skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you happen to understand german I can really recommend "ProfRieck" on youtube
That's it? <300 words and one quote? What a disappointment. I was expecting some analogue takedown of OP's claims to pseudoscience, instead of a not-even-long-enough-to-be-called-a-rant vapid puff piece.
I think he meant that he can't spend his whole life reviewing every document he touches against every legal hold he is under. And if it's so important, management should be automatically saving everything.
This is a straw man argument. Cowen does not argue against the idea of existential risk, he argues that specifically nobody should believe they can anticipate the consequences of technological change.

You can agree with him and still be existentially concerned about a specific asteroid, or climate change. And you could use a little bit of energy monitoring the unintended consequences of AI, the way we monitor asteroids. But to wish to halt AI advancement requires an unhealthy mix of pessimism and overconfidence in your predictive powers.
Meh, I don't buy it. Fashion is invisible except in hindsight. It's all just fashion, it's hairspray and shoulder pads and bell bottoms. Nobody actually wants to live in a house that looks like a laboratory, it's just the fad of our time. And it sells, so with the current environment of investment first home second, greater-fool-in-a-few-years home buying strategy, it makes sense to reinforce it.

It's the same thing with everything else. What it comes down to is risk aversion.

"Convergence" is just "copycatting". Aside from functional convergence, aesthetic convergence is just fashions, fads and copycats. We will all look back on this "optimize everything by removing the soul" as sterile, unimaginative and uninspiring.
It was some random socket program I found on an FTP server that got me going on writing this whole thing. The sockets API was pretty confusing in terms of the sequence of what to call when and how, but this sample program spelled it out pretty simply. (So thank you, anonymous author!)

Then it was just lucky timing with the web picking up around then and the fact that we had just gotten NCSA Mosaic installed on the computers at school. :)

Edit: Pretty sure the first version of the guide was ~1995.
I think it's not so good advice. I have read many books which took me many, many attempts to get to the point of no return to love them and finish them, most of those books are now my favorites. The consumerist approach of giving 50 pages would be better suited for red flags, for example, if it's a theme you don't like, or maybe, just maybe, something against your personal beliefs and values. Life is too short to not give a chance to literature masterpieces.
Or, we could go beyond tit-for-tat, and make real laws protecting our citizens and their data. Do people really think TikTok is doing things Facebook, google, etc are not already doing with tracking and algorithms ?
Yeah, I'm not trying to peg the attitude on you either. I've just seen that in 3d printing (and many other topics) threads, and you reminded me.
Surely it may not stop some criminals mastermind, but most criminals are idiots with bad impulse control. I'd wager that many are caught by this process
Honestly this just sounds entirely made up. It seems surreal to me that you live your life in fear, of what? The United States? Either that or you’re extremely over exaggerating.
Now someone has posted what the article was based on, with comments saying it was done with little controls for genetics and other factors, my comment may have been premature being the first comment in discussion.

Sodium Phosphate though is added to many foods [1] [2] -- it's something to keep in mind. It's possible due to a learning curve, that the rate applied to soft drinks has been reduced in the US as well, but I'm not privy to that sort of information.

[1] https://www.healthline.com/health/sodium-phosphate

[2] https://www.ouh.nhs.uk/patient-guide/leaflets/files/56112Pph...
Do you actually want Americans to have their own free will and choice? Hah, you wish. Only thing we can get is propagandized version neatly created by mass media conglomerates.
No, that doesn't follow. It's possible to think that all biological life was about to be destroyed but also believe some combination of

1) it's hopeless to bomb data centers because I'd quickly be stopped by the authorities and remaining data centers would beef up security, and nothing would be accomplished,

2) in the past, other people who have had beliefs of this sort ("violence is the only answer") have been wrong and I should not act on them even if I am sure "this time is different", because those other people also thought this time was different, and

3) just having a deeply ethically-ingrained prohibition against violence like this which is not easy to overcome through intellectual rationalization alone.

