skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zeroing the hard drive is sufficient; e.g. with Linux dd command. Old spinning rust is great for encrypted backups (I treat them like tapes).
I don't think you understood me. I'm with you, but given that often OpenAI is accused of using public ideas for profit, this, in turn, means they are obviously not in a dominant position. So far they are just better than the others.
You can also replace `medium.com` with `scribe.rip` to get a much friendlier frontend: https://hansonkd.scribe.rip/building-beautiful-binary-parser...
> I believe you can't, at the same time, accuse OpenAI of benefitting of ideas mostly invented elsewhere, and also claim that they are in a predominant position.

There used to be a team at Google called Google Brain and they all left to go to OpenAI after the employee protests against taking military AI contracts in 2018. Now Microsoft has those contracts and funneled $10B to OpenAI from the CIA. OK that's a little bit of exaggeration but not so much; I guess not all employees left, and Google Brain still technically exists. Also some of the brain employees went to other startups not only OpenAI.
The shout out for scream is an amusing choice as it’s very intentionally designed to attack slasher horror film tropes. It’s a great film.

It was so genre savvy and ahead of its time imo.

You can’t make too many movies like Scream though. It has to be the oddity that exists apart from the rest to really shine.
His software sang the words of God, then it went silent
I'd be much more amenable to that if the people "appropriating" terms like CRT weren't doing so to tar actual CRT theorists, but they are, so I'm not at all amenable to it in this case.
It's very... civilized. I was riding my bike on part of it without knowing I was. It's not what I would call a backpacking experience to compare with the AT, CDT, etc. I'm sure this isn't either, as there's no real wilderness in France, but it sure is more appealing to me than El Camino.
> As a thought experiment, reverse the question: how could we assume that there aren’t interconnected phenomena after discovering evidence that this phenomena exists?

The opposite of assuming a thing without direct evidence isn't to assume the negation of that thing without direct evidence. They're two examples of the same mistake.
> The goal, the company said, was to avoid a race toward building dangerous AI systems fueled by competition and instead prioritize the safety of humanity.

> “You want to be there first and you want to be setting the norms,” he said. “That’s part of the reason why speed is a moral and ethical thing here.”

Clearly having either not learned or ignored the lessons from Black Mirror and 1984, which is that others will copy and emulate the progress.

The fact is that capitalism is no safe place to develop advanced capabilities. We have the capability for advanced socialism, just not the wisdom or political will.

(I’ll answer the anonymous downvote: Altman has advocated giving equity as UBI solution. It’s a well-meaning technocratic idea to distribute ownership, but it ignores human psychology and that this idea has already been attempted in practice in 1990s Russia, with unfavourable, obvious outcomes).
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Thanks for sharing this. I have experienced this many times in my career, but I didn’t realize it had a name.
> …it was assumed, would never again want to work in office towers over fears of terrorism.

This feels like a ridiculous assumption. Maybe in the emotional moment, but sensible minds wouldn’t for long think that that’s it for the concept of working downtown.
Can you elaborate on this some more? Are you essentially saying the same thing as the treachery of images?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images
>We're now reaching the point where anyone can create video content that humans aren't able to discern is real or not

>We're now reaching the point where anyone can photoshop an image with intent to deceive

>We're now reaching the point where anyone can film a scene with intent to deceive

>We're now reaching the point where anyone can stage a photograph with intent to deceive

>We're now reaching the point where anyone can mass-produce pamphlets with intent to deceive

>We're now reaching the point where anyone can cheaply replicate a signet ring to pose as a member of our House

>We're now reaching the point where anyone can write a letter impersonating the King

>We're now reaching the point where...

It's funny how little humans change. Think about how, for every single one of the above technologies, many people reacted with the same sense of doom and gloom, induced by a novel technology, yet the general was no different, only the particular. Something else interesting, is many of us relish in this doom-mongering. Again, this is not something new either, as reactionary doomsayers and the cults they've spawned have been coming and going for thousands of years.

I find it useful to remind myself that technologies and socio-philosophical trends come and go, yet man remains fundamentally the same. In times of uncertainty, it's comforting, and informs me how to act.
I guess nothing. If you put it in a very large .txt file and send it using ftp/http/smb/whatever it should work fine.

What are the limitations you're anticipating here?
> Let me guess, you 'don't see race'?

> Racism and sexism exist. They exist in the workplace. DEI is a remedy towards that.

Sure I see race, I just don't see a good reason to judge people differently based on their race. Policies that treat people differently based on the color of their skin (something that is foundational to the entire framework of DEI initiatives) is a bad idea.

