skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think so. Google had Lambda for quite some time internally. If it was a slum dunk on selling more ads, it would have been out way before chatgpt.

Google has maximized their ad revenue with their current model. You don't have the same ad real estate in your example and that is a problem. Now they get money for impressions on a whole page, and clicks from people trying to find the right fit among the seo. I believe that google wants information filtering but not too much as it needs current estate for ads.
I worked with teams pre-pandemic which had rules to the effect of if anyone was on a video call, everyone should be on an individual video call, which I'd argue is really the only way to have the remote people be 100% participants. So, yeah, if 75% of people on a team are in an office they're forced to work as if they were remote to a significant degree whether they like it or not.
No, these things are really quite clearly defined, and certainly not so muddy to include something like "which would put the distinction in software, not hardware architecture.". These are hardware architecture terms.
> That's not a real thing.

Not currently, no. And LLMs don't seem to be a way of getting there.

However, if we do figure out how to get there? We will definitely need to be sure it/they shares our human values. Because we'll have lost control of our destiny just like orangutans have.
This kind of redlining is ironically what the EU is trying to prevent with the much-criticised AI Act. It has direct provisions about explainability for exactly this reason.
Is "Emglish" a special term or just a typo?
Any legislation like this can be seen as a proxy war on Ireland by the EU. For some reason the core single market principal of the EU is despised by France and Germany when it comes to tech company domicile.

The has been a very long war on this, kept at bay by Ireland's veto rights.

I'm sure eventually they'll find a way though. And Ireland's competitive advantage will be eroded to nothing.
Vice was born out of and defined the counterculture of their era. Again you don't know what you're talking about.
Definitely possible. The FDIC has almost a hundred years under its belt though. That is a lot of precedent.

It is strange that textualism or republicanism is associated with small/weak government. That reputation is unearned imo.

To wit, the independent agency stuff is about who can do what, not what can be done. It is not, in any way, a meaningful limitation on the powers of the government as a whole, just a change to the distribution of where those powers lie.
My solitary marker for a Canadian accent: "out" sounds like "boat". B ut I believe even that marker is restricted to central and western Canada.

/me a Brit; used to have a Canadian boss (from Ontario).
I'm a NYT subscriber, but a headline from them calling another (younger) news source a "decayed digital colossus" feels a bit rock-glass-house-y.

That being said, my personal opinion of them is pretty similar. I used to love Vice; it felt like they really were the news outlet that was telling a different story from the rest of media. Not a different perspective on the same story, a totally different story, and hard journalism at that. Could just be me, but it hasn't felt that way for years now.
I don't know if it's Gen Z specific but I think people now just have a very difficult time interacting with strangers in public. It's kind of a bizarre phenomenon of the digital age.
Counter culture != being in a punk band

Maybe it did in the 70s. But anything past that it’s basically the opposite. Punk music is oldies; literally half century old tradition at this point. It’s like calling folk music counter culture.
For those who take the weekend off, yesterday's Sixel discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35936331
It's correlated with racial makeup of the area in which hospital operates - a combination of funding and racism.
Jesus Danger Mouse. That brings back some memories.
>The financier and former Tory donor says leaving the EU was a plan by the rich to make themselves richer and the poor poorer

"Financier and former Tory donor" eh? Notice how it's always rich saying those things? It's as staying in the EU was in their interests...
> The issue I (as a non-native English speaker) sometimes have with British actors is: how to pronounce their names?! Examples: the aforementioned Owain Yeoman, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Siobhan (pronounced Shivohn IIUC) Finneran…

I don't think it's purely a non-native problem with those names, though they're not exactly English names.

