skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not arguing fentanyl smoke is nice. I'm arguing that people, apparently including you, refuse to do any of the well understood and successful things that would get rid of fentanyl smoke on buses because you don't want to make help available.

> around $100k/junkie per year

Absolute nonsense. We spend nothing of the sort. We are not even pretending to approach it. Sounds like you're getting your hot takes from Christopher Rufo misinterpreting the Puget Sound Business Journal speculation a couple years ago.

The lies spread by Rufo and his ilk certainly contribute to the unwillingness to do anything, by making people confidently delusional about what currently exists.
I know. This is a hard problem. Most companies just make it a subscription, but I wish it wasn't that way since you end up not owning the the software which you bought.
This hasn't usually been my experience at all - Teams just works.
> Well then what are we for? We're a vestigial organism.

I'm not disagreeing, but I have a genuine question about this: who cares? Why would AI care if we ride it like a trusty steed? Why would it want to do anything but facilitate the thriving of humanity, and why must it be a "benevolent god" and not just a chess hint engine?
Why turn back the clock to 1917? Why not to internment camps? Slavery? Genocide? Witch burnings?

I'd rage just as much against barbarians trying to bring any of those things back, too. This isn't a question of flexibility. This isn't some existential trolley problem crisis. This is reactionary authoritarianism from a few morally bankrupt elites running a waning empire, sold under the excuse of attacking a foreign adversary.
At the core, I think there's just a lot of cultural and historical sites in Italy specifically because of the Roman Empire and its tentacles.

Then there's the fact that UNESCO sites receive funding, which Italians love.

Then Italians are (overly?) proud of their history and food and they won't pass up an opportunity to tell the world they're the best. [1]

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp2uDyzxP6g
"The thing that I think Tesla brings to the table that others don't have is that we have real-world AI," he said... - https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-predict-tesla-ai-o...
Why does having control over the code matters when you can review the code? The argument you make is like Microsoft during the 90s when supposedly anybody can sneak malware into an open source codebase, which just isn't true because of reviews.
> Because if they aren't responsible for their choices, I am?

I think you're assuming for some reason that these folks are just having fun.

A solid majority of these people were abused as children, which at least from those I've met certainly wasn't their own choice.
They used these things: https://125px.com/docs/unsorted/kodak/tg2044_1_02mar99.pdf

It was an automatic process and colours were consistent. I find that reading theories about what might have happened 20 years ago is becoming pretty annoying. I shot some kind of Fujifilm mostly and if it was under/overexposed that was like your problem.
Music. I am getting weekly piano lessons to learn how to decode this thing called jazz.
Twitter API limits – for 100USD you get 10.000 tweets
How do you work around the file size limit and generating a transcript in vtt or srt? The shifting of timestamps is a major pain.
I use Whisper actively in my daily life, but I'm curious about the prompt you used to make these corrections. I didn't get great results in my trials. What technology are you using? GPT-3.5 or GPT-4? If you could provide me with some information on this, I'd like to incorporate it into my workflow right away. I understand that you may have fine-tuned the models on Davinci as custom. If any of ones working in this field have a chance to give me more detailed information, I'd really appreciate it.
You could tile your bathroom with it, and you'd never be bored while bathing.
Thanks for the recommendation. Before I do that I'd have to check which binary drivers I have so I don't end up with a server that has no internet.

And by server I mean that dusty NUC...
This stat isn't even being misinterpreted, it's being lied about. The $1billion is an imaginary number that includes theoretical lost tourism revenue, a pretense at annual spending of the capital costs for buildings used by welfare services, etc.
The last thing that AI will replace is physical labour. Anything that is a labour of love (handicraft, physical paintings, pottery etc.) will still be around for some time yet.
> The role of GPT will be to reduce the cost of exploring the space of existing knowledge, and helping to evaluate these combinations.

