skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe that "not creating an uninhabitable environment" is probably best for the consumer, yes? Surely, if you are posting on hn, you are aware that people do not always make the best decisions for themselves in the long term, and that putting guard rails in place is a good mechanism to prevent us from accruing (technical|environmental) debt?
Apparat NEWDOS/80: The first alternative operating system for TRS-80s
Bevy spend time on more things than just graphics, it's just one part of the framework and engine. The ECS system is vast too, probably a lot of time went into it
> I don't know a lot of commercial software that is cross-platform beyond those three.

This discussion isn't about "a lot of commercial software", it's about Sublime Text. There world is not all Linux, MacOS and Windows.

I'm aware Sublime Text isn't available for OpenBSD (There's a FreeBSD package but last I checked it was broken)

I'm just letting the developers know, there's interest outside of those OSes.
I Donate My Book’s Proceeds to 'Girls Who Code'
That article doesn't mention a service that was open to users (not to mention the point of the article is that AI had fewer false positives and false negatives than doctors, which would invalidate the premise of this argument). But if you want to apply the same logic to ChatGPT, then even if it's true that misdiagnoses are leading to skipped doctor's visits, it's still unlikely that anyone has died yet from that lack of preventive care. ChatGPT launched a few months ago, and it's unlikely anyone in a late stage of cancer would have prevented their death if they went to the doctor instead of asking ChatGPT over the past few months. So for anyone affected by a ChatGPT misdiagnosis, it will take some time for the cancer to kill them. And note that it is the cancer that will kill them, not the AI.

On the other hand, a "self-driving car" driving into a tree and killing its occupants seems an obviously more direct case of death by AI than a user asking an AI if it has cancer and the AI saying no. And if you want to make the argument that Tesla drivers are supposed to have their hands on the wheel, then you have to also make the argument that ChatGPT users aren't supposed to use it for medical advice.
It's ironic that the latest post on it is now info about tiered paid api access with some absolutely joke limits and pricing.
I think that this has been fleshed out quite a bit, the reason you’re not seeing much vocality about it today is threefold:

- ChatGPT is less applicable to mil/leo’s and broader govt, and is the central piece of these discussions because most of the people talking about AI don’t know what they’re talking about and don’t know of anything other than ChatGPT

- their use of AI is largely past tense, it’s already in documented active use so the controversies have already occurred in the past (but easy to forget—-we live in an age where there’s something new to rage about daily)

- there’s not much that anyone can do to stop it
Amateurs can track satellites with telescopes. Inferring intent from a course change is pretty reasonable if it makes a direct overpass, with not much else of interest on the same track. That's not the crazy part of the story.
In cutting its workforce down from 7,500 to 1,800 employees, I wonder what percentage of Twitter's legal/compliance staff were kept on.
Yes, but check the bulb. Some are compatible with the fluorescent ballast, but some expect you to use a fixture that has had the ballast removed. The trend is towards the latter, because they are more efficient.
Neural networks spot patterns, then patterns made up of patterns. As we have seen with chess, and go, the neural networks end up finding patterns that are beyond our comprehension. We are smart, but we cannot fathom the patterns as there are too many layers one on top of another. And you can see this in even chatGPT. I asked it to answer my questions in English, Norwegian, and phonetic Norwegian. Not perfect, but good. Scary good. All three, without missing a beat. These patterns are just too easy for neural networks. So our confidence there is nothing to worry about is founded on a lack of appreciation for how complex this beast is. But in my view the answer is not fear, but acceleration... we need aligned AI's on our side, ready to help protect us...
This is definitely a move in the right direction, but I'd love to see more FOSS funds where I could apply directly as an open-source maintainer. Most of these funds rely on suggestions by the company's employees. This makes sense, but there are many projects which fly under the radar, often because they're three levels down in the dependency chain. For example, I'm sure that Bloomberg uses libxml2 somewhere but who's aware of that?
I worked full-time remote from 2014-2019 before leaving the workforce. I made good investments and I have spent my days doing as I please, working on open-source projects.

