skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh right!
I'd want to see a fine of 20% of revenue if around 5% to 10% of its revenues came from illegal activities. If that's the case, maybe the company should be killed. The fine must be a multiple of the gains or there's no benefit to following the law.

> big or small

That's exactly the point. Flat fines (not saying $1.3B is a flat fine, in this case) only kill small companies and act as a small "break the law fee" for big companies.

> And we are talking revenue, not profit.

Right, you cannot fine based on profit, because profit is a gameable number (Hollywood Accounting).

I'm not actually saying $1.3B is the wrong number: it's possible that's 3x to 5x of the revenue they gained from brazenly and wantonly breaking the laws of the country in which they operated. I haven't done enough research to say. What I was responding to was this:

> I do not think there is any amount of money that could be fined that HN commentators would not call a slap on the wrist.

Most fines for most offenses against most companies are slaps on the wrist, because they are less than the gain. This is why.

> I can’t tell if you’re trolling

This is a bad-faith attempt to dismiss an argument without considering it.
>It’s just a title to a web page meant to be interesting

It's called clickbait and it's widely acknowledge to be a dishonest method of promotion.
Maybe amateurs…

Professionals tend to keep a stable system running for as long as possible. The first studio I worked in had a B room that was running OS 9 at a point where OS X had been out for 7 years.

My current setup at home is a 2010 MacMini on v10.13, using a firewire interface. I plan to keep it running as long as possible.
The trick is adding vinegar and bit of sugar. At least what is I do when making onions for hotdogs or burgers.
The life I've lived would be my experience. I have had zero direct interactions with any of these enemies. Enemies to the US aren't necessarily enemies to me. Should I be forced to inherit these enemies?

I agree with self defense. However, I'm not sure this is always the case.
Imperial College working with Royal Navy on system to replace GPS on ships
Entire Article: "Can alligators X? Yes. Yes they can."

TREE GATORS! TERROR OF THE FLORIDA SKIES!
Do you? What if,
instead the system promoted a random active user to moderator status, with a strict term limit, with the possibility of being kicked out if too unpopular. Power shouldn't be given to those who seek it, and kind of low stakes Internet forum seems like a way to thrust power unto those that aren't.
She's thinking of browning. Most people simply don't know what caramelization is.
Trade unions are perfectly legal and aren't they the quintessential special interest group.
There are so many books on the technique of cooking, not the recipes.

Time to watch Cunningham's Law in action.
This all raises an interesting philosophical question: can you actually have human level intelligence without also the human level capacity to choose wrong?

I suspect that the answer is no. Any intelligence capable of human level reasoning would be able to choose “evil”.

So, I think we need to shift the discussion from if rogue AIs will arise to when rogue AIs arrive.
That "Bach style generation" is on point. In fact, it's "O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpqd1gCzLN4
Or theft is immoral because of unjust enrichment.
New York City Is Sinking. It’s Far from Alone
Austria who keeps veto-ing Romania's Schengen application with bullshit reasons that don't hold water, is the first example I can think of but there are many more. Also anti-nuclear Austria who sued Hungary over building a new nuclear powerplant. And there are several other examples between other countries, on other topics as well.

Basically the countries with veto power on certain topics that benefit the greater good of the union, abuse it to bully the others, in order to get concessions on non-related topics that only benefit their own agenda. It's basically a mafia shakedown because some want to have their cake and eat it too.

It's better than going to war against each other like in the past over such things, but this constant squabbling and the sheer pettiness, is holding EU development back compared to US and China.
Yes, but a quick search suggests it was used at the turn of the century as a way for academics to say "porn on the internet", which isn't really what I'm talking about.
Of course. What else would I practice downstrokes for since puberty?
Well, I stand corrected (and I don't have much knowledge to argue about this).

Re-reading, I see that in the storage world "simple" correction systems don't tend to be classified as erasure coding.

Were I say "simple", I think I'd say any correction system that's not parametrizable, as in "let's do a 17+3 in this ordinary dataset and 4+2 in this one that's very important"

About RAID 1, technically probably it is... although bit very efficient :D
Wait until you want to support an enterprise customer and you need to adapt their requirements in a quick way.

Elm is fine for learning, but that's all for me. Serious products for serious customers require more than "beautiful typings"
The great thing about llama is it has no filter. You can ask it to act like it is a critical friend who will criticize everything you say to it. It can also be an overly compliant girlfriend. With some creativity, the degree that one can explore social interaction, one's own imagination, or one's own eccentricity on one's own machine in complete privacy without hurting anyone is amazing.

Being able to exercise ones mind like that completely outside the boundaries of normal social interaction with a emotionally tireless counterpart is kind of unusual and unique. It feels like we are at some strange point in history when all this stuff is blooming and before it gets shutdown. It makes me want to datahorde models!

