skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I used to be a convinced pro-European but for me it's getting harder and harder to _not_ believe in some kind of plot for assuming total control over their citizens.

The EU is just catching up to the US:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
30 Day Map Challenge
I don't think this is a good argument as is, because it effectively justifies the draconian laws. Basically if they got all of them to stop taking actions in real life, and exclusively generate content on people who don't exist... then the laws have done their job. They've saved people from harm.
> "Nobody tells this to people who are beginners".

Then they went to a bad school. Chuck Jones, the animator, wrote in his biography that when he went to art school, he was told "Everyone has ten thousand bad drawings in them. Our job is to get them out of you as fast as possible."
They haven't to the off-camera campaign contributions discussions yet.
Brendan Burns: GitOps as an Evolution of Kubernetes
I imagine cameras in the office would be a more likely scenario. Something like Amazon Go.

Also these days, just tools such as Microsoft Teams (just look at the crazy insights gained in Viva).
When a Shitposter Runs a Social Media Platform
> Elon Musk’s ownership of Twitter is forcing us to come to terms with a new reality: a social media platform where the person running it is himself spreading the misinformation.
I leave it on the counter overnight. I really have to work at getting any sour flavour at all. My starter smells a little like cotton candy to me though when it's ready to go, floats really well in the water.
After watching the video several times, I would definitely have slowed down seeing the pedestrian near the cross walk a hundred meters back, and would definitely have stopped in this instance. You never know when someone is going to run or not look for a car and being cautious saves a life. I live and have lived in a city as a driver for decades in multiple countries including in very dense areas and in no case would the FSD behavior be acceptable. We know from the Uber example this kind of automated disregard of pedestrians can result in death.

This is a much bigger and more serious issue, dozens of pedestrians are killed by cars every year in my city.
In car centric countries it's always the pedestrian or cyclist fault. Maybe because not being in a car is associated with poverty IDK but the hatred is bizarre.
Sure but it isn't distributed via voice calls on public voice networks...
The problem with Uncle Bub is that his views only work in sync within very limited situations such as hobby coding and small projects by a handful of developers who are starting on the same page. A lot about Uncle Bub's teachings and FrAgile isn't practical in most of the real world besides a minority of outlier stories (and the problem with those stories is they don't track whether practices continue working long term).

Take his views on "clean code" for instance. Or really any conception of "clean code." Clean code is bullshit. I guarantee you can take anything Uncle Bub or other notable programmers say about clean code, apply them to a tee at your job, and be told that your code isn't clean or "feels icky" by whomever joined the team before you did. No description of clean code that I've read has ever been truly helpful in my career. The only thing you can really do is decide what you think is clean code and for you and your team to reach a level of agreed disagreement so that everyone can get their job done. One person's descriptive variable name is another person's "that's too long I can't read with all these confusing names", and one person's set of short purposeful functions is another person's "I can't tell what's happening cuz I have to jump between all these functions." At the end of the day, you barely have time to write "clean code", because your boss wants features rolled out ASAP.

Uncle Bub is also one of those guys who thinks good code doesn't need comments because it's self descriptive. This is one of the worst ideas to ever have met the software industry. No one's code is self descriptive. It's all a bunch of gobbledygook because it's meant to be run by a computer and just understandable enough for a human. It wouldn't kill us to just write some documenting comments detailing the intention behind code, but sadly most programmers either are too lazy or believe that if they need to add comments then that necessarily means their code smells. The result is that nobody knows anything about any given software project except for those who have been on the project the longest, and even they often don't know because... surprise... nobody wrote anything down! Just like with "clean code", it should be left up to teams how they want to add comments to code, and how much you comment your code shouldn't be influenced by memes from other programmers.

Don't even get me started on FrAgile. It's just a way to dupe programmers into taking on more work and doing the job of middle management for them.
Yes, I understand your analogy.

I am not endorsing restrictions. I was merely stating the fact that this shit is coming down the pipe, and it /will/ be destabilizing, and just because society survived the printing press doesn't mean the age of AI will be safe or easy.
1) inkjet photo printing is actually pretty good; 2) sometimes you want color printing for basic graphics or colored text, rather than photo realism.
It would be nice if this led to Qt/KDE exposing the ‘Mac mode’ toggle that makes the GUI key the default for GUI shortcuts. As someone who lives in the terminal and needs control keys left alone, the Windows style drives me nuts. (KDE shortcuts are at least configurable, but it would be nice not to have to do them all one by one.)
Twitter bot that kicks of AI research processes, notifs when done
On a 2 lane road, you are about two seconds away from entering the other lane the moment you step on one. How damn close does it have to be ? Also, even taking law out of account: stop when there are goddamn pedestrians. At all times. Even if the law is with you. Heaven is full of people who had the right of way, and I'd rather not add each individual's perception of "but I had the right to speed up as the deceased was crossing!".
Sure, let's create more supply for foreign owners - that's not going to alleviate anything.

