skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love the British accents so much, I would put months of practice if I could. Their wit and dry humour parallel closely to mine in daily lives.

The other day we were mocking Brits on received pronunciation or what people call the 'royal posh talk'. Oh god, their novels are too fun when adapted into play, drama or theatre. My nephew had so much fun, it consumed the whole afternoon and evening in a jiffy.

Anybody who grew up in different mother tongue will appreciate Brits and their culture, language being just the start.
Some people are really creative at creating dozens of boolean flags with lots of possible and impossible combinations. And some don't even correspond to screen in your figma file from designer (but can actually happen due to race condition... etc). You will really want a state machine that just list every possible state and transition in that case.
> Maybe prompt engineering and temperature settings can be enough to prevent this, but ChatGPT has only been out ~6 months and I find the attitude that the burden is on OpenAI to make sure it never says anything bad completely ass backwards. It's like a writer controlling his pen with puppet strings and going "wow, look what it's saying!"

The problem ChatGPT - but especially image, audio and video AI systems - has is that these systems have drastically lowered the barrier to entry to create harmful content.

Everyone can rig up an AI prompt to draw a convincing picture of a politician having sexual intercourse with a child in a matter of mere minutes - a work that would take even a dedicated visual artist many hours. For "voice cloning" AI, it's even worse, as it was practically impossible to emulate that unless you had access to a person talented enough to re-enact voices - and now anyone can pull off completely "legitimate" sounding prank voice calls.

The general availability of such specialized AI completely erodes trust in anything not happening face-to-face - it was already bad enough with people denying actual genocides (Armenia, the Holocaust, Bosnia), but now? How can we even make sure historians can trust records from our time period?
I mean this in the most genuinely curious and interested way possible.... but if you're doing geometry or trig... do you refer to it as "math" because you're just doing one type of mathematics? Is there every a point where it isn't plural. Is even 2+2=4 referred to as "maths".

I think its funny that terms like math v maths come about very organically and then after the fact everyone feels the need to back into a reasoning that was likely never there. Obviously neither are wrong because they are the "correct" way for a given dialect/region etc.
but AI class GPUs are expensive because NVidia can pretty much ask whatever it wants as it has no competition. If Apple were to become competitive in the area, things can change.
Why are you running linters on other peoples' code?
Yes and yes. It's uncommon where I live to talk to people on the train - and being a bulky 6'4 male, whether I like it or not, I have a lifetime of experience that it's startling for women when I appear behind them without them realizing. It was a passing thought I found funny in the moment. I think it might say something about the reason why some segment of the population is apparently doing this.
As an American who doesn't say "maths", my assumption is that algebra is one math, geometry is another, calculus is one, discrete math is one, etc. Together, they are "the maths."

Probably a "just so" definition to satisfy my American ears. I bet they'd say that any one of those is still "maths" by itself.
> Tax exemption should be a non-issue.

> Any church run as a business should not be considered a church at all.

Churches are always businesses. It takes a lot of money to own and operate large buildings, pay people to work for the church, and operate events for churchgoers. Eventually they need to accumulate funds to expand and build new churches. It’s a business, like it or not.

The issue is that some of these churches have taken the original intent of the business supporting the church and turned it into a questionable structure where it appears the church supports the business. Having millions of “customers” worldwide who are obligated to give you 10% of their income every year and to allocate years of their life to traveling the world and convincing other people to join is one lucrative business model.

We can’t really go out and tell people what their religion can or cannot do (within the bounds of the law) but we can, and should, set some limits on the tax breaks we give to these religion-businesses.

The easiest way is obviously to set some limits or thresholds. “Tax exempt up to $1 billion in funds” is hard to argue with and would easily solve this problem.
This discussion might benefit from distinguishing several issues:

(1) the propriety of protesting abortions at all

(2) the propriety of protesting anything in a manner that seems to threaten violence

(3) the government's use of Dataminr
The Vatican sort of has a subway. It has a single train station, which has (rare) passenger service, and about 100m of train tunnel.
My sister married a guy from the UK. She lives there now and has mishmash of midwestern US / southern UK accent. It's the most ridiculous sounding thing ever. UK people can't figure out where she's from and US people can't either.
Lobbying and conflicts of interests perhaps?

Tech is so powerful now, it controls narratives, influences politics, huge revenues.

I feel tech is beyond control at the moment.
I will add them as feature.