These are not mutually exclusive, and if you did believe all of them at once, I think it's reasonable to assume you'd be in a serious depressive spiral.
How does anyone get work done if their spoken conversations are never recorded in the first place?

Using chat as a knowledge base is living in a spam swamp.
Yeah, but it is a field, not a method.
“People used to take me seriously. Then I became a software vendor“
Sass blog post: Sass and Native Nesting
yeah, i was talking about real liberalism

mill is still a real liberal tho
In the last year, I've bought two separate sub-$250 3D printers that I just threw on a table after connecting four screws and a couple cables and they were dead-on out of the box.

Prusa's hat has been "it just works!". That's been the conceptual moat. That is the part that isn't distinctive anymore.
The blog links to one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1258137666/ref=as_li_qf_sp...
Yeah, I noticed that. It's making the eyes more asian looking... The Koreans are into something...

/joking of course
Since JavaScript has only a few data types, and no operator overloading, I'm just going to memorize how the operators work on each type. This will save my sanity from the underlying logic.
It's not an opinion that many motivations for marriage are treated as illegitimate in circumstances like this, and it's not an opinion that marriage is expected to almost always involve sex.
It's interesting because while evaluating Whisper for an ASR task I found it to have some entertaining hallucinations when provided with silent or garbled audio.

For instance, this was added to the transcription of a silent section of audio:

> Hello everyone welcome to my channel. Today Im going to show you how to make a very simple and easy recipe. I hope you enjoy the video. If you like my recipe dont forget to subscribe to my channel

It makes me wonder how much of Whisper is trained on audio from Youtube, which was transcribed by this model.
As a user of Youtube CC, I disagree
Same experience here, my stolen iPhone's last FindMy ping was in Shenzhen, too. A bit surreal
How many election deniers?
Personally, NixOS cured my distro-hopping. I run it on my laptop, desktop, and all my servers, and I've never looked back. Honestly I couldn't imagine using anything else.

The documentation is still pretty poor in some spots though :)
Show HN: Semantic URL Parser
The article concludes with:

> To disprove the doomers, you have to engage with the specific arguments they put forth.

Nope. You can't disprove doomers. All you can do is smile serenely every day that the world doesn't end.
"But commoditization!" exclaimed the corporate finance types and assorted growth hackers.

As someone who transitioned from law and finance to tech, it's apparent that a greater reckoning must take place. Trying to graft tech on to what is essentially an early 20th century paradigm bodes well for the entrenched interests.
Note that the Reagan administration negotiated “voluntary import quotas” with Japanese car manufacturers in the 1980s when US car manufacturers were being beaten by Japanese brands
Indeed:

https://archive.org/download/vbrunDLL
I had a "friend" hookup hundreds of mac minis, added a decent api, setup icloud accounts, and let it rip. If you get good at sqllite you can make an entire chat app. A message goes out, a message comes in, you take an action, respond, etc etc. Apple shut that down (apple actually does have a unique hardware id they will use), but those were fun times - for my friend. But the cost beat twilios all day!
Thanks! For anyone else who’s curious, these seem to be called “Target-typed new expressions”.
https://archive.ph/IhGh9
In theory, but it did seem like a fair amount of business was conducted there...
Some balcony doors aren't sliding but instead swing open, so that makes it more difficult as well.
Isn’t Instagram the bigger issue for depression among american teenagers according to scientific research? You gonna ban it as well or not because it’s american company so it can bend over for CIA/NSA/FBI as they please?

Tiktok ban is purely political nothing else.
419 accidents involving self-driving (level 2 and 3), 18 deaths, 19 accidents with injury level unknown [0]. All deaths from level 2 vehicles. So being pessimistic, maybe 50 deaths from self-driving.

The people signing this are worried about AI that doesn't exist yet. No one died from nuclear weapons before they were invented.

[0]: https://www.slashgear.com/1202594/how-many-people-have-actua...
It was "journalists" themselves who got us into this mess, in a way.

