skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Suppose a new generation of AIs results in a big economy boost. Then a country might be put in a position to choose between some risks to privacy etc and a risk of being left behind.

A similar situation would be a country that in 1900 decides whether or not to outlaw cars.
HelpHub has a way to add a large CTA for that as a fallback. E.g. our own HelpHub implementation has a _Message Us_ button in the bottom to trigger a chat with a human support agent.
"Five organizations are contributing to the effort: the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Quadrivium, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Walton Family Foundation."
I’ve found it helpful to remember that the thing being criticized was created by a past version of me.

A version that didn’t have all the information, a version that doesn’t have the skills and experience present me has, a version not even present in the conversation.

It’s a small way to create some distance between the work and your person.

Another thing to remember is to always ensure the criticism is against the work and against some shared measure of quality.

Too often criticism actually is personal (unintentionally or not) or the criticism is about a requirement that wasn’t shared at the time. Both of which are about the inexperience of the critic not you.
> In the true Murican spirit you can compensate natural abilities with "hard work" -- for a time.

Yup. I’ve done this and seen it happen in others. When I started my career, I could stay up late or pull an all nighter to focus on and clutch out some project, make a deadline, or whatever.

The first time I didn’t make it, was an eye opener.

15 years later I fell into a semi-related trap. Instead of getting help, I was pouring more and more of my time (without all nighters) into a project that was continually “almost there, except for this one thing...” and got negative but helpful feedback after a meeting where we had to “reset the plan.”

Any one of those earlier problems could’ve been addressed if I hadn’t tried to shield the team from them, even if it meant changing the requirements or budget. Instead, we got to the end, and had nothing to show but a bunch of partially-working pieces.
Agree; I preferred Deno as the small-ish, Web API-compatible, focused JS/TS runtime that wasn't Node compatible. I personally feel all this NPM-compatiblity is a big waste of time.

That being said, I still like Deno.
This is just thinking about the wrong level of regulation. Not all goods need to have CE marking, or get audited regularly, or anything like that. I can go to someone who makes furniture in their shop and buy that furniture without them ever contacting the British Standards Institute.
Got some example images you have processed?
https://archive.ph/Fk4rE
Sure, you can always find a subgroup you are not part of the 1% in, i'm not sure what your point is?

You can also use the average instead of the median, and get a much higher required income for the top 1% :)

The median household (ie entire family) income in the US is 70k. Even in california it's ~100k.

The point was clear - Tech is very wealthy, and believes they are just the random common person.
Google to Use AI That Will Create Online Advertising Personalized to User Search
>Former US Navy Submariner explains why 120 days is the longest time a submarine can remain underwater

https://theaviationgeekclub.com/former-us-navy-submariner-ex...
Yes. But you don't need to keep the whole tree in memory.
Wouldn't that qualify as copyright infringement...?
What do people think about a self hosted gpt-j 6b model?
How to install a ChatGPT locally and run it offline
For some, it's a pay cut, in money and free time. It's a valid reason they'd rather change job.
Nothing until it’s worth their while.
OpenAI warns over split with Europe as regulation advances
That would certainly destroy the US position internationally as it would be impossible to defend surreptitiously launching '250 tons worth of mini nukes' into orbit. Especially if space was not weaponized beforehand.

In fact it would very likely lead to literally every other country ganging up on the perceived villain, or at least staying on the sidelines.

So I don't see why any launch provider in the US would participate in the intentional destruction of the US?
https://archive.is/qZJfD
Ex-Blackberry guy [Matthias Wandel] reviews Blackberry movie
> it was always relayed via a Tailscale DERP node

Fly.io or not, this was an issue I always ran into with Tailscale.