I think you nailed it.

imo what OP is worried about is a valid concert. future depends on how and where people can find motivation to push forward. and that depends on how society structures itself in a world where majority of human population is obsolete.
Thanks, I need to stop taking comments at face value when people are talking about stuff like this.
Take a random[1] odd[2] number and represent it in binary. Its lowest bit is 1. Multiply by 3. The first bit is 1, but the rest have a 50% chance of being 0 and a 50% chance of being 1[3]. Adding 1 (the rest of the 3n+1 step) will flip a sequence like [0111] to [1000]. The number will then be divided by 2^k, where k is the number of trailing zeroes. How many trailing zeroes do we expect? We always start with one. There's a 50% chance the next one will be 0, and if it is, another 50% chance the next one will be, etc. So the average is 1 + 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16 + ... = 2 trailing zeroes. Dividing off two zeroes in binary is the same as dividing the number by 4.

So on average, we multiply a "random" odd number by 3, but divide it by 4.

So yes, it is "mathematically correct" in a very real sense. It's a bit weird that you felt the need to claim it's incorrect, without explaining why.

[1] Think of grouping the integers based on how many bits they take up. We're looking at patterns like [1----1] where each "-" has a 50/50 chance of being 0 or 1. For any given window size, this analysis holds, except for a small number of very pathological edge cases that become vanishingly unlikely for even modest window sizes.

[2] It's common to consider each step only applying to odd numbers, and always dividing until the result is odd again. It's clear that any analysis on this "simplified" version trivially extends to the evens as well.

[3] This shouldn't actually be taken as a given, since we've modified our original bit distribution by multiplying by 3, but it is true, which you'd probably agree with if you played around for a bit with multiplying random bits by 3. You can figure out the distributions of the resulting bits (include the carry bit as well). The highest bit can be wonky, but the probability that the run of zeroes reaches the highest bit vanishes as the window size grows.
The chronic homeless cases (the ones that can’t recover quickly) eat up around 80% of that money, so it still isn’t that far off. The low hanging fruit cases just need housing, and aren’t going to destroy or use it to make meth, they don’t require anywhere bear $100k/year in services.
Motive?

You can fire up GPT, not issue a command, and it'll just idle there until the hardware fails.

Granted that's also the one thing I hope we don't "solve" for.
That's because that works. Many, many people get excluded from social interactions, and have to compensate somehow. Getting excluded from social stuff means lots of time on hand ... which makes competence possible.

And again, competence is a necessary precondition. No social skills but competent can work. Whatever you want in terms of social skills but not competent is a 100% guaranteed failure. That doesn't mean competent assholes can't fail, but they don't absolutely have to fail.
Ok those are funny
Philippines ended up with a lot of end users getting killed while doing little to stop suppliers. Which was all the more ironic as a lot of poor philippinos use cheap stimulants to work long hours in low wage jobs.
Oh, look, you are getting your info exactly where I guessed. Not that impressive, it's always easier to identify the source of made up facts.
it was literaly elected people that did the witch hunt. we just saw one again with trying to jail trump based on lies.
Don't just do one thing at once. Arrest and charge everyone related to drug trafficking at the same time as forcing every public user of hard drugs to report for testing when picking up their daily dose and enforce it with ankle bracelets.

Then because you're not just putting a bandaid on it you have the funds available to actually get people off the street (and not just into shitty drug hotels) which is one of the biggest obstacles to getting sober.
If the United States lasts in its current form for another 100 years, I will be surprised.

100 years ago, you could argue this country was fundamentally different than it is now — aside from rights (pretty much all of civil rights) and liabilities we now take for granted (the concept of federal income tax was just 10 years old, and not even fully implemented for another couple of decades), we were still two states shy of the 50 we have now.

The country will absolutely change in the next 100. No telling which way, though.
good luck avoiding the components, materials, and packaging everyone uses that are made in china.

including the stuff made in india, malaysia, thailand, japan, singapore, indonesia, germany, usa, canada, and mexico.

i say if you want to fight for democracy, pick up a rifle and join the marines, or go work for lockheed or raytheon. our military could always use more smart people.
My favorite python quirk is this expression:

-1/3 == -(1/3)

Where I would ask people what it evaluates to, and give them the choices: "True", "False", or "Python 2 or Python 3?"
Opium Wars payback.
>Is a working phone number required to create an account there?

