skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Civil forfeiture law says the money can be seized on mere suspicion of being involved in a crime.
Where did you find the general internet forums full of older people and women…?
I suspect that in the era of GPT, unit tests are going to be more important as GPT can generate plausible-looking code.

In fact, I could see a future where humans only write tests and GPT writes the bulk of the code. For the tests that don’t pass, the human fixes the code.
I think your pattern looks very effective. I never considered that the side effect of #1 is to create a psychologically safe environment.

Not to take anything away from your post, but I have noticed that a few people lean very heavily on #1 to get people to do a lot of #2 for them. In return, they are "always busy" and cannot help. I struggle the most with these people. I am sucker for #1, as I am human after all.
Irrational/grandiose fears have been plaguing the discussion on this subject for years.

I think this should be taken seriously, and not like some "smart" teens too high on pot.

This problem with the destructive potential of any new powerful tech (and we have some indications that this LLM thing could be pushed to be _really_ something) is the unforeseen part, the second and third orders effects.

Being a bit careful, taking it slow, maybe, why not?

From a business/economic/technological perspective it also seems to be currently moving too fast to build anything on the current state of the art, as that could be obsolete two weeks later.
Extraordinary claims, extraordinary evidence.

I’m not familiar with Google here, but Apple is quite loquacious in its descriptions of how it approaches computational photography, with extensive use of bracketing and sensor fusion – and nothing at all about generative embellishments.

Not even saying it’s impossible, but I would be absolutely shocked if Apple were actually using anything outside a lot of bracketed exposures and optically-modeled diffs between multiple sensors. More than anything, it would be distinctly off-brand.
The best fonts are made of lead, tin, and antimony.
That’s perfectly valid! No one is obligated to respond or engage with any specific argument. But my point was that if you do choose to engage, saying “the world didn’t end before so it will be fine now” is invalid.
I think good advice is something along the lines of: "Find a good book discussion group" (for me this is /r/Fantasy). "Then, if you aren't liking a book somewhat significantly into it, explain to people there why you don't like it and should you keep reading it."

This method is pretty effective in a good discussion group because if you have explained your reasons well, people will understand your reasons for dislike and know whether things change; the payoff is worth it; the author improves; etc.

One example is The Licanius Trilogy. A lot of people say, "I read book 1, I hate it, should I finish it" and depending on how much they hated book 1 and their reading speed people will give differing advice. For example if you can finish the trilogy in 5 days (this is about how fast I read it) I would say yes, the ending is fantastic but the books are pretty dreadful in terms of prose quality and character depth. However if this will take you 6 months, no, bail out now and spend your time better. Read a plot summary on Wikipedia.

Reading is very much a social activity and much better when treated as such imo.
Damnit that's what I get for typing quickly
An influential Chinese blogger disappeared from the internet
> WhatsApp doesn't even inform the user of changes to these numbers by default[1]

is this everything?
> what other animals?

As far as I'm aware, every land animal on Earth. (In hot weather. It's very different in the cold. Might also be different if it's very humid enough, so sweating doesn't work.)

> I used the dog example because it fits perfectly here: they don't sweat yet it's impossible to catch up to them if they are running away. Even if they overheat they don't just drop dead, they slow down to a human's walking pace.

For an hour or two, sure. Now try doing that for twelve solid hours, on a hot day in the open. The dog will collapse from heatstroke long before a fit, practiced human has to bow out.
We chunk it up per sentence so it has some context!
I like Taleb’s example of the turkey on the farm. Days 1-999 are great! Plenty of food, space to roam around, protected from predators. Why would they expect day 1000 to be any different?
That's the thing though, it is successful. To my exact needs at the moment. It's not necessarily reliable, or adaptable, or useful to a layperson, but it works.

Getting from "can't create something" to "having something functional and valuable" is a huge gap to leap over, and as AI is able to make those gaps smaller and smaller, things are going to get interesting.
We just need to vote in a new rule for a national dividend to be paid out to everyone. Problem solved
Absolutely agree. Italian cuisine is superb. They should protect it.
The wat video is one of my favorite videos to show newer programmers. It really convinces them not to use Javascript, and consider more serious, mature languages... like Rust.

(If this was a TED talk, this is where the audience would confusedly applaud)
I don’t get how the DEA is able to cause an ADHD medication shortage by limiting supply and yet at the same time pharma companies are allowed to just manufacture as much fentanyl and other opioids as much as they want.
In furniture, for example, the old middle ground (20th century) was hundreds of factories, churning out regional furniture that was shipped to cities that had multiple showrooms with reputations based on their curation. This wasn't as expensive as bespoke furniture, but much more than Ikea, or ChinaDirect.