They talk a big game about NAT punching, and using various UDP shenanigans to get around P2P connection formation issues, but at the end of the day, most of my connections were via DERP, even with fairly trivial firewall configurations.
Regulatory moats can be pretty powerful - not sure regulations always harm all companies.
I have no idea what argument this comment is trying to make. All the comments in this thread seem to be pretty wild, so this is probably another one of those "Hacker News becomes unhinged when you bring up topic X" situations.
Pinecone: Long-Term Memory for AI
Fyi, the table of contents gets cut off (its box is smaller than its contents) at zoom levels of 90% or larger for me. Here's a screenshot at 100% zoom https://imgur.com/a/0t9cKs5

Great article!
Why I should use Deno?
The exclusive paid catering I gave as an example is something that might foster resentment towards executives from the rest of the office staff. Work from home, regardless of circumstances around the work which allow for it, can be seen as a similar privilege which might draw resentment from one worker group to another. I think something like that is what was being suggested.
While I agree with other commenters that this is kind of hypocritical on its face, there is a strongman interpretation that’s more generous. It would probably go something more like this:

The US crafts regulations that work with businesses while the EU crafts them and is OK to sacrifice businesses. Additionally, the EU crafts regulations that can accomplish nothing but increase costs and reduce quality without helping the end goal. For example, all the cookie banners that have pervaded the internet. They don’t actually help reduce tracking, they make the web less usable, and they’ve made compliance more complicated, and building a website is more expensive as you have to add these banners. Sure GDPR has strengths but the cookie aspect is a miss. In fact, the EU is as easily bamboozled as the US considering that Google had a huge hand in shaping GDPR legislation.
whee ran for 1 minute before crashing :(
Hah, I had exactly the same experience. I followed a compilers course and the task was similar, but we had to use some whack compiler framework without any documentation. Apparently the professor was the only user of the framework, but nobody dared to ask any questions about it because the professor would ridicule you if you asked any question that was not an open research problem.
There is a big difference between "censor everything you do to comply to goverment doctrine" and "just don't store PII unnecessarily".
This falls victim to the inability to do microtransactions online. I love the philosophy and reasoning for starting yet another background removal service, but as someone that uses similar tools very sporadically, the $5 minimum for the full-resolution is a hefty fee when I'll only use 2-3 of the 250 images I'm purchasing.

If I could pay for 2-3 images, I'd gladly pay 5x the price per image.

Have you considered letting users accumulate a minimum bill over time before charging their credit card?
Lasers are a cool solution. I wonder if it's possible to reduce scattering using a fore-shot before the main pulse, surely the fore-shot would mostly clear a column through the atmosphere by the heating of any particles in the path of the laser. I don't really know the physics of it but it seems like something like that would work.

Would be cool if we get to the point where we can ionise a very narrow column of air and then use it to deliver an electrical arc as directed artificial lightning! A la Loki's LIP-C: "Brian Gragg kicked his chair away and stood up from the gaming workstation. As the blinded strike team members writhed on the floor, crying out, Gragg moved calmly toward the burly team leader who had shouted at him. Gragg aimed a silver-capped index finger at the man—a lens at its very tip. Black fiber optic and electrical cables ran down the back of Gragg’s hand like veins, disappearing beneath his shirt. “The name is Loki, asshole.”
A ruler-straight bolt of electricity cracked like a bullwhip from his fingertip into the man’s body armor, followed by a flickering series of bolts in quick succession—three a second. The team leader’s muscles jerked with each thunderclap. The smell of ozone filled the air." (Daniel Suarez)
If that’s the case, then it’s a problem with the moderation system. Different societies have different political cultures. The political culture in some societies is more democracy affirming than others. Large scale protests after elections, impugning election rules, etc., are common in Bangladesh (and across the third world). It’s one of the reasons my family left. Last time I left the country, I had to take an armed shuttle to the airport because of election related strikes. And in an article about “undermining democracy” it’s totally fair to point out parallels between where US democracy is headed and where other flawed democracies already are.
https://www.backupworks.com/LTO-7-LTO-8-Tape-Drive-Rental.as...

I mean I found that nearly instantly and there are probably others.

