skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if there's a video of FSD that isn't a "fail compilation"

If? FSD drives a million miles a day. There are a few.
> Alignment assumes a well agreed foundational philosophy on what is good, what is fair, what is doable today and tomorrow.

Alignment assumes that there exists a foundational philosophy on what is good and fair and nice, that's close enough a match to everyone. It's a reasonable assumption, because there are core human universals, and the cultural differences around the world are a rounding error in comparison. We're not talking here about someone's view on when white lies are justified or which model of marriage is the bestest - we're talking at the level of "cooperation = good", "love = good", "trust = good", "death = bad", "suffering = evil", etc., and with AIs, this starts with making sure it even understands those concepts more-less the same way we do.

Alignment does not assume this foundational philosophy is known or easy to derive. If it were, alignment would be solved. The entire GAI x-risk problem stems from the fact that we don't have a complete picture of this philosophy, and that we don't have a clue how to formalize it so we can communicate it fully to an AI.

LLMs kind of give a new twist to it - it turns out that maybe we don't have to formalize it, as LLMs seem capable of picking up high-level ideas from enough exposure to how they manifest in practice. At the same time, with a system of this type, we have no way of telling if it actually understood human values and morals correctly.

> Yes, HN contributors might have shared goals for AGI alignment—but we are not the world—-we are a thin slice of one culture.

As controversial and bad as this will sound: those differences are all bike shedding relative to common core - just like DNA differences between individual humans are a rounding error compared to DNA differences between average human and an average potato. And yes, this bikeshedding is half of what makes the world a dynamic (if dangerous place). It matters to us. But it's an inconsequential detail when dealing with entities that do not have the same common core.

Another way of looking at it: if these differences were big enough to matter, humanity wouldn't be able to cooperate regionally and globally, like it always has, because each group would see other groups as incomprehensible alien minds (thus unpredictable, thus dangerous).
Dumb question how do I get chatgpt plugins? I have a paid account and asked for it but don’t seem to have it, and it seems like everyone else does.
Check out this survey of cross-company data transfer and sharing methodology.
Why would they even honor that?
> Any ideology that doesn't allow Ukraine to make their own destiny is unacceptable.

Thank you for stating that. I hate when smaller countries are just talked about as pawns in a chess game between larger powers with no self determination, or should just take one for the team to prevent rocking the boat.

If Russia doesn't like its smaller neighbours wanting to join NATO, it should've treated them a lot better.
What are talking about? HN is not Reddit. MBFC doesn't report on Reddit. Wikipedia has editorial leadership and enforcement.
Microsoft asks slashdot to remove readers' posts about Kerberos protocol (2000)
Let's assume the thing is a flute. It's been reconstructed and plays beautifully. The odds of a hyena making such a thing with its teeth are in silly territory; and we have other similar flutes that are nearly as old (relatively speaking).

Given that, the fact that they use a scale so resonant with humans that it is still in very popular use sixty thousand years later - that's incredible. I felt the article drastically undersold the awesomeness of that, showing far too much restraint.

Have you seen the video where Bobby McFerrin leads a whole crowd to sync perfectly with each other, without rehearsal, thanks to the pentatonic scale [0]? That's spiritual stuff; it's 'sophisticated artistic expression'. That's the same scale that was (almost certainly) intentionally used to make this flute.

Here's a great comment from that video:

> What Bobby is doing here is transcendent. He gives an audience four notes of a five note scale, with no context, with no explanation, and the audience is intuitively able to grasp what the 5th note of the scale is. Not only that, the audience is able to intuitively understand the way the scale continues, above and below the range they were given. The fact that Bobby says this works with audience anywhere in the world speaks to a deep cross-cultural piece of the human experience and how we understand music and ourselves. Something is happening at the fundamental level here and I think it's lost on some people how truly profound this is.

Neanderthals intentionally crafted sophisticated flutes to play this precise scale 60,000 years ago? That's profound alright.

