skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Feelings, emotions and all those mental states considered specific to human beings are subject to common bias of human exceptionalism.
This take isn't true at all though. All these states exist for specific functional reasons.

Consequently, you won't make "AGI" without them.

From a different perspective, a human lacking in these things, at what point are they exempt from protection against enslavement?
>> You should be in the US if you're starting an AI company

This is the Tweet author's comment on a graph that shows the number of AI companies in different countries, rendered as a bar chart. The comment is a little cryptic -why would the number of AI companies in a country advise where you should start an AI company?

So I figured I'd try to understand the comment by engaging in a bit of arbitrary, ad-hoc math.

US: 542
Everyone else: 160 + 99 + 73 + 57 + 47 + 44 + 41 + 36 + 32 + 26 + 23 + 22 + 12 + 12 = 684

It turns out the US has fewer AI companies than the rest of the world put together!

So I guess the logic was that, "you should be in the US if you're starting an AI company" because that's where you can expect the least competition.

That sounds like solid advice!
These talks about importance of "what it feels like to lose control of your vestibular system when you fly into a cloud", makes me funny.

When it is may important or even unavoidable for small aviation to use visual flight, commercial aviation use redundant instrumental flight, where vestibular system is unnecessary.

Even more - general aviation is first area of human activity, where instrumental flight could be safer than "visual" just now.
> Make undebuggable programs. Plaster layers of abstraction over everything. Write spaghetti code. Make everything sensitive to initial conditions. Avoid pure functions. Use dependencies liberally. Say “it works on my machine” whenever possible.

A lot of legacy software is like this. I wonder how many billions it costs the economy per year.
This is a discussion that leads to regulation. But clearly the only way to regulate AI... is with AI.

It has the potential to automate the process of monitoring and detecting potential risks or violations in AI systems, which could be difficult or impossible for humans to do manually. For example, AI systems could be programmed to monitor themselves and other AI systems for potential biases, security vulnerabilities, or other potential risks.

Additionally, AI could be used to develop and enforce regulatory frameworks, such as standards for data privacy, transparency, and algorithmic fairness, which could be more easily implemented and enforced through automation. However, there are also potential risks and challenges associated with using AI to regulate AI, such as the potential for errors or biases in the AI systems used for regulation, the difficulty of defining and enforcing ethical or legal standards for AI, and the potential for unintended consequences or harmful outcomes from AI-based regulation.

Ultimately, the effectiveness of AI in regulating AI will depend on a range of factors, including the design and implementation of AI-based regulation frameworks, the capabilities of AI systems themselves, and the willingness of stakeholders to engage in ongoing dialogue and collaboration to ensure that AI serves the best interests of humanity.
It seems like everything you have described could be done with TPM: creating a signing key for TLS mutual authentication (against the secret store) with policy that allows using that key only if system configuration did not change (PCR values stay consistent). Additionally TPMs allow remote attestation (via quotes and endorsement keys).

So I'm wondering what's the advantage of Nitro Enclaves? Better out of the box tooling?
Nearly 70M from Texas to Michigan face severe weather threat
Hocus is more cost-efficient when you need larger instances. If you need 8 CPU cores ($0.72/hour on Codespaces) and a single dev uses their IDE for 4 hours a day on average, Codespaces itself would come out to about $0.72 * 4 * 5 * 4 * 30 = $1728 a month. But that gives me the idea that maybe we should introduce cheaper pricing plans but with limits on VM resources - pay less if you have lower compute requirements.
Commentary - yes. However, if it is found that the model itself is not sufficiently transformative and including copyrighted fictional characters in it is seen as an infringing derivative work, then even though the output of it may be used in non-infringing ways then litigious companies would still have an argument about copyright infringement on the model.

Until that is settled, its likely that Adobe is taking the "we're not going to deal with any licensed properties in the model to avoid any lawsuits."
The laws is that there is a consultation period, this is so that the company can listen to other ways of resolving the problem.

