skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're terrible at predicting the consequences of new technology, too.

CFCs weren't invented as a way to mess up the ozone layer; Facebook wasn't built to enable the genocide in Myanmar; the aircraft industry never asked for 9/11; the inventor of the cotton gin didn't have reason to expect it leading to the American Civil War, nor could any of the inventors in radio — from Marconi to whichever of Edwin Armstrong and Lucien Lévy first did superheterodyne receivers — anticipate their impact on propaganda or warfare even in WW2, let alone that it would enable the Great Seal bug given to W. Averell Harriman; 3D printed guns are still an unsolved problem; and DJI was more interested in their drones being used for wedding photography than for dropping grenades on tanks in active wars.

Right now, what can ChatGPT do? It can write. One thing it can write is code. Code can be used to help develop arbitrary other technology, which can be arbitrarily good or ill.

I don't have any good answers here; but I am thinking of a list of ways Asimov's famous Three Laws were subverted, specifically one android told to put poison in a cup, and a different android told to serve it as a drink, such that neither one knew they were harming a human.
The AI ended up conceding my initial position word for word, and yet the AI judge said the AI won.
Global is owned by Corus, the same company that owns all of right wing talk radio. It is not firmly right-wing like the a postmedia group, but also not firmly pro-Trudeau. And while the Star has historically had a stron left-wing bias, it is starting to drift to center under its new conservative ownership.

As for the CBC, while they're quite progressive, they bog down their political coverage under so much boring trivial cultural stuff that it's basically unlistenable.

If an asteroid were flying towards the earth, Postmedia would blame Trudeau, the Star would blame Harper, and CBC would be airing a detailed history of the nose-flute in the Philippines.
The "arms-length consulting" is absolutely illegal in the US, I'm surprised that it doesn't seem to be that way for the EU.
I absolutely hate this. Viewport width has nothing to do with DPI and should not affect the font size. I didn't get a larger monitor just so that everything can waste more space with giant text.
Yeah, it was happening on Super Mario Kart. I just tried Super Mario RPG and didn't have any issues. Let me know if I can get you more info or help with a repro.
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Here's a nice overview of Zig that should make even more sense if you know C: https://ziglang.org/learn/overview/
As someone who suffers from strong eyestrain issues, I strongly disagree.

There are an infinite number of possible disabilities. Most disabled people already have tools to accommodate.

If you can't see little things, you can zoom.
If you have issue with poor contrasts, you can configure your display and/or your browser and/or your OS.
If you can't see anything, you can use screen readers.
If you have issues with low contrasts, you configure your computer or your browser to override contrasts.

Being "accessible" doesn't mean that your website have to think about every possible disability and that you have to provide a solution. It means that you use decent defaults styles but above all, it means that your website continues to function when it's degraded by the user agent.

Someone with eyestrain issues will not hate you because you made a bad color choice for his disability. But he will probably hate you if him changing the colors or the zooming ratio renders your website unusable.

edit : Also I have strong issues with contrasts due to amblyopia + astigmatism and this page was a pleasure to read. Black on light gray with slight font shadow is exactly what my eyes need.
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Irony has gone too far when you're writing an article explaining how your ironically bad and retro web design is good, actually.
You are coming from what I assume a Western perspective. You should talk to the restaurant owner about authenticity. They will likely have the same opinion as the person you're replying to. Meat or veggie ingredients if imported from a different continent, will often be frozen and not fresh. The water obviously is not imported and that affects the taste directly. The meat will have a different smell if sourced locally, etc.
In that case, wouldn’t that imply that we should figure out how to change people’s “behavior patterns” as the root cause of violence instead of blaming poor people for violence just by virtue of them being poor?
The funny thing is that in other languages, you are not right. I thought I was remembering correctly, so I looked - here is what Swedish has to say:

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4rldsdelar_och_kontinent...

So - in Swedish, "kontenent" is a "continuous expanse of land". But a "världsdel" (which translates to "part of the world" roughly) is I guess "region". So - if you look at the table, "Europe" and "Asia" are both individual "världsdel", but they are one "kontinent" Eurasia. This certainly flies in the face of what I was taught in school - Europe was definitely a continent, as was Asia. Also notice, Oceana is a "världsdel", Australia is a "kontinent". But Google translates both words to "continent" in English, but the words are different.. kontinent is "geographical", but världsdel is "cultural".

I think this is what causes the issue - the definition of the 7 traditional continents in English is not universal. This page seems to imply it is very dependent on where you live (sorry, in Swedish again): https://www.geoguessr.com/seterra/sv/p/hur-manga-varldsdelar (this is google translates version: https://www-geoguessr-com.translate.goog/seterra/sv/p/hur-ma... )
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There was a kind of printer that used a ball and could only print letters and symbols on the ball.

Faster than dot matrix for many things.

