skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> all I can do is [...]

No, as you acknowledge, you can also send money to another individual who already did or is currently working on something that you like and that you want to incentivize them to keep doing.

Alternatively, there's almost certainly some way to get Igalia (or someone in it) to accept your money and make sure they know exactly what it's for.

> And finding relevant individuals isn't easy either.

Since they're right out in the open, records of who contributed what is pretty easy to parse for a developer looking at a bugtracker or a commit log. GitHub Sponsors seems straightforward enough (or conspicuous enough, at least; I don't even really use GitHub and I'm well aware of its existence).
<< A lot of people, incumbents and non-incumbents, relevant experts and non-experts, are saying we need to figure out AI safety. Some have been saying it for years, other just recently, but if you want to dismiss their views, you're going to need to address their arguments, not just ad hominem dismissals.

Some of us look at patterns and are, understandably, cynical given some of the steps taken ( including those that effectively made OpenAI private the moment its potential payoff became somewhat evident ).

So yeah. There is money on the table and some real stakes that could be lost by the handful of recent owners. Those incumbent and non-incumbent voices are only being amplified now ( as you noted they DID exist before all this ), because it is convenient for the narrative.

They are not being dismissed. They are simply being used.
Yea, it's reminiscent of Toyota's complaints. Tesla, GM, Ford, Volkswagen, Hyundai/Kia, BMW, and Renault/Nissan have put some weight behind electric vehicles as their future.

Toyota, Honda, and Stellantis are the large auto companies that haven't invested in EVs as much - and finding themselves as the odd three out in an industry that increasingly sees EVs as its future as countries start putting timelines on how long they'll allow combustion-engine vehicles. Stellantis merged together the 8th and 10th largest auto companies to make the 5th largest and they're staring down a future they haven't invested in. Toyota has been lobbying to stall EVs having bet hard on hydrogen vehicles which have never really gotten off the ground (https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/07/toyota-bet-wrong-on-evs...).

It is possible that EVs won't be the future of the auto industry, but I wouldn't bet on that at this point. Most of the major players are moving to EVs and while the transition might seem slow to some people, it's looking somewhat inevitable. Toyota's investment in hydrogen cars hasn't paid off and their reluctance to pivot has put them behind. Stellantis seems to be in a similar position.
The only reason there are any discussions about whether a sitting president can be charged with a crime is because the USA elected an evil administration that was willing to seriously suggest and push that idea.

It is so tragic and disappointing.
I figured his youtube series would show up here. Take my Upvote.

I'm now of the strong opinion that there is NO need for tubes any more, unless you've got old gear you want to keep working, and are willing to fork over the money for the tubes, and the power they waste as heat.

It makes me sad, I've been learning how to repair old tube ham gear (Collins, et al) from a friend who's been doing it since he was a kid in the 1950s. I've learned to have strong contempt for silver mica capacitors, and a reverence for the silence of modern non-dynamotor power supplies.

The strangest case was the RF amplifier that didn't work... because the ground lug the grid was connected to, wasn't a good ground.
because all of the libertarian ideals apply in any collapsed state (no governmental controls, unfettered free market, etc). What that state started as before it collapsed isn't relevant.
Maybe you should try committing longer? I had used Vim for nearly 8 years and had learned the crazy tricks you can do with Vim before switching to Kakoune and it took maybe 2 weeks to feel comfortable. I think people may overestimate how long it takes to relearn a style of modal editing which keeps them from committing to Kakoune/Helix which then prevents them from giving Kakoune/Helix a fair chance. After having learned this new style of modal editing, I'm really glad Helix doesn't have Vim style because I feel it be inferior to what Helix has.
I would trust ChatGPT code about as much as I trust the code produced by any human. All the Therac-25 code was written by a human, so what is the argument here exactly? At least when you tell ChatGPT that its code is wrong it agrees and tries to fix. Ok, it usually fails at fixing it, but it doesn't refuse to acknowledge that there is a problem at all, unlike the case of the Therac-25.

I like to think that it is not about who (or what) writes the code in the first place, it is about the review and testing procedures that ensure the quality of the final product. I think. Maybe it is just hopeless.
Not entirely worthless, but there are a bunch of things that are left unprotected and may thus pose an issue. Certainly not up to the same standards of your average EE2E IM platform, but it kinda doesn't have to be to be useful.
Yeah. All the talk about thinking computers, but I agree that intelligent fishes are a much larger threat.
I don't give permission even in private mode. If they do it anyway it's on them.
I really argue the opposite: it's really something you dont. A ton of people see LISP and get scared away.
I bet your country is backwards and "medieval" in a bunch of places. What you said is a meaningless tautology
Highly unlikely.