In the US North Carolina, Illinois, New York, Michigan, Massachusetts, all had furniture industries. I don't know if that was better, but it was definitely different, much more diverse, less affordable, but higher quality. Clothes worked pretty similarly.

e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Furniture_Company

Within a brief time, the company employed 32 people and manufactured tables, chairs, and a bedroom set. The solid-oak bedroom set sold for nine dollars and included a bed, dresser, and washstand.

Shut down in 1993
The alignment people have a point.

We have no way to control these stupid things.
"We have to win every time, but [nature] only has to win once" /s
Oh, I see. It's about a cap in baseline ability rather than whether it's technically possible to give it the extension?
> ban products

specifically, hardware what sold to >=1MM consumers, or software product >=1MM AAU.
That’s pretty interesting. Snow crash is the only Stephenson book I liked. The others I disliked because of all the digressions and aimlessness.

So now I wonder if snow crash was really any different or if it was me and the mood I was in.
Right now it is full on scaffolding. Not the green stuff that is everywhere in the city. It covers the whole building, you can barely see the sides.
You Can't “Know” a Programming Language
Apparently it can.

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/03/chatgpt-gets-its...
The other event also was. Read through the thread and you'll find that multiple HN commenters talk about how they were affected! No one posted images on that occasion, though, and Samsung goofing is a lot more likely than Apple.
It would be interesting to plot the Asian percentage in the OP's area vs the time when OP became aware of this competition. Remember: import enough X and you will become X.
Yeah I have an RX-8, it is amazing and basically the perfect car IMO (though the visibility is not as good as I'd like, and of course the rotary engine has its uhh, shortcomings). Mazda would definitely be high on my list for a new vehicle. I had a 2008 Honda Fit as well which was quite excellent. It seems like I'd probably have to stick with like late 2000's if I wanted a new vehicle... >_>
If you study history you’ll notice that groups and their leaders are rising and falling, conquering and pillaging and then losing it all. The world is too dynamic for your reductive theory to fit in.

Elites compete with each other. They don’t sing kumbaya and cooperatively share the keys to power.
This is like thrashing on engineering design instead of implementing and shipping. This isn’t something we’re going to figure out through intellectual debate, the only way it will happen is if we make it, bad things happen, and we learn from it. As much as I wish it weren’t true there are too many degrees of freedom and flexibility that we won’t be able to anticipate. It will be messy but I think messy is the only way through at the moment.
More important question is who has the annotation budget.
> 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.

You realize this is not too different from what the SuperResolution networks are doing, right ?
The Google Pixel 6 Pro's (that I bought in Japan) selfie camera in portrait mode also changes the proportions of my face, which I cannot disable. Even with all enhancement features turned off. (Non-portrait mode is fine though)
Not a fan of how integrated video and photo becomes with processing. Taking all my photos in RAW now, just to circumvent all that.

And even that is soon getting changed, with RAW getting redefined more and more to pick up the data later and later in the image processing pipeline...
My (admittedly residential) symmetric gigabit internet costs... $700/year.
The number of potentially world-ending technologies is growing exponentially: Chemical, biological, nuclear, etc.

I don't think any of them individually are high-risk, but put together, I increasingly believe we need to fundamentally change how we govern humanity to mitigate existential risks.

That risk keeps growing as you extend timeline.

I don't know whether we can or should halt AI advancement, but I do believe it's not something which should be market-driven. If we set up free markets, market forces become indomitable. You can't stop them.
Being blunt isn’t the same as being an asshole imo. Did your manager give any actionable feedback on what you should say instead or what exactly you said that was inappropriate? If not, then your manager is enabling a bad or undertrained employee and I would expect this to happen again.
Didn't work where I worked/lived/experienced.

There is no incompetent nice. They are usually "nice" but they end up wasting significant time as they try to "show off their work".

There is also no competent jerk. There is bad management. Not everyone wants to train juniors or deal with them on a daily basis. There is also a set of people who wouldn't mind telling snarky comments to each other; and another set of people sensitive to any gesture you make. Put every set separate from the other.

tl;dr; There is only competent nice and incompetent jerk. Otherwise, it's a management failure.
JSONAPI defines a similar structured format allowing an array of errors:

https://jsonapi.org/format/#errors
This isn't really true though... Companies that operate in China need to be run by a chinese national. So the government forces companies to create a chinese shell even if they don't have any chinese executives they like. This is how the ARM craziness happened where a rouge executive took over the company for year.
Genocide is a part of that. People capable of leading a country (top politicians, lawyers, academics, businessmen, military leaders, etc) must be murdered so that there is no-one to lead the opposition to Russian rule. After WW2, former leadership of countries occupied by the Soviet Union was methodically exterminated the same way. After people capable of leading a nation are murdered and prohibitions of cultural practices are placed on the remaining, they begin to lose their group identity (language, religion, etc) until they cease to exist as an independent entity.

