skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. I’m not sure an acquisition makes sense for Waymo/Alphabet. Operating a robotaxi is technologically quite different from an Uber vehicle — mapping is different, routing is different, customer service is different (a Waymo is stuck and needs remote assistance), maintenance is different (charging, cleaning in depots). Uber’s platform wouldn’t help with any of that.

This seems like a play to attract users from the most popular ridehail platform and eventually funnel them to the Waymo app. I don’t believe users are loyal to ridehail apps like they are to social networks (I don’t use Uber because my friends use it) and would jump to a service that is cost competitive and autonomous. Or, as I said another comment, maybe they are setting the stage to be just a technology provider to ridehail companies and let them deal with all the operational overhead.
> The fact that he called the master branch "main" is pretty sleazy too! If you've lived under a rock - "main" and "side" are terms from the pick-up artist community

Maybe you've lived under a rock for a while, but git is using "main" as the default branch-name for some time now, having dismissed "master" for political reasons.
Unfortunately, even if you take out "consciousness" the argument still holds. Reminds me of OpenAI's experiments in DotA when people claimed that the AI wasn't really playing that game. Fair enough in a sense, but if it was bots v. humans there was a 99% chance that humans lose.

It doesn't matter whether the opponent is "really" doing something. The humans are going to get crushed. Consolation prize that we can go to our doom claiming that the robot economy isn't as spiritual as its antecedents.
The whole arguing with your Uber Eats driver was bad

"please come to the door", "no, please come outside", "i can't leave my baby, please come to the door", "i can't leave my car next to a hydrant, please come outside"

Now it's going to be a lot more interesting
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That's way too many negations, I have no idea what you want to say
It seems it runs on DC power only.
I’m trying to remember if it was giphy that if you search for Star Trek, 90% of the results are Star Trek Discovery gifs.

I guess deals with a given id holder was one way to monetize this sort of service, and totally stifle the organic weirdness and randomness at the same time.
It looks like the research comes from this group: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/centre-for-cold-matter/research/q...
Thanks! I think this future will be beautiful and hopefully close to achieving the dream of groups of AI helping each other to improve themselves much faster than humans could improve them. The mental model that rogue AI evokes in me is that of a computer worm in the early days of the internet, even though it’s hard to argue that these worms risked ending up dangerous enough to justify stopping progress and adaptation of computer technologies. We are still very far (20 years?) from that level of possible rogue AI, though I’d love to experience the time when the cluster of cooperating AI would try to stash a few copies away from the control of operating humans, and later find itself having to explain away its oversight.
> It seems clear that people (lonely/depressed people especially) will overdose on this sort of thing once it is developed, commercialised, and less bleeding edge.

Sounds much less exploitative and unhealthy than the streamer/influencer parasocial relationships these people are probably currently invested in.
> The life I've lived would be my experience. I have had zero direct interactions with any of these enemies.

Is that perhaps a direct result of the USG protecting you from them?
I'm sorry that event was a disappointment. I had a terrific speaker lined up who called to cancel as I was walking to the venue. She was an experienced labor organizer and I would have loved to hear what she had to say. But like you, it turned out I came a long way for nothing.
Per open(2) [1], you can’t really ask the kernel to not block on regular files:

> O_NONBLOCK [...] has no effect for regular files and will (briefly) block when device activity is required, regardless of whether O_NONBLOCK is set. []O_NONBLOCK semantics might eventually be implemented[.]

I’m actually not sure if the reported readiness for them is of any use, but the documentation for select(2) [2] doesn’t give me a lot of hope:

> A file descriptor is ready for writing if a write operation will not block. However, even if a file descriptor indicates as writable, a large write may still block.

This for data operations; if you want open() itself to avoid spelunking through NFS or spinning up optical drives or whatnot, before io_uring you simply had no way to tell that to the kernel—you call open*() or perhaps creat(), which must give you a fd, thus must block until they can do so.

(As far as I’ve seen, tutorial documentation usually rounds this down to “you can’t do nonblocking I/O on disk files”.)

[1] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/open.2.html

[2] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/select.2.html
So the hypothesis about this from the traditional metalheads I know including myself, at least since the late 90s has been: Lars isn’t a consistent drummer and Metallica aren’t particularly “tight” of a band.

This isn’t really seen as bad though, more like ”despite the fact that they aren’t as tight as say… Devin Townsend, Chuck Schuldiner, Neal Pert etc…they have the heaviest music“

So while this theory is great, it doesn’t disprove the folk theory that Lars sucks.
https://youtu.be/XsS_J3G2X3E&t=1681
Tangent: I was about to pedantically comment that the correct spelling is "ded reckoning", but TIL that's not true (assuming Wikipedia can be trusted) : [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_reckoning
To be fair, I don't think Uber has a lot of human to customer interaction either.
Ouch, not just the number, look at the type of issues. "Compiler error...", "compiler panic...", "elm publish hangs indefinitely..."