Of course, the companies just pay lip service to this.
People here are irked because HN is the home of CV-driven development.

EDIT: ...as proven by the rain of downvotes...
A dam in a river can either be used as generation (if you always run it) or as storage if you vary the output. Most pumped hydro is already storage, but most hydro currently isn't pumped.
Say goodbye to ever photographing anything abroad on film again.
Livsn is great. I'm a powerlifter so a lot of pants don't fit and I need to tailor them. Livsn pants look great and are really tough.

I'm not affiliated in any way, just a very happy customer.

https://www.livsndesigns.com/
FlutterFlow: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flutterflow/jobs

Technical Support Engineer (Americas) | Remote (IN) | 3+ Years
Consulting Sales Engineer (US or Americas Region) | Remote | 6+ Years
Consulting Sales Engineer (India or APAC Region) | Remote | 3+ Years
Enterprise Flutter Developer (US or Americas Region) | Remote (US) | 3+ Years
Software Engineer (United States) | Bay Area (San Mateo) / Remote (US) | 3+ Years
Head Of Technical Support | Remote (US) | 3+ Years
I was under the impression that their double wide container rig would be at deck level and lashed down to the vessel; not stacked on top of other containers. This is the only way they could control the vertical height of the retracted sail for going under bridges, etc.

Love how this idea has energized HN.
I got burned out and lost a few years of my life due to a job like this.

We had two things:

a. Poor systems and poor communication permeated the IT department

b. IT was viewed as a cost center so no amount of heroic intervention was ever rewarded proportionately to business impact. It was Sisyphean.

If you are in a situation like this, please run away. You can't win - either the free market will destroy your employer, or your employer will destroy you.
> Legally yes, a woman has to cover her upper body while men do not.

In the U.S., female toplessness is illegal in only two states (Tennessee and Missouri). In the rest, legal status is either unclear or it's expressly legal.

So as a general statement, this is clearly untrue—it's not illegal everywhere.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topfreedom_in_the_United_State...
Engineers not affected, again /s

The realization that the decade long near zero interest rate and quantative easing experiment is now a thing of the past with the market correcting off of that overhiring Covid mania.

The tiniest violin for those walking the plank.
Apologies I misread the criticism and thought Amazon had FIPS, but that people weren't happy with that.

It sounds like Amazon should be getting that! I wonder if perhaps it's just ill-suited to service providers, and only really workable for hardware.
The tailoring was just for taper and length. The waist I didn't do much with so it's pretty loose. Besides, the pants are simply supposed to be worn with suspenders. I'm not sure as I haven't tried fitted high-rise trousers, but I think it would be hard to keep them in place otherwise.

As for my BMI, I'm 183cm at 85kg, which I understand nudges me just inside of "overweight".
> Middle class kids can afford one throw.

Gotta disagree with this. As someone who grew up middle class, I was fortunate, in a lot of ways, to also learn to be prudent with money. I started bootstrapping microbusinesses with almost no monetary investment. This eventually allowed me to support myself (on a very low budget), and then, later, on a slightly larger budget. Eventually, one of these businesses became successful enough to support a family comfortably with an "upper" middle class income.

The mistake a lot of people make is that they need to spend significant time and/or money to start a business. You don't. You can work on low-risk businesses, building your skillset so that your odds of success improve over time. No need to aim for the "center" bullseye, either. This is a case where low ambition can be helpful. Instead of trying to grow a huge startup, I was ecstatic when I was able to afford rent in my cheap apartment (with a roommate.)

Of course, the situation may be different now for middle class kids. Maybe they don't have some of the same luxuries my family was able to give me: a couple of years of college paid for, attending a few business/marketing conferences as a teenager, examples to follow from my dad and brother. I suspect some of this is true; I sense a lot of pressure on young adults that I didn't feel when I was young. I also recognize that "middle class" in the states is definitely a case of "wealth" in comparison to other parts of the world.

Also, when I was young, and learning the ropes, I was young. I didn't have responsibilities; just being able to afford a crappy apartment and food was more than enough.
This is a ridiculous thing to say when the market will be saturated since all companies are letting people go.

