skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not updating my music Macbook Pro anymore, I’m still on MacOS Catalina. VST’s break, (older) audio drivers stop working, etc. I spent too much time getting everything to work as it currently is.
EU rules allowing use of spyware against journalists need “fine-tuning”
Humans kill anything that poses a threat to humans. Plenty of wild animals have had their populations decimated by this (bears, wolves, tigers, lions, etc).

And the much smaller populations that remain tend to be the less aggressive/less dangerous ones.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others, and there are uses and then there are exceptional uses.
Not at all in my experience, extremely laggy and resource hungry, not even mentioning incorrect multiple times
RecurrentGPT: Interactive Generation of (Arbitrarily) Long Text
Imba is the answer
> My issue is with "hallucination", which everyone takes to be the "problem" with GPT style networks making things up.

It's most famous as a problem with ChatGPT specifically, which is presented as a chat interface where an agent answers your question. In that context, it makes sense to think of confident and detailed wrong answers as hallucinations.

You could say that it's still an LLM underneath, but then you'd be talking about a layer of abstraction beneath what most people interact with. Given that they tap into the mental model of "chat with an agent" heavily with their interface and interactions, having small disclaimers and saying "I'm just an LLM" from time to time aren't sufficient to counter people's intuitions and expectations.
The country was founded on checks and balances. We keep forgetting that lesson over and over again.
Audit shows that safetensors is safe and ready to become the default
Mathematical completeness is a mathematical concern and is irrelevant for physics, because physics and mathematics have different notions of existence.
Whole research fields share this toxic culture; what people seem to do is leave their field entirely. Not to mention that, because of the way academic lab research works, people frequently take up jobs in locations where there is only one credible "employer" (there will of course be dozens of PIs, but it's institutional failures that allow abusive culture to take root).
If no one steps up to challenge Waymo in this space in a reasonable timeframe, Waymo wins. If they do, Uber wins.

Uber's play is as a platform. They win if there are several SDC providers (with working autonomy). As an analogy, they're Android; they want to own the network and have multiple operators plug into the Uber app, while the hardware makers don't want to do the work to spin up an expensive 2-way marketplace. Waymo is playing at the iPhone game. They want to be the biggest market operator, and can get away with not owning the top of the funnel for the time being. If other operators fall far behind in progress, Waymo will spin up the investment to vertically integrate and try to siphon Uber customers off that way.
I imagine autonomous taxis will be significantly cheaper than driver taxis. From a quick search it looks like in general Uber drivers earn somewhere around $9 for a 30 minute ride [1].

[1] https://blog.completepayroll.com/fares-driver-pay-and-the-fi....
Israel's Defense Ministry to invest heavily in AI
Nope. Banks are just the devil you know, so they get more of a free pass. You're desensitised to banks, but sensitive to anything else that may end up being "just as bad" as the banks.

Banks already exist, don't inflict more similar behaviour on us! Please!
So, the vampire routine doesn't work either...

(cancelling dentist appointment right now)
Vendr (1B+), NoRedInk and Humio are huge companies and their entire frontend is in Elm.
A part of this is that in academia there are often few positive career rewards. You're under pressure to publish frequently, in high impact factor journals, and that is to keep your job. You don't get pay rises or bonuses, or any other career improvements, and job security can be until your next contract, at best. If you don't make it to tenured professor, and have good grant funding, then you are staring down the barrel of starting a new career at an older age and with few contacts.

The place to start is by having far fewer PhD students, but more masters students and technicians. A 60% reduction in PhD student numbers would reflect job opportunities, and student aptitude, more accurately.
I doubt the web story in swift is that strong anyways, I'd pick python, ruby or php.
Prepare for a disease even deadlier than Covid, WHO chief warns
It think this ignores the simple economics of surveillance and information gathering.

Mass surveillance of this type is always directed at a countries own sphere of influence, domestic and at close allies. There is little camaraderie between people in power and the average citizen. On the contrary, to keep the power, you must collect info on everyone that could become a danger to you.

In racing teams your largest opponent is often your racing partner.

Surveillance of foreign adversaries is best done by getting info on key players. Why would info on the average foreign citizen matter at all? It just isn't interesting information.
If the CEOs have it so great, why not become a CEO yourself and reap all those benefits?
None of the architectures we know imply in any way giant leaps in intelligence. That's the main sticking point.

Thinking more does not equate thinking better. Or even thinking well.

As for "animals implement them", it's worth noting that we mostly qualify for an award in impressive lack of understanding in that area. Even with exponential improvements, that is not going to change within the next five years.

The "but we just don't know" argument is useless. That also applies to aliens landing on this planet next week and capturing the government. Theoretically possible, but not a pressing concern.