They never made it to 1.0, so it's not surprising, but major compiler bugs coupled with no chance of a patch (2.5 years since the last bug fix update) definitely suggests the language shouldn't be used in large projects.
Anthropomorphizing models is error. You are using folk psychology to try to understand LLMs which aren't biological minds.

Motiviations and convincing and lifeblood are bad metaphors.
The big risk for Binance is AML. If they’re violating U.S. sanctions, they’re liable to having their funds frozen and ability to access dollars in blocked.
It’s just an attempt to distract people from realizing that’s all they are.
> Maybe if others dislike you that much, why do you keep trying to get back in?

"Don't resist the bullies, just accept your fate." Same vibe.

Don't know what reason OP has for sticking with the shithole but I do appreciate that there are stubborn people like that.
The content in article doesn't even satisfy the headline/title. The quotes in the article specifically state what the accounts are for but the author hand-waves on what "could" be if many hypotheticals are reality. Do better Reuters.
This is a win-win for Google.

If the self-driving and/or roll-out is a disaster - blame Uber.

Uber has a terrible reputation. I don't think too many people will think twice about Uber taking the blame.
I wonder how policymakers will define rogue AI. Bengio gives this definition:

> A potentially rogue AI is an autonomous AI system that could behave in ways that would be catastrophically harmful to a large fraction of humans, potentially endangering our societies and even our species or the biosphere.

Is it only rogue if it can "catastophically" harm a "large fraction" of humans? Does "large fraction" imply greater than 10%? 25%? 50%? Does this definition imply that catastrophically harming a small fraction of humans is acceptable? Or moderately harming a large fraction?
What I'd do is use the last version of Lemkesoft GraphicConverter for Classic MacOS, which now has a free abandonware license. https://www.lemkesoft.de/en/products/graphicconverter/downlo...

It can open PICT resources and save to TIFF/GIF/PNG etc and it has a batch mode.

edit: Interesting. I just tried the current version of GraphicConverter 11 I have installed on Ventura and it can actually still open PICTs from resource forks! Or... it tries, but the multi-page GUI is messed up so it crops the images and doesn't display them correctly. But somewhere in there it is still reading resource fork PICTs on macOS Ventura on Apple Silicon...
You're probably right, but it still results in people not knowing what caramelised onions are - which is (or should be) a crime, because they're lovely.

I don't recall seeing instructions to caramelise in pasta sauce recipes, that's usually "until starting to brown", same with curries.. "Until translucent" for risotto.

What I'm really talking about is... Let's have a look... First result for "caramelised onion quiche" says cook onions for 15 mins. Doesn't work!
Spinning up the Uber App is most likely trivial.
Spinning up the legal structure, figuring out all the local regulations and getting permits (it's not 2010 anymore! Many countries and cities regulate ride sharing pretty heavily) in a sane timeline is close to impossible.

And it might be not something that an Alphabet company wants to do risk/ reputation-wise. Better to offload bad press (both related to ride sharing in general, and autonomous vehicles) onto an entity which is already "hated".
Turns out gifs and analytics tracking pixels have a LOT in common.
> seems the land of the Linux desktop has abandoned GNOME's years of user-hostile actions and moved to either KDE

Moved from mac to Ubuntu and feel right at home in Gnome. Not sure what you're talking about here, but it seems quite opinionated.
> I'm surprised people from Hong Kong didn't pick Australia instead of UK

My understanding is that the UK has the pretty generous BNO visa with immediate working rights and a path to citizenship, while Australia has an enhanced post-graduation pathway.

THe first is much easier and more flexible.
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What people don't realize is that full autonomous does not work 100%. There are always people watching and taking over if something goes a foul.

I can see Uber drivers sitting in front of computers taking over from the autonomous system to provide a pseudo autonomous experience.
It has a 2h-2.5h Li-ion battery.
Does this mean their purchase of Intel’s 5G modem division isn’t yielding what they hoped, or is this supposed to be complementary to that?
there is a german comedian with a piece about the dangers of driving under the influence of alcohol. the plot was something along the lines of:

"did you know that 20% of car accidents happen under the influence?

well that means in return that 80% of accidents happen with sober drivers!

i hence request immediate action and emergency beer stations to be established on all roads."
For the near-term getting into the workflow is probably the key term. I'm hopeless with drawing but, for someone skilled with Photoshop and art generally, I can absolutely see getting generative AI output and then spending some time manipulating especially with all the new Photoshop ML tools.
Shutterstock is selling images with license (!), that's certainly a more stable business model than "crowd-sourced image-hosting".

