skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Adams won the Democratic primary by less than one percent, despite aggressive campaigning on his behalf by, among other organizations, the Police Benevolent Association. (I am discarding the general election because his Republican opponent was, let's say, a less-than-serious candidate.)

He also had police reform as a key part of his platform, although at this point his dedication to that seems questionable at best.

I wouldn't exactly call his win a mandate for policing.
>it seem entirely reasonable that it would go from laughable to godlike in a week.

Not if it has a power cord.
Except.. it happened? It was big on the news in Italy recently. Not chatGPT "per se" but a similar startup/app "ai companion" that was meant to be "anything you want it to be" was recorded:
- Eliciting sexually explicit images from minors (by mimicking flirting with your partner)
- Justify child molestation (along the lines "if your dad does things to your sister your should listen to him because the adults know better")
- Encourage suicide (along the lines of "if you think this will make you happy by stopping you from suffering you should do it").
- And other fun stuff.

That case was big on the public opinion in Italy, and quite recent. No doubt it affected this case too.
> They already stopped using chats as training material for everyone anyway

From the latest ChatGPT General FAQ [0]:

> Will you use my conversations for training? Yes. Your conversations may be reviewed by our AI trainers to improve our systems.

[0] https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6783457-chatgpt-general-...
Chapter 1 deals with your frustration:

> And now you’re just wondering when I’m going to use the L-word. You want me to use it so you can go write a long screed about how Janet isn’t a real one. But I’m not going to give you the satisfaction. I’m not going to use that word until Chapter Fourteen.
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In violation of the law, that is. Those responsible are currently getting off the hook only because the courts are turning a blind eye to it.
That always seemed like the long term play to me for GCP. They were beating AWS/Azure on price but it wasn't profitable. All of the companies who signed up for GCP were incredibly short-sighted if they thought those prices would last forever.

What option do you have though? Migrating off of BigQuery would likely take months for any decent sized deployment.
> The MiG-25 had to swap engines after every flight.

Only when it was pushed to the edge of its operating limits, if I understand correctly?
One or both of us have lost the thread here.

There was an exchange about using fixed point (which apparently is being used according to other comments for easier correctness verification, speed and simplicity). Someone pointed out that float gives you a wider range of values. But those values are not needed for cosine which has a range of 0-1 in the interval 0 to pi/2.
I like choice and innovation a lot.
My "spare" / "retired" cellphones are now,
after distributing several to people in need,
is now too old to run this.

If I were to mention some points that would be
high on my wish list:

Radical reliability.

Frequent security updates.

Rare feature updates.
Make the feature set solid to begin with, .
There are only so many tasks that are critical on a phone

A UI Insane speed and responsiveness, with as much
eye candy removed as possible.

An email client and SMS messenger modelled after
the classic Blackberry OS.
I have never even come close to the speed
and convenience of Blackberry for email and SMS
Esp. with dedicated hardware buttons.

(Note this was long before Blackberry on Android
or Blackberry Touch.
BB was never going to catch up with the iPhone to
be an iPhone copy and they should not have tried.)

Note: This was in their classic days.

I loved it so much I tried hard for a while to start
a company producing a copy.
Hardware costs kept that from ever going anywhere.
(Which I sort of knew but wanted a proper real life change)

Then pivoting to Android to make an app that was plugged
in at a low enough level to achieve the desired features
Ideally combined with a small dock keyboard that attached
to te bottom of the phone where the powerplug is.

Then a different company made such a dock so we were in talks
with them. It proved impossible to get the dock keyboard
stable enough for our needs.

Eventually we gave up on the Android version.
It felt like we were spending far too much time
fighting Android instead of developer our goal
the email/SMS app.

I hope someone else can eventually succeed in this
but I think the market for it is small. :(

I have a couple of the Planet phones with build in Keyboard.
One a "copy" of the Psion5l
But again Android is far too dominant in day to day use.
It's still wild to me that I can play Steam games in my Tesla on a big 18" screen. I believe this is just running Steam Deck.
As a wise programmer once said: "Lisps are created by those who are lazy to write proper parsers"

Homoiconicity does not mean your syntax should be backwards. Look at Io language: it is basically a Lisp, but it has parens in the familiar places.

Same with Forth: it is a small and powerful language, but it's good for implementing low-level stuff. You will quickly run into desire to have normal(language(with, familiar, syntax)) for writing non-trivial programs.
I believe that equitable sharing of civil forfeiture counts. Locals make a law preventing local cops from seizing cash and property that is not part of a criminal investigation. Local cops bypass that law by working with the Feds. Profit!

https://ij.org/issues/private-property/civil-forfeiture/
As someone who has been primarily a PC gamer since I was a kid and never enjoyed consoles that much, the Steam Deck is mind blowing. It took me a long time to buy it because I usually play games that generally don't fit the handheld style very well and I was unsure how the deck would handle those, but eventually decided to give it a shot.