If every single person with that coding experience only coded, that's likely, but not every person who got their start that way focused on coding to the exclusion of everything else. There are at least a couple of us who are more oriented towards teaching, archiving, and knowledge preservation. Right now, people like us but don't tend to prioritize giving us their resources. Once those greybeards are in their 60s/70s/80s and looking at their work being lost forever, I imagine that will change. (Much in the same way that there's way more discussion now in tech spaces about raising kids now that more programmers are old enough to confront that issue).

That knowledge will likely be preserved by another greybeard cohort and it'll be specialized knowledge that only some people know, but it will be known. Some stuff will be lost because we'll prioritize money and copyright up until there's a crisis, but there are people prepping for this time period. It's not like trade knowledge loss is a new problem. It's just not a sexy one right now.
Sourcegraph is minimum $5k a year and the free version is wildly limited.
Fine change the wording to "delete all humans". Same outcome, no humans no cancer.
Surely the DA will be on top of this, presumably charging officials with not following the law to a T. When is the indictment coming?
> , try it for 20min and attempt to do my actual work for the day on it, then get frustrated and feel slowed down,

Oh wow... I thought I abandoned new editor attempts quickly when I spent less than a week through the frustration phase.
In terms of the EV3 language you could spin up Lego motors in parallel just by drawing two lines from the previous command instead of a single line. Threading in a very literal sense.

Scratch being event-driven is not bad in itself. But there is so much design space to be explored.
A form of literate code could be to add the prompt as a comment in the source code, along with a version and seed (like stable diffusion), plus the diff from the output to get what you need.

Unfortunately the gpt api is non deterministic, probably due to stupid censorship requirements.
But this is a domestic regulator, making a domestic finding.

This isn't an EU level decision. Countries in the EU have a lot of control over their own affairs, as they should.

Conflating EU and Domestic policies is a bad thing (this was done a lot in the UK)
There are no code examples on the home page, so here's one:

(defn bottles [n]
(match n
0 "No more bottles"
1 "1 bottle"
_ (string n " bottles")))

(loop [i :down [99 0]]
(print
(bottles i) " of beer on the wall\n"
(bottles i) " of beer\nTake one down, pass it around\n"
(bottles (- i 1)) " of beer on the wall\n\n"))

https://rosettacode.org/wiki/99_bottles_of_beer#Janet
With NixOS, you may need three google searches to solve a problem, but once it's solved it's solved.

For my own use, it has been a net improvement over solving the same problems again and again on other distributions.

Also: most problems are solved by a single tool (writing nix expressions), so there's a real breakthrough once you get good at it.
This is exactly the kind of mysticism I'm talking about. In fact we know precisely how LLMs work.

The fact that parts of human linguistic concept-space can be encoded in a high dimensional space of floating point numbers, and that a particular sequence of matrix multiplications can leverage that to perform basic reasoning tasks is surprising and interesting and useful.

But we know everything about how how it is trained and how it is invoked.

In fact, because it's only "state" aside from its parameters is whatever its context window, current LLMs have the interesting property that if you invoke them recursively, all of their "thoughts" are human readable. This is in fact a delightful property for anyone worried about AI safety: our best AIs currently produce a readable transcript of their "mental" processes in English.
Same. Helix made me realized vim is a walled garden and I willingly helped buidling those walls.
50mb for a hello world in common lisp is a bit misleading. its 50mbs for a hello world + an entire interactive common lisp runtime you can use to further extend the application. if you write 2x hello world it aint gonna be 100mb lol

on the other hand, i hear that commercial versions of common lisp can achieve better results. but seriously, is this such an issue for todays computers ? i have pdfs that are hundreds of mb
Police in the US have no obligation to serve the public or prevent crime due to Warren vs DC.
I haven't heard of this. Who are they raising funds from who are being promised an indictment on Trump?
I've got two IntelliJ projects and two Pycharm projects open right now (all of them are of significant complexity), on a 7 year old Macbook Pro with 16 GB of RAM, and they're running fine. There's a small UI lag at times, but nothing that would remotely cause me grief.

But I don't use many plugins, maybe that's the difference.
Just judging from the volume of papers, it seems to me that there are more academics writing papers on "AI safety" and "AI ethics" than there are academics publishing research papers on actual AI. It's become one of the hottest topics among legal academics, philosophers, ethicists, and a variety of connected disciplines, in addition to its niche among some computer scientists, and the amount of work to get to a paper in these fields is an order of magnitude less than actually publishing technical research.
Thanks, I was looking forward to this, after you sent me a draft months ago. I completely forgot about Janet as I've been very busy lately, but this is a good opportunity to get back into it.

