skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wasn't arguing against "responsible ai"

That's what I'm saying. The fact that you didn't see "responsible AI" as something to question to the same degree is exactly the point I was making.

That you don't realize that "neutrality" doesn't exist in a conversation about responsible AI is the point that sgift's comment was making. There is no purpose to going into a conversation about responsible AI trying to be fully neutral about what good and bad is. The word "responsible" implies that there is such a thing as a good and bad outcome, and that the good outcomes are preferable to the bad ones.

But to restate GP's point, any conversation about user agency, privacy, equity, responsiblity, bias, accuracy, etc... all of it assumes an opinionated philosophy about what's good and bad -- and in fact, it is desirable to have those discussions working from the assumption that some things are good and some things are bad. It is impossible for any of that conversation to be neutral, nor should neutrality be a goal -- because a conversation about responsible AI is a conversation about how to influence and create those preferred world states, and how to bias an AI to create those world states.

There is no such thing as a "neutral" aligned AI. AI alignment is the process of biasing an AI towards particular responses.

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And again, I just want to point out, these types of conversations never crop up when we're talking about stuff like user agency and privacy. When I say "people should have privacy", nobody asks me to define ethics from first principles.

And I mean, people can say "well, we just want to approach first principles in general, this isn't about minorities" -- but people can also read the thread on this page and they can see that all of this conversation spiraled out of someone complaining that Mozilla was calling out models that reinforced existing biases against minorities. That was the context.

There is no sibling thread here where someone complained about the dichotomy between safety and agency. And people can take from that what they want, but it's a pattern on HN.
> How is a credible witness directly involved with the matter at hand, present at meetings with Joe Biden "pretty weak"? This is not hearsay, this is a statement from someone who was present? What would be strong evidence, video I suppose?

Strong evidence is whatever is supposedly on those phones. Which he didn't share.

> Hispanics tend to vote Democrat.

Still not undermining democracy.

> Lol...either laws are enforced or they are not.

Choosing how to implement laws is half the point of the executive.

> Of course not, it's too damning, clear and obvious of the ridiculous double-standards at play.

Hunter is not a politician. I only care so much about him being corrupt.

> Are you seriously going to suggest this charge would have been brought against any other person than Trump?

We don't know what the charges are but it seems like similar charges have been brought against other politicians.
I hear it's a hard world for engineering applications rn. That's part of why I didn't wanna go back into tech. We'll see. The world is in a strange way right now

Good luck!
if not april fools, this boost is maybe related to his other tweet requesting a global regulatory framework https://twitter.com/sama/status/1641229941131051008
It's just guess, but it very much possible Apple simply can't publish any documentation because even they use a lot of 3rd-party IP under NDA. Also publishing documentation officially make patents attack easier.

I not into defending Apple, but there are plenty of reasons why they're okay with Asahi team reverse engineering their hardware, but won't invest any money into making it more open. After all they earn a lot from subscription services and Linux users wont pay for them.
That's the main tag for our blog posts and the 'Home' link comes from our Ghost template but I get your confusion
You're comparing system call interfaces to higher level standard API defaults. Not really an apples to apples comparison.

System calls are special low-level interfaces. The requirement for reading their docs carefully and general care is expected at that level.

A higher level API shouldn't contain gotchas like this.
Ah, yes, I forgot about that axis. I'd have to think more carefully about the distinction between "programmers who just happen to be in a google of other programmers" versus "software engineers in a team"

A lot of my software engineering mantras are centered around empathy management, both of internal consumers (future you, your colleagues, etc) and 100% unquestionably for external consumers (heh, "future you in 6 months" and folks that are forced to use your software, people who you want to renew). The world sucks bad enough already: don't swallow error messages and voluntarily tell your users the equivalent of "have you tried turning it off and on again?"
Ask HN: Do any language communities post bug-fixed GPT transcripts?
(After bugfixing GPT's Nim help for an hour...)

