skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can someone explain to me what is so dangerous here? Do people actually think we’re headed towards James Cameron’s terminator and soon ChatGPT will become self aware and destroy us? I am far more afraid of tools to edit viruses becoming cheap and widely available, then one nutjob in his garage can engineer and release smallpox v2.0 and wipe out 90% of the worldwide population before we even know what hit us. Or you know, the nonstop background threat of global nuclear war. Compared to that I don’t see what is so alarming about an advanced chat bot.
boat stands for 'bust out another thousand'
Some tracking has value. Last year I did some testing. Its results were recorded for posterity. A year later, for god only knows what reason, production environment differed slightly from testing environment a tiny little bit. Records allowed for a relatively quick follow up with vendor and resolution.

But it goes back.. how do you know something will be important?
Am I understanding correctly that this only works in a flow such that the Org maintaining the project can create and pay bounties?

For example, NextCloud Tasks has an issue that is years old with hundreds of people asking about it and offering bounties but nobody has made it happen. Can this product help with crowdsourcing bounties or would NC have to be paying the bounty?
https://github.com/nextcloud/tasks/issues/34
My opinion is that the "self-appointed betters" scenario is the lesser of two evils - it is still evil but there is no going back on that one now.

As to "white hat researchers who have their own AI bot swarm", the assumption here is that the swarm can be controlled like some sort of pet.
Since even at this early stage no one has a clue how GPT (say) actually manages to be as clever as it is, the assumption is not warranted when looking into the future.
I watched the video.

I'll preface this by saying I am neither judge nor prosecutor, and we are not at trial.

Where we are is in a position of considering, before it is too late, the honesty and motives of a man who has taken a charity private because they "needed money".

Needed money for what, exactly? Well, the mission of OpenAI, according to https://openai.com/about their mission is Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

So how does this newfound capital help that mission? By hiding the details of GPT4, so that no one outside of OpenAI can benefit. I don't even know how many parameters the damn thing has or what kind of growth trajectory we are on, and neither does anyone outside of OpenAI.

Here's a man who stands to control a large part of what resembles AGI, financially benefit to an almost indescribable degree, and control, arguably, a large part of the direction of society (given the number of jobs this will cost), especially if the regulators limit access by Mere Mortals. They won't even tell us the basics of their new models (and newfound powers). So much for "Open" and "benefiting all of humanity".

If someone stands to gain this kind of money and power, and does things that on their face seem dishonest and inimical to society at large, and to the goals of the very charity he privatized, should he be immune to questioning and suspicion?

I am suspicious. I think his actions merit suspicion. I think you all should be suspicious too, based on the events so far.
Alright, listen up, fellow programmers! You may have heard about ChatGPT, the AI model that's been making waves in the tech world. And yeah, it's true that this thing has some serious skills when it comes to writing code, even when it comes to writing malware.

But let me ask you this - what good is all that fancy code if it's just gonna leave you vulnerable to hackers and cyberattacks? That's where security tools come in, my friends.

Think about it - if you're using ChatGPT to write your own software, wouldn't you want to make sure it's protected from all the nasty stuff out there on the internet? And even if you're not a developer yourself, you still need to protect your personal devices and accounts from cyber threats.

That's why creating top-notch security tools is essential for any programmer who wants to stay ahead of the game. You need tools that can detect and neutralize malware, secure your network and server, and help you manage your data.

Sure, ChatGPT might be able to write some pretty slick code, but it can't protect you from cybercrime all on its own. So why take the risk? Invest in some solid security tools and rest easy knowing that you're doing everything you can to keep you and internet safe.
Apple Is Just Two Months Away from Debuting Its First Reality Headset
You have objectively more than 95% of the population. You are rich.
I can see why Prusa is annoyed that people clone his designs and then sell them for cheaper. The end result is not truly the value that his company provides; it's all the careful tweaking of the firmware to make it work perfectly every time that probably accounts for 80% of their engineering cost, and it hurts when someone takes that from you. (Compare the out of the box experience between an i3 and an Ender 3, for example. Absolutely nothing stopping Creality from making it perfect like Prusa, but I bet most Ender 3 users don't get a decent print until they self-tweak settings that should be correct from the factory.)

Having said that, I think what hurts Prusa the most is their inability to keep up with demand from the US. The cheap clones win because they're still cheaper after Amazon same-day delivery. With Prusa, ordering a 3D printer is a "if you're really lucky, you might have one in a couple months" situation. This is costing them way more revenue than people cloning their motherboards. If they could sell to the US market efficiently, they would be making so much money they probably wouldn't even realize a couple of Aliexpress stores were selling outright clones.

