skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I walk, a lot. I've been extremely happy with shoes made by Camper - especially their higher end lines - I have several of their Pelotas (not the lite version) with the oldest nearly 20 years old... and they are still all in great shape. I'd also recommend their Beetle, Peu, Peu Stadium, Bill and Atom lines. They have a wide range of styles and different colors and other options introduced seasonally. Unless you are an investment banker on Wall Street, they have shoes that will work in most office environments and also for casual wear. I do find that their leather lines do last much longer than the other materials, and they are priced accordingly, ranging $120-280+. If that seems like a lot, just wait for their quarterly sales of 30-40% (sometimes as much as 50%) off for the best deals.
How often do ships actually go there due to navigational error? Somebody should leave a buoy with cameras or something.

Edit: The Gulf of Guinea region has a decent amount of ship traffic, so a ship would have to stop at 0,0 and change direction to count as a navigational error, or a Null tourist.
I’d nominate degree of irreversability and timescale for damage to become apparent as drivers for differences on how fields need to be regulated
Why not ship the audio compressed and decompress it once when the game gets installed?

That wouldn’t help people whose issue with large game size is the amount of space used on their disk, but it would help people whose issue is the long download times.
This is neat. I always knew that hot water made my green tea taste too bitter for me, but never knew why.
That's one way to summarize it :)

We do quite a bit more though with session replay and error monitoring for your full-stack web apps.
Microsoft dropping Twitter from its advertising platform
Forest management is crucial, and prescribed burns are an important element there, but it does nothing to stop other wildfires, like the Vantage Highway fire and the one which destroyed so much property around Lind, WA. Not all wildfires are forest fires.
completely tangential comment--the "criticism" section mentions the Pruit-Igoe development and it eventual demolition. Film of the derelict development and its demolition was in the Godfrey Reggio film Koyaanisqatsi, and the Philip Glass music behind that section is one of my favorite sections of the score.
Newest versions of Windows do let you use these names.
> the philosopher who first conceived the idea of virtual reality

What does that even mean?
Throwing more money at professors' pay? Maybe, maybe not. Sounds like a political loser to me.
In theory it’s created by the singularity boundary.

Related, I posted a paper on William Sidis earlier today where he explored the idea of a black hole before they were theorized or discovered: https://www.sidis.net/animate.pdf
What about "police", is that a mass noun? I feel like my English is pretty much error free at this point but I still sometimes mess this one up. I might say "the police is coming" (as I'm running the other way) but the correct phrase is "the police are coming".
You can do this inside caddy
https://github.com/dulli/caddy-wol
Yep, just posted about this. Late 90's right?

I think it was Ygdrassil, or maybe a free distro off of a CD. Great investment of time as it got me into the oilfield doing tech support. Running Rocky 8 on a P1 Gen4 now, so come a long way from my 486/Dx2.
If Rembrandt pranks his neighbours with a cut out servant wench he paints in the window and we roll forward 400 years.. where's the NFT here? I have this Rembrandt. He painted it. It's worth $200m because it exists.
Summary (very high level): The article is about purposeful action.

It points out how AI, among other technologies, is being designed by us types here on HN & our employers, and consumed by our users, to serve the ends of the technologies themselves.

> If society, economics, culture, technology, or any other spheres of activity are to serve people, that can only be because we decide that people enjoy a special status to be served.

My take: We do seriously need to decide on the limits for AI. Then, as a tech maker culture, push requirements into the AI field.

I agree with the author that we should anticipate our users' desires to protect their information, and also to respect the rights of the originators of the model data our AIs are trained in. For AI, it will be damaging for us (techies) to do like we usually do, and blindly run up against the wall of Regulation and Societal blow-back as we zealously expand & apply our new toy inventions, since AI is dramatically impactful to all human labor.

Motivating questions: When should any given AI be disassembled? How should this happen?

[Meta tip: read this article from the end paragraph to the beginning]
This doesn’t replace journalists, it’s just an AI driven link aggregator.

That said as others have mentioned, LLVM’s are inherently biased through their training and this site only picks from moderate and left wing sites, bringing into question whether it could ever be unbiased.
Performance of Mercury’s first electric boat outboard motors
I’m not sure what other works an AI would be trained on. I guess we should hope they’re wiser than us humans
Just trying to maintain 60fps with a mapping Library like OpenLayers is a humbling experience.
by the same author: http://www.jaronlanier.com/zombie.html
Sure for Bing type interfaces it makes sense but if you consider what it is more holistically there are two questions: 1) do you want it to be non-deterministic and hope the first answer is the one you want everyone to see and 2) do you invalidate the entire cache every time there's a minor update to the model? How else do you tell which keys to remove?

You'd basically be removing the entire cache every release
Data are plural when you can also refer to a single datum. Data is singular if it's a mass noun, like water.