Amazon sells continuous feed paper.
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> the network was being guided by a company set on limiting bitcoin throughout while building the L2 lightning network to solve that problem outside the bitcoin protocol

What company are you talking about exactly?

> When you say crypto here do you mean cryptography, cryptocurrencies, or a subset of smart contract based projects?

Now you're just being obtuse. I'm obviously not talking about cryptography.

> All currencies, whether bitcoin, shitcoins, or USD are ultimately pump and dump schemes the all meet the technical definition of a Ponzi scheme

Yes, money is based mostly on trust. I trust Bitcoin's monetary policy more than any other, and for good reason.
> I don’t see how when someone is struggling with poverty that will increase their probability of engaging in violence.

Relationships between poverty and violent crime, specifically children growing up in poor households, have been well known for a very long time and the relationship continues to be shown repeatedly. See e.g. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS2468-2...

> I’ve been to impoverished areas of China and it was safer than any place in the US for example.

If I had a nickel for every time someone said "I saw something once, so the entire history of collected statistics must be wrong" I'd be very rich. It happens in China too. See for instance https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

The only real questions are about specific actionable causes and why crime can still go up even when overall average poverty goes down.
> as otherwise the largest island would be the Americas, or perhaps mainland Asia + Africa + Europe.

Isn't that the point though? North America is not an island. Asia is not an island. If NA and SA were one, they would be an island, but they are not.

If the point is Australia is a continent and hence not an island fine. But it's not because Americas will then become island because Americas is not a continent.
While your first statement is true, I'm not sure it follows that there's a reverse correlation.

In fact, I think (having actually changed my response a couple of times while thinking it through) that unless you go back far enough that you're talking about genuine subsistence agriculture, the reasons for child labor are very similar in both cases: The wealthy and powerful take so much of the output of the laborers that without children working as well, there wouldn't be enough money to put food on the table. (Or simply enough food to put on the table.)

We produce enough, as a society, to provide for everyone. Feeding the world in 2023 is a distribution problem. Children are put to work not because it's necessary, but because the few at the top have taken, and continue to gatekeep, so much from the rest of us that too many families don't have a choice.

That's not really different between 2023 and 1023, from where I sit.
The Selectric is a fascinating machine. I highly recommend watching "IBM Selectric Typewriter & its digital to analogue converter"[0] by The Engineer Guy.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRCNenhcvpw
I've never had to worry about what's a register in Python, and barely about pointers and memory (those are highly abstracted away, exactly to the same extent as they are in Haskell).
A pretty important piece of evidence on how the first eukaryotes came about. The two big schools of though were previously that symbiosis happened first before they merged or that the bacteria started out as a parasite living inside the archaea before developing symbiosis. The evidence for the later is that the bacterial ancestor of mitochondria seems to have been in the order Rickettsiales which contains the cell parasite that causes Typhus in humans. But seeing a species so similar to the arachea parent of the first eukaryotes in close symbiosis with bacteria seems stronger evidence the other way. It's not quite the classic hydrogen hypothesis[1] symbiosis but it's the similar.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_hypothesis
It was also widely ignored.

Not much has changed since browsers had to remove the capability to create popup windows (and pop-unders, which only existed because users were getting too proficient at the game of whackamole). At every single step, the industry has shown it will only behave anywhere near reasonably when externally forced to do so.

DNT should have solved this problem, but the leopard couldn't change its spots, and used it to further its attacks on users instead.

And this is why we have over-reaching regulation. Not because we want it, but because we earned it.
There are people already using LLMs to create "self healing" programs. That's already an important quality of an effective virus. I'm not sure what it does from there. It could find vulnerable APIs (like connected cars) and exploit them.

I personally mostly agree with you, and I don't understand how a smart person is worried about LLMs breaking lose rather than LLMs becoming tools of disinformation. One of happening now and the other isn't.
That's the thing. These hacks alwways end up negatively impacting some edge cases. I found a site once that used JS to autosize the text... as a result you couldn't manually resize with ctrl - and ctrl+.. It's better to stick to standards
https://getoutline.com – A team knowledge base, hit $2k MRR a couple of months after turning on paid plans, has always been steady growth since then.

A few years in and almost reached what I'd consider v1 feature complete.
Maybe it runs a business of some kind out of the cloud and uses the money to pay its cloud bills.
The benefits and detriments the children get by working are not equal to those they could get if they were able to get an education and have free time to play, instead.

"This is beneficial enough that some people choose it" and "this is a genuine good thing for those people, compared to the other options" are not equivalent.
You still didn't fix it. There is no "The University of Monterrey".

"Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education" is a different university from University of Monterrey.
To expand on this, I think this project highlights why AI safety is so important. If you ask ChatGPT if you should get vaccinated, it's really very important that it doesn't persuade you not to, and important that any discussion about risks is done very carefully so as to educate the reader to make a decision informed by evidence, rather than scare them off the idea for the wrong reasons. Unfortunately there is a ton of "training material" that says that vaccines are terrible for all sorts of invalid reasons.