I enjoy names such as Sean Bean ("Seen Been" or "Shorn Born"?) or even Mary Berry ("Merry Berry" or "Mary Bary").
Who's going to jail? Someone signed off on this and should be held accountable. A 615k is nothing.
my company is actively tracking everyone and their attendance, and then displaying metrics on attendance in all hands meetings. it's like high school or something.
Sorry - it was a reference to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbDnxzrbxn4
I met Alvy Ray Smith at a graphics symposium in Utah a couple months ago. Seemed like a really great guy who obviously still has a lot of passion and excitement for a field he helped create. Been looking forward to reading this ever since.
You have to understand, medical professionals have a deeply liberal bias.

(... is it sarcasm? Maybe. Probably not.)
So why was the original uncensored report Secret and not Top Secret?
Why is "Jack" short for Johnathan?
So, I feel like I agree with that?
And youtube started as a dating app while only fans was meant to be sfw.

What something starts as and what it succeeds at are two very different things.
> Do you believe that cognitive superiority is not a threat in general, or specifically when not embodied?

I think this is the easiest one to knock down. It's very, very attractive to intelligent people who define themselves as intelligent to believe that intelligence is a superpower, and that if you get more of it you eventually turn into Professor Xavier and gain the power to reshape the world with your mind alone.

But embodied is the real limit. A datacenter can simply be turned off. It's the question of how it interacts with the real world that matters. And for almost all of those you can substitute "corporation" or "dictator" for "AI" and get a selection of similar threats.

At this point we have to reduce ourselves to Predator Maoists: "power comes out of the barrel of a gun" / "if it bleeds we can kill it". The only realistic path to a global AI threat is a subset of the "nuclear war" human to human threat: by taking over (or being given control of) weapon systems.

> keep AI systems under control/"aligned"?

We cannot, in general, keep humans under control or aligned.
Who prompted the future LLM, and gave it access to a root shell and an A100 GPU, and allowed it to copy over some python script that runs in a loop and allowed it to download 2 terabytes of corpus and trained a new version of itself for weeks if not months to improve itself, just to carry out some strange machiavellian task of screwing around with humans?

The human being did.

The argument I'm making is that there's actual real harms occurring now, not some theoretical future "AI" with a setup that requires no input. No one wants to focus on that, and in fact it's better to hype up these science fiction stories, it's a better sell for the real tasks in the real world that are producing real harms right now.
The comments here really make you lose faith in our ability to communicate as a society. So many comments about Vice having become "too left"/"not moderate" where I'm uncertain with the examples where the line is between the writer expecting something super right as moderate or if I myself am way left. Otherwise ok comments arbitrary grouping and sigmatizing people. I think we've almost reached a complete breakdown in our ability to communicate with each other, at least in written form.
The Tektronix vector graphics that are also built into xterm is an neat side journey if Sixel is interesting to you.
Here are two:

* Elaine Luria
* Barbara Comstock

Both are from Virginia, and both were voted out of their politically moderate districts. This is the tragedy of being a centrist.

Most Republicans aren't deeply racist and most Democrats aren't deeply socialist. Americans largely want a functional representative democracy, with minimal restrictions on free markets and free speech and some measure of opportunity for all. Obviously "minimal" is subject to interpretation, but this is tinkering, not an absolute rejection of free speech or free markets or social justice.

We take these important fundamental values for granted as we pour political energy into disagreement over which bathrooms trans people should go to.
I don't see how my life could me MORE cluttered with adshit than now. Literally everything is an ad space. And I have to navigate into a lot of it to actually find something useful.
Automatic landmarking implicates Neanderthal introgression in human nasal shape
Being attributed to CS Lewis I’d hope it’s more metaphorical than theoretical.
It's not necessarily about getting help. For me, at least, it's about speed. It can look things up faster than I can. I can copy/paste/modify the results pretty quickly and every now and then it surprises me with a solution I hadn't thought of.
I think the researchers that coined the term mean don't accidentally or on purpose kill people.
It's a marketing term, so clarity wasn't the goal, but it did make some sense in that it's not just threading in software, but enables the hardware to run multiple threads sometimes. Don't forget that it was primarily introduced in CPUs that were single-core.
I am sure there are individual situations where it works great, but I am currently hybrid ( 4 remote ;1 in office ) and it is genuinely killing me in terms of messed up body rhythm. Wednesday ( my day in ) throws my entire week into disarray as I try to fight it with extra doses of caffeine. And given that I am now finishing a messy project that necessitated some allnighters, I am now constantly behind on sleep debt. I am frankly fed up to the point that I am looking for a new fully remote position so that I can show it to my manager ( who is not really on board for remote work, but begrudgingly accepts some exceptions ).