There is a similar conundrum with media / medium.
This reminds me of the competition to try and stop Asian carp from hitting the great lakes: https://www.outdoorlife.com/stop-asian-carp-earn-1-million/

I hope that's enough to generate some innovation in the area to solve a very large and growing problem.
They probably trained it until it agreed with their personal opinion of what is unbiased
And that's a pretty big reason in cities that aren't littered with giant parking lots.
Regulations are not written by the regulators- they are written by the bastards who put melamine in baby formula to make a dollar.
Dark energy is adding energy to the universe (mechanism unknown).
I try to remember that it doesn't matter if the algorithms are really AI or just cosplaying. If the end result is something that can behave like a malicious AI, whether or not it's aware may not matter so much. Maybe it's worse really since it's really not aware of what it does.
The biggest thing I'm worried about is whether the unlimited context (via convolution) is anything like picking a random set of samples. If I give it a super long context and then tell it to recall something at the very beginning, will it be able to do it? Will it be able to parse the question if it's a very small percentage of the total context, even if the question is at the very end? Or is it just less computationally expensive to process the entire context with this method?
That would imply there could be devices that can create thrust with electricity. Faraday ran experiments to try to test this…in the 1800s.

https://skullsinthestars.com/2009/03/06/michael-faraday-gran...
His thinking seems much clearer than most of the discourse around this technology.

But I think that a better way of thinking about these systems is an imperfect world model analogy. Not a made-of-people analogy.

These models are not made of people. People helped gathering data about the world around us. And that data allowed to build a world model. Which includes models of people, along with everything else.

And it’s a world model, not a human civilization model. Data goes through the funnel of The Pile and the likes, but ultimately the predictive model is of the universe, not that of humans.
There is no such thing as unbiased news.

Anyone claiming to be unbiased, rather than wearing their biases on their sleeves, is lying to you, or themselves, or they are just ignorant.

Likely some combination of all three.
my grandmother had gray hair for years and then had dialysis every other day for chronic kidney failure , in two years her hair started to grow black again
This does not compute in my mind, energy transfer (in some form) it is observed phenomena (my understanding (primitive) of time is energy transfer), even on quantum level we can measure it, what am I missing ?
Reached the thread length limit. With regard to your last comment:

> It's most definitely not the case that successive reactors are cheaper or faster, that's a myth that gets told but the data says otherwise both in the US and France and many other countries (but not all).

Maybe, but Votgle is a massive outlier and successive plants of the same design are all but guaranteed to be faster and cheaper. You don't make those kinds of mistakes twice.

For the long term trend, like you said it depends on the country. You can see in this figure:
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Overnight-Construction-C...

The giant explosion in costs for the US starts right when the disastrous ALARA regulation is adopted in 1971. Entirely self-inflicted wound. France and South Korea largely don't experience a cost increase in the time periods shown.

You're going to have trouble convincing me that we can't pull off a Messmer plan because it has literally been done before. Yes, the government should be in charge of and finance it. That's the only realistic option and that is what has worked before. Hire the Koreans if we have to. Build us 3 or 4 Barakahs. It's been done. It's being done. It can be done again.
>For some reason, people are more comfortable with inflation as a tax than taxes.

Because everything doesn't inflate at the same rate at the same time. That means the average person has some theoretical room to reconfigure their spending to minimize the impact of inflation. Ordinary people have no legal options to minimize the impact of higher taxes. That requires expensive CPAs and lawyers.
Yes they’re different. I’m dyslexic. I would still check that there isn’t some white label arrangement going on here, or the same factories involved, to be sure.
Descartes "evil demon" from 1641 says Wikipedia is the philosophical idea in all it's forms short of "but with a computer"

Anyone got anything earlier? Wouldn't surprise me.

https://iep.utm.edu/evil-new/
I explained in other siblings already why the toolkit cannot make assumptions about storing and restoring the window size. The app knows about the content and requests one or more windows with a requested size depending on its contents, and it's the OS/DE/WM that has to place it somewhere.

> - Yay, one more half baked implementation of loading a file and reading it, with a bit of bad luck it'll be in C too. Surely this will not lead to problems!

The link I provided documents this exact process in 4 languages including C and JavaScript and all the saving/loading/parsing and even binding the managed settings to the properties of a window is handled for you by the toolkit. It is 1 function call to initialize the settings and 1 function call per setting to bind it to the window property you want to manage. Oh, and these settings can be configured externally with various tools or GUI's as well if you want to.

> - Yay, your app now probably has to bother with saving DPI info and restoring that properly when using a different screen with different DPI.

AFAIK this is not something the app developer has to do and is handled by the DE with maybe a little help from the toolkit.

> - Yay, your app now has to bother with not positioning the window out of bounds in case it was on another screen. Surely this will not lead to problems!