The funny thing is that a lot of the comments here are saying, oh yeah, the big corps are going to make billions off of microtransactions pimping us virtual prostitutes that will also socially mold us the way the authorities demand. That makes me feel totally awesome as a unix geek who can figure out how to locally install a non-nerfed chatbot and talk to it about whatever I want, for however long I want, in complete privacy without paying anyone anything.
Did they get traction? Is it a viable product? Sounds like it's hard to navigate what is allowed and not allowed as a comp.
HOLY SHIT! THERE HE IS!
Binance commingled customer funds and company revenue, former insiders say
I'm typing this on a machine literally running "not Unix."
How funny, I just finished putting on the beginning touches for https://www.recipebase.net/ and saw this on HN, I guess this is more about how they are full of crap than the usual blogspam complaint.

Recipe Base focuses on simplicity it has a bookmarklet or a simple input box to grab a recipe from a blog and remove all the random stories and just keep the ingredients and instructions for your recipes.

Recipe Base is a paid service because we want to focus on making a good and useful product instead of something messed up 10 ways to advertising hell.
The Financial Times is acting at the behest of the BJP is an interesting take.
It's crazy that such devices are installed at schools at all.

Also - metal detectors won't detect ceramic knives. So it's a security theatre anyway.
I wouldn't want to fall a victim to a nirvana fallacy, but a person who wants to get a knife into a school could throw the knife over the school fence and pick the knife later. No kind of security scanner can really help in this scenario.
Heh, I remember finding shreds of these news groups threads and news letters posted to Geocities and such in the mid-90's when I was coming of age. "The MUF List" - Microsoft's Undocumented Features, etc. I still have my DOS programming books but I never really did much myself, other than some assembly programs written in debug. The list of dirty things MS did to other companies is extensive. The DriveSpace debacle was the one I remember most. If memory serves, they tricked the company that made a compressed filesystem driver for DOS/Windows to "license" the feature to MS, then MS just forgot to ever pay them. The company was so cash starved they couldn't outlast a lengthy lawsuit to recoup what they were legally owed. MS did every dirty trick they could. Bill Gates is one seriously dirty MFer.
I have a drum computer [0] that has a "humanize" knob; the manual says the following:

HUMANIZE: MIDI effect - adjust the amount of randomness and probability, changing the velocity of the steps
in the pattern and slightly moving the recorded steps further from their relative position.
Each time a pattern is repeated, the humanize will change its internal values.

In theory it'll make the drum computer sound more human / imperfect. However, professional drummers can play super tight (as shown in the article, .15 second precision strikes, and Hammett isn't even the best out there) and in some cases will have their strikes triggered, normalized and / or cleaned up for the album, so humanizing a drum beat is more for live performances I think?

[0] https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/unodrum/
I haven't been to shop with baggers, so that time is more-less constant for me (except for the pressure to bag faster, which isn't present with self-checkout). However, the cashiers are absurdly fast at scanning. Their workstation is optimized for this, and they scan through things faster than I can move them into bags. Even without any exceptional circumstances that make you wait for assistance at self-service checkout, scanning speed alone cuts the time per customer at least by half.
The others help your point but Cities Skylines is memed because it's graphics over substance as it's basically a city painting game with shallow mechanics that most people use to make little city dioramas which is still fun but not deep gameplay.
Oh... oh, shit.
They can proclaim Elm not dead all they want, but if you take a look at the main repo the last commit was over two years ago, and it was to set up an auto reply to PRs that they probably would not get a response.
It’s not harder for Facebook. It makes a worse user experience - just like the GDPR.

You didn’t waive your rights. You as an adult have the right to not use Facebook instead of waiting for the nanny state to “protect you”
You may have changed the color of the meat and killed off the bacteria to make it safe to eat, but you didn't make good chicken. It takes time and lower heat to cook through, create good flavor, and get good texture. Sure you can put any food in an incinerator for 2 minutes and it's "cooked", but not really.
I'm hoping someone will consider starting an "OpenSC4" project, in the same tradition as OpenTTD or OpenRCT2.
No, I wouldn't say that. I just noticed a gendered trend and wanted to express my curiosity about its source.

The benefit of a more neutral rebrand though, since you're asking, is that you could roughly double your potential market.
"... when examining only those who passed the exam (i.e. licensed or license-pending attorneys), GPT-4’s performance is estimated to drop to ∼48th percentile overall, and ∼15th percentile on essays ..."

so this means that ChatGPT is right in the middle of the performance of licensed or license-pending attorneys.

and for essays its still better than 15 percent of the humans.

