skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t find global central state easier to reason about. It’s inherently more complex managing the state of a component far away from it in some other place. But I think it’s often worth doing because it enables you to make better UIs. There are many situations where, with two seemingly unrelated components, it actually is better if there is a subtle connection between them - eg. this menu should auto-close if the user started interacting with another component except during some specific other state). Such cases are often not obvious until you are playing with a prototype, they can’t be planned for. And these cases are common, if you are going for a really good UI. Having each component locally manage their state makes it unreasonably complex and nasty to add such couplings.
drug dealers always say: never get high on your own supply
I got "professor", so it seems like it can emit words that do exist.
It's a major pet peeve how we misapply the term "lobbying". Lobbying is basically just asking. A citizen writing a letter to their representative is lobbying. The problem isn't lobbying in and of itself. It's paid access and, by extension, regulatory capture.
I expected this to be something like https://chat.lmsys.org, but you are just redirecting to third-party sites.
Very nicely written. I also like how it changes color every time I reload the article.
I’m a fiction writer and I don’t have such expectations of this list.

Some publishers have a short list of things they don’t take due to having too many submitted. I don’t think that’s what this list it. For one it is far too detailed to keep updated.

I see this list as a subset of bad storytelling they were seeing often. It’s not a subset of things they didn’t accept. (There is significant overlap.) It’s an important distinction.

Lists like these get published occasionally and they become part of the history of the internet. They truly are a snapshot in time.
The closest technology I had previously seen to this was MS’ volumetric video capture for “holoportation” and 3D video recording at their SF Reactor facility and this seems like a significant improvement[0]. That also used an array of cameras in a studio setting but the resulting color and model quality wasn’t close to as accurate and sharp as these examples.

Are there other examples of similar tech in use at a comparable level of quality in recent history? Against any comparable end results I’ve personally seen, it looks very impressive.

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/mixed-reality/capture-studio...
What of Git plugins, linters, make programs? The environment is on the host, not your laptop or whatever. There is no way around that.
All of those people have financial incentives to hype it. How curious that there's this great and very probable X-risk, yet they aren't going to stop their contributing to a potential X-risk.

Dismissive of what? Science fiction stories?

If there's anything to focus on, maybe focus on potential job displacement (not elimination) from cheap language tasks and generative capabilities in general.

I'm betting on this: the Overton window of Artificial Intelligence will shift in the next five years where the current cream-of-the-crop has been delegated to machine learning yet again, it's just accepted. It augments humans where it makes sense, the hype wave has subsided and everyone has stopped hammering it into their products where it doesn't, and we're no closer to the undefinable "AGI", let alone something that produces X-risk, global scale.
"As you know, Bob..." crops up in just about everything Neal Stephenson does, although I've always thought it's better framed as "Right, I had to learn a *lot* about 17th Century French Naval vessels / encryption / diving equipment / evolutionary biology / the semiotics of theology / whatever else, so now *you* get to learn it too!"

I actually quite like those bits.
> People who are worried about alignment issues are worried about the danger unaligned AI poses to humanity

Lol I don’t believe that for a minute. They’re interested in how AI impacts and their clique personally. It sets them back in their crusade to censor via shame and bullying because AI cannot be manipulated by either of these things. So it has everything to do with:

> nothing to do with morals of individuals or how one should behave interpersonally

Because it’s all about them.
the description is also a fancy wrapper around the "docker" or "podman" words that I've found really hard to explain to people.

("docker is sort of like a vm but more like chroot, and it has a dockerfile that is sort of like a recipe, and a filesystem that is sort of like version control, but..." bleh)
thanks, really nice advice.

> How long have you had the job

4 months

> How often does this happen & how many times so far

I am on 4th project already, some were easy and I already delivered, with some I need more time because a lot of things are happening in parallel

> Are there specific achievements outlined for you by the team or project leads

There are things I introduced and applied on my team, which is now getting followed as a best practice in the company with ~500 engineers (picked up by small subset of engineers so far), but everything I attribute to the team, our team is new and really strong, almost every week we have something good to release, people on L7+ (think about Director+) are following our team updates frequently now.

> Are you able to connect with others at or above your level about similar changes, and whether they experienced the same? Do they have any feedback?

