skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But does the cut-and-paste model of coding scale to 30+ years of developing code? I don't know of any problem domain that's so deep and compelling that I could stay engrossed in solving high-level tasks for that long. Either I have to change domains (as I have maybe 4 times in my 37 years), or vary my routine by occasionally diving into the nitty gritty of low-level code and O/S services.

Being a _user_ of code doesn't appeal to me at all. I work at a big pharma and know lots of biologists and especially chemists who are proficient programmers. They use code (more than craft it), but they're impassioned by the science itself. Coding is merely a tool to them, the means to a more compelling end.

I don't share their perspective, nor do I want to compete in that space, so I get my jollies by learning the info extraction process and diving into the cool, underserved, often complicated parts, like image quantification and pattern enhancement/recognition in raw and dirty data. That often requires some math and some low level bit twiddling, in code and in signals. I can't imagine cutting and pasting my way through that world, nor would I ever want to.
Race Car Drivers Blink the Same
> The West is in no position to provide "spankings" on demand.

They seem to manage it fairly often, and certainly in this case.

> China will learn from this (Russia's tactical mistakes), and will adapt to avoid repeating them.

I most certainly hope they do. Giving up on taking Taiwan by force would be a wonderful result out of the Ukraine war. The West should encourage that lesson by pre-arming Taiwan with as many F-16s, Javelins, Stingers, etc. that they can produce.
> So this article is telling us that the iPhone app for ChatGPT is communicating with the ChatGPT APIs and therefore has the same privacy problems as the website or a third party app?

I would frame it like this:

It's not telling us, but it's telling our less tech-savvy friends and family to be cautious.

Not everyone will be as clear yet on how this all works and what it actually means to type text into ChatGPT, compared to the understanding that many of us here all have. I think its a point worth repeating at this early stage.
One thing that I wish Spotify (or any offline player, really, but we'll start with Spotify) had was the ability to track when there's a side break in an album for albums released and designed for listening on vinyl.

For an example of why this would be useful, listen to Abbey Road by the Beatles and notice the jarring transition from "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" and "Here Comes the Sun" on, say, Spotify.

Then listen to it on vinyl - you'll notice you have to get up, flip the record, and then start it again between the two songs which gives a natural break without the instant tonal shift instead of a smash cut from one song to the other.

This would play out the same on cassette tapes, flipping the side of the tape between the two.

It's only with the advent of CDs and streaming music that this has become a problem. It's not the end of the world, but I'm kind of baffled that there's not a way to automatically do this using some sort of metadata tags and intelligence in the player.
Is this using steganography to create un-tamperable watermarks (which would allow downstream users of possibly-AI-created material to prove that it is indeed created by an AI) or, is this for something different?
Could easily be because they have concluded they need more planes than they currently have to stand a chance against the enemy.

The risk of losing fighters and pilots goes up the more lopsided the quantities of fighters are.
Most neural networks these days aren't recursive however.

GPT-3 and friends certainly isn't, unless you count the inference loop as recursion, which is bounded both by vocabulary size and maximum token length (hardcoded for now).
The whole point of "both sides the same" rhetoric is to discourage people from doing anything political, that's why it never has any actionable suggestions. The only option to get something done in the US is to shack up with one of the political parties and hope you can get enough altruistic people elected to dismantle the broken two party system. "Both sides the same" wants to preempt you from thinking there is a "less bad" side to choose, so that you don't choose a side, so that nothing ever happens.

Both sides are OBJECTIVELY not the same. You can easily look at voting history and see that, even if you don't believe anything you hear on the news.

Think long and hard whenever someone tells you this fallacy.
The toxicity of heavy water is not related to its molecular weight, rather to the difference in strength of its hydrogen bonds.
Exactly ^^^ Here's how it went down in my case; it's so bad. ... The dude played in a rock band in his free time. He had a show up in LA (we're in San Diego) on a "school night". The next day, Wednesday morning, he showed up to an 8am meeting looking like shit. He said that he got zero sleep the previous night. He played the show up in LA, packed up his gear (he was a drummer), then drove back to San Diego, got home around 6am, unpacked and drove straight to the office.

No big deal, the meeting was boring, as usual, until a director from another group jokingly commented to our director, my boss, something like, "Gosh, your staff looks like hell. You must be working them to death." It was just a light-hearted, lame joke; got a chuckle in the room. After the meeting, I was pulled into my boss' office where he told me he was sooo embarrassed by the other director's comment. He was really mad. My boss was new to being a director and he felt as the other director was throwing shade on him, implying he doesn't know how to manage a staff, therefore he doesn't deserve to be a director. And everyone in the meeting was laughing, so they all must've agreed. So my boss told me to get rid of the rock-band guy. I rebutted, saying the fact that rock-band guy stayed up all night, and drove straight to work, showed that he was dedicated, and that he (my boss) was such a great director, cultivating a culture of hard work and dedication. My boss wasn't buying, and told me exactly how to manage him out: stop giving him work.