I wondered if any language communities have taken to posting bug-fixed LLM transcripts?

Programmers often fix posted code in Discord all day anyway. The Nim discord was amazing for this last I tried it.

So it seems like, potentially, hooking the fixes to a search engine could be really helpful, even if N-1 generation tech...?

Or perhaps it could even be worth integrating with a code documentation system.

Anyway, love to hear if there's anything like this no matter the language.
In what cities is sunlight a "scarce resource"? Many cities actively plant trees to create shade. Also, who the hell sunbathes in a parking lot? Nice pun tho
I agree in the abstract on an individual level. All else being equal, it's very difficult to beat the travel time of your own point to point transport that leaves whenever you want. But the only way that works is with a non-trivial up-front personal cost to obtain that transport, ongoing cost to operate it, and a massive societal investment to ensure you have ample road and parking infrastructure.

There's also the consideration that all those point to point journeys and parking at each end is a fairly inefficient way to enable a city's worth of people to move around. There's no way a city like NYC could exist at all if everyone relied on cars for transportation. A point-to-point personal car journey in NYC may in theory be faster than taking public transit, but it would be impossible for everyone to do that as the car transit times would trend towards infinity as everyone is stuck in traffic. And because of the increased density a non car-centric city allows, you can actually shrink public transit times too because things can be closer together and transit can run more often and have more routes. And the increased density also allows point to point personal transport other than cars to be practical, like walking or cycling.
Why do you think someone is surprised?
Glad to hear, let us know what you think once you had a chance to give it a try
They are definitely important issues that I have been aware of for some time, just due to where I have lived over the years. However the author went a bit too far and lost sight of the forest for the trees.
you say "attack and be generally horrible to anyone who disagrees", but recall that the thing said "attackers" are disagreeing with is equal or greater animosity towards people on the basis of their sexuality versus their opinions

in other words, it's a reaction to intolerance, specifically a decision not to tolerate intolerance - as we covered before, we don't need to, since doing so will end tolerance entirely (see Popper's paradox of tolerance for this)
I can't find a single good argument for Python based on merit that's not at least 15+ years dated and stems from "But Google is using it".

It's not the easiest syntax, not the best compiler support, performance and threading is a joke. The entire language is based on hype back from the time when the only two mainstream languages were C++ and Java.
The crazy thing to me is that this means we're approaching being able to have a huge chunk of human knowledge just sitting there locally on your machine. I asked ChatGPT 4 about my old professor and it was able to write a few paragraphs on her including some very specific details. It's like you can fit most of the value of a search engine AND the retrieved pages into a quite small hardware footprint.
GUIs are Pythons greatest weakness. We need a solid electron/tauri clone with a JS front end and a Python backend and good deployment tools.
The Alpha Release of Lurk
You got me, node modules would. But who puts node modules in google drive? I wish google ill but even I wouldn’t wish that on them.
Two reasons I can think of:

1. Documentation implies a commitment to the decisions made thus far. Apple has no compunctions about changing things behind the scenes and concealing the impact from users as much as possible.

2. Apple’s bread and butter are always going to be macOS users, Linux will be a rounding error.
I've had multi-year side projects shut down by companies, it wasn't a great time
Fascinating, thanks for the detailed context. We'll look into it!
Vaticles typed bid intriguing
but it goes both ways, I should also have access to technology without having to give away my secrets :)
> Humans shouldn't be living in shoeboxes stacked 40 floors high.

You have a limited view of 'urban living'. Want a front yard, back yard, and garage (attached to a laneway)? Plenty of that was built pre-WW2, and there's no reason why it couldn't be again:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetcar_suburb

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWsGBRdK2N0&t=1m8s

The Oh the Urbanity channel has a video on the (misguided) idea that "urban living" = Manhattan / Hong Kong apartment blocks:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCmz-fgp24E

Examples (Streetview) of urban tree-lined streets which can support transit and where cycling is practical (and where a car is an option versus a necessity):

* https://www.google.com/maps/place/125+Hampton+Ave,+Toronto,+...

