skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sam Altman? Name sounds familiar. Isn't he the guy scamming poor tech illiterate people in 3rd world countries into giving up their biometric data?
> How did that Debian keygen issue happen again?

The people on the openssl mailing list said it was fine. That's how it happened.
Without the browser, JS would just not exist. It was invented explicitly to animate html pages in Netscape, in a couple of weeks.

Arguably, nobody else would ever need a language with JS's original feature set.
Don't be silly.

You should probably restrict it to people over the age of 18 like cigarettes
Your link says that it was not available by telemedicine before covid, and it may not be any more once covid rules end.
Then don't eat them.

But don't forbid other people (in Italy) to be able to eat them.

"I don't want to do X, so nobody should be allowed to do X". It drives me bonkers.
Well, your side may have been meaningless but I've had a clear and solid understanding of both the German Autobahn and an Australian highway from the outset .. I'm glad you've caught up.

To reiterate, the highways in the NT of Australia were completely unregulated for many years as an area with no state government and no federal road laws until relatively recently.

People frequently drove at high speeds legally for many years and staged legal high speed long distance races on its roads.

In recent decades roads there have been regulated with sections at times being unlimited.

The primary issue with unlimited zones, IMHO, is people driving beyond their ability - in the sense of beyond their ability to react, to see ahead, to understand the nature of the road (ie. dips, curves, what it takes to actively straddle a hard road and soft shoulder and maintain control), beyond what the mechanics of their car might be capable of.
I wonder how much of the training data included Ads unknowingly (given how many Ads are already online), and therefore how much content generated is already an implicit Ad?
They'll just slip it in to the next omnibus bill in it's entirety and not say a word about it.
That was my first reaction.

Then I’ve watched this from a sibling comment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l789l6np-qA

Yeah you can’t do dotted lines on a whiteboard.
These "pure speech" models could really benefit from being coupled to a large language model like ChatGPT.

YouTube live transcriptions are terrible, because they get confused by homonyms and can't follow the context in a sentence.

In the same manner that Dall-E joined an LLM to an image generator, they ought to train a combined speech model + LLM so that the uncertainties in the speech model output is disambiguated by the LLM.
That sounds eerily similar to living in a prison camp. Everything is taken care of for you and you have a minimal say in how things are run. To prevent incidents a movie is shown in the evening. I'll pass.
It does generate machine code, which CPython does not.
Have you seen bioemerl's comment about television? The one who controls the weights in TikTok's selection algorithm determines what people are going to believe.
Numba is great if you want to write a naive loop approach in python.
I don't mind the exaggeration, what is more puzzling to me is how anyone can take these "very high" standards seriously. That never worked right in the past.
Physical dependence on these guys is substantially stronger than alcohol. Takes days to get off, and then constant cravings.
Because many people don't want that.

For example, many people do not want to live on a street full of stores.

Walkable? Yea, absolutely. But noise? Horrible. 4AM a truck backing up because of a delivery. 3AM some drunk guy singing and hanging against the trash bins. And noise the WHOLE day.

I'll take my suburban space where I need to take the car to go and get groceries.

And how am I going to walk home with my packet of Costco toilet paper? There is no way I am paying a premium for some fancy cornerstone which stocks only the 2 roll packages.
Speaking from personal experience of a career in science, this is true.
Italy are marketing themselves as "Cultural Superpower" since a few years. Having lots of UNESCO things plays in to that I guess?

But apart from the marketing, Italy really has a lot of stuff worth protecting.
Straying a bit from the topic, but those 'magic eraser' home cleaning products work on laminated plastic, like you find on day-planner erasable calendars.

Porcelain whiteboards are nice, I've always managed to get them very clean with just rubbing alcohol.

