skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A Musical War of the Worlds
The third way is to build AI technology that empowers the individual against state and corporate power alike. Democracy got us here. It cannot get us out.
I'm feeling old right now, this and also XMMS. Good old days, so much memories...
1. If its beneficial to society you should be able to convince someone for grants

2. Ideas are like assholes - everyone has one. “Smart people” might be able to create something. But that means nothing if you can’t convince people
I'd settle for three examples with sources.
This is self-contradictory. If the oceans boiled away it would be because of rising temperatures that caused evaporation, but the temperature would rise everywhere (even 30 kms down), meaning that the crust would also be inhospitable to life due to drying out.
Had a friend who ran a restaurant in Palo Alto. He had been trained in a three Michelin star restaurant in Burgundy. When they opened they had rabbit, squab, and other great dishes, but hardly anyone would order them. Steak and salmon were the most commonly ordered. It wasn’t worth buying what is considered more “exotic” by the clientele — they just couldn’t sell enough.

But when they threw a party at home…!
Ten dollars for a lawn?
Is this why they expect this fish is near the depth limit? Does this mechanism stop working at higher pressures?
That jingle will forever be seared into my brain. Well played, marketing.
That's uncharitable to Bitcoin. Bitcoin was offering a way to mostly anonymously send cash in a verifiable manner, independent of payment processors and govs. That's something useful. Now, it wasn't good because of its inefficiency, it's conflicts with govs, it's tilt towards early buyin, etc.

Getting angry to the point of clouding analysis and judgement is no way to rush into these things.
> ...but it’s also important to demonstrate that ChatGPT is both useful and senile, and so you need to validate its responses with secondary sources.

> So this concern might be rephrased as (something like) "Kids will need to learn how to use GPT to validate secondary sources."

That's not a rephrase, it's an inversion. It's like saying kids will need to learn to validate medical advice from their doctor with information from mercola.com and other random alternative-health blogs.
I think it's irresponsible and unnecessary to suggest that the USD/BTC conversion is anything but highly variable. This market is highly fickle, prone to hype, fud, and fomo. There is also still a large international regulatory risk associated with BTC when considered as an asset.

I doubly find discussions viewing BTC primarily as an asset class to miss the point of BTC. Maybe the point of BTC has changed in the last 10 years, and I'm behind the curve on this one.
Are you an AI who can’t understand metaphors?
I've found a 2014 article by the BBC that explains why fish are not expected to survive beyond about 8,000-8,500m:

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-26423203
I don’t want to be antagonistic, but I have heard of many exchanges as I perused these forums through the years. FTX, Mt. Gox, Binance. So what probably should have said was, “It’s the only exchange I know that is still operating that I as a PNC bank customer can use, that I know of.”
so an important "eureka" observation about CRDTs is that the op-based model is theoretical, useful for proofs insofar as any op-based CRDT can be translated to a state-based CRDT, but not something that can actually exist in practice

all practical CRDTs are state-based CRDTs

that's because it's not possible to assert a causal order for arbitrary operations on arbitrary data structures (in useful contexts)

CRDTs don't _ensure_ ops are commutative (and associative, and idempotent) but rather they _require_ that ops are commutative (and associative, and idempotent)

and it's definitely not the case that any data structure is a CRDT, it's possible to translate many data structures to CRDTs, but that translation rarely preserves the operations in full fidelity
Are you talking about local storage? If so the limit is 5 MB: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/stora...
Hah, "medium" - based on if the recipe ends up where it should - has been in a different place on the ring on pretty much every brand of stove I've ever had.

Sure you can hack around and get something ok regardless, but...

> maybe it's because the nearest "convenience stores" were a couple of hundred miles away

Gosh, what a wild idea that that would lead to a difference! Combine that with parents without enough free time to be home much in the first place, the rapid availability of processed food that lasts longer and is ready faster, and advertising campaigns that innundated people with these and didn't mention the downsides of the new shit... why are you being so smug about just happening to grow up in a different environment?
We think the market for Indian residents is fairly saturated, lot of upgrades in the last 5 years and already some products which do this. But NRIs/OCIs are still underserved
I was hoping Gina would buy it back via Postlight. Rich and Paul’s podcasts have always been so entertaining, they’d make great writers for it!
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And works of prediction.
There's also the point that as an early grade-school aged child, you haven't learned how to learn.

We look back and say "I'd just go find a book, read it, and then try some practice runs."

To an 8 year old, that sequence of events in response to not knowing something is completely alien.
Or do a digital meeting and do something good for the environment
I did take it with a huge grain of salt (and an eye-roll) reading it years ago. However, given where sama and OpenAI are today, perhaps pg was right all along!
"every one of whom is precious to us as a society."