Many Native American tribes disappeared this way, for example. They weren't murdered to the last person. Instead, they were put into conditions that lead to their irreversible decline.
I kept reading expecting there to be some sort of metaphor, a literal thing in your story that they were both working on together. Like show me what old-dude Calvin-ball actually looks like.
Yes, truly amazing! I think we found a real friend in that guy!
> It's quite simple - the US and China don't get along.

It's not that simple. The commitee can change the definition of "foreign adversary" under SEC. 2. (8) (B) at their will.
They are not inconsistent, they are talking about two occurrences that are distinct but related. And yes, if chatgpt makes your NPC dialogue live via the API then every play will incur costs.
This is just reheated cold war/GWOT rhetoric lol. Might as well just say "either you're with us or with the terrorists", or accuse him of being a communist (which, for Rand Paul I mean would certainly be a take). I mean sure the outline of the law is designed to evoke emotions (who would disagree with it except for traitors, right?!). But this is not far from saying that disagreeing with the PATRIOT act means you are unpatriotic. Just come on, lol.
Except that he didn't visit North Korea to help the 25 million people, he went there to help the elites to launder money and bypass sanctions so they can build nukes! And he then literally plead guilty to those exact crimes to the US government and went to prison because of it. How much more clear cut immoral and illegal action can it be?!
The doomsayers look silly because they are extrapolating from 0 evidence.

Humanity is not going to end because of an online bot that can summarise and string words into sentences. It’s basically a smarter SIRI/Alexa. I mean the internet is not a ‘real’ place where humans live.
Yeah, it doesn't really look like the kind of thing I'd design for 12-year-olds to use?

Lua would probably work just as well and been a better choice...
I don't think the bill is really about privacy.
Tell HN: We need an HN EDU – an archive of ideas
HN needs a 10,20+ year plan.

A lot of the computational visionaries (not the media types, sorry, are going to die off...

Where is the repo of knowledge of so many that laid the groundwork for what we see?

If it exists, I am ignorant.

If not - I propose something beyond the history museum.

We need something stronger than Stanford, MIT, etc.

We dont only need a 'seed vault' for organic matter. We need a 'code vault' for DIGITAL MATTER.

How Do?, What say you?

What do you think should be, or not to be, that is the question ; how to protect? (with the ability to rebuild)
This is a completely different problem than image generation and we do not know how to do it well. Don't just assume AI can do whatever you just imagined they can.

Besides, humans have the power of boredom and so it's not possible to create "perfect" images that would hold their attention forever.
Japan is in some sense at the leading edge of male isolation and loneliness and depression.
I really don't think we can say that research will apply to future AI, given that it was about humans. If intelligent AI exists in the future, it will probably not think exactly like humans. I think you're being overly dismissive.
It's delivered through the app store/play these days and the site is plastered with "get started" links that take you to the signup form not the downloads landing.

Hopefully the waitlist will be gone soon though, the migration to the newer servers seems nearly complete.
>RISC-V is almost nonexistent

Over 10 billion shipped so far. Chances are you're using a few without realising it. Got an Android phone made since 2019? Qualcomm has shipped 650 million Snapdragon SoCs with RISC-V in them. Got a WD hard drive? Got an NVidia GPU made in the last five years or so?

> where can i buy one at a reasonable price?

What are you after, exactly?

50 chips for $5?

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/1005005036714708.html

A quad core 1.5 GHz Linux SBC at near Raspberry Pi price?

https://www.amazon.com/youyeetoo-StarFive-VisionFive2-Comput...

Those are the extremes of the mainstream range you can buy right now. Considerably higher performance is rolling out all year, including many-core (e.g. 64) OoO server chips.
Many, many, parts of a car will break down well before 1450 C, and you don't know exactly when.
I wish we'd vomit more. It's a fantastic reflex and, compared to lower GI food poisoning, very preferable.
Actual #2. Bytedance's other App NeiHan Duanzi (com.ss.iphone.essay.Joke) was banned by CCP with little explaination
Their business model has changed significantly since UT glory days — for better, for worse.
They forgot to include Conan Reis who has been at epic working on that stuff for a long time. He authored a game-specific scripting language called Skookum Script. I have used it a small amount on a couple projects. It's an interesting language but I didn't get deep enough to really have a strong opinion.

Interesting to see some of the Skookum script async specific features in Verse such as the race keyword.
Tyler Cowen’s Existential risk, AI, and the inevitable turn in human history
I use tiktok and am on the fence on if it should be banned, leaning yes. Many other users agree.
Yeah, mea culpa for falling into the trap of ambiguity there. Agree it’s too prevalent and should’ve done better to distance myself from that toxicity.
Most of the chemicals comes from China and is manufactured in Mexico then comes over the southern border into the US.

https://trone.house.gov/2023/01/08/chinas-role-in-illicit-fe...
I love standards so this is great. Someone smarter than me please explain the differences between this and the Signal Protocol.
Totally agree but "have control of power that we are not able to responsibly manage", is becoming increasingly untenable.