While I do have an interest in working (know of any place that does stuff with Haiku OS, C++ and 3D graphics APIs?), I simply won't consider software engineering jobs that require me to be on-site.

I strongly suspect that engineering-driven companies that fully embrace remote work will out-compete the laggards. The people that write the code that AIs can't are not going to roll over and put up with the way things used to be. There is no going back.

If you are fence-sitting on this issue because you're worried about having enough money, consider that the entire workforce benefits when you stick up for yourself. Labor is a market like any other, and every shitty job you refuse to do only puts more pressure on the corrupt management class. <3
> I surprised her back when I did user-testing haha. She discovered the fun world of bugs and user's doing things they shouldn't!

Oh... that path takes you to strange places.

Mr. Fart’s Favorite Colors
- https://medium.com/@blakeross/mr-fart-s-favorite-colors-3177... (7 years ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11231631 )

It starts when we’re 8 and coding our very first program. “What’s your favorite color?” it asks, sweetly, twirling a lock of Visual Basic around its finger. You type in your answer, the screen changes color accordingly, and boom — time to show off to family.

Then Aunt Jody calls.

“Honey, it froze on me. ‘Color.exe has crashed.’ I don’t know what that means.”
You take a look at her entry. She entered: 2.

“I thought it asked how many favorite colors I had?”

But how could you…but what does it even mean to have more than one favori…ok, fine. No big deal. You add a sliver of code to stop people from typing numbers into the box.
> The real impact of AI is likely to be subtler: AI tools will shift power away from workers and centralize it in the hands of a few companies.

I don’t understand how the article can say something like this, but then further down essentially contradict itself.

> But a containment approach is unlikely to be effective for AI. LLMs are orders of magnitude cheaper to build than nuclear weapons or cloning — and the cost is rapidly dropping. And the technical know-how to build LLMs is already widespread.

How can AI tools cause centralization if the cost is rapidly dropping, accessible to everyone, and the technical know-how is widespread?

In my opinion, AI is doing exactly the opposite. What was only possible at large companies are now becoming possible to do by oneself. Video games, for example, used to require teams of artists and programmers. With code and art generation, a single individual has never had more capability to make something by themselves.
That does not remove the fact that conservatives are successfully restricting the abortion. Yes, they are trying to create more damage and enjoy the pain they cause. They also provably don't care about lives themselves - they are restricting healthcare in general and don't care about children.

The drugs in USA were not decriminalized. You lied.
My take is that a group of tech barons noticed that they are late to the IA party and want to pause it so that they can catch on.
Thanks! And yes, we do!

We totally get that at larger companies, the design process really lives in Figma. We're planning on building an integration so that developers won't even need to worry about hex colors, and give designers full control over tokens.
I Learned to program using Microsoft Small Basic. I was 14 and the experience was really good. I learned through the PDF tutorial [1], which now has also been translated to HTML documents [2].

And I think that if I had been 9 years old when I learned, I would have still chosen to use Small Basic rather than Scratch. Block-style coding feels less versatile than text. It may look more attractive to some kids, but I would also suppose that some kids would rather use a text-based language.

Graphic capabilities in Small Basic were still really easy to use (look at the PDF from chapter 6 onwards).

[1] https://download.microsoft.com/download/9/0/6/90616372-C4BF-...

[2] https://smallbasic-publicwebsite.azurewebsites.net/tutorials...
Budgetlightforum.com is the best source for flashlights and bulbs. Everyone there knows the metrics of what makes good light.

GE Filled With Sun, Philips Ultra HD (available on Amazon, but from Canada), and some other Chinese brands are currently top of the chart for CRI 95+, RA 90+ bulbs
Greater than 95 or including 95? Most of the Philips brand dimmable LEDs have a CRI of 95. The eco smart is crap at 80 and that’s to be excepted from the cheap house brand.

The in ceiling lights I bought to replace a bottom dollar Amazon light was are 94 and I’m pretty sure I bought the cheapest I could that would change temp to match my existing ones.