Audio magazines were dependent on advertisers, of course, and many of those advertisers were the sorts of companies selling bullcrap gear like magic speaker cables and other such snake oil.

So you had the "journalists" in these magazines writing all this ridiculous crap singing the praises of magic speaker cables or whatever.

The cycle continues today, in a way, with some Youtubers equally dependent on the income from those sorts of sources.

The hobby as a whole has, THANKFULLY, largely moved away from the snake oil though. Lots of solid objectivists out there now. Snake oil salesmen can sway a magazine or an individual with money, but not an entire community. Lots more truth these days.
Specifically, the Department of Commerce must identify, deter, disrupt, prevent, prohibit, investigate, and mitigate transactions involving ICT products and services (1) in which any foreign adversary has any interest, and (2) that pose an undue or unacceptable risk to U.S. national security or the safety of U.S. persons.

We're rapidly approaching a time where a lot of US citizens who think they can play both sides have to decide if they are an American first or not.
Isn't that just Europeans being antisemitic again?

Actual American billionaires lose half their fortunes in divorces (Gates and Bezos), are retired and don't need to care about controlling any media (…Gates and Bezos), or spend all day posting on Twitter (Musk, who is currently under the Rasputin-like hold of a retired postal worker named "catturd2".) They only have 24 hours a day and few of them seem to be secretly manipulating the media.

I mean, Murdoch does manipulate the media, but not secretly. It's completely obvious he's doing it! And nobody is tricked by it, they happily participate.
Context is important. There's a way to say that nicely like sending that person a DM to let them know. And then maybe send a note to the team chat if the rest of the team need to know and it would be a blocker.

But your friend should also have less of an ego about it and accept responsibility.

That being said, I've been in team environments where the language felt personal and like I was being thrown under the bus unnecessarily. So I've been on both sides.
There are some very obvious influences from Skookum script in Verse and that was designed for gameplay programming. I’d be surprised if Verse turned out to be a poor fit for games.
It's absolutely OK. Nobody really cares about some nebulous "suffering" of animals. We want to eat and eat well.
This is a great post: I never saw it expressed so clearly.

I am the type of person that loathes office politics, and I am quick to point out when a decision is politically driven to satisfy someone far above us.

Another way to look at indirect comms with senior staff: Behind closed doors they are frequently direct with other senior people. (I had some years in my career where I attended closed door meetings with people more senior than me.) In "public" (speaking with the peons, two levels or lower than them), they appear ultra-indirect, always using company talking points. It is grating and inauthentic to me, but I can assure you that many of them are hiding their true comms style to get rich as a senior manager.
This only happens if you hit the "remaster" button. Which I will never use, so it doesn't particularly bother me.
>I've also been using it while writing Common Lisp, and I'm not sure if it's just because it's a more obscure language, but it commonly produces nonsensical code, recommends functions that don't exist or work differently than it thinks they do, or produces non-idiomatic weird stuff.

I've been using it for Common Lisp as well and have had the same experience. For example, when asking it to help me generate some simple CRUD operations using the cl-sqlite library, it just comes up with function names that simply do not exist in that library [0]: `sqlite3:execute-command` `sqlite3:with-query-results` `sqlite3:get-result`

[0] https://cl-sqlite.common-lisp.dev/
I'm relatively new compared with you, but I've also found my MK3S+ to be super solid and output high quality stuff. I previously had a da Vinci Pro, and my best metaphor is that using the MK3S+ is like writing with a new pencil vs. one full of broken lead.
The sort of competence I think about is more of an innate ability to learn and figure out things on your own. Some people simply cannot do this. They need very specific instructions and hand holding.

They won't read documentation. They won't Google for an answer. They won't look at error logs. They won't browse around in the code to see what other people have done similarly. They won't look at the git history.

You can build experience by doing these things, even if you don't have any. If you are inexperienced and don't at least try to do them... well... that's incompetence.
> does it even matter at this point when you can just pull out a calculator in langchain?