"we are managed by power we can not control" sounds like a step up from here, since we corrupt the things we can control.
There is a major difference—I am not trying to justify hypocrisy. I am not going around creating public policy and commanding and preaching to others not to eat steak while eating it myself. If anything, I encourage people to eat steak.

If that still makes me an asshole…so be it. “Asshole” is always arbitrary, hypocrisy is always evident.
Oh that's been done many times, including by Googlers. For example: https://github.com/asjoyner/shade
Notice how Barnett has zero empathy when he thought it was just an Austin thing, then did an about face after the subsequent deaths in Kyle.

However I still don’t understand the point of lacing drugs with fentanyl. As a drug dealer you make more money with living clients, right?
In Austria, new homes often have the outer look of older, traditional houses, but can be incredibly energy efficient (e.g. 40cm walls with really good interior insulation), high efficient heat pumps, hot-water heating, etc.
Another is denial of Nyquist–Shannon

Yeah. I'm in the camp that understands it. Well, maybe I don't totally understand it, but I understand its implications and was certainly unable to differentiate between "high-res" audio and redbook audio even in pathological cases. For consumer use, anything over CD quality (44.1khz / 16bit) is a waste.

Over a long enough distance (~30 m), it's better to use
ADC <-HDMI-> DAC usually than send line-level signals
due to losses involved unless one wishes to spend zillions
on the most perfectly engineered and widely-incompatible
shielded coaxial cable imaginable.

Or, for a simpler and more affordable option, just use balanced wiring. It is effectively interference proof. =)

https://www.aviom.com/blog/balanced-vs-unbalanced/

Further is the belief that lossless codecs cannot
be replaced compressed lossless or sufficient parameters
of some lossy formats.

There are some details, particularly percussion, that are just not well represented by lossy formats. It's like trying to represent sharp text at small point sizes with a JPEG.

Don't get me wrong. High bitrate lossy codecs are almost always good enough for nearly everything. It's what I listen to most of the time.

I get the ceremony of vinyl, but it's not going to
improve over perfect digital reproduction.

Agree, although I actually don't see much of that -- people really perpetuating the myth that vinyl is technically superior to lossless digital -- these days.

The one kink here is that sometimes vinyl releases are mastered better than their digital counterparts; many releases these days have that "brick wall" loudness wars mastering applied that smashes out all of the dynamic range. So sometimes there are vinyl releases that actually do sound better (though it has nothing to do with the format itself)
I primarily work in Unity, but I'm not sure if that answers your question?
I left because of "incompetent nice" people as I was tired of the never-ending torrent of incompetent nonsense I had to deal with and I felt the end-product just wasn't very good or something I was proud of.

"Jerk" is really too rough of a classifier; someone who communicates a bit like a jerk but is fundamentally well-meaning is someone I can work with; if you have a daily working relationship you can learn to just read over the snark or whatever.

Someone who insists on their view being forced through and will bully, insult, or use other tactics to do so is something I have a lot more problems with, as are the "this is the one true correct way and if you don't see my brilliance then you are most likely mentally retarded and should visit a hospital for an examination" type of people.
Google has almost no business sense, or marketing acumen. They've only ever done one thing well, from a business perspective - create a world class search algo, put it behind a minimalistic web page, and pay for it with ads. And they didn't even come up with that business model: they just did what the competition did, but made the idealistic-nerd version of it.

Everything since then has been a combination of algorithm and compsci research (which they are world-class in; credit where credit's due), vague ideas about things people might like, and copies (or buyouts) of their competition. They remind me of my engineering friends who tried to come up with business plans in college...good at building things, but clueless about figuring out what people actually need, what they should therefore actually build, and how to make it user-friendly. You know, all the stuff that you need if you want to run a business. (As I've said before on hn, their initial competition against youtube is a great example of this)

It's a surprise that a technology came along which upended them so abruptly, but it's been clear for a long time that they were only alive because their search engine couldn't be beat, and they didn't have a clue how to replicate that success.
Have you ever set foot in a farm, a clothing manufactory, or in a construction site? Maybe mediocre programmers and program managers will be obsolete but none of those three jobs are getting more automated than they already are.
Anaheim's annual budget is nearly half a billion per year. I find it difficult to believe that they'd be "struggling" with a decision to pay a measly $1,000/month.

https://www.anaheim.net/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/876

(PDF link)
A large majority of Democrat voters fell for these baseless and dangerous election-denial conspiracy theories. Why do you ask?

https://twitter.com/peterjhasson/status/1064259048902668289