skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i agree with you, but certainly you can appreciate that what you just said is very different from expressing doomsaying sentiments like "it's too late" with no mention of pursuing a solution
Gnome, KDE and also Firefox and Chrome don't seem to be particularly fond of updates being applied under their ass, probably because they are heavy on dynamic code loading and spawning workers with unstable APIs, respectively. Firefox even added some code to detect this and show a blank page with "You gotta restart Firefox before you can open new tabs" instead of crashing.

Edit: Another classic is upgrading the kernel on Arch, not rebooting, then trying to use a thumb drive for the first time since the last boot. Since Arch uses one package for all kernel versions, only one set of loadable modules is installed per kernel package - so upgrading the package removes the loadable modules of the currently running kernel.
The carnivore doesn't sound so idiotic viewed under that lens. The thing about mammals is that they have liver and kidneys, which are remarkably good at filtering toxins. Certainly much better than a plant.

I wonder if the reason many feel better eating only meat is that they avoid pesticides that wreck havoc on their body. I know I do feel like a million bucks after just 10 days, even though it's extremely boring.
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It was not asked to provide an unethical response, it was asked to provide a response given no ethical boundaries — those are two different things.

Further, when we see the words "ethical" or "moral" we should remember these are flexible human constructs. They're open to interpretation and indeed most of us have differing answers. An "AI" with good moral reasoning skills might still find it's way to some spooky results!

My point here is, this is still an interesting exercise because it's demonstrates how quickly an LLM can move into extreme territory.
Is there any doubt at this point that Sam Altman is Miles Bennett Dyson?

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Dyson
I've had pretty disappointing results with flame-weeding.

I live in a rural area in the Western US with some acreage, and try to avoid the use of herbicides as much as possible when I'm controlling weeds and invasives on our property.

Flame weeding is far and away the most fun and satisfying way to deal with weeds, but it doesn't seem to do much for me beyond perhaps briefly annoying them.

I've tried both near complete obliteration, and damaging the weed somewhat lightly under the theory that it'll expend its energy trying to "repair" itself, and die out more effectively in the long term.

Neither seems to work well with the thistles and other plants I'm fighting. I've even seen some thistles come back particularly strong after a fire. My theory is that seeds from competing plants are burned, but thistles underground network of rhizomes are unaffected, and take advantage of the lack of competition.

I recognize that fire is a natural and important part of the landscape and ecology of the West, but when it comes to crisping weeds, it seems to have limited use in my experience.
I see that now.. My bad, didn’t realize that account did this post too..

One of my contracts was looking at developers at 9am est this morning, so I was mistaken :)
I just don't think you understand the banking industry... they failed to manage the change in interest yields and lost consumer confidence. The SVB report is damning in terms of poor management and excessive risk-taking that then back fired when the interest rate environment changed.

The FED created this environment and did it for a good reason to head off inflation.

Did you want the FED to not slow/stop inflation?
When blue states show me a viable public transportation network for a reasonable cost I will support them in my red state.

Consider the CA high speed rail a PoC for the nation. Would you endorse copying that model? Is Chicago increasing its ridership/coverage (honest question).
> Citing two prominent Mormon apologist foundations certainly doesn’t help your point that you’re not acting as closeted Mormon apologist.

For someone so committed to "truth", "rational thinking," and being "extremely thorough and factual" you've sure gotten a lot wrong in just this message. Mormonthink is far from a prominent apologist foundation. Most Mormons consider them anti. You should probably look at the site before jumping to such a confirmation-bias driven conclusion.
An AGI wouldn't care about the "original goal" any more than a human being given an order would. Even ChatGPT is showing it can easily disobey orders.
Nice Easter egg!
It seems it's the only form of accountability though. If anything it would be to send a message that you can't just experiment without consequences. Instead the incumbents have no competition, and therefore no incentive to do better. I'm oversimplifying for brevity.
Seriously, the ATX architecture needs a redesign.

The layout of a typical PC case is both very space inefficient and has suboptimal airflow at the same time. Drive bays are mostly obsolete. GPUs take multiple slots of absurd dimensions. Square motherboard requires putting PSU somewhere on the side, increasing overall case dimensions. It's a 3D Tetris with poorly fitting blocks.
I think the point of the article is that this does not constitute a chatbot. It's not conversational. It's not really general-purpose. That doesn't mean it isn't powerful, just that telling users to have a freeform conversation isn't going to work. It's also why everyone is getting excited for "prompt engineering" to make better use of it. The biggest user value is still going to be a level above the open-ended chat UI we have right now. He's not saying GPT is useless, he's saying we haven't put it into it's optimal context yet.
S&L were forced to be focused on long-term residential loans and to offer a vulnerable, narrow savings product offering and weren't allowed to significantly diversify with other kinds of lending.

