skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My son told me about an assignment he had where, due to a tight timeline, the homework wouldn't be corrected and returned until after the mid-term which covered that material. The professor didn't feel this was fair, so gave the students a freebie where he posted the solutions along with the homework and no restriction on how the students used it.

In an ideal world, students would still work the problems and then identify/correct their mistakes. There was no penalty for simply copying the answer key. There were still students who either didn't do the assignment or turned in homework with half of the answers incorrect.
> Vogel is part of a loose online subculture known as the postrationalists [...] They are a group of writers, thinkers, readers, and Internet trolls alike who were once rationalists, or members of adjacent communities like the effective altruism movement, but grew disillusioned.

Is this really just a combination of people looking for religion-like meaning, people looking to feel superior, and people looking to scam/exploit those others?
For California the law is here: https://law.justia.com/codes/california/2022/code-veh/divisi...

The Tesla vehicle violated this. subdivision (3) kinda implicitly confirms that a driver doesn't need to wait for a pedestrian to fully exit (what allows for that though is just the definition of and requirements around "right of way").
I have not yet played with embedding. It is on my list though. Fortunately for my current purposes 3.5-turbo is fast enough and quite affordable.
Name one significant progress in the field of LLMs that happened outside the US. Basically all the scientific papers came from Stanford, CMU, and other US universities. And the major players in the field are all American companies (OpenAI + Microsoft, Google, AnthropicAI, etc.)
My company uses Elixir exclusively in the backend and we just hire solid backend developers, and teach them to use Elixir. That's how I was a couple of years ago. The learning curve is pretty gentle.
There was a short-lived show called "Going Deep With David Rees" where the host explores this in a humorous manner.

It's S1E1, I believe it is available on Amazon. You might be able to find excerpts on youtube.
> Shouldn't we be evaluating ideas on the merits and not categorically rejecting (or endorsing) them based on who said them?

The problem is when only the entrenched industry players & legislators have a voice, there are many ideas & perspectives that are simply not heard or considered. Industrial groups have a long history of using regulations to entrench their positions & to stifle competition...creating a "barrier to entry" as they say. Going beyond that, industrial groups have shaped public perception & the regulatory apparatus to effectively create a company store, where the only solutions to some problem effectively (or sometimes legally) must go through a small set of large companies.

This concern is especially prescient now, as these technologies are unprecedentedly disruptive to many industries & private life. Using worst case scenario fear mongering as a justification to regulate the extreme majority of usage that will not come close to these fears, is disingenuous & almost always an overreach of governance.
Telly, the ‘free’ smart TV with ads, has privacy policy red flags
Yes, the idea to maintain materialized views based on standing queries to make the queries instantaneous is the same.
In addition, DataSQRL handles the ingest (e.g. consuming events off a queue, pre-processing the data, and populating the database) and egress (i.e. serving the data through an API) so that all your data logic can be in one place.

Another key difference to Noria is that DataSQRL is an abstraction layer on top of existing technologies like Postgres, Flink, Kafka, etc and does not aim to be another datastore. That way, you can use the technologies you already trust without having to write the integration code.
This is one of the fundamental pain points of AI. All those moral dilemmas and trolley scenarios we've philosophized about since ancient history? Well it's come time to choose.

Computers do exactly what they are told to do and never do what you did not tell them to do. They do not have any common sense that you did not give them. As you build more and more capable computers and give them more influence and control, you damn well better have an exhaustive, complete and comprehensive set of values for it to follow.
It's very easy to be arrested, denied bond, be convicted, and serve your time, without ever leaving the jail/prison system. Especially if you're poor.
Intrusion at national security adviser’s home under investigation
I'm having trouble deciding if your post is tongue-in-cheek agreeing with me or not so I'll just add some earnest flavor. I'm going to answer your questions in reverse order.