* https://www.google.com/maps/place/50+Geoffrey+St,+Toronto,+O...

* https://www.google.com/maps/place/70+Jackman+Ave+Toronto,+ON

See also:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO6txCZpbsQ&t=9m28s

Fifteen minutes pedalling in one direction is downtown, fifteen minutes in the other is farm land.
The zoning regime that was invented in the south went to the supreme Court as a result of it being implemented in the town of Euclid Ohio.

So you're right, Ohio isn't the south, but the regime that was approved by the supreme Court was invented by essentially the mayor of Atlanta.

It is just a re-implementation of Jim Crowe. The guy that invented it said:

> To maintain the harmonious relations between the races, care has been given to ensure adequate separation between them.

He was dscribing r1 verse r2 zoning. Pretty much every municipality in America still has r1, r2, r3 zoning on the books.

The guy that invented it said r1 zoning was for the white, r2 zoning was for the colored, r3 zoning was for the undecided.

When I bought a house in Golden, it was in an r2 neighborhood.

R1 is suburbia. It's genuinely horrifying that this travesty of a legal regime has not been ended yet, but most politically powerful white people can't be bothered to do a modicum of research, and they believe the propaganda they've been fed that says suburban neighborhoods, maintained by r1 zoning, are pleasant places to live.
> Some folks desperately want to manifest their views as the correct view of what "being" is and wield it like a cudgel.

That’s weird criticism. Why shoudn’t someone hold a view that in their opinion corresponds to reality to the greatest degree among all views that are available to them? For example, you seem “desperate” to manifest your views on TikTok and “reification” in this thread. And I don’t see anything wrong with that.

> you're more than welcome to revise it to make it sophomoric

That’s easy. You should clearly define the technical jargon that you use and the theories that you apply. It looks like you reify the ideas of Berger and Luckman and, what is worse, the words they use.

Explication will help others to make sense of your unconventional use of words and help you de-reify the ideas that you use ;)
I wrote http://KlongPy.org to blend Klong and python. Eat your cake and have it too :)
Note that this has none of the hallmarks of a "meme". It is attempting to look official by using Microsoft's corporate brand and the Clinton campaign's official branding. There is no joke or humor involved. It looks like a serious attempt to deceive even if it isn't a great one. Regardless, it fooled almost 5000 people.
How TF do you get a segfault from npm?
”Man who spent $37 billion on making remote better, realizes opposite true”
> that it is explicit pornographic material and that you claim that it represents a person of age minor, even if it really isn’t, it becomes child pornography

This is idiotic

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/Ron_Jere...

This photo of a 55-year old ron jeremy is actually of a 15 year old, as per my claim right here. Come and get me, RCMP!
You’re not adjusting for per-capita. The supply is much smaller for walkable city centers so a much smaller population can support the higher cost.
> For plans purchased through employers the sky is the limit

Almost everyone with insurance has a maximum out of pocket limit now. It's possible to have a grandfathered employer health plan, but they'd have to have been running it since 2010 without substantial changes since then, including in benefits or cost increases. There are very few employer health insurance plans that would have met that criteria, and even fewer who tried to.

They also have to directly inform you that you're on a grandfathered plan, so it should not be a mystery to those who somehow are.
Street parking can have just a big of an impact as garages and lots, as it leads to wider roads, people hunting for a spot, and a hazard for bicyclist.