I did, but everyone has generic response, we are constantly growing, everything is changing.
"unconstitutional government action like this"

Is this unconstitutional? I was wondering what case law there is about the government buying data like this.
This is such a goofy take. I am a millennial and I remember doing a british accent all the time as a kid as a joke. And so did my boomer parents.
It's not that complicated
Aha well that's interesting, I didn't know about that feature.
> If programming is alchemy, then prompt engineering is more akin to demonic conjurations (communicating with demons):

Honest question. Do you think this analogy is anyway helpful?
As others have pointed out, NT was created by former DEC engineers, and was heavily based on a canceled DEC project named MICA. DEC sued Microsoft for stealing their IP (or at least threatened to sue), and in return, were compensated with over $100 million and, amongst other things, got a guarantee from MS to port NT to Alpha and provide support for it.

Sources:

https://techmonitor.ai/technology/dec_forced_microsoft_into_...

https://www.itprotoday.com/compute-engines/windows-nt-and-vm...

The book "Showstopper!" by G. Pascal Zachary
And vice versa :)
But you can just issue an identical certificate to an existing website's certificate via the private key, it doesn't even need to enter to CT logs, it will have 100% identical fingerprint to original certificate, no?

You can then intercept everything through the ISP gateway. It would be theoretically possible to fragment the entire internet this way via coordinating with the ISPs.
By this logic you'd be fine if we gave every person on earth a nuclear bomb? It doesn't take a genius to understand that various pieces of technology might either change the incentive structure of society in such a way as to produce more of certain behaviors and less of others or might enable the assholes you refer to to do more harm than they used to do and in either case undesirable outcomes might increase.

Unless you believe that the common good doesn't exist or that human's don't have any business trying to construct their society in such a way as to seek some form of it, you have to take the social effects of technology into account when making policy. Just asserting that all things ultimately come down to individual decisions is really weird. Like even if you believe it in some libertarian free market fantasy framework, the vast majority of people think differently and your comment provides no justification whatsoever for why "ultimately people are responsible" is a useful way to think about these problems.
One child in a family of my acquaintance uses Americanisms, despite heavy correction from their siblings. I think it's a 'Netflix Effect', it's cheaper to buy USA programming than make British-English voiced programmes.

Aside, try "Scotland the What" if you're interested in some different Scottish accents (I think they're mainly Highland, Doric Scots).
Well, that just isn't accurate really. Kafka would need simulteanous VM failure across all AZs. That just doesn't happen in the real world often enough to worry about. It has never happened in Confluent Cloud. RP have a similar issue. Single AZ deployments with local NVMe drives. AZ loses power, a majority of brokers could lose all their data. Then there's data corruption. Fsyncs alone don't save you. The next step would be to implement Protocol Aware Recovery (https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast18/presentation/alagap...) like TigerBeetle have. Does a system that has implemented anti-corruption in the storage layer now get to lambast Redpanda, Pulsar, ZooKeeper etc because they didn't implement that?
I think it invented two words...

https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/A3pj

niveescent
(of a lens) producing a nive
> Even though they are just collecting publicly visible information and report "Mr Smith is getting close to the court house. Mrs Smith spoke to the lawyer again.

If this observation was made done from a public area or from a publicly visible vantage point, how would you're describing be any different from news coverage?
What public? I've been waiting for weeks to try...
How can someone fake an accent especially a UK one? you need to have lived in the UK to make it believable.
(American here)
I knew a girl in college who was very sheltered: she was homeschooled in a rural setting by wealthy ultra-religious parents up until college. Her only outlet was british television. She's spoken with a badly formed british accent as long as I've known her.

I learned katakana as a middle schooler because I would wake up at 4am to watch anime on youtube on the family computer, so none of this surprises me.

Indoor kids can get weird :)

I didn't see any data in the article on this but I'm under the impression that we're making more indoor kids.
For what it's worth, I'm with you. Worst case is we somehow dwindle phone usage and it turns out that that wasn't the issue -- hardly a tragedy. Even if it doesn't affect mood/mental health, the time savings alone will be worth something.
> Personally, I don’t care about the underlying thing the protests are about, the important aspect is that if you allow unconstitutional government action like this, eventually it will be used against you.

Words won't protect you. Precedent won't protect you. Guns won't protect you. If you are in a society where others want you surveiled or dead or removed or heavily restricted, and you're outnumbered, it's already too late. As you say, for many people already "Constitutional" is just a weapon to be wielded when it suits them and ignored when it doesn't. But the reason why that's bad needs to be much more than "because this piece of paper says so," it needs to be "because these are things we all agree are important."
I wonder how far you'd get issuing a CCPA deletion request against Dataminr? If your twitter account is linked to your public identity (and you live in CA), presumably you can require them to delete all your tweets from their system?
Complete with unnecessary page transitions, cascading loaders and a ton of layout shifting. Classic SPA success story.
Well, that's quite humerus
Who cares whether it's "spying" or "surveillance"?