(I indeed started my 3D printing adventure with a cheap printer that shipped to me overnight. And regretted every moment with that god awful piece of shit. At that point, I knew it was time to get something good, and it was well worth the 3 or 4 months I waited for an i3. But, most people give up much sooner than me.

I'm also going to insert a random story here; I ended up rebuilding that printer with my own design for most of the parts, saving only the enclosure and motion system. After probably 60 hours spent on that project, it still prints terribly because the design of the bed is intrinsically flawed. The original manufacturer works around that by having you manually level the bed at 20 mesh points, and then printing a 30 gram raft over the course of an hour to give your actual print a level bed. It is just terrible, and that's why I like Prusa. It doesn't do that.)

To me, Prusa has 3 selling points; they test their stuff before shipping it, the printers manufacture themselves (which gives you a feeling that they are accurate and reliable over time), and the entire stack is open source. If they remove one of those value props, I don't know if they're Prusa Research anymore. They're just one more anonymous manufacturer in a race to the bottom.
The bigger the company, the less effective it is.
> I have no wish to argue about what discrimination means

Yet that is exactly what you are doing, and the definition you argue for is almost entirely useless. Your claim is that any activity that can or does produce even statistic differences in outcomes for different genders is discrimination.

This is not true.

Discrimination is when you discriminate, and do so based on gender.

I am not going to rebut what you wrote in detail, it's just wrong.

> perfectly rational explanations for why women tend to avoid certain employment situations

Exactly. And they have nothing to do with "discrimination", but with different people having different preferences, and different societal pressures. For men, having a good job, climbing the top of whatever hierarchy is available is essential if they want to partner up, for example, because that is what women require of their partners.

So men, statistically, do the dangerous and dirty jobs that women would never put up with. And thus account for >90% of workplace casualties. And die earlier in general. And make more money, statistically. And they put up with stupid things like having to go out drinking for work after working hours, after also working more hours in general, more overtime and more inconvenient shifts.

And of course having to go out on drinking contests after work is a, how did I put it, "shitty business practice" that needs to be weeded out. But not because it is discriminatory, which it is not, but because it is a shitty business practice.

And no, I am also not going to rebut crazy conspiracy theories about men banding together to come up with ultra clever and devious business practices that are designed to shut out women while appearing to be gender neutral.

And yes, I do try my best to fight the Dominant Narrative™ on this topic, because it is not just comically wrong, but also divisive and harmful. It does nothing but breed resentment and since its analysis is so wrong ensures that things cannot get better.

But things are improving, the number of people who blindly buy into the narrative seems to be declining. Yay!

Good chat.
> Regrettable that academia didnt learn from industry how to deploy, only how to spin.

Hey, this was from phys.org and spin matters a lot to certain physicists!

More seriously: with funding being less prevalent and the cultural shift to the dominance of commerce-worshipping Gradgrinds, university press offices and even individual professors are under a lot of pressure to point out the practicality (which today means “marketability”) of everything, even an abstract mathematical proof!

I can’t count how many academic presentations I’ve heard that ended with 15-20 minutes with the author trying to justify the work. They are professors, not business people, and they almost always sound like they are struggling to jump through that hoop. The time would have better been spent talking further about the actual subject matter!
My company has already lost good people because of this. They want to work somewhere with people, and that wasn't us.
This isn't really true. IBM/Motorola need to own the failure of POWER and PowerPC and MIPS straight up died on the performance side. Sun continued with Ultrasparc.

It wasn't that IA64 killed them, it's that they were getting shaky and IA64 appealed _because_ of that. Plus the lack of a 64bit x86.
If a doctor told you to stop smoking and lower your blood pressure, would you berate him for pushing to make your life miserable?

Our collective addiction to the conveniences of modern life is leading to the proliferation of carcinogenic materials and destroying the environment. Generations upon generations lived without these spoils uphill both ways without complaint. If the slightest suggestion of lifting some weight and going for a walk is enough to induce abject misery, it might be a good time to re-evaluate the way we do things.
I think it’s important to note that you are assuming a gradual increase in activity over time as well as adequate food and rest between sessions. In the limit case things like rhabdomyolysis definitely exist and in the less-extreme case, you can have problems with connective tissue injuries from increasing the load or volume of exercise too fast. Over the long term, you can also have health problems and injuries caused by doing too much exercise relative to how much food and rest you are getting. All of these are real possibilities if someone started an intense exercise program after 20 years of completely sedentary life as an adult.

That said, we are discussing this in the context of walking a bit more, which should be very well-tolerated for pretty much everyone as long as they don’t have other significant health problems and work up gradually. For example, if you take 1000 steps a day, space out the increase by each week increasing your daily steps by 500-1000 steps a day until you reach 10000 steps a day over the course of a few months (temporarily pause or reverse the increases if you see anything other than passing muscular discomfort).