Street parking has always seemed slightly insane to me. You take a dense city that's already tough to get around by road and then you sacrifice half your road area for people to park on. Instead of one car park entrance you have to keep an eye on for emerging vehicles, any one of a thousand cars could suddenly move into the road with no notice. It's a safety and efficiency nightmare.
BOINC might be usable but the existing distributed training setups assume all nodes have very high speed I/O so they can trade gradients and model updates around quickly. The kind of setup that's feasible for BOINC is "here's a dataset shard, here's the last epoch, send me back gradients and I'll average them with the other ones I get to make the next epoch". This is quite a bit different from, say, the single-node case which is entirely serial and model updates happen every step rather than epoch.
What a gem of a writeup, really enjoyed the read. Have many fond memories of playing SF2 as a kid.
We already pretrain them on random internet crap then finetune on supervised data
5 million files is a lot of files. You could back up windows several times over and that’s saying a lot.

What normal user has millions of typical data laying around? Not many, if any.
I'll counter this - the majority of the people in the US want to live somewhere and get around in the least difficult method. Due to decades of policymaking, that happens to be houses and cars.

It's very nearsighted to think our model is the penultimate in structuring society. Plenty of people are happy, fulfilled, and productive living in apartments & townhouses while taking trains to work.
I recently drove a brand new Chevy Bolt. It seemed to have a navigation system, but whenever I tried to activate it, I think it tried to make a phone call to a human(?). Anyway, it doesn't have a keyboard, and doesn't seem to even have onboard voice recognition. Hard pass.

Car play support was decent about 80% of the time. The other 20%, I had to delete the phone pairing and repair to get it to reconnect.

I wasn't particularly impressed, especially given that this car has been in production since 2017, so I'd expect the radio software, etc. to be stable.
Private shared transport could also solve the parking problem since a taxi doesn’t need to hang out and park in the dense area it drops off passengers, except maybe to on board other passengers. In China this works well enough, although the traffic is still atrocious.
I think you could feed back the successful and unsuccessful transcripts by reinforcement learning and it would help somewhat. I was the bagman for the data for an early paper on “learning to rank” and we found it was helpful to look at a series of queries that fail initially and eventually succeed.
"We found a lot of other Indian expats in the same situation as us - wanting to invest in India for financial and emotional reasons, but unable to do so easily or consistently. We wished a simple product existed to solve for this online. We couldn’t find one, so we built it."

Simple products do exist which provide exposure to passive indexes for India equities in USD.
Any NRI in US can invest in these ETFs at reasonable cost (about 0.64%-0.85% Expense Ratio):

1) iShares MSCI India index ETF - $INDA (USD) : https://www.ishares.com/us/products/239659/ishares-msci-indi...

2) Wisdomtree India Earnings ETF - $EPI (USD) : https://www.wisdomtree.com/investments/etfs/equity/epi
flat_earther can be a a proxy for conspiracy theories. They may want to know if there is a swing.
Thank you for the info. I actually really like features of the USA system, especially AP classes. The flexibility of AP is great. International baccalaureate actually places a limit on how many advanced subjects you can do and is completely inflexible to anyone trying to do more work or graduate early.
I watched your video and I just wanted to say that it looks really good. It could very easily be used instead of i.e. SolidWorks to make basic parts. I am very impressed that you were able to do this mostly on your own.

Maybe you could get some momentum with it in the 3D printing community if you made a nice website for it and did a YouTube series i.e. "How to design and print a phone holder" or things like that.

Does it have assembly mode? I imagine implementing Assembly constraints would be very difficult.
I'm glad to see this is licensed AGPL. I hope this sets a precedent for everyone else in the space to do the same.
That isn't really true. Not only do most filesystems give you free byte counts, they also give you free inode counts, which are like number of files.

There are also limits to number of files in a directory.
Would it cook in the trumk (assuming your car has one)
Replit seems to be all in on NixOS https://blog.replit.com/nix
The CDC is full of shit. It’s not complicated.
There should be HUGE penalty and FULL compensation for falsely accusing and arresting and innocent person.
I call shenanigans. Take a look at any dense urban environment:

* Concrete and asphalt EVERYWHERE. Ask yourself about the carbon cost of all that concrete - which, in the northeast, requires constant repair.

* Street lighting - I mean, you can see dense, urban areas from freaking space - think about all the energy that takes. Is that environmentally friendly and efficient?

