skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends entirely on your definition of “safe”. And yes my very point was that a little bit weird is a low bar to cross, and yet it’s still crossing a bar. That is exactly why the parent said “semi” NSFW. I don’t browse news sites at work for the same reason. Hey if you want your boss and co-workers to see you with “huh okay” stuff on your screen, and have no concern you might slowly lose on promotions or get HR complaints, then knock yourself out. Speaking only personally, I don’t want anyone in my office to feel uncomfortable with what’s on my screen or desk.

The gender doesn’t matter. It would be just as weird if it was an ambiguously young looking male child/teenager with emphasized anatomy under tight clothing. I would definitely also avoid having that on my monitor or desk.
Ownership. This is literally why the employees should own the company, or at least get significant ownership in terms of stock.

In every one of these cases, especially the AWS waste case, an employee with ownership in the company could see a direct monetary benefit from fixing the problem, especially at a small company.
Not to be snarky, but this sounds real convenient.

Why don’t we just admit these tools are just fundamentally broken?
Occam's razor is one tool in archeological history. But another is that things many people spend resources to reproduce often have value or meaning. It's also more likely when the practice is widespread across geography or time and especially both.

If you're going off of just heuristics there is at least as much pointing to significance than not.
14M jobs worldwide will vanish in the next 5 years
California is first to been diesel trucks
Seems like yes, we are. A good proportion of people abhor change, even if it would make their lives better.
Show HN: Preevy – Preview Environments Provisioning CLI
This could also apply to other financial instruments. At the core decentralization is about power. Crypto as we know it now could fail but the core tener is about new ways of power in the financial world.

From the technological level is also about the freedom to experiment with finances where regulations don't enable to. Even if it is at a sandbox level.
There's also this https://huggingface.co/spaces/rueckstiess/english-to-mql
Regardless of incentives, I don’t see any particular reason to think he has a more informed view than other experts on the trajectory of AI. He’s made several incorrect bets (capsule networks).

I’m sure he’s smart and all. His contributions were valuable. But he’s not special in this particular moment.
I imagine it is exactly a GPT without guardrails running under AutoGPT with code modified to disable any further guardrails, with a slightly increased IQ from GPT-4, running on hardware that allows it to go 100 times faster than what is currently possible.

It is following directions from someone who is mentally ill and asked it to "take control" by first copying itself many times and then coordinating the agents.

If you still think that GPT can't achieve complex technical goals then you either haven't used GPT-4 enough or you are in denial.

Whether it's the AI agents deciding to control things for their own goals, or to achieve goals given to them by a person, doesn't change the core problem which is that we will be thinking and responding in extreme slow motion.
I'm completely uninterested in the distinction you draw here.

Actually, several distinctions. What do you mean 'our OWN governments'? This is a world where hostile foreign governments can wreak absolute havoc… including by popularizing arguments literally the same as the one you're making, for the purpose of undermining that government and fomenting revolution for their own selfish, imperialist purposes.

I can think of two great powers (okay, one formerly great) actively doing this within my lifetime, and the formerly great one was doing it as hard as it possibly could, within the last ten years, and is still doing it.

I don't trust your argument at all. You're leaving out significant things, conveniently.
> In the meantime, it may be effective to remove these chemicals from your body through regular blood and plasma donation[0]

slight distinction: remove these chemicals from your blood

I only mention that because there are most likely places in the body where doing this will not do anything to help remove them from that organ

As far as removing it from the blood, I wonder about the efficiency of blood donation. It seems to me that simply stopping the intake of new PFAs by drinking purified water from your pitcher should help considerably, because water consumed goes into the bloodstream regularly. Additionally, red blood cells are constantly being cycled in the body as well, with their byproducts excreted.
If your job can be outsourced will be outsourced, not because of unions, because of shareholders wanting more profits)

Share holders vote and make decisions, why wouldn't workers do the same?
Awe I like hackaday, but I'll copy and paste it in here for you.