This also explains how ultramarathon (or other “extreme” physical activities) can be tolerated without much issue—bodies are very good at adapting to the loads that are placed on them as long as that increase is gradual and they have enough food and rest to rebuild after particularly intense bouts of activity.

A further corollary is that over the long term, being sedentary is not well-tolerated at all, so maintaining a certain baseline level of physical activity is definitely a better idea and as long as your body isn’t giving you any feedback to the contrary, you shouldn’t avoid high loads or intense activity just out of abstract fear of injury.
The SPR was created to fill a roll after the 1970s that no longer exists. The USA was energy independent in 2021 with projections expecting more of the same in 2022 and 2023. In addition our proven reserves are at 5 years of current use all of which to say the SPR is not a strategic military asset in the way it was when it was created or it's intended purpose.
Windows sandbox combined with winget used in setup script has a lot of usecases
"Legal", "enforceable", and "binding" are all more or less synonyms in this context. Yes, it's true that a "legal" contract is a thing, but it's really just a synonym for "enforceable", which is really just a synonym for "binding". None of these things mean the same thing as "legal" in the sense that it is, say, "not legal" to rob a bank. There is nothing illegal under contract law in signing a contract to rob a bank. Such a contract is not binding/enforceable/legal but there would be no legal repercussions under contract law if you signed such a contract. If you robbed the bank you'd be charged with bank robbery, and if you didn't rob the bank you could be charged with conspiracy. But under no circumstances could you be charged with a contract violation (which is always a civil matter anyway, not a criminal one).

> A binding contract is legal contract that has been signed by all parties involved.

That is just flat-out false. Verbal contracts can be (legally) binding and hence enforceable. It's not common because of the practical difficulties of ascertaining what the terms of a verbal contract actually are or were, but it's not unheard of.
That might not help that much. The US is already one of the most popular destination for immigration. Immigrants either assimilate into the wider culture or stay restricted to their enclaves, either social or location-based ones. I can't recall any event in history where immigrants have been able to significantly change the culture of the destination country unless they began to assert political dominance as well.
Why pick the language of one of the weakest EU members?
Way ahead of you (German) https://app.electricitymaps.com/map
I still think async/await is a bit of a fad outside web services, and one I can't ignore if I want to use some popular crates.
So... it's not a good thing now?
When I interview for a job I always ask my prospective manager about the is. “What’s your process for getting status updates during a crisis”. This question is graded pass/fail.
Unfortunately smart is just a name, 90% of smart working contracts are standard wfh with fixed hours
Everyone playing chess knows this!
> How can they care so little about their country? Especially for a person they hate?

Love of money is the only way I can rationalize it. Which I don't even comprehend with somebody like Murdoch -- he's one of the wealthiest and most influential people in the world; how could he stoop to being led by the nose by a loser like trump? But the US really isn't "his" country in any meaningful sense. He's a citizen because he needed to be to satisfy non-foreign ownership requirements; he can buy his way anywhere.
Consistent AI Character Generation with Different Poses in Stable Diffusion
You gained seniority. I have employees who don’t take a support case with a customer waiting with the straightest path, instead they take the opportunity to refactor code, so I check on them all the time; Others who refactor the code after delivering the bugfix, and those I leave them alone.
Please don't make things up.
The Biden administration is draining the US of a military asset for political points.
By the way when did Prusa become known for their printers? I was around when Ultimaker 2 was considered the best in a "Just Works" kind of way and Lulzbot was the choice for the more tinkerer/hacker-aligned user.

I stepped away from FDM printers and onto Formlabs' STL printers around when U2 ruled (not exactly a move to greener pastures, they're closed-source all the way), seems like a lot has changed since I left as no-one is even mentioning Ultimaker or Lulzbot. I'm just kinda disappointed and bummed to see Ender of Creality and other Chinese printers enjoying increasing prominence considering their flagrant and persistent GPL violations.
FF has always had a bit more laggy UI than other browsers.
I heard that the reason behind the popular 10k step number was the first step counter on the market which was limited to 9999 steps, and people saw that as a challenge to reach.

Meanwhile this is more like the 5th study I've heard of which talks about some measure of exercise at least 1-2 times a week, like 20+ minutes of cycling.
I've seen this distinction and it always boils down to two factors: is the manager technical and what's the caliber of the engineers.

Technical managers typically have a pretty good idea of what the rough requirements for a given situation will be. They might not be familiar with the exact details but should have some clue, so they just want to make sure everyone has a plan and it's sound. Non-technical managers don't understand what's going on so need to micro-manage because they perceive everything as high risk and complicated.