Should we think about what AI regulations look like? Yes. Should we enact regulations on something that doesn't even really exist, without deeply understanding it, at the behest of the party that stands to gain financially from it? Fuck no.
That's entirely the problem though: Hate isn't a property of the speech but a possible motivation behind it. But banning speech based on motivation is eerily close to making certain thoughts illegal. There are also a lot of speech motivated by hate that those pushing for hate speech regulation almost never want to see controlled. What is "ACAB" if not an expression for hate. What of "The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi". Even "calling for the deaths of all <insert ethnic group>" is entirely tolerated depending on the ethinc group in question. You see the motivation behind trying to ban the speech was never that its based on hate but wether it is "good" or "bad" speech - wether those in power agree with it or not. So no, I do not have a standard for "hate speech". I reject the concept of "hate speech" entirely. There is no standard. And there can't be one - surely you have heard the expression "one man's terrorist is anther man's freedom fighter". That abiguity is exactly what makes hate speech such an attractive moderation excuse. It is blank cheque that can and will be used to suppress whatever you want to suppress.

The question should be what kind of speech directly and provably causes actual harm. That is the only valid baseline for what should be outright banned everywhere. Not speech that could motivate others do do harm. Not speech that offends someone. Not speech goes against the current narrative. Of course you can have communities that have further restrictions. And you probably should. But you're not banning "hate speech", your're banning speech YOU don't like.
My grandmother was friends with both Martin Yan and Julia Child.

One way I made time to spend with her in a meaningful way was to have her teach me recipes that she learned from them (she never traveled with Julia, but she did travel with Martin on several trips to asia (on one trip she then took the Orient Express)...

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One thing that I learned from her was that recipes (not baking/pastries) were good guidlines - but every time I asked "how much" to put in of a certain spice/ingredient she would shrug her shoulders and wave her hand and say "whatever you feel is right"

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My best girl-friend has been at the french laundry for years - and I learn a lot of information from her regarding ingredients, wine pairings etc.

But at the end of the day - worry about your own palette prefs - but follow a recipe, and as youre eating it, determine what you would change to make it more to you/your families/friends tastes and follow your gut. :-)
If AI is a weapon (possible), open source is how the populous maintains freedom against corporations or governments. It’s unclear how the public keeps up with the arms war when privately trained models can have access to a wide collection of data that’s not publicly available.
Lamdera is closed source and you deploy on their system. It has been forgotten already. Rails is thriving, open source and a beast. I think that is the problem with the Elm community. They are too uptight to do open source properly. They need to listen to some Humble from Kendrick Lamar.
Non-JS Mirror [1]

[1] - http://archive.today/sxnk3
One of my favorite examples:

Aistlaţervièllîmļ - skipping an opportunity because it's not ideal, despite the likelihood that an ideal instance will never come
I think those numbers are Taiwan dollars, and "m" is for billions i.e. milliards. So closer to $300 USD per employee per month. For fun, compare to McDonald's.
I like the fzf and rg integration. And some custom elisp (especially for codegen).
Stop trying to pick a fight. I gave reasonably specific information of what I mean by carbon tax in my previous post:

> To be specific, taxing [use of and/or extraction of] fossil fuels.
The article confused things by talking about "caramelizing" but as you say that's a rare instruction in recipes. However, the point remains: what recipes much more frequently call for is to cook until "translucent" or "golden brown" and those times are wildly underestimated in published recipes.
While I agree that their monetisation strategies are garbage, I think the Tour maps ported to Switch are quite good and novel. I prefer them to the rehashed SNES maps.
Even if you properly backup everything and can downgrade after an update, you’re still burned by an update if it breaks your software. Which is why most musicians will be at least a major OS version behind, giving vendors the time to update.
And damn near everything else too.
The idea that language and thought are the same thing was discarded decades ago, and no linguist uses the pop term "Sapir-Whorf hypothesis" anymore (though linguistic relativity is still sometimes discussed).

If the cited claim was even remotely true, there would be significant differences in the "speed of thought" between speakers of natural languages also (which differ in semantic density). Such cognitive superiority would have obvious real-world consequences, but no such phenomenon appears to exist.
I work at a fancy private school and partially am have hosted numerous events for parents on kids and social media.

We have been banging on this key for easily the past 8 years, with varying levels of emphasis. The response from parents has also been universally consistent: A lot of nodding, and, ultimately, very little action. There has always been a small but consistent group of parents who stand firmly on their decision to delay giving their child broad access to social media until later, and the vast, vast majority who can't be bothered to. I haven't noticed the scale tip in any direction in all these years.
> Sadly, technology is nearly incomprehensible to most people, and the state must protect their rights. The rest is either an authoritarian or libertarian fantasy under the pretense of liberty.