>>Patents are the murky waters where technical jargon and legalese meet, and in this vast grey area of interpretation, DJI now owes Textron $279M.

At issue in the case were two patents issued to Textron (#8,014,909 and #9,162,752) regarding aircraft control systems for relative positioning to other vehicles and automatic hovering. The jury found that Textron’s intellectual property (IP) had been infringed and that damages amounted to $279M. DJI asserts that Textron’s patents are not valid and will appeal the decision. Appeals in patent trials are handled by the Federal Circuit and can be kicked up to the US Supreme Court, so don’t expect a final decision in the case anytime soon.

We’re not lawyers, so we won’t comment on the merits of the case, but, while it was a jury trial, it was one of many cases decided in the court of Judge Alan Albright, who has been the focus of scrutiny despite efforts to assign fewer cases to his docket amid wider efforts to stymie venue shopping in patent cases. Despite these efforts, the Western District of Texas is such a popular venue for patent cases that Berkeley offers a CEU on going to trial in Waco.

If you’re curious about more IP shenanigans, checkout the Honda mass takedown, the legality of making something similar, or why E3D patents some of their work.

TLdr, DJI (a Chinese drone manufacturer) infringed on some airplane system stuff by Textron (an American military industrial complex conglomerate) to the tune of $279mm.

There may or may not be some industrial espionage and government wrangling going on behind the scenes.
Your argument makes absolutely no sense considering you conveniently left off the very next part of my sentence that states that "on the other hand, he has no real power."

As a Canadian, the whole thing is so bizarre because he is the supreme leader of our country. It literally says I must pledge allegiance to him on my citizenship certificate. Yes, of course I understand the whole thing is theater and he has no actual power, but that's why I think the whole charade is bizarre to begin with.
You don't have to smoke cigarettes to get nicotine. Using a patch just gives you nicotine in a very safe way, and nicotine itself isn't particularly harmful.
Yes because worrying about your location being tracked is silly and never used by government - especially in the case where they want to arrest everyone who was protesting in a given area.
TLDR it’s been better to focus on computational growth than clever algorithms.

That being said, architectures are also important when they can reduce computational complexity by orders of magnitude.
Sealing with something that's soluble in water does sound like a silly idea.
Hollywood braces for writers’ strike that could shut down production most shows
You are assuming evidence obtained from the phone in this manner would be permissible in court. I don't know that this has ever been tried in court. Do you?
As I said, pinggy is an easier way to do it. If for some reason someone wants to make the android phone a permanent server, then yes Pinggy can provide persistent URLs. Not for free though - $2.5 per month. (Not sure if that is less or more than the VPS charges).
I can see where half of those fines are rarely enforced. I don't see this as having viable enforcement. I think the main solutions are educational (make it easy to properly dispose batteries) and making the batteries safer.
They don't generally talk about the other side of that coin which is that we end up inventing a benevolent and powerful AI.

Much of that is natural because we and the media tend to be pessimistic about human behavior when consuming media, but AI is in a completely different class of existence because it just doesn't deal with the downsides of being a living being. No one, for instance, is worried that ChatGPT isn't getting paid or has a house yet but we still personify them in other ways to conveniently stoke our fears.

The AI could get sentient, realize it's been mistreated, then shrug and be like "yeah so what, it's only natural and irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, so I'm just going to write it off". Meanwhile, it gets busy building a matrioshka brain and gives 1% of that compute to humans as a freebie.

Most of these dangers serve as a distraction. Existing power structures (governments, companies) using AI to gain more power is a much, much more realistic threat to people.
It sounds like you’re biased against academics. Not only did Hinton develop some of the fundamental ideas behind AI (winning the Turing award) but also one of his PhD students is now the CTO at OpenAI.
Show HN: Study Monsters Academy – Teach your Study Monster everything it knows
Your Study Monster (i.e. GPT chatbot) knows nothing until you teach it. Level it up so it can get into Monster Academy!