But backups aren’t a “one and done” you want to keep doing them.
Lol, some residual answers from what I assume is distilled answers from ChatGPT:

Q: "What is your favourite conspiracy theory?"
A: "As an AI language model I don’t have personal preferences or biases so my responses will always reflect factual information based on what has been programmed into me by OpenAI."
Take your crackpot science out of here…we can spot BS from afar and this is it.
Catering for smartphones making things worse yet again ;/

At least it's actually half decent design not... whatever the google though with their icons
User privacy, cambridge analytica, facebook, and the impact those together had in several elections, most especially Trump 2016 and Brexit.
I still think it should be fine to grow your own meat the traditional farming way. Humanity should never lose the knowledge and capability.
I think it’d behoove you to read the original thread from yesterday: all, and more, of this was covered!

PKI is indeed hard, but it’s not even remotely intractable. The Web PKI is a functioning PKI; yesterday’s thread explains how the codesigning scheme we’re building for PyPI is going to look very similar to the Web PKI.

At the ecosystem level, PGP was not providing resource integrity to PyPI: too many of the keys involved were weak, and only a tiny proportion of packages were even signed. Even if that proportion was 100%, PGP would have been the wrong tool for that job: PyPI already has transport and resource integrity via the right tools: TLS and digests. Using an untrusted signature for resource integrity is using the wrong tool for the job.

The original thread contains multiple references to Sigstore, which is the scheme we’re planning on building on for PyPI.
As a EU citizen, I really wish we had competent leaders, particularly in Brussels. Have never seen any evidence that is the case, specially with regards to tech.

The last EU initiative at sweeping regulation in the tech space (GDPR) was disastrous. It imposed huge compliance costs for all entities, from large multinationals to small startups and business and even some individuals and nonprofits. For the multinationals that is totally fine with me, they can afford it, but for the other ones it is far from clear that the benefits outweigh the costs. They could have just made it not apply to small entities (either in revenue, number of users or some other metric) and it would have been arguably great. The way they did it they just gave a big advantage to large incumbents and put a strong handicap on EU based tech start ups (as well as other businesses to a lesser extent).

Years after the roll out, I still occasionally come across international websites that have opted to ban European visitors than figure out how to comply with GDPR.

Don't get me wrong, the GDPR was meant to address real on going abuses of personal data, and did some things right, but it could have easily had most of the benefits for a fraction of the cost if they did things right. Unfortunately, like all almost all regulators, Brussels tends to pay a lot more attention to hypothetical benefits of regulation than its predictable costs.
It's hype, you need another reason?
When the government covers your loses and even let's you take bonuses for fucking up and causing a recission why wouldn't you think regulations slows you down.

how many guns would get sold if the government didn't created laws that protects the industry from liability.

or section 230 which shields websites from the rent seeking of the cable companies but allows them to rent seek advertisers.
SF is an exception. They’ve been grossly mismanaged for years. I wouldn’t touch it with a 10’ pole. The homeless there get government cash to buy drugs and government hotel rooms to use them in.

It’s expressly designed to select for the lowest common denominator, and it shouldn’t surprise anything that what they’ve received is exactly that.

Though the UC Berkeley girls are very friendly…
Every single community has the 1% bad apples. As a Rust dev I refuse to be associated with zealots and fanatics. Every single other Rust dev I've ever worked with was a normal programmer, namely a pragmatic analytical type.

Stop parroting memes. "Rust evangelists strike force" and "Rewrite it in Rust" do not actually exist.

Point me at your local hobby or professional club and I bet my neck I'll find you at least one fanatic. But I will not use that to deride your hobby activity. So don't do that for Rust, please. The community is huge and doesn't subscribe under the fanaticism of a few loonies.
Unrelated, but you can order prints of paintings from e.g. the US National Gallery of Art, and the UK National Gallery.

https://customprints.nga.gov/

https://shop.nationalgallery.org.uk/
Regulation that puts up a barrier to entry that prevents competition: good

All other regulation: bad
"Open"AI, lol, yeah let's split and get some real "open" there.
Come on, do you see absolutely no way a law preventing price discrimination could be formulated without referring to "mobile OS"? I know American laws are sometimes weirdly specific but still.