So yeah, it had absolutely nothing to do with his work. It was all because some dude got butt-hurt by a lame comment in a meeting.
Thank you for building this! It's helped a lot for me to wrap my head around the concept even more deeply than before.
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Ah Home Park. Part of the circle of life for tech students.

1. enroll.

2. get tired of dorm life.

3. move to home park because it's likely all you can afford.

4. get broken into 5-10 times.

5. move away
I set one up on my basement server when the pandemic hit for my church, since Zoom's free meetings were limited to 45 minutes. I was able to allow Jitsi to run as a web app on phones, but people complained that it ate through their batteries fast and caused them to get hot. They went back to meeting in person outdoors, and didn't need it. I turned it off after about a month, and haven't needed to look into it again.

IRC + Jitsi could work for a lot of people, but there's still enough trust in big centralized platforms for people to be satisfied with them.

https://github.com/ergochat/ergo

https://github.com/kiwiirc/kiwiirc

https://github.com/kiwiirc/plugin-conference
I mean, I don’t. But I don’t think they should be allowed to something so senselessly wasteful at all. If the business doesn’t work without trashing perfectly good ink it shouldn’t be a business.
Right Connections; Simple BlackBerry Allowed Contact When Phones Failed (2001)
Thinkpad X1 Carbon? Not cheap, but really nice.
My ex-girlfriend used to have a thing called Asus E200HA. It was amazingly cheap, cute as hell and even reasonably fast in Windows. I’d immediately buy a newer machine like that if it could run Linux.
That's not entirely true, as they only want official HP ink, as per a post of a few days ago
You're speculating every time you decide not to sell it.
Most of those are social signals, and social engineering is a thing. Sure, you can read the code for every single update for every single plug-in you have to use for VSCode to function.

Having a proper set of API boundaries with security guarantees is the right solution. Even “notable publishers” can get hacked.

I don’t even understand why it’s an open question, tbh.
Apple boosts talent hiring as it pursues generative AI for Siri
Go look at "Christ of St. John of the Cross" - the original in the Kelvingrove Gallery in Glasgow. No, it's not banal, and not easy to fake.
The small area in the South you are talking about has more than half the State's population and is the largest constituency of the Colorado Compact. While the Imperial County claim is the bulk of California's claim to the Colorado, the water finds its way to cities as well. Thus California has a very large stake in the Colorado Compact (arguably the largest in terms of people and served and dollars made). If these people don't get water from the Colorado, they will look for it in the northern half of the state. It is cheaper and easier to collectively defend the very legitimate claims to the Colorado than to try to reallocate the state's other water resources.
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.
Thank you for actually rebutting the analogy and providing at least one link. I have found every thread on HN about this war is extremely lacking in links and there's all these things that have been "obvious" since the beginning that don't seem that obvious to me.
Interesting that this deal apparently only includes CA, AZ, and NV, and it averts the federal government imposing water cuts on a total of seven states which enjoy water from the Colorado River.

The three states agreeing to this deal are down river (excluding two Mexican states that are further down river), and I suppose they are the ones most reliant on the river.
> Rounded scissors are standard safety features in first aid kits and many related areas. Couldn't you at least have tried to find a better example for your point?

Isn't "rounded scissors" a slang for safe plastic scissors? I am not a native english speaker, sorry.

> Anyway, this area will be regulated by law very soon whether you like it or not and removing safety features will not help anyone in future lawsuits

Lawsuits from whom? People who open a box of needles and start plucking their own eyes with them?

> They are highly regulated, too.

Not in that sense. I can use any kind of regulation or customise it however I like at my own responsibility. I can build by own insane fancy powersocket. And I don't really assume that if I personally chose to use an uninsulated wire for something and it ends up badly, that this s some one else's fault.

> In their case, they followed TikTok videos, but they could just as well followed unsafe advice given by an unhinged AI. It's going to happen, I can assure you that.

> It makes perfect sense to include safety features that stop AIs from giving such advice, and makes perfect sense to stop AI from offending and harassing end users.

I think I see where the confusion is coming from. This is not an AI. You are assuming that this is like a full-blown product, with a specific use case like an advice-giving AI. But it isn't. It's just an LLM. Like, a part, not a mechanism. These restrictions only useful purpose is demonstration of how one could add restrictions in their specific case. They are very generic, don't add any value and have noticeable drawbacks in unforeseen cases.