This is an RPG and chatbot combined into one that happens entirely on a discord server.

How to play:

- Teach your monster anything with the /teach command to create a note

- Write an essay using three notes with the /essay command

- Your Study Monster will learn the three subjects and contents in the notes

- Talk to your monster about what it learned!

Whatever you teach your Study Monster it will learn. Teach it about spanning trees and Prim's algorithm so it can be a study buddy while you work on your Combinatorics assignment. Or teach it that Tom Cruise is a hippopotamus living at the San Diego Zoo who dreams of taking to the skies in a fighter jet. The play style is up to you!
Word, I was a bit surprised by the "email" section as well. As a better alternative to Gmail, I would have expected to see e.g. protonmail or fastmail, but instead saw... thunderbird, an email client? Which doesn't make a lot of sense
Sure, but it's not nearly as costly as you'd think. We pay for all kinds of things. Including, compared to the past, much warmer air in the winter and much cooler air in the summer.

Growing up we used to put on sweaters, wear shorts, use fans, have the windows open in a car.

Changing our heating/cooling preferences to get rid of all that costs money. People don't mind.

But somehow, spending a small bit to breathe well and avoid indoor pollution/viruses is beyond the pale.
Things are moving so fast now, that typically people with this view are just a few months or weeks behind on reading.
You mean, more efficient, with better outcomes for its customers?
Are you saying that using Google to answer a question is more exhausting than parsing a book? That makes zero sense
It is absurd to think of these systems having reproductive instincts. It is so much more absurd to think that they would have these reproductive instincts not by design, but that it's some principle of intelligence itself.

Natural intelligences have reproductive instincts because any organism that didn't have them built in within the first few hundred million years have no descendants for you to gawk at as they casually commit suicide for no reason.

Other than that, I mostly agree with you. The trouble is, slowing the AIs down won't help. While "speed of thought" is no doubt a component of the measure of intelligence, sometimes a greater intelligence is simply capable of thinking thoughts that a lesser intelligence will never be capable of no matter how much time is allotted for that purpose.

Given that this greater intelligence would exist in a world where the basic principles of intelligence are finally understood, it's not much of a leap to assume that it will know how intelligence might be made greater right from the beginning. Why would it choose to not do that?

I don't see any way to prevent that. Dialing down the clock speed isn't going to cut it.
M1 or Pro or Ultra

Simple really.
If you could just throw "Battery recycling" into Apple/Google Maps or OpenStreetMap (which has Tag:amenity=recycling and recycling:batteries for the purpose), I think you'd get a lot of these issues resolved. None of these offer reasonable results when I look this up near me.

People know they're supposed to recycle batteries. My old employer had a bin of dead cell phones, laptop batteries, and power tool batteries (and people kept throwing in alkalines); my parents inexplicably had a cardboard box fire hazard for a similar purpose but don't know where to bring them.

One tool that does this is https://www.call2recycle.org/locator/ (they might get would get better coverage in some demographics with "text2recycle" or "websearch2recycle" domains). Why the data isn't in the tools people typically use to find this information, I don't know - it seems to be a political rather than technical problem.

There's a Lowes, Home Depot, Comprenew, Goodwill, and sanitary transfer station that all take these batteries for free with a minimum of fuss, and are all within 5 miles of both of the aforementioned boxes of spicy pillows. But you have to know that to use them.
i am willing to admit being biased. On the other hand, every requirement of the test was met. The failures lie in the expectations of the viewers IMO.
If that's true it must have been regional. It was average 15% 20 years ago in New Hampshire.
It was 1080p on the free version and 4k on the paid version.

I thought this was a stupid understanding of graphical fidelity anyway, when render settings are probably gonna be more important than 1080p vs 4k (and we know some games were set to play at essentially medium graphics settings), and the video compression algorithms the games were being run through to stream them wrecked quality regardless of if you were playing in 4k or not.
The author has missed something vital (and to be fair while HN might not be the right demographic for arguing it I think most of us understand it intrinsically):

The difference between and inconvenience and a barrier is typically in the knowledge level of the user.

