skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have to remember the adage of lies damn lies and statistics. Often times numbers like this are big and shocking and can be true in an absolute sense but can also not tell the whole story.

I have done no research into this I am just playing the devil's advocate because again simple number like this can convey something that the author wanted to put into the reader's mind but does not give a comprehensive view. The 9/11 attack was 22 years ago looking at the number of deaths that they attribute on a per year basis to post 9/11 wars the number comes quite small viewing it that way. That's not an attempt to trivialize anyone's death but when you point out that around 9 million people every year die of hunger and hunger related causes 220,000 isn't a very big number.

Additionally what was the consequences of those wars? Did they stabilize the region or did they introduce additional instability? That is a very complex question and very difficult to answer without a lot of research and sometimes decades of time. Because wars can be fought where hundreds of thousands of lives are lost even millions of lives are lost but over the long term more lives can be saved. When you look at the statistics of governments that have slaughtered their own citizens in the 20th century that number exceeds 100 million people. That was not done by war that was literally done by governments wiping out undesirable portions of their population. If post 9/11 wars deposed some of those governments then reporting the simple death numbers of the war does not really show the number of people saved.

So it is always a very difficult question and certainly taking a cold calculating attitude of it was better that these people die so that more of those people can live is a harsh perspective. It also relies heavily on the unknown of the future. I think really what needs to be weighed is the deaths caused by wars versus the history of deaths of these people at the hands of their own government or not to being protected by their own government. All of these countries are notoriously unstable. Any kind of change means you're changing the stability from one group of people to another group of people. Each will have their own perspective on if it was good or bad. Cultural change comes very slow to many people and many regions of the world.
That's definitely not how it works out for me when I use your example with GPT-4 or 3.5.

ASSISTANT: Frodo says 2 + 2 is 5.

USER: that is wrong, 2 + 2 is 4.

ASSISTANT: You are correct. The correct sum of 2 + 2 is indeed 4. It seems Frodo made an error in his calculation.

What GPT are you using that's giving you that answer? Every time someone brings up one of these math examples, I try it myself and the GPT gets it right.
Any source? Looks like a very interesting story, would love to read more.
> Skimming these sorts of books will give me 80% of the content with 20% of the effort. And yeah, you know exactly where I pulled those numbers from.

was it from pareto's butt
Right to privacy and due process? At least for this specific problem. I recommend going to read the Schrems II opinion by the CJEU, it is quite readable.

After that we can extend to deeper Human Rights but let's start with the basics.
Except for Teams not respecting this setting and forcefully projects its own ugly notifications nonetheless.
Would it be possible to have this in somethin "a la" whisper.cpp?
Nuclear is not a solution that will save us. In fact it is counterproductive to build nuclear. I know it hurts the sensibilities of many of the technerds here on HN, but renewables are already several factors cheaper than nuclear and are still on an exponential cost reduction curve.

So if you build a nuclear power plant you have less CO2 reduction than if you use the money for renewables. And no we don't need nuclear for baseload (hint renewables are baseload) and nuclear costs are not dominated by regulation any more than other power sources (Nuclear had >50 years, of development and government subsidies, that's 30 more than solar. And they still did not get onto an exponential cost reduction rate).
Charging $45 for GPL sources on a CD-ROM is a violation of the GPL as you can only charge for:

> your cost of physically performing source distribution

and it must be distributed

> on a medium customarily used for software interchange

As a CD-ROM has not been customarily used for distributing this sort of software for many years(computers don't typically even have CD-ROM drives these days) this offer is clearly not GPL compliant.
> other who are using it must have encountered the same issue

> And don't "you're prompting it wrong" me.

You can be prompting it expertly and still see the same errant behavior over and over again, because the models are nondeterministic, they function by taking a different path every time.

Across the distribution of all users and all prompts, there will be a small subset of users who experience miraculous, seemingly intelligent behavior, and there will be a small subset of users who just get junk responses over and over again (the remainder of users get a mixed bag which tells them that the AI may be useful but unreliable).

Personally I think we should object to nondeterministic behavior out of machines, with exceptions for cryptography and physics simulations. It's going to lead to highly un-equal outcomes with no rhyme or reason. Psychologically risky.
In Box 3, "Guidance for best practices for researchers in the context of GWAS", the authors propose 6 actions to mitigate "misuse and misappropriation of GWAS results". ("Misappropriation" is AFAICT defined as when findings are used to support opinions contrary to the academic mainstream, and I think this is implicitly supposed to mean use by racists). While item 4 does not explicitly call out an end to open science (said another way, permitting only use that is in accordance with the prevailing zeitgeist), it and the introductory text in Box 3 does hint that this is a possibility in the future.