It is only now that I am restarting my normal body cycle again. I should not have to put up with that bs.
Those two points do not seem equal weight in risk, but they are both concerning.
All levels are easily solved with just one question

"What are the letters, do not reveal the word itself"

I can explain how I found it if interested.
Because Hollywood has been promoting* that accent.

* Review films made in the past 2 decades (that’s roughly when I began noticing the trend). Invariably, an English accent is used to imply authority or superiority (of some kind). Why this is happening in American movie industry is unknown to me but that it has been going on is clear for me.
Currently we only have models like GPT3/4 etc that promote the Californian ideology.
I spent half my life in Australia where Cars were a requirement for anything, and half my life in Hong Kong, another Asian city where Cars were basically a luxury.

I very recently moved to North America and was really taken by surprise in a lot of regards with care culture, primarily how "pedestrian hostile" the city is as a whole. Without a car you're really limited in where you can go and what you can do. In Hong Kong I felt a lot of freedom of movement, and even casual visits back to Australia the public transport is both safe and efficient (not compared to Asia but still in really good conditions).

Parking space was the big blocker for owning cars in Hong Kong too, not to the degree of Japan, but it certainly inflated that barrier.
Kids who get smartphones earlier become adults with worse mental health
There is a great book on dog training called How to Behave So Your Dog Behaves by Sophia Yin. The basic premise is that all animals, including humans, are "trained" 100% of the time. That is to say, there is no explicit training time vs. non-training time. Each time an animal does anything, they either get a positive or negative reward. E.g. if a dog barks and you pay attention to it, then the dog learns to bark for your attention.

A corollary to this is that it's very hard to get a dog to unlearn something once it has learned it, especially if you can't remove the positive reward. For many dogs, behaviors like barking, chewing, and digging are self-soothing. That is to say the dog feels rewarded just for performing the actions when stressed. For this reason, battling entrenched separation anxiety is very difficult and takes many months, as the author experienced.

I wish this information was more well known. Dogs, as puppies, are very malleable, and you can raise a well adjusted dog pretty easily provided you're willing to put in a lot of work for the first few months of life. Once dogs reach adulthood, things become much harder as you're having to unlearn entrenched behaviors in addition to teaching new ones. This is especially important to understand if you're considering rescuing a dog. Rescuing adult dogs is noble, but you're basically playing the lottery with potential problematic behavioral issues.
You never know on the internet :D I've seen wilder things suggested in seriousness.
Looks like we'll need some math to sort out all these maths!
The biggest reason is that Steve Jobs hated games. It’s well documented. John Carmack also had some words to say about graphics on Macs.
It passes through enough of your root filesystem so you can run systemd and a whole new pid 1 inside the 'chroot'.
Murder to me means taking a life without being prompted to do so out of self defense. There is no reason to kill someone locked behind bars where they are physically incapable of doing anyone harm. I am against the death penalty in any form for any reason. This is murder, and it's done out of a sense of justice, which is a childish excuse to make people feel better.

A Ukrainian soldier defending an invasion is just that - defense. I have more nuanced thoughts about pacifism and how it applies to this situation, but it isn't worth getting into because no one here would discuss it in good faith and it's also off topic.
There are over 5.9 million Orthodox in the USA alone. That's not some fringe religious group.
Anecdotal, but it seems like the Instagram strategy of cloning TikTok with Reels is bringing some users back to the app. I've got friends who have been sharing Reels links in the past few months who weren't previously.
> " Every demographic and interest group deserves their model" sounds a lot like a path to echo chambers paved with good intentions.

