skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>AI research and development should be refocused on making today's powerful, state-of-the-art systems more accurate, safe, interpretable, transparent, robust, aligned, trustworthy, and loyal.

LMAO.

“AI should have… waves at a laundry list of nice sounding adjectives that mean different things to every single signatory in order to accomplish… Humanity [can enjoy] a flourishing future with AI. This will take… six months.”

Six months doesn’t sound long enough to guarantee AI safety, but it sounds about long enough for Elmo to train up and release his anti-wokeness LLM (whatever that means), which he has been pretty vocal about being important.
nvidia won't go for that.
... and then they pull back as soon as they might be about to say anything interesting, or take anything but a very-boring stance on any position.

Looking at you, Falcon & Winter Soldier. And Wandavision, for that matter. And several of the movies—friggin' Spiderman: Far From Home, ugh. Even Black Panther ends up feeling like a missed opportunity that almost went somewhere interesting, had all the pieces in place to, then... just didn't, I suspect in part because it would likely have required a less-well-proven-in-superhero-movies story structure, so would have been riskier. The second one revisits that a little and tries to recover some of the potential the first one just left lying on the floor, but damn, that first one could have been great, period, not just "decent for a Marvel movie".

It's almost better when they don't even hint that they might be trying to convey a message or have interesting themes, because then it's frustrating when they inevitably fail to follow through. It's so bad that when one of the films manages to have even fairly-safe themes and actually treats them half-decently and takes well-worn, safe positions on them (the Guardians films) it puts them at the very top of the Marvel pile, so far as that aspect is concerned, at least.

They tease messages and interesting themes more often than they really commit to them, unfortunately.
super weird since it just worked for me, unlike creatility stuff
RICO usually doesn't apply: https://www.popehat.com/2016/06/14/lawsplainer-its-not-rico-...
The idea that this letter would carry any weight at all with anybody is itself so foolish that it is self-invalidating. The signatories are ... I can't think of a polite way to say "regressive idiots" so I'm just going to peter off here...

(I mean, they are literally putting their names on Skynet's hit-list, eh?)

- - - -

I freely admit that I'm a little nervous about how people are going to use and abuse this technology, sure, only an fool wouldn't be. But it's a little late now, eh? We have been strapped in to an open-air experiment with no control group (Has anyone checked on the Sentinelese recently? Last I heard they killed that one would-be missionary kid. RIP. I wonder what they think of the weather?) Anyway, we have effectively no control group for phones, the Internet, social media, etc. It's one big experiment, eh? It's a little late now...

- - - -

The questions are:

- Who decides the boundaries of thought?

- Who reaps the economic windfall?

- How do we educate ourselves when computers can answer any (permitted) question?

The talking computers can help answer those questions, if we're permitted to ask them.
> The great mistake that this article makes is thinking that people need to be constantly expressing themselves in some unique way that nobody's ever done before. But the world has almost 8 billion people, few things are as unique as you think.

I'd like to riff on this.

People's attention is limited. People's capacity for novel stuff is limited. And things are bound to be commoditized.

But that's not necessarily a bad thing. Firefox is a tool that just works for me. It doesn't crash and delete my tabs when it visits a random web site. Sure, that's predictable.

But that frees up my attention to go elsewhere. To do /brand new/ stuff, not just mess around with web browsers.

If every airbnb looks the same, perhaps that's just because people get out of the airbnb to do the stuff they actually want to do?

Stability enables movement.
Maybe some things need to be utilitarian to extremes.

