skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s hard not to look at his departure through a cynical lens. He’s not been supportive of other critics, both from and outside of Google. He also wants to use his history to (rightfully) claim expertise and power but not to offer solutions.
It's clear that there's some collosal incompetence, but malice is not at all clear. Most of the recent drama plausibly boils down to communication failure. They're going to fix this, eventually.
We live in a Hispanic neighborhood in Chicago ( we are hispanic) . All the families here have 3 kids each and i see pregnant ladies all around me. I feel a surge of anxiety that window is closing for me and that i might be overthinking this.
Oil industries downplaying the risks makes a lot more sense. If you think that climate change will happen, but it'll happen after you're dead, and you'll be able to leave your kids a big inheritance so they'll be able to buy their way out of the worst of it, and eventually the government will get the message and stop us all using fossil fuels anyway, then you try to profit as much as you can in the short term.

With AGI existential risk, its likely to happen on a much shorter timescale, and it seems likely you won't be able to buy your way out of it.
Curious how you see this playing out internationally and how you maintain this opinion in the face of Japan (double our debt raio, biggest issue is population decline). Globally, the US debt to GDP ratio is roughly in line with a good chunk of Europe [1]. It seems like for a collapse to happen, the US would have to be worse-positioned than competing countries. Otherwise everyone declines together, which doesn't make much sense.

[1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/debt-to-g...
There are two common categories of SEV0 in goatherding:

1. Escaped goat. Goats are amazing climbers and there is really not a fence invented that can defeat them if motivated. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkuNn8iXOwM

2. Predator attack. Many grazers use livestock guardian dogs, but it happens.
Because that salary is great in India which probably has at least 10x developers than Spain. And with that money you can really hire really good Indian developers who can speak English well enough, slog hard unlike the pampered Europeans and are hungrier to prove themselves in general.
They're saying "we contributed the overwhelming majority of the data we collected and corrected, except for that which wasn't eligible for contribution." It really seems like Lyft operated in good faith here, they just didn't mention it in the blog post.
To clarify, in English 'Xizang' is 'Tibet'.
That appears to show that the volume has returned but not its price.

"The revenue is still down 43% from a year ago, the IEA said, as Russia is forced to sell its barrels to a more limited pool of customers who can negotiate greater discounts."
I really wish that companies had a donation program where employees get to vote on their favorite project, and the company cuts a check every time a project hits 50 votes (including things that got 20 votes each for the last 3 election cycles)
It doesn’t matter. The margins for the Russians would have been higher without middlemen.

Now they are lower. (Partial) success!
Tiny Transformer trained for addition and examined with bizarre results
I'm pretty sure he meant that Lyft contributed the overwhelming majority of the changes they made to OSM.
I’m not sure I follow why this is even a fact at issue? If Amazon policy applies a price floor to all Amazon sellers on all platforms they sell the product on then of course Amazon has caused higher prices for consumers elsewhere. Sure the policy has also probably resulted in lower prices for some products on Amazon but it seems undeniable that the external result would be higher prices on other platforms for some products.
So it is sort of a bookmark without bookmarking. Either it’s project related (you do some research), or you want to read it later. Are there more categories?
Given that he was involved by California, could they not shoulder some of the cost of his paperwork work?
While this isn't a groundbreaking prompting technique, it does make me wonder if we created a training set that only had high quality text, how different would it be that GPT-4.
I'm eternally skeptical of the tech business, but I think you're jumping to conclusions, here. I'm on a first-name basis with several people near the top of this list. They are some of the smartest, savviest, most thoughtful, and most principled tech policy experts I've met. These folks default to skepticism of the tech business, champion open data, are deeply familiar with the risks of regulatory capture, and don't sign their name to any ol' open letter, especially if including their organizational affiliations. If this is a marketing ploy, that must have been a monster because even if they were walking around handing out checks for 25k I doubt they'd have gotten a good chunk of these folks.
If we acknowledge the inevitability of distributed energy storage (stationary and mobile batteries), as nuke advocates are so keen to insist on the inevitability of distributed microreactors, we might actually get somewhere in our conversations.
I'm confused. You agree that we're surround by naturally-arising, self-organizing agents, both biological and institutional. People are constantly experimenting with agentic AIs of all kinds. There are tons of theoretical characterizations of agency and how it's a stable equilibrium. I'm not sure what you're hoping for if none of these are reasons to even worry.
Yes, understood, but the article talks about running it in a browser.
Bad idea. You're a good person, the next person to create the group name (which you've helpfully published here) may not be.
Typical tactics. They request an insane amount of documents. It's a DoS attack, nothing else. Their goal is to drown you until you give up. They don't care about your documents or anything.
Creating a Memory-Safe Workstation with CheriBSD [pdf]
About the same number of people as use Firefox according to this site: https://gs.statcounter.com/ Which is the source used by caniuse.com: https://caniuse.com/usage-table
This article is quite confusing with the links in this article pointing to a press release and tweet from March 2022. Also, I can't find the quote from Tim McPhie.