This is demonstrably false - we have had how many school shootings this year? We have a "light truck exemption" that kills pedestrians and makes our vehicles an ever heavier competition (nobody wants to drive a small car if everyone else has a tank). We have the worst life expectancy of all rich nations - by a LONG shot. Our neonatal care is atrocious. We have no maternity leave. "Kids can work in meat packing plants at 14" is being honestly discussed.

Kids are a talisman, invoked to do anything except actually help them.
I don't think it's an April Fools.

- They have a tiny GPS disciplined timing source by Brandywine Communications
sitting next to the display. Brandywine supply very precise timing gadgets.

- They're in Czechia but the box is powered by 110V.

- The camera shooting the sole Nixie tube is a Photron by the looks of it.

- There's a video :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK3E55fytC0

- There's a picture posted by a NASA employee: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=5110589098977129&set...
> he wrote in the #all-salesforce Slack channel that employees hired during the pandemic had “much lower productivity.” He followed that by soliciting feedback: “Is this a reflection of our office policy? Are our managers not directly addressing productivity with their teams?”

Or, hear me out, maybe it's a reflection of the fact that the pandemic was a truly enormous disruption to people's lives and psyches and society as a whole, and that people living through generational disruption to their lives and communities have much lowered productivity? And that this indeed may take a while to recover from? Crazy to suggest?
"This account automatically submits a 'Who is Hiring?' post at 11 AM Eastern time on the first weekday of every month."

I had wondered myself, too, then went to the whoishiring account and saw the above.
My wife's kids love the toaster oven, because she taught them it was almost impossible to burn the house down with, so they felt safe.

Which is weird, because I never used one as a kid. Toaster, yes. Toaster-oven, no.
And similarly, FLoC was invented for the sole purpose of making targeted advertising look legitimate.
As someone who has made an extension for an actual product, this whole rollout/situation has been an absolute shitshow.

This is, what, the third pause of the rollout?

Google stopped accepting V2 extensions sometime last year, pushing V3 but totally ignoring MANY of the current use cases of extensions that V3 just doesn't work for. Firebase auth, a Google freaking product, doesn't work in V3 (you can make it work with a bunch of "I read it on a forum somewhere" work arounds).

The ONLY reason they're pushing this is to shore up their ads business by breaking add blockers.
> To intend to actively use excessive force without an immediate threat would signal becoming a vigilante. The near total monopoly on violence must be delegated to the state to prevent feuds and inappropriate uses of force between non-state actors. (It also requires that the police use force judiciously and minimally.)

The police are always at the disposal of the political apparatus and often ignore the rights of unpopular groups and sometimes actively terrorize them. This is a feature of democracy, in which the majority holds power over the minority. Vigilante justice is a natural result of overly-political police, and I would argue something that would be very popular in many areas of the American Empire.
Pretty much all Nim projects use a consistent naming style, so this is not a problem in practice.

> Nim should take advantage of the 2.0 release to do a compatibility break in this area, maybe with a compiler flag to enable the legacy behavior.

No thanks, I don't want inconsistent naming conventions in my code.
This looks super polished for what its worth. I am def gonna give it a try. Thanks for making this.
> If a presumed thief were to threaten imminent great bodily harm to prevent me from recovering my vehicle, there's not much choice. To intend to actively use excessive force without an immediate threat would signal becoming a vigilante.

I recommend that you read the Texas penal code sections that pertain to this type of situation. They are very clear on the lawful use of deadly force.
I had a similar sentiment. I did briefly use feedly until they started messing with their login screens some time back.

See, I had a local feedly login (with randomized password etc) but they Sussed out it was a google workspace enabled account/domain and would constantly try to redirect me to googles oath.

I moved to miniflux and love it. Easy to manage and super lightweight.

The only “feature” I wish it had was a “mark all items older than 1 day as read”.

You can mark all as read. And you can inverse your sort date and expand how many articles are paginated to mark large swaths as read. But a simple button to do some cleaning if I hadn’t read feeds in a week (and likely wouldn’t care for week old content) would be great.

Still is amazing overall and even that is a nitpick. In fact I donated a bit to the maintainer just this month.
These are all self-hosted. Is there a non-self-hosted solution?
Url changed from https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/04/th..., which points to this.
Not with Tether around.
apparently, unlike ordinary HN people US Gov don't care it "can't buy a coffee in my local deli for Bitcoin"
Altman befriended Paul Graham, and his life blossomed…
Yes, that's the "strategic" play I mentioned before.

This isn't really helpful for people who want open AI though, because if your strategy is to deny OpenAI data and knowledge then you aren't going to release any models either.
thanks for the work you do! my comment was very harsh, but I would never have written such a long comment if I didn't fundamentally like what Nim is trying to do. it comes from disappointment, not dislike. fwiw I've put in maybe 100 hours honestly trying to learn and use the language, and I don't have much to show for it. I think that has to count as some kind of failure, of the language and/or the documentation. I haven't run into this with any other language.
I think it is just that gravity happens to be 9,81 m/s^2.