Still quite impressive ...
How is this kind of extremist speech even tolerated?
Love the "this is a sketchy IP neighbourhood" warning :D
Great musicians vary the timing and other parameters according to the live situation / mood / acoustics / audience. It is never the same.
> However, the typical kitchen tools are also just bad by design, with any kind of precision or consistency long ago "value engineered" out of them

Its ripoff engineered. I just threw in the trash an obscenely expensive pan with Vegan, cancer free, teflon free and gluten free coating thats coming off.
On the other hand, I love Elm's decoder combinators so much that I miss it in every other language.
What you're describing Hanson doing is literally just "swing", a basic rhythmic concept

It's not really analogous to what's going on in master of puppets
I guess I was talking about all the companies and governments working on AIs
You don't need code really. All you need is the right prompt. GPT-4 should be well able to convert a description of the kind of personality and roleplay you're looking for into a suitable prompt for any LLM.

As programmers we're used to looking for ways to write code, but GPT-4 makes that unnecessary in many cases. Just look at these examples of casual conversation creating amazing outputs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_njf22xx8BQ
> The default engine uses crypto.getrandomvalues() when available, with a fallback of Math.random().

Thumbs up. Carry on.
The scanners are usually at the entrance to the buildings, so you'd theoretically detect it being brought into the building. There are not often scanners at the fenceline or outer perimeter, so no need to lob it over the fence.

A bigger issue for schools, IME, is all the after-hours activities where students have access to the buildings, but there are no scanners being operated. It is easy to bring things in during those times and stash weapons in lockers or other areas. Similarly, it is easier to have an accomplice open a side door to let someone in without being detected during these off hours.
There was a time, not long ago, when new products were built on new ideas, and the marketplaces were very, very heterogeneous.

Now, the marketplaces are largely commoditized and new products are incremental improvements and extensions of previous ones. The old ideas and products are still there, fascinating history to be explored.

An example - on a new Linux system, look at the man page for "termcap", and you will find configuration data for the Teletype model 33 and the Lear Siegler ADM-3. That makes people like me go "Hmm!" in a fascinated tone of voice.

History is like dead reckoning navigation. We only understand where we are by knowing where we were and what was done to get from there to here, and there are those of us very interested in such things.

This is only a partial answer to your question.
I love the whimsical nature of this creation. There's no detailed engineering, no precise computer control. Just an idea brought to life using what tools and skills she had available to her in the moment.
Weren’t those laws made and selectively enforced to prevent immigrants and black people from being able to afford a house? The racist past still haunting American towns.
Yes but not at this speed and scale.
They also have a collection of old drivers that have become hard to find with time.
So do you also agree that e2e encryption with a backdoor is impossible to do securely? Should people not be allowed to use e2e encryption? The EU also is trying to pass a law forcing companies to have a backdoor to their encryption.
Don’t Go Down That AI Longtermism Rabbit Hole
The successor to Elm is probably “Elmish” for F#, which is a bit less opinionated. It can interop with any JS code so it’s a safer bet.
I think this essential problem will eventually be understood like the speed of light limit, in a way.
Cook's Illustrated Best Recipes goes into a lot of the background techniques and rationales. They have an online actual cooking course as well, A number of Alton Brown's books. Cooking for Geeks from O'Reilly. There are quite a few books and sites out there that go into techniques for different foods. Of course, there are also specialized examples as for bread baking.
Thank you for your great work! Reddit has been practically unusable without your tool for a long time. The site's original concept was perfect, reviving the old forum concept with spaces for discussion built around ideas, not people - which I've always loved. It's sad what it's been turned into.
Montana should counter-sue, on the grounds that TikTok is intentionally and aggressively trying to market a proven harmful product to some of its most vulnerable constituents - namely, children.
I think that all consciousnesses feel themselves to be themselves, and that in as much as that's all a human can say, it must be enough to demonstrate that all consciousnesses are of equivalent value.

Ha ha "moral value" anyway, my "values" are what I value, and my morality so-called is (hopefully) Enlightened Common Sense. Surely that's enough to keep an intelligent man from crime! Yes it is! Then I ask - what moral consciousness could need a social construct such as "moral value"?
Yeah, as someone who follows her and thinks she's a good role model for my kid, and having enjoyed the video the day it came out; it doesn't really feel like it needs to be in this space.

