skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no good answer to this. I suggest not wasting your time trying to argue in good faith with irrational or straight up malicious actors. Better invest in ways to protect yourself, your assets and your anonymity through technology.
ext2fsd and ext2ifs do exactly that, although neither of them is very actively maintained (but do they really need to?)
"This talking dog is a complete dumbass. It has no idea how to make a good risotto, and the C++ code it wrote has security holes you could drive a truck through. I don't get the hype."
Over 20 years later, Guantanamo is still here. While most of the detainees are surely there for a reason, due process has not been observed. This will be a blemish on US history for a long time.
We are weird about herbs! Ask me how I say "basil"...
In this framing I see the AI more as bots than game masters…
This video is one of my favorites from Ahoy, what a great job preserving this awesome piece of retro music history.
It used to be more common to have optional texture packs like this. It seems to have fallen out of favor, I can offer some informed speculation as to the reasons:

* Every additional configuration i.e. 'texture pack vs no texture pack' is more QA workload to verify that everything works as expected. So adding this option is more work for your already-busy testers.

* Adding DLCs to deployment systems like Steam or PSN is additional work and then when patching the game you would also need to patch the DLC. I can imagine the coordination overhead here being a pain.

* Some users will fail to install the DLC and then complain that the game is ugly or that the screenshots were misleading. This is ultimately a user education problem but it's also the case that the flow for installing DLC on most platforms is awkward.

* The DLC install process adds additional points of failure, so you need to handle all of that now too.

* Users installing a new graphics card will probably be annoyed to have to suddenly wait for a HD texture pack to download before they can test it out.

All pretty minor individually, but it probably adds up to explain why most studios don't do this.

I wonder how widespread developer support for Xbox Smart Delivery (which is basically what you describe) actually is at this point?
It’s not Java, it’s more like a badly designed LISP in Java/C syntax, which in itself makes all the advantages of LISPs go out the window.
Corporations are made of people - subsystems with latency measured with minutes to days and bandwidth measured in words per minute. AIs are made of subsystems communicating with latency dictated by speed of light and bandwidths in GB/s.

When you want to clone a corporation it's a whole enterprise. Cloning an AI takes one click.

Yes, corporations were early form of AI, and horses were early form of transport. Doesn't mean that horses and rockets are the same and that no new safety precautions apply.
Modern AI doesn't replicate biology except that humans find it much easier when you explain something as "Artificial Neurons" versus "Gradient Descent Back-propagation Trained Nested Mathematical Functions." Human neurons don't function anything like deep neural networks nor are the latter based on the former in their current state.
Given that Singapore ranks very low on human rights and press freedom, where is this data being sourced and how do we know it’s accurate?

If I kill anyone with a moderate amount of drugs and jail and charge huge fines to those with a small amount, and I curtail press freedoms heavily, how do we know that they’ve actually tackled the drug problem instead of pushing it into the shadows?

Also, for what it’s worth Singapore itself reported an increase in drug smuggling even as hangings increased [1]. So maybe there isn’t a correlation there. It all seems like wishful thinking to justify inhumane policies.

As another poster pointed out, it’s extremely suspicious that the penalized under drug policies seems to have a racial used tinge to it. Kind of how in America black people outnumber white people significantly for drug crimes even though by all metrics it seems like drug use rates are quite similar.

Did America’s strict drug laws create a better society than countries that tried more empathetic approaches with legalization and trying to help drug addicts get back on their feet? I think there’s a reason America’s laws are liberalizing with respect to drugs. There’s an understanding that draconian laws harm more than they help (if they even help at all).

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-singapore-law-drugs-idUSK...
It's hard to say what is CRT and camera artifacts, but it looks to me like the background isn't flat.
Lol, Blank slate does not mean for others to write on you. Blank slate means for you to be free of your own tendencies and not be beholden to your desires. And able to write your own Character.
Coinbase is not a market maker. Only FTX had that going, through Alameda.
GPT surely isn't the end, but rather the start of "intelligent" language models. At this time it's hard to decide whether we can make a model that will be truly super intelligent, or we are already approaching some kind of limit.
When I was messing around with this (~1995?), there was a Yuval Fisher paper floating around which did a good job of explaining it. Although it looks like it now costs ~$40 to get that paper or ~$100 for his book. Helpful!
> Please tell me which authority is in charge of password complexity.

There are numerous authorities around the world who mandate this. Last time I checked, the PCI DSS required conventional password complexity, and if you want to process credit cards, then you must comply with the PCI SSC’s standards. Central banks all around the world impose security standards on retail banks. Governments all over the world impose security standards on their vendors, and upon other industries that they regulate. NIST and the NCSC should be applauded for their innovation here, but they’re absolutely not the only regulating authorities in the world, and it took them a shockingly long time to adopt this incredibly simple change.