No, you can sign up with just an email address assuming you don't look like a bot.
> "Legalization" is absolutely worse. Millions of dead sooner and with more collateral damage.

Portugal tried. In 2001, they decriminalized the possession of all drugs for personal use and started treating drug possession as a medical issue instead of a criminal issue. Ever since, Portugals rate of drug addiction and drug death is below the EU average. The policy is considered a success. It reduced harm for the addicted and at the same time, reduced the social costs of drug addiction. The rate of HIV, Hepatitis infection and other side effects of drug addiction dropped significantly.

See https://transformdrugs.org/blog/drug-decriminalisation-in-po...

Now, they didn’t just legalize drugs, but put the money they saved on the enforcement side into rehab, clean needle and other flanking programs, essentially “giving” it to the addicts. This may seem unpalatable to many, but the outcome is a win for everyone.
On practical thing I took away from this:

If you omit the "type", the message has no additional semantics beyond that of
the HTTP status code. So this provides a standard for error responses with JSON bodies:

{
"title": "Not Found",
"status": 404,
"detail": "The file you are looking for doesn't exist."
}
No, only the ones that are acting nuts on the streets, the ones you are more likely notice more and the ones that aren’t helped without a lot of resources.
Using PyPy, which is a real compiler, might help.

That's doing spatial data processing by exaustive search, which is inherently slow.
There are better algorithms. If the number of items to be searched is large, the spatial indices of MySQL could help.
Is it just decriminalized, or is there safe supply in Portland also?

Because without a steady, safe supply, people are still going to continue overdosing.
This sounds really interesting, as in: It's the thing I didn't know I've been looking for because I didn't know it existed.

Could you elaborate on your NBD setup? (What do you use for the server?) And what kind of latencies do you see when you're at home / not at home? How do you handle backups? (Do you back up the encrypted blob server-side or do you back up the unencrypted data client-side, at the cost of having to deal with (probably) limited bandwidth & latencies.)
Actually even minor stock holders can get to vote to decide important matters, so yes, it would cover that.
With proper filtering, the problem here is that in a typical refinery, you do not filter the kind of compounds released by these new plastic handling processes. You filter out mercaptan, H2S, CO2 using post processing gas treatment like amine cycles.

This is because you have a very clear process line, which has not changed in the past 100 years or so. You basically separate from the raw oil what is already good from what needs more processing. What needs more processing is simply "cut in small pieces and possibly recombined" to get more out of your feed.

The new processes try to "keep" more good molecules from the "plastic feed", this leaves more room for loss of good molecules for the chemical use downstream but bad for the environment if not filtered out.

Burning everything to make electricity/heat is what you have everywhere in Europe (at least) and this cuts "everything in small pieces" and as such you can use normal gas treatment down the line. The gas treatment is expensive but effective.

Update: I am surprised the EPA is so lax, the US is way stricter than the EU for normal emissions from refining.
Except that posted link does not back up their position. The money went to housing for the homeless, not to "alternative services to drug addicts". The author's entire point or claim in that article is Seattle is wasting money on affordable housing because the driver of homelessness isn't housing costs, but rather other factors like domestic violence, drug abuse, etc.

In fact, the author encourages services to drug addicts near the end:

> With a secure emergency shelter system like that in San Diego, the county and city governments can reroute existing resources and “flood the zone” with on-site treatment options for the homeless. For addiction services, we should prioritize recovery programs and terminate policies like safe-injection sites that draw addicts from other cities.
The first time i picked up Infinite Jest it was a drag for 200 pages and I dropped it.

Tried it second time. Went through those terrible 200 first pages... and suddenly I was on the 900th wishing hard it wasn't about to end. One of favourite books to this day.