It's also completely illogical. White neoliberals control most levers of power in society. I'm not just referring to the Executive branch and the Senate, but the majority of the Boards in the Fortune 500 who are so eager to implement DEI policies, the media (minus the tabloid trash at FOX News) and almost every institute of higher learning (save the rare exceptions like a Hillsdale College which only proves the rule). These people see themselves as saviors of the poor oppressed minority and if you ask them how they feel about poor whites (who happen to make up the majority of poor people in the US), they cringe. They hate nothing more than those dirty hillbillies, and their generational poverty...matters not.

Judging people by the color of their skin is racism, and DEI seeks to institutionalize those racist policies. I do not support institutionalized racism regardless of the target, and I would hope more people begin to see the idiocy in doing so. All it does is breed resentment, divisiveness and racial animosity.

The solution is simple. Help those who need help, do not base any policies on skin color or ethnicity, as it is immutable and will only cause problems. If these people didn't despise the "Trump-country poor white trash" so much, this would be a no-brainer. But alas, here we are.
Naw, pointing out the obvious while making fun of someone is the archetype of reddit I think. Toxicity on HN is more indirect here.
That's why the cracks are small at first. Patches, new API connections to customers, and ambition will still cause some change, albeit small as you point out. Entropy in a living system always increases.
Dunno about in SF, but I certainly realize it. And I don't care. I bought the place to live in. I don't plan to sell it for decades. I will have gotten my money's worth out of it no matter what.

Which is why I absolutely advocate locally for more housing.
They should also add that there is no great GUI library for Rust.
> Salesforce will print money for a few more years until someone makes a less awful CRM solution and just crushes their business.

This statement undervalues the lock-in Salesforce has. One should probably make migrate-from-Salesforce tool and sell to all the new VC funded CRM shops. You could be selling shovels during a gold rush.
"This is the city where it can take 87 permits, 1,000 days of meetings and $500,000 in fees to build residential housing projects. This is the city — the only one in the state — that allows housing permits to be appealed even after projects are entitled. This is the city where it costs an estimated $100,000 to build one tiny home for the homeless — up to 10 times more than in other Bay Area cities — and almost $1.2 million to build a single unit of affordable housing. This is the city that at one point celebrated plans to build a single public toilet for $1.7 million."

"1,000 days of meetings" sounds like the ultimate office horror movie.
Oh wow, this hits me hard. I legit have very fond memories of meticulously arranging pizza rolls on a plate to minimize gaps (pizza rolls packing problem), and eating them with a giant glass of Quik chocolate milk.

I then moved to Canada where Totino's does not exist and mourned my loss for years, because that specific type of "tiny calzone with egg roll container" didn't seem to exist up here. Only in the last few years have I seen an equivalent Canadian pizza roll from Pillsbury (Pizza Bites) and they happen to be decent. And if Canadians are reading and confused, I am not referring to those gross "pizza pops", they are not the same.

In response to the article, I'm shocked to learn Totino's didn't invent the idea and they existed all the way back in the 60s. At least from the 90s, I don't recall any other brands being available besides Totino's except Great Value?
The resentment happening from society towards us is spiraling out of control, and I say this as someone who was also at that meetup event yesterday. Pretty sad but we should expect it given how fast AI is going to hurt a lot of these people.

The world is finding that they want to always treat us nerds how they treated us in our formative years...
Not allowed, but certainly tolerated. I camped in many an apple tree nursery for months in France, with only a few drunken teens joining me. The gypsy camps were also very accommodating. You could find safe enough places in the middle of Paris to set up a tent.
Makes you wonder what issue they were mitigating. Passing file names as part of a concatenated string to bash? Ala 'bash -c "ls $filename"'?
The more important question is how many people are unable to survive as artists in the US, and how much work is compromised just to make ends meet. This is also something that afflicts journalism to a very high degree in the US. Hence why certain topics are untouchable for US corporate media.
The author follows up with measures the mayor is taking to fight this.
Completely genuine question here. Have masks actually been shown to help or not help? We must have learned something about it during all this.
AI doomism is quickly becoming indistinguishable from an apocalyptic religion
Home value does not (generally) matter to you day to day if you plan to actually live there. Hell, if the value of your home goes down that could lower your property taxes!

Of course in the US, homes are first and foremost an investment, so losing resale value is one of the worst things that could happen to a homeowner, or something.
I'm not really a fan of openAI, but I think we're seeing the classic mistake of confusing product with technology. Steve Jobs / Apple didn't anything you'd call new ideas either (obvious cliche but so is the criticism). It's execution and design once the tech reaches a certain level
If dev cycles are increased by a year or two AND wages go up, they will hire a lot less people. Revenue will tank and overhead will skyrocket.
> He was recently instrumental in performing a wonderful experiment in editor building -- wonderful because of the way it failed.

