skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you're aware of the key political issues with Wikipedia.

The media rarely lies - this is a key issue at play - https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/the-media-very-rarely-...

>But people - including the very worst perpetrators of misinformation - very rarely say false facts. Instead, they say true things without enough context. But nobody will ever agree what context is necessary and which context is redundant.

WP doesn't permit primary sources (usually), many right wing publications inc Fox News are banned - for not being a "Reliable Source", actually that activists will push source bans via wiki-lawyering (see the talk pages). I've been subject to Wiki-lawyering because a topic I contributed to became politically contentious, and activists jumped in the thread to revert disagreeable sources.

Wikipedia permits breaking rules if it "makes wikipedia a better place", and do not permit (WP:POINTY) you to try to enforce the same rules equally on other pages. The rules are often arbitrary and political articles are hijacked by activists - typically an active, small minority. The co-founder, Larry Sanger noted this in the earlier days as academics sitting on pages of their discipline, then as Wikipedia became a key source of information, editors were hired to represent certain causes (they are supposed to disclose them), and it became a hive of political activity.

Example - recently a user "TheTranarchist", a main contributor to gender pages, wrote about how she fights bigotry with her Wikipedia edits. She was tempbanned with pushback for those posts - the Vast Majority keeps quiet.

Next we have people like GorillaWarfare who see a hitpiece on people without WP pages - e.g. the CEO of cloudflare - and create a wikipage sourcing just the hitpiece.

WP:GOODBIAS - says bias is a good thing, using uncontentious examples (we are biased to a heliocentric, not geocentric model), but WP:GOODBIAS is actually used to explain away political activism on fuzzy issues.

WP:TRUTH - verifiability, not truth. There is provably false information on Wikipedia which can't be pointed out (except in the talk threads) because the sources referenced are either banned, or it falls under WP:OR (no original research). E.g., a man disappears, there's an article written that he's dead, source the article saying he's dead, turns out he's alive and pictures of him are posted on Twitter, can't edit the page until a new article comes out retracting the death. I could continue with all the nonsense I see on there, but I'll leave it at that.
> What if you did the exact opposite, like rogue bees do

what if we perfectly align the agi and then it gets the idea to do this. suddenly every training for docility and goodness will turn to active maliciousness.
Even in your list, there's a problem. I'll describe it first, and then will get to the one I had in mind when I gave my example.

It's common that your build requirements and your runtime requirements have a big overlap that has to iterate together. Here's a realistic example: NumPy comes with various build helpers that you need at build time, if you are making a native module. So, you need to depend on a particular version of NumPy both during the build and at runtime.

In other words, you would want to be able to reference the same package + version in two places.

You could say that this is a problem with "specific" package, where the developers didn't care to separate two kinds of requirements... and in some sense you are right... but: there is a value to having build helpers and the rest of the runtime code in the same package. It's simpler. It prevents those using your package from accidentally messing up.

Finally, it's NumPy we are talking about, it's not a "specific" package... it's like 50% of the entire Python ecosystem.

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Now, to what I mean in my example.

This is taken verbatim from "real Python" site for the lack of a better example:

# pyproject.toml

[tool.poetry]
name = "rp-poetry"
version = "0.1.0"
description = ""
authors = ["Philipp <philipp@realpython.com>"]

[tool.poetry.dependencies]
python = "^3.9"

[tool.poetry.dev-dependencies]
pytest = "^5.2"

[build-system]
requires = ["poetry-core>=1.0.0"]

build-backend = "poetry.core.masonry.api"

See how "python = ^3.9" is a dependency of Poetry? But what if I also want to make my project build with setuptools? Setuptools also depends on Python... where would I put that now? Not under [tool.setuptools.dependencies]? What do you think?
To be clear: I have no idea about the factuality of this, but it's being widely referenced in discussions about the supposed event:

https://twitter.com/KobeissiLetter/status/166066412557421773...

This morning, an AI generated image of an explosion at the US Pentagon surfaced.

With multiple news sources reporting it as real, the S&P 500 fell 30 points in minutes.

This resulted in a $500 billion market cap swing on a fake image.

It then rebounded once the image was confirmed fake.
They apparently don't know either what to do about enforcing international coordination. So they don't mention the problem. The situation seems quite hopeless.
Central Valley farmers are in this predicament because they spent the last 20 years railing against climate change instead of implementing water-saving techniques for the megadrought that everyone knew was coming.

While residents have cut back on their water use by 50% or more in SoCal, Central Valley farmers increased their water use over the past 2 decades. Agriculture now represents 80%+ of the water use in CA, but only about 3% of its economy.