0 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne6tB2KiZuk
I live somewhere with good competition between private companies and can get "up to" 10 Gb/s symmetric for $70/month. Realistically it's more like 5-7 Gb/s but I'm not complaining.

So you can get good results with municipal. Or in dense areas private works fine if there's competition.
I get your point but

> Maybe it was a kid's toy.

We shouldn't be dismissive of kid's toys, I think they fully qualify as indicators of intelligence. Fish fry or newborn reptiles don't play flutes.
Is 0 an invalid score?
Yes. I got very involved in my local district party a few years back. Probably the most powerful and effective organ of this party was its endorsements committee. I found it staggeringly depressing that round after round of endorsements went to exactly the same kinds of people: small business owners, cops, nurses, teachers and prosecutors. Basically, if you were for the system, you got in. Almost always the endorsement went to small business owners. Those endorsed almost always won the primary because they were immediately supported by party affiliated groups. The endoresment committee passed up social workers, corrections officers and public defenders. I remember one lady who worked in the sheriffs office for like 10 years came to talk about how things actually worked and what needed to change. She spoke clearly about the issue in the office, not polemical at all. Committee was a hard NO on her.
Fine-tuning could be useful to get a high text completion quality out of a small model within a specific domain. You would still use the resulting model alongside an info retrieval system to prompt with real context (unless you have a use case where hallucination is a feature).
If memory serves the main ECU control loop didn't check for stack overflows so excessive recursion could smash the global variables on the stack and accidentally turn off any number of ECU tasks - including the one responsible for monitoring the accelerator and brake.

The ECU module includes watchdog support that runs on another chip or core (can't recall) that was intended to do backup monitoring of the main ECU - and especially it should have watched the brake pedal and of the brake was held for a minimum time it would override the ECU and force the accelerator to zero. However that function did not work reliably, making the watchdog useless.

The code itself was poorly structured, with lots of critical things done in one big "god" task that if accidentally disabled by a single bool flip in RAM would ultimately disable many safety critical functions. Normally you'd have multiple copies of such data structures that must agree, split the code up into separate isolated tasks so a failure of one doesn't stop the others, and implement basic stack overflow protection which again IIRC was available on the toolchain they were using but was not enabled.

The watchdog problems are especially inexcusable for a safety critical system.
Securing PyPI Accounts via Two-Factor Authentication
From the link:

https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/browser/components/n...

"Messaging System"

"Vision"

"Firefox must be an opinionated user agent that keeps folks safe, informed and effective while browsing the Web. In order to have an opinion, Firefox must have a voice."

"That voice will respect the user’s attention while surfacing contextually relevant and timely information tailored to their individual needs and choices."

Somewhere in all of these companies exists the belligerent ** who orders the subordinates to inject inappropriate profit-seeking changes into the product. And then cajole/order/encourage another subordinate to write a florid virtuous editorial justifying their belligerent idea.
> I'll leave NHTSA to sort out the latter

Reading comprehension at 0%.
You can access about:config and use add-on collections on Firefox Beta too now.
> What exactly do you mean with "writing faster search and sort algorithms"?

- Branchless binary search: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35737862 / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14598098

- Static B-Trees for faster binary search: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30376140

Presumably there's even more literature on the topic.
Firefox shows literal advertisements in the “new tab” window. I recently started using Firefox again because I was told I was being “ridiculous” when I said Firefox shows me literal advertisements. And then I get this pop-up on a window which hadn’t been refreshed in several hours.
dang it, off to pursue this rabbit hole of "wait,what's dat?"
I cannot describe how I feel hearing the sounds and tunes coming out of that flute. To know I am experiencing music with that particular timbre fills my soul with awe that we have this link to the past.

And the affirmation that it is sufficient to play most classical music pieces means that its range includes the diatonic scale. Similarly amazing (in the literal sense) is that other wind instrument techniques are possible. I don’t know if I am overhearing things but I noted the musician what harmonica folks call “bending”.
Thanks! This was by far the best Italian voice I've found, but definitely not perfect...