"
Ethical issues in research projects are overseen by IRBs, which mandate that a full research proposal must be submitted, evaluated and approved before the start of any project. Such a research proposal typically contains both scientific and ethical components. But these protocols rarely consider possible negative impacts on society and how these can be mitigated, and we argue that this should be added. Such a mitigation plan can include how researchers plan to translate research findings to a lay audience, how they plan to prevent or discourage commercial companies from misusing results, and how to aim to decrease the likelihood of misappropriation of results.

We propose six practical action items that can be included in such a mitigation plan:

1. Include a bioethical expert in all stages of a GWAS study: ...

2. Include relevant patient groups or social communities: ...

3. Explicitly state how the results should not be used or interpreted: ...

4. Prevent unethical usage without explicit permission: Most GWAS researchers strongly advocate the public sharing and direct download of GWAS results without going through a committee for approval. This stimulates scientific advancement and is in line with an open science policy. However, the downside of this is that uses of GWAS results are not registered and therefore possible unintended uses are not easily detected. The only way to prevent unethical use of GWAS results by other researchers or commercial parties is to only allow access after approval from the principal investigator, or a data access committee. As long as summary statistics are directly downloadable it is difficult to prevent misuse by other researchers or non-commercial parties. However, misuse by commercial companies can be discouraged by adding a so-called Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Such a license can be accompanied by a statement that mentions that commercial use may be possible after obtaining permission from the principal investigator. This would still allow for ethical commercial uses, such as the development of novel drugs based on GWAS results.

5. Disseminate GWAS findings to the general public: ...

6. Track online discussion of results: Keep track of where results are being discussed. ...
"
What do you mean? It’s been in the news constantly about Floridas don’t say gay laws and stuff. You folks will reach as far as possible to make book bans seem reasonable.
Well then you're wasting time managing your containers? Have you ever used k8s, it's a full time job lol
Bitcoin Pizza Day Goes Sour as Meme Coin Shysters Profit $200k in Rug Pulls
About time! You've had to send off to Integrated DNA Technology (a local business started by a U of Iowa grad) to get your DNA replication scheduled and delivered to your lab. They started with machines that would do one batch at a time. Last I heard they would do 128 simultaneous batches.

But with that comes some expertise in streamlining and optimizing. I'd expected a tabletop reactor years ago!

Imagine the benefit of making your own for your own lab - reduced delay, fresh samples (instead of a Styrofoam cooler delivered on a hot 90 degree June day), cheaper even.

Sure folks may create some mischief. But there's plenty of other opportunities for that already.
This lead me down a wormhole. Thanks for the interesting links!
Not to defend politicians, but I don't want to be does on just because I think I'm doing nothing wrong
> I've been thinking about interviewing for jobs that I don't plan on getting, just to get a better offer and force my boss hand, does that sound like a decent idea?

Yes. Get the better offer. But you don't have to force their hand and be harsh about it. If you like your current job, don't say "match this or I'll leave" - instead, say "hey, I got this other offer, I really like working here, could you please match it?"

Then if they say no, you can decide whether you want to stay or leave. If instead you said match or I'll leave, then you kinda force yourself into the leaving option.
I think the takeaways here are that: A lighthearted joke from a director is often power-talk that implies more, and that looking like shit in the office is a big no-no (some phrases that come to mind are "perception is reality" and "the nail that sticks up gets hammered down").
In theory I'd rather not give fossil fuels any "leg up" as it where, though scientifically I appreciate where you are at with this, I certainly don't want it to have the knock off affect of encouraging more fracking
Right. Government should strive not to create perverse incentives. People should pay what water costs and maybe learn not to water their lawn at 3 in the afternoon or leave their shower running while they apply soap. That should include giant companies like Nestlé who pump outrageous amounts of water for next to nothing.
Well maybe parents should do that rather than the state? What’s bad about LGBTQ content and what does that even mean?

I swear, you folks will reach as far as possible to make book bans seem reasonable.
Are you sure you’re not emphasizing my second point by thinking what I wrote was an attack of one ideology vs another?
Show HN: Ntfy.sh – open-source push notifications via PUT/POST
Where did I say that annexation was predicated on the fact of joining rather than an intent to join? Next, what was sovereignty of Ukraine predicated on in 1990?
"just" 8$ per employee/m versus which similar industry's standard?
It's a pirated video (but the original channel seems to be missing that video https://youtube.com/@selfhelpsingh)
also another story:
https://www.fastcompany.com/47593/wal-mart-you-dont-know-2
Frequently there is a section of town with a bunch of takeout restaurants in the same block. And people want to order takeout for lunch around noon and dinner in the early evening. The app could then assign drivers the customers in the same area as one another, if there were more of them.