All the new building near where I live is high-priced apartments that no one can afford anyway (unless you airbnb them).
Get a cheap bic pen, the type with the white matt finish soft-ish plastic pen barrel. Remove the insides of the pen. Push the soft plastic barrel into the lock and wiggle it around a bit. The lock pins will press themselves into the the soft plastic until "click"! Works about 2/3 of the time. If pen barrel gets to messed up cut off the damaged area and try again.
Dunbarton Oaks Medieval Library
Building and Deploying MySQL Raft at Meta
FB ran TV ads asking for regulation too.

What established player doesn’t want to make it as hard as possible to compete with them?
Yep, here’s a good overview: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke

It’s been around a long time.
With Apple it is always good to draw the distinction (as you did) between them being behind and there being no evidence of them not being behind.
How often did you meet with your advisor, and how much help did you receive?
Free will theorem (John Conway)
Ask HN: Is it possible for AI to analyze images and for you to ask it questions?
I was wondering if it's possible for an AI to analyze an image you give it, and answer any questions you have regarding the image?
The more independent quality AIs there are then the less likely that any one of them can talk the others into doing harm.
Reminds me of Eric Raymond’s “Dancing With The Gods — An autobiographical account of my ‘religious’ beliefs and how they got that way”: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/dancing.html

Author’s note: “If you start this, please read it through. Stopping partway would probably leave you with some very silly misconceptions.”
Palantir Foundry's dataset version control, a diff-based Git for data
With new drugs released in the past year for Alzheimers after more than 20 years. It's exciting that we may be beginning to understand this disease.

Also excited to see how LLM's and DL/AI can help accelerate research by reducing menial tasks for researchers and scientists as well as by contributing to drug discovery. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-05-scientists-ai-drug-al...
I leave it on the counter overnight. I don't kneed it at all and end up with a nice airy loaf.
Yeah I was always thinking the same. They must be jealous about the enormous surveillance power that accumulated in the US for over 2 decades.

Thing is: If the strategy is to have total surveillance based on an open legal framework then they should actively market it as that. I _might_ even agree with that. But given they're BSing us with "protect the children" I cannot help but see them as bad actors doing stupid/evil sh*t.
This weed is growing in the low valley, not where junipers are growing.

There are about 4000ft of difference here. The article shows Carefree AZ as an example of infestation, which is at 2400ft. Junipers grow at 6000ft.

I can't believe you're really trying to make the argument that this plant is great because it will burn saguaros or barrel cactuses and we burn juniper on purpose so that must be good for saguaros and barrel cactuses. Don't get defensive. I'm not upset at you. Just think about this argument. It's not a logical argument.

You're saying that if X is good for Y and B causes X' for Z, then B is good.
But you have not established that X' is good for Z, and you haven't established that B causes X for Y.

So if this plant doesn't cause fires for Junipers, and if fires aren't good for desert plants, then how the hell are you arguing this plant is good because it causes fires for desert plants?

Don't take my word for it. Ask ChatGPT if this makes any damned sense. Maybe the matrix can convince you that this is an illogical argument.
Let’s boycott all these AGI doom clowns by not buying/supporting their products and services.

AGI grifters are not just dishonest snake oil salespeople, but their lies also has a chilling effect on genuine innovation by deceiving the non-technical public into believing an apocalypse will happen unless they set obstacles on people’s path to innovation.

Yann LeCun and Andrew Ng are two prominent old timers who are debunking the existential nonsense that the AI PR industrial machine is peddling to hinder innovation, after they benefited from the open research environment.

ØpenAI’s scummy behavior has already led the industry to be less open to sharing advances, and now they’re using lobbying to kill new competition in the bud.

Beyond all else the hypocrisy is just infuriating and demoralizing.
FTX was also losing money.
You can't strangle the development of such models because the data comes from anywhere and everywhere. Short of shutting off the entire Internet, there's nothing a government can do to prevent some guy on the opposite side of the world from hoovering up publicly accessible human text into a corpus befitting an LLM training set.
What about shadow volumes? Encrypted hidden data?

How about a criminal act of negligence to sell anything that _can_ at one point or another store data. Then we can just destroy all of these electronics as the _climate change warriors_ cry about that too.

I swear there is no good outcome. Everyone will find something to complain about and suggest laws and jail time to prosecute the behavior while others are screaming to defund police and that the US incarceration rate is too high.

Unless they’re CEOs or “rich” then we can send them all to jail based on public opinion.
No, not in any way useful in therapeutics yet. It is a large gene and protein. Delivery to the right cells and neurons in adult humans is well beyond state-of-the-art. But we may be able to mimic its effects with small molecules.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene?Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=564...
> A business is group of people building things together.