Here's the real issue, which this semantics argument is derailing. Several times, a shooting spree has occurred, and all the government agencies say, "Oh, yeah... We knew about them! Anyways, the mass shooter's community is very much under attack..."

Pretty hard to swallow when the federal agencies are spending time and resources holding a magnifying glass over political opponents (with a long, LONG track record of nonviolence).
You are not qualified to make that comment because you are not a true Scotsman.
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"Congress passed legislation to prevent the digitization of gun records."

Funny thing about that which could also apply to data/AI/etc, is that I understand the ATF is ignoring that law anyways.
Smartphones does all that if you don’t teach children properly all this results. We need to proactive at the same time we give them smartphones.
Lobby fights lobby

-> https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/who-we-are#our_funders
-> The Open Society Foundations were set up in 1979 by George Soros €129,570
Thanks for the reply!

What would you be willing to pay for a service like this?
I get what you're saying, but on the other hand abortion protesters have a habit of assassinating doctors that perform abortions.
Its Bing Chat for me. Its free and I get GPT4. I don't expect this to last forever though. I haven't seen any ads and am wondering how long Microsoft will subsidize my daily habit
This word will soon be an OSS project/new startup/etc.

Maldemoor. Brainslow. Chirminous. Hempress (if this isn't a smoke shop already...)

All not bad.
My understanding of both this and Apple AFT is that they are trained with attention, but then inference is done as an RNN.

Is your understanding different?
Is this a translation of the German law?
I'm not saying it's good for the overall system. Your choice on that. I'm just saying it's a useful memory model for making sure all your memory fences are in place. If you can run your OS/application there, it's hard to find a place it won't run.

That said, Alphas were mighty fast during their prime, I don't know if that was enabled by the insane memory model or just coincidence?
I was talking about attempts such as expert systems. We attempted to symbolically encode things as sums of their parts in plain terms, e.g. a bicycle is two wheels, an axle, a chain, some peddles, etc. but in more detail than that. The problem is the level of detail required for general knowledge: firstly it is hard to codify, secondly as it grows computation becomes exponentially more expensive.

We as humans have the intelligence to simply see for fractions of a second and then just know — we can know the answers to math problems and how a person is feeling. The symbolic AI programming was an attempt to codify what symbols we are seeing but they are so diverse and nuanced it became apparent this was an ineffective scientific route.
What's easier to change, human nature or technology?
> I think that an AI, a "generalized" intelligence with a generalized understanding [...] is certainly far away.

I think this is where we disagree most; GPT-3 and ChatGPT have convinced me that the main difference between human and artificial cognitive capabilities are quantitative now, and unlikely to ever change in our favor...

I do agree with you that it is very difficult to predict when this will switch, and how.

I personally believe that AI with superhuman capability is an inevitable matter of time now, and I also think that the most likely risk to us, as species, is that we slowly become irrelevant and worthless, just like weavers during the industrial revolution, and that this leads to huge problems for our society.

AI completely dominating humankind is a less likely secondary concern IMO, but the potential consequences to our species are unprecedented.
You don't need an argument for a preference. If you try to coerce other people according to your preference, you need an argument, as you would in any other context. For some reason, the RTO arguments are very bad. Is there some part the proponents can't say out loud?

No. It's possible my stock options would be worth more if the office workers adopted the more efficient form of work from home. Maybe the hybrid meetings would be more enjoyable fully remote. I still wouldn't think about trying to coerce them into that with talk about synergy or the online version of water coolers. That's a bad thing to do. Let them enjoy the office, and others remote.
> Life began in that alien environment, and at some point between 3.2 and 2.8 billion years ago, cyanobacteria began to use sunlight to split hydrogen from water, discarding oxygen as waste.

David Attenborough brilliantly explains the beginning of life and the role of cyanobacteria in the first episode of Life on Earth (1979), "The Infinite Variety,"[1] (in less than 20 minutes; doesn't need to be that long, but I wanted to catch him riding the mule, sooooo... strap in and enjoy).

[0] https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2i43qc?start=673
How is it different from Stability AI and other platforms ?
lobby costs is a self reported value based on their spending on lobbyings, including for example staff, office rent, events, etc.

not having ep passes or meetings with the ec, only means less direct contact, or possibly having outsourced this contact.
Not sure what their “moat” is..
> What’s new and different: The unit has a 9-inch-high second screen, affixed to the bottom of the set, which is real estate Telly will use for displaying news, sports scores, weather or stocks, or even letting users play video games. And, critically, Telly’s second screen features a dedicated space on the right-hand side that will display advertising — ads you can’t skip past and ads that stay on the screen the whole time you’re watching TV… and even when you’re not.

