our government/law enforcement.

The constant skirting of the law public servants in NYC, be it the illegal parking, the using of sirens to push their way through traffic, the "I won't wear a mask but will fine you for not wearing one", NYPD officers not paying subway fares but fining the average joe, the special treatment (private spaces for NYPD families and adjacents in what are supposed to be public events)...

All of that shit culminates in the lack of trust in institutions and the degradation of OUR city.
>Makefiles are unreasonably effective.

I'm torn, I like Makefiles, but I've seen a lot of unreadable Makefiles with a lot of interpolation and ugly escaping, including cases where what should have been a proper shellscript (his point 25) crammed in a Makefile. I think Makefiles should be dead simple to see what a target does

Overall I agree, but IMO people ought to drop the 10k hours Gladwell term, to be frank it's bullshit.
> by employees who live outside of the city

I think that's addressed in Cop Land (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118887/). Excellent movie.
A mis-aligned super AGI will treat the Earth and everything on it as a playground of atoms and material. Why wouldn't it? What do children do when they see a sandbox? Do they care what happens to any ants or other bugs that might live in it?

There does not need to be a "how", as you put it. The logic is "Maybe we should tread carefully when creating an intelligence that is magnitudes beyond our own". The logic is "Maybe we should tread carefully with these technologies considering they have already progressed to the point where the creators go 'We're not sure what's happening inside the box and it's also doing things we didn't think it could do'".

To just go barreling forward because "Hurr durr that's just nonsense!" is the height of ignorance and not something I expect from this forum.
I've started to use ChatGPT for semi high-level questions only this week, and I'm with you. It has hallucinated quite a few nonexistent functions, and it's generally unhelpful slightly more often than it is helpful. Just now I asked it why an `<input />` and a `<select />` with the same CSS had different heights (I've managed to avoid CSS for a while, shoot me XD), and gave it the CSS applied. It suggested the default browser styling was the culprit, and I should set the same height to both elements. I replied they already had the same height set. Then it suggested setting the same padding - they already had the same padding. Then it put `box-sizing` in an example and I promptly realized that `<input />` and `<select />` must have different default values for `box-sizing`. I asked if that was correct, and it said yup!

Based on what I've seen elsewhere, I really feel like it should've been able to answer this question directly. Overall this matches my experience so far this week. Not saying it's never useful, just regularly I expected it to be...better. Haven't had access to GPT-4 yet though, so I can't speak to it being better.
https://archive.is/ZfMQX
I think it's pretty terrible for coding. I think it's very good for higher level designs. Even just getting something wrong from chatgpt is valuable because I can read it and understand why it's wrong and that understanding of what the solution missed is valuable in itself because I will make sure my solution accounts for it.
It could be that he meant that you could read something 'license plate sized' from space.
What evidence do you have that intellectual ability and alignment are orthogonal?

Remember that ML models are also subject to selection. If they're not useful/beneficial to us, we stop running them.
With this framing I'm wondering if maybe it'll be a boon for junior devs instead of their death knell like so many are saying. It's now a mid-level dev who can get them unstuck when they need, instead of the original idea proposed, where it's a junior dev a senior will need to carefully watch over.
I’ll remain open minded about this, but it seems unwise to go all-in with android and abandon Apple for even the most expensive cars. Are people who buy Cadillacs (who probably own iPhones) not going to mind not having CarPlay? Or will they buy a BMW or Mercedes instead?

When you’re dropping $75k on a car, you expect it not to have any compromises.
There's no way to adjust tempo?
I'd add that WhatsApp is mandatory in some parts of the world. Where I live it's probably installed on 99.9% of the phones. All your family, friends, coworkers and customers are on WhatsApp. You want to book a haircut? They will confirm the appointment on WhatsApp. You want to get a quote for anything? They will send the file to you on WhatsApp. You want to know what was your covid vaccine number? The only way is to ask to a bot on WhatsApp. This is actually insane.
Wait... judging by their own press release, this thing looks terrible. They didn't benchmark it on finance-specific tasks against GPT-4, or even GPT-3.5, just a bunch of more-or-less random also-ran models. It beat those models, but that's not saying much at all, and the fact that they didn't benchmark it against any OpenAI model in finance-specific tasks speaks volumes.

(They did benchmark it against GPT-3 in general-purpose tasks and, unsurprisingly, GPT-3 came out on top.)

Press release link: https://www.bloomberg.com/company/press/bloomberggpt-50-bill...
> Seems like they are trying to squeeze the users who are most locked in.

That's my understanding too. I'm reminded of the classic Eagles song, "Hotel California."
I don't want to nit-pick but the way you phrased it makes you the copilot supervised by AI.
> In a world where Meta uses user cookies to run targeted advertising: Users see ads they're interested in, and experience no other downsides from that targeting.

So your argument is that you don't believe privacy has any value, and you only care about second-order effects. First: Since you believe that, can I install a camera in your shower? Don't worry, you won't experience any downsides. Second: Users would do in fact experience downsides, because targeted ads exist to get them to spend more money and distort their selection (i.e. if I'm shopping for cameras, I want the best/cheapest camera, not the one that paid the most to get shoved in my face).
You are wrong and I am happy to take bets. Natural language is what differentiates us from monkeys so it’s not a shallow problem. ReAct or RCI (Recursively Criticize and Improve) prompt seem like processes in out brains that are likely to “emerge”intelligence and even agency with goal adjustment.