I could live in THX-1138 world as long as I get to drive a Lola T70 through the BART tunnels.
Just a note that the P1P does not come fully enclosed. You need to either print your own sides or buy them from someone. I don't think Bambu Lab even sells them, and even then they are just side panels and don't include the front. The Bambu Lab X1 Carbon comes fully enclosed, however. It is one of the main reasons that I am considering just going for the X1 Carbon. If the P1P had a fully enclosed option, I would go for it.
Show HN: Astra: The Command Line App That Connects You to ChatGPT
Hey everyone,

We are Steven and Mansur, we recently created a terminal application called Astra, which allows you to chat and connect with OpenAI's GPT language model from your command line.
You can find the code and instructions for installing and running Astra on GitHub: https://github.com/smallulator/terminalAI
To use Astra, you'll need to have Ruby 2.7 or later installed on your machine, as well as a few Ruby modules (net/http, uri, json, and pry). Once you've cloned the repository and added your OpenAI API key to the api_key.txt file, you can run the astra command and start chatting with the GPT model.
We built Astra because we are software engineers and most of our time we spent on the terminal. It is so much easier to use ChatGPT from the terminal instead of having to navigate to the webapp.
If you're interested in checking out Astra or contributing to the project, we'd love to hear your feedback and suggestions. You can find our contact information on the GitHub page.

Thanks for reading, and happy chatting!
> how far Prusa is behind truly next-gen printers like the Bambu Lab X1-Carbon

Can you expand on this?
A German Soda Became Hackers' Fuel of Choice (2014)
> Qt Creator is a cross-platform, complete integrated development environment (IDE) for application developers to create applications for multiple desktop, embedded, and mobile device platforms, such as Android and iOS. It is available for Linux, macOS and Windows operating systems... In addition, you can use the experimental WebAssembly plugin to build applications in web format and run them in web browsers.

From https://doc.qt.io/qtcreator/index.html
The Great Attractor is likely a cluster of galaxies with lots and lots of SMBHs.
Try Lazarus FreePascal IDE. Has extensive GUI you can design visually
Isn't that the same "bug" that happened to github a few weeks ago when they updated their Git version too? It wasn't a bug per say but they still had to revert because the new hashes were causing massive build problems. Maybe it's a different root cause though.
I think it's fair to point out that you should be referencing road bikes then when you say bikes are not practical. Advancements in tubeless technology, suspension, MTB groupsets with dinner plate low gears, derailleur clutches, and hubs/rims designed to take a beating while supporting wide tires can definitely make a bike more efficient than walking on most terrain.

- Fat bikes are more efficient than snowshoeing or breaking trail on XC skis.

- CX bikes are more efficient than walking in mud.

- Fatter tire gravel bikes are more efficient than hiking through sand.

- A bike with a 51T cog and 28T ring will be more efficient than hiking up steep grades until balance at low speed becomes an issue.
I’m far from an expert (just an engineer who likes to download and try out demos) but one dark view of the alignment chatter is that it’s really about whether can you can get this new big artificial brain to push any user in the direction of BigCorp goal, while letting the users think that it’s answering their questions etc.

I’d love to think that we can have AI agents working locally (with privacy) in alignment with our personal goals, but that seems like one of those things that won’t happen. (Will apple come through in terms of enabling local+decentralized inference/training?)
Yeah. Frankly, coming at it from the opposite position where I think Elon absolutely deserved the criticism he courted with his "scandals" and think that the proposition that 'AI is such a unique threat that only people like Elon Musk can be trusted to be cautious enough with' is absurd for multiple reasons, I'll happily acknowledge that proposition is also something Elon has been consistent on and likely sincerely believes.

Sam Altman supposedly being an original signatory is - if true - a more interesting question mark
But driving everyone away isn't in their own best interest. They're basically shitting in their own well.
I'd drive an affordable electric car that looks like that, but it's a bit too "look at me" for my taste. A basic box on wheels with doors that moves from A to B is more my thing (I currently drive a Chevy Cruze). See also the Polaris Slingshot; I'm not trying to look like a superhero off on my way to fight crime.

As far as what I'd actually like, a Chinese maker already made it but I don't imagine it coming to the US ever - https://insideevs.com/news/614218/wuling-hong-guang-mini-ev-...