They are walking out because unlike the US there is a process to this, the company is supposed to listen when it's employees make alternative suggestions to save costs.
In the UK, there is nothing they can do against layoffs.

The only thing is that if the planned layoffs impact more than 20 people (from memory) there must be a consultation. This only makes the process one month longer.

I am also expecting that Google is paying more than the legal minimum to laid off people, which is really the only thing worth trying to negotiate.
Nice project! I was hoping for a tool that does something like that. But how will it deal with the context needed to keep in larger projects? Speed and cost will be an issue too? You could rack a millions of tokens in a workday.
Your average mortgage broker does not care about the name of the company on the check beyond conversation.

The Fannie Mae underwriting manual and software[1] they use makes no mention of company prestige, age, etc.

Simply, is there consistent pay stub history, do the bank accounts agree with the pay stub history, do the filed 1040s agree with job and bank account.

If you have a non-average mortgage broker that cares about the name, then you’re in an SVB-like situation and we’ve all seen how that played out.

1: https://singlefamily.fanniemae.com/applications-technology/d...
If that data would be wiped by a fire instead, would you call that fire a -100,000x a engineer?

Accidents happen, the fault lies on whoever did not backup the data.
two important things:

- i'm a stickler for input devices. I have a split keyboard and a Wacom tablet in the middle with a little pen stand that's always close by. I keep daypages in beta.tldraw.com, which has excellent pen and touch support. It's super handy.

- a good field mic for video conference calls. I use a Zoom H1 with a fuzzy pop shield and a little stand to minimize microphonics. I'm perceived as quite feminine and it's sometimes hard to speak up, so it's amazing how much more respect I get on conference calls when I have the confidence of excellent sound quality to back me up.

If I could add something to my setup, I'd like to hook up a small trackball that somehow only emits mouse scroll events. That would really help move around PDFs and webpages.
I've been an MLOps Engineer for around 3 years now and I mostly agree with the article. There is a big overlap between the ML-specific tools that are popping up on the market and traditionnal Data Engineering tools, and I think people are not always realizing that:

* Prometheus/Grafana/TSDB/... can be used to setup a model monitoring platform since you're observing metrics whether they are from an ML service or a normal service.

* Any service deployment tool can be used to deploy ML models, since they are services.

* AirFlow/Dagster/... can be used to orchestrate model training, since training a model is basically a data engineering task.

With that said, I still believe that there is space for ML-specific tools to be created.

* Model Monitoring tools (ArizeAI is the only one I've used) can be tailored to be easily usable by ML Engineers without requiring DE knowledge.

* Deploying models in production has some specifities: things like GPU support, adaptive batching, ... Those specifities can be implemented inside a model deployment tool.

* Training orchestration is the only domain where I think there's truly no need for new tools.
Also crappy lids. The modern ones have a kind of button that you push and it doesn't really exert an upwards force on the lid. In those days, you had to peel part of the plastic up and away from the lid and it was easy to take the lid off by accident. I don't think that was a major part of the lawsuit, but practically anyone who was a teen or adult in North America at the same time had an experience of spilling McDonalds coffee or hot chocolate.
I see various locations around the world, do you have offices there, or is it remote (as well)?
What a depressing take.

Starting young (at 20 years old or earlier) gives you over a decade to explore and discover your entrepreneurial path with low risk. Stop making excuse.
The market is far from being saturated, plenty of places are hiring. Just not at crazy wages.

Companies are now correcting the overhiring spree they did in the pandemic boom.
This is in fact a major problem with superhuman AI. Say in some years we have such a system, and for security reasons it can only talk to us and nothing else, it seems that it could just convince us to unbox it. Like an adult who could convince a child to things which are not in its best interest.

See Yudkowsky's "AI box experiment": https://www.yudkowsky.net/singularity/aibox
> Yes, but sort of irrelevant. If you want to fix a problem, start with 25% of it and not 2%.