Caliber of engineers is pretty self-explanatory, but maybe that's selection bias; a 10x engineer won't stay long where he's micro-managed.
Have you ever read a book, watched a movie, a TV show, read an opinion article? Why should you compel, indoctrinate or ostracize somebody when all is needed are positive messages about positive things in our society. That is what culture is for and about.
My original post was an objection to the implied intent on the part of compiler writers. An electrical socket does not have intent, it's just a hazard that also happens to provide enormous benefits to our lifestyles.

I think it's a perfect analogy to undefined behaviour in C: enormous benefits but also a hazard to be wary of. A lot of people don't understand the benefits, they just see the hazard. Throughout this discussion I've been trying to clarify that, with perhaps limited success.
OPEC+ members are hoping that all members keep their word and produce less and hoping to get paid more for their product. Fixed that for you.
> Managerialist culture is founded on the notion that workers must be supervised and controlled.

That's a shallow view of the situation. What you're describing is "Taylorist" management, or "Theory X" management.

Modern management theory also discusses "Theory Y" management, in which providing context and trust is more important than supervision and control.

Many managers are unaware of this concept, even though it's Management 101. If that's the case in your company, it's not a problem with "managerialist culture"... it's a problem with your company's culture.
People probably don't mix up BLM (which was a movement protesting police brutality against black Americans) with some vague claims for racism ("Europe is much more racist than America").
Those costs are paid either way though, aren't they? At least, it seems that close to 100% of houses with roof-top solar are still grid connected, so I don't really see how they'd achieve any savings related to transmission and distribution.
There's a bit of a contradiction in your comment. You say Italians aren't like that, but Italians voted the "stupid government" into power and the government is doing these things to appeal to those Italians.
Don’t worry, they’re doing both.
This is what it looks like when governments become too strong. Everyone has to go along with what they are doing. Saudi Arabia is a dictatorship and everyone has to march to the leaders tune.

The UK and the US are seeing our governments become ever larger and stronger. Every time we let these governments pass a law to "protect" the children or the poor or whoever, our freedoms shrink and the time when we all must say and do what we are told draws nearer.
I suppose that even covers a more intricate case: Somebody submits a PR, lots of discussions back and forth, lots of asks from the project, finally the submitter gives up since they don't want to keep spending time on things that start diverging from the original ask. After that, the code is there, the project eventually takes the code and integrates it themselves after little work. Or a lot of extra work.

What I'm trying to say is: The line could be blurry. The PR code quality could be crap and the project really needs to invest a lot of time to make this fit for merge, in which case they rightfully refuse the bounty. But it could be that the code quality is great and they are just trying to misuse this to make people do more than they originally wanted. And the difference between those scenarios could be hard to see for somebody external. Or even for the parties involved: The project could legitimately think that the code is not of sufficient quality while the submitter could legitimately think that they satisfied the request.

Who is the arbitter? Will people tend to accept the PR anyway (silently clean up and spend time afterwords), not wanting to risk their reputation? Or will submitters tend to accept major changes, possibly beyond the original ask, not wanting to risk their reputation? Seems a bit to me like a problem also faced by Airbnb and similar services.
So did I, so I wrapped my car orange:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/ru4EBj1SibVu1sqj6
> If "the Chinese" want to clone your product, then you are often out of luck anyway. Although that is not entirely true anymore, my previous company fought in China against clones and IP theft a couple times and won. But you need to have a local presence, a local subsidary that can hire lawyers etc.. If you are just outsourcing production to third parties then it gets problematic.

This is the take I think people are missing. If you are in a spot where "the Chinese" or any other company can cut you out, then I'm in the box that you are producing anything unique. Which was/is not true for Prusa, since even though there are clones that can be had by 1/4th of the price; people sure trust the name of Prusa to order directly from them. This is why they are the most sold printer of all time, their name is a mark of quality.

I think the main problem that now started to get them all fired up is the rise of other companies who can also provide that experience (buying something out of the shelf and start printing with it without turning this into a fully fledged hobby to learn the mechanics). Bambu Lab not only did innovate on it but also started to provide that convience for the same price, obviously they had to go cheaper in order to start obtaining market share but with true innovation they can still sell advanced printers that are maybe 1.5X in price but 2-3X worth in the capabilities compared to the Prusa (while also providing cheaper options). Now the game is who is going to dominate which sector (low end consumers [price] / high end prosumers [innovation]). If I were Prusa I'd try to aim high but not sure how well equipped are they to catch up to other printers.
Norway, the green country that exploits and pollutes poor countries.

That's the way to do it!
Have a look at bookstack