> What makes you think that the USB standards committee didn't create the USB-C standard in anticipation of this and are happy that their connector became standard?

I’m sure there’s not a standards committee in the world that would be unhappy about being enshrined into the law. But that doesn’t mean it’s appropriate to regulate this with legislation, and doesn’t change the fact that legislation like this stifles innovation. Innovation is a bottom up process. Innovation happens when small groups of people come up with something new, and gradually convince other people to adopt it by demonstrating its value to them. Changes to regulation can only happen top down. Any attempt to innovate in a regulated context eventually hits a wall where innovative experimentation must gain the blessing of the regulating authority before it progresses any further.

It’s easy to advocate for this trade off when safety is involved. It’s no less stifling, in fact when a regulation is created to prevent a serious harm, it’s substantially more stifling and difficult to change. But the benefit of that trade off is very simple to understand. Regulating cellphone charging cables however, does not fall into that category, and the costs imposed by the regulation are of a highly dubious value. How many cables did you use 20 years ago, that you’re still happy using today? I can’t think of a single example in my personal life. I can only think of one that I begrudgingly use. The USB C connector will be 14 years old by the time the EU’s regulations are done rolling out.
Scary as the prospect of job losses sounds, I feel like the real threat is that AI copywriting is just going to destroy content marketing altogether as businesses try to outdo each other with more noise and people begin to tune-out of the internet once they realize just how much of it is made by bots.

I think we overestimate how much normal people are plugged into the internet and I don’t think we give enough credit to the idea that trends in internet use might reverse course once they realize every person they talk to is a bot and everything they encounter was made by bots.
Not really. The booster has 33 engines that go at full throttle during launch. Tha Starship has only 3 engines. Only one or two of them are used when landing here, on Earth. It stands to reason that on the Moon or Mars, with their much lower gravity, only one engine will need to be used, and only at partial throttle.
How can crypto companies be expected to follow the law, if the head of the SEC cannot say if Ethereum is a security or a commodity?
I couldn’t get it to work.

So I made the next most obvious choice - a vm which is logged into iCloud and downloads them, then rsyncs out the vm and onto a Synology file share.

It’s terrible.
Engineering first? From the company with 1 inch gaps between panels? From the company that had no mechanical handles in the back, so if the electrical stuff stopped working (say, because the battery was on fire), passengers in the back had to finish a puzzle to find out how to get out of the car?
Something solid ahead

To clarify: I mean that, generally speaking, the presence of 'cloudy' water would presumably signify that the seafloor was close. In the open ocean, maybe a sea mount is surrounded by essentially a cloud of particles.

Edit: I think your reply made the thread reach maximum depth, so I'll end it here.. I should do more reading on the topic.
Why do you say it’s garbage?
My dream is to be able to write everything in CSS. That would be my language of choice.
This feels like a caricature of a caricature of a Xerox of a vapid MTV real world valley girl meets zoomer abomination. Absolutely brutal to read.
Flagging is an ability HN users get after attaining a certain level of karma; flagged posts are generally flagged as such by said users, not by the mods.
This is still in the USA. They still had to get approval from the EPA to set up all of this stuff. I realize this comment is satire, but the reason this location was chosen has to do with orbital mechanics. A launch pad close to the equator can send payloads to a larger range of orbital inclinations.
Try exiting Vim when there is nothing to exit to...
The issue is that the cloudiness of water, even open water, varies greatly. So there would be either lots and lots of false positives, or the system would be too insensitive.

Think driving in fog
I think the parent comment's point was exactly that, to idiots, the opinions of a genius look idiotic. Just as Elon's and Brunel's opinions and methods look stupid to their contemporaries (as we see today with Elon, and in the 19th century with Brunel).
I can see how much of an asshole I can be in some of those comments, but I can see at least one where you were a bit more stricter than was called for, I will not deny that such opinion is likely to be biased, ha.
Its web scale!
This very thread is a precise example of why moderation is hard and necessary. I read the whole thing and it has zero interesting substance, and does not do anything to satisfy curiosity, which is largely the point of HN.

I’d recommend reading the guidelines one more time.
That again is a technological problem. Web infrastructure providers rely on CAPTCHAs because nothing better exists once you take away browser fingerprints. Zero-knowledge authentication would enable a browser to prove to a server that it's being used by a legitimate user without compromising privacy or forcing its user to perform CAPTCHAs.

But these technologies cost money to develop, and this is where the government can step in. The cost, while great, should be compared to the labor and innovation costs of imposing regulatory straightjackets like GDPR on everyone, which are hard to measure, but undoubtedly enormous in the aggregate given the pervasiveness of their effects.
I am not seeing a single app out of the two dozen bluesky apps on my phone that has screens looking similar to those on the download page. None of them has more than a 500 downloads.
One interesting example from Latin is the word "virus", which roughly means "slime" -- being a mass noun, it has no classically attested plural.