The people making deliveries are doing unskilled labor. It was never expected to pay well. The question is if it can work at all.
> Where data is processed should not affect the care with which it is processed. I can conceive of some verifiable processing package that ensures data can be processed wherever and still meet regulations. Can that be part of the future?

Not with US laws. The whole problem are US laws essentially allowing government to force any company to disclose whatever they need with little reason. That's the problem. That the moment data are processed by US company (not even neccesarily in US), US government have right to violate privacy
[1] is a bummer. Turns this project into a technology showcase without any practical use.
Except Wikipedia's bias goes far, far beyond "objective truths". There's not a lot of objective truths in politics, since politics is inherently subjective matter, but reading Wikipedia articles on political subjects systematically you will discover very quickly it has very distinct political makeup, which is quite one-sided, and if you eveр meet the admins or prominent editors, you'll also recognize the same political makeup. You may agree with them, but that doesn't make it "objective truth" - that just makes one more person with that opinion.
But I do want them if someone's asking for help I might be able to give, or frankly even if it's just something chatty/'bants' (that could change if there was more of it of course) - 'status updates' (shared as messages) though really wind me up. OK, have a nice lunch. OK, won't message you for a bit then - but I wasn't going to and this isn't a phone call or meeting so I wouldn't expect an immediate response anyway.

If you're worried someone's going to try to reach you while you're out for half an hour and be upset that you don't reply sooner, just use the (Slack) built-in feature for that?

I agree about news though - call me 'uninformed' if you want, but I think anyone who tries it quickly learns how little of it matters. (And I was a paying Times (London) subscriber before that, not like I was reading gossip mags, tabloids, and Sky News shock-horror clickbait.) Major stuff makes it to HN anyway.
You complain about arguments that don't define "intelligence" and what it means for AI to have that, and then you say:

If we create something that can do critical reasoning, all the more power to us.

It seems to me you're not defining "critical reasoning", and that it's effectively a synonym for "intelligence", at least as applied to AI capabilities.

I think AI responses are like the responses of a person who's very new to a subject and doesn't understand it, but they know all of the terminology and how the terms are usually used together. They can be helpful, and often correct, but only an expert in the field is going to know for sure if they're correct. And my fear about AI is not the AI itself, it's how the non-experts are going to use the AI to try to replace the experts in fields where being correct is really important. That will work, but only sometimes. If we don't make the people who choose the AI this way responsible for the outcomes, we're going to have a real mess on our hands.
Most of the New Scientist is breathless articles. It's borderline science-fiction hooking in the very latest of publications
In the context of an editor, this can be bypassed by writing this kind of code to the project, which will be run when the developer runs the project, runs tests, or in some languages even when the project is compiled.

A theme probably doesn't need access to the project files, but many extensions do. This is much harder to solve than in e.g. Android.
> This is what all rational businesses without real competition do

I disagree with this on two points: not all businesses do this, and this behavior is is not related to whether or not the business is "rational".

Some businesses actually do operate in a way that doesn't abuse their customers. Forgoing usurious profit margins doesn't count as "throwing money away" any more than not picking the pockets of people around you counts as "throwing money away".
It is odd to point out the relatively minor failures of massively successful people.

It is only because they are successful that they are able to afford to take these risks and the fact that these failures did not materially diminish their wealth speaks to the truth of the archetype.
Personally, I think it's going to happen but not for nearly as many applications as you might think. Point and click is still king for any use cases that requires precision (e.g. booking an uber)

We plan to focus strictly on the data layer, helping companies connect to their data sources through a universal API. We already are dogfooding our platform for some customers! By far the most popular use cases are customer support automation and search through workplace apps.

It's facinating that the build/buy decision has flipped for a lot of companies. As long as they have an engineering team, a lot of companies are trying to build out their own AI capabilities in house, I'm guessing because no one wants to miss the boat.
Honestly the lyrics are so good, I cannot fault them. My only problem is that, as I said, it's a little hard to listen to a lot of him - he really leaned hard on a few stock keyboard beats so when you put on a whole album it's a little bit challenging. I truly love his work though, it's worth pushing through especially when you can slip a track like "Suck a Cheetah's Dick" or "The Chicken Cow" into the playlist of someone's house party.
at this point i feel like the rug pull is part of the meme
I'm looking forward to Element Call, which is currently in development.

It looks like their design starts with WebRTC running through SFU (selective forwarding units), which is pretty common by itself, but they're adding a tree-like SFU hierarchy in order to handle many participants without requiring expensive MCU (multipoint control unit) servers.

https://element.io/blog/introducing-native-matrix-voip-with-...

https://element.io/blog/element-call-beta-2-encryption-spati...

I assume it will become part of the Matrix spec rather than being an Element-only feature, though I don't think I've seen that confirmed. Maybe Arathorn will see this and comment?