If they were growing food with all that water, people might give a damn. But they're not; they're growing alfalfa for export to feed pigs and livestock in other countries that are smart enough not to waste their water on feed crops.
I looked into this and saw this as well, but Rio Verde Foothills is a tiny community far northeast of Scottsdale. It seems like more of a political issue (i.e., people who aren't paying taxes to the city are benefitting from the city's management of water resources), than a technological issue.
I can’t tell if you’re trolling.

A fine of even 20% of revenue would basically kill any company, big or small.

And we are talking revenue, not profit.
That data is only flowing to me because I requested it, and the ISP already sold me an uncapped service.

Can you explain your analogy? I'm unclear if the aquifer is the ISP, the video platform, or something else.
But this is supposed to be about the RA client, radvd is for sending them out.
“Oh, by the way, sign this NDA so you can’t even talk about it.”
Excellent post, thank you for writing it.
I didn’t really intend to convey the idea that I thought bias was the major factor. As a practical matter, if you’re an expert in a field and your foundational theories are seriously challenged, it challenges your foundation as an expert.

It’s fun to talk about scientists as these staunch defenders of their theories and say “science advances one funeral at a time” but the reality of the situation is that sometimes scientists are faced with the realization that their entire life’s work is in ruins. It’s hard to imagine a more severe test of character than that. Harder still to imagine how one might pick up the pieces and move on to something else and still be able to contribute to science in a meaningful way.
It's been known for a long time that the bandwidth steganography is limited to the amount of randomness in the open data, eg Anderson and Peticolas "On the limits of steganography", '98 (I hope that's the right one anyway - a while since I read it). Which implies that if someone came up with a good reason to publish a bunch of high entropy randomness, the world would have much greater bandwidth of potential steganographic channels.

Now AI has done this for us. I suppose that under authoritarian regimes you will soon have to cryptographically prove that you generated your random bits deterministically from specific keys.
No mention of Cal Newport?

I'm torn on this. Yeah, it'd be great to have a hard line between dev and ops with both groups also having managers to shield them from the business team that protects the mental states of flow of each. But realistically, IME, devs who respond to the ops issues on the features they build directly from the biz people are way more valuable to the bottom line of the company in terms of getting high value work done. Yeah, it's not optimal, but throughput per dev on the aggregate and a deep understanding of the tech vis a vis the actual business needs its serving is really important.
> It's actually completely incomprehensible to me that you would suggest otherwise. It seems like a totally disconnected comment.

I think you are the one who's disconnected. Ask your average crackhead on the block if they're happy, and then compare the answer to your average college dropout stocking groceries. People who haven't seen both sides tend to think happiness is made by Maslow's hierarchy of needs or is a linear function of material wealth - it's not. It seems like a joke, but this post https://www.reddit.com/r/drugscirclejerk/comments/8iyp0c/i_f... describes exactly what I mean. I genuinely believe some homeless people are more happy than some working-class people.

Case in point, you just spouted more metrics to me that have to do with the well being of the economy not the well being of the average person. I do not care about your numbers, because time and again they have been played. We should consider the idea that if we can take steps forward, we can also take steps backward.

And while we're at it I should ask - have you ever had to deal with a dead-end job with subpar pay? Were you ever forced to work in abusive environments? If so, then you can agree with me that it's a terrible state to be in - not the same as being homeless definitely but still terrible.

And if not, then why are you talking about things you don't know about? Do you really think economic metrics are a viable substitute for this lack of knowledge?
An AI that can build robots which build robots.
If you work full time at federal minimum wage then you qualify for food stamps and other government assistance.

Walmart took it a step further - they have information for their employees on how to do that efficiently, rather than paying a living wage.
Is this comment GPT generated (following the description in meghan_rain's bio)?
This isn't a data localisation issue.

The EU isn't saying that personal data has to be processed only in the EU. They're saying it has to be processed somewhere with adequate standards of data protection.
Open source models like Alpaca are already more than good enough to flood social media with unfilterable spam and propaganda that's more than good enough to convince a lot of people.

Look at stuff like Qanon. You don't need an argument that's very sophisticated, just a lot of it and the ability to promote it at scale via hordes of undetectable bots. Current generation free models are good enough to do all that.

People are either going to learn to become skeptical or they're going to be manipulated at massive scale. We are already there and arguably have been for a while.
You've simplified the problem too much. If there was one central cafeteria and orders were limited to certain neighborhoods with largeish time windows, then maybe, but that is not really what it looks like. You can easily sign up to drive for one of these services and see the reality of it, but be prepared to stand around waiting for peoples' orders for around minimum wage once you factor in all the expenses and dead-heading time.
This is to transmit confidential information without using encryption. Something I predict will be more and more needed, as democratic governments succumb into their autocratic temptations and attempt to ban encryption.
I don't know why, but after being a professional programmer for around 20 years, I have replaced all my hobby programming with woodworking. I love it. There's something about having a tangible object you can touch when you're done that makes it satisfying for me.
1.5° was a good guess as to what we could achieve and what would avoid a good deal of harm. Was there a dictum from objective reality to stay below that threshold? No. It was mostly a cost benefit decision on the part of politicians and scientists.