Disagree. A business is an operation meant to make money for investors. Things that call themselves businesses and don't do that over a period of X are failing, as businesses, for the duration X.

A business is an organization, and organizations don't have to be businesses, even if they share some of the same attributes such as concern for expenses, desire to gather extra resources to protect against uncertain events, etc.

Some organizations that are businesses maybe shouldn't be businesses, but they'd be OK as organizations.

Stable organizations would be great. The name for ones that stick around a long time is "institutions." They need stable physical places and surroundings, which is hard when land and real estate is considered an investment vehicle and the value is constantly increasing.
Sure, but they can be made illegal and difficult to share on the clear web.
Biggest problem with vast.ai is data security. It is running on somebody's PC. Anybody can get hold of your data.
The actual title is: “The revolution has launched”: OpenAI’s Sam Altman charts the promise and peril of AI at Toronto event

The word "nice" is not found anywhere in the article, which is good because it's inaccurate
Any number of ways. What's the issue here? This "problem" is commonplace. Even my dogs experience it, and they don't need metaphysics to resolve the tension!

If you want an abstract rule to follow that always works and is "just" come out and say so.

Personally, I'm partial to certain solutions and feel they're "more just" than alternatives I've considered, but ultimately they're just stories I like. I'm building some sort of Quine-ean web. What stays and what goes is an aesthetic choice. I'm cultivating something. There's nothing more to it than that... Just a life to author and reflect on.
Well I doubt they expected to get caught ;)
For card links, I'm using a one time key to protect the information stored on my server. The end-to-end encryption works when you exchange cards using the Neucards app with another Neucards user. It's a tricky situation because people won't use it if it isn't able to quickly exchange contact info like a vcard or other digital cards. The goal was to make sure nothing could be read by a third party without the user giving them access. As for opening the source, I'm going to wait and see. I understand the need for verification, but it is also difficult to make a living doing that.
A wooly mammoth calf will look similar enough to an elephant calf that this would not be an issue.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/sep/13/firm-bring-b...
Not the same person.

HN article says degree was in sociology and the person is in his 50s.

Reddit OP says he did ME and is in his 20s.
yes, for example https://viper.cs.columbia.edu/
I just found this blog post. It seems Palantir Foundry, which does not come up often when researching git for data tools, includes a version control system for datasets that stores diffs in their own cloud-based filesystem. According to the author, one of the founding engineers of the platform, diffs are:

> particularly useful for append-only datasets of immutable records such as system logs or sensor readings which are often among the largest (and fastest-growing) datasets our customers use

Diffs seem to consist of additional files in separate folders:

> behind the scenes we effectively store each diff in a separate folder in the backing file system (e.g.,datasetA/diff1, datasetA/diff2, …) so that the whole dataset is simply represented by datasetA/*.

Without exposing technicalities, the author suggests that the delete use case is taken care of logically and not physically, since datasetA/* may not reflect the actual whole dataset. I infer that they might be logging changes under the hood in a Git-like fashion.

> It’s a bit more complicated than this because users can selectively delete files from those diffs

However, it seems that the versioning raw data they manage are not available to clients or users directly:

> a simple request that we frequently get from our customers: “can we export our datasets from Palantir Foundry to our existing data lake or S3 bucket?“ While this is of course possible, it is important to understand that such exported datasets lack precisely those versioning and sandboxing features that make Foundry a great tool for collaborative data engineering.

This could be a mechanism for vendor lock-in, tied to the very important ACID guarantees of their implementation.

I came across their post while doing research on existing solutions for dataset versioning. Some extra background here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35930895
It’s an expressive functional language with a ruby-like feel and very ergonomic. Also the ecosystem with things like phoenix, nerves, etc is getting better each day. The creator of elixir (Jose Valim) put a lot of love into the language and helped organize a lot of the community. It’s just a joy to use for me, outside of usecases of BEAM and such.
How do you even end up enforcing licensing here? It's only a matter of time before something as capable as GPT-4 works on a cell phone.
I personally don't like DE (desktop environments). I don't want my PC to be doing something or managing something on my desktop besides switching and moving/resizing windows. WM (window managers) are smaller, faster, less brittle and don't require grand visionary changes every 2 years.
For example you are in Russia and are accused of being a US spy as retaliation.
An even lower equipment option I've had some success with:
Just use any food container, such as an ice-cream box or tupperware. Part fill it and put in the freezer with no lid. It will start freezing from the outside in. When it is partly frozen but before it goes cloudy, break a hole in the top of the ice to allow the trapped liquid inside to escape, and put it back in for a few more hours until it is nearly all frozen. This way you can get a big mostly clear block with a cloudy bit in the middle (you can repeat the break and freeze to get it even smaller), which you can cut up and melt off any cloudy bits with warm water.
Zookeeper absolutely does fsync, you can't disable it (without libeatmydata). It will log a warning if fsync is too slow as well.
>Same with climate change, not even the entire scientific community is certain to the degree of man-made influence on our climate.