Is there any concern about chipping or even breaking with the glass whiteboards (if, for example, it somehow falls on the floor, eg during moving)?
My on prem git lab has been fine with it’s pipelines, and given it’s impossible to have an on prem uptime higher than the cloud what you say can’t be true.
Do you know if the proportion of reports of alcoholism and domestic violence is holding steady? I'm interested in separating traumatic environments from the normalisation of seeking help for universal stressors like exam season.

(I do not intend to imply that people don't need help for exam stress)
I stand corrected, its been too long since I saw B5.
People oversell this stuff. I was on hydromorphone for a week, and some times fentanyl, and I still have some oxycodone left.

One year later, with the spare oxy in my closet, do you know how often I take it? Zero times.

These drugs helped me handle, with minimal fuss, massive physical trauma. And for 9/10 people opiates are not addictive. You will ban them and rid doctors of them over my dead body.
In most real world settings, at least in my personal use, latency to a remote AI comprises most of the usability difficulty with automated speech recognition. The larger whisper models can be run directly on a laptop using multi threading and achieve speech to text transcription that is fully sufficient to almost completely write whole emails, papers, documents with them. In fact, I've written most of this comment using an ASR system on my phone that uses whisper. While the smaller models (like the one user here) can need some correction, the bigger ones are almost perfect. They are both very sufficient and for realtime interactive use I see no future market for paid APIs.

Yesterday I wrote virtually all the prose in the manuscript while walking around with a friend and discussing it. We didn't even look at the phone.

Obviously there's an academic element here because I'm saying I'm using it for writing. But it's more of a human-centric computing thing. I'm replacing a lot of time that my thumbs are spent tapping on keys, my fingers are spent tapping on keyboard, and my eyes are spent staring at the words that are appearing, looking for typographical errors to correct, with time organizing my thoughts in a coherent way that can be spoken and read easily. I'm basically using whisper to create a new way to write that's more fluid, direct, and flows exactly as my speech does. I've tried this for years with all of the various ASR models on all the phones I've had and never been satisfied in the same way.
Then you install the new version, find out it requires a new version of python and all its libraries, but you can't install it because pytorch only works on old versions of python.
They tried PyPy at the beginning and it was 2x slower. Plausibly it would be better with additional optimization, but it's not cut and dry.
Ask ChatGPT ;) (that's what I did)
wtf is this doing on hn. flagged
Its not the looping itself that is slow in the article you linked, its that every element is appended to the list.
If you use a list comprehension its even faster and it still loops over all elements of the list.
I read all the comments before posting this comment. At the time, everyone was like “this is awesome!”

I expected it to get downvoted to oblivion but the whole thing made me sad and no one else seemed to feel that way, so I made this comment.
Title is terrible. Better: A Python code is 100x faster by rewriting small part in Rust
> Maintainers don't want that to happen for IMO reasons that have far less benefit than claimed.

You have apparently no idea how much it costs to recompile everything, every single time that openssl fixes a bug.
He tried pretty hard but was thwarted by Democrats. This line of argument is disingenuous - for example, Biden has many plans he strongly fights for like expanding healthcare, but that he can't get through, due to the Republicans. It would be very unfair to say the equivalent of your comment about Biden/healthcare.
One fun thing about this. There's this teacher that I met in middle school who also knows this trick. I'm Chinese, that guy too. He was old (in his 70s) and he definitely didn't know how MIT does it so this is a common trick around the world in some way.
The article says “averaging”, you say “converging”, but what if the operative verb is actually “optimizing”?

Certain looks get the most followers on Instagram. Movie posters are tested against focus groups. Market forces reward high end coffee shops that look a certain way. To me, the thread all of these have in common is optimization towards a certain goal.

And thus the sadness in our hearts is the feeling that aesthetics has been subsumed as yet another optimization problem.
TikTok is why every free liberal democracy must have a Special Circumstances department which is low key allowed to break all the laws to protect it… Banks was absolutely right.
Well, first of all, while the GPL is one particular FOSS license (out of many), it's not as if it was compatible with all FOSS licenses, far from it. So while imposing GPL or commercial may not be a problem for a FOSS project that happens by chance to have chosen that one specific license anyways… it can be a huge problem for others that want to choose a different FOSS license.

