skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't worry about the US. It is still the greatest country and will remain so for at least 50 years.

It's reddit/HN who have never traveled or lived outside US that has jaded your view of US.

You know which country released chatGPT? or NVIDIA A100 or made a huge step towards Quantum Computing / Nuclear Fusion?

I'd rather congress focus on irrelevant details, while startups solve / tackle important issues. When it really comes to it, Congress will get their act together, but anything before is pure meddling in one of the greatest systems that is producing unbelievable innovations at an alarming rate.
Good shout. That and hyper-v are why I upgraded to pro (on the very cheap) on my main windows machine & laptop.
What percentage of TikTok users are you expecting to do either of those two things in order to access the app if it’s banned by the federal government?
The Evolution of Aesthetic Surgery
Sorry, I disagree with this 2D reduction into stereotypes.

I work with a number of sociopathic-leaning assholes who vary in talent. Mostly insist they have a monopoly good ideas and everyone else is wrong. There are some nice people with talent too. There aren't any people without talent around.
We have to contemplate the possibility that Xi has made the determination that war with the United States is an acceptable price to pay to pursue a conquest of Taiwan.

We also have to contemplate the possibility that Xi has calculated that the United States won't risk nuclear war to save Taiwan, even if doing so may be the only way to deter China from invading.

If I was president, I would hold a prime time address from the Oval Office to announce that any Chinese attempt to conquer or blockade Taiwan will be met with nuclear strikes on the Chinese mainland, including civilian targets. I would state my intent to sacrifice the lives of millions of Americans to protect Taiwan if that's what it takes. And to get the point across, I would detonate a nuke in atmosphere over an empty stretch of ocean between Guam and Hawaii, and release the footage for the world to see.

Yes, this would be insane.

But Xi's advisers may have determined that they can win a conventional war with the US over Taiwan, and that the People's Liberation Army Navy could keep the Strait of Malacca free from USN interference.

Xi may, correctly or not, have concluded that only such a threat could deter him. And that a US president is unlikely to issue such a threat.

We have to be prepared for the possibility that China will gain control over TSMC's foundries and use them to blackmail the West and any other unfriendly countries into submission.

If this is correct, then there are only three options: copy TSMC's capabilities in the West, destroy the foundries during a conflict, or deter China from invading. Or deny them a victory if they try.

But I don't want to hear "China wouldn't dare", "there's only a small window of opportunity where the weather allows an amphibious landing", "It would be the largest military operation in history", etc. China may have calculated that they can overcome any logistical hurdle. They're not stupid. They know all of this. But at some point, the hardliners will lose patience and demand results. And the hardliners happen to be in charge.
Why do people have this delusion that empowering oppressive governments promotes freedom in any way?
Lebanon bologna is a more commonly available fermented meat in the US. Much better stuff than the pink slime bologna.
Robert Sutton wrote a book about this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_No_Asshole_Rule

Edit: Interestingly, depressed people can also bring down team morale.
I didn’t do anything special. I just installed Xcode, and bam. Done.

We ripped CDs so we didn’t have to buy them. Hell, we sat by boomboxes until the right song came on the radio just to push record on the tape player.

Kids will do whatever it takes to get what they want. I’d buy that bridge.
Following the Great Recession, there were job postings that literally said not to apply unless you already had a job. You wildly underestimate the degree to which HR will mindlessly inflict their uniformed bias on the rest of us.
i worry more about GPT-assisted social engineering.
Nobody pays minimum wage anymore, at least not if you want to hire anyone.

$12/hr is the absolute lowest I've heard of in the past year or two.