An industrial robotic arm made for chemical processing? Now that belongs here.
I feel like naming your AI companion "ai companion" is like naming your startup company "startup company": not very descriptive, confusing with all the other people doing the same thing, and harder to search for
Yes and no. Certainly the market thinks it's the best option at the moment.But certainly it won't be the interface we use in 20 years.
IME Hello Fresh and Gousto were always double their quoted time. 40 minutes was almost always 80 minutes. There is just one exception, namely that Gousto's 10 minute recipes are actually 30 minutes, but that's explained if you notice that they're often 15 minute recipes and they're lying and claiming they're 10 minutes (they have 5 minute, 10 minute and then 20 minute recipes, but no 15 minute recipes, which suggests that they round down for 15).
For some definition of "zero":

Issued by the Heads of State and Government participating in the meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Bucharest on 3 April 2008

We, the Heads of State and Government of the member countries of the North Atlantic Alliance, met today to enlarge our Alliance and further strengthen our ability to confront the existing and emerging 21st century security threats. We reviewed the significant progress we have made in recent years to transform NATO, agreeing that this is a process that must continue. Recognising the enduring value of the transatlantic link and of NATO as the essential forum for security consultations between Europe and North America, we reaffirmed our solidarity and cohesion and our commitment to the common vision and shared democratic values embodied in the Washington Treaty. The principle of the indivisibility of Allied security is fundamental. A strong collective defence of our populations, territory and forces is the core purpose of our Alliance and remains our most important security task. We reiterate our faith in the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter.

[...]

NATO welcomes Ukraine’s and Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic aspirations for membership in NATO. We agreed today that these countries will become members of NATO. Both nations have made valuable contributions to Alliance operations. We welcome the democratic reforms in Ukraine and Georgia and look forward to free and fair parliamentary elections in Georgia in May. MAP is the next step for Ukraine and Georgia on their direct way to membership. Today we make clear that we support these countries’ applications for MAP. Therefore we will now begin a period of intensive engagement with both at a high political level to address the questions still outstanding pertaining to their MAP applications. We have asked Foreign Ministers to make a first assessment of progress at their December 2008 meeting. Foreign Ministers have the authority to decide on the MAP applications of Ukraine and Georgia.

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/official_texts_8443.htm

I'll never understand why we recently pretend that we haven't been poking the bear.
They might differ on what's a problem, too. I've installed arch a few times, and there were some things I had to do, but I wouldn't say I had problems. It was generally a pretty enjoyable experience.
There's also the underappreciated value of institutional inertia.

A large part of why mature democracies work is the historical mass of their institutions serving as ballast to keep the system from oscillating/crashing.

I.e. Courts work in large part because people believe they work. And they believe they work because they've historically worked.

Or, in individual terms in less stable countries: "Why should I act contrary to my individual interests when the state might be gone tomorrow?"

So a big part of creating stability is faking that stability until historical mass has time to form in everyone's minds.
You can build and publish repos for Debian (amongst others) on the OpenSUSE build system, though it's rather different from ppa and copr, for instance. Use osc(1) on Debian.
I still use Elm daily. Even if development on it is essentially paused for the foreseeable future, it is still much better than the alternatives for me.

For example, all Elm apps having the same architecture ("TEA") is one of the biggest wins over alternative apps where every project, even those you make yourself, will do things differently.

Elm Janitor (https://github.com/elm-janitor/apply-patches) is a curation and applicator of community patches to Elm proper. Haven't used it, but it seems like a promising way forward.
That has been one of the points I have been making about these devices when discussed in security forums. "CIA Letter Openers" are easy to buy online, and would evade detection by any sort of metal detector, no matter if it claims to use AI or not.
Hades is in my top 5 games of all time. Might even be #1.
But Word has competitors like GSuite so it cannot be completely complacent. People are making these buying decisions constantly.
Likewise with a lot of System of a Down's music; most of it sounds like a straight 4/4 but it often feels quite clipped at the end of a measure. Their song Question [0] is a great example of this feel, it's like one-a-two-a-threefour.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7UIca3rups
GPT-4 clearly demonstrates close to human level reasoning. In some cases greater than human level, in other cases less. And it also is clear that it does not do things that it isn't told to do. It does not have autonomy.

However, I believe that in order to compete, hyperspeed AIs directed by humans will need greater and greater levels of autonomy. Otherwise they will be stalled waiting for directions while their competition runs circles around them.

It is also almost inevitable that someone deliberately creates intelligent AIs that mimic various aspects of living beings such as full autonomy, control-seeking, etc.

I think the trick is to separate out all of the different facets of animals and humans apart from intelligence or "human-level". There are things like emotions, autonomy, stream of subjective experience, types of adaptability, etc. that are not the same as intelligence or reasoning ability.
Same here, I had not heard of anyone using elm these days.

I have seen similar titles for old software bouncing around, one example is ical, the tck/tk calendar application I use to use. I keep running across ical and my first thought is always "is ical still under development ?". At the time that was a very nice application and had potential.

https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/ical
Yes but where does the prompt come from? I'm proposing a simple prompt/code generator to output the desired prompt. cool video tho
So should we now pass laws that outlaw everything that can cause you harm - cigarettes? Alcohol? Gambling? Sugar? Do you also support the “war on drugs”?

How much power do you want to give the government because you are incapable of making your own decisions?