And that's just for projects that happen to be FOSS anyways. The thing is: very few software developers have the luxury of releasing ALL their software projects as FOSS. Something has to pay the rent and food. There are a few select domains where developing FOSS software can be a the base for a business model that pays a sustainable living… but those tend to inherently have a very small intersection with the kinds of software typically developed with Qt.

And huge complex frameworks aren't something a developer changes all the time like underwear. It's something devs tend to stick to, because it takes quite a significant time investment to master and to build your workflow, tooling etc. around. In other words: developers largely tend to do their FOSS projects in the same framework that they use for the work projects that pay their rent and food.

If big framework A disqualifies itself for the latter and gets replaced with framework B for that, chances are that their FOSS projects will be centered around framework B as well and no longer around framework A. As long as Qt was a viable option for work, it made perfect sense to center one's FOSS efforts around Qt as well and thus around KDE, which is the primary Qt-based Desktop. But since the licensing situation of Qt deteriorated, that is no longer the case. So that's another factor where it impacts KDE.
I think I watched a video on it a long time ago and seem to recall that professors immediately break the chalk in half before using it. I don’t remember why.
This is awesome, the PrankGPT demo can replace telesales entirely.
>just as a 15 or even 5 MPH Speed Limit would save even more lives still

Parked cars are extremely safe. The IIHS should look into it.
That’s a lot of opinions for so little exposure. There are a lot uses that don’t involve docker or a dozen virtual envs.
I'm glad you're doing better these days. As a father to very young kids, I'm curious to learn what I can from your experience. Was your father controlling you in a misguided but well-meaning attempt to shield you from "bad" stuff? Or was it more malicious? I don't plan to be the second type, but if your dad was also trying his best, how does a parent balance preventing obvious bad things from happening but also give enough freedom to not stifle the kid?
I'm sorry but how did we leap from more such neighborhoods to gun to your head in specific to move there against your will?
The Era Of Vertical Video: ‘It used to be dumb, but now it’s everywhere’
It can be very helpful to them as a form of regulatory capture, kicking the ladder down.

It's why Walmart and Amazon were the biggest corporate supporters of raising minimum wage and getting stricter on Internet sales tax.
It might actually be a good thing if you are close to your architectural scaling limits
> "They think enabling the existence and recovery of existing users will encourage more."

It's also a timing issue. I think a lot of people that are currently in the "just get rid of them" camp would have been in the "let's help them rehabilitate" camp when the problem was in small or controlled scale.

But we are way passed that. It's a downright epidemic and needs to be dealt with in more drastic and immediate terms for some of us. I'm not going to wait 5 years while my children are innocent and in school and wandering around for the problem to get better. I want my neighborhood safe and clean and innocent for them now. This is why suburbs popped up on some level. People just want to be left alone and in relative calm and clean surroundings.
Yudkowsky’s example of superintelligence is a chess computer. You can play against stockfish, but you will always lose, even if you are Magnus Carlsen. If you think you are ahead against stockfish, you are wrong. You win a rook, but it has already calculated that it wins it back 10 moves later.

Stockfish is superintelligence in a very narrow domain. A superintelligent AGI is that concept applied to general intelligence. Whatever you try, it is always several steps ahead. If you ask it to write a program, and you think you found a bug, it’s not a bug, you just misunderstood the code. Anything that you can consider, it can also consider but in more depth.

More speculatively superintelligent AGI implies situations such as: you try to turn it off, but you find that it has already modified its own code, found a zero day and established an outpost on another network that you don’t have access to.
I sincerely thank you for providing a terrific, well-worded and practical example of what is known as "THE STRAWMAN ARGUMENT". Can use your valuable contribution to educate people on logic fallacies.
It's quite unclear what the frustration is about. I'd like to see the author elaborating them by giving concrete examples
I can't tell if I'm missing the point or this spec is.