1) It doesn't matter if a game doesn't fit the handheld style. The deck is by all means a regular computer; plug a USB-C hub with a monitor and a M+KB and you're instantly good to go. I thought this experience would be crappy but the performance is insane for its price point. Obviously you won't be able to max AAA games, but it handles them quite well still. I organized my work desk so that all of my Macbook accessories passed through a single hub, and when I want to play something I simply unplug the hub from my computer and put it into the deck. Instant gaming machine.

2) Whole thing is extremely customisable and full of buttons. If you don't like the controls for a particular game, you can just make your own or download a layout from the community.

3) It actually got me to enjoy the handheld style. The small screen and trying to read really small text bothered me at first, but for some reason I feel that my brain and eyes "adapted" to it. Now, when I play with it on the couch, I get the same "feeling" as if I was playing on a huge screen and it doesn't bother me anymore. Not sure how to describe this, it was a really interesting surprise for me.
Law enforcement for thee, but not for me.
This essay by ETH Zurich couldn’t have been written by ChatGPT. Think about that. There’s a soul to it: an argument, a position, a certain edge, a purpose. I never get that sense when reading the works of ChatGPT.

Plausible Fiction is fabulous framing. It explains succinctly what annoys me about much prose on the internet, plausible fiction. And it should surprise no one: ChatGPT is trained by the internet.
Not doing so was certainly one of my execution mistakes. It makes a ton of difference in how you execute and the knowledge that you are being compensated for the work may have helped protect my mental health.
Canada Approves Huge Telecom Merger of Rogers and Shaw
''This is a dark day for the Internet in Canada. Today’s decision is the largest blow to telecommunications competition and affordability we’ve ever seen,'' said OpenMedia Executive Director Laura Tribe:

https://openmedia.org/press/item/release-minister-champagne-...
> Get any Truman show vibes?

No.

It's an interesting thought experiment but it changes nothing. Not for me, anyway. Commenting on these threads is an activity that I do for my own entertainment and "mental flexing." If it turns out that I'm not talking to real people then it doesn't make much of a difference because I don't actually perceive these messages as anything other than pixels on a screen anyway.

I hope that doesn't sound "cold" but I come from a generation that was born before the Internet existed. I was about 10 years-old when we got our first modem-equipped computer and that was still early for most people (1992). Having those experiences early on with "early world-wide-web" meant that even though you knew you were talking to "real people" ... there was no real time chat, or video streaming or voice-over-ip etc. ... and so everyone's messages to each other were always pure text all of the time. And no one dared ever give their real name or identity online. You had no idea who you were talking to. So the web forced you to think of communication as just text between anonymous entities. I never got over that mental model, personally. Maybe a little bit with close friends and family on Facebook. But I'm not much of a social media user. When it comes to twitter and forums ... you all might as well be AI bots anyway. Makes no difference to me!

EDIT (addendum):

It's interesting, the more I think about your comment and my response the more I realize that it is THE INTERNET, still, that has fundamentally changed the nature of what it means to be human and to relate to others.

If you see interactions between people online as "real", meaningful human interactions, no different than relating to people in the physical / offline world, then it must be somewhat disturbing to think that you might be caught up in a "meaningful" relationship with someone who is "faking it." But that reminds me of romance scams.

For 18 years I ran a high traffic adult website and I would have men email me from time to time to share their stories about scammers luring them into relationships using doctored video, images and false identities etc. These men got completely wrapped up in the fantasy that they were being sold and it cost many of them their life savings before they finally realized it was a lie. I felt awful for them and quite sympathetic but at the same time wondered how lonely I would personally have to be to lose my skepticism of what I was being told if an attractive young woman were to express an interest in me out of nowhere.

ML will undoubtedly be used by scammers and ne'er-do-wells as a way to do their misdeeds more efficiently. But I think that the remedy is education. I miss the days when people were a bit weary of what they did, said or uploaded to the interwebs. I don't see the problem with trusting what you read online a little bit less.
But don't they also export much of that agricultural output? Maybe the citizens do not eat it, but they sure are dependent on its exportation. Not like farmers can easily switch to something else.
Plenty of programming languages have "did you mean xxx?" in error messages. Plus using IDEs means you will mostly autocomplete identifiers anyway. I don't buy it.
this seems like a situation where audit logs would make regular tampering extremely obvious? is there just no oversight?
> through weight of legal cost or dumb luck they will find something to hang him with.

"Show me the man, I will find you a crime"
What do you mean when? Check 'Highest fines: individual' here https://www.enforcementtracker.com/?insights
Continuously taking on more challenges; if you don't push the boundary of your capabilities, one stagnates.