I think that if it had a classical plural, it would be virora (like corpus -> corpora, tempus -> tempora) but ultimately the concept of "a virus" is a modern invention.
Singapore is ranked 139th in the Press Freedom Index[1]. Until last year, it ranked behind Russia and Afghanistan. It's safe to say that publicly challenging Singapore's official figures, or trying to obtain data from alternative sources, would be very difficult, if not outright dangerous.

So this is not the same thing as questioning data from just anywhere else. Singapore's government transparency is abysmal by international standards, especially by the standards of developed countries.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_Freedom_Index
> As we all know, nobody uses emacs.

Ha! Old school. It's boring now that we're all pals.
WhatsApp backs up your encryption key to Google Drive by default, meaning it's far from end-to-end encryption.

It's more like end-to-Google-to-end. If you choose to decline this default, your conversation partners probably haven't.

Signal had a catastrophic bug that would send random images in your camera roll to random contacts. If you want your private photos sent to your family members, use Signal I guess.
That’s hardly an option — which other device has similarly good hardware and that good privacy?

The only possibility would be a GrapheneOS-installed pixel, but the pixel is nowhere near an iphone in terms of hardware and besides all the unacceptable hardware bugs, google simply doesn’t seem to want to sell it to people. (Most of the EU is not a target for some insane reason).

The real solution is government intervention, which will allow sideloading.
I know what you're saying is inescapably true, but I feel the need to point out that the fact that is has gotten to the point that it is inescapably true fucking sucks and there is a lot of work that needs to be done to undo it.

True change lies in policy and legislation, not in technical defence. The ability to change policy and legislation is a sign that 'power' is coming back into balance between the people and the government - and if we can't do that, then the power balance needs restorative work.

Technical defence should always exist, but rarely be necessary, especially against the government of one's own country.

(If one can argue in good faith in public, visibly, the bad faith of the opposition matters less than the ability to make aware as many of the public as possible. Bad faith, irrational, or malicious actors should be able to be backed into a corner with their own arguments)
> I can only assume you've been hiring really shitty writers

Which is what 99% of companies hire because they don’t have budget or think they shouldn’t spend more? Talented writers, designers, programmers, lawyers etc won’t be gone soon, but the 99% of crap out there (most of fiverr, most of upwork etc) will be done soon. And while that seems a good thing in some ways, it is a massive economical and societal issue.

The output of chatgpt is ‘good enough’ for most things and for the price (near $0) of it, you can do many iterations yourself without paying a writer.
Yea, I wouldn't build a bot on a platform that's continuously dancing with cryptocoins and freemium-premium.

Just build a webapp.
Let me upvote this even if I personally don't care as much about e2e in large group chats.

Why? First time I can remember top critical comment has gotten encrypted/e2e-encrypted correct :-)
> Vogtlr is the norm for advanced developed countries.

It is for countries that only build a few reactors. Again, China and Korea don't have this problem because they build lots of reactors. They aren't aliens. China doesn't even have cheap labor these days. The South Koreans are an advanced economy like us. They got good at it by doing it. There is no reason why we couldn't do that. We just don't want to and then we say it's not possible because we aren't good at it. It's circular logic. We've been saying it takes too long for decades when that is plenty of time to rebuild those skills and then build reactors quickly. We could've been done by now.

> Look at all the Us construction projects from the 70's, before Three Mile Island.

The chart in my last comment shows those reactors were built economically. If you look at the reactor build times at PRIS you can see the build times are quite impressive too: https://pris.iaea.org/PRIS/CountryStatistics/CountryDetails....

> I haven't heard anyone suggest that we should get rid of ALARA that works in the field

Why is that surprising? They are trained and educated that this is the correct and lawful standard to which they must operate. It's baked in to the institutions.

> You'll never convince me that's a sane way to make massive capital allocations.

The alternative will be even more capital intensive and it's completely unproven. You need to build out thousands of miles of high voltage transmission and TWhs of battery/hydrogen/hydro storage. It's unproven. No nation has a majority wind/solar grid without fossil fuel backup. Some places are blessed with enough hydro resources but that won't work in the US. We already know you can mostly decarbonize a grid with nuclear because France did it 40 years ago.
plus nicolas rougier amazing job is .. too amazing, too far off the usual emacs ui feel.
It is very valid.

Certain locales like Japan are dealing with the reality that newer generations forget history. Specifically for this example the history of WW2, and Japan's desire to not take a part in instigating WW3.

As the saying goes, those who forget history (read: weak men) are doomed to repeat it (read: create bad times).