No, I don't think it strange at all that people put so much effort and resources into Art. The creator of the work gets a different kind of satisfaction than the people viewing it. These reasons vary from person to person but I've always liked my Highschool's Motto "Art for Art's sake". So it makes sense to put effort into creation. Personally, I love narrative and so when I'm creating sculptures or art of any kind I'm considering the narrative that goes into it. The effort is to achieve the narrative while considering tone and taste. A Nightmare Before Christmas would not be the same movie if it were all rendered as naturalistically as possible.

I'm not going to pretend to know the entirety of reasons people have for liking their spaces designed, but we do like shiny things and people can be particular about their environments. Yeah, it might be most efficient to put people into perfect cubes but I doubt the emotional well-being of most people would be met by this kind of environment. So, on that basis alone we have a reason to put effort and resources into decorating our spaces.

I don't really understand your second sentence. I'm not sure what "Human recognition instinct simulated artificially" even means. Do you mean our ability to recognize humans? Or our ability to recognize anything? Its a little short-sighted to view the whole of "Marble Statues in Ancient Greece/Rome, etc" as "Activating, artificially, our Human Recognition Instinct". Like, not only was a majority of the Art from that time lost/destroyed, and not all of the statues were of people, but those statues were humongous. David is like 17 feet tall. No one is going to mistake him for a human. Humans from antiquity weren't that different than the ones from today, at least no biologically/evolutionarily. So it'd be the same for them as any memorial statue is today - they fade into the background (While still providing some aesthetics, mind you)

What you're really missing by pulling out this single quote is something I touched on later in the post - Focusing on any individual "medium" is myopic in the conversation of Art's Cultural relevance, and the thread you sparked is just as marrow-minded. We're definitely in a period of time absolutely saturated with Art but we are by no means running on cultural fumes. Maybe the spaces you occupy are dead-zones but that's a personal choice IMO - Its beautiful and full of culture out here.
Please name the city and bar so I can visit it.
i thought hydropower screws up the ecosystem of rivers pretty badly. LIke fish unable to spawn and all that.
Node supports this too (experimentally) https://nodejs.org/api/single-executable-applications.html
Also, I was recently on the Shifting Privacy Left podcast hosted by Debra Farber discussing Neucards and privacy in general. You can listen at https://shiftingprivacyleft.buzzsprout.com/2059470/12853299-...
this is one of those distractions that makes your argument seem better by attatching it to a better but unrelated argument. there's probably a name for that.

regulation to protect the integrity of elections is good and necessary. is there any reason to think that there needs to be regulation specific to AI that doesn't apply to other situations? Whether you use ChatGPT or Mechanical Turk to write your thousands of spam posts on social media to sway the election isn't super-relevant. it's the attempt to influence the election that should be regulated, not the AI.
https://archive.is/RbIXh
You can effect change in May 2023 if you start now on the business. When will you be able to effect change if the only strategy is “fix the whole system”? It won’t be this year and probably not this decade.

Which strategy gives a better outcome for someone incarcerated today?
AI for Log Analysis
Considering I have zero experience in AI/ML I want to build an AL/ML tool which can analyze logs based on my training set.

How do I do this? what is a good step to start this
Is there any evidence of this sort of acceptance between African and Asian elephants (say, in zoos)? I wouldn't be surprised if that had been attempted, and they appear further removed from one another than mammoths and Asian elephants are.
Both, the executables produced by bun are the bun binary concatenated to your script at the end. Try building a hello world and run `tail -c200 hello | xxd` to see your script at the end of the file.
Getting Podman running on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
Phar files still need the PHP runtime installed to run them. These files have the JS runtime embedded in them.
This sort of negativity you can use to shut down changing anything, about anything, in any system.

It's not inappropriate, but it is important to just have it inform the debate instead of ruling the debate. Yes, there should be constraints put in place to limit the potential for abuse, and as well oversight to ensure that people are following those constraints appropriately.

"But then the oversight program will be targeted!" I hear you say. Yes, yes it will. And sometimes by policy makers with undue interest in weakening oversight. Sometimes just infiltrated by monied interests who stand to benefit.