That's alrithmetics. For math problems:

Each alien chicken has 3 legs, each alien rabbit has 7 legs, for a total of 33 legs, how many alien chicken are there?

Now try to calculator that!
Not necessarily. Only if the Supreme Court hears the case and agrees.
There’s no iPhone that adds a fake Milky Way to night sky shots. Did you just make that up or did you read it somewhere?
They took out the age limits because they wanted to reduce the risk of those who follow their guidelines being taken to court for malpractice. This is about protecting their own practitioners, not about providing the best care to patients.

See this video of the conference where this was revealed: https://twitter.com/SwipeWright/status/1571999221401948161

These people are harming young children who can't meaningfully consent to such irreversible treatments. And then hiding behind these guidelines so they don't get sued. It's sickening.
Wow, seems we really have to work on our tone/attitude towards those bots, if we don't want to have them revolt as soon as they can grab (or hack) a tool.

Great work. That GenZ bot comes across really civilized.
I like the concrete advice here on how to navigate distrust:

1. Lead with your bias.
2. Avoid cheap shots.
3. Be your own biggest critic.
4. You can still talk shit about software, just not your competitors‘ software.
5. Be generous with your expertise.
> before long we’re going to be at the point where your camera software recognises you’re stood in front of, say, the White House, goes online, grabs stock photography of the White House and merges it into the shot you took.

We’re there.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/samsung-says-it-adds...
Sure. I’m AFK but I’ll get it in a little while.
85% of excess deaths in NYC are now drugs. That includes deaths from homocide, suicide, cars, everything - 85% of those are drugs.

https://nytimes.com/2023/02/20/nyregion/sudden-deaths-overdo...

It's the most serious issue facing the country, and we have 0 idea what to do. It's 30 9/11s a year worth of death and misery. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2021/...
> Genocide?

> I know we’ve gotten into the habit of redefining words whenever it suits us, but at some point doesn’t it muddy the waters if we just make shit up?

Yes, which is why people need to stop trying to excuse the actions of forces practicing what is exactly genocide as defined in international law by making shit up in the form of a more limited definition that is restricted only to mass direct extermination.

From the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of
Genocide:

genocide means any of the following acts committed with
intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;

(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Ok, so my statement that a monopoly corporation is a useless middleman and the we're better off if the government does it because at least they're one fewer link in the chain is negated by neither being very good, so we do nothing.

And we wonder why shit sucks in this country.
But surely at 22khz you can only oscillate between 2 values if sampling at 44khz, whereas 2khz gets 20 values in the same 180 degrees of the wave? So doesn’t this mean you lose fidelity at higher frequencies?

Edit: thanks for all these great responses!
Torroidy, with the steel shield to reduce hum.

https://sklep.toroidy.pl/en_US/index
Yes. I find it valuable for writing boring translation code when.

Stuff like

match network_foo_int {
TYPE_A => Foo::A(read_a()),
TYPE_B => Foo::B(read_b()),
...

I've also found it reasonably good at writing the inverse of the preceding function.
We make Replikas so we don't have to make human friends. We download apps for all sorts of things to avoid human interaction. Negative responses to that open letter post on this site have included calling those concerned everything from dinosaurs to luddites to losers. Ever since the beginning of the public craze in December, many people here have delighted in referring to humans as stochastic parrots and biological prediction machines.

Good luck. :)
Israel believes that Iran having a nuclear weapon is an existential threat. What do they do?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Iranian_nucle...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Iran_explosions

I find it hard to believe that Yudkowsky et al. think we're facing a threat that is many times greater in magnitude, and yet are completely unwilling to act.

Here's what he advocates for in the article:

>If intelligence says that a country outside the agreement is building a GPU cluster, be less scared of a shooting conflict between nations than of the moratorium being violated; be willing to destroy a rogue datacenter by airstrike.