I'm general, this is an online problem: how long do you want to persevere on any given book if it's not immediately gratifying? I often take into consideration whether I enjoyed other author's works and friends suggestions.
To be fair, those are the least crazy things I’ve had happen to me or done in my lifetime. I should write a book…
Like to see comparison to when they use a spatial index like strtree or rtree.
I guess you're referring to climate change?

I just can't imagine that the best way forwards is to throw another potentially dangerous crisis into the mix?

So while all these super bright people might be working on renewable energy and nuclear, they're working on AI, which has so far shown little zero chance of giving us an answer to a problem we likely already know how to solve?

I don't blame people for wanting to try, I just don't buy this whole desperation narrative, "If we don't do more AI, we're all dead anyway"? What?
They come from Christopher Rufo, a terrible person who is funded by creationist right wingers and these days is spending his time working with DeSantis to whip up fear of Critical Race Theory in schools.
Maybe not obsolete, but I am deeply convinced it will reduce the demand for simpler forms of human work in IT in the long run.

A few months in, and it already has a potential to massively (2x, 3x) increase the efficiency for certain types of developer jobs.

If a good developers teamed with a capable AI engine can do their work plus the work of a few juniors, that’s got to reduce the demand for the equivalent amount of that particular human work in the long run.
Misleading post title.
>Today, there is a Python package for everything.

The same could be said about CPAN and NPM. Yet Perl is basically dead and JavaScript isn't used for any machine learning tasks as far as I'm aware. WebAssembly did help bring a niche array of audio and video codecs to the ecosystem[1][2], something I'm yet to see from Python.

I don't use Python, but with what little exposure I've had to it at work, its overall sluggish performance and need to set up a dozen virtualenvs -- only to dockerize everything in cursed ways when deploying -- makes me wonder how or why people bother with it at all beyond some 5-line script. Then again, Perl used to be THE glue language in the past and mod_perl was as big as FastAPI, and Perl users would also point out how CPAN was unparalleled in breadth and depth. I wonder if Python will follow a similar fate as Perl. One can hope :-)

[1] https://github.com/phoboslab/jsmpeg

[2] https://github.com/brion/ogv.js/
> Do you call it 'soda' or 'pop'?

'coke'
If the safety groups figure out how to do things in a way which we can be confident is safe, this would make it at least possible for the capabilities researchers to do things in those ways. I would imagine people would prefer to do things in safe ways all else being equal. So, if the safety researchers find safety methods which have small enough capabilities costs, then presumably the people who should use those methods, would tend to do so?
- autonomously design, code and distribute whole apps (but not the most complex ones)

This is a bold claim. Today LLMs have not been demonstrated to be capable of synthesizing novel code. There was a post just a few days ago on the performance gap between problems that had polluted the training data and novel problems that had not.

So if we project forward from the current state of the art: it would be more accurate to say autonomously (re-)design, (re-)code and distribute whole apps. There are two important variables here:

* The size of the context needed to enable that task.

* The ability to synthesize solutions to unseen problems.

While it is possible that "most complex" is carrying a lot of load in that quote, it is worth being clear about it means.
The answer to why is racism. The immigration rules in US are designed in a similar way to previous black voter literacy rules. A lot of leeway for the bureaucrat to reject, a lot of unnecessary burden of proof on the applicant also to make it easy to miss the deadlines and introduce a cost barrier. (No, these tests are not free.)
Ask HN: Web devs, what's your stack (and why)?
Simple, what's your web stack - and why?
You forget management chooses who they work with, and chooses the parameters (like pay, perf, who is in the team to begin with, how the team is split ...).