Do you want to contribute?
(There's a whole genre of newspaper story that more or less consists of "Look! This generation are doing a thing that all the other generations did, too! How surprising!" There's always an audience for moaning about the youth of today, and apparently has been for literally millennia; ancient Roman commentators liked doing it, say).
Somehow once I attended to your tokens “stochastic parrots” the rest of your words became much more predictable
The political analysis suggests that NPR has remained pretty stationary; what has swung is that America grew a vocal far-right wing with enough political clout to be heard in the conversation, and that pushed the national centroid away from where NPR sits.

In a world where Tucker Carlson has had a successful television commentary career that didn't immediately result in every show sponsor pulling up stakes and leaving until his networks bade him go elsewhere, NPR looks liberal.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/26/opinion/sunda...
> Or people can just not speak in uptalk.

What's uptalk?
Ha, I came here to link the same article. It's really fantastic.
> which is an existence proof that you can run a kernel of your choice and userland of your choice

Isn't LineageOS dependent on the original kernel of the phone for blobs? My understanding is that the device specific downloadable versions have just already had that RE work done for you instead of requiring you to do it.
Yes this is why church attendance collapsed in Europe. The State took over these duties. There's no materialistic reason to be a member anymore.
No it's not. Vice had already been around for 15 years at that point.
> My partner works in a company with a pretty liberal WFH policy, but prefers to go to the office. But when she does, the office is half empty, and she hates it.

So make the office smaller. Although many people going to office probably prefer to have a bit more space and quiet, given how widespread criticism of open offices etc is.
Why are you posting here? Shouldn’t you sell your computer and go practice what you preach?
The Quietest Sound in the Universe
Is this legitimately the only realistic option?
The UK staying in the EU was in almost everyone's interests.
as a national state with sea access, you could filter it from seawater.

that's not energy efficient and takes a long time, but it's relatively easy access.

https://www.epj-n.org/articles/epjn/pdf/2016/01/epjn150059.p...

~100g uranium / 117kg adsorbent material / month

a warhead needs about 25kg (enriched) uranium.

so 2,5 months with ~11,2tons of adsorbent material spread over a few square miles of sea should give you the needed 25kg. That still needs to be enriched, but once in operation a system like this generates about 125kg uranium/year. (if you need more or faster just scale the system, plenty of space within the 12 mile zone)
VSCode has a silence/DND option via the bell menu in the bottom right. However it does not seem to be perfect, and I've seen notifications pop up on startup of a fresh window. Better than nothing though.

It is tremendously frustrating how every single extension developer seems to think that every bit of logging (and every single update changelog) is the most important thing to every developer that has their extension installed, and that they should disrupt flow and even open tabs and take over the window context just to tell me about some new minor version patch.
The problem with trying to tack on D&D-type alignment to something like this is that everyone presents their favored alignment as lawful good, and the other guys as - at best - lawful evil.
Jonathan -> John/Jan -> Jankin (adding -kin as a diminutive) -> Jack

That is at least the theory I've heard
I used to create a half-ass Ultima-spinoff (think Ultima 1-4 type of graphics) in C++ and SDL2. Tried twice but never managed to complete them, not due to technical difficulty but due to boredom once I figured out the major algorithms (path-finding, line of sight, random generation, such and such). My rendering "framework" only has some 200 lines of code but fits all of my rendering jobs.

I'd say it's a valid option as long as you are willing to devote some time building up the foundations. But if you are more into game programming than game engine programming, Godot may be your best choice. I have never used it though so cannot say for sure.
It's true and after this change of meaning they have tried making other names like "dont-kill-everyoneism" or "AI-not-kill-everyoneism" for it (not joking) but they are worried if it will sound too silly or alarmist or if it won't catch on. That said, language does its own evolution without regard for what the ones who coined it had meant.
Because it was trained on old documentation, but I see your point. My original point was also not necessarily that ChatGPT was correct, but that ChatGPT at least gave something to work with, whereas Bard simlly refused.
I reached out to find out, and received this reply:

> It was indeed "experimental epistemology,"

> GJS
I don't think either one is a contraction.
Poe.com has Claude-inatant-100k (but not Claude-plus-100k yet) but you need to be a paying subscriber to use it
Gartner: Stop worrying and love the cloud, with all its outages and lock-in
> bland unseasoned

I found the problem. A proper steak should be properly seasoned.
I agree. Most speakers could probably switch to any manner of accent at will.
You're elongating vowels etc. when you sing. If you sing in English you're most likely going to sound like every other English singer.

The only way you don't is if you purposely slow down your singing make it sound like your talking accent. This works with some genres (e.g. rap) but not others.
Supercomputers used to be giant machines we had in giant warehouses... Now the phone in your pocket has the computing power of the 1980s walking around with you. Assuming your super intelligence will always be huge is... well not a great assumption.