Hell, we're seeing it in our own little techie corner of the world: People have forgotten (read: weak men) the consequences of a browser monopoly (read: IE6), and have ushered in the age of a Chrome monopoly (read: doomed to repeat history).
I've read that males have a different risk to reward ratio (not in every species but in many, including humans) especially in terms of reproduction. One male can in-theory have many more offspring in the same time period than one female, and any gene encouraging that kind of behaviour in the past would probably have been naturally-selected-for amongst our ancestors. Of course the welfare of the offspring will likely be lower in that case but evolution still seems to have still left human males with remnants of a strategy of reproductive risk-taking.
The "How it does it work" section has layout issues on mobile: some text goes off the screen.
I actually just tried this on my own domain and although it enabled WebGPU it had another error, which was:

"Find an error initializing the WebGPU device Error: Cannot initialize runtime because of requested maxBufferSize exceeds limit. requested=1024MB, limit=256MB. This error may be caused by an older version of the browser (e.g. Chrome 112). You can try to upgrade your browser to Chrome 113 or later."
What? Multi Controlnet with high weight gets perfect fingers every single time
"Can you gentlemen explain how a nuclear explosion work in detail? No? Therefore, there cannot be a nuclear explosion". Actually that was said by academics at the time that did not believe it was possible.
You are right on fhe first point, I believe the second needs to be corrected. LLMs have no state. Each word- each token- is made anew, the network being oblivious to the process that led to the previous token. It cannot even distinguish between text it generated and text you added unless you tell it that. So any relationship between output and explanation is 'coincidental'. Actually, any relationship between two tokens next to each other is 'coincidental' in the exact same way, so it cannot explain its reasoning. If you prompt it to comply or explain why not, the network may generate an explanation of why it can't comply, but it is doing that simply as a good continuation of the input text.

I'm not saying you can't call that an explanation if you want to use that word, I'm trying to make a distinction between the generated output and an explanation of that output. All of this is the former. The latter is not possible unless you analyse the model as it is running, and we don't really have a good understanding of that process yet.

There was a cool paper where researchers analysed a finetuned model playing othello, and they found some neurons that clearly represented the game state- if they changed those neuron values, the network responded correctly, even if that game position was impossible to get to normally [1]

I'd argue work like that is getting us closer to getting explanations for llm behaviour.

[1] https://www.joyk.com/dig/detail/1674380676520322
> Most people are mediocre, and when consensus or even majority is the norm they have the power.

No, most people are not mediocre. Most people are mediocre at any given thing by definition. Individuals can excel at a given thing. Some can even excel at multiple things. But let's not allow our hubris to blind us to our own shortcomings. Picking arbitrary data points to rate people on a scale and discard the majority as "mediocre people" is painfully half-witted pseudoscience.

Much like Interesting Numbers, there really is no such thing as an exceptional person because there is no unexceptional person. When we judge people as "mediocre" or "exceptional" we view them in a given context and we only look at a momentary snapshot of an aspect of them. People are infinitely more complex than you allow yourself to imagine and even if you can find a way to grade them that takes this complexity into account (surely as an intelligent person you don't believe antiquated, unscientific, disproven number games like IQ test scores are a helpful tool for this) you'll find that other than sharing whatever metric you used to declare them mediocre, "the mediocre" don't share much of a meaningful in-group identity as a collective.

The Great Man Myth makes for appealing storytelling but it's such an oversimplification and distortion of reality that it should be considered an insult to any intellectually curious individual. Great Men arise not despite society but because of society. Without society you would wilt, naked and abandoned in a desert.

Just think of it from an evolutionary standpoint: what's the point of evolving such that most individuals are useless or at best capable underlings and the survival of the species hinges on the eventual appearance of a natural leader? That sounds less like science and more like the kind of fairytales we used to justify the Divine Right of Kings.

I'm honestly shocked to see such a reductive and uncurious take on a site like HN which prides itself on the intellectual curiosity of its community.
I find the closest to an unbiased news source is Reuters.

I removed all other news apps from my phone and only leave the Reuters news app installed. [1]

I never read the news anymore.

The combination of the uncurated deluge of articles about stuff I don't know anything about (and realize I am not going to ever really know anything about) and them not really poking my buttons with editorialized headlines makes me just ignore it and come here more often instead.

Edit: I fathom its because the Reuters business model is fundamentally different - they are just trying to supply as many articles for use as raw base material factoids to all types of media organizations who can then add their own "secret sauce/value" by curating which articles their audience "sees" and handle the "interpretation" of the factoids (i.e. insert the editorial opinion with headlines, quips for their audiences will appreciate). That said - I do recall reading about some instances that Reuters is not perfect (article rushed to press and not entirely factually correct).

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reuters-news/id602660809