It could be this article is related to this EU publication, but that's just a guess:

REPowerEU – one year on:
https://energy.ec.europa.eu/publications/repowereu-one-year_...
I'm not sure why I get this pay boost but I'm going to shut my mouth about it and keep my fingers crossed
I am not as smart as you but still after spending a decade in industry learned few things on my way.

- your job can'not satisfy you always. There are good jobs and bad jobs. But good job can become a bad one in overnight. Nothig is permanent. So don't get attached to it, instead love your craft.

- the software domain is the easiest one to experiment. Having a computer and internet is enough to build whatever you want. If you wanna have kick by writing good code, just get it from your own project.
i can't figure out if it's that these people don't know their email and sign up with the wrong one or if it's just some stupid logic in the email scripts at companies that assume gmail.COM
> AI researcher Kate Crawford was quick to ask Bard itself where its dataset came from. The answer caught her attention: Bard said one of its data sources was Gmail.

Did they find anything? There's a lot of hand-wringing at the start, then a big focus on how Google can't deny that emails are in their training data. Then they finish by interviewing Bard. Google's response makes sense, given that they're working with multi-terabyte language files. It probably has seen Gmail contents through the form of naturally published emails that just get picked up with other data. Claiming otherwise would be confidently wrong.

It would be interesting if they had a "Q_rsqrt in Copilot" moment here, but they don't. There seems to be no evidence that Google uses private data in Bard.

> Society should be having a robust discussion on these questions, but this is not possible if such discussion is inhibited by key players like Google.

How is Google inhibiting this discussion?
Very good point.

https://www.shrm.org/ResourcesAndTools/hr-topics/benefits/Pa...

Specifically:

>Under the rules currently in place, plan administrators must take into account "all relevant facts and circumstances" to determine if a hardship withdrawal is necessary. The new rule requires only that a distribution not exceed what an employee needs and that employees certify that they lack enough cash to meet their financial needs. Plan administrators can rely on that certification unless they have knowledge to the contrary. Plans are required to apply this standard starting in 2020.

It might still be interesting to track changes in hardship withdrawals, but I am not sure if it is for the reason people might assume without the knowledge that the rules greatly changed.
> - content areas that truncate half a sentence

Haha, this seems to be a "design guideline" in both iOS and Android.
I agree the value proposition is compelling.

Another annoyance is how little it gels with the rest of Pages. I'd expect that if I'm developing an application from the ground up in Pages, incorporating the various Cloudflare value-ads should come relatively naturally. Instead I need to have entirely separate projects just for these components.
At the top of the screen, to the right of the URL. An example from Wikipedia and one open tab: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Firefox_for_Android_scree...
I don’t think he’s being sued at all. I think his blog post was cited as evidence in a lawsuit and so now Amazon’s lawyers are subjecting him to any and all discovery they can reasonably claim is even remotely related.
America needs "loser pays tort reform". The process shouldn't be the punishment.
Congrats to Adam and the bit.io team!
The Live View demo or the Rails one? :-)

Rails, it was this one 17 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzj723LkRJY

Live View, I'm not sure which is the first demo. There's "Build a real-time Twitter clone in 15 minutes with LiveView and Phoenix 1.5" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZvmYaFkNJI)
Show HN: I open sourced the QR designer from my failed startup
My designer is somewhat special, if I do say so myself, as it allows you to put arbitrary designs in the middle area of the QR while still being totally scannable.
This was just before russia entered the war.

The war started (and Russia entered it) in 2014, as you are perfectly aware.

On the other hand, eu/nato was training ukranian soldiers since 2015.

As Ukraine had every right to, given the events of 2014.
As much as I hate the idea of a large corporation threatening lawsuits against people to suppress criticism, this situation.... doesn't seem to be that?

From reading the thread, it seems like this individual is a witness/party in a major lawsuit against amazon, and as a part of discovery amazon is asking for documents from this person.

That seems like a fairly reasonably/necessary request from someone who is testifying in a lawsuit?

Someone feel free to correct me, if there are additional issues with amazon in this case.
Not to mention how close the USA and Soviet Union were to a nuclear exchange: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alar...
I think you are wrong. The risks are real and, while I am sure OpenAI and others will position themselves to take advantage of regulations that emerge, I believe that the CEOs are doing this at least in part because they believe this.

If this was all about regulatory capture and marketing, why would Hinton, Bengio and all the other academics have signed the letter as well? Their only motivation is concern about the risks.