On other hand 1kg being equal to 1 litre of water is by design in metric system.

Other happens stance is that pressure on surface is about 101 325 pascals.

So things work out that way...
I'm with you on this. I'm ok with tools that tha I choose to make things easier. When a tool is a necessity it is a big red flag. Once you get to compulsory tool chains, you are working in a world of someone else's personal preferences.

Android development is like this. Ironically the code I have developed for Android tries to hide all of that by providing another tool to the end of the chain that takes simple code and wraps it in a package of monstrosity for the designated 'correct path' tool chain to use.
If you ask to set it in the forgotten realms it reuses existing factions without using tokens! With gpt4 it’s amazing! It is better than my actual human dm!
Technically, from 10% of something to 35% of something is a 350% improvement or a 25 percent point improvement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percentage_point
Rommel and others are supposed to have said "God is on the side of the big battalions."

Probably a better saying would be "God is on the side of the big manufacturers."

All warfare is very, very wasteful. If you can't replace those broken weapons of yours quickly, you will be destroyed by the guy whose manufacturing capacity is greater than yours and who can replace his.

The US of 2023 is not the US of 1942. Did you know that Japan had about 3 or 4 times the number of Carriers at the start of WW2? (IIRC, 10 or 11 Japanese as against 3 American ones) Less than four years later, the US had about 40 but the Japanese weren't able to replace their sunk ones like the US could. So they had NONE left.

The US of 1942 in today's world is China, who have a HUGE manufacturing capacity. The US should behave until they have at least 10-20 years of rebuilding back the US manufacturing capacity to match the Chinese manufacturing capacity.
For hiking trails all over Europe see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_long-distance_paths
npx chatgpt@latest -m gpt-4 “hello world”
Hopefully it's the start of many a case. The one I am keen to see go to trial is the one over the Georgia call which is clear election fraud.
> I doubly find discussions viewing BTC primarily as an asset class to miss the point of BTC. Maybe the point of BTC has changed in the last 10 years, and I'm behind the curve on this one.

If the price of bitcoin goes up, it's good, because it's a value store and/or a good investment! If you think it's for anonymous payments, you're missing the point.

If the price of bitcoin goes down, it's not a problem, because it's a method of anonymous payments. If you think it's an investment or value store, you're missing the point.
You'd have a more successful time arguing they were propping up Ethereum.

Even then, what about the dozens if not hundreds of other places to trade for BTC...?

And, to save you and others telling you, some time: exchanges are not the only markets. DEX is a huge factor.
> "Medium heat" is when the ring is half-way up. "High heat" is when the ring is all the way up.

Gas or electric? Small or large burner? Cast iron or steel pan?

Kudos to you for being an exceptional nine year old cook, but it's objectively true that most cookbooks are written assuming basic cooking knowledge, the kind one would get from a parent who had time to cook with a child.
> ”Medium heat" is when the ring is half-way up. "High heat" is when the ring is all the way up.

This hasn’t been true anywhere I’ve lived, except my current house, where I adjusted the gas. In Cupertino, high barely summers. In New York, quarterway turned will sear and instantly burn dry powders. (Also: I grew up overseas.)
After spending a few months with chatgpt I'm skeptical. It's pretty stupid, more likely to be respond with inaccurate hallucinations than reliable output. It's most useful when I outside of my typical comfort zone and precisely where I'm least able to judge the quality of its response.

The tech doesn't understand logic and I think most knowledge workers need that.
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A college in upheaval: War on 'woke' sparks fear in Florida
I bought a house a few years ago and got all electric yard tools (mower, trimmer, blower, and more - all Ego). They're a joy to use. Such a step up from the gas tools of my youth.
> you just have to search for getFoobar rather than doing a case-insensitive regex search for "_g_e_t_f_o_o_b_a_r_"

Are you seriously expecting that someone will put an underscore in the middle of a word?
The odds that is the end game of the AI ethics movement is pretty likely: A mega-monopoly AI firm with a wall of gov policy that will cripple any upstart who can't jump through "safety" hoops written for and by the parent company. So any talented dev who wants to do great AI work either has to work for parent company or build a startup designed to get acquired by them (aka don't rattle the cage).
I found LW to be a great community for understanding rationality about anything other than AI.

The GAI that LW is concerned about is a suspiciously perfect fit for the yahweh-shaped-hole in the belief structures of someone who was raised as an observant jew before turning to atheism. The structure of how they believe humanity would engage with such an intelligence could drop in alongside any other apocalyptic prophecy in the old testament without sticking out, and the discussion format is like a yeshiva that takes place on an electronic bulletin board.
Blocking ads at the DNS level is very limited. All that has to happen to bypass it is the site you're visiting serves the ad data directly or really just from any domain that also serves up info you don't want to block. It also can't do anything to counter anti-adblock mechanisms or to clean up the layout which might have space already reserved for the ads.