The "slow" refers to the genre of podcasts like News in Slow Italian. Mostly using simple language and slow speed. I've set the speed to 85%, might need to dial it down even slower it seems :)
Do you have some reference? (I know that they had a larger brain. But if they were more intelligent, why did they go extinct?)
The 20M figure was from an estimate in Lancet Infectious Diseases. It was for the first year, not the entire pandemic.

https://archive.ph/R5K3r
I'm the opposite. Show me where there has been a major issue security wise that caused a car to fail in a statistically significant fashion over old issues with cars and for comparison to simply driving to work. I suspect it is miniscule and in the noise. As long as that's true I'm not going to freak out over computers in cars.
Well yeah, they lose money from the former and (in the short term) make money by ignoring the later.
By contrast, Apple in 2006 launched its first Intel Macs with 32-bit Core CPUs. Although new models with 64 bit-capable CPUs replaced them almost immediately (the June 2006 Macbook only lasted until November), that one decision caused a decade of software- and OS-related grief for Apple and its developers.
NPM addict will be sunsetting on May 31st, 2023
I think it’s more a case of Americans not realizing that their liberal party is rather right-wing, possibly because there’s nothing to the left of it and the US media falsely conflates “liberal” and “left”.
There's already a solution for that can be made to transmit arbitrary data to the brains of people who know Morse code and have their head in a certain particular orientation that tends to be popular among management:

https://github.com/RonSijm/ButtFish
While I've tried all sorts of electronic aids, I've found the best was a full-sized Clairefontaine engineering-ruled spiral notebook. It's a scratchpad, it's graph paper, it's a place to tape stuff and it's a scribble-down place aside from a proper log. And I only have to remember now two things - we all have these neat phones that weren't there 5-10 years ago.

There's no electronic search, which is a downer, but I date the entries so my goal is "know the date, know where to look to reestablish state". It works as I print pretty quickly and not too badly. Others might type, but then you either need two keyboards or two windows and you're tied to power or the net. I would think there's a real business opportunity here, but maybe the taking-note market isn't as large or as well-organized as one would like?

It's even pretty robust paper that could survive a bit of liquid. Coupled with a good pen it's a good writing environment.
Alright, I can definitely try generating that.

So far I've got requests for Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Russian then.
Kinda yes/no on this. My willingness to buy random $2 electronic tchotke from aliexpress has risen and fallen as a function of their quality. I bought some plastic cable-winder boxes for my audio leads, They're a bit "meh" but for $2 each I don't mind. I bought a $52 used chromecast audio (not on ali) and it works perfectly and I am "meh++" because now I have working music in a deprecated Google product.

But I have stopped buying expensive soft-pod Dutch coffee at $500 per shipment because I found the return was dropping against the cost of other product. I invested in a bean-to-cup so now my pod-specific dutch coffee maker is useless but I bought both it, and 5 years of coffee totally online. I wouldn't have done that 10 years ago but 5 feels like forever.

I totally do buy more clothes online, but only by specific makers against my knowledge of their sizing. I don't entirely like fast fashion and I dislike how often you get a thing and its fit is poor. It's way over time for clothing to be measured in cm, and sizing to refer to some standard model. It does for me, not for my partner. (and womens clothes need to have bigger pockets.)

I'm not addicted to SPENDING. I do enjoy BROWSING.
You can disable them in less than a minute.

I haven’t seen a single ad since the moment I installed Firefox and clicked “don’t suggest stuff”.
Unless I'm mistaken, there are no binary releases so you have to build it to use it.

I mostly wrote up that response because you took the time to post the link three different times in this thread, but there wasn't much elaboration about what was involved or why GooglePlay should be considered an alternative to Aurora Store.
I agree that it seems kind of invalid but only kind of. Any site that has an editorial policy and/or a ranking algorithm for what gets more views will have some forms of bias. I agree that in the case of reddit, it makes sense to evaluate each subreddit on its own. Also, if a page where users make submissions that mostly lean in one direction or another, that could be useful information to know.
> they're just making better cron jobs.