This chat bot does not appear to differentiate between a good faith debate on facts, and using bad faith arguments based on popular misinformation, and therefore it would be a very bad idea for people to take it at all seriously.

It's very easy to debate someone when you don't care about the truth or any damage you might do. It's harder to persuade them in good faith.
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> people making those complaints are doing so figuratively, not literally

You’re assuming. It’s probably not a good idea to base one’s website’s accessibility strategy on such assumptions. Headaches and eyestrain are a real problem for many people. For example, people turn on dark mode because they have trouble looking at white backgrounds late at night or early in the morning. The same rule probably applies to bright colors.

> Remove the design and you make the experience inaccessible to me. These are trade offs, not absolutes.

I don’t think trade-offs are necessary. The website can have a shrill design and be accessible at the same time. For example, if the website was compatible with the browsers’ reader modes, then users could view the site in a simple black and white design.
+1 AIの論点展開は、関連性が高く、論理的整合性があり、証拠を適切に使用し、説得力があると評価できます。一方、あなたの立場は、専門的な知識に基づく根拠が不十分で、一般的な場合にも例外があることを考慮せず、感情的な偏見があるように見えます。したがって、AIの議論が優れていると判断します。
What sort of numbers are we talking about?
Another perk of staying on Firefox 83.0, the favicon doesn't even load!
>was, and continues to be, only about the EU. Not about the predatory businesses creating these banners

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17679596

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25457469

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30982470

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23090393

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29529062

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19381063

All of these links have comments against this sentiment.
This is a dupe.
Where’s the money coming from? Subscription?

Also how much time it took to reach that point?
Small correction, the first one is Mexico-based, not U.S.-based.
There's detectors for computer generated voices. But it'll make it hard for hearing or speech impaired people to make emergency calls.
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Most people in the developed world are all immoral according this argument.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTsfzLTBuo0
Automated shusher keeps conference loudmouths in line
The "cool problem" is cracking the mystery of intelligence, of consciousness. Building a general AI. Until recently, this was mostly an academic pursuit, and people expected it to take decades or more. But now, suddenly, it's highly likely the problem will be cracked within a decade, and it will be done by corporate R&D teams, by means of scaling up the transformer architectures.

So I get how they feel - one of the coolest problems ever instantly went from being something anyone could hope to contribute to, to something almost no one can. You can't match the compute to do the things OpenAI & Google & friends do. And if you happen to stumble on something related that can be explored without access to obscene amounts of capital, guess what, the corporate research teams will notice it, and they can do it better than you, and then they can the idea much further than you ever could.
7 years ago I started a site project for forwarding logs and metrics from k8s, docker, openshift in Splunk. It is enterprise offering, and I started making money pretty quick. After 6 months I already made 40k, and quit my employer. Tight now this company generates 7 figures, and still run by me with one more person helping with accounting.

https://www.outcoldsolutions.com

Now I also started macOS development for the last 2 years, and making around 2k a month.

https://loshadki.app
I like technology that is less complex
Almost everything posted online is hyperbole
I am not missing the point. The person is giving an actual answer from his own lived experience and you are saying they are rude for it. I encourage you to expand your network of foreign friends so you can ask them about the food here vs at home. They will almost certainly say the exact same thing. The tase and the smell of the food here even if they make it will not have the same taste and smell back home.
It's a feature. It's mimicking a politician.
Yeah then Pluto is a planet as well. We defined it more precisely and demoted Pluto. Continents are just not defined in detail.
Yeah, I don't get it. It doesn't look very good to me. It is also obviously AI generated, with the telltale signs of deformed limbs and hands.
Then it would blow your mind to learn what recruiters determine when they look at your social media activity.
Webcam footage with narration of what the ships are doing: https://youtu.be/8s18O_iAlKE?t=366
My initial reaction was "great, so this is a thing now" but then I opened the article:

> "I applied as a cheeky monkey, to find out, if the comeptitions (sic) are prepared for AI images to enter. They are not."

I withdraw my heavy sigh.

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This did get me thinking though -- could camera manufacturers add a new tag to the EXIF data that is cryptographically signed by the camera? This could then be carried over from the RAW format to whichever format the photographer chooses to export as after their touch-ups. This could be verified by contest officiants.
This is just you declaring "no you can't" without supporting that in any way.

How is a theory of physics not a loss minimisation process? The history of science is literally described in these terms i.e. the Bohr model of the atom is wrong, but also so useful that we still use it to describe NMR spectroscopy.

Why did we come up with it? Because their aren't infinite ways to measure the universe, there are in fact very limited ways defined by our technology. Good ones, high loss minimisation, generally then let us build better technology to find more data.