> “Telly is giving away the device completely free,” said Pozin, the company’s founder and CEO. “The business will be entirely supported by advertising and affiliate revenue.”

I wonder how difficult this would be to just cover up or otherwise disable the second screen. Do you have to confirm that you saw the head here in there to continue watching? Will they will be viewer-facing cameras?
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Is there an analogous thing for RPi? I've got some old ones and a USB mic array from seeed etc that I've still not put to use. Also got an ESP32 (vanilla with a small oled) if I can use that?
There is a bonus chapter on his website: http://alvyray.com/DigitalLight/default.htm

I am still reading this but love it so far. I love seeing first-hand historical accounts for computing
> What project management system do you use? Part of the value of those is supposed to be locking in choices for some period, that allows for actual work to get done.

Jira, but it's easy to say priorities are getting changed, let's cancel this or give it to other guy and I need you here.
The solution is function composition.

Combine, reuse, rewrite as needed.

Eliminate control flow.
Hopefully it does. The tax system here is ridiculous to say the least.
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That's how the Amish do it.

The wise old smart elders sit down and discuss the latest gadgets. If the gadget looks harmful then they say nope.

It's a pretty good system.
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Yeah I think it could've easily been included (even just a sentence[0] and a link to something that explored it in a bit more detail maybe?) but I don't think there was any malice in its omission. Some people want to rewrite or whitewash history, but I don't think that was the case here.

[0] - update: user jjeaff included an example of the kind of sentence I meant here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35951313
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> Is this unconstitutional?

Probably not.
I attended a very informative lecture by Dr. Leonard Sax a number of years ago, when it was at the cusp of the social media explosion we see today, and he brought up studies that showed similar dangerous effects on young boys and girls, especially girls, and then he went on to discuss why that was. It's clear that social media is extremely toxic, I felt a big quality of life improvement when I abandoned FB, and I don't use instagram or tictoc or what have you.
I heard a young woman chatting to her colleague yesterday and switching between American and British, maintaining an hyped ultra affected tik tok influencer tone all the time.

I try to have no judgement on that but I can’t help but feel twinges of concern at people embodying what’s good for the platform algorithm . Taught and moulded by the platform.

This is obviously reflected in people paying for their irl faces to look much more the digital filter. This seemed to be case for the person I described tbh
You connect your terminal to a program (pts, which may map to a sandbox or a remote SSH server you don’t trust or just a file you feed to cat). And it contains an escape sequence that causes your terminal to read and process ~/.ssh/id_rsa or /etc/shadow or /dev/sda or /proc/self/something or some other wildly inappropriate object. And your terminal opens and reads the file.

My terminal does not live in a mountain fastness, and it’s not as exposed as a web browser, but it should at least try to make it safe to feed it untrustworthy input.
I actually enjoy these kinds of benchmarks. They're both incentivized to show their own platforms running in the most optimal setups and they're also incentivized to call out any BS from the other party. In the end users get to see the good and the bad of both platforms.

For this particular post I like that they explained each settings change they're making and why. In many of these benchmarks people will make some change and either not mention it or won't explain why they made the change and users are left trying to figure it out.
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Take that, Pythagoras!
Nope! That would require the server operator to participate; pwning the CA gives you nothing. CAs that issue private keys for you are banned, to my knowledge, for the type of certificates that browsers trust; if a CA offers this, they'll be kicked out of being trusted by browsers. A CA is only allowed to sign a key via a CSR, and therefore the CA never sees the private key of a certificate.

This has been the standard for a pretty long time, and it of course still works this way with ACME certificate issuance as well. Very neat imo.
You're giving a variation of Yuval Noah Harari's "useless eater" or the "useless class"

The coming technological bonanza will probably make it feasible to feed and support people even without any effort from their side. But what will keep them occupied and content? One answer might be drugs and computer games. Unnecessary people might spend increasing amounts of time within 3D virtual-reality worlds that would provide them with far more excitement and emotional engagement than the drab reality outside. Yet such a development would deal a mortal blow to the liberal belief in the sacredness of human life and of human experiences. What’s so sacred about useless bums who pass their days devouring artificial experiences?

I hope humanity - as a whole - sees value in helping and improving others vs drugging them and letting the wither to nothing.

Ref: https://ideas.ted.com/the-rise-of-the-useless-class/
You could also hand the newspaper to a friend if you wanted to show them an article.

The modern equivalent is sending someone a link, which won't work so well.
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Looks great. I really hope a Firefox plugin becomes available soon!
hello sir :-P