Also superintelligence doesn't need a body itself. It just needs yours. Putin for example has commanded hundreds of thousands of dumbasses to go get themselves killed in Ukraine. In this case does it matter if Putin is flesh and blood, or a processor that lists out commands for others to follow as long as they are willing to listen?
this is a recent thing, the 1700s would like to have a word :-)
My take on RTO:

If its not left up to 100% employee choice and nothing else (and therefore, the policies, processes and procedures don't equally accommodate remote workers) then I think its a power play, as there is no discernible benefit to the business, as others have stated, the Microsoft study that came out, as have other studies, shown that WFH has been a net increase in worker productivity.

I do think it should be an employee choice though, there are some folks, even if its less than majority, that work better in an office, for whatever reason, and they should be supported too
I hope they can survive this
I'm excited for the M3 too. I hope this is the generation Apple adds AV1 hardware support. If they don't, I have no confidence they will ever add support
>I wonder if the next step - designing a thermonuclear device given an A-bomb

And then there's the theoretical possibility of designing a thermonuclear device without the A-bomb part. I remember skimming through a paper from someone from CERN about it; https://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0510071.pdf is the guy, but I'm not sure that's the exact paper.
> "wooster sauce"

"That's just incorrect. It's pronounced "wooster-shuh". The double-O is short, as in "book". Worcestershire Sauce is sometimes simply called "woosters", as in "a dash of woosters".

> Frome in Somerset is one of the hardest place names to pronounce

Hardly. It's pronounced "froom". That's not so hard.
the tiktok voice is quite valley girl, and I’m not sure there’s a more annoying sound around

on the other hand:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb21lsCQ3EM
Allegedly, Amazon forced RTO because there were tax incentives that required butts-in-seats. I don’t think they are a cabal of puppet masters, but that does go some ways towards point #1.
Boffins interrogate sodium ion battery stability mystery
> The state is not a football for religious games

The state should reflect the ethics of the people. Religious morality is a type of speech.

This is immaterial but just in case anyone assumes anything: I'm not personally religious.
No tip, just wanted to wish you luck and hope you and your family stay safe. Hope Sudan finds the peace it deserves soon.
I was taught by a kiwi friend how to tell apart Australian and New Zealand accents - just get them to say "fish and chips".

"Fush and chups" - New Zealand.
"Feesh and cheeps" - Australian
A bit harsh to say that WebGL was a mistake from the beginning. The spec was released in 2011, along with some initial implementations. At the time, Vulkan didn't exist (2016). Not even Metal (2014) or Mantle (2013) existed yet. I don't think even the AZDO folks had done their work yet.

WebGL looked pretty damn good in 2011. It was based on OpenGL ES 2.0, which was the latest version of OpenGL ES, and the great thing about OpenGL ES is that it's a little cleaned up from OpenGL and reflects the capabilities of a broad class of graphics implementations.
As an atheist, I'm mostly glad I never met the man. I think that if I had, remaining an atheist might be more difficult than it is. Even reading his works seems risky at times.

Not that his arguments are particularly rational, mind you. He was just that damned good.
Sublime text has this too, except it's a popup. And Package Control, too, has a tab that pops open a few seconds after you've started writing. In my opinion they're not really a problem.
Sure, mix 'em into stuff and you've got a proper recipe. But just raw egg all on its own?
Is there a Windows client front end ide rather than a browser?

It's much easier to enable alternative input from say a .Net Framework WPF app...
I agree with you. The way things are setup now, religion gets all sorts of special dispensations. To do this, government has to determine what is a real religion and what is not, which sounds to me like it goes directly against the separation between church and state. Religion should be treated the same as any other belief structure.

I realize this doesn’t apply directly to taxation but we defer to religion in multiple ways in the law.
Ransomware corrupts data, so backups can be faster and cheaper than paying up
You are massively wrong. Only 59% of people charged with a felony actually get convicted of it, as of 2018:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conviction_rate#United_States

This means nearly half of these people getting thrown in jail and/or having to post bond will never get convicted of the "high risk bond" crime they're accused of doing.
you're not sounding crazy at all. I've lived the life of startup culture within the D.o.D. apparatus. We started with solving a problem in our office, was told we couldn't use the product unless we made a requirement and let companies bid on it (only primes were told about it). It was a horrible experience. Fortunately we were able to leave the agency and bid on the exact contract. Needless to say, we had a prototype functioning and everyone else were pitching man power requirements and not even close. The reality is, after securing the contract, we still needed a prime to serve as our SSO and ultimately were acquired by one due to headaches managing contracts. We made money, but weren't happy.