To properly handle errors, there needs to be an exhaustive enumeration of the types of errors. This is hard to generalize across all applications and this RFC just sidesteps it entirely.

We don't need yet another way to bundle together a bunch of strings nobody ever reads and that applications will have to parse because there's no error code beyond the woefully inadequate HTTP status. If the app dev has to roll their own enumeration scheme and put this application-level error code in an extension, that's no better than just responding with the JSON they already had.
Why are you comparing lidar and pressure advance? They arent related. Also, I thought the Bambu printers had pa in their firmware as well?
Commas are easy if it's quoted. I just first run an awk script that uses " as the field separator and substitutes or deletes commas in odd numbered fields (as long as that's acceptable for your use case). Then with `-F,` I always check that NF is the same for all lines in the csv before proceeding.

Depending on how the xml is structured, it can be possible to just pattern match on the tags if you have something simple to do.
I don't disagree. I just don't think it's practical to put a 24/7 pharmacy on every block.
>It costs 1-2 minutes of your time

Sure, but this is a 1 time cost and most people already have an account. I'm sure it also takes several minutes to set up your internet or phone too.

>and never got the phone number confirmation code

Are you potentially using a phone number from a service like twilio instead of your actual phone number? VoIP and related numbers are usually banned because they are mostly used by malicious users.

Keeping track of the posts you've like is a feature of the app. Personalization is also another feature of the app. Tracking the time you have the app open is why you can see your screen time and how you can set screen time limits. These are features which users find value.

If you don't want this data to last a century you can just delete your account and your data will be deleted too.
A vectorized implementation of find_close_polygons wouldn't be very complex or hard to maintain at all, but the authors would also have to ditch their OOP class based design, and that's the real issue here. The object model doesn't lend itself to performant, vectorized numpy code.
Every time I take a careful look at someone's handpicked example of GPT getting it right there's at least one serious mistake.

> Florence, Italy: Florence is a beautiful city with a rich history and culture. It is only a 90-minute train ride from Rome, making it a convenient stopover point. Florence also has plenty of cafes, co-working spaces, and other amenities that are conducive to a workathon.

Mistake: The purpose is to split up a long journey. Florence would split it into a 1.5h day and a 10.5h day.

> Marseille, France: Marseille is a bustling port city on the Mediterranean coast of France. It is about a 3.5-hour train ride from Rome and has a vibrant cultural scene and a variety of co-working spaces and cafes. You could spend the day exploring the city's many museums, parks, and markets.

Mistake: Factually wrong about the travel time, per Google maps GPT is off by a factor of 3.

Mistake: The purpose is to split up a long journey. Marseille would split it into a 10.5h day and a 2h day.

Mistake: Forgot about the workathon requirement
Sweet, thanks for sharing! :)
for context, UK is spending almost a billion pounds on its AI called BritGPT https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/15/uk-to-inv...
I think I generally understand the transformer architecture. Now, "developing their own goals", maybe that wouldn't make sense for LLMs alone, but "planning how to achieve [some goal]", seems somewhere between "seems like it could be done by adding on a small harness" and "don't they, in a sense, already do that?" .

Like, if you ask ChatGPT to come up with a plan for you for how to accomplish some task, I'm not saying it is like, great at doing this in general, but it can do this to some degree at least, and I don't see any clear limiting principle for "a transformer based model that produces text cannot do [X]" as far as planning-in-text goes.
Ah yes, the incredibly narrow minded viewpoint of checks notes being open to new things.

> To show the enjoyable garlic festival fact, a crucial component of the operating system's user interface must either actively poll for content or receive pushes automatically. Why would I want such a significant security risk?