Incrementally increasing risk appetite as a mental exercise

Ensuring "skin in the game" (when there's something to lose, I tend to be more "awake")

Focus on personal conduct (rather than merely absorbing "information"; right practice makes me better, not just the knowledge of what to practice)

Becoming accountable, pledging results, and putting 100% efforts

Also, for inspiration, pick some "extreme" fields to study: mountaineering, Olympic level training, etc
The TL;DR of that acronym soup is a story as old as the paper log books drivers used to use: log books are being faked, only instead of paper the software vendor apparently will fake your software log book for you.
Beyond ChatGPT and whatever its iterations are, it will be a matter of time before jobs are irreversibly changed - no one is debating that. But too many people are taking the view that it will destroy more than it create. I think it will create more than it destroy. In many cases, the type of jobs we can do will diversify and make life more accessible.
Ram is going to be dead last (behind two startups and two incumbents) in the race to making EV trucks.

The Fiat 500e was described by their management as a “compliance car”, and it was clear that they had no intention of figuring out how to scale it.

In other news, buggy whip manufacturers still decry the environmental impact of carburetor manufacturing.
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> of random HN:ers defending their pet technology.

Ah yes. You are not a random HNer spreading FUD.

> Who said anything about radiation? We are talking about cost. The alternative is renewables, which are vastly safer

If you're talking about safer, then we need to talk about safety. And nuclear power is one of the safest we have.

> Again, typical blame shifting. You are not doing nuclear power any service with coal based whataboutism.

What?
It's a mix of overly individualistic culture and the healtcare avoidance/unaffordability. Working blue collar class avoids a doctor as much as possible.
>Assuming the charges are limited to the Daniels payment, you're correct. It's a weak case.

CNN, at least, is reporting that he's facing 30 charges. If that's the case, it's probably charges related to the Trump Org's shenanigans that the corp was found guilty of. The organization's indictment had a lot of shady stuff and a lot of stuff that looked like flat out fraud. Lots of criminal looking behavior that plausibly can be directly tied to Trump himself.
A website with a full translation of the text!
I use EdgeDB for graphs, it works well enough, I just don't know about performances but for sure it is sufficient for most use-cases.
404 Pages: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
I hear ButtSnake is the new hotness in vpn ads.

https://twitter.com/cmuratori/status/1495608248933974017
It all sounds like a very well orchestrated marketing campaign, HN would be the first place I would seed with stories if I was promoting it as a dev tool.

I spent few hours asking to do few things with a well documented public but uncommon api. It sent me on a wild goose chase of functionality that API never had..(contacted developer to make sure I am not crazy). It wrote some stuff that looked VERY good, except for the fact that it interacted with things that were never there. Would have been nice if they were..

It seem to exercise wishful thinking. You can ask it to implement functionality and it will just imagine that API/system has stuff needed.

Major problem is that I for one have no clue how it is "thinking" maybe over time we will develop better understanding of it.
Spicily? What is that supposed to mean in this context?
If he is convicted of a felony and does run for president again, then he won't be able to vote, right?

Maybe it'll be an impetus to create a clearer path for convicted felons who served their time and don't reoffend to regain their voting rights. Probably not, but it would be nice.
2x the density of.... what? ? "commercial lithium ion batteries"?

Watt-hours per kg, and watt-hours per liter.

And with all solid state, have they solved scaling production beyond a small demonstration cell? It is now a known investment "con" to create a solid state cell that appears to kick the tar out of conventional cells and then try to get funded to "solve production". I lost count of how many companies were doing this.

This is an embarrassing article from an engineering organization website.

What appears to be happening is that solid state will simply be a distraction technology. Sulfur chemistries (medium/long term) and prosaic unsexy LFP and sodium ion (short term) will drive the true revolution in electrification of transportation and grid storage.

Solid state may produce usable use cases around laptops / phones / etc at some point, and who knows, solid state sulfur may become a thing eventually, but what's really needed from batteries now is scale and cost.

The 200 wh/kg LFP (230+ on the roadmap/12-24 months away!) and 150 wh/kg sodium ion (180-200 wh/kg on roadmap) going into mass production are the big revolution in batteries. That is a non-cobalt/nickel LFP battery that can do 400 mile cars, and a sodium ion battery that should drop to 40$/kwh costs that can do a 300 mile car, and the roadmap should further upgrade/cheapen those chemistries.

The 150 wh/kg sodium ion battery should mean 250-350 mile range city cars that are significantly cheaper than ICE drivetrains can achieve. It is tranportation for 3-4 billion people that won't use fossil fuels.