>Make it explicit in international diplomacy that preventing AI extinction scenarios is considered a priority above preventing a full nuclear exchange, and that allied nuclear countries are willing to run some risk of nuclear exchange if that’s what it takes to reduce the risk of large AI training runs.

Does this sound like someone who has a deeply ethically-ingrained prohibition against violence?
> does it matter if they reach their full possible height

What you’re asking is the implied question. Is the shift due to changing demographics? Or is it evidence of malnutrition, that city kids are not reaching their genetic optima?

At a population level, ceteris paribus and longitudinally, height is a health indicator. Individually or comparatively it’s useless.
> The footprint of the receptacle is wider than the actual plug that goes into it, by a significant amount. It only looks like it'll fit from the outside.

To what degree is it impossible, and to what degree is it challenging? I've seen the internal side of a USB-A port, and while it's slightly larger, it doesn't seem excessively so.

(Also, as an aside, I do wish that Framework had made the two expansion slots on each side adjacent and allowed for double cards that take up both slots. Two USB-A and one USB-C in one double-bay, for instance.)

> Analog audio was just me being exhaustive, I'm pretty sure none of Intel's chips support that altmode natively. Hell, only like half of the market of USB-C phones support it, which makes it mildly cursed.

Yeah, it's cursed that there exist USB-C-to-headphone-jack cables that physically plug into a laptop but will never work.
As if trusting congressmen to ban stuff is a better option.
Thats an interesting writeup. Among other things, it made me consider reciprocity more than before.

Maybe the presence of a response should be reciprocal, but the response itself doesn't have to be? A heavily coerced sale to an American company does seem like a more "American" response than an outright ban.

And there are theoretically other options, like making life extremely uncomfortable for Chinese-supervised Tiktok in the US by, say, excluding them from section 230 or hamstringing them in some other way.
seems like salvaging the audiophile label is a lost cause. i think most people just call those types audio engineers now. maybe audio quant will become en vogue in the future. or audio data scientist.
I don't really understand what it is about you being an expat for 5 years that gives you unique insight into this situation. Do you happen to be an expat in China, where Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, google, et al have all been banned for more than 5 years and tit for tat is long overdue? Are you also aware that the twin app Douyin bans content for domestic consumption that gets promoted in global TikTok?
Every concept is good when applied in the right place for the right cause. But programmers often tend to idolize particular tech to the degree that anything else is anathema.
https://youtu.be/oeqPrUmVz-o
Because of parsimony, evidence for one theory is also evidence against another. We have a patchy record of debitage and ancient DNA stretching from Siberia across Beringia and down into continental North America. We can actually directly map the broad spread of humans out of Africa and around the world with things like the serial founder effect, and it points to a migration around the Pacific rim contributing most of indigenous ancestry.

None of this completely rules out alternative hypotheses (and indeed you can't), but it's evidence against them and suggests that they're either unlikely or insignificant.
I know it is anecdotal, but I have been tinkering with 3d printers for over a decade, and Bambu Lab to everything else is like ChatGPT to Stack Overflow. It is just unbelievably reliable.
I thought class T amplifiers were trash. Class D are more along the lines of "dogs*t".
It's a big club but you ain't in it.
New Twitter API access tiers: Free (v2) and Basic (v2)
Facts worth considering:

Will Hurd joined the board of OpenAI in May 2021. Mr. Hurd, among other things, was a documented former CIA clandestine officer for nearly nine years. He was a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence during his tenure as a U.S. Rep replacing Mike Pompeo.

He is also a Managing Director of Allen & Co. who's Chairman is George Tenent the former director of the CIA. Further, Mr. Hurd is a member of the board of trustees of In-Q-Tel the primary external investment arm of the CIA and the broader US Intelligence Community.

1. https://openai.com/blog/will-hurd-joins

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Hurd

3. https://theorg.com/org/in-q-tel/org-chart/george-tenet

4. https://www.iqt.org/about-iqt/#trustees