Your friend has shared a link to a Home Depot product they think you would be interested in seeing.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Philips-Soft-White-A19-LED-60W-E...

Looks like GE’s Sunshine brand has a CRI of 97 and is $8.99 on Amazon.

GE Sun Filled LED Light Bulb, 60 Watt Eqv, Soft White, A21 Standard Bulb, Medium Base https://a.co/d/fLkL8wr
I highly disagree about it being good enough. Those bulbs got hot and were expensive to run over the life of the bulb. I like a lot of light, so I'd often end up buying lots of 100W lightbulbs throughout my house. My kitchen would have like 6x100W lightbulbs on for several hours a day, so ~3.6kWh/day. At $0.11/kWh that's $11.88/mo just lighting my kitchen. $142.56/year to light one room one quarter of the day. And that's before thinking about how much extra heat I'm adding to my house when I'm spending tons of money running an AC to pump heat out of it. Add up all the rest of the lights in my house, its a lot of money just to have the lights on over a year.

For comparison, a similar lumen setup with LED lights in my kitchen runs ~$19/yr to operate. ~13W compared to ~100W. I spent probably less than $80 total swapping out the bulbs and have not had any early failures after a couple of years. The quality of the lights are excellent, in fact in some ways better as I'd prefer closer 5000K in a kitchen as opposed to 2500K.
There are many people who really, truly want children, who would be sad not to have them, but feel it is morally questionable-to-wrong (rightly or wrongly) to bring more people into what they view as a failing world. That is a sacrifice, whether you perceive it as such. It is people making an eventually irreversible decision to not live the life they want to live.

And I disagree with the idea that we need people. The capitalistic society we built needs more people, the planet most certainly does not. I do not think the needs of humanity are de facto more important than the health of the global ecosystem.
I'm exactly the opposite - always been mostly FE. I can find my way around a backend, but you wouldn't want to trust me with a complex/critical system.

I was hired at this company as an FE dev, but after doing a bit of BE work for them, they asked if I wanted to join the platform team. After years of being shielded from devops/infra stuff, I felt like I was stagnating if I stayed in the FE lane, so I went ahead and took the dive.

My mood shifts from one day to the next. Some days I'm okay, but others are really, really hard. Like I'm barely able to understand k8s, and we're also using terraform, helm, etc etc. It might be the largest single learning curve I've ever faced.
The ones who will benefit the most from AI, in terms of being able to scale the most with it, will be the ones who care very little about reputational risk and have relatively high tolerance for mistakes and misses—that is, those who can operate these kinds of models without needing to carefully check & monitor all of its output.

... so, scammers, spammers, and astroturf-heavy propaganda operations. This tech may 5x or 10x a lot of jobs' output over the next few years, but it can 100x or more those, and it can do it sooner.
I realized that I should say more specifically about numpy usage.

If you see a piece of code like this, it rings the bell that the person has no idea what he/she is doing:

Bad Pattern:

my_list = np.array(xxx)
summed = []
for row in my_list:
summed.append(np.sum(row))

Worst Pattern:

my_list = np.array(xxx)

def get_summed(arr):
return np.sum(arr)

summed = []
for i in range(len(my_list)):
summed.append(
get_summed(my_list[i])
)

Perfered:

# np.array(xxx) is redundant
summed = np.sum(xxx, axis=1)

Same applies to all numpy operations.
Maybe they should have used sponges instead :D
I remember old blackboards made from a soft material, or a soft layer under the “black” part. These sounded very pleasantly, like the most thocc-y keyboards.

Newer boards came rock solid, and when they met a hard granule in a chalk, it made unbearable sqeaks and clacks.
Instead of force, maybe voluntary? Publish/promote a set of standard measurements for consumers, then let consumers drive the manufacturers. "The Market" will follow the consumer if the consumer is strongly inclined about its desires - I think we have seen this play out in other consumer electronics niches...

When I was a teen, I wanted an alligator on my shirt, and not too long after I started seeing simulacra shirts... Enough of a demand for more than one entity to mimic it...
Full disclosure: Principal Software Engineer here on the Scratch backend...