None of that is a reason to do nothing.
The Guardian newspaper in the UK is owned by a non-profit (Scott Trust). Its founder was concerned that his family would lose control of the newspaper after his death, being forced to sell a large chunk of it in order to pay estate taxes. So he set up a trust, more recently converted to a not-for-profit company, to control it. The company’s constitution says it cannot pay dividends, that its stock has no voting rights and cannot be transferred without the board’s consent, and that it cannot be acquired by any for-profit entity. The board is self-perpetuating, appointing its own future members. I believe the board members are issued stock upon joining the board, but are legally required to return it upon leaving. The actual media business is run by a 100% owned for-profit subsidiary. There’s no reason in principle why a business in any other industry could not adopt the same ownership model, although it does make it harder to raise capital.
US congress may be trying to do something, also: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/congress-took-on-ai-regulatio...
The competition is all fine, though. They have enough memory to run the models, they have hardware acceleration (ARMnn, SNPE, etc.) and both OSes can run it fine. Apple's difference is... their own set of APIs and hardware options?

How can you justify your claim that they're "largely behind"? It sounds to me like the competition is neck-and-neck in the consumer market, and blowing them out at-scale. It's simply hard to entertain that argument for a platform without CUDA, much less the performance crown or performance-per-watt crown.
Aside from who is saying them, the premise holds water.

AI is beyond-borders, and thus unenforceable in practicality.

The top-minds-of-AI are a group that cannot be regulated.

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AI isnt about the industries it shall disrupt ; AI is the policy-makers it will expose.

THAT is what they are afraid of.

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I have been able to do financial lenses into organizations that even with rudimentary BI would have taken me months/weeks - but I have been able to find insights which took me minutes.

AI regulation right now, in this infancy, is about damage control.

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Its the same as the legal weed market. You think BAIN Capital just all of a sudden decided to jump into the market without setting up their spigot?

Do you think that haliburton under cheney was able to setup their supply chains without cheney as head of KBR/Hali/CIA/etc...

Yeah, this is the same play ; AI is going to be squashed until they can use it to profit over you.

Have you watched ANIME ever? Yeah... its here now.
As we get more control of the resources on this planet, the proportions of species measured in earths biomass will certainly change. For example, there are no more wild cattle in europe. There are actually more domestic cattle in europe than there were ever wild cattle, however. The calories to support that surplus of bovine has to come from somewhere in the environment, there is no free energy. More nutrients that would have otherwise gone towards other plants perhaps are used to grow foods for the cattle, and n-th order effects to the rest of the environment happen from there. You can't have 8 billion people generating a surplus of food without changes to the rest of the network of life's interactions.
Okay, I see what you're saying. But wouldn't an automated system be consistent in its behavior? IOW, if it does not respect crosswalk laws in one case, should we not expect it to do the same in all, or at least most cases? At least some (and hopefully most) human drivers are staying out of pedestrian-occupied crosswalks.
> a universe that couldn't give the slightest crap about them

I'm part of said universe. And--I mean this genuinely--I care about you.

Seeing the universe as enchanted or disenchanted is a point of view, a value judgement. It's not a matter of fact or sobriety.
Literally everything AI right now
Middleware (YC W23) Is Hiring AI Founding Engineer
Incredibly far. Simulating all of that would be egregiously wasteful and extremely unlikely to provide actionable results.
> CSAM is a real and measurable problem

Well, I'd be curious to see how widespread CSAM is altogether, and especially how much WhatsApp, Messengers, and others are relevant for abusers. One thing I know about this topic is that the offenders are mostly close relatives. The thing I don't know, but intuitively, I'd not think that a close relative would take the risk of sending compromising messages on the smartphone of the victim. Not denying it never exists, but what are the numbers we are talking about? As neutral as I'm trying to think, it's very very hard to see a genuine intention into what the EU is doing
>KDE has way too much customization I think

My biggest issue with KDE themeing (or just linux ricing in general) is just the massive amount of possibilities and no guard rails. All it takes is changing one color and you end up with some godawful ugly setup.

