skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yes ok, for the law though there had to be my assent communicated by active action because I could decide that I don't want it to be used for the purposes listed in that article and consequently not get the account

I still don't find the guarantor's request unimpeachable
Surprised they didn't mention NixOS.
These examples apply to a codebase...how?
Political leaders need a different legal standard because there are ulterior motives to subject them to immense scrutiny. If he weren't Donald Trump, would he be getting charged for this? Think about all the deductions you fudged on your taxes; those transgressions went unnoticed because you are a "normal person". Impeachment is our recourse for a corrupt president and that ship has sailed.
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George Bush killed 1 million Iraqi's and we're here arguing about hush money for hookers. Gotta love it.
Given that FSD is obviously a scam, wouldn't a pause like this be in his best interest? (buys them more time, while keeping the hype machine going)
The US government may not pass laws to achieve an unconstitutional end, even if it's achieved through third parties. If that is the effect of the law, then the law is invalid no mater how many times the "I was just following orders" trope is repeated.
I would kind of agree but there's zero way for this line of thought to make it into the beltway.
Is it still the case that Windows 11 will only run on devices with TPM 2.0 available?

That alone will give many small organisations such as the library mentioned up thread the choice to adopt Linux or to find money to replace perfectly serviceable PCs.
I’d believe it. Apparently you can’t use any 3rd party service that might expose merely an IP address thru a network request directly from the client. A map widget would do that.
Ask HN: Why my karma point seems to be blocked?
I've had some upvote and comment on my posts, but I see no results in Karma point.

This means that my account is somehow banned?
What you're describing is fixed point. Fixed point absolutely exists in practice, but it has an important limitation: its accuracy is scale-dependent, unlike floating-point.

Suppose for example you were doing a simulation of the solar system. What units do you use for coordinates--AUs, light-seconds, kilometers, meters, even miles? With floating-point, it doesn't matter: you get the same relative accuracy at the end. With fixed point, you get vastly different relative accuracy if your numbers are ~10¯⁶ versus ~10⁶.
Helix will get plugin support sometime, it's basically a matter of when not if.
Also; the scripting languages seems to become an S-Expression like lisp dialect.
So many people refuse to understand that, and so many people are going to be shell-shocked when the disparities go from their current gulf to a full ocean of separation.
VS:Code is not bloated yet. With all plugins accumulated for a certain project type it might be more bloated the visual studio memory wise. So the bloatedness deepends on what one is doing with it
Lower your expectations...
Nice authoritarian dystopia bro...
I doubt his skills in theology either. Listening to him is full of incoherent half-assed arguments
Another situation is when you have to interface with some other language that doesn't have this feature and where nameLikeThis and name_like_this both exist and mean different things. Thus requiring you to work it around with a third naming convention.

Here's one illustration: https://github.com/nim-lang/RFCs/issues/456#issuecomment-111...

We have partial case-insensitivity in PHP. Can't say I'm very fond of it, but I'm ambivalent as long as it's not abused.
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I’ll know we’ve made it when you can buy a 1000kg EV Miata.
China claims its firewall is about protecting its citizens too. How is it different?
This is an unfortunate "scared pandering" path especially as visual studio has moved over to macos and Linux. Microsoft can afford to put these out VSCode and VS for free.
> Other ways of measuring “happiness” are bullshit as cultures are different. Suicide is a great metric for happiness.

Suicide rate doesn't measure anything except suicide rate. The happiness index and other studies are very thorough in what they measure, and choose things common to all cultures.

Bizarre to be defending a totalitarian regime because you have no crime. I guess you really think the means justify the ends, maybe because you don't realize the level of compromise.
"...lacking any ability to create a space where they could build and learn to code in private."

Correct, this is by design, the way to go for the private/no on-line community aspects would be to use the downloadable stand-alone Scratch editor. Based on the self-selecting group of users who agree to send back telemetry usage for the stand-alone editor, we believe that over half of all Scratch users are only using the stand-alone editor. Last year this was somewhere in the range of ~100-150 million individuals worldwide.

On the website, we regularly evaluate how we can downplay the worst aspects of a social network, such as, not showing the exact count of certain indicators of likes/stars/views in various areas of the site (e.g. showing 100+ vs 203, etc.)

https://scratch.mit.edu/download
Total GPU performance according to EY and the limit should be decrease in the future as training gets more efficient.

(Not that I agree)
A tale about choices and consequences.
What specific questions will AI solve that humans can't that would make it "more powerful than the Industrial Revolution"?