Seems to be good money in job running software. See Sidekiq in the ruby world: https://codecodeship.com/blog/2023-04-14-mike-perham
Most of the people I know don't use ChatGPT anymore. Many do use copilot as it is sometimes handy but far from life changing.
Are you saying the realm of acceptable things one can say had shifted to the right? I may have misunderstood because I've never heard that before. I can see that maybe one could claim the leftward shift has stopped and momentum is to the right, but I don't think the fever has broken yet, and I've never even heard anyone claim it has, outside of a few "tide is turning" twitter posts.

(I'm using left/right as I think they're commonly used now, the traditional split isn't really relevant)
By using AC you can induce current in the water and avoid the need for electrodes, but low efficiency. By using high strength permanent magnets they can trade those.
The big benefit of remote is being able to live 500 miles away and/or in a different country; and that requires being full-time remote.

If he's anti full-time remote, then his pool of candidates is still limited to those who live in San Diego or very close to it.
Up close with the world's largest warship (2022)
Elon is paid in stock not cash.
> write a florid virtuous editorial

Related: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/mozilla-now-only-...
At your prompting I've tried to look up a definition, but there doesn't seem to be a commonly accepted one... merely usage where the scope of the terms varies from one source to another.
It can't count because it doesn't know what counting is. Otherwise it would be able to count like a computer can. After ingesting all the literature in the world, why can't it count yet?
> In the last few years, Nix has gone from a place where I was sometimes uncomfortable recommending it to people to one where I feel like it would be unstrategic not to use it.

Super agree. Been using nix now for six(?) years and always been advocating for it but hesentiant to recommend companies adopt it (unless you can use it to attract talent as walmart did with nodejs back in the day) however with https://devenv.sh and https://nix.dev in the existence the time to amaze is now measured in < 5 minutes. nixpkgs also partially solves sbom topics, enables monkey patching any linux application/kernel/ffi dependency, has the freshest collection of packages (it's more fresh than archlinux by a major factor) whilst all being under CI/CD (shamefully rare in linux land)
He has to trick the investors with something.
MSG is the most misunderstood ingredient
that he regularly sells.
> 4 of us on video calls was bringing Comcast gig service to it's knees, I imagine because of the limited outbound bandwidth...upgrading to 10gig

Huh, what? Stop imagining and do the math with numbers, maybe Comcast is shitty in general and other metrics.. but still doing here regularly 2 concurrent video calls with sometimes Netflix on top without any issues... on 50 Mbit still! (also asymmetric btw, I may be undemanding, but so a bit wtf on reading that)

(Or Comcast cable internet? There is often more bandwidth sharing involved than they tell, especially upstream, or what does gig service mean?)
> But there is a very real difference in policy between rural Alabama and Chicago.

I believe this difference exist. But I attribute it mostly to "rural" vs. "urban" part - and for far enough places, also to difference in cultures between the two locations. Rural Alabama has a different lifestyle, different market, different pressing problems than urban Chicago, different individual needs - which may result in people in those two locations overall promoting opposite policies.

How well these differences overlap with with Dem/Rep or left/right belief clusters is, I think, mostly incidental.
I thought about some interesting quips but you kinda just fell on you own sword.

I gave Chomsky benefit of the doubt several years ago about influence and his position on pol pot, but after more dives on the subject, no, he's unrepentant and petulant. Also you're hero worshipping him by assuming he's one of the "few". He's one of the few you know. And Marxism is heavily intertwined with Communism historically. The distinction is academic only and revolutionaries of the 20th century interchanged them so heavily so as to make it nearly indistinguishable. To ignore it's "implementations" is the "no true Scotsman" at it's finest.
I've driven other EV cars and Teslas, they do not have a 5 year lead by any stretch.
I've had the Mozilla VPN website open for a few days with an intent to purchase when I get around to it. Not anymore.