* Heat islands - Dense, urban areas concentrate so much heat they literally change local weather.

* I've got an entire ecosystem of nature right in my back yard. Trees, wildflowers, grass, an array of wildlife, even a small garden growing local food (that the deer and groundhogs are determined to eat). What do dense, urban environments have? A practical monoculture of pigeons and rats?
It's not about concentrated versus not concentrated, it talks about the origin of the decisions that lead to how the built environment environment is shaped by the needs and preferences of the people who inhabit it

The book is definitely worth reading. It gets a smidge academic at times, but a moderately interested high schooler could easily parse the entire thing, and it'll forever transform how you view land use issues throughout the world.

I know what you mean as far as skepticism. The modern /western world kind of resists at a philosophical level adopting norms coming from countries that it deems as second class.
I would offer that writing CSS is for sure "coding" in my world because the computers they are so picky about all those goofy characters. Damn, they have to be in the right order and matched up and everything :-D

But I would be on-board if someone said that CSS is not "programming" since (AFAIK) there are no iterations, very few conditional statements, no recursion, and "library" means something entirely different
Not a scam, an April Fool's joke ;)
Well it’s not uncommon to have Node segfault, especially when interfacing with native extensions of one kind or another. NPM is just a Node script. It runs a whole lot of other Node scripts as preconditions by default. Many of them, maybe even most, interface with native extensions of one kind or another.
Nowhere obvious.

I think there are plenty of rich people who would benefit indirectly from running an OpenAI-like non-profit.
> By definition, avoiding bias should be a goal that does not require considering some people or groups differently than others.

This is something that sounds nice on paper, but if you've worked with polling data or AI in general, you should have figured out by now that weighting data and compensating for biases in training sets is an essential part of any training/measuring process.

LLMs are not trained on "neutral" data. We can have long, difficult conversations about how to fix that and who to focus on, but the idea that you can just throw data sources at an AI and expect the outcome to be fair is kind of silly.

Case in point, you bring up bias against Conservatives -- well if you train an LLM on Reddit, it will have a Liberal bias, period. And I suspect if a company tried to correct that bias or even just identify it, you wouldn't call that unfair. In fact, there would be no way to train an LLM on Reddit and to get rid of a Liberal bias in its answers without systematically trying to correct for that bias during the training process.

Neutrality where you just throw the data in and trust the results and deliberately refuse to weight the outputs only works when you're pulling data from neutral sources. And in the real world, that's practically never the case. It's certainly never the case with an LLM.
You're gonna love "Never ending Seinfeld"

https://www.twitch.tv/watchmeforever

https://relevantmagazine.com/culture/tv/a-i-is-making-a-neve...
I can often get somewhere fast during rush hour in Beijing on the subway rather than a taxi. But Beijing’s traffic is Superbad compared to the USA. The city is also huge, but they have just done a good job building it out everywhere.

The same with most big Chinese cities (smaller cities have taxis, so you still don’t need your own car). Tokyo’s system works ok as well, although I’m not sure if taxi would be faster since it is too expensive for me to try. The subway/loop lines are good enough to get places as quickly as I don’t think taking a taxi would save much time.
Looking for advice for my new AI-powered side project
Hello everyone,

Recently I started working on my new AI-powered chrome extension.

It basically helps you to simplify your workflow and save time. You can select a specific text from a website and get its definition, make content based on that, rephrase it, or even make tweets based on the selected text from the website to share on your wall.

Also, it supports command base work on the text field of a website. You can easily create content, generate tweets, write code, write mail, rephrase the content, translate content for your customer support, generate more detailed mid-journey prompts, and more without switching the tab.

It is an extension that will work on any website.

It is still under development and I am almost done. I shared a pre-order offer for early adapters 2 days ago. But no sale yet. So, Should I continue the work or not?

Check - https://vitruo.simplef.net/

All advice and feedbacks are welcome.