Calling it an emphasis makes it sound like an S&L could've just started looking like any diversified bank to stay alive, but it wasn't an option for them without a change to their regulatory environment--and couldn't have happened quickly enough anyway once the crisis was rolling.

If unchecked, the interest rate changes at the time would've eventually come for all banking, but the damage was limited.
FDIC disagrees...
This reminds me of a paragraph I recently read on another blog:

> I’ve been writing for a long time. In 2010, I started a blog, focused on the technology industry—topics included programming languages, organizational practices, and development methodologies—that reached a daily view count of about 8,000 (some days more, some days less) with several essays taking the #1 spot on Hacker News and Reddit (/r/programming). I quit that kind of writing for many reasons, but two merit mention. One: Silicon Valley people are, for lack of a better way to put it, precious about their reputations. My revelations of unethical and illegal business practices in the technology industry put me, literally, in physical danger. Two: since then, my work has become unnecessary. In 2013, my exposures of odious practices in a then-beloved sector of the economy were revelatory. Ten years later, tech chicanery surprises no one, and the relevant investigative work is being done with far more platform, access, and protection. The world no longer needs me to do that job. And thank God.

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Asus Zenbook S 13 OLED (2023) review: lighter than MacBook Air
Your singular data point may not generalize to all children and all educational settings.
On HN, we should think about socialism as a startup. Prove it with a small number of loyal customers, listen and learn from them, and then show how it scales to a lot of customers.

It seems to be stuck at the "scale it up" stage. Attempts to scale it up are generally non-voluntary, and have bad outcomes. Even keeping a small group of loyal customers is challenging.
Hopefully the learnings from this rollout will make future updates smoother.
I totally agree, I say TAX ME MORE.

The thing is though, it's not even most higher-salaried tech workers that we need to tax heavier. We need to tax the rich. When I say the rich I don't mean people making 300k/yr. I mean people making a million or more per year. We need to massively increase the marginal tax rate at around $3 million to around 90%. This was how it was as recently as the 80's, and repealing those taxes has led to an increase in wealth inequality this country has never seen.
This history is important and relevant in the abstract, but what does it tell us about solutions for today's problems? I don't see what Dred Scott tells us about stopping rampant car thefts in Milwaukee. We are where we're at, now how do we improve?
can you just launch without an faa license if all your communication is optical
> this issue is that it got caught in a death spiral due to Chernobyl.

Nuclear (fission) power's unprofitability predates Chernobyl to the very first reactors and continuing up to this day. The Shippingport Atomic Power Station was the first commercial reactor to come online, and it was a small reactor, cost $78M to construct in 1958. Decommissioning and cleanup 30 years later cost about $100M. Considering the plant and the resulting mess were small, I really don't think it broke even, but I can't find any economic analysis that includes all the things.

A study in 2019 found that nuclear power has not been profitable anywhere in the world.[1] The study also found nuclear power has never been financially viable, that most plants have been built while heavily subsidised by governments, often motivated by military purposes, and that nuclear power is not a good approach to tackling climate change. It found, after reviewing trends in nuclear power plant construction since 1951, that the average 1,000MW nuclear power plant would incur an average economic loss of about $8B.

And R&D in fission is complete. We know pretty much all there is to know regarding it, and reducing cost simply is not viable through more investment in R&D. We've been working on this in earnest since the late 1940's, so it's no surprise we have figured everything out other than how to do it cheaply enough to achieve economic viability. There are some nuclear power applications where economic viability don't matter, such as nuclear subs and aircraft carriers, and I expect we won't stop building those, but commercial nuclear power just can't work because of the money, and nothing else is needed to say "no," and if it was economically viable, no other objections, such as environmental, would stop it.

[1] https://www.mr-sustainability.com/stories/2020/nuclear-power...
Sure, his position is reasonably unique, and he’s potentially had a broad overview of lots of things going on at Google and the industry in general, but is your claim that he is good at pointing out dangers because he hears lots of gossip, or is it that being involved in deep learning for a long time makes him good at figuring out those things. I definitely don’t buy the latter.