Scratch is not built to be a "teach your kid programming languages" system, it is based on the work and ideas of the Life Long Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab (the director of this group is Professor Mitch Resnick, the LEGO, Papert Professor of Learning Research). The Papert part is where the term Mindstorms comes from (https://www.amazon.com/Mindstorms-Children-Computers-Powerfu...) and was used by the Lego Group when branding those products, and our philosophy is heavily influenced by that.

I can say that the https://scratch.mit.edu/statistics/ are real and we have a substantial footprint of backend services and custom software to support it. We handle on the order of 15-20 million comments/month.

The primary design philosophy is:

Passion: You have a strong interest in a subject/problem to solve/explore
Projects: Build something based on your passions, gain directly interactive experience with it.
Peers: Share your work with folks who are interested and provide feedback to you
Play: It should be fun!

Note that there is nothing in there about STEM/STEAM nor application development. We build and support Scratch to provide creative tools for anyone to explore computation in a from that is relatable and has a low floor for understanding/entry. Having said that, the complexity of what Scratch can do rises sharply the more you work with it and the concepts behind "forking" and opensource are built in via the remix ability on individual projects.

A lot of design thinking goes into the frontend of Scratch to build on a creativity feedback loop that is not focused on learning Python or any other specific language (or the syntax of them, i.e. avoid "why isn't my program working... oh, one too many tabs... or maybe this semi-colon, or maybe this .")

Another part I think is worth raising, the Scratch frontend is a sophisticated virtual machine interpreter that has it's own machine code and model that is executing in a Javascript environment in browser and it is still open source. Google's Blockly project was based on the ideas of Scratch 1.4 and when we ported Scratch 2 away from being Flash based, we partnered with the Blockly group to fork their code base and create Scratch Blocks.

Based on the TIOBE index, we're usually somewhere in the top 20 most popular "programming languages". _eat it Fortran!_
The antagonist forces of "Ha! Look how much the revenue fell!" versus "Hmm.. look how much they slashed costs.." means it's really hard to tell how well Twitter will do in the long term.
In a conflict between HTTP vs HTTPS, why solve it by settling on HTTP? Switching to all HTTPS usually seems like the better option.
Thats not the intent here. The only reason for this wording is so if they do happen to catch you for something else, even unrelated, they'll be able yo tack on extra charges after they discover you were using a vpn.

Also if they suspect you of using a vpn, they could get a warrant based on that alone.
I generally buy the lamps that say "warm white". They're usually the 2700k variety. I've literally never had an LED light go out and the colours look fine. Philips lamps seem like a good bet, though I remember seeing an in depth YouTube review that showed that IKEA actually had better colour representation (many brands add an extra dose of red light to boost the warm colours).

Not skimping on lamps helps prevent most problems, usually. IKEA sells great LED lights over here in Europe, for prices that had me worried at first. Most other budget stores and brands sell lamps that mostly emit warm light but will make any food look disgusting from missing wavelengths; fine for lighting a hallway maybe, but generally not worth it in my opinion. It's mostly these bottom of the barrel lamps that people buy, not knowing about the effects cheap lighting can have, that cause visual problems.

It makes sense: back in the day, a cheap lamp may not have lasted as long ,but the colour profile was nearly identical. If you were fine buying a lamp every year, you could just grab the cheapest bulb on the shelf. With anything beyond incandescent light, that's not true anymore.

The difference between a €5 lamp and a €10 lamp is quite significant and worth it considering they'll probably last you at least five years anyway. My personal approach is to look for "warm white" (or 2700k if they use that instead), not pick the very cheapest lamp I can find, and if that leaves multiple options, start comparing statistics like CRI.
> Are you sure he didn't actually want to but it, before it turned out there are so many bots?