From a quick check on my government's website:

- prices must be displayed outside and inside the restaurant

- the prices can't be different depending on where they're displayed

- the displayed price must include taxes and service fees

That's enough to guarantee there's no possibly legal price discrimination. Not a single mention of "mobile OS".
Yeah I prefer a paper menu but I’ve never really had a problem using it.
I wonder if some sort of logarithmic with pedestal encoding could be used, that way you could have better precision around where you expect most of your values to be yet have a large range as well. Bonus, multiplies are just adds.
I was replying to a comment pertaining to the cost of health care, not specifically regarding the parent topic of psychiatric care.

Comment threads often branch down different rabbit holes - the issue of how health care is paid for is generally orthogonal to the question of the nature of the care (although industrial lobbying makes this far less true than it should be).

You don't really have to convince me of anything regarding the utterly useless nature of western models of mental health - I've been depressed for over 20 years.

The first thing they did "for" me was put my on SSRIs - which turned me into an asexual robot (fuck you pfizer) the effects only reversed in the last couple of years due to this bad boy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bupropion (thanks GSK).

I've gotten more help from fists full of illegal mushrooms than I ever have from the system (but at least they stopped drilling holes in people's heads).
It's a 1.6 GW reactor. When electricity prices go negative, they stand to lose a lot of money in a short amount of time.
Big difference between a 45 minute lunch break and a nice Saturday night dinner.
America’s Math Coach Is Teaching Fifth-Graders to Outsmart AI
No Paywall: https://archive.is/3pXoz
How devout is your christianity currently?
I just take my rare (and voluntary) office days as socialization days: more talking, longer lunch hours, longer breaks.

Its fine once in a while but I don't wanna get back to WFO again.
> The downside of internet fame to anyone is that you will attract far, far more of these people, regardless of what you do.

Yeah... I don't consider myself to have "internet fame" but I suppose I'm well known enough in certain large communities that I've managed to attract these people. I've ended up leaving the communities where these people are active, but I have seen evidence that they continue to spout lies about me there. I often wonder if people just take what they say at face value. The urge is to stay in those communities and correct the record at every opportunity to defend my reputation, but that takes a huge amount of effort and sanity to deal with. Is the advice in these situations to simply ignore and forget?
If, hypothetically, a SkyNet like AI actually existed, how much damage to humanity would you be ok with as long as productivity and quality of life went up went up for those who were spared? Let's assume that you and your loved ones are among those who have been guaranteed safety by this AI.

I am sorry if the tone comes across as snarky. Not my intention. Genuinely curious.
You are comparing apples to oranges. The author could probably couple their library with https://vite-plugin-ssr.com/ and have something comparable within a day.

The reality is most running React apps today are still traditional SPAs, and chances are likely the same apps can be rewritten with VanJS (or any other SPA framework) and the users would not notice a difference.
While i understand the motives, they should just train models bits for free, a-la SETI@home. Then let people pick and choose which collections to use to their chatbot. The crypto aspect only adds complexity and wrong incentives that would hold it back. After all it's not possible to verify that each node truly trained the network and is not returning garbage (multiple trainings can be involved, which would make the whole thing slower).
AFAIK, you just need tailscale for that.
The author of the article isn't an interlocutor as there's no dialog here, just an article and a response she'll never read.

You don't like the capitalization on the Highly Credentialed Expert, presumably. The derision is there for a purpose. It's highlighting that the author presents herself as a logic professor, so we'd hope she's an expert in logic, but her argument isn't logical.