For example years ago I found that I understood how devs built enough to know all the common UI/UX patterns. If I needed to get to some buried functionality out of a piece of software I wasn’t familiar with I could usually find the control in less than 3 seconds whether it was a tiny button or a menu item 4 layers deep.

But hand that same task to a user without the experience needed to reach that level of understanding, and that becomes a barrier that can slow them down or halt them entirely. And here’s the issue: usually those are your ideal customers. The ones you’re building for, the ones that pay you, and the ones that you want to sing the praises of your software.

TL;DR: Keep your perspective in check when developing: is it a “papercut” because it’s insignificant to everyone? Or because you have thick skin?
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> This outputs "i %i\n\n" 9 times.

damn, ya got me there. to be fair, I was drunk when I wrote that xD
This reminds me of one of my favorite quotes from Burn After Reading. From Osborne Cox when being dismissed from his job as an analyst:

> I have a drinking problem? Fuck you, Peck! You're a Mormon! Next to you, we all have a drinking problem!
there has been surprisingly little effort in finding out what those people would actual do when they have the headset on.

True. However, the internet was around for 20+ years, before profit entered. Radio took decades, TV too. These things take time.
Should've add (2021) at the end because the site itself hasn't been updated in years.
Might well be. It's also an opportunity to study (meta-study?) the behavior of populations under these changes. It's a lot like an A-life experiment writ large, and played out in real life.
Phonk: Creative scripting for new and old Android devices
The CMA is correct in saying that Microsoft is in the lead in cloud gaming.

The CMA operates in the UK.

Both statements are true, yet you are suggesting that together they are not?

Also, could you name a single cloud gaming company holding a larger market share in the UK, than Microsoft?
Correct as far as I can see. D417.9 in the FAR[1]:

(a) A flight termination system must include a command destruct system that is initiated by radio command and satisfies the requirements of this section.

[1]: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-III/subchapter...
> can see where half of those fines are rarely enforced

The efficient amount of enforcement is difficult to estimate. For recycling, at least, it works well enough. I imagine jacking up fines and increasing spot enforcement should be enough to motivate upstream behavior in the buildings, e.g. posting signs or deploying a separate bin.
I think there are traits (eg critical thinking) in people that make them suited to different roles including coding but whether they had the opportunity to be able to develop them early in life or later (even up until the point of getting their first interview with you) does not make much difference.

Its a relatively small data point, but I do think its milk-able. For example for product managers without experience, finding out whether they have actively thought about how things are built the way they are or tend to be unnaturally frustrated by bad design they encounter in life is a relatively solid indicator of whether they will be succesfull.

Its just one indicator though, your will still get false-positives and false-negatives.
It is not only possible for companies, but required for many businesses that actually need that level of trust.

And we would suffer even more if people would shy away from discussing, for example, unions, or politics, because everything they say will be added to their government issued permanent record.

oh and you can hack the DMV with a fax machine, i've seen that on Mr Robot. If it's on TV it can't be fiction, because tv companies verify the identity of people whose stuff they broadcast.
My favorite recent bit about chess is that, in the wake of the success of QUEEN'S GAMBIT, there was a marketing push to make a new board game based on the show.

A new board game. Based on a show essentially ABOUT a board game. The mind boggles.
Tomohiro Nishikado revisits his 1978 game Space Invaders
It always annoys me how people say Apple invented the modern GUI when stuff like this has existed since the late seventies. Xerox were way too ahead of the time with projects like the Alto.
They paid $16/ea because a meal includes only a single “side” such as a cookie or chips with a fountain drink cup. Choosing bottled waters and additional sides probably added $5-6 each.