There's very little doubt in my mind. The bot thing was always just rhetorical. he didn't suddenly "discover" something he wasn't already well aware of.
Because crypto is not money. It was envisioned as a peer to peer money but it quickly attracted scamsters and it became a speculative instrument. Besides, most of the world has alternatives to PayPal that work just fine and most of the time free.
Cree has been good to me so far. Haven't actually had one fail yet, though I've had a few of the lesser brand ones (Feit, from Costco, mostly) fail. As they go, I replace with Cree.
Elon will never be president. Only in part because he is not a US born citizen.
> Putting physics research on hold to account for such a risk seems a bit silly though, and should definitely be classified as "speculative".

I think we have as much choice in putting research into anything (AI / Physics) onto hold as monkeys had in evolving to humans to be kept in zoos and being used for experiments, I was not arguing against research.

In my mind it will just all happen naturally, and we can't do anything to stop ourselves from being ruled over by AI, as we don't have the capability for global scale concensus anyways.
> Americans who have hours and hours of commute time

Europeans, on average, have longer commutes than Americans:

https://transportgeography.org/contents/chapter8/urban-trans...
A Neuro-Vector-Symbolic Architecture for Solving Raven's Progressive Matrices
Research team develops hemp-based masonry blocks
YC doesn't scale for students. In fact, no accelerator does (500startups has ~3k investments as well). Accelerators are about relationships, signalling, prestige, advisory, networking, etc. The success is asymmetric, because YC is a numbers game - the more bets they make, the higher likelihood they are to succeed.

Many of the negative criticisms here have to do with the fact that there are 4k companies that have gone through YC, and this batch specifically had 400 companies, so it's no wonder there are aspects that are less than ideal.
Our best psychologists cost significant money, and there are a limited number of them (effect and cause). Whereas no motive of profit is necessary to affect the changes I've described, that's the entire point and benefit here.

Any single not-for-profit social health organisation, of which there are a huge number, could use a tiny part of their funding to fine-tune an LLM on counselling resources and case transcripts. It'd cost little, and only need to be done once.

The major hurdle here, again, is education. Once such organisations realise how much more easily they can reach their goals using AI, they'll jump on it. The final obstacle is then social acceptance of AI assistance (growing now).
"Community" being the key word.
> Remember, he didn't want to buy Twitter. He pitched it in the first place purely in an attempt to get leverage over the board. He didn't really want to own it.

He didn't just "pitch" it, he made a buyout offer with all the attendant SEC filings. Not the sort of thing you can accidentally do with a slip of the tongue!
They're useful for many things, provided the user is aware of their limitations. That's true of any tool or information source.
I'm glad you took logic in college. Shoulda followed up with ecology.
> "AI" itself isn't a danger, but how people choose to use AI

For our current AI, much less intelligent than humans, that's true. If rapid exponential progress continues and we get AI smarter than us, then the AI's choices are the danger.
Snowden cannot live anywhere else. He tried. The arms of the US government are too long, and he is prevented by the US from leaving Russia. Sure, there is going to be interference, but he doesn't have a choice. It's either that or be kidnapped.
If anyone needs help keeping secrets out of git, you could give EnvKey[1] a look (disclaimer: I'm the founder). It aims to keep all secrets out of the repo completely so that you can't be burned by forgetting to add something to .gitignore or other mistakes along those lines.

It takes a few minutes to install and then all your secrets and config will be in the environment, and will stay automatically up-to-date when there are changes.

Might be a way to cut out that particular failure mode when using Gut (which looks interesting btw--kinda like Git: the good parts).

1 - https://github.com/envkey/envkey
GM Volt is a series hybrid. Arguably the best hybrid ever made.
The first round-the-world passenger cruise took place 100 years ago
No, we don't.
The western world shouldn't even put it on pause. China/Ru will not. Better be prepared.
History has shown that selfish behavior should be expected.
The dangers seem unavoidable.
Where may GPT models go having ingested the Assange, Snowden, Vulkan files?
I was all gung ho with the idea of banning tiktok, I think the national security concern is legit. I really didn't want the PRC to have a finger on the recommendation algorithm for an app that is super popular and is all about getting fed a steady stream of whatever.

But this act is not that. I don't support this.