I'm an AI skeptic. Most warnings feel more like science fantasy, specifically of the retro-futurism genre.
Elephant in the room: computer language syntaxes/compilers, and open source system software are plagued with planned obsolescence.
True, but my point was directed towards toxins I cannot know about. Chemicals added to food and medicines and such. There is loads I - as a layperson - cannot know about safety. My guess is the same is true for "internet stuff". Something we are intimitately aware of, but we are a minority (and we still mess up).
This zero sum rhetoric is ridiculous. You are not being chased by a bear.
Honestly Singapore belongs on some human rights watch lists or something.

That's deplorable.
Can be said for any human activity.
A great many would likely join you, making this entire fiasco a time-wasting distraction, at best, and grave risk at worst. The technologies will continue to be developed, moratorium or not. A moratorium only enables the hidden to get there first.

The risks need to be discussed and understood, along with the benefits, and publicly. That's the only sensible way forward.
Denying that the technology is here already and pretending it can be "paused" doesn't assist in alleviating their concerns.

It's absurd to think any of it can be put back inside the box it came out of. Now that it is here, how best to mitigate any bad sides it may have? Simple, continue to develop it - as it will be the only viable source of effective counter-measures.
Yeah kind of an interesting journey. We went from people writing content for people, to bots writing content for people, to people curating content for bots (ultimately for people). The only permutation left is bots curating/writing content for bots and people are consuming only bot-generated content. In a way we are partially there since some content that was in these models was written by bots.
Sure! Let me know what your coworkers think as well. You can reach out to me at marco@pullpo.io.
I gave you a test + ??
Darpa has the NNN program for non-invasive brain machine interface. Once the hardware is in place, we can plug into any AI system
You can run copilot in Jetbrains and a variety of other AI plugins as well
Gotta start somewhere... the guy who has been identified as an unindicted co-conspirator in this very crime is as good as any.
That sounds spicily illegal to my (admittedly EU-based) eyes, unless it’s literally written into the contract.
> John Deere, an American tractor-maker, has been snapping up fired tech workers to help it make smarter farm machinery.

Oh yay. Who wants to work for a company that is actively antagonistic against its own customer base?
…and then it reappears the next week? Yes.
Nice html table layout, try it with links2.
Technically it's not the fault of the videos that web standards now allow easy embedding, it's still the people abusing it to show you video ads. Just saying it's worse than Flash... it's like saying browsers should not show non-animated images because you can have ad banners.
PGO is limited if you are chasing throughput on really tight programs that spend most of their time in a small number of loops (preferably with textbooks written about them), but it's really useful if you have a bunch of branchy code that mainly does one thing but has to cater for other things too (compilers come to mind).

Enabling PGO when building the D compiler made it almost 50% faster on some parts of the test suite (and fairly reasonable big files at that) - speedup elsewhere was not as dramatic but still a tidy win.
I'm of two minds on this.

On the one hand, you're right that for different applications having different metrics can be acceptable. Sure, a battery for your home that never moves can be heavy and large and that's okay.

But then you have to consider the economics of production. How many of those batteries will you make? What will the factory for them cost to build? And what would it cost instead to just make a bunch more Li-Ion batteries at the existing factory instead?
meh. we rightly realized there is more danger from leaving the ability to prosecute political leaders then from letting them get away with it. we're also entirely comfortable with letting 9 in 10 get away to preserve a high standard of doubt (blackstone's ratio). because the alternative is weaponizing the justice system, which undermines trust in it even more surely than letting a politician get away with a parking ticket or paperwork discrepancy.

we've already killed impeachment as having high legitimacy, clinton case was pretty politically motivated as were trump's. let's not have the whole ass criminal justice system follow pls and ty.

btw i am not saying he's innocent, this is just a dumb case.

this whole shitshow has a very third world look to it.
Is it possible you have older posts that got downvoted around the same time without you noticing?
Not at all off topic because any slow down on public research just lets all such shadow actors get even further ahead.

We have to guess that top level intel agencies probably had gpt 5+
level LLMs for several years potentially. I’ve been wondering if that is actually partially why the propaganda wars or social media games have really escalated between nation states.

In other words that sense of things been getting weird recently might not only be us all getting old, but they actually had this level of LLM tech already.
Making the front page of HN.
I’m sure this is not what the poster meant, but in fact most EVs and hybrids use multiple battery technologies in parallel. For example, a Chevy Bolt has a lithium ion battery to power the drivetrain and a conventional lead-acid battery for the accessories. My old Prius had a NiMH battery for the drivetrain and a lead-acid battery for accessories.
Definitely not trying to imply that these people don’t exist elsewhere, but rather than YC does a great job getting a bunch of them in one place.
This would eventually become known as TeX.
Indeed: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Protocol

An actual moment where the world banded together to fix a problem.
What pisses me off is that some legitimate websites like project goutenberg are all blocked by my Internet provider in Italy and I have to go through a VPN to access them. Same for scribd, vdoc, libgen and so on.
The matches, I assume. The others do damage at a specific small target point, whereas a box of matches can destroy a neighbourhood.