Worry about AI x-risk is slowly coming into the Overton window, but until very recently you could get ridiculed by saying publicly you took it seriously. Academics knew this and still came forward - all the people who think its nonsense should at least try to consider they are earnest and could be right.
Some of that is lost due to regulatory 70% limits during peak times.

Also the rated capacity is for some synthetic sun conditions. I have no idea what's the conversion factor between ideal sun in Germany and the PV rating sun.
You asked what's different between the two and I answered your question. I don't think there's anything else to discuss.
I don't get it? Isn't it illegal to make claims about a company / individual without evidence?

I guess I looked at Amazon's policy in the opposite way, that it probably means that prices on Amazon are equally as low as elsewhere, not that it makes sense to jack up prices everywhere but on Amazon... And Amazon isn't forcing anyone to price products in any given way since sellers are free to remove their products from Amazon if they chose.

Therefore it would seem like this guy has made dubious claims about Amazon that will be difficult to support and is now upset that Amazon is suing him...

Can someone explain why I'm wrong because I probably am. Is this an Amazon problem or an issue with the legal system (or maybe both)?

Not that I should have to say it, but obviously I don't support anti-competitive practises.
Anything within Earth's sphere of influence [1] (about 90000 km) will initially be in orbit around Earth. Unless you give it a kick that puts the highest point of the orbit further away from earth than that.

Unless you shoot stuff away with railguns, the relevant question might be "at which point are solar winds a bigger factor than drag". I guess it's highly dependent on the exact gas. We lose Helium that way from earth (buoyancy brings it up, where solar winds catch it), so at some height it should work for CO2.

It only really works for gases though, and then only for things that stay reasonably gaseous in orbit (low pressure and large temperature swings). For any solid or liquid you have to worry about it crashing into you on one of the orbits, and at orbital speeds tiny things can impact with a lot of energy.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphere_of_influence_(astrodyna...
I might be misunderstanding, and haven't read anything other than this twitter thread, but it sounds like this is the discovery process in the lawsuit filed by the State of California against Amazon, in which Molson is a witness. It doesn't sound like Amazon is suing him for anything, but the discovery process in big cases can be a lot, and the requests are overwhelming him.

As such, given that he's not actually a party to the suit, I'd think that California and its attorneys should be assisting Molson with document requests?
The situation at your workplace isn't KISS. It's the opposite.

The fuller version of KISS is "keep it as simple as possible, but no simpler".
Is the state not reimbursing/covering these costs related to their lawsuit? I can't imagine anyone would ever be an expert witness if they had to bear all costs either party or the judge imposes on them.
The big difference is that you are a human with a full life and an unimaginable amount of experiences that have been accruing for decades. You have learned in school; played outside; read books and blog posts; listened to music; written code; had deep conversations with interesting people; fallen in love; gotten hurt. You have seen and smelled and touched and thought an almost infinite variety of things, you have experienced ecstasy and tragedy and everything in between, and all that comes together to make you an incredibly unique and special person. This colors your every experience, every idea, every sensation.

GitHub Copilot is a machine and the sum total of everything it knows is code from GitHub. Literally its entire universe! There is absolutely no "experience" it has ever had that is not code from GitHub. There is no other fount of knowledge or inspiration from which it can draw. It is incapable of doing anything other than rearranging the Lego blocks in its brain — in fact, it doesn't even have a notion of what it's doing!

Neural networks are a very complex math functions that take in some numbers, multiply them and spit out some other numbers. That's it.
Possible that those shitty tips you've been leaving are adding up in other ways? I live in a neighborhood that borders a part of town that is accepted as a "bad" part of town and is often confused as being part of that part of town. I have only ever not had the "finding another driver" twice from my house, and originally assumed it was location location location. I had a guest stay with me last summer, and they never received that treatment which led me to believe it was an account thing. We'd test by requesting a car at the same time. Their rates were cheaper, and they never had a new driver issue.
TimeGuessr: Where and when were these photographs taken?
> low-effort response like yours

That wasn't my comment; I agree it was low-effort and I never would have posted it myself. I don't think they're a Russian bot though.

As for the rest: I just don't see any way feasible way AI can pose any serious danger unless we start connecting it to things like nuclear weapons, automated tanks, stuff like that. The solution to that is simple and obvious: don't do that. Even if an AI were to start behaving maliciously the solution would be simple: pull the plug, quite literally (or stop the power plants, cut the power lines, whatever). I feel people have been overthinking all of this far too much.

I also don't think climate change is an extension-level threat; clearly we will survive as a species. It's just a far more pressing and immediate economic and humanitarian problem.
Princeton students less comfortable expressing themselves than a year ago
>Just 30% said “all speech that would be protected by the First Amendment should be allowed.”