Employers do value experience at menial jobs, at least for their own entry level positions. Any work experience is better than none.
Yes, it's at the end of the document. Penalties will be assessed once fact discovery is complete. Monetary damages of legal costs related to this issue are to be presented to the court by the plaintiff.
chatgpt is hit or miss but ive had success using it either way. The hard part will be not relying too much on it. We already know that some devs wont read error messages and instead will just jump into debugging, i trust thisll only get moreso with the advent of chatgpt. However, this might actually save those devs, assuming chatgpt answers correctly.

once you can upload images and ask it to answer based on that, itll be even more wild.
Complexity is where bugs hide. Do you really think Rust protects you from every class of bugs? It doesn't even protect you from all memory bugs.
> but [the USA] is bound by the rule of law

Of course it is! and storks deliver babies and the moon is yellow because it's made of cheese.

> [The USA] isn't actively imprisoning millions in concentration camps

It's actively imprisoning millions in prisons. What's the difference between a prison and a concentration camp? Perhaps the guards twirling their evil mustache more?
I lost it when, in the first round, ChatGPT called out one of the reasons why Bard was so poor.
The majority of americans agree with this decision. You may not like it but HN audience is very tech savvy and is influenced by popular thinking in tech.

The sentiment against assamge, patriot act, even the iraq war was popular at the time.

Now I have tried to make a rational argument for this ban but all I got was downvotes even bots/people downvoting every unrelated thing I post probably including this post.

You need to engage in polite discourse with others and change their minds not complain about the government.

And believe me when I say, having seen how things are in other countries, as bad as things are in the US I wouldn't trade it for any other country.

You've all chosen to whine in your bubbles instead of a healthy debate. Enjoy the result.
On short distances all dogs outpace humans. After an hour of running most dogs will just quit. On several occasions I had very hard time convincing various dogs to get off the ground after an 8-10km run.
I think the RESTRICT Act is the one being held up as the ban bill because it's bipartisan and considered most likely to 1) actually move to a vote because of that and 2) creates a legal framework for a ban rather than just implementing one which is likely to be unwound by a court and found unconstitutional without it
Could someone explain to me what you get from paying more for a 3D printer like this one instead of a "basic" model?

I have a Ender 3 V2 with self-leveling bed (without self-leveling it's not that great) and I use it a lot, enough to justify buying a better $1k+ printer but it's not clear what I get from spending that much money on it.

Is it printing speed, better materials, or something else entirely?
This somehow reminds me when China banned Google.

"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
yep - it's a bit hard to get past the writing in places: "It proffers an alternate computational reality." Sure?

I appreciate anyone experimenting with cool aesthetics, but this description ignores the enormous numbers of people building case mods, including many out of wood or unconventional materials.
Are you talking about that incident when Google folks decided to make information about a vulnerability public so people can protect themselves while Microsoft were dragging their feet working on a fix?
It's a really, really bad look for them recently in my opinion.

The Prusa XL has been over a year and a half late. We had to preorder it, plunk down $200 as a deposit... and wait as they redesigned it over and over and blamed part shortages. Now, out of nowhere, "MK4 - Buy Now! No Preorder!"
Report it to CISA.gov and your attorney general. If it happened to you, it likely happened to a large number of other customers as well.
I don't understand why I'm supposed to be outraged here.

As a customer, I get the experience of a cashierless store. I don't really care how that's accomplished.

As an investor, I might care that I'm being sold snake oil, but I doubt that I chose to invest in Amazon solely over the Fresh stores.

As someone working in the industry, it might certainly affect my perception of what's possible or feasible, but I'm already used to the fact that most of what's being sold as "sophisticated AI" is snake oil.

It just feels to me like this article strikes a bizarre tone about it all, not to mention the fact that other comments in this thread have offered up equally plausible explanations.
Oh, sweet child of zero interest rates. You can't see how Netflix could go to 0?

Let me tell you about the 90s...
> if non-tech workers had enough bargaining power they would really waste their time with Slack vs Teams instead of, say, better wages ?

Those aren't mutually exclusive - you can fight both for better wages and for better tooling that makes you more productive and your work day less miserable.

> Most people (rightfully so) use their work computer just to work.