Her argument for why climate footprint calculators are a subtle manipulation by oil companies is that they're "red herrings". A red herring is a fallacy in which irrelevant information is presented alongside relevant information. Personal CO2 footprints seem pretty relevant to any discussion of climate change, but she doesn't like that because it implies that anyone other than oil companies needs to do anything. See, she assigns all emissions to oil companies alone. If you buy a car then drive it on a long trip you didn't need, the emissions don't come from you, you did nothing. Every last atom was emitted by whoever pulled it out of the ground originally. This isn't a logical way to talk about emissions because the act of putting oil in a tank doesn't emit any CO2. It's the decision to burn it that does.

BTW, if you judge an argument purely by its tone then you'd have to ignore all claims about the climate in outlets like Salon. They're all filled with derision, scorn and visceral hatred for anyone who disagrees. The Salon author says things like "If our collective philosophical literacy were better" and asserts anyone who disagrees with her are "pros" in misdirection who "assume that the average American is not much smarter than a Cocker Spaniel".
RAM, not VRAM. The model is fully loaded into (regular, system) RAM then quantized while being loaded into VRAM.

So you still need enough system RAM (or RAM+Swap) to load the unquantized model.
That company buys new tapes every year at a rate that is a non-trivial percentage of that ?

Or does it rotate the tapes?
Another strong man. The US hasn’t started considering how to regulate so Sam is saying “great, here’s how you regulate” in the EU they’ve already outlined principles (proposed regulations? Can’t recall) and maybe he sees those as problematic and that his discussions with them haven’t yielded improvements.

Of course even the strongman interpretations are problematic here but just saying. I think there may be more nuance here than the hot take based on the headlines alone.

> …he was miffed by the way the European body defined “high-risk” systems..

> According to Time, the OpenAI CEO said “If we can comply, we will, and if we can’t, we’ll cease operating… We will try. But there are technical limits to what’s possible.”

> He called for some regulation “between the traditional European approach and the traditional U.S. approach,” whatever that means.

It’s important to catch the author’s non-neutral tone here. They’ve clearly staked out a position and it’s worthwhile to keep that in mind.
Surprisingly, nobody has mentioned this here yet. I’m thinking the key to this is SEO, SERP’s, and newspapers wanting Google to find and index their content.

This is my best guess for this. I’ve really put some thought into this, and this is the best logical assumption I’ve arrived to. I used to be a master of crawlers using Selenium years ago, but that burned me out a little bit so I moved on.

To test my hypothesis, you can go and find any article on Google that you know is probably paywalled. You click the content google shows you, and you navigate into the site, and “bam! Paywall!”..

If it has a paywall for me, well then how did Google crawl and index all the metadata for the SERP if it has a paywall?

I have a long running theory that Archive.is knows how to work around an SEO trick that Google uses to get the content. Websites like the Baltimore Sun don’t want humans to view their content for free, but they do want Googlebot to see it for free.
Firefighter 1 and 2 Questions and Answers Already Graded A
I believe it goes something like "sometimes you win, sometimes you learn". The ends are important, but they do not justify the means. In this case, if the means are you did your best at the time with what you knew at the time, you did good. It's all you can do. Don't worry about what you can't control. Criticism is free growth - no need to attach a price to it by taking things personally. As to how, just remember how you feel when you bring something up to your manager, or a senior executive, or another engineer - you mean well. So do they.
> I bet as long as they can find a way to make more money in the EU than they spend, they will

I think this is where the structure of the regulation becomes important.

If GPT-4 had to be retrained with regulator friendly data or assume liability for misinformation in the EU then there might not be enough of a profit incentive to stay.

I imagine they'd stay in the EU however if they just had to add more banners, data localisation and reporting. Albeit with whining.
It's not a tactic. It's just reality. If all the expense of coping with regulation is too much, then it's not worth doing. It seems almost too facile for Sam Altmann to have said, but perhaps it's worth reminding people that regulatory compliance is an expensive business in and of itself, even if your product already fully complies.