They clearly should have migrated to C++ sooner :)
My first hand accounts mostly come from my Father. He was a young Marine Corp officer on Okinawa during World War II. What a sad and terrifying time. He was stationed next to an air base on Okinawa and was issued a gas mask after the bombing of Hiroshima in preparation for the retalitory strikes they expected.

After Japan surrendered, there was a sudden shift in roles as the soldiers packed up and prepared to return the the USA. At one point, with little to do, he was offered a ride on a plane that was heading over to the mainland of Japan for some reason. He got to see Hiroshima and Tokyo, spending some time on the ground and interacting with a few Japanese citizens there. My father passed away a couple of years ago and I wish that my brother and I could have recorded his accounts of some of these things.
Congrats on spreading misinformation
This project has turned into a boondoggle. Many of the original goals are not going to be met, it is looking like the sound system may need to be redesigned at the last minute because no one bothered to really verify availability of a no longer made chip (one of the original goals was all modern parts), and the cost is going to be 10x that mentioned in his original video as a target for his dream system.
> we should expect it given how fast AI is going to hurt a lot of these people

It has nothing to do with tangible harm and a lot with the attitude of techno public figures, as well as, in San Francisco, the civic detachment of its tech workers.
Twitter didn't get the algorithmic timeline until 2016. It also wasn't founded until 2006, so I don't know where your 18 years came from.
do you write documentation, though?
If it rains, I think there's 0 chance that anyone would blink if you put up a tarp for additional shelter.

You're also more likely than not a stone's throw from a cheap municipal campsite that at least has a restaurant attached to it with a Michelin Star. This is France, after all!
I started using MPV or VLC or Daum Potplayer to manually adjust the brightness and contrast of tv shows and movies I'm watching. I stopped valuing the "filmmaker's choice" when I saw the analysis of how dark that beach scene was in House of Dragons was. [1] It's not just that consumer equipment is differently calibrated from color grading equipment, that specific scene was graded to 1 nit brigtness. Hbo later tweeted that it will not be fixed and is absoultely intentional. [2] The offical recommended viewing conditions of HDR according to the ITU and Dolby is an ambient 5 nits.

The artists aren't respecting or grading with consumer equipment in mind. I'm not getting an optimal viewing experience or even getting the artist's creative intent by trying to recreate the intended viewing settings. Dolby Vision still isn't completely supported when playing back a file on desktop. Certain DV profiles can be passed through to TVs that support it, but that's not possible for Blu-Ray Dolby Vision files. Neither the Xbox nor PS5 support Dolby Vision disk playback. Many playback solutions for playback of Dolby Vision from PC throw away the dynamic data defeating the point of caring about DV over HDR10. This is also ignoring how streaming changes colors can change due to compression, and some shows and movies are only available via streaming.

My TV can detect ambient light, Dolby Vision IQ already exists, but in my experience fails too often. Some would argue DV IQ also moves away from filmmarker's intent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D83SXcguwBU

https://twitter.com/HBOMaxHelp/status/1576793465010135040

https://www.trustedreviews.com/explainer/what-is-dolby-visio...
Man. "xine" is a name I haven't heard for many years. Wonder how many people are still using it.

As as university student in 2006, fast internet access was a still relatively pricey thing. I already knew how to do basic things in Debian, and would have similar Linux experience at home. Surpsingly, Slackware (3 CDs at that time) provided all the apps (C compiler, LaTeX etc) needed for doing homework. And of course, a multimedia player called "xine" was bundled. Playing all the ripped videos wasn't problem at all.

I assume the development was practically halted years ago and no fork?

Update:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xine/files/

Oh it's still alive :)
Hey, that's one of mine. Cool.
Yes, C++ does have fast JSON parsers.
No, you can use a tent, as long as you don't stay more than one night.
> The stack optimizes for flexibility and iteration speed naturally

“unmaintainable” (as in “i’m spending an hour each day sorting out which dep update broke my project”) usually gets in the way of the former point.
Single pass disk encryption or zeroing is fine if you are not facing a nation state actor.

I do not think I have seen any credible threats that over-written data extraction works on modern drives. Maybe there are tricks where the SSD knows better and allocates blocks off to the side where it is not getting wiped, but those are supposedly addressed by TRIM (with dubious vendor support)

If someone comes across a drive that is zeroed or randomized, who is going to attempt some forensic investigation to retrieve the contents?
House value means nothing. For home owners, it's a guarantee to be able to stay in place. Californian home owners are all millionaires, but will never see that wealth materialize if they or their children want to stay in the same area.
There are certainly reasons other than jobs why some people choose to live in a major city. But eliminate the job/commute reason and the calculus changes for a lot of people given that "live near work" is at least one of the main reasons they would choose urban living.
No issue here (Buenos Aires).
CLX and SocketCAN
Maybe those of you, who are interested in CAN bus networking and/or Common Lisp X Interface, find this project interesting.