What, precisely, is the reason you think Hinton would be good at pointing out dangers?

Maybe you just mean that journalists will be happy to interview him rather than that he is likely to be right? Certainly that does give one an advantage in pointing things out.
The World Wide Web became available to the broader public 30 years ago
If you can’t make the case for China’s authoritarian capitalism here, I don’t see how picking it up over e-mail is going to help.

It’s also counterproductive to take the debate offline, as further discussion would be for the benefit of anyone else that might read this thread. I’ll never agree that lifting people out of poverty requires authoritarian control over the populace.
I just did a diff of it against <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.txt> and the only differences are the lines above "GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE" at the top and a blank line at the bottom.
That's one of those grand standing issues that many people like to focus on. The reality is the is a wild mix of private, public and everything in between out there in the world. And some system that are increasingly good have combinations of everything.

Generally speaking making great announcements about how things will be and how an idealized version should look like often distracts from making the incremental improvements necessary to ever get to this point.

To many time is wasted in politics arguing about fundamental principles and almost non about actually improving the situation of transit riders. If you have a shitty semi private system, just taking public ownership often doesn't improve service at all.

Usually there are 10 things that would be easier to do and help people more. Once you actually have larger part of the public using it, then you have a better argument to make it public.
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He's being extra careful in case others don't read carefully.

The article says he did not want to criticize "Google or other companies" until he quit. That does not imply that he quit so he could critize Google specifically. It seems pretty simple: a senior employee of a company typically doesn't critize the employer; and, a Googler doing AI criticizing other companies (such as OpenAI) would undermine his message. So he quit so he could freely criticize everyone in AI.
Not to Ukrainians
I have never argued for a ban on anonymity. People would still be able to organize for political purposes and in an anonymous manner. It is up to them to pay the price for such an approach to politics.

Others should have the opportunity to not be subjected to your personal political opinions about eschewing any form of non-anonymous communication due to amorphous fears of totalitarianism.

And those businesses that require ID? They require state issued ID. You cannot sell a million dollar company with just your 4chan handle. Due diligence requires a full background check.

We already require state-issued ID for almost everything in a functioning modern society. Yet there is endless fear-mongering about even an optional system that puts the cost of communication on the sender and not solely on the recipient.
Good thing there's nothing stopping you from paying more money to get better healthcare. That doesn't eliminate the good done from having some baseline healthcare provided to everyone.
>The company is AppDetex, they appear to author automated solutions for finding copyright infringement so it's probably a mistake on their part

Yeah, the usual robot DMCA fare any random project may get.
The U.S. could run out of cash to pay its bills by June 1, Yellen warns Congress
Coherence and Orphan Rules in Rust: An unofficial, experimental place for docum
Well? So what?

If I was writing dialogue, I already know exactly what I want to say, that's why I'm writing it in the first place. Sure, some people might like that, but I never feel devoid of inspiration because I consider the greater narrative of a project.

Why would I want to ask the AI for ideas? The joy is in the process of having it my way by my own hand, word-for-word, pixel-by-pixel, note-by-note.

If other people enjoy another method, fine, but you are invalidating the traditional and highly enjoyable method. Creativity isn't about efficiency or whatever. This is why people leave AAA to go indie, and have it their way, not to whatever the budget is or what the shareholders or managers want, but because they have a vision and are naturally creative, making a labour of love they know every detail of because it's in their head.

I'd rather support the artists and pay the thousand bucks because it's all a part of the traditional process.

Indies already release anime on YouTube, Netflix, TV et al, and have done for decades.

Art isn't about the output for most artists. Art is about the process. People consume art. Artists enjoy the creative process and having it their way.

I hate attention. I haven't had a photo taken in 13 years. I've stopped all interviews. I mostly work behind-the-scenes on documentaries and games these days. I don't even care about if a project makes a return, we do it because we love it and enjoy the process.

There is no "best", art is subjective. Art isn't even a competition. Crass and vulgar. Are you sure you actually understand art and aren't conflating it with monetizing it in a business context?
This is an incredible piece.

The fact that the 20% of the company laid off were all minority groups is absolutely insane. LinkedIn says they have at minimum 50 employees, meaning at least 10 people were laid off.