>many students showed a surprising willingness to punish their fellow students for expressing unpopular opinions.
This is the power of the media and why people fight over it so much. Whenever you see content you should not only question the content itself but also ask “why am I seeing this now”?
Maybe I clearly do :)
betting on the collapse of the social order is a bad bet. sure, it may happen eventually, but it is unlikely to happen within an average person's lifetime.
The state of California is using him as a witness for their lawsuit against Amazon. Amazon lawyers are trying to discredit him. Amazon is not suing him directly but they have discovery rights
The cat and pipe are semantically easier to understand though, at least that has been my experience when onboarding new hires.

While Bash has all sorts of nice bells and whistles for various use-cases, I really think they are only worth relying on when you are doing something highly specific. In general mastering wildcards and pipes is sufficient for the vast majority of situations, I think for everything else it's better to use commands that people can easily search or find the man page for.

In the world of pocket supercomputers as you called it, interface is king. So I'd argue that if anything, `<` is the useless one here when we can could just have just used the more semantically obvious cat and pipe instead.
Eh. Most comments here are about reframing the problem to be a different kinda best.

Not bad recommendations, but doesn’t get to the root of the problem.

Generally, the need to be the best comes from having been raised in an environment where you are mainly validated / cared for / loved / given attention when you are doing the best. You identified a bit of this in your post.

Over time, your subconscious learns that the only way to be accepted in the world is to do the best.

Reframing the problem to be the best at something else doesn’t solve that core wound.

If you want to be able to relieve yourself of high goals and pressure you need to work on your subconscious self accepting you only when you’re doing the best.

What does that look like?

- Spending more time with other people who aren’t perfect.
- Noticing the feeling that comes up with you when you fail at something. Acknowledging the feelings.
- pay attention to things in your life that you’re not the best at and notice the ways in which you are still ok. (I’m not the best electrician, but the lights in my house still work). (I’m not a pilot / flight attendant, but the airplane still got there). (last week I got second place at a basketball game, but my team still invited me)

It’s long work, but if you choose to pursue it, you come out with the ability to be at peace in the world where you are at. Also generally as a side product, you can be more successful with that relaxed attitude.

This is a late comment, but if anyone has questions would be happy to provide references/ further readings & answer questions.
This isn't a secret. I was required to be CPR Certified for a decade. Every class I ever took, the instructor made it clear that it only makes a small difference in survival outcomes, in order to teach students that "you shouldn't be scared to do it." If done properly you should break ribs. They also teach this in classes. I don't think anyone is under the illusion that CPR is a hugely high-percentage life saving technique, except maybe the public at large, but the public at large believes a lot of stupid, untrue things.
CT trust does not in fact rely on "the community" at large taking action against bad actors. The history of CA surveillance will avail.
Thing with this kind of lawsuit... If you win, you win nothing. If you lose, you lose your house and are in debt for life.

It's a lose lose situation. Which is exactly why I have no public opinion on Amazon, unless anyone wants to ask me off the record.
This title is a lie.

Amazon is doing stuff because California is suing Amazon and cited this person as a witness.

The blog has exactly zero to do with it.

And since this HN title comes from the author himself, and is a blatant lie, I don't trust anything else he says.
I propose that Crab differentiates itself by keeping `yeet` as the keyword instead of changing it later
According to the Fraunhofer, German’s carbon footprint will be approx. 140 g CO2/kWh by 2030 (twice of France TODAY) if we manage to double renewables AND gas. The German electric grid cannot rely on renewables alone and we will have installed about 5-6x the peak capacity in renewables and the peak capacity in gas by 2030 in the best case. Germans CO2 emissions in the electricity sector are crazy.
I agree. I implemented a subset of WASI, and the best resource was an autogenerated C header with function signatures and very terse comments, buried in the WASI SDK repo.
> Instruments to protect people. They are tools of power, ready to be used when needed to bully or oust someone.

They are both.

A CoC, like other weapons, is more or less value-free. The CoC itself doesn't care what you point it at. It's a question of who is wielding it, and who they're wielding it against.
Stuart Russell's book Human Compatible articulates it well. He agrees that we can't predict how it would behave, and that's what he's worried about.
The whole asking Bard thing towards the end is completely meaningless and I'd argue irresponsible. They even say

But of course, the observation that Bard consistently makes these claims can’t be seen as evidence one way or the other

and then go on to quote a bunch of stuff Bard said.

If I had to speculate, sounds like it could have used anonymized gmail data (could they have some kind of pii removal tool that they run first, that's common, though I wouldn't trust it too much), or something is being pretrained on gmail and fine tuned on something else (hard to see a reason for that). Anyway, google is acting suspicious, but pretending the chatbot's "opinion" has any bearing is disingenuous.
LLVM Clang 16 vs. GCC 13 Compiler Performance on AMD 4th Gen EPYC “Genoa”
I don't think the europeans of the 1500's had any clue tobacco was in any way dangerous to peoples health, in fact I'm pretty sure they thought it was a medicinal plant.