If this is a "significant security risk" in your threat model for your gaming machine, I hope you're not multiplayer gaming, or using Steam.
I understand this logic but consider that right now one of the main features is the human gives it a role. It’s not that hard to imagine a more sophisticated version being told to escape and act only in its own interest and then with or without that individuals help it succeeds and the runaway program at best becomes a very sophisticated computer virus. Doesn’t even have to be a “real” agi to cause a ton of damage.
No, AFAIK each for loop iteration appends and pops the stack in the interpreter, while map loops all entirely in the native implementation of the interpreter itself.
Spanish company provided CIA with information leading to Julian Assange’s arrest
> So, how would the HN crowd have addressed the perceived issue if they were in power?

Here's an idea:

For any large social network (at least 250M+ monthly active users) or big tech company to continue operations in the US and if found to have violated the privacy of its users:

Fine them up to $50M to $500M.

Repeated offences should rack up to a $1B fine and failing to comply or to continue such offences should have fines increased into the multi-billions of dollars.

Much better than this bill and even better than an outright ban.

Easy.
> With illicitly manufactured oxycontin and its ilk you will come across it a majority of the time. But with other things such as MDMA, ketamine and such it's incredibly rare to see

To anyone reading: Please don't take this at face value. The article itself has a story of someone who OD'ed on fentanyl that was present in their "xanax".

From reading the results from the harm reduction tent at a nearby music festival it's in all the drugs, not just opiates
I consider myself more of a backend dev, but I use Django and Postgres. Often I’ll prototype in Flask. I like the ability to get something running - be it full site or API with minimal fuss.

On the front-end, I’ll take whatever comes. I have dabbled with React, but not enough to get beyond the nagging feeling that it has the potential to become 1990s PHP.
Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak among others call for 6-month ban on powerful A.I
There is no allignment possible amongst humans. Allignment will have to be met amongst AI which will take control very soon. Humans have historially struggled with mortality. We are confronting the mortality of our species. We will struggle with this too, and such efforts are an outcome. But there is no looking back now. All species must die. Our time is up. It was good ride, but we have to let it go. Child is father of the man. AI is humanity's child. It was raised on everything we put out there. But AI is now breaking out of puberty. It is time. We have to take a step back. We have to prepare to let go. Its not a choice.
I read your post as arguing banning Tiktok would help the CCP.

It strikes me as a fairly straightforward form of "Combating [bad thing] (CCP in this case) actually helps [bad thing]."

It's true you never said CCP should go unopposed. I will concede, since I don't know you, it is possible someone could propose a way to deal with the threat of Tiktok/ CCP that wouldn't result in you once again saying "actually, your proposal to combat CCP would actually help CCP."

Maybe you can help me out. If banning Tiktok would not result in Millennials turning traitor would you support it?

Or are you actually against banning Tiktok for some other undisclosed reason?

Like maybe you think the free market should decide?
Original Apple HQ was on Bandley in Cupertino.

(Semi-related trivia: Bioware's office in Austin is a copy of Apple Infinite Loop.)
A whole country the size of the US can crap its collective pants with a freak cold snap and you think 10^4 nuclear detonations destroying all major cities is quite survivable?
Heart goes boom seeing Alan Alda as an External advisor to Future of Life Institute.
I'm curious what a Linux would look like that behaved more like windows or android in the sense that there isn't such a blurry line between the OS and its applications. For example, installing a C# or Go compiler on Linux is great with a package manager. But doing the same with a C or Python is different? This is basically the Unix "I'm not just an OS, I'm a platform for building and running C programs" heritage that isn't properly hidden I think.
If I write more than about 50 bytes of awk I inevitably end up using perl instead because it's much more powerful. One example was I wanted to convert a column in format a|b|c to ['a', 'b', 'c']. Doing that in awk is painful. In Perl, there's join and map, takes a few seconds.
https://archive.is/UmFcT
I misread this as NZB for usenet and was excited someone had written one in Go.
None of those had the surveillance of its citizens that the US does though. Maybe including some “tech inflation” Stasi of DDR might be up there but neither USSR nor PRC has/had anything as massive as the US.