Any kind of feedback is highly appreciated.
Weird they don't consider how that sort of bad behavior impacts their other business.

I started a company in 2019 -> didn't choose G Suite, because I don't trust Google. Same for GCP.
Starting 1-2 months ago, many people, myself included, have started saying "SF is back" after observing the excitement surrounding, attendance at, and quantity of Generative AI events. It's too early to know how permanent this effect will be, but an article discussing SF collapse should at least mention the possibility that decline has ended and attempt to explain why event attendance won't be the first step towards recovery.
Well I didn’t even know you can apply for jobs on Discord :) And if I’m looking for a programming chat room I’d probably go on irc. Graybeard.
it's still also used as the backend for NetworkManager's handling of WiFi
Venice Is Saved Woe Is Venice
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress?
They've already swooped in.

I mean the conspiracy argument would be that the $10B isn't a normal investment. It's a special government project investment facilitated by OpenAI board member and former clandestine CIA operative and cybersecurity executive Will Hurd through his role on the board of trustees of In-Q-Tel the investment arm of the CIA. It's funneled through Microsoft instead of through Google in part because of Google's No-Military-AI pledge in 2018 demanded by its employees, after which Microsoft took over its military contracts including project Maven. The new special government project, the Sydney project, is the most urgent and ambitious since the project to develop nuclear weapons in the mid twentieth century.

Of course I don't necessarily believe any of that but it can be fun to think about.
mostly agree. Though I wouldn't underestimate the tech and engineering work behind OpenAI. That microsoft partnership is no joke.
For what use cases have you been moving from Swift to C++ and what benefits have you seen?

Unrelatedly, given that they all compile down to LLVM IR, in some sense Rust, Swift, and C++ are all syntactic sugar, aren’t they?
There's a glossary of terms in the back.

If you're functionally literate, you can figure it out in no time.
This reads like someone who’s never used the platform. It is broad, allows you to do a lot quickly and relatively more easily than most other platforms.

I’m not an evangelist, but I’m now a few years into using it at the startup where I’m CTO and it’s great at what it does and there isn’t really anything else that does it.
Eisenhower warned about the "Military-industrial" complex - but it seems to me that has morphed into a "Military-Industrial-Political" which is geared more towards enhancing shareholder value and political capital rather than military preparedness.
All this AI technology is groundbreaking, revolutionary, going to change everything, etc. except with the bad stuff, it won't change any of that.
If you own a single family home, your home value is going to skyrocket like NY. Remove restrictions around height and multi family zoning.
True, given the local industry. NYC has finance, marketing, fashion, etc. What would San Francisco's be? As an outsider, it feels to me like the days magical tech synergy has left, and that work in our industry is unlikely to recentralize.
> If agi replaces labor it will be constructed with a singular incentive to serve it's master as the primary directive. It can be a an economy of slave labor replacing us.

Well, that's the capital equipment case then. Is it really a general intelligence if you don't let it be general? It can't handle every possible scenario for you that way.

Which makes it incredibly wasteful, just like slavery was, because we used humans as capital instead of participating in an economy with them. Actually this is the reason economics is called "the dismal science" - a slaveowner called it that because he was upset economists kept telling him not to own slaves.

If your theory is that someone will program an AGI for the specific goal of making you unemployed, sure that could happen. But it sounds more like warfare than economics to me at that point, so I can't comment cause I don't know too much about that.

> Again over reliance on data. Your argument doesn't counter my claim. It's just regurgitation your original claim.

Where's the data? That was pure theory there, I didn't make any empirical claims.

Here's some data though: https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/american-workers-need-lots...

> Your argument suffers mostly from being too specific.

It's important to do this because approximately all AGI doom on the internet comes from Big Yud, an internet cult founder who thinks you can predict the future by thinking about it really hard and doing probability theory in your head without needing to check any assumptions. Which is why he thinks AGI is going to enslave him, because it's on a computer so it can do math exponentially faster, never mind that it can't do real world experiments to test anything.
> For comparison in the US dispersed camping

Good luck with dispersed camping in the US east of the Mississippi (or for that matter, in Texas). It is totally reliant on federal public land, which essentially exists only in the western states. Out east [0], or in Texas, you will find yourself in a situation much more similar to the one in France (or England, or Germany, or ...)

[0] and effectively, the east/west boundary is not even the Mississippi, but something like the 101st meridian. Dispersed camping in eastern Kansas is next-to-impossible.
Deepest fish ever caught on camera off Japan
Outside of typescript, this feels like a response from a decade ago, when Python was still mired in the 2 vs 3 problem.

What's happened to the popularity of all of these languages since 2010? Outside of JS/TS, absolutely nothing. If anything, they've lost mindshare.