--

See also, from the same author: https://bauble.studio/ — interactive 3d sandbox in Janet

Previously discussed at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32738654
Hacker news is the only place I've ever found myself discussing eugenics with someone who loved the idea - the tenor of a post is pretty subjective.
That's my impression as well.
What I'm thinking about lately is the way it could change how juniors develop domain expertise - less and less will come from cutting their teeth on these grunt tasks.

But then again, there's plenty of examples of technology evolving and grunt work evolving in response
There isn't much accountability when it comes to the NYPD. They seem to do what they want and get away with it, and the public as a whole there don't really look like they care.
> The GOP’s only power is in gerrymandering, voter suppression, and low-population “red” states that prevent the overall electorate from choosing preferred candidates.

The GOP won the 2022 House popular vote by over 3 million votes. There was no net effect from “gerrymandering.” The GOP won 51% of seats with 50.6% of the popular vote. Indeed, if we decided the executive based on who gets the most votes in the legislative election, like most countries, the GOP would have had two more years in charge of the executive branch since 2000.

As to Gen Z—they don’t vote and by the time they do, plenty will vote Republican. Millennials voted overwhelmingly for Obama. But in 2022, Democrats won the 30-44 demographic by just 4 points. The GOP also had their best year in decades among Latinos and Asians—losing Latino men by single digits.

And all that is with a national GOP that’s in the middle of a civil war. Look to Florida to see what could happen if they get their shit together. In Florida, a state Obama won twice, DeSantis won 56% of Hispanics and women overall. He even tied (at 47%) among women aged 18-29!
If you think you own a design because you hand drew a version of it someone else invented, you're gonna have a bad time. Please redraw a superman picture someone else made and then go to have it copyrighted, and tell me how that goes for you.
Oh great! What have you unleashed!? Now we're going to have to deal with hoards of AI zombies selling us multilevel marketing schemes!
Even Isaac Newton gotten taken in the South Sea Bubble. The allure of quick wealth, especially when everyone around you seems to be doing it can is very powerful.
And a lazy one, with a lousy memory. I don't konw if it is just my lousy prompts, but I seem to very often get first a skeleton code where core functionality is just a comment "# implement foo here". And every further request is fulfilled by the simplest possible intetpretation. And when I move to the next issue, sooner or later it forgets the accepted solution for another part of the code.

Or maybe I just expect too much...
> If this was actually Trump paying his own hush money via his lawyer

The allegation is that Trump reimbursed Cohen for what had (provably) been paid to Daniels. So, as usual, in the real world things get a bit more complicated. Is that still "paying his own hush money" ? Does using an intermediate make it not so? Does using an intermediate who first uses their own funds and you later reimburse them make it not so?
That is the "Light High Contrast" theme that you can set on GitHub under Settings -> Appearance.
Angry Dutch farmers hate Microsoft
This is a bit like saying that 1939 Einstein wasn't an expert in nuclear bombs. Sure, it didn't exist, so he wasn't an expert on them, but he was an expert on the thing that led to it and when we said it was possible, sensible people listened.

A lot of people working on LLMs say that they believe there is a path to AGI. I'm very skeptical of claims that there's zero evidence in support of their views. I know some of these people and while they might be wrong, they're not stupid, grifters, malicious, or otherwise off-their-rockers.

What would you consider to be evidence that these (or some other technology) could be a path to be a serious physical threat? It's only meaningful for there to be "zero evidence" if there's something that could work as evidence. What is it?
> One statistic in particular stood out: one in 25 American five-year-olds today will not make it to their 40th birthday. No parent should ever have to bury their child, but in the US one set of parents from every kindergarten class most likely will.

Wow...
Who cares about these sizes though? I know I don't and nobody I know would either. 100Mb are downloaded in roughly 6 seconds with my connection at home.
If you call it a lisp you summon the lisp lawyer demons who will litigate your namespace & symbol semantics and start a big beef among themselves about what a lisp is and what makes lisp lisp and how much this is lisp and whether lisp even exists it's just a whole huge headache.

It uses parens and prefix notation. Not every language that uses parens and prefix notation is a lisp, I guess, maybe, I don't care. But not wanting to have that argument is an excellent reason to never make this assertion about a language imo.
This also means that these often played games work on Linux. Now if Nvidia would just give Linux a little more Wayland love...
>That said, why isn't there any good alternative to webstorm?

Sadly all the people who could build one are on HN complaining/nitpicking about the various deficiencies of Jetbrains IDEs :)
The "if it's free" trope comes up on the regular in these threads. There are numerous examples out there, but off the top of my head, I pay for my cell service, my car's gas, airline tickets, and my rent, and all of those push advertising on me anyways.