That's the issue - people should focus their limited time, brain power and "bullshit tolerance" on actual work stuff rather than wasting it on dysfunctional software. The tools should work and get out of your way as much as possible.

Ask yourself why most tradesmen have 5-figures worth of expensive professional-grade tools in their van? It's not that cheaper, consumer/DIY-grade tools can't do the job at all, but the professional-grade tools will do that job better/easier/quicker and will generally be more reliable and less annoying to use. Tradesmen understand that the more expensive tool is still worth it if it saves on time, frustration and malfunctions and that's why those tools sell despite costing 10x the price of their DIY-grade equivalent.

The equivalent of Teams in the above scenario would be if a beancounter joined a construction company, saw the expensive tooling on the balance sheet and having never ever used a power tool himself, decided to replace it with cheap consumer-grade versions because the Home Depot salesman told him it's just as good.
1. (D) TIMING.—The term “covered transaction” includes a current, past, or potential future transaction.

2. (I) A group, subgroup, or other association or organization whether or not organized for profit. [like an OSS project on github?]

3. (1) IN GENERAL.—It shall be unlawful for a person to violate, attempt to violate, conspire to violate, or cause a violation of any regulation, order, direction, mitigation measure, prohibition, or other authorization or directive issued under this Act, including any of the unlawful acts described in paragraph (2).

4. SEC. 5. Considerations. [the star of the show - read it]

Apple, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are definitely touching more than 1M personal records and/or providing "communication". They are all subject to this bill. All their "transactions" are now subject to approval of Secretary of Commerce.

For example:

"State-of-the-art end-to-end encryption (powered by the open source Signal Protocol) keeps your conversations secure. We can't read your messages or listen to your calls, and no one else can either. Privacy isn’t an optional mode — it’s just the way that Signal works. Every message, every call, every time."

Isn't Signal also subject to this bill? Or better, who isn't subject to this bill?

Will starting/contributing to an OSS project in any of the Sec. 5 areas require consulting an attorney?
Always been that way. Ask any Atari ST user about Amiga and vice versa.
A jpeg of the Mona Lisa is also publicly available, but even if I created a replica with identical brushwork, it wouldn't be worth much compared to the one in the Louvre. Would you also call original paintings a Ponzi?
“Why are we talking about X when we could be talking about Y” is some classic whataboutism. You really seem to be trying to push a pro China agenda by discounting the importance of this.

You’re stance on this is actually “I don’t believe that the CCP would try to harm the US population”. I can tell that is your stance because if it wasn’t then you are effectively saying “I believe the CCP may potentially feed the US population mental-illness-inducing content via targeted algorithms, but I don’t think it’s worth caring about and we should be mad that lawmakers are even trying to do anything about it.”

I mean, it’s not like we’re talking about something meaningless here. If you believe that there is a chance of the CCP doing something nefarious with their Golden Shares power, then that’s a pretty big deal.
I noticed basic is simple and easy to read if you don't try to add structure to your program. As soon as you start messing with functions, arrays, variable types, it all becomes a mess.
1. In our personal experience, we found Backlight to be a little bit heavy. We want to focus heavily on augmenting existing processes, rather than change how teams work. There definitely is a time and place for Backlight though, we think its an awesome product!

2. We're currently focused on the developer experience, but we believe that working with designers is part of the developer experience! We like to think of ourselves as the "translation" layer between Figma and code. A direct Figma integration is in our roadmap ;)
They both take orders from their respective governments, but the nature of those orders, the nature of the business, the relative power, the domain over which the information is valid, transparency, proportionality etc are all very different.

ByteDance isn't under the direct authority at any given moment of CCP, but, they will, at any time, receive arbitrary orders for any particular reason, and they will follow them. Notably 1/2 of the Western world uses this app.

Google isn't under the thumb of US Gov. but with a court order, the FBI can obtain specific bits of information. Notably, Google does not operate in China.