Nope, an app can only request windows with some requested size, and it's up to the DE/WM to place it. Take tiling window managers for example which might be configured to always open new application bottom right, or top left, or floating or whatever. Sure, an app might dig down into the lower levels to finetune behavior but then the app developer chooses to open this can of worms to make sure it still works with all flavors of DE's/WM's/X11/wayland/etc

> You have now added dependencies on displays, IO, parsing. To restore the window's position. Add in client side decorations in this mess to make it even better.

GTK already has these dependencies and abstracts them for you in higher level API's while still providing access to lower level API's if you choose to use them. (Gdk for displays, Gio for IO and parsing/saving/loading and binding to settings is in Gio as well). Client side decorations is a matter of choosing what base window type you use, so you can have default decorations or start with a blank slate.

I honestly don't know what you expect GTK to do more than it already does.
Interesting one. In my ear "Biere" would only sound right when referring to distinct beer types. I think this is more a case where spoken German would prefer "3 bier bitte" but technically it should be "3 Biere". Reminds me of the old joke where you hold up two fingers and say "4 Bier fuer die Maenner vom Saegewerk".
contact Sales for a quote. I guess the price depends on how many files you plan on storing?
Yes it’s been mostly people not needing to be in the office following post Covid work from home policies, causing people to move from areas where the main attractor was being close to their in person job.
A typical OpenAI engineer gets 200-300k cash and 300-500k equity, at least from the levels.fyi data.
You need an agent.
Yeah, if you're going to exclude the common use cases, obviously it's going to be rare. (:

People still use local storage.

(I'd also like native ext4 support in Windows.)
> As a full time philosopher in the CTO’s office at MSFT

Is that like Shingy, the AOL digital prophet?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/17/crystal-ball-3
Can we just backronym AI to Approximate Intelligence and carry on?

There are so many dangers and possibilities of AI that are fascinating, and none of them are even remotely as interesting as those of actual animal and human intelligence.

It's as if AI is held up as a mirror to our stupidity, and the Turing Test is how we measure ourselves against our models of computation. I'm really weirded out by the fear and exploitation being demonstrated.

There's more to reality, and intelligence, than mathematical models we currently use and pretend to understand.

“Why should I refuse a good dinner simply because I don’t understand the digestive processes involved?”

— Oliver Heaviside
Is this parody? Surely Oracle cannot start enforcing its trademark after 20 years of ignoring it.

EDIT: Apparently it's a legit trademark (I searched for it and it's active). Here's a recent post about it from Ryan Dahl: https://tinyclouds.org/trademark
I would imagine this could be challenged. They are merely referring to Javascript in their title not appropriating the trademark itself.
The adjuncts in my department are all there willingly and they seem pretty happy if you listen to them tell it.

They are all retired engineers and project managers from a local technology firm. They got bored with retirement and like to come around and supervise projects in the capstone. We pay them a couple grand a semester for it, it's not a lot of work. They like it, our students like it, the faculty like it. Everyone wins, what's the problem? How are they being "exploited"?
Speaking only for postgres 15+, but in my testing, app drivers have been great about facilitating "connection pooling" without a separate server. Eliminates connection overhead at the app level for many projects.

Golang and ASGI Python (FastAPI, Starlette, Sanic) can do a small connection pool per worker, each worker can handle thousands of users at once.

PHP in 2023 has database connection persistence using FPM + PDO (effectively, one big connection pool shared between all workers on a server). Again, eliminates connection overhead- works well.

Just remember to raise your max_connections in postgres, like in this: https://gist.github.com/gnat/cfe3754c3dc817c7fb8b2225ef4db62...
that makes sense - in my line of work, lawsuits are an occupational hazard, I imagine it should not be the case for teachers! But I also think both that it’s easy to overstate the risk of some of these things and it would completely suck to be on the receiving end

It’ll be interesting to see if the pay rate generally goes up for teachers in florida if they end up with many other teachers making that same decision
Not available in Firefox yet:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1602129
"Blue-green deployment" seems to be another phrase for hot-warm installations which can use DNS-switching (or other means) for rollbacks. Or am I missing something?

Still like the write-up, even if not using Traefik.
I'm glad someone else noticed this. It drives me unreasonably crazy.
Is there a Discogs for video media? Is that what Murfie is/was?
My cynical AI opinion is that if it truly was revolutionary, we would be seeing private companies or governments use it internally to massively boost their productivity or achieve otherwise impossible feats. Instead, all we're seeing are consumer products or half-baked integrations that are another way to further centralize data collection.

Talks about all-powerful, malevolent AI or requesting to halt AI development just sounds like baiting for regulary capture to me. If AI research or use is deemed dangerous, it becomes even harder for startups or individuals to compete with established companies.