One issue as you mentioned was when we applied the logic in in our process to other agencies, they have completely different requirements that weren't in line (over fundamentals not the output). It created an all or none commitment to multiple builds for multiple agencies. Even our development processes had to be documented differently.

It's a big part of why I left govt contracting and have only supported state level for the most part (unless it's a sole source research project type deal, and those are very very small financially).
Well, in human history there have been many people bred as inputs to an industrial process. Today most people of conscience look on those situations (past and present) in horror. I would hope that humans someday learn to never allow that to happen to any of us again.
> That new Zelda game what came out yesterday has surprisingly poorly directed voice acting in general

OK, so it's not just my wife; she sometimes directs voice actors, and within the first five minutes of the game as part of the big intro sequence everyone who plays the game has to see it got an "oof, that needed another take" out of her, LOL.
I have zero doubt about that.
I remember when Vice covered Russia's invasion of Crimea. It was phenomenal on-the-ground coverage at a time when all we got otherwise were CNN BS pros, and a precursor to a lot of new takes on war coverage. I remember "Huang's World", a jubilant food show that also revealed Eddie Huang's authentic, unfiltered Chinese American voice, who'd go on to success as Fresh off the boat author. Maybe this stuff was too easy to copy or too expensive, but Vice doesn't stand apart as much anymore.
For sure, we should just have a general data protection law which covers both issues
> 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.

I generally agree with you and think the doomerists are overblown, but there's a capability argument here; if it is possible for an AI to augment the ability of humans to do Bad Things to new levels (not proven), and if such a thing becomes widely available to individuals, then it would seem likely that we get "Unabomber but he has an AI helping him maximise his harm capabilities".

> it's a better sell for the real tasks in the real world that are producing real harms right now.

Strongly agree.
Not sure if typo but LDL of 200 is still very high.
> You are right, and this is a tech problem even before LLMs.

Indeed, which is why I find statements such as the one from the article's author that I pointed out in the first comment in the chain so disgusting. "Enjoy responsibly" is not an attitude to have with a weapon so powerful as AI or social media.
> Everybody knows the emperor (Zuck) has no clothes and it's been known for quite some time. He got lucky, he made a lot of cash. Good for him! Now it's become painfully obvious he has no clue what to do. Why? Because he got lucky.

> ... The odds of hitting the unicorn jackpot are minuscule. The odds of hitting it twice? Relying only on luck? Practically zero. That's why Zuck is flailing.

Mark has been an excellent CEO by all measures. The purchase of Instagram may be the best acquisition in tech history and it was on his watch. Then he did it again with WhatsApp. It's hard to describe making mostly the correct decisions over and over for 20 years luck.

Facebook is a money printer and continues to be one, detour into the metaverse or not.
Statistics -> stats, calculus -> calc, logic -> null
Analyze and compare DBaaS products easily and free-to-use on a technical level!
It sounds like the hardest part is getting people to authentically pursue it in the first place. That is a big hurdle.

Have you had success informing others and getting them to see the value of it?
When I'm talking to British friends they'll often repeat back what I said and exaggerate the rhoticity of my western US accent. I'll poke back with a "It's chewsday innit bruv?"

Seems pretty common.
50% more optical zoom. Real-time image stabilization. 4x the pixels. Deep fusion/photonic engine which vastly improves image clarity due to merging multiple pictures into a final image.
Probably because there are other people you are always comparing yourself to.
>For Russia/China warheads we basically have no documents, and even exterior pictures are extremely rare.

In case of Russia there's a new factor in that those weapons might not even be operable anymore.
No comment on whether it's broadly a good thing or bad thing, but you can't get ChatGPT (on GPT-4 at least) to tell you even slightly scandalous jokes without a lot of custom prompting and subterfuge, and they seem to be spending active development and model training time to try to counter a lot of the circumvention we've seen to get around these guardrails. Not just for dirty jokes but for anything deemed bad.

So it seems pretty clear you can load values into an LLM.
Existing DIB contractors are struggling to meet all the requirements imposed upon them, while trying to win contracts in the race to the bottom contract awarding style that the DoD utilizes.

If you want to see this showcased? Look at the chaos surrounding the DoD's rollout process for CMMC.
Exploding airbag inflators strike again–1M GM SUVs are recalled
It is not in F-Droid so I can't easily try it.
About a year ago, was driving on a mountain road, the lane markets were eroded and the auto-pilot / driver assist thing stopped turning, If I wasn't paying attention it was straight into the barriers at speed.

I just prefer to drive, I actually don't mind driving either.