Now - the more secretive relationship with NSA/CIA/FBI aka national security has with Google is a different question, it's a bit guesswork, but just given the nature of the two regimes, and the fact that again Google has no material presence in China it's plain to see the difference.

The Congressional Hearing was a farce in the wind, but the underlying issues of both security and trade are really serious.

It would have been better to create comprehensive legislation a decade ago about data and corporate ownership so companies could make progress. Even if ByteDance owned 49% of a US company that was 'TikTok' and it was based anywhere but China, that would probably be fine.
> Goals for LLM development were set for the personified attributes, and not the actual functionally of the real thing.

Well, this is for honest reasons. The goal of a chatbox is to beat the Turing test. It has always been.

Those chatboxes didn't actually beat it, but it's clear that it's due to a technicality (they are easy to spot). They can do empty chats on the same level as a human.

(And so it turns up that the test wasn't as useful as it was believed to be at first.)
> Even if SBF’s friends and family were only able to offer up $2.5m in assets (i.e. 1% of a $250M bond, instead of the more common 10% threshold)

The “more common 10% ‘threshold’” isn’t actually a threshold for security pledged to the court, It’s the fee paid to a licensed bail agent (very often, legislated as the fixed or minimum fee for that service in state law) to stand as surety as an alternative to the defendant offering full value security.

But, again, that’s a common feature of state bail systems, not the federal system, which can be much more flexible.

> That said, with the revelation in today’s Forbes story, I wonder if knowing that Mr. Bankman had $10M worth of gift money from his son was known to the court at the time, or relevant to the bond agreement

If it wasn’t (or if the evidence that it was stolen hasn’t already been reviewed and considered by prosecutors), I would expect further action related to bail conditions and possibly freezing/seizure of that money in the near future.
Would love that! See you in the Slack!
Does the letter cite any specific danger of the current LLM backed by examples? I hope this is not another Gebru moment that a bunch of people cite moral high ground without substance.
1. AI as a service to be sold to highest bidder.

2. Weapons and armament deals to stay relevant in a decaying world order.
Apple ID.
Ah, the stodgy old "only ever discuss things with experts" advice.
There’s no macOS version I wonder if it’s possible to build one?
Unfortunately for everyone, over the past few years it's become more clear that Xi is not as smart as the leader of a gigantic autocracy really needs to be.

If he'd been patient about Hong Kong's transition and "one country two systems" he'd be most of the way to reeling in Taiwan by now, instead of prepping for war and cosying up to Putin.

Then there's the Covid strategy. Zero Covid made perfect sense before vaccines were available and allowed most of China to carry on as normal through 2020. Sticking with that policy all the way through into late 2022 with no sign of an exit strategy was pure stupidity though. Then there's the breathtaking petulance of dropping all the Covid restrictions suddenly with absolutely no mitigation, as collective punishment to the whole population in retaliation to widespread protests. Xi really does not like to look like an idiot, but everyone there must now surely have suspicions that he may be one.

Total control of the media and the Great Firewall have allowed the Party to manipulate public opinion pretty effectively, but I'm not entirely convinced support for the government could be maintained if Xi starts a war. Hopefully Xi feels the same way.
Generally

"Is this a mistake?"

Is largely sufficient and a smart person will fix it.

All the five examples are too direct and in case there was no mistake which happens most often than not with competent teams, will leave a sour aftertaste to everyone.
Firing people doesn't make you a jerk.

Your decision cost the company and likely also that person. You kept him on in a position he was either going to still get fired from, quit, or cost the company more than his paycheck.

All because you didn't want him to have a bad opinion of you. You wanted to seem like a good guy so you avoided doing the thing everyone needed done. You caused everyone way more problems for your selfish ego.

That's a jerk move. You weren't really nice.