So I’m sure you’re in favor of Apple’s “walled garden” to protect ignorant users, you want to make alcohol, cigarettes, sugar and everything else illegal that’s bad for users?

It’s sad that so many people are willing to give up their own agency because they don’t trust themselves to make intelligent choices.
If company A manages to convince Oracle to use CommonPaper's agreement, it clears the way for startup B to use the same agreement, without spending months on lawyers!
The Dire Defect of ‘Multilingual’ AI Content Moderation
My concern isn't with "rogue AI that humans lose control of and it's Judgement Day" ... it's the opposite: "AIs" that certain humans have full control of, and use as a tool for automated manipulation, deception, destruction, and control.

These machine learning systems replicate and automate existing market & organizational logic. The fear I have with them is the ruthless effectiveness they can have in the hands of profit and control motivated actors.

Think Russian propaganda "bots" are bad now? Just wait.

Again, my fear is not rogue AI, it's rogue humans.. with AIs.
I asked, "For what?" How will camera monitors help with bad sleeping or screaming? When my kids had those episodes we would hold them or lay down with them, maybe with earplugs. Monitoring an upset child through a camera just seems callous to me, but everyone does their own thing. My mom followed the "let them cry it out" school and thought I should do the same.

I worked from home most of the time when I had three kids growing up. Less than ideal sometimes but it wasn't so bad.

Call it condescending tsk-taking or annoying if you want. You asked for validation of an Amazon shopping list of hardware, I suggested an alternative approach to think about. Happy monitoring.
When I worked at Google our team came up with a data product that would have been pure margin and $75m/yr with customers lined up -- and I couldn't find a VP interested in cashing the checks because it wasn't on their annual OKRs.

Google is a great company but it has never been truly hungry because it has never faced an existential threat.
> strategy for Waymo

getting their technology working profitably at scale is obviously the first step and it is taking much longer than expected.

> app that is easily replicable

Waymo already has their own app and will continue to. the problem is that if you only have limited service in one small market then nobody has that app installed.

business travel is a large and highly profitable segment of ride sharing and it is dominated by Uber because it has the largest install base.

> What does Uber bring to the table at all?

demand. Waymo only has to accept a ride request if it meets their profitability metrics so this deal is all upside for them. if they have more profitable demand through their own app then they use their fleet for that and if not they fall back to Uber and get some free advertising to Uber customers in the process.
If everyone still takes the taxi everywhere, what would be the reconfiguration about and where would it come from? Everyone will be still stuck in traffic due to the physical impossibility of fitting everyone in an individual vehicle on the roads at the same time.
I thought I recognized you.

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Culture is definitely part of the problem, and I completely agree that tech alone can't solve it. I also think it's critical to change the incentives that lawyers are responding to.

I've spoken with lots of lawyers in procurement at large companies. They're typically perceived as a cost center, and they often have to deal with lots of people from the rest of the business complaining that the contracts need to be reviewed/approved faster.

If they are processing thousands of vendor contracts per year, think about how much faster they can be if most/all of those contracts are on their in-house template, rather than a different template for each vendor.

But if lots of their vendors are using a standard contract, then there isn't the same cost in terms of time for using it.

All that said, this is going to be hard, and we're not expecting everyone to change overnight. We have, however, been encouraged to see examples of large companies signing the standard contracts, and we're grateful to have attorneys from big companies like Thompson Reuters and Salesforce on our committee.
Now that you have removed GPG ASC signature upload support, is there any way for publishers to add cryptographic signatures to packages that they upload to pypi? FWIU only "the server signs uploads" part of TUF was ever implemented?

Why do we use GPG ASC signatures instead of just a checksum over the same channel?
> sanity by sabotaging their perception of their own actions.

I don't think "of their own actions" belongs in the definition. Perception of others actions, as well as basic facts, can be under attack as well.
> If it's technically possible to do it, but not technically possible to do it legally, then maybe it's a bad thing and don't do it at all