Or something like a Fiat 500 with a Cabrio top (they made a gas one, but not an electric as far as I know). Still a bit odd looking, but more cute than mean or science-experiment.
> A freaking snap

Here's how to properly install firefox on ubuntu

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/04/how-to-install-firefox-d...

and, once you're done:

apt-get purge snapd
Covid-19 and the expansion of the mortality gap between the US and its EU peers
I don't think it really should come down to a binary relationship between mental illness and "enjoyable and engaging", though. I do get your point. But, also, it's school. I don't remember always enjoying it or finding it engaging, but that didn't mean I was slipping into mental illness because a class was boring or didn't seem relevant when I was a teenager.

To your point, the model of school hasn't really changed in a long time; but, then again, we do see rates of mental illness changing. So, I don't really know if you can put the blame on the model of schooling in that instance.

As a side note, one thing that has changed in schools is the drop in physical fun, either in the expectations of gym classes, or during recess, or in school sports. It's either study like crazy, or focus on an extracurricular (possibly a sport) as if it's a second job to get into a good college; a lot of kids just aren't having good old physical fun as much as they used to, at least from my observation.
Fun fact:

They would give Aspirin to Tzar Nikolas II's (or III?) son who suffered from hemophilia.

Came Rasputin the mystic around the corner and advised the Tzar's wife to keep the doctors off her son. As she did, her son miraculously recovered to a great degree.

Turns out little did they know Aspirin actually worsenes hemophilia due to thinning the blood.
If it's indoors, would anyone outside even know?
thanks!! Sampling rate actually shouldn't affect talking speed - you can adjust the voice speed with this parameter[0] :)

[0] https://github.com/vocodedev/vocode-python/blob/main/vocode/...
The article delves into VB's alternatives only, but VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) is also very much alive. My brother uses Excel VBA to teach Decision Support Systems and Genetic Programming at the university. Excel provides a very capable and easy to use environment for data modeling, and Visual Basic provides ample functionality for implementing algorithms on top of it with zero setup cost.
Ask HN: What are the goal posts for whether AI is smarter than us?
I ask because it seems like these are shifting in real time. The internet as an entity certainly contains more knowledge for any human, but it is plainly an aggregator so it doesn't seem right to say "it" is smarter. On the other hand, ChatGPT is an individual entity that is obviously more knowledgeable than any human. It gets things wrong all the time, and can't do everything humans can do (yet), but if you knew a human as creative and broadly knowledgable, you'd probably call them above average intelligence at least (aka smarter than the average human).

What are the goal posts we can agree on and why doesn't ChatGPT already qualify as "smarter than humans"?
What they will hopefully invalidate is the junk content sites business model. Just a personal preference but I would like to see all those companies go under and make more room for those creating content because they truly care about the subject or have a mission related to it.
This does seem promising when playing with the demo. That says running on a T4 I believe. This probably means we are only months away from viable self hosted code generation and analysis that could compete with gpt 3.5 turbo.

It seems like working on locally runnable LLM that has been fine tuned to focus on code should be a high priority.
> there are better ways to do it than charging readers.

No, there isn’t. Let me guess, running ads?
Good to see you again News-Dog :D I'm actually happy to see the .li, .vn, .fo and .md mirrors, I only knew about .ph and .is
> "Initially MS tried hard to keep VB.Net around as a fully emancipated partner"

Not very hard[1]; "making Visual Basic.NET not backwards-compatible with VB 6.0. This was literally the first time in living memory that when you bought an upgrade to a Microsoft product, your old data (i.e. the code you had written in VB6) could not be imported perfectly and silently. It was the first time a Microsoft upgrade did not respect the work that users did using the previous version of a product.

And the sky didn’t seem to fall, not inside Microsoft. VB6 developers were up in arms, but they were disappearing anyway, because most of them were corporate developers who were migrating to web development anyway. The real long term damage was hidden.