I was messing with a live Manjaro USB on one of my annual "Is desktop linux there yet" expeditions and found the best success in just picking one of the top-downloaded themes in the store and maybe tweaking one thing from it, like the folder colors.

Much as I'd love a perfect and elegant personally-customized theme, I don't have the skills to do it, and I'd rather just have something that's 99% there.
The “bug” involves a breathing, thinking human being who didn’t opt into being a lab rat.
Perl 6 did get released, with that name, after years stuck in development (source: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/15/12/26/0354235/perl-...). Only later was it rebranded.
I'm on a work issued Ubuntu laptop but I very much live (by choice) in the Redhat ecosystem. I wanted to get Podman on my machine but the AD managed user for my laptop was a pain. So having to run it as a user I didn't login as I ran into issues. Anyway, this blog post is more about me having a place to remember the commands to get it working again in the future but also is a love-letter to Podman and Toolbox.
At least they're vaguely pretending to think if they should. Obviously they haven't thought enough, or they would be shredding all of OpenAI's storage drives and GPUs today.
Obviously you don’t go directly from the mixed wallet to the exchange. Send some of the coins to different wallets a few times and say you bought the coins with cash from someone you met once. Or, if you’re willing to go the extra mile use that wallet to buy an NFT and the NFT wallet can use the exchange.
When Creationists talk about a divine plan, my understanding is that they mean something with positive moral valence and where humans are significant. A simulation theory "divine plan" could be anywhere from a multiversal science experiment on which of the possible physics create the longest lasting universe or someone explicitly trying to torture us or incomprehensible beings doing something alien and incoherent or, yes, something benevolent where we are significant. I mean, sure, it's technically a metaphysical 'plan' but not really moreso than our laws of physics are if we weren't in a simulation.

I think there's a substantial difference between saying God has a plan for us and saying that our universe was likely manufactured in another for some unknown reason. Also, and I may be mistaken here, I think Creationists generally believe that the plane in which God exists is the top level (and therefore God must be a significant entity), while simulationists think it's only marginally more likely that our parent universe is not a simulation.
Have you tried using less memory?
I think the idea is that you need some way to filter out the bots, so 'worldcoin' or 'worldid' is used to prove 'personhood'.
> Let's skip over "low-latency", because virtually all programming languages and VMs are "low-latency".

It's not fair to skip that one, because the way the beam scheduler works is pretty dang magical.

My (admittedly naive) understanding is that rather than hoping that 'yielding' constructs in a given language play well with the code, erlang/elixir processes are given a certain number of 'quantums' in the scheduler. [0]

The other thing worth considering here, is that it is fair; there are benchmarks out there [1] that show other languages may have lower latency in some cases, but the overall fairness of the BEAM scheduler is better, and per above has less traps/footguns.

As for the 'distributed' part, Erlang/Elixir have very specific rules about BEAM process inter-communication; with a few exceptions things are always copied by value, so you don't have to worry about mutation/etc. YES other languages may have similar concepts but BEAM specifically has a certain level of optimization around these cases so that the penalties are less in many cases.

> It's also not me advocating corporate Java (shudder) - I'm just using it as an example of a common technology that also seems to tick all the same boxes as Erlang and Elixir as far as these claims go.

I'd argue that the closest you'd get to Erlang/Elixir in the JVM world is Akka. And while I've only worked on/with Akka.Net directly [2] I can say that also having worked on an Elixir App, Elixir is far simpler even if the language has it's own idiosyncrasies [3]

[0] - My understanding is that yes, poorly written FFI (AKA C library calls) -could- cause problems still, but thankfully the elixir community does a good job of making sure such things are handled well.

[1] - Can't remember where but I've seen them.