This is false, the scientific community that studies climate is in agreement of the impact of humans. It's absurd to call the three scientists that fox news has on to deny climate change anything more than less than 1% of scientists involved in the matter. 99%+ of climate scientists along with the current state of research definitely agrees that humans have had an incredible impact on the current changes we see in the climate

It's like that stat that says 9/10 dentists agree that brushing your teeth is good or whatever. Are you going to side with the one dentist that doesn't? That's what you're doing here
Canada's economy is pretend, driven by government spending instead of any real industry. Anything that grows remotely big enough to threaten our various oligopolies will get bought or regulated out of business anyway. If you look at our startup investments, it's all pretend, with most being led by BDC or CDPQ which are government agencies. It's just some bureaucrats playing a game to give money to some favored elites and rent seekers, not a serious economy.

From what I know shopify appears to be the exception to the rule and has grown to have a real international company in spite of being Canadian. So I belive Lütke is a credible voice in criticizing Canada's business culture.
Nor COM files apparently.
So, to be clear: the police stole a bunch of phones, some of which had the passcode disabled, and sold them without wiping the data... and you place the blame on the phone manufacturer? The only people in this story who haven't messed up, and the only ones who made an effort to protect the user's privacy?
In simple terms:

Credibility and Checking. We have ways of
checking suggestions. Without passing
such checks, for anything new, in simple
terms. there is no, none, zero
credibility. Current AI does not
fundamentally change this situation: The
AI output starts with no, none, zero
credibility and to be taken seriously
needs to be checked by traditional means.

AI is smart or soon will be? Maybe so,
but I don't believe it. Whatever, to be
taken seriously, e.g., as more than just
wild suggestions to get credibility from
elsewhere, AI results still need to be
checked by traditional means.

Our society has long checked nearly ALL
claims from nearly ALL sources before
taking the claims seriously, and AI needs
to pass the same checks.

I checked the credibility of ChatGPT for
being smart by asking

(i) Given triangle ABC, construct D on AB
and E on BC so that the lengths AD = DE =
EC.

Results: Grade of flat F. Didn't make any
progress at all.

(ii) Solve the initial value problem of
ordinary differential equation

y'(t) = k y(t) ( b - y(t) )

Results: Grade of flat F. Didn't make
any progress at all.

So, the AI didn't actually learn either
high school plane geometry or freshman
college calculus.

For the hearings today, we have from
Senator Blumenthal

(1) "... this apparent reasoning ..."

(2) "... the promise of curing cancer, of
developing new understandings of physics
and biology ..."

Senator, you have misunderstood:

For (1), the AI is not "reasoning", e.g.,
can't reason with plane geometry or
calculus. Instead, as in example you gave
with a clone of your voice and based on
your Senate floor speeches, the AI just
rearranged some of your words.

For (2), the AI is not going to cure
cancer or "develop new" anything.

If some researcher does find a cure for a
cancer and publishes the results in a
paper and AI reads the paper, there is
still no expectation that the AI will
understand any of it -- recall, the AI
does NOT "understand" either high school
plane geometry or freshman college
calculus. And without some input with a
recognized cure for the cancer, the AI
won't know how to cure the cancer. If the
cure for cancer is already in the
training data, then the AI might be able
to regurgitate the cure.

Again, the AI does NOT "understand" either
high school plane geometry or freshman
college calculus and, thus, there is no
reasonable hope that the AI will cure
cancer or contribute anything new and
correct about physics or biology.

Or, Springer Verlag uses printing presses
to print books on math, but the presses
have no understanding of the math. And AI
has no real understanding of high school
plane geometry, freshman college calculus,
cancer, physics, or biology.

The dangers? To me, Senator Blumenthal
starts with no, none, zero understanding
of AI. To take his claims seriously, I
want to check out the claims with
traditional means. Now I've done that.
His claims fail. His opinions have no
credibility. For AI, I want to do the
same -- check the output with traditional
means before taking the output seriously.

This checking defends me from statements
from politicians AND from AI. AI
dangerous? Same as for politicians, not
if do the checking.
Maybe you were not impressed by those chatgpt's answers, but I am. There's a lot of shifting goalposts going on when rating AIs responses.

You could say 'it is just a fool backed up with a good encyclopedia', but let's be honest, those responses could not come from a fool.
I'm actually impressed that this OS patch strategy didn't cause more outages over the years. It seems like there was no health check before starting more restarts. I'm also surprised that no one seems to have tested the patch because I would assume something similar would happen in a testing or canary environment.