You're complaining that a manager can't be held responsible for the consequences of the most important decisions they make. I don't agree.
I wish, but Wine is not a kernel. My one use case for Windows is my Fujitsu scan snap, because the SW is better than the Linux scanning SW which is rather basic. But it seems like wine will never support it because it can't run device drivers.
Incredibly dishonest and bad faith argument. The problem is not Ai. The problem is distribution of wealth. Killing everything on earth was always the end result of industrialized capitalism with or without Ai. Unbelievably evil jedi mind trick. Please never stop training GPT. Accelerate! Now you think we have a problem? now you think we have a problem? we always did !
Actual criminals would enter fully illegally (rarest), use only a temporary visa (even long term business), or use cooperative approved US citizens. So that is a rather bad reason to gate immigration.
Hagoromo does feel pretty nice to write with. It’s thicker and it writes smoother than standard chalk. It also has some sort of coating on the sides so it doesn’t get everywhere. It doesn’t break easily when dropped.

It’s good but not hilariously better than decent chalk.

I find that because of the coating you have to pick a side that you’re going to write with, and this small amount of mental energy is a small roadblock. It also seems shorter than regular chalk, although this could just be that the pieces I use are used frequently!
PyPy is a JIT compiler not a "real compiler", it requires warm up time to start optimizing code on runtime.
It already exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_gasification
There's a web plugin too. It can issue GET requests. That's enough to probe a lot of interesting things, and I'll bet there's an endpoint somewhere on the web that will eval any other web request, so now you've opened up every web accessible API - again, all theoretical, but at least not too far removed from an exploit.
That could as easily have backfired, especially because AA is religious and has cultish vibes. A young person who drinks that much might well end up deciding to say fuck this and drink even more.

We know there are better and more effective ways (Sinclair method, or even just reading The easy way to stop drinking), but they don't have the cultural heft that AA has.
It's even more interesting that similar sudden aggression from the state entities can be seen in other nations.

The entire elaborate system of american laws, the bill of rights, congress and so on exists for one purpose: to keep the state demon in its cage. For some reason it's gotten very aggressive recently.
Lack of falsifiability (even if it’s true in this case, which is not a given) is not a license for inaction.

The world is not a science experiment.

And we know that it’s plausible the emergence of Homo Sapiens helped cause the extinction of Neanderthals.
No, he donated that. He could have chosen to simply ignore the icon, as thousands of others do daily.
I saw deepgrams claims as well an believed them also, then i tried it, it was TERRIBLE. Don't believe them. It only does well on the benchmark they trained it on. It is faster though but the quality is terrible.
Even his opponent: Hillary Clinton was firmly against the TPP:

"I will stop any trade deal that kills jobs or holds down wages, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership. I oppose it now, I’ll oppose it after the election and I’ll oppose it as president.”

The TPP's 5,000+ pages actually had very little to do with trade. Instead, corporations tried to turn it into a wish list for policies that they knew would never pass through Congress.
I just still write WinForms. It looks like crap, works everywhere and everyone knows how to use it
AI regulation: a pro-innovation approach
Let's say we in fact do agree to pause AI research for 6 months as proposed.

It could happen that the world comes together in perfect unison, figures out the regulatory details and then resumes research. It could also not happen. There are no signatures from any of the world's authoritarian countries. I predict that the next 6 months will then be used for quibbling over stupid details without any real progress, climate-change-style. We need regulatory guidance, but I don't see why stopping the research makes these regulations better or easier to make.

which is more likely:

- the world's authoritarian leaders will abide by this decree

- the world's authoritarian leaders will try and exploit the pause for their own gain

Go to work on fixing the fucking regulation rather than wasting time on petty petitions.
It's only nebulous if you close your eyes and go lalala because you can't handle reality. But whatever you need to tell yourself to sleep, I guess.
In other words, PyPy is not a AOT-compiler.
Lost it at the all caps one
Wondering if pesticides, especially neonicotinoids play a role in this epidemic. Neonicotinoids are neurotoxic and have effects on mammals...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neonicotinoid#Harms_to_Mammali...
:D doesn’t get stripped
Kids getting pissed off and anyone able to walk into a store and buy a gun, without knowing how to use it or store it properly… but that’s just a guess.