Those 25% from coal are themselves composed of several smaller percentages from different sources. The tricky part about climate change is that you have to start basically everywhere and look for opportunities to optimize, reduce, or completely eliminate emissions.
I use a Japanese keyboard because it comes with additional thumb keys. I use software to remap the thumb keys to additional layers. For example, if I hold thumb+a, the alpha keys under my right hand turn into a numpad. If I tap the thumb key by itself, it turns the keyboard into a mouse.
s/developed/used/ I think is more the comment.

OrgA will be 'all in' with the convenience of Copilot; OrgB will flee due to legality/litigious concerns.
Yes, Paul did the original as a Java Applet. I did the port to run in the x-compile to allow it to run in the browser. After that we cooperated on it for a while. I stepped back a few years ago to focus on other things, but he's kept up with improvements. Kudos.
Make everything, even a 1 min fix a ticket and insist it's under right category and right project, the time is accounted for, and each developer have to report 8h time worked a day and you can have plenty of time wasted on ticketing
Yup, pretty hard to come up with a meaningful reply when Daddy Putin said at the time that it was fine. Even hardcore Russian nationalists have grown tired of Putin's constant whining how the whole world has now wronged him: https://youtu.be/DRE8f5JzDAE
IRS-authorized eFile.com tax return software caught serving JavaScript malware
Light waves squeezed through ‘slits in time’
Yes. Because Finland joining NATO is direct response to Russia attacking Ukraine. The snub makes sense for two reasons:

- Russia invaded under pretext of "we are afraid of NATO".

- It prevents Russia from attacking Finland. They are less likely to attack NATO members and more likely to attack countries outside of the aliance.
Exactly. Approx £8/child. Uk govt doesn’t value their children highly. Disgusting.
I’d agree about the tired part but pain is absolutely possible without sensory nerves.
A jury decided otherwise regarding the correctness of punitive damages.

Once that was decided, such damages don't scale by damage done; they scale by a figure that would inconvenience the company so as to discourage such flouting of their legally-mandated corporate responsibility in the future.
It is not the responsibility of a person pointing out problems to also solve them.

Granted, pointing out problems is generally much easier than solving them, and correspondingly less valuable. As I like to say, stand up, spin around, and point at something randomly. You're pointing at a problem of some sort.

But that still does not incur a responsibility to someone pointing out a problem to also solve it. It's a popular idea for some reason but not one that can stand up to scrutiny of any kind.
And it loses value at a pace like nothing else you own. It’s a wealth sink.
Of course media hypes things, but keep in mind that's typically a trailing phenomenon.

People are interested and worried about how AI is going to change things, so the media is covering it (including hyping it).

Don't dismiss the speeding freight train as a gust of wind just because it does indeed displace some air.
Memories of working for Glu London after they got taken over by EA.
We had the consultation process, of course it was a foregone conclusion.

As others mentioned, in the UK (for now) you eliminate roles, not people - this means you can't just shift a role to another cheaper country.

I was training someone to do exactly my job in China, but it somehow wasn't the same role.

The team I was in wasn't treated as badly as some of them. I remember when the guy came in, who we later found out was going to cut everyone - got instant business psychopath vibes.
His E2E Starhip idea is so completely unviable and unrealistic that is is hard to even pick which argument should be used first :) . Everything about this idea is so wrong.

1. Price. Not viable, even using fantasy calculation of 2mil/flight (I suspect it will be at least 5-10 times more). You get 20000$ per ticket assuming full utilisation of 100 passengers. That's first class ticket price, or a seat at the shared business jet. So only rich people can afford it, but it is maybe realistic.

2. Utilisation - you will not find 100 people who simultaneously want to travel from A to B in the same exact hour while planning this trip weeks/months in advance. Planning trips is a vacation mode, business trips happen sporadically and quickly. This automatically throws off item #1 because then your price will skyrocket due to fewer people travelling.