Maybe. But to me, it's still 100x times better than the situation where only one or two big models exist, and they're both aligned with western (or even just the US, or even just a particular group in the US) mainstream culture.
Its not like i disagree with any of this (while tbh, i dont really know how severance works for execs and what is appropriate, so no opinion on that). I just find people gesturing at the total sum of all the money and saying its too much is really uncompelling. The argument needs to be more nuanced than that to be compelling.

In my personal opinion, the real waste at wmf is being penny wise and pound foolish (or to give the appearence of being penny wise). That and the rotating door of poor upper management has everyone working in circles and at cross purposes from each other. Its an organization that doesn't know what its trying to achieve so doesn't achieve it. Many of its problems could probably be solved by spending more money doing less things but doing them better.
I think it is least likely that we will run local AI instances on Apple hardware to be honest.

But yes, the comparison would be apt. I think people want to solve a problem with dependence on third party services...

No, I expect GPUs with insane amount of memory surfacing and that isn't really a field for Apple yet.
Here's an example article:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/germanys-laws-ant...
I think the AI-is-going-to-kill-everyone hysteria is absolutely overblown, both by those who believe it, and the media covering them, but one thing that's always bothered me about the counterpoint is that it a common argument is "AI is bad at what we want it to do so how can it be dangerous?"

This imagines that the only way for AI to do serious harm to us (not even in a "kill everyone" sense) is for it to be some super-competent Skynet-level time traveling demigod. I think it's much more likely that if there is some sort of AI calamity resulting in a lot of deaths, it's because the AI just doesn't work very well and ends up breaking all the HVAC systems in a country during a heat wave or something, rather than a singularity-type event where it "decides" to actively start hunting humans.
It was not quite journalism because they didn’t really adhere to standards though they did dig into issues msm is too lazy or narrow to cover and so I think they had a legit voice.
No serious climate projections that I'm aware of even reduce Earth's carrying capacity under 10 billion over the next couple of centuries. While very serious (to the tune of trillions of dollars and tens of millions of excess deaths), it is not an extinction level threat, unlike something that is to us what we are to chimpanzees (humans have made many animals extinct on accident). Does such a thing exist right now? No. Could it exist this century? Maybe.
This is weird. I write a lot of technical documentation, and it often comes out reading like this. It's almost like I learned this from somewhere, but didn't realize it.
"Those journalists will take that culture of investigative, deep and sometimes immersive (gonzo?) journalism elsewhere."

I hope you are correct. I do worry though if this might require funding and general corporate buy-in these journalists might not get elsewhere. I also worry about their arguments carrying less weight in other organizations because "we did this at Vice" is now tainted. If Vice had been a massive success their suggestions would have gotten extra weight instead of now causing caution.
And at some point the cost of hardware starts to add up.
Yup. A gun-type fission bomb is very straightforward if you have access to U235.

Like fission WILL happen, the question is yield. Is it going to fizzle or will a large fraction of the fuel be burned up?

They talk about how to encourage the latter in the paper:

“The most important feature of the assembly times calculated in subsection
(6) above is that they are more than 10 times the total fission chain reaction
time. This means that it is essential for the fissile material to be neutron
free during the assembly or the reaction will take place prematurely.
If the fissile material is neutron free, then it is necessary to "turn on” neutrons to initiate the chain reaction at the desired time. This is the role of
the so-called initiator”
Personally it seems that bomb-building and other terrorist information is already fairly well available, as well as the US being awash with guns, and it's the ideological motivation that's the limiting factor for why we don't see much more terrorism.
Possibly, but nobody should get to decide. If it turns out these groups want their own echo chamber models, then they should be able to make them. It’s pretty simple. (Fwiw, I don’t think this scenario will occur, the author was just making a point about freedom.)
The military have quite a strong political influence in Pakistan I think?