[Edit: the ICBM was edited into the comment after the fact.]
Me too! Still have to ask the right questions and know what problems you are trying to solve with that code base.
> The problem is harder and we have not settled on any good usability standard for this.

Actually the CA/B Forum S/MIME workgroup just recently agreed upon the baseline requirements for future S/MIME certificate issuance. This also means an ACME-like process for mailbox-validated S/MIME certificates is or will be possible in the future.

Identity validation is a much more difficult, human problem. Some countries have solved that for their citizens, but due to how shit S/MIME has been so far, encrypted/signed containers have been used (a lot) instead.
Upwards of 80% of the effort in commercial software development is maintenance.

You could speed up the remainder dramatically and make very little progress on the rate progress happens and have people scratching their heads about why.
> You will find meat tastier etc, that is a part of the feelings and taste, so it can't be replicated with a simple vector.

What is the logic? Didn't you just literally

if seeing(meat):
bias += 1

???
Patience. It's hard to see the line or word you want to jump to and have to look at your keyboard and be like "what do I do?" For me it was basically tell myself "it's ok to be slow" and I started memorizing the navigation patterns from the top down of the `hx --tutor`. The further down you get on having that tutor file in muscle memory the easier it gets to want to ditch the mouse.

I switched from PyCharm and Sublime Text, although I admit I still use them from time to time when trying to grasp an entire codebase. Helix is my primary editor now and I wish I had the helix navigation and editing everywhere now lol.
nothing happens. I don't know why and this is sad because I really like the YCombinator community
GTP-4 seems to have improved:

Q1:
A: ABBA's "I Have a Dream" is a song from their 1979 album, "Voulez-Vous." The song's lyrics express themes of hope, self-belief, and optimism...

Q2:
A:ABBA does not have a song called "General Trouble" in their discography. It's possible that you may be referring to a different artist or misremembering the title of the song. If you could provide more information or the correct title, I would be happy to help you understand the meaning behind the song.
Let's not forget that these people, not a long time ago, worked hand-in-hand with the government to promote contact tracing applications at a time where it was clear that they could potentially be used to steal data from their users.
You're just using the tacked on features as syntactic sugar. You haven't "bought in" at all.

I was traditionally trained like you under OOP and procedural methodologies.

After encounter FP I fully bought in and developed two mental models. The fp model lives side by side with the the oop/imperative model.

With equal knowledge in both one can make a more unbiased judgement. The fp model is actually superior imo.

I largely have the opposite strategy now when programming. My mental model is largely fp, and I occasionally cheat and sprinkle in procedural or oop syntax here and there as syntactic sugar.

The basic realization here should be that mutating shared state should be avoided and segregated as much as possible.
On the contrary, if you don't know, then you don't know. If you're always needing to use ChatGPT or other LLMs then what happens in a world where they're unreliable?
>It's possibly to state in a single command "show me the drift in my config files/data versus the ref I'm running" and/or "show me the diff between my running system and an update I may apply".

I can see how this can be usable for configuration. But I am having a hard time imagining how this would look for something like PostgreSQL's data files.
The remote Jupyter support is very cool. Is there a managed service out there? I think my organization could benefit greatly from common Jupyter infrastructure, but the calculus changes drastically if my tiny team is on the hook for keeping it running.
i have a libertarian bent but there are definitely some computations of questionable nature that probably shouldn't be lega, e.g. designing a super virus to wipe out humanity, or a super computer virus to encrypt all memory on planet earth.

where to draw the line i have no idea
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The VSCode add-on manager also discriminates against users using VSCodium (The open source build of VSCode without Microsoft's proprietary "telemetry"). They simply will not let you install certain add-ons.
Web framework.

If Nim had a super robust web framework, usage/adoption would skyrocket.

It has all the ergonomic benefits of a language like Python but the perf/memory of C.
It sounds like the discoverability of the LabView “syntax” leaves much to be desired. Perhaps because it’s a proprietary tool used by lots of non programmers, the Google results seem to be really lacking. Much harder to find a top Stack Overflow answer. And the official documentation seems poorly structured.
I find this baffling. Who is even going to try a new modal editor if they are not already a vim (bindings) user?
I really don't think so, because even now I see no changes
That first link is amazing. As far as I can tell, it has essentially nothing to do with math. One could search-and-replace to change math to any other field and get an equally valid paper.
Yeah, there already is a lot of potential for previously unseen damage.