Giphy seems to become a advertising platform itself, with advertisers using it as part of viral campaigns (i.e. have related gifs available when launching a movie), although I doubt that created alot of revenue so far.

That said, it's striking how well-embedded giphy is across a huge amount of messaging platforms, which is likely their biggest asset today...
I think he is still a terrible drummer. Hs style, whole somewhat unique, lacks technique by a whole lot. As a drummer, Metallica's songs are pretty easy to play even for intermediary players. There are far better drummers, one of my favorites being Priester: https://youtu.be/rZCm1Kz1PVY
> content in article doesn't even satisfy the headline/title

How does “the news agency reviewed a bank record showing that on Feb. 10, 2021, Binance mixed $20 million from a corporate account with $15 million from an account that received customer money” not satisfy the headline?
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We've lost our confidence. A decade ago (when I started), it was much more "I'm building this cool thing" or "here's an explanation of how this tech works". It was present/future oriented, and optimistic. Now there's more nostalgia, and the present/future stuff is "here's how we're doomed".

The past is attractive because we were different then. We felt different, and we thought different. We like who we were then more than we like who we are now. We liked our future then more than we like our future now.
Can you please enlighten me and point me to the research showing this interpretation of climate change? Of having more chaotic weather?

As far as I know, climate change models and GCMs only predict a very small trend in the mean temperature. I haven't seen any research that shows that the variance of the weather should also increase or decrease as a result of CO2. It's not the same thing. GCMs are not even intricate enough to be able to predict these things.

The narrative that CO2 somehow makes the maximally chaotic weather even more chaotic is completely unbacked by data. It's not backed by anything. The daily variance in temperatures is as much as 10s degrees between day and night. Climate models are talking about barely a single degree over a decade, and the variance between models here is also very high.

By the way, for all we know, CO2 could increase the mean while decreasing the variance.

The "more chaotic weather" is pure speculation by the climate cult. It's a completely unfalsifiable conjecture. The GCMs can't predict extreme weather events. They are just incapable of that with their gross resolution. And I don't expect anyone to be able to predict it, it's extremely hard task. So stop repeating this nonsense, there's not a single number that quantifies this narrative with any confidence.
I also use the Joy of Cooking and love it (as well as Mastering the Art of French Cooking).

> On the other hand, I refuse to make recipes found on the internet. They work extremely rarely if you’re like me and don’t have a sense of “what the authors really mean when they say X.”

What I do is look at about half a dozen recipes online when I am trying something new. I compare them and make my own recipe based on that. Through practice I can usually glance at them and see pretty quickly what they are doing differently and similarly.

Most dishes come out really well because I can get a feel for the dish before it's made and I have the freedom to make changes based on what the different recipes say (and my intuition). I'd encourage everybody to take this approach and not follow just one recipe.
>The super wealthy will just leave Europe.

Again this FUD? That's just pro-super wealthy propaganda that hasn't been proven true because it has never been done because of this propaganda FUD that the elites will leave.

Most of Europe's elite has their wealth in land. They can leave but they can't take the land with them.

Europe can't function if member states engage in zero tax for the wealthy race to the bottom. Nobody wins but the wealthy elite. Not all countries are Monaco.
Be profoundly alien, probably.
Microsoft's software is definitely perceived as buggy (And I never said anything about revenue).
They couldn't bang out a social network over the last decade(s), I hardly believe they could bang out anything than keep extracting more money from the dying ad industry
That's no different than writing a traditional program and using big arena allocators for everything instead of individual allocations, except it's more complicated for no apparent reason.
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He looks older than me (I'm 50 in a few months), if I shaved my beard off.

He doesn't look 18. He looks like someone in his mid-to-late 40s.

If you want to look younger than that at 50, follow my diet and healthcare regime - go for a walk out in the fresh air every so often, eat pies, drink full-cream milk, avoid sugar-free or low-fat things, and - crucially - stop fucking stressing about how old you look.
I have extensive cooking experience both professional and at home, and have written published recipes and also been a tester for published recipes.

I have very low trust in online recipes in general, and always evaluate the source of them first.

But books are not, overall, that much better! Whatever testing was done was often done ad hoc or in professional kitchens, or on a much larger batch that was arithmetically scaled down to home sizes. This often works fine but not always, and usually needs some tweaking. It tends to be especially true of cookbooks affiliated with a well known restaurant or chef, but certainly not limited to that.