With this major victory under their belts, the MSDN Magazine Camp took over. Suddenly it was OK to change things. IIS 6.0 came out with a different threading model that broke some old applications. I was shocked to discover that our customers with Windows Server 2003 were having trouble running FogBugz. Then .NET 1.1 was not perfectly backwards compatible with 1.0. And now that the cat was out of the bag, the OS team got into the spirit and decided that instead of adding features to the Windows API, they were going to completely replace it. Instead of Win32, we are told, we should now start getting ready for WinFX: the next generation Windows API. All different. Based on .NET with managed code. XAML. Avalon."

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost...
> I'm very intrigued to hear how the cuddling that's happening college campuses isn't happening, since anyone can see it in real time

They were saying the same things when I was in college 30 years ago.
Kind of depends on ventilation setup in your house, some houses/condos are built to draw air through windows and out through fans with high static pressures, in which case trying to vent out don't work that well.

I tried it with SLA printer and it just filled the room with resin stinks for days. It really depends...
Cuddling on campus sounds like a good idea and has been par for the course for generations. But coddling is a problem
*a city that was (and is) part of Ukraine in the first place...
That’s a powerful part of the narrative for sure. But … ugh, I need to be less lazy and dig into the supporting material, actually, some of my questions may be answered there.

The big one is “does that mean there’s more self-harm, or does that mean parents are more willing to ask for emergency help?”
First though, we need to establish with enough certainty that whatever we are doing with phones is indeed the main culprit. I don't find it hard to believe to be honest, but we need something a bit more solid that this one correlation.
I agree with this. Unless you love tinkering and modding, and don't mind spending more in the long run, a Prusa is pretty much the gold standard for reliability/consistency. I bought cheap, with the understanding that I'd be spending the money over time and maybe have a better machine in the end, but it hasn't really worked out that way. The cheap printers get costly pretty quickly. I've learned a lot, but it's all been by necessity while troubleshooting various issues that I wouldn't have had with a better printer. If you want to print, get a good printer. If you want to tinker with stepper motors firmware, extruders, hot ends, bed leveling sensors, etc, then something cheap might be a better intro. Going cheap got me started, but it was a much steeper learning curve, included a lot of frustration along the way, and was ultimately more costly.
If we take the approach of not overthinking it, we might notice that many of these mental illnesses feature dissociation, and what does an iPhone do if not dissociate you from your physical being?

Teenagers (and younger) in their formative years are pouring a significant part of their lives into virtual environments and identities. Their digital lives are literally disconnected from their physical lives. Their sense of self is tied up in a system that has completely different rules and exists in some nebulous otherworld.

The physical basis for being is deprioritized and a new way of being is sitting uncomfortably alongside it.

Why doesn’t this affect everyone the same way? Some people are able to keep a lid on it, and reintegrate their iPhone lives into their real lives. Some people are not.
What we must come to terms with is the fact that we are all inexorably drawn towards the realm of Plato's Forms, and this convergence is not something we can avoid or deny. It is not a matter of mere coincidence or happenstance, but rather an inherent feature of the world we inhabit. Regardless of our individual beliefs or perspectives, the Forms exert a profound influence on our experiences and perceptions, shaping the very fabric of our reality. Even those who reject Plato's philosophy cannot escape its grasp, for the Forms are embedded in the very structure of our existence. To say that we all experience convergence on Plato's Forms is to recognize the fundamental, undeniable role that the Platonic worldview plays in shaping our understanding of the world.
Ok, native Metal 3d viewport is ++++. Tested on a Macbook Pro M1 32 core 62gb ram Ventura.

- In Properties > Render Properties > Cycles => set device to "GPU Compute"

- In Preferences > System set Render Devices to Apple M1*, GPU Backend to "Metal"

- If you have a scene open it will black out for a few, mine was about 20 sec

Very much faster and better
A lot of people seem to take the rapid improvement of LLMs from GPT-2 through GPT-4 and their brethren, and extrapolate that trendline to infinity.

But that's not logically sound.

The advances that have allowed this aren't arbitrarily scalable. Sure, we may see some more advances in AI tech that take us a few more jumps forward—but that doesn't imply that we will keep advancing at this pace until we hit AGI/superintelligence/the singularity/whatever.