While there is an argument for a product needing a revenue stream to survive, paying for a product clearly does not save you from ads and data collection. The company is there like Bilbo Baggins, holding the One Ring, and asking itself, "After all, why shouldn't I have both revenue from the customer and the ad revenue?"
> Absolutely wrong; it was the single biggest factor in the spread of Islam; even today forced conversions are a reality in Islamic countries.

Perhaps you do not know so I will give you a history lesson.

Firstly, some of the early Umayyads were reluctant to encourage conversion to Islam for tax reasons, as a tax was levied on the non-Muslim minorities under protection of the Umayyad empire. The concept of Dhimmah let non-Muslims live peacefully under protection of the empire in exchange for recognizing their authority and paying a poll tax, jizyah. However, many people willingly converted to Islam, and the result is that some of the greatest Islamic scholars came from non-Arab lineage.

Next, Islamic conversions occurred in the Indian subcontinent in large part due to Sufis and merchants. This is similar for Indonesia and China which contacts with Islam came through merchants.

Next, the much of the Middle East converted to Islam far later than the original conquests by Islamic empires. You can read more here in this Oxford news article, so certainly you won’t be making accusations of apologism: https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/arts-blog/how-did-christian-middle...

> Laughable! In every Muslim majority state, minorities have been persecuted/forcibly converted almost to extinction. You just have to look at the data for some Islamic countries.

The fact that religious minorities survived to the modern day in the Middle East is proof that Islamic conversions by and large did not happen by force. Nearly 20% of Egypt is Christian, as a result of the Coptic community that remains in Egypt. You can compare this to European conquests of the Americas, where indigenous religions were nearly wiped out forcibly. Or see the Spanish Inquisition where Spain expelled, interrogated, and executed Jews and Muslims.

Similarly, in the Balkans ruled by the Ottomans, there was no large scale systematic genocide of non-Muslims over hundreds of years of history. Early nationalism caused a lot of strife in the region and ethnic cleansing, but the fact that Balkan Christians remained is because forced conversion to Islam was not the primary cause of conversion to Islam. In fact, Bosnians converted to Islam probably because their form of Christianity was closer to Islamic teachings, compared to the others Balkan folk around them.

Yes, there were cases of forced conversion in different places, but in no way was this the primary way for people to become Muslims over history.

Anyways, your main argument was based around forced conversion being the primary way people entered Islam, but this is without a doubt false.

As for the sources you sent, these are very biased sources and this is outside of the topic at hand. Islam has remained relevant for hundreds of years, and will remain relevant for Muslims, regardless of what some people engaged in presentism will say.

I hope you can learn to leave your ignorance and accept truth, I think I have decisively sent you a lot of examples on why forced conversions were not the main cause to enter Islam. Let’s be honest.
Report from Germany: Haven't received a spam call in years.
I used to do that in Lua

https://github.com/LuaDist/srlua

The Lua runtime is 340kB on Windows and there's plenty of projects including the one above (srlua is made by the Lua maintainers) to produce statically linked and dynamically linked binaries.

But it's Lua, so while I loved the language, you have to put up with the tiny list of standard features which can make it a grind.
Those Governments are operating purportedly on behalf of their citizens. It is not they that need to justify themselves worthy of recognition and the privilege of doing business within the jurisdiction.

As Mom used to put it:
The world ain't gonna change to accommodate you. You must adapt to it. When in Rome; pick 1:

Do as the Romans

embrace the consequences of non-compliance

GTFO

The world is otherwise your Oyster, until it isn't. The larger part of Wisdom is learning to recognize and accept when it isn't.
> The right does it by voter suppression and strict poll laws, and the left does it by making it easier for those who are not eligible to vote to do so.

Can you expound on how it is easier for people not eligible to vote to do so?
> It's clear that we have too much grunt work. Im not sure if this is a failure of language design or libraries, but we need to do better at the core.

What do you mean "at the core"?
Hey, citizen’s arrest is a thing. We just need the proponents of this law to surround the chief on their way to work (or maybe a police station), then call the feds.

This actually worked reasonably well in the US a century or so ago. It’s one of the few use cases for the 2nd amendment that made any sense (other than hunting for food).
Cheers!

This is the sort of feedback that makes me cry (in the good way). It was extremely rewarding to have MIT students show up at our group and talking about what effect Scratch had on them and how it helped them make their way to MIT.
Hi, I've just added another cool command to sshto, quick filter of hosts! Enjoy)
Meta stops offering remote work in new job postings
Most new solar installations now use LiFePO4 which apparently is much safer on that runaway side...
Fail safe designs have been around for decades, but they never built them. At this point it doesn't matter. We have 400 non-fail-safe reactors out there. Either shut them down, or replace them with fail safe ones.

The fact fail safe designs 'exist' isn't an argument for continuing to operate the ones we have. Or building more of those non-fail-safe designs which is what's currently happening around the world right now.