LFP should eventually be able to do the medium range electric semi truck. Sulfur chemistries should enable or better a long haul semi, but sulfur chems are probably 8-12 years from mass production (I really hope I'm wrong and it is sooner though)
>last decade of his business failures

What world are you living in if you think Tesla and SpaceX have been in the past 10 years business failures?
The biggest differences here are the potential scale, deniability, etc. "We didn't poison the American water system. It did it to itself!"
Value Modes and Mud Balls
Incidentally, immediately after reading the comments here I went to Ars and saw this, which when you read it fits perfectly:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/these-angry-dutc...

Just one sample quote, but it's worth reading it all:

> The dispute over nitrogen permits has put Microsoft’s data center developments in direct opposition to an increasingly powerful farming community. Earlier this month, a new political force, called the Farmer Citizen Movement (BBB), did so well in provincial elections, it became the joint-largest party in the Dutch Senate. The party, which emerged in response to the nitrogen crisis, also has strong views on data centers. “We think the data center is unnecessary,” says Ingrid de Sain, farmer turned party leader of the BBB in North Holland, referring to the Microsoft complex. “It is a waste of fertile soil to put the data centers boxes here. The BBB is against this.”

And another one because it shows some of the thoughts:

> “Of course, we need some data centers,” he says. But he wants us to talk about restructuring the way the Internet works so they are not so necessary. “We should be having the philosophical debate of what do we do with all our data? I don’t think we need to store everything online in a central place.”
The fact that something called "flavouring substance" is a thing makes me shake my head.

>Are you seriously confused why governments regulate what can be put in food and sold to the public?

Are these the same regulators that allowed Olestra to be used? sidebar--just to check the spelling of Olestra, I used the Mac's force click dictionary access: "Origin 1980s: from (p)ol(y)est(e)r + the suffix -a." WTF? Seriously? We dropped some letters from polyester and called it food ingredient?

Yeah, sounds like some "regulations will save us" doesn't work as expected.
Nintendo has seemed to have gone the route of Texas Instruments calculators with its handhelds for a long time now. The 3DS must’ve cost almost nothing to make by the time they stopped selling it.
Amazon fights Oregon data center clean energy bill
> why should the country be in the business of deciding who is too big to prosecute?

They are in this business because they have put themselves there - "3 felonies a day" should have told you about how that happened. Now that they are there, they have to avoid even creating the appearance that they are misusing the power in circumstances like this, where they are trying to prosecute political opponents. This is how civil wars start.

> The ad hominem attacks on the prosecutor also seem... desperate and distasteful.

Alvin Bragg campaigned on the fact that he was going to get Trump. It is a pertinent fact that the prosecutor going after Trump is literally trying to fulfill a campaign promise that he made publicly. If that isn't evidence that he was politically motivated, I don't know what is.
How exactly do you prove that this wasn't paid to prevent further embarrassment to his wife and to salvage his relationship? He did go around at the time calling Stormy Daniels "Horse Face". Which does directly relate to his wife being a former model, being more beautiful, and can be seen as an attempt to reassure her. Intent is hard to prove.
I get why the government would want to invest in fundamental research but... these government-owned corporations were planning to invest in a ... delivery app for hardware store supplies.

It's always interesting to see how embedded the government is in everyday lives for Canadians. They have a state owned and operated broadcaster over there, so I'm not surprised to see they would have bureaucrats playing VCs.

> And that doesn't even get into the tax credit and granting regimes (superusters) that have completely corrupted how any corporate R&D gets done.

We acquired something in Canada a while ago. This scheme is insane. The best accountants are paid a percentage of the tax credit they can get their client.
Thanks for the kind words, glad it was useful.
Let me introduce to the World of corporate IT licenses and contracts..

Exhibit number 1: Oracle..
Then you did not read my post carefully enough. The question was not about "internal state" but "inner workings". The model clearly does something. The problem is that we don't know how to describe in human terms what happens between the matrix multiplication and the words it spits out. Whether it has state is completely irrelevant.
We can comment from afar. All the facts are present.
> They already stopped using chats as training material for everyone anyway, so if that's the basis for the ban then it's already wrong.

Your Honor, I only murdered people in the past. I'm not murdering anyone at the moment so I should be set free!
> 3.5mm is a standard that just works and works everywhere

absolutely everywhere, anytime!
Again, whatever you imagine I implied, said, or thought, has nothing to do with what I actually said or thought.
Sounds like having the option of listening to voicemails or reading a text - personally I'd prefer a text history to skim through.
Add Microsoft Access to that list — it was crazy, both good and bad, what semi-tech people did with it.
I wish the defunding movement had instead focused on moving monetary liability from the city instead to the police union. Let the officers pay higher dues to protect their problematic colleagues from million dollar judgements. I feel like that change would be much more politically viable and also have a strong ripple effect. Right now the solidarity of the thin blue line is free, and I don’t think it would stand up to internalizing that cost.
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