The baseline was chosen because it had good data and was prior to the vast majority of greenhouse gas emissions.

Pretty much all baselines and goals are chosen to some extent based on circumstances and possibility. That doesn't make them arbitrary. using 1970 as a baseline would ruin the pre-industrial comparison. Aiming to say under 5° would be ridiculously dangerous.
Westworld is not underrated. It's a pretty bad movie as far as craft goes, but gets and deserves credit for being early in the genre. It had good ideas but they weren't developed well. Fortunately other movies, and the first season of the show, explored that much more effectively.
Between the options of "you can't talk to this person" and "your conversation will have some delays", I know which I'd choose.
Residuals, while part of the industry is striking & more dependent on residuals.
I just don't understand how they think they can do so.

It's not even the "why?". I get the "why?" even though I obviously don't agree.

It's the "how?".
I think we may skip the whole VR experience and just have robots instead of virtual friends
A few % of revenue would make any company care, even a company the size of Meta.

Reading the comments on this thread makes me wonder how many commenters have been close to real company operations in the past.
The Excel data format has changed once, significantly, in the past 2 decades

But, importantly, that data format change didn't mean you were forced to stop using the old format.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danielle_Posthuma
Mine doesn't do that. I have a laserjet.
I would assume that Apple looked into it a little bit. US companies can get in trouble if their contractors abroad use slave labor, buy parts from the wrong country, or divert part of the contract to use as bribes. So I doubt this is a case where everyone at Apple laughed about how it was too good to be true, CC'd the lawyers, and the lawyers wrote back "yeah hahah".

At the end of the day, you can't always find everything even if you try really hard.
Having a name in art is 99% of art. The other 1% is making something you can sell with the other 99%.
Facebook operates in the EU and the majority of EU citizens prefer their privacy. Facebook must obey the laws of the land if they want to operate there.

Just as Facebook must obey Apple's rules if they want to be in the app store.

Similar privacy laws applied to some EU phone companies long before Facebook existed.

These laws are good and should stay. If better privacy has side effects, that's fine. Do business elsewhere if you don't like the legal preferences of the locals.
I rarely see rugby mentioned on primarily American forums. Where are you from? Pacific Islander, UK, Europe, South Africa?
Thanks for the reply.

I do hold out some hope for technology in solving this problem. In theory (albeit at great cost), we could build a desalination pipeline from San Diego/Baja California to Arizona, and there's also the Source water panel[0] which pulls water out of the air, and seems like a potentially good option for residential water usage.

[0]: https://www.source.co/
There's been around 60 criticality incidents documented/known, none of them resulted in buildings blowing up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticality_accident

Criticality isn't the same thing as a deliberate nuclear detonation.
That is honestly a much more interesting result than the title would suggest. We know the brain can't do backprop (neurons are one way), but the fact that there is convergence in algorithm is very fun.
"but offers basically nothing besides the machine with a GPU"

they must offer distributed storage, that can accommodate massive models, though? how else would you have multiple GPUs working on a single training model?
The corporations just want to stake their claim of keeping our data to themselves away from other corporations. Crazy were in a situation where corporations and governments are at war over who gets the looting rights.
People have been terracing hillsides for thousands of years to turn arid areas into gardens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrace_(earthworks)
Can you elaborate on what you mean by basic human rights?
Counterexample: Atom bombs, ICMBs, spy satellites.
I don’t know, maybe let adults make their own informed decisions and weigh the tradeoffs versus benefits based on their own priorities instead of depending on the government?
Ireland to introduce world-first alcohol health labelling policy
Congrats on the launch! I am curious how you see apps evolving to provide natural language interfaces on top of existing APIs. Also, do you plan on strictly remaining the data layer (between a startup and its API integrations) or do you plan on dogfooding your platform for a particular killer use case?
Esperanto is supported in their larger model
Corporations serve at the pleasure of the government. Big corporations serve as single chokepoints for extortion or blackmail (via threats to business, legal via regulation or otherwise) to put in backdoors.

All power structures are your enemy.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...