Obviously, when one builds their own AI product with end-user reach and accessibility, they need to build safety features adequate to their usecase, but they might be completely different from what we are imagining.
Direct link to GitHub: https://github.com/streamich/json-joy
> I honestly thought all the marketing materials I've seen were quite clear about how the service was billed. I don't think changing the name would lead to more or less confusion or sales.

It's very clear how it works.

But sadly, the people that created the program don't spend enough time on the Internet to learn that the way the general public perceives things often does not match reality.

Ever since Instant Ink started, the Internet has been flooded with morons that think they're geniuses by thinking they can buy 1 month of Instant Ink, cancel the sub, and then keep using the cartridges they think they paid $3 for.

If you sub to Instant Ink, you never owned the ink cartridges. At best, you're renting them. Once you decide to stop paying the rent, you don't get to keep using them. I don't know why some people struggle with this.
Beyond Originalism (2020)
Everything Converges to ChatGPT
Well, sure - now apparently we've established that you can in fact turn cities into ruins and remain on the right side, and are just, as they say, haggling over the price. Ask the Russians, and they would tell you that to leave Bakhmut in Ukrainian hands would be to condemn its residents to a cultural genocide, pointing at various laws Ukraine passed prohibiting Russian-language schooling, ethnically Russian political parties being repressed and pro-Russian activists being killed extrajudicially, and most recently supposed pronouncements from members of the current Ukrainian government about eliminating disloyal residents after reconquering Russian-held territory. Do you think that cultural genocide is below the threshold where a reasonable person could support a siege which results in a city's destruction, but an extreme patriarchal regime is above? If yes, are you so certain that this threshold is universally agreed upon (and are you confident that you would not yourself be willing to shift it if someone were to dig up a conflict against a lesser evil than ISIS in which the US pulverised a city)?

(Note that without a critical failure of theory of mind, a retort that the Russian charges against Ukraine are obviously false while the American charges against ISIS are obviously true is not meaningful. Can you say with confidence that growing up in Russia, you wouldn't have the same certainty that the Russian narrative is basically correct while the Americans are spouting self-serving propaganda? Is there some way you can imagine yourself convincing a Russian that American media is to be trusted without making your proposed chain of trust circular?)
Except Apple denied the refund. That isn't handling it. I had heard Apple was good about refunding purchases like this though, so it was surprising to read that.
But being heavily biased in different directions on different issues doesn't sum up to neutrality.
This is pretty badly written. Something looks like a black hole but doesn't have an event horizon? Isn't a black hole nothing but an event horizon to an outward observer? How does it look like a black hole if it doesn't bend light with gravity?

You could hold it in your hand "if you survive the encounter"? So you can't hold it in your hand? *What would happen to you if you touched it?"
1. I agree with your PS. If it had voice to text and text to voice it would legit be Jarvis.

2. There's a lot of discussion about data staying "on your device" lately and non-technical people may not understand the nuances. So a lot of people may not realize that - yes that data is going off device and might benefit from the article
https://www.mearsheimer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Why-t...
Are you arguing that selective enforcement of the law is a good thing? Why just this one company? Google and many other large companies are also apparently in violation.
This seems more likely than the Asahi Linux team, actually.
It is a community newspaper that is (apparently) independent of the WMF, and they don't have quarrels about hosting WMF-critical articles.

Anti-WMF sentiment is surprisingly common on some Wikimedia projects.
Recently I was asking a former Amazon business manager I know about thoughts on leadership vs. IC roles, and the advice about a leadership role was:

"You have to wake up in the morning excited about solving people problems with 'problem' people..."

Examples were then given about how sometimes you drop hints with people, sometimes you tell them outright, and sometimes despite all that they still don't/won't get it, and you try yet another approach (echoing other's posts here about the same). And so it's stressful unless you like these human issues. i.e., Don't consider leadership unless you derive some degree of "happiness" from "working with people on people."
You can realize just the gain in the stock value due to the buyback if you like. Nobody said you have to sell all the stock.
> • Let the customer use up the remaining ink as a gesture of goodwill so they do not hate HP forever with the rage of 1000 forest fires?