[2] - I've definitely looked at enough pre-license-change JVM Akka code to be able to read Scala (if not write), for whatever that's worth.

[3] - tl;dr- Due to Elixir's typing/argument binding model, your best bet in most cases is to use Maps everywhere.
Why? Because there hasn't been any new developments last week? Oh wait, there has.
Then an internet censorship operation would prevent accessing the Chinese model from outside the China (The is necessary, given there are four Chinas).
is this justice delayed
100% agree. I'm hoping to add Android and other markets in the not too distant future. As for unsharing, that's possible by removing a recipient and I have plans to help even more in the scenario you describe.
A friend was interested in this. Bachelors degree not required any more.
It costs $93k-$115k, $900/mo housing, and food not included for 13 months at an AZ, Texas, or Florida school to get all certifications to fly to become a pilot instructor.

Spend 2 years as a pilot instructor (somewhere) at a paid $17.25-$20 per hour to get your 1500 required hours. Housing? Multi-engine certified for 100hrs gets an $860/mo bonus.

4.5 years as a regional airline pilot:
2 years first officer paid at $90k/yr minimum
2.5+ years as captain paid at $135k minimum (75 hours per month guaranteed for both)

7.5 years total to become a major airline first officer.
$74k to $120k per year for first officer minimum pay. Can pick up trips also if available.

13.5 years total to become a captain (6years as a first officer). $285k salary minimum.

20 years total and 6 years of seniority as captain: $337k

66% make it to retirement at 65 due to medical requirements.
36% are able to work at that age as they are considering extending the age to 67 domestically due to a pilot shortage.
One carrier tried to reduce hours to 750 to become a regional pilot but that failed.
> He also said companies should have the right to say they do not want their data used for AI training, which is one idea being discussed on Capitol Hill. Altman said, however, that material on the public web would be fair game.

Why is this only mentioned as a right of companies and not individuals? It seems to hint at the open secret of the stratified west: most of us are just cows for the self-important C-levels of the world to farm. If you haven't got money, you haven't got value.
Wouldn't surprise me if members of EU parliament and comission were big time customers now via the OpenAI playground.
I can only say +1 = and I know how much HN hates that, but ^This.
I only use YouTube through these third party privacy tools.

https://libredirect.github.io/

I noticed that when you access YouTube videos through this you can just right click and download.
> Did anyone in the mid to late nineties / early 2000s really discover Java and Java applets and thought: "Java applets is the tech that'll catch on, I'll invest in that"

I did. Getting people to install JRE didn't really seem that hard of a problem, and neither did sandboxing.

Around the same time Rockstar Games released GTA 3 with its third-person camera, and I thought this is the worst idea ever. 20 years and 400 million sales later, I still hate it.
This simply astounds me. You're the National Security Advisor of the United States of America. You have three secret service agents guarding your house. I am assuming there are probably cameras and maybe even some ground sensors.

Some 'drunk' just waltzes into your house at 3 am. Then after you confront him he leaves.* You notify the secret service agents, they can't find him and after an investigation can't identify how he entered and exited your premises.

* If I was a foreign operative after top secretive documents or planting a bug and I was confronted at 3 am I would pretend to be drunk and then get out of there.
How is it satire to be excited and interested in how to use compelling and novel technology? There's a lot of activity. Not everyone involved is an idiot or rube. The jadedness makes my head spin.
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35964497
Has anyone made attempts at writing FRACTRAN programs which would calculate `78 * 5^(x - 1)` and `2^x`?
About as (in)sane as how PGP was treated as a weapon…
It won't, which is why people are also calling for international regulation. It's a really hard problem. If you think AGI is going to be very dangerous, this is a depressing situation to be in.
As someone who fits pretty squarely in the "post-rationalist" bucket, I find the author's characterization of the community pretty one-sided and dismissive.

I wrote a general apology for my post-rationalist stance here, if anyone is interested:

https://superbowl.substack.com/p/you-dont-always-have-to-be-...
Thanks. All is well!