For the purposes of privacy and human rights, corporations and the state are integrated in almost all large industrialized nations. Businesses are too busy being businesses to fight city hall.
I wonder if an esolang exists that could be a universal target though (if a language can handle any ambiguity by appending, then it could always be output without backtracking).
My annoyance was managing state. I’d have to spend hours installing tools, downloading data, updating code, then when I want to go to bed I have to package it up and store as much as I can on s3 before shutting off the $$ server.
The documentary about this is excellent. So many people were involved. I'm almost glad it just lives in my imagination because I don't know if they could have pulled it off with the sfx film/technology of the time. Insanely ambitious.
Most of the water that goes to farms in the Central Valley does not come from the Colorado river. It comes the Sierra and Owens Valley. The farm lands that would be impacted by this are in Imperial County.
Chomsky is one the major experts if the XX century in language structure, as well as a founder of cognitive science. I'd say he is capable of having a fairly good idea of what the language models may and may not be doing, even if he doesn't know how the computer is processing the statistics needed to do it.
I've been to Mojave National Preserve (first link). It's OMFG hot and arid. Someone approved building a golf course of all things next to it. And people there are complaining about not having enough water. Well...duh.
Does this book really exist? Google search on Amazon shows no results for this.
I just love this guy's posts.

I am glad to get such a great view of things, without going there, myself.

It's like photos of Svalbard. Cool to look at, but I really don't think I'm up for the jaunt in person.

As we get older, "bragging rights" tend to decline in importance (although "bucket list" is probably something that gains importance, and it can smell the same -the difference is that "bragging rights" face outwards).
In this theory, are salaries part of the profit or not? Cause they are not in the accounting scheme of things
These look like non-paywalled articles that cover the same thing:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/19/23729642/disney-plus-hulu...

> If there’s a show on Disney Plus or Hulu that you’ve been meaning to watch then you might want to do so quickly before it is pulled from the platforms for good. According to a report by Deadline, Disney is about to remove dozens of series (and a few films) from both streaming services, including Willow, Y: The Last Man, and Turner & Hooch, as part of the entertainment giant’s broader cost-cutting measures.

https://www.vulture.com/2023/05/disney-plus-hulu-to-remove-s...

> A Disney rep has confirmed to us but declined to comment further that both of the Walt Disney Company–owned streamers will be removing a handful of titles from their services as soon as next week on May 26. Titles such as Willow, Dollface, FX’s Pistol and Y: The Last Man are among the first round of shows to be pulled, they confirmed. Disney+’s Howard was initially reported to be pulled, but a Disney rep clarified to us that it was never meant to be taken off the platform. In all, it’s expected that the the final number of titles pulled from Disney+ and Hulu will be a bit under 100, per a source familiar with the plans.

https://deadline.com/2023/05/disney-remove-series-streaming-...

> The titles, which are being removed from Disney’s streaming services globally, include Disney+’s Willow, Big Shot, Turner & Hooch, The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers, Just Beyond, Diary of a Future President, The Mysterious Benedict Society and The World According to Jeff Goldblum and Hulu’s Y: The Last Man, Dollface, The Hot Zone, Maggie, Pistol and Little Demon. A number of Freeform series also are slated to leave Hulu.

https://thedirect.com/article/disney-plus-shows-removal

This clarifies some of the names I recognized )like Willow and Turner & Hooch) are recent streaming reboots, not the original movies.
I think this methodology is becoming really popular, actually.
I wonder if this was part of the inspiration for Hsieh's "container park" in Las Vegas.

I've often contemplated what building dense and engaging housing with a minimal set of forms. The advantage is of course cost if you can pre-build the forms in a factory.
It might not require specialized hardware in the future as GPUs get more powerful and we have other techniques such as LoRA for fine-tuning the models. We might see a distributed training [1] effort harnessing thousands of gamer GPUs worldwide, as well. All of this powered by open source software. Also there could be advances in the training software making it vastly more efficient.

1. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.11913.pdf
That sort of argument sounds a lot like "Small companies should be allowed to abuse their customers because if they aren't, then they can't compete."
Gov't is just a special case of corporation. Every city within a state has a charter just like a corporation.
The cows and the snobbier livestock care deeply about the terroir.
I've found Uber routinely sends me push notifications advertising a fare drop right after I've left the app without confirming a ride in order to check prices on Lyft -- and doesn't do so otherwise, even if I introduce the same delay. I.e., after delaying ride confirmation, if I don't switch apps I am not offered a lower fare, if I do switch apps I am offered a lower fare. So sleazy.
Allegedly, you can get the sources on CD-ROM if you wire them $45: https://mikrotik.com/downloadterms.html
This is what containers solve. Don't waste time manually installing things. Store state in a database via the app on a different host.
Yes the burden of proof is on you. And in this analogy, the tea cups of saturn have been regularly observed for decades, so you have your work cut out for you.
That's definitely not the same. Taxes aren't fines. Taxes may be market-destroying, if there's enough political will to make it happen, as with cigarettes, but they aren't capricious.
What are the scenarios in which this would cause our extinction, and how would regulation prevent those scenarios?
Much like certain segments of American society prioritize gun regulation as the paramount factor influencing their electoral choices, I aspire that citizens might accord an equivalent level of importance to the prohibition of end-to-end encryption in shaping their voting decisions.