Just disturbing shipping and food supply/distribution systems could be disastrous.
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Please add/verify BOS, MHT, MKE, OAK and SEA.

Thanks for the awesome.
CORDIC is what many digital calculators use (along with decimal floating point).
Not really but I understand that the word is used like that by people who haven't spent 30sec looking what it actually is

It really means no government or central authority dictating arbitrary rules enforced by violence.
These huge governments need to stop behaving like they own the citizens
Yeah, your account is hellbanned. I can't see the things you post, your profile, all of that ;-)

My impression lately is that some caching might be going on and that the karma count seems to sometimes lag behind votes.
Huh? How does someone else’s possession of a LLM threaten your personal freedom? How does training your own counteract that? They’re not Pokémon…
Thanks for making this, I'm loving it!
As you would expect. What is your point here?
You can make up for it with speed so it makes sense
We may have found the mystery scammer who tricks meta into banning influencers
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The idea that you can even ban it sounds so incoherent. It’s a worldwide research topic, lot of it is done in the open, only require retail hardware, can be done anonymously and in a distributed fashion. A 6 month or 6 years US ban would just mean other countries will catch-up, but that doesn’t do anything regarding AI apocalypse fears.
That’s naive.

Disclaimer: brother in law a police officer now retired, and they fight a constant battle against such a dynamic range of attitudes and aggression that it’s a miracle they don’t all quit en masse.

Police are not malevolent actors except in rare exceptions (despite the news wanting to push a more dramatic narrative for eyeballs).

While racist assholes are in the exceptions category, incompetence is more common for that category.

And the far larger category is people out to do good while in sometimes great danger.
C and C++ both have very popular GC libraries which fulfill much the same purpose and even have the same design (the optional Boehm GC, for example). Those are likely good examples to look at to see how managed memory might be invoked by the Nim compiler. Alternatively, if you're using reference counting, that's simply C++'s preferred style (std::unique_ptr), as you already said. I can't speak to whether Nim's compiled code is using std::unique_ptr or something else.
I don't particularly care about crowds on Twitter or HN. Musk has lots of money but can't stop me spending mine.

Marcus said:

> We must demand transparency, and if we don’t get it, we must contemplate shutting these projects down.

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-sparks-of-agi-or-the-e...

(While at the same time still saying "it's nothing to do with AGI")
> You’re giving guitar players too much credit, they are only one step below “audiophiles” in their love for snake oil and marketing. Tube amps persist mostly because guitar players instinctively turn their nose up at solid state

I agree with you, but I think solid state amps have only been "good" for the last 5-10 years at most, which is a pretty short time to change everyone's mind, habits, and equipment. So be gentle :)
Except that the pendulum has sung quite a bit in a few of those cases. Strong type systems that work best with a compile step have been clawing back ground from loosely typed dynamic languages, and the power and utility of Postgres/RDS has kicked off a mini SQL renaissance.
> the Health Service in Ireland literally runs on WhatsApp

This part is terrifying: does Ireland not have the equivalent of HSR (UK, in combination with a patchwork of other legislation) or HIPAA?
If that's what "head of cyber" does it really demonstrates they don't take cybersecurity seriously.
The arguments for decelerating AI development invoke fear-mongering and cite “existential risk”, which is a fallacy. We’re talking about LLMs, not AGI here (which is quite a ways out, realistically). If anything - we should be accelerating development toward the goal of AGI, as the implications for humanity are profound.
Right, because the steps to recreating (not to say understanding) the AI models we currently have are too well understood. OpenAI could shut down tomorrow, but a credible GPT-4(+) replacement would arise somewhere else in short order.

Besides, LLaMA, for all its faults, is now in at least tens of thousands of private hands, where it can be tinkered with and improved upon.

Like drug synthesis, and unlike nuclear weapon development, AI R&D is not a praxis or technology that can be suppressed.
Do you care about governments regulating 'carrying out certain lab operations'? And that they have no right to regulate whatever viruses or micro-organisms you develop at home? A lot of the hand-wringing isn't about whatever you're fiddling with on your computer at home, it's about the impact on society and public infrastructure and institutions we rely on. It's not hard to imagine public forums like hackernews and reddit being swamped with chatgpt spam (google searches are already dominated by SEO spam and that's probably going to get much worse). Things like our court systems rely on lawsuits mostly being expensive to file, and mostly done in good faith, and still get overwhelmed under fairly normal circumstances.
> At this point you seem to be being wilfully ignorant.

Ok, we're done here.
Doomsday preachers would love your argument here. They've been wrong over and over, but doomsday is eventually coming! The sun will explode, heat death of the universe... sooner or later, something will spell doom for the human race. Doomsday isn't wrong, it's inevitable!
People move on to something else if they are "too" unreliable.