Using a MITM to alter the responses is an option, but you're likely to run into issues with sofware and devices not being able to handle a custom CA.
The book will be here: https://stevejobsarchive.com/book
It's interesting that in the article he was described being "hyper-social", "very funny" and "big personality" as a child. I guess those don't necessarily contradict with awkward and robotic, but also wouldn't come to my mind at the same time
This is how many websites work. A public api requires done right means you are spending effort maintaining it but worse, if your apps use it as well, it means you have to wait not only for your apps to update (maybe 11+ for different platforms), you have to wait for independent third parties to also update. With internal platforms, you can generally priortize changes if you need to with your coworkers, and you know the time frame for platforms like Samsung tvs and Playstations, and can plan for it.

External 3rd parties are unknown in some cases, and may try to leverage you in others.

So you have a stable 3rd party api for some very large features, and we have a internal highly fluid api for our stuff. 3rd parties can totally use that api you use, and do. But why make any representations or tie your velocity to all those 3rd parties for your main app.

You want these companies to inovate and improve while also tying them to often unmonitized ecosystems of 3rd parties you can't communicate with or priroitize well.

It's generally unsurprising to me that the api support breaks down this way. I actually think it's pretty disiungenuine to make a sold 3rd party api without it being monetized. That encourages people to build ecosystems on other peoples good will which. We've seen how that works time and again. Even worse when 3rd parties try and compete partly with the bread and butter of the api they're using.
NSA has cameras that can scan your router QR code from space satellite
Never say never. Next 2 or 3 years it will assist, but chances are very good AI will completely automate software and hardware development in several years.
This type of event may actually work to reduce car thefts. AirTags are still novel and people are getting sick of just having their stuff written off by insurance instead of some actual action. Car sales will need to change too - the seller needs to show the registration and their ID upfront before you take a deeper look at that car!

I dealt with one earlier this year, the police were actually remarkably good at getting it back for me within an hour of calling due to Toyota’s built in theft tracker GPS feature. They will only give the location to the police and only if you have a case number. I had an AirTag in the car too but the thieves managed to find it and destroy it quickly because the stupid thing beeps every time somebody walks into the car. Cars should have find my support without all the compromises that tiny AirTags have to make since they can be hidden so easily.

Carmakers haven’t really improved things as much as they should have with the keyless remotes. If yours is stolen and you don’t go spend $200 to reprogram your car to remove it, your car is good as gone when the thieves found where you parked it. Why is it legal for dealers to charge for stolen key removal? It should be done free, same day, on a mandatory basis.
As the other reply noted, I’d be shocked if it wouldn’t be much better now, seeing something like graal being used would be really interesting. I think if Elixir could target beam or jvm it would be an amazing language for many tasks.
The free subscription on my 2021 Toyota expired 16 months ago. Remote start still works. (Well, the fob button sequence is as finicky and inconsistent as it always was, but it does work.) I think Toyota changed their minds on that feature after the bad press about it hit.
> There's nothing banworthy there, at least from me

You were breaking the site guidelines repeatedly in that thread.

> And when I asked you where you said that you didn't reply

Sorry — usually I do reply — I must not have seen https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34856255. FWIW in retrospect, here are some places where we asked you to stop (I don't remember why I used the word 'just' though, since these are older):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30293928 (Feb 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28699914 (Sept 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28650525 (Sept 2021)

> when I emailed to ask nicely to be unbanned, as you requested, you ignored it

I can't find any email that references your username. When did you send it?
The fact that his backup plan if things go really wrong is to bug out, damn the rest of the world, is, to put it mildly, not great.
Watching Corey's LastWeekinAWS Youtube channel (criminally underviewed and not actually weekly) simultaneously makes me chortle (for a former sysadmin he's a pretty good comedian) and become a little sad about about being reminded about how much time I've lately spent wrestling with the complexities and idiosyncrasies of AWS instead of actually building stuff.
(I don't know who this person is)

I assume they're talking of 'AI safety' as opposed to AI being used by the wealthy to further suppress the working class.

If it's unreasonable to take AI safety seriously because no one has built an AI system that poses a credible threat to humanity yet, it must also be (at least) unreasonable to dismiss the research(ers) based on the same.

That's before considering that people and (profit-motivated) companies are actually trying -- and claiming they will succeed -- to create and deploy unimaginably powerful AGI entities/systems.

Assuming no harm can come of this is clearly foolish.
The goals of such an entity will likely not be aligned with the goals of the creator, let alone the general public.
The entity will not act in your best interest, just as the those seeking to dismiss the risk are not acting in your best interest.
There was also a lot of futile searching for use-cases for Signed Exchange spec, which was just AMP letting Google host and monitor other pages' traffic.
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