The nice thing to do would have been to acknowledge the hard truth in front of you and cut him during the probationary period.
Any specific platform you have in mind?
Nevermind then! I thought given the large volume there could be a few.
Prompt engineer won't go away, it'll get more "engineer"-like. Knowing how to describe a point in a model's latent space for the generation you want is here to stay, but the black magic and art aspect of it will go away.

For example, in stable diffusion land, lots of people have intuition about the relationship between certain prompts and the output they produce. That intuition is embedding and training data specific, so it's not really transferrable (even to different fine tuned models for stable diffusion 1.5). However, I use clip interrogation to map the portions of the latent that my prompt is pointing to, evaluate the embedding text to find desirable/undesirable elements, then adjust the prompt or add negative prompts to navigate my generations towards what I want.
Every president is a rest stop on the road to civilization collapse.
No it’s not a silly problem.
Assigning a subjective probability to some world-ending scenario does not somehow make all other concerns invalid.
I'm surprised with this response. I myself have found it extremely useful and ChatGPT has saved me tons of time with programming and non-programming tasks.
The argument for disclosure prior to patch is stronger in the TAG case (active exploitation) than in the normal PZ case, not weaker.
I dunno, this sort of scenario really doesn’t worry me too much. There are thousands (maybe tens of thousands) of subject matter experts who could probably develop dangerous weapons like you describe, but none of them seem to just wake up in the morning and decide “today’s the day I’m going to bring the apocalypse”.

I don’t think that this really changes that.
I can answer a some those. Have family members who are teachers, friends who work with youth, etc and this whole thing comes up a lot.

I've used your numbering system to organize answers.

2. Less than previous generations.

There's simply far less places that will let kids just hang out.

Until a certain age its likely CPS will be called and police will be involved if your kids are out exploring, and after that age said kids hanging out is deemed antisocial and undesirable... So private security or the police hassle them.

3a-b: some the same, some different. Underage drinking/smoking/fucking is down, illicit drug use is down somewhat, but smoking's been replaced by vapes, and the drugs are different - often pharmaceuticals (real or counterfeit) such as xanax, etc.

Actual antisocial behavior is way down, but perceived antisocial behavior is up. Behaviours that previously were deemed largely benign (kids hanging out) are deemed unwanted. As per answer 2.

4a-d: the kids tend to be significantly more "tolerant" than previous generations. Make of that what you will.

5a-c: yes? They are still curious as all fuck, but work ethic is a funny animal.

Most traditional avenues for teenagers to "work" (outside of academics) are being closed off due to labour rules, liability, etc.

So a lot of younger people try make money online, have some kind of hustle. This ranges across the board of legality, morality, etc. Be it flipping clothes on Depop, dubious schemes involving dropshipping or selling knockoff designer gear online, selling artwork/crafts, trying to become an influencer/streamer/whatever... There's massive pressure to try monetize any hobby.

Resilience? Its teenagers. Some are hard as nails, some are drips.
Possibly. But, many countries are formally US allies, with deep security integration. So an American owned application is not as threatening as a Chinese owned application.

America also generally allows businesses and media from foreign companies to take part, whereas China has no such reciprocity.

Security arrangements are real things that can't be merely handwaved away as something that "should" not exist in one's ideal world.
Interesting and certainly unique, it's nice that they focus so much on the design process. And isn't that the point of this sort of creative project, to craft something unique that you yourself consider beautiful?

Personally, I'd like to make myself a Sandbender computer in the style of William Gibson's Idoru, but it would probably turn out much uglier than the sleek bulbous device which I imagine from the description:

>Chia looked down at her sandbenders. Turned off the red switch. "Coral," she said. "These are turquoise. The ones that look like ivory are the inside of a kind of nut. Renewable."

>"The rest is silver?"

>"Aluminum," Chia said. "They melt old cans they dig up on the beach, cast it in sand molds. These panels are micarta. That's linen with this resin in it."

Shame that PCBs are so rigid and rectangular, but you could probably fit a small SBC into a blob-like shell.
Interesting. How did you manage extract those?