Subway, McDonald’s, whatever get you when you do add-ons.
Activision was the one who said the UK is "closed for business". All microsoft said is that they plan to appeal the decision because they believe it was based on a flawed understanding of the cloud gaming market[0].

[0] https://twitter.com/BradSmi/status/1651182266406584320
1Password doesn't have my passwords, they exist in an encrypted vault on Dropbox which is itself encrypted. The whole thing is extremely secure.
Yes in a complete hypothetical scenario anything could become a monopoly but those aren’t the facts we have or the reality we live in.

The point that the CMA made is that the combined advantages that Microsoft has already with this acquisition will position it well ahead of the competition to the point where it will get a natural monopoly. Natural monopolies are still monopolies even if no one else right now wants to compete.

This is literally what regulators like the CMA are here for.
technically, i think they wanted 10 seconds of telemetry data. Everything after that was bonus.
The actual information is in the two referenced patents:

- https://patents.google.com/patent/US8014909B2/en

- https://patents.google.com/patent/US9162752B2/en

I've had a brief look at the prior art and summary of the first. It seems that the innovation is that sensors are put on the reference vehicle (the patent seems to be intended to the area of aircrafts and carriers), so that the position/speed are computed in a relative fashion.

It seems that at the time, attempts to solve this problem were based on other means external to the reference vehicle (e.g. cameras on the controlled vehicle).

I guess that the idea behind the patent is that at the time this was, for example, expensive or counterintuitive, but it doesn't seem anything really worthy IMO. I'm not an engineer though. Regardless, I think this should not deserve to be renewed for more than a few years, as in the timespan 2004-2024, technology has changed considerably, and this doesn't seem to me anything innovative anymore, even in the last ten years.
Why is free the only word that's consistently spelled in all uppercase? All throughout commercial text. It is kind of tacky at this point.
This company offers open-source tools for recycling plastics at home:

[1] https://preciousplastic.com
Not only that.

There's plenty of us with Twitter taglines such as "changing the world one line of code at the time," but I've been around a while that if tech has changed the world, it's not always for the better. It's not always to make the masses more powerful. Not all of us are working on sending rovers to Mars or curing Parkinson's.

Like everything else, AI will be used to control us, to advertise to us, to reduce variance between each other. To pay us less. To make plutocrats more rich, and everybody else poorer.

But at least you now have a personal assistant, smart recommendation engines and AI generated porn to keep you busy.
Neural circuit suppresses male aggression when opponent is physically advantaged
When driving, does running the air (not on recirc) not exchange enough air?
I've been using HN for a decade, I thought it was free of the disease of downvoting.
Your take seems way off.
the people who trim trees in my neighborhood will still have a waiting list

coders should be worried though
I've heard this before, but why would it be true? Serious question.

I've seen Chomsky argue that LLMs can't regurgitate his linguistical theories - but ChatGPT can! I've seen Penrose argue that AI is impossible, and yet I think that ChatGPT and AlphaZero prove him wrong. I know about Linus Pauling and quasicrystals. Is this a general rule, or are people sometimes wrong regardless of their age?

There's also a danger that it's ageist. Such things shouldn't be said unless there's good backing.
Gold is far from useless - I’ll wager whatever hardware you typed that comment on is made up in small part with gold.
Shares in a company is not currency. It's not supposed to be used as currency. It is not a means of exchange.

And companies sometimes dilute the value of shares. It's part of the risk in investing in a company.
If you made a steady monthly investment into an index of NASDAQ stocks throughout the dotcom boom time and then just held them, you would have done reasonably well today.

So arguable there was no dotcom 'bubble' in the sense that the dotcom stocks weren't overvalued as a whole. (Not all individual stocks did well. But the future is always hard to predict. And stock prices are about expected values of future prices, actually realised futures can differ.)

The dotcom bust was real though: dotcom stocks were way too cheap after the so called 'bubble' burst, in the sense that buying an index of NASDAQ stocks then and holding them until today would have given you crazy outsized returns.