Also, I am not concerned about an all-powerful AI in the slightest. Humanity is excellent at oppressing others, and I have no doubt we'd be equally good at oppressing a true AI as well.
JavaScript depends on use case but around 10-100k lines (or when node_modules reaches 3GiB) it gets gnarly.

JavaScript is like Legos, durable and you can build many things in it.
You're my spirit animal now. I drink massive amounts of strong black tea with milk and I agree, has to be absolutely boiling and I preheat the teapot.

At work I put a teabag in hot water and zap it in the microwave for 20-30s, key to driving out the flavor into the water.

I don't like green tea but I would think that you should experiment with whatever temp gives you the extraction you need. Don't listen to experts is rule #1 when it comes to brewing.
Damn I hope people like this fail hard and fast so they cause less damage to the unfortunate people who cross their path.
GPT4 appears very intelligent when you discuss program code with it. It simply crazy; it can write SNOBOL4 code to extract a field from /etc/passwd.

When you discuss other things, it goes off the rails a lot more. For instance, I have had it quote some passages of classic English poetry to me, stating blankly that those passages contain certain words. The passages did not contain any traces of those words or even remotely similar words. In that situation, GPT4 was being dumber than /bin/grep, which can confirm that some piece of text doesn't contain a string.

GPT4 is deliberately trained as a coding technician, so that it will convince programmers who will become its advocates.

1. Programmers are vain and believe that everything they do requires great intelligence. (Not just some of it.)

2. GPT4 can "talk shop" with programmers, saying apparently intelligent things, perform complex refactorings, and intuit understanding of a piece of code with minimal context based on meaningful identifier names, and so on.

3. Thus, some programmers will falsely conclude that it's highly intelligent, like them.

To be sure, what the technology does is unmistakably a form intelligence. It solves complex problems of symbol manipulation and logic, in flimsy contexts. To deny that it is artificial intelligence is silly.

AI /= AGI

That's not where the goalposts are for the definition of AI.

Computers playing chess is AI. Google Assistant is AI. An expert system from 1990 is AI.
I’m not sure if “Police” is a considered a mass noun, but it is inherently plural as per its definition which is “a collection of enforcement officers.” There is no singular form but it is also can be used as an adjective and a verb.
> there a limit to how many discrete facts you can retain in your memory

Yep. Once you've tried to train yourself on too much data, your brain begins to hallucinate facts (more) similarly to an LLM. You'll be able to reject (most of?) these hallucinations, but you won't really have all the facts anymore.

I've tried to do this before and it doesn't end up with you being an expert in anything. It just ends up with you either being confused, or being confidently wrong. I hallucinate facts all the time.
This only works if you’re a bro who is chummy with leadership. Honestly this is one of the worst pieces of advice for a marginalized person. If you show any indication of leaving as a marginalized person you are extremely likely to be pegged as “a flight risk” or “unstable” or “frantic” and your job will likely be eliminated before you actually are ready to roll.

In the U.S. this likely means losing your healthcare and missing your children’s tuition payments — and even your housing. Your visa if you’re immigrating, etc.

The only people who have enough psychological security to do this are the ones who don’t actually depend on their jobs for maintaining their current standard of living.

In a perfect world this would be great advice for everyone, however given the political and economic culture of the U.S. this is pretty horrible advice for a marginalized person. Our labor laws don’t support this behavior for a reason — and if “push comes to shove” every corporation in Silicon Valley will air on the side of modern labor laws (or lack there of).
How does expansion of universe increases total energy ?

If anything seems like due to dark energy total energy dissipation per area is increasing until death of universe.
"News organizations are terrible, so we take all of their work actually investigating, interviewing, and reporting about events, and run it through a GPT-powered article spinner without having to leave the house or do any original reporting"

Doesn't really sound like a news company to me.

Also, while I'm on the topic, "unbiased" news is an anti-pattern. A big part of the value of reporters is synthesizing and contextualizing events. Wikipedia current events[1] is basically unbiased news, but it has a tiny audience (and is still dependent on linking out to actual news organizations).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
A lot of these discoveries were being made when OpenAI and ChatGPT were pretty new to the general public. Nobody knew what it did, so these kinds of questions were no different than any questions being asked, basically.

That so deep a bias was discovered so quickly was likely incredibly surprising to some, and incredibly unsurprising to others, but they were asked for the same reason as others - to find out what it does and whether it could be seen as reliable for a source of information
In Torah, months start when a crescent moon is sighted with an unaided eye without a binocular. They have moon charts like this in their calendars. https://eliyah.com/calendar2023.pdf There’s one holy day that starts on the first day of the seventh month.
Well I think parent's comment is now obsolete. The new truth is going to be a blurry middle ground between establishment media, independent media (substack, Twitter-based disclosures), and public scientific disclosures.
With an optimized prompt!
How much can Duolingo teach us?