skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a lot of very smart friends, like significantly higher than average in terms of degrees and technical jobs and standardized testing scores at least.

One of them purchased a game that is like Apples to Apples but the point is to provide labels or name the axis of a graph.

It was enlightening just how many of my friends that had a passing notion of calculus could not intuitively interpret what a graph actually means. For example, they would often misunderstand the relation between the dependent and independent variable, or not even understand what it meant for a variable to depend on another variable. Too bad too, because it was a really fun game for me.
Thanks, I added my linkedin to my profile because I already treat that as spam :)
This. When tech leaders look at Rust as a solution for legacy products and services - then see Crab grab - it makes them think the ecosystem isn't mature enough for their 25+yr old platform.
Haven't read the whole thing yet but in "Meet Joe" I found a very astute description of the situation my best friend and I were commiserating about just yesterday.

Through the common cog blog I also stumbled onto this book recommendation: Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos by M. Mitchell Waldrop; and it feels like the complexity of today's world is partly responsible for this loss of agency many of us experience and dread
Then she was beyond delusional. I brought up Theranos technology at the medical device company I was working at the time. The response I got was "well it doesn't seem feasible, but I guess we'll pay attention to them in case they see something we don't."

The industry already knew it wasn't going to work.
I'm curious what you're trying to get at here, and your intent for posting this. Can you elaborate?
Being unaware of some of the details of this saga, I'm floored to read the following:

pg. 17

> Starting in 2007, the Sacklers anticipated that the effects of litigation against Purdue would eventually impact them directly. See, e.g., Deferred Joint App’x at 5059 (David Sackler emailed Jonathan and Richard Sackler, “We will be sued . . . . [A]sk yourself how long it will take these lawyers to figure out that we might settle with them if they can freeze our assets and threaten us.”). From 2008 to 2016, Purdue distributed a significant proportion of the company’s revenue—an approximated $11 billion in total—to Sackler family trusts and holding companies. This represented an increase in the distribution pattern from years prior and “drained Purdue’s total assets by 75% and Purdue’s ‘solvency cushion’ by 82%” during that same time period.

pg. 25

> In applying the Iridium factors, the bankruptcy court observed that, in this case, counsel on both sides were experienced and formidable. Id. at 86–87. Over 95% of the voters approved the Plan, showing clear creditor support, and the potential difficulty in collecting from the Sacklers and their related entities on any successfully litigated claims was an issue of “significant concern.” Id. at 89. The court noted that while the Sacklers are worth approximately $11 billion, they are a large family whose assets are “widely scattered and primarily held” in spendthrift trusts—both offshore and in the United States—that are largely unreachable via bankruptcy proceedings.9 Id. at 88. Moreover, certain members of the Sackler family live “outside of the territorial jurisdiction of the United States and might not have subjected themselves sufficiently to the U.S.” such that a U.S. court would have personal jurisdiction over them. Id. And, perhaps most importantly, according to the court, continued litigation—even if it were limited to the claims at issue—would be extremely expensive and lead to delays. Id. at 89– 90. Thus, the court reasoned, an order against confirmation would not only destroy the entire settlement but would also result in a major escalation of costs and time.

The argument the bankruptcy court made - and which this decision upholds - appears to boil down to "they've been so successful at squirreling away the $11bn they took out of the company that we probably can't get it back, so we shouldn't try; letting them get away with it yields more for creditors".

Yikes. I guess this makes it legal to do the following:

- Start a company, do something really bad, and make a lot of money.
- Before you get sued, take the money out and hide it in offshore accounts.
- Get sued, declare bankruptcy, and return a small fraction of the money as "goodwill" in exchange for a release of claims.

And, oh, have really good lawyers so that the court calls your counsel "experienced and formidable", enough to make coming after you too expensive to even consider.
> Crypto is a complete scam, with no legitimate or legal use case and nothing else to offer anybody

It’s gambling. It should be regulated and taxed like gambling. It shouldn’t be banned, and academic exploration should be unfettered. But anyone making money off it should be monitored by the public and the law, and pay for that oversight.
How does "get okay at software engineering" entail that it is able to strategize at the level your scenario requires? Finding an OpenSSL exploit already seems like a big leap, but one that okay maybe I can concede is plausible. But then on top of that engineering and executing a series of events leading to the extinction of humanity? That's like an entirely different skillset, requiring plasticity, creativity, foresight, etc. Do we have any evidence that a big neural network is capable of this kind of behavior (and moreover capable of giving itself this behavior)? Especially when it's built for single-purpose uses (like an LLM)?
People in the US regularly get stuck in snow on a highway for over 24 hours? In non-trivial amounts, not just isolated cases of people being idiots during the winter and driving a narrow mountain road on summer tires and getting stuck?

Those people really need a GHB and a propane cooker in their car at all times.
… how is NameID created, exactly, if not from an email address?
The most "legitimate" use for bitcoin and its friends is transferring funds electronically with people that others don't want you transferring funds with (e.g, avoiding payment processors, laws, etc).

However, it remains to be seen if cryptocurrency could survive doing only that (e.g., without speculators) - because if there's no speculation how do you unload the currency? Only to others wishing to do the same. It's possible, but will it work out?
Absurd compared to the local living wages, not compared to SF
I think this is more the societal layer of it, which is definitely important. There's a lot of wannabe "Impact of AI" people so I tend to be generally distrustful of that space due to the huckster coefficient. I