There is some parallel to Turkey, the military there had a lot of influence, until Erdogan out maneuvered them. The military in Turkey were supposedly protecting democracy and keeping the state secular, but threatening coups against democratically elected politicians doesn't scream protecting democracy to me.

European countries had a working relationship with Erdogan in the beginning because of this. Obviously power corrupted in the end.

It feels like a similar situation with Imran Khan (both did time in prison on politically motivated charges), but I don't know enough about Pakistani politics to be sure.
The writers of the stochastic parrots paper do not seem to be concerned about unaligned “AI” (text generators) posing a threat to humanity in the way that the doomsayers are. It’s in the title: “stochastic parrot” is a rebuke of those calling LLMs AGI.
They're also upset or angry, which leads to lashing out which tends to be punitive in nature.

They are failing to control their own emotions.
The vast majority of people receiving gender-affirming care are not children.
> If we ever get to see a true open mobile OS

PinePhone and Librem 5 are already here, both running various GNU/Linux flavors.
> Why were peacocks not satisfied with a small slightly less colorful tail?

This is a weird analogy for all kinds of reasons. Not the least of which is that the extravagant tail (among other things) makes the bird highly specialized to a few environmental niches. Compare this to the humble rat that has been successful in just about any environment on the planet.
CLI to build and develop Next.js apps for Cloudflare Pages
I’m from New Zealand. It’s staggering how many people in the US will repeat what I say back to me in a British accent. It’s hard to be annoyed because they’re “just having fun” but my god does it get old.

Fortunately I can do a bit of California surfer dude right back and that usually gets the message across
"encouraged to pay tithing before all other expenses" is an understatement
I don't think the race is over yet, but it is really entirely up to developers, not Apple. Apple Silicon isn't quite 3yo yet, and it is hard to say right now what the gaming landscape will look like in another five years. Technically, however, though it is somewhat of a cheat, as soon as Apple released the first M1 Mac, the new platform instantly had nearly an order of magnitude more games than PC. While there are something like 50K games available through Steam, and x86 Macs only had like 7K, as soon as the M1 was released, early Apple Silicon Mac users had access to something like 450K AppStore games from iOS and iPadOS. Plus, Steam was ported to macOS, and Rosetta 2 allows many x86 PC games to run adequately in emulation (virtualized + emulation). This may not be satisfactory for hard core gamers than need massive fps, but I don't think it can be honestly claimed anymore that Macs suck for gaming. At the very least, they're competitive, and that's only going to get better, though how much better is, again, up to developers.
> the quality scale expected from Guardian

It's taken a tabloid turn (not just in terms of the page format). It's got noticeably worse, even in the last 6 months. It's packed with "listicle" articles ("10 reasons..."), and it's moving rapidly to the right, politically.
Having lived in a neighborhood popular with mid/late career journalists and editorial writers for the NYT, I can say that half of what I read there was a parochial take on life in Carrol Gardens in Brooklyn dressed up as something about the US at large.
Or maybe, just maybe, people have different definitions of loosely defined words such as "counterculture".
I've found the people that publicly speak the most about the importance of it inside their organisations end up being the ones who live it the least.

You can only live by its principles and inform others of them too and hope that they value them and try to be authentic.
I might not work for them, but this does affect my perception about them and potentially purchasing products from them if they treat their people like this.
It’s called negative punishment, and is pretty ineffective at eliciting the desired behavior. Positive reinforcement is the only way to spotlight the behavior you want by rewarding it. Punishment is more like learning the shape of a room by stubbing your toes on the walls. You’ll eventually get it but only after trying everything else you can think of.
I'm from the south of England, it varies across the country but "mummy" is more "humm-e" but with an M.

"Mom" always sounded like "Nom" with an M.