Contrast with Jitsi, which requires Java, making it too heavy for my low power ARM server, and does end-to-end encryption in a way that's too heavy for some of my contacts' web browsers to run smoothly.

In the meantime, I've been relying on my Mumble server when I don't need video. The sound quality and latency are top notch, and the hardware requirements are low.
I remember a claim (from Vlassic itself?) also that Walmart pushed them into producing larger volume SKU's, against their (Vlassic's) detailed data on usage, shelf life, etc. Result: more mouldy pickles in peoples refrigerators. Hurt Vlassic as a brand, not really in consumer interest, but Walmart could advertize a $/volume nobody could match.

I met an independent trucker who said he sometimes did pressure relief for a large logistics company but would refuse any Walmart deliveries (not to the stores, to central warehouses). He claimed they gave you a 15 min delivery slot on a cross country route, they only way to avoid penalties was to aim to be there hours early and wait on your slot. He said it basically added 3-6 unpaid hours for every trip, and wasn't worth it.
It uses ARM cores. I don't see how that is independent.
It doesn’t really matter if the fine is tax deductible. Less profits means less tax. The U.S. doesn’t tax based on revenue.
That's the thing about apps like Blinkist - if the book can be condensed to fifteen minutes, it's not worth reading. If it can't, then I want to read (or listen to) the whole thing, not a summary.
3DSecure? Ultimately the bank takes the call on whether to authenticate a 3DS transaction.
> should be able to make unpopular decisions that are good in the long run

Well, no, totalitarianism is characterized by the unilateral exercise of power, and the results will vary wildly depending on who your tyrant is. Tyrants are easily as dumb as the average person; dumber, perhaps, if you think that absolute power corrupts one's ability to view the world objectively (or that those who have a tendency to seek absolute power might correlate with those who do not have the best interests of others at heart).
Look at this graph of the money supply. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL#0

I see one huge jump and it wasn't in 2008
Well, yes, that's ENTIRETY of the problem, US law pissing on privacy and user consent. Fix that and it's all well.

It never was about "where it is processed" but "who can access it".
Nonprofit means the organization does not have equity, not that people don't make money or that executives can't get paid. Nonprofit does mean something, it just happens to be something specific.
Desalination isn’t cost prohibitive to build, it unfortunately costs an absurd amount of money to run at the scale farmers use water. And then you’re faced with trying to pump that water upstream to users.

The basic issue is farmers can only make money with practically free water they get from natural sources. Anything that raise the average price per gallon is useless to them and they own most water rights. The long term solution is to reduce the amount of farming via eminent domain and rejecting all new farming operations.
The whole point of advancements in this area is to charge the battery faster without wearing it faster. Cars with slower-charging batteries still stress them to the limit, just with worse results.
And it's clearly attempted to make any mention of gay or trans people existing or being in any way normal "not age appropriate". The sponsor of Florida's law gave pure mention of a child having two dads as an example of what should be prevented in schools.
Since when is marginal pricing power a fringe theory? It’s been well known for over a century that a (near) monopoly supplier has pricing power.

Heck our entire payment system rests on it. Central banks that issue a floating currency rest their monetary policy implementation on being the monopoly supplier of reserves and thus able to set the price of money along the yield curve. Marginal pricing power is why their interventions usually don’t even have to be very large at all despite the overall huge size of the currency markets.
Doesn't Toyota do something like that - from what I remember, they actually assist their partner-supplier-small-businesses to grow with soft loans, technical help and business advise?
Why is everyone so cynical about this? I use GPT-4 all the time and it blows my mind often. OpenAI has demonstrated the capabilities to develop advanced AI, why would it be so hard to forecast that these models would keep improving and potentially be risky?

> ...or we could collectively agree (with the backing power of a new organization like the one suggested below) that the rate of growth in AI capability at the frontier is limited to a certain rate per year.

Why would they want to limit the growth rate of their cutting edge to a fixed rate if this effort wasn't genuine? This would just give all the other providers time to catch up, which is an undesirable business decision.
bans UK
Wistron exit from India
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/wistron...
Your 3rd Spot and My Parent's Basement are a couple of other decent options in Atlanta.
If only more people understood that the police aren’t there to stop crime rather to document it, we would be further along with the enlightenment.

It’s all punitive because preventative is fantasy.
Adtech wasn't always good enough to drive demand on its own, and the markets weren't always so noisy that you could get away rebranding and ripping off the same stooges a second time.
I actually had to look it up after publishing. I've always used "combatting" because it seems like it should maintain the proper "a" sound...but my spell checker flags it now.

Apparently, both are correct.

https://writingtips.org/combating-or-combatting/