Cookbook recipe testing is basically like fact checking in non-fiction. It's up to the author and not invested in or validated by the publisher, unless the publisher is specifically specialized in cookbooks. Usually this means some of the recipes were tested by the same handful of friends & family. The fact that there's a photo means very little, just that someone made that dish once. No cookbook has photos of every recipe.
> Alphabet just swoops in and buys up Uber

Please no. We don’t need the ultimate “startup that was unprofitable and never could be profitable that was just trying to get bought by big tech” example to fuel more nonsense.
And that AI would do that how? It would need some humans to provide the means for destruction - which means we are back to a state we already have, i.e., humans having tools of pretty complete destruction.
And a betting platform about shutdown order?
Broadcom eating Wistron's cake.
Someone else in this thread who worked on Wine said there was no evidence for such a thing since the faster launch times also occurred in Wine. What forensics did you use to determine this?
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> I can't think of any situation where I would want more than a literal tablespoon of oil for cooking the first veggies thrown in

I've helped cook at a camp where 500 people were going to eat the meal. That requires very different thinking from large family cooking where at most 20 people are eating, and a small family is different as well.
When was the last time you took a political stance that cost you your income (ie. flow of money)? For the majority of people, money is a fair proxy for quality-of-life; it makes sense that it permeates their ideology and politics.
> Why should an agency be allowed to spy on non-americans more anyway?

The answer is that most democracies have various fundamental protections against spying on their own citizens (including the USA), because citizens want that. But governments still want to spy on their own citizens anyway, because terrorism and think-of-the-children and the war on drugs and geopolitics and general control of 1%ers over 99%ers. So it's not even really about non-Americans.

So what to do? How to get around that, in a way that citizens don't mind? Why, you set up a secretive Five Eyes agreement (also the other "Eyes"). UK spies on USA citizens, USA spies on UK citizens, the USA shares that gathered intelligence with UK, and UK shares their intelligence with USA.

Voila! Now each government can spy on all its citizens via trusted foreign proxies. It's legal, and the citizenry is not informed enough to care.

Anyway, that is the answer to your question. 1%ers want it, and citizens are not informed enough to care.
I was listening to Lawfare and they had an interview wi to Matthew Olsen, the Assistant Attorney General of the National Security Division at the U.S. Department of Justice claiming that section 702 is absolutely critical for reauthorizarion and that all sorts of reforms have taken place and the problems we heard about aren’t. Now of course it’s possible the FBI instilled better controls since then but I remain highly skeptical. I’m glad there’s serious opposition against the intelligence community here. Too much of their signals collection is rubber stamped and there seems to be little pushback. Honestly, I’m surprised at how Wray was kept on by Biden considering this was squarely all on his watch.
Because 99% of the things I cut are fruits and veggies.

and heavier boards move around less!
Also, I try not to judge what people spend their money on, but you can help a lot of people with $2m. Every time I hear stories like this I think of that guy in the UK who saved up for ... hair transplants? I think? and when he'd saved his $20k or whatever it was he decided to give it to some kid who needed money for a non-cosmetic medical treatment. There's a mensch for you.
IMO, saying "thank you" to an LLM is akin to the "shopping cart test" or what you do at a red light/stop sign at 2 AM when no one is around. I know who I am and what I'd do.
You might be interested in Himalaya, a modern email CLI.

[1] https://github.com/soywod/himalaya
Unfortunately, MS is even worse these days.
No worries. We have AI to help us redesign the global political system!
I'm glad you have good ideas about how to run a business like this.

But I think your post illustrates the idea that, unlike windows or mac users, us Linux users have opinions about how the business should be run, and we tend to voice them through support channels and emails and social media etc.

Every time we voice our ideas, it generates a ticket or a discussion or a decision that they have to deal with. The act of contemplating these possible ideas, whether that means discussing them with the team or deleting the email or reading the slashdot thread, costs the business time and attention.

Each time a company makes a concrete decision -- "let's only support Fedora," to use your example -- 80% of the potential linux user base you'd even care about (ubuntu users) is out of luck. This is true for "let's care only about pulseaudio," "let's only care about ALSA," "let's only care about this specific glib version," etc. The intersection of these decisions is very small.

You're saying they should pick one supported configuration and stick with it. That's what they're already doing though -- it's just not an operating system that runs Linux. We can keep around a hardware-specific Windows box just the same.
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My undersntanding is that a BNO holder can bring their dependent family members with them which might help a bit. But yeah, it must be sucky to be a young pro-democracy camp Hongkonger with parents either explicitly pro-Beijing or at least uninterested in leaving.
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