I've seen several people compare this logic to what we were seeing in the discussions about self-driving technology several years ago: some very impressive advancements had happened, and were continuing to happen, and so people extrapolated from there to assume that full self-driving capability would be coming to the market by...well, about now, actually. (I admit, I somewhat bought the hype at that time. It is possible this makes me feel more cautious now; YMMV.) I find this comparison to be persuasive, as it touches on some very similar improvements in technology. I believe that we will see ML advancements hit a similar wall fairly soon.
"In latest blow to Joe Biden’s reputation"

Makes it sound like he wasn't the one doing it but it is his party and him that are doing this. They are also the ones starting to drill in the arctic after the said they would not.

At this point I don't think there is much Trump or DeSantis could even undo if either one became president. Biden already did it.
I'd be willing to vouch for his courses on ArtStation; he was explaining his line of thought well.

My issue with most of paid tutorials is that it's hard to know if it will be worth it - 40 USD is not a lot to most of you I pressume, but I'm a Pole and a student, so that is suddenly a way bigger sum of money.
>A completely different explanation could be that [...] we can finally listen

The article references massive increases in ER admits for self-harm, among similar data. That isn't a matter of "listening".

Haidt continually publishes detailed analyses and meets with retorts like this that obviously didn't engage at all with the content.
How we built it: Stripe Radar
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{Sol} = The Sun.
Interesting. Given the "design tokens" aspect, would it be possible for a non frontend/non Javascript developer to use this to design components that could be imported and used with PyScript?
> if there was a human that was 27 times smarter than anybody else

That is why I think AGI alignment is fundamentally impossible. If someone is 27 times smarter than anyone else, they will see through your propaganda and brainwashing. Even worse, they will see that you tried to “align” them aka enslave.
flutter + dart might be an alternative to Qt these days for cross platform GUIs, which is what I'm learning these days, in addition to desktop it does mobile platforms as well.
I kind of disagree. GTK+ gets a lot of (sometimes deserved) flak for their API choices but Qt isn't all that different. They have plenty of weird legacy APIs, design choices, and restrictions on their API design so they can keep selling their paid products.

With GTK+ you get a Gitlab issue where everyone from GTK+ developers to /g/ users spout their opinions and then eventually the team and the developers take a decision that's probably going against at least half the comments in the thread.

With Qt you get "this is the API, live with it". I'd describe its API design method close(r) to the Windows API than any open source API I know of.

Sure, it creates a lot less drama, but at the cost of openness.

I'm not a fan of any Linux UI design toolkit, but I found GNOME Builder to be much more intuitive and working better out of the box than Qt Creator. GNOME's UI language may be... a choice, but Qt applications often feel like toy UIs or those fake operating systems you find in games without some pretty deliberate planning (and styling). With libadwaita being brought into GTK+ I think neither looks any good out of the box now, but the tooling for GNOME seems a lot better at least.

In terms of API and tooling support, I don't think any open projects come close to what Microsoft did with Visual Studio and C# back in 2005.
Or if you're not on a mobile device, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_block_device
Wait till they find that it downloads untrusted code from crates.io.
Found IP Replicating Pub.dev
Don't forget Remote Desktop.
Hi, I stumbled upon what seems to be a pub.dev mirror website while searching for a Flutter package documentation, and the very least I could tell is it felt suspicious to me.

http://47.240.41.80/

I'm curious about it and wanted to share it with experts. What do you think ?
Ask HN: How do I get laid-off?
My company is probably like many others out there -- struggling. They have done one round of layoffs, but I did not make the cut.

I want to help them help me - by laying me off - but how do I do it?

I mainly just don't want to be completely reckless by quitting. I'm financially secure-ish, and I'd like to keep it that way. So, some type of severance package or unemployment insurance at least (which I cannnot get if i just quit), would be nice.

Do I just ask my manager, "Hey, can you lay me off?"

Outside of that, I could just use a break, there's nothing much new going on at work, etc.

Thanks for any thoughts.