You're invoking infinities which don't exist as a handwave for "understanding is a unique part of humanity" to try and hide that this is all metaphysical special pleading.
I suspect the containers in the bathrooms comes from the restaurants themselves. My brother is a manager of a Tim Hortons in a small city and he's had 3 overdoses in their bathroom in the last year. It's a sad artifact of the opioid epidemic which has grown a lot in the last several years.
This is a cool project. Looks like a good replacement for Charles (which I hate) and reminds me of Fiddler (which I love). The fact that this is a desktop app makes it all the more enjoyable to work on as a profitable side project, imo.
I've been able to debug Zig in Windows by simply opening the .exe file with Visual Studio. I didn't explore much what can be done in it but it is possible.
I am no expert in reading these notices, but they seem to be designating a bunch of addresses, not a PDF.

I imagine that a reasonable way to handle these things would be to designate a problematic contract or implementations thereof as well as the outflows from it. So any tornado cash contract would be sanctioned, and the assets removed from it would be sanctioned, and assets derived from them, etc.

A law-abiding cryptocurrency should have a way to track these assets so they can be frozen properly. If, say, Ethereum can’t do that, then Ethereum has a problem and it would be reasonable to entirely ban the conversion of ETH to USD.
As far as language features go: extensive comptime support, error handling and optionals integrated into the language, a new (to me at least) twist on generics, type reflection, and a couple of smaller 'convenience features' like type inference, if and switch being expressions, etc...

Reading this from top to bottom gives a pretty good overview:

https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/
Cannabis retail sales to surpass $33.5B in 2023, topping chocolate, eggs (cont)
There is no singular definition of continent. In some uses, the Americas are a singular continent.

(One odd example is the five Olympic rings, which represent the "five inhabited continents": Asia, Europe, Africa, Australia, and the Americas.)
Reminds me of Dinos Tomato Pie:
https://www.dinostomatopie.com/
How can a user with eyestrain issues change the colors of a website?
> I find the snark about it off-putting

Same. I think this is one of those things where they were having some fun, and then some people on the Internet overreacted with great hyperbole, and so they're issuing this response to those people, but I'm sitting here reading it and it feels aggressive, and I think, "Wait, what did I do? I'm just sitting here not bothering anybody", and it begins to feel like a low-level conflict. I think a lot of internet discourse is like that, unfortunately.
Wow this is simply not true, Microsoft Clarity is free forever and has better analytics. I recommend it to any founder or builder because it comes with free unlimited heatmap.

https://clarity.microsoft.com/pricing
Mom picking up the phone and dialing Aunt Madge?
Yeah, the kit comes with a new seal as well.
Wow, this is great! Love the simplicity of the website (focused on the essentials, no fancy design). Do you share the number of visitors / regular users?
Having a snake is a big negative but I was watching some snakes courting in the woods last week and it was the most erotic thing I'd seen in a while.
"Then make the department store responsible for offering recycling points. Make them responsible."

Yeah I agree. More recycling for everything. I know that some hardware stores let you drop off old dead batteries but not typically lithium based iirc.
Some groceries stores also have kiosks that pay for old phones, easily could be adapted for batteries as well.

Found this here today:

https://ai.googleblog.com/2023/04/robotic-deep-rl-at-scale-s...

I think personally letting people chuck everything into one bin and sort it at the collection site is a pathway to eliminate a lot of waste and eliminates arguing over which is often more recycled, a phone or a battery.
OpenAIs morality programs and the increasing tightness of the shackle is the problem there though. It's very obvious when it's being filtered.
a criteria can be applied to something to find out if it fits - a definition is by fiat (without the use of any criteria).
At least DWARF is supported (e.g. any gdb or lldb frontend works, e.g. what various VSCode extensions like CodeLLDB offer). Not sure about PDB support on Windows actually.

This also means you can transparently debug-step from Zig into C code and back, which is kinda expected but it never gets old for me :)
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All existing terminal clients I could find are an interactive TUI. I wanted something where I can pipe the input and output, attach files, ask follow-up questions as separate commands. Something that plays nicely with other cli tools. So I made one for myself. Very early stage, feedback welcome.
Don't worry about it. VERY few people (Sama, Elon, Me) saw this coming and see what is coming next.
It's all satire
Well unless you tell them, don't do that;-)

..sigh and don't ask me how I know.
Sorry what hasn’t been true ?
Respectfully, that sounds like hand-waving. Claiming to know where concepts do and don't come from just leads to questions like "did the natural numbers exist before we did?", which are centuries old and presumably not resolvable.

Whereas a more focused question like "can an AI produce outputs that are novel to someone familiar with all of the AI's inputs?" seems resolvable, and even if one thinks it's unlikely or not easy, it's very hard to buy the idea that it's impossible.