So it follows that you are against W2s encryption because it will be impossible to do securely and allow a backdoor.
Money does buy certain level of comfort ( and help if needed ) so I am more than willing to consider it as a factor, but I am not sure it is THE answer to the source of mental health issues. Lack thereof may make things worse, but I am not sure it is the core issue. FWIW, I may well be wrong, but I don't think it is fair to assume it is X, when you see same health issues pop up in otherwise wealthy environments. Most interesting example of that being 'affluenza'.
Nords are for gigging artists that want every feature accessable via physical controls on the device with minimal setup. If you are willing to bring your laptop on stage there are probably better cheaper options. That being said used Electro's can be affordable and they are really fun devices to own. There is also a nice small community of people hacking on them. My current hobby project is reverse engineering the electro 5
I don't see how that explains the encoding:reconstruction perf relationship. Looking at the first pair (12+4 encoding), epyc is about twice as fast as avx2-intel and four times as fast as graviton at encoding. But in reconstruction its two to three times slower than either.
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The section "Common Ancestry" acknowledges the prior history. Though it feels a bit odd. "MS-DOS is there said to be variously a copy or clone of an operating system named CP/M" seems to gloss over the details by sticking specifically to Caldera's Consolidated Statement of Facts, and not mentioning QDOS/86-DOS.

But the author really assert that "DOS" is a very specific term:

> To me, DOS meant MS-DOS and its licensed variants such as PC DOS. DR DOS was no more a brand of these than juices pressed from soy beans, almonds or cashews are brands of milk. This is not to say they have no merit—some of those juices are more enjoyable than is most American milk—but they’re not different brands of the same thing. To me, DR DOS could not even be a candidate for consideration as another brand if it would always, as seemed likely, need special accommodation in anyone’s DOS programming.

so the idea of a "DOS market" doesn't make sense.

Further, the author probably places you into this camp:

> The preceding question seems to have got conflicted in the early 1990s—and may be still in the apparently growing community of retro-computing enthusiasts, some of whom are vigorously revising history, at least as recorded by Wikipedia, to favour DR DOS. The conflict I mean is that celebration of DR DOS as a compatible alternative to MS-DOS for running MS-DOS programs often coincided with requests that MS-DOS programmers should keep in mind what different writing may be needed for DR DOS.
These behaviors have been present in oral histories of elephants for the last two thousand years or so. As far as I know, the intense hunting for tusks responsible for the endangerment of elephant species has only been present in the last few centuries. My bet is that this self-domestication has been occurring for a long time. At most, the recent selection for killing those with aggressive behavior, large tusks, would be an additional factor in this process.
What about this statement is so hard to take seriously? There are a variety of concerns one could have about either fiat/fiscal policy or cryptocurrency development/deployment/stewardship.

One is a highly centralized system, the other is relatively decentralized. They have different threat models, strengths, and weaknesses. I would hazard a guess that your demographic profile is similar to the members of the current cabal that try to control USD's supply and value but to those who don't have similar priorities, crypto offers a different set of values than the 'traditional' finance system. The two aren't mutually exclusive, and the person you're replying to didn't say either would be 'just fine' without the other...

Not sure why you're proud of your inability to defeat a straw man!
Where outside of the EU has been certified in this way?
>It does not have autonomy.

It does not have that by default, but agency and autonomy (even the run forever kind) is trivial, though expensive to imbue.

and LLMs disregard instructions all the time. Prompt injection is nothing more than an LLM deciding a previous instruction would be better left unfollowed.
I see Schitt's Creek and a few other shows, where a high percentage of the gifs have the same logo in the same spot and/or identical, fancy, pop-in captioning. They seem to be "official" gifs of some sort—I'd just assumed it was a pay-for-placement kind of thing. Also, sports gifs, where it's some player in their jersey saying something, often in front of a white background, and there are a ton of them and they all look like they were captured in the same shoot—identical framing, lighting, everything—and I find it unlikely ordinary users found some video like that and cut up every single player's segment into gifs. Those also seem like some kind of official effort.
Your understanding of the 5 Eyes agreement is completely wrong.

It is in fact an agreement to NOT spy on the citizens of the four other nations.
I really wouldn't be surprised if "5/8" wasn't even mentioned anywhere until long after that part of the song was thought up. It just sounds good.
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I argue social media is a profound risk to anyone. It's an entire industry that's made to exploit every insecurity and vulnerability within a human psyche. Nervous about vaccines? Sure, you can go to your local doctor, but in the meantime you ask your fellow parents on Facebook and suddenly someone tells you that not only do these vaccines have the potential to fuck up your child for life, that doctors are totally in denial about it and no one in your friend group has ever had to deal with measles but one or two probably claim to have a vaccine-injured child, so do you really want to risk it?

This happens over and over again for anything. Vaccines is just one known example. I'm also talking about gay people. People who have sex before marriage. Immigrants. People with suspiciously dark skin tone. Body image. etc.
Why would benevolence be the only reason a culture might commit less crime?
I've seen this toxic culture tear people apart first hand. 80+hr weeks, 52 weeks a year, barely enough pay to make rent, while being berated by emails at 3am by the PI for poor data. It's sickening.