I love you Mozilla, but you've gotta do better. Please.
This is very much the better way to do things, because it leaves both sides better informed instead of playing out like someone shouting "you triggered my trap card!" in a game.
I think the Vietnam War was more obviously neocolonial.
The Insecurity of OAuth 2.0 in Front ends [video]
> To disable this, users need to set browser.vpn_promo.enabled to false on the about:config page

How the fuck are you supposed to know about this in advance and prevent this from happening‽
That's true - neither of the three data lake formats has good C++ or Rust libraries. We have to support all of them (Iceberg, Hudi, and Delta Lake) in ClickHouse, but afford it only for reading. The overall data lakes infrastructure is fragmented, the language support is sketchy, and the details often change in incompatible ways.

Note that s3 does not support the atomic "create object or return an error if exists" operation, and it makes it questionable how the formats can correctly work for concurrent writes.
> That's spiritual stuff;

It's also physics, those notes sound good next to each other because mathematically their frequencies are resonant (simple relationships like 3/2 or 5/4 as opposed to, say, 729/512 of a tritone).

I'm not saying that it's not awesome that this scale is still in use (it is) or that hearing that flute doesn't make me emotional (it does), just noting that there is a reason why.
Relative privation is fallacious because the logical existence of a bad problem isn’t negated by the existence of a worse problem. Nobody is claiming that the worse problem is fallacious, but rather that it doesn’t logically invalidate the bad problem. For example, the statement “a lot of people died on 9/11” is not logically negated by the statement “but a lot more people died during WW2”; the fact that the latter statement is true has no bearing on the validity of the former statement. Or to bring it back to Africa, the statement “there is food insecurity in America” is not negated by the statement “but there are famines in Africa.”
General Electric, NextEra, Tesla, JinkoSolar, Vestas Wind

Tesla has $100B+ bigger market cap than any "Big Oil" company.
They see that it's basically inevitable - so they might as well pretend to be in favor of it so they can get a shot at controlling the narrative. And of course, at watering it down in places where it might really hurt.
I’m always glad that PR people can’t help but speak in such inhuman language that makes it obvious that it’s not a real sentiment but just part of the play.
It's a common practice on capitol hill, ask anyone who works there.

Goldman Sachs has basically kept an office in the White House since FDR (https://archive.is/WJnkD), though BlackRock is becoming the new Goldman (https://archive.is/kPJOY). Once they're there they can influence policy to benefit the company they came from (and all their tight-knit peers).

After they're done in office they move on to another executive position where they can use their government contacts. Private companies regularly hire government officials, both to help make sales, and to work around any pesky regulators.

"Since 2018, Amazon Web Services has hired at least 66 former government officials with acquisition, procurement or technology adoption experience, most hired directly away from government posts and more than half of them from the Defense Department. That’s a small portion of AWS’ tens of thousands of employees, but a particularly key group to its federal business. Other AWS hires have come from departments including Homeland Security, Justice, Treasury and Veterans Affairs." (https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/04/amazon-hiring-forme...)
>Quick solution: go to about:config and set browser.vpn_promo.enabled to false.
Poll: How many of you take as an axiom that a computer cannot be intelligent?
Yeah, that closure was completely uncommented and mysterious. A later comment linked to a bug saying that the ad had been disabled, presumably because it was showing up where it shouldn't? WORKSFORME doesn't seem like the right resolution for that.
Nice work! Just started on part 1
It's hard to remember but this is the level of tech discourse in 2010. Though I guess it's not any better now.

https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/531834493922189313
In the hypothetical situation and In the context of a thread discussing countries doing illegal:immoral things

Me thinks agreements will be broken
You clearly don't drive in a location that heavily salts roads! Here, a 15 year old car with 50,000 km is only marginally better than a 15 year old car with 200,000km - and it's mostly because the lower mileage car has probably been driven less in the winter.