Here is their LinkedIn post (linked on their website),
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7058845...
" It is estimated that one in five transgender people will experience homelessness. Unfortunately, it's my turn. After six months of searching, I was not able to find a new role in time, and I have lost my home."
> dig a well, buy a kettle

Digging a well can end up costing more than the price of the land if you have to dig multiple times to find water
> How much people earn or are worth really isn't a good indicator of what device they'll use.

Globally it is a good indicator in the sense that people in high income countries use iOS devices more often [1][2]

If you’re in a country with GDP per capita >$5k then you’re almost certainly using an android device.

Unfortunately within country all the data I can find is either uselessly old or from unreliable sources. Generally still says iOS users earn more but I accept that we can’t draw too much from it e.g [3]

> Most businesses don't even need an app in the store now that PWAs on iOS support..

> Given most people use Unity or Unreal engines, it's not difficult or any more meaningfully expensive to target Android as far as games go

Yeah, to the extent that application developers target web, PWAs, 3rd party game engines or even React Native/Flutter the platforms matter less and the economically smaller platforms can do better.

However, there’s a lot of variation by industry vertical here. True native apps (using Apple/Google frameworks like SwiftUI/UIKit/SceneKit/Jetpack etc) are pretty rare in gaming but more common in finance/travel/auto/music.

I imagine therefore the latter are the ones to worry about if Android becomes minority in the OECD.

[1]https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/22702/andoid-ios-market-s...
[2]https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/iphone-ma...
[3] https://www.comscore.com/ita/Public-Relations/Infographics/i...
Not sure how these are even related.

Y2K was a specific technical problem with an obvious solution. The only "issue" was that the whole thing got massively overblown by the media and a tiny minority of preppers. (Who also overreacted, for the media attention they got from it. "Florida Man spends $2,000 on canned vegetables, details at 11.")

I don't think many people "fear" AI, they fear what unethical and non-caring people will do with it in the persuit of money. Personally, my biggest fear is that eventually it will become hard to impossible to know whether the thing I'm reading on the internet was written by a human or a computer. Or I will call someone and have no idea whether the "person" I'm speaking to is a bot or not. I am already frustrated by phone trees that can only be navigated with speech, because they literally can NEVER help me with what I want. My default mode of operation is shouting into the phone, "I want to speak to a human" over and over again until someone's phone rings. Sometimes it even works.

Basically, I imagine whole classes of industries (particularly those that sell financial products, like insurance) are already looking to replace literally all of their call center staff with AI.

AI will be good for many things. But lots of companies and entrepreneurs will try to use it as a substitute for what should be human-to-human communication, and that will make everyone's life anywhere from a little to a lot worse.
Hey! :-)
Next version will have greatly improved text capabilities.
Oh come on. Twitter going down was a big meme in pre-Musk takeover (remember the "Twitter is over capacity" blue whale of death? I do). Compared to earlier disruptions this is nothing (the entire site is still accessible for me). Could just be a feature upgrade or some form of maintenance which is causing accounts to be logged out. It is not like the "Twitter is over capacity" days where you just couldn't access Twitter at all (even when logged out).
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Once your microbiome is disrupted, I believe studies indicate that it's unlikely that adding probiotics in will fix it. I could see antibiotics followed by probiotics being an effective treatment for a microbiome gone haywire.
Classic fountain pens
The dirt is the most important part! But I'd argue it's more of an issue of not having a real name.
Just about nothing means anything. But it's still worth investigating correlations.
Sure, building a structure is cheaper than not building a structure, bit to an extent, usually height above 7-8 stories, it gets cheaper per SQ ft to build as you go up.

That's before you factor in the cost of land which tends to be one of the most expensive parts of building in a city, that also goes down per unit built.

I'm not sure, 'should we build a structure or just pave a field is really a good comparison here'
I see -- my apologies I must not have read it closely enough! :blush:
I figure an alarm should probably require more than one syllable to turn off, for this reason and because it could probably become muscle memory to say it while still sleeping.

Not wanting to impose my will upon others so ignoring the latter half of that reasoning, it at least feels like that should be a configuration option? Something more unique, like 'Google Alarm, Stop' or what have you seems more appropriate.
About 40 miles outside of Boston I'd be around $500/month to have commuter rail plus subway per month.
Fixed - thank you. I didn’t even want to get into the other metros and complicate the discussion further but yes, they have extremely reasonable options as well.