3. Safety for passengers - no comments. Obvious blocker even on its own. Also Gov authorities will demand passengers training etc. (billionaire would go to months long training to save few hours of flight? lolno)

3b. Evacuation requirement. There is no possibility for quick evacuation of the 100 humans in spacesuits on the launchpad, so Gov will ban this idea.

4. G forces. Old and frail billionaires won't be able to fly this due to health concerns.

5. Landing pads. They need to be dozens of kilometers of both start and destination. This will eliminate any fantasies about saving time. And they will introduce immense additional expenses (so no 2mil flights).

6. Countries paranoia. Ballistic missiles of foreign force regularly overflying their countries in their airspace? Won't happen. The Axis of Pissed Contrarian Kids will block their airspace on principle (China, Ruzzia, all middle east, half of the South America etc.).

7. Reliability and reusability is not yet proven at all.

There are probably ten more issues with his plan if someone would sit and carefully analyze it and calculate costs.

tl;dr

Both hyperjets and passenger Starship is the same basic idea - futuristic travel via small but advanced "pods". Where "pods" is whatever futuristic looking vehicle of the day is used, with small capacity and unrealistic use case. Like hyperloop, autonomous cars, monorail cars, flying taxis, private rail vehicles etc. All complete bullshit.
If you’re open to fielding some questions about the area (and its academics), can you drop me a line at gmail using my username?
"Hold 10 engineers hostage in a technical discussion."

Oh how I don't miss working in an office. Avoiding work, overthinking things, and overbuilding.
I updated this gist to include a single-line bookmarklet version. With that, all you have to do is click the bookmark, and then click each conversation to download it as a markdown file.
This is obviously nonsensical?

A sense of self is meaningful (that is, has consequences for whatever operation) only if those consequences aren't random.

The concept of "self" serves a (or rather many) purposes, the most obvious being to protect yourself.
Things created with GPT-4
Ignoring AI tools is very shortsighted IMO
Yeah but hitting 300-500k is still quite comfortable
I ran FreeBSD too but FreeBSD didn’t have the official Flash plug-in. In fact for a long time Flash didn’t support anything aside IE. Not even Firefox nor Opera (remember that?). And even when Flash did eventually get ported to more platforms, half the time it still required a bunch of jacks to get working (like Firefox using Chome’s Flash plugin)

And as good as the 3rd party hacks were, they didn’t work all of the time. I remember a few sites I needed for work which required me jumping onto a Windows VM just to use.

There also wasn’t really such thing as “web video”. Flash was the closest we had. There were some other clients supported like Real Player but it was the same problem about having to install their software too.
Basically, Germany passed some pretty wide internet legislation called NetzDG[0] in 2019. Social media with more than 2 million users are required to respond within 24 hours to remove "clearly illegal" content or else they become liable (alongside reporting every 6 months how they're being complaint). The law only targets social media, news sites where you only have a small number of contributors but a potentially massive comment section aren't considered social media.

At least pre-Musk takeover, Twitter was compliant with this law only in the most literal sense - they would send a warning email to the user if a complaint was filed (even if nothing was done with it) and if they deemed it to be clearly illegal, they'd remove the content only in Germany with a warning message explicitly stating this content was only withheld in Germany[1].

I'm going to assume Musk fired the guy responsible for processing the complaints and nobody knows how to process them anymore. Seems about par for the course for Twitter. That or Musk himself decreed that they're just not going to comply anymore[2]. You can decide on that one, but the outcome is the same: the complaints aren't being processed so legal proceedings have been started.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Enforcement_Act

[1]: A modified version of this message (just with more countries added) would later be used to indicate the legally enforced blocking of Russia Today within the EU.

[2]: Which would be extremely ironic considering his commitment to following the law when it comes to restricting speech if that were the case.
> I suspect that the presentations and diagrams which need to be made, are made.

I don't think that's true.

E.g. diagrams are made, once, because of an audit, instead of made iteratively as the software changes.

Or someone says, "If they want to know, they can just talk to me. You know, have a conversation?"
You're not even in the same ballpark of arguing sensibly here.