You think people should be able to buy 1 month of Instant Ink, cancel, and keep the cartridges they paid $3 for?
According to this the US spends 8.23 percent of its budget on it's military, Germany spends 2.52 percent. Once Germany gets to say 8 percent we can start talking about US aid.
I would say it is completely different. In physics, quantum mechanics gives extremely precise and verifiable predictions of the outcomes of experiments within a certain range of physical conditions. So does general relativity. In contrast, psychology has no mathematical model that will, for example, accurately predict what I am going to eat for lunch, nor is there a model that predicts the exact outcomes of elections. Since physics has two models which are exquisitely precise in different size regimes, but which are mutually incompatible, you have a definite puzzle about what happens in situations where the effects of both theories should be important. There are no exquisitely precise and accurate mathematical models of anything in the social sciences, as far as I am aware.
.. this is why you're online bragging about how much better you are to other people, right?
> If Ukraine draws a truce, it will be western banks and firms doing the reconstruction

Lend-Lease terms make it near certain they will largely, specifically, be American, since the debt from that can be paid either directly or by hiring US firms for reconstruction, and the latter obviously gets more back for Ukraine.
I highly recommend the video from karpathy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMj-3S1tku0 - This explains the same idea spelled out in code. It really helped me understand the mathematical expression graph of neural networks. He uses graphviz to show the expressions and initially calculate gradients manually and then implement back propagation.
My guesses for things different about my life (not suggesting anyone should do any of these):

- my kids have been sleep trained to not wake up so early. They used to and now they don’t.

- if my kids wake up in the night: I put them back to bed (repeatedly if necessary) and don’t stay with them unless they are literally vomiting or need other medical attention

- I don’t work 8.5 hours a day 5 days a week. I didn’t when I was employed and don’t now

- my wife and I alternate week nights when we’re out the house. One of us can feed/bath/bed both kids by ourselves.
The anti-pattern of IoT and their creepily Orwellian dependence "on the cloud" or the ability to "phone home" for "reasons" no one understands is a minor running gag in a game I've been building [SB]. Fragility of our civilization's life support systems and critical shared infrastructure, in general, is a theme.

Because its a real issue today. And with the twin pressures of growing threats from climate and against democracy it is this very kind of stupidly nterdependent complexity which can act as a kind of Achilles heel PITA when enough of the dice all happen to roll a certain way, at once.

We saw it happen due to COVID: the massive but also weird and counter-intuitive economic distortions. But I believe its likely to happen on a much larger scale in the future. Therefore we'd all be best served by choosing to use as many robust/redundant (and anti-fragile) tools as we can.

Preppers once seemed crazy. I believe you'd almost have to be crazy to NOT be a prepper anymore. (Thus, my game: a mix of entertainment, but also education and hopefully political influence and a little bit more shifting of mindsets.)

Example rules of thumb I help to teach:

1. Never own a hammer with a remote kill switch.

2. Never borrow/rent/lease a hammer. Own it, possess it, know where it is, control access to it.

3. Have two (or more) hammers.

etc.

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[SB] - https://synystrongames.itch.io/slartboz
What I find so strange about modern management is it mostly is an error correction function: clearing roadblocks for the team, fighting for recognition, performance management, etc.

I think we should go back to coupling technical leadership, product management, project management and dev manager functions. This is exactly what you would see in a cash strapped startup and it seems to scale to ~50 people. This of course requires very strong leaders who would have full responsibility for the bottom line but I think it could be much more efficient that today’s ensemble of overlapping hierarchies.
That Canon model number looked familiar, googled it and yep it was the same POS I owned ages ago. Can confirm massive clogging problems.
The problem with this line of thinking comes from the way the problem is posed. The reality is worse for both GR and QM.

QM is not a theory about small particles: it is a theory that describes the evolution of any object whatsoever. It just happens to be completely wrong for large objects. And even if we accepted that there is some objective cutoff points between "small objects" and "large objects" (the "objective collapse" interpretation), it would still be wrong, because it predicts effects like gravitational lensing don't exist.

Conversely, GR is also a theory about any size of object; and it is also completely wrong when tested on small objects, as it predicts effects like the self-interference of particles don't exist.

And again, even if some kind of objective boundary existed between the domains of GR and QM existed, that would need to be incorporated into the maths of both of them, and questions about behaviors close to that margin would arise.
I had a ~$400 Brother laser about 10 years ago that I loved until one day it just stopped working completely. Repair company wanted... $500 so that ended that.
It's not clear that regular people care about where software is hosted. If anything it's just far more convenient that you don't have to deal with anything. Did anyone care how secure zoom was? Not really. Just pure convenience.
Did Meta get the memo yet?
I don't think the spending is really a problem, but possibly the many work-hours of brilliant minds that might be more fruitfully employed working on different problems.
SC Cracks Down on Huobi Global for Illegal DAX Operations in Malaysia
> Charge OP for the remainder of their cartridge as a cancellation fee. (Yuck!)

I feel like this is the only reasonable solution? We do this for mobile phones and leased cars as well. I think it’s fairly well understood.
And?

Without a footprint in the EU, there is no legal action the EU can take against a foreign organization. Sure, the EU might ban your organization from operating legally in their markets, but again, there is no legal recourse for the EU. You might as well circumvent the ban too.
I find a lot of posts from phys.org to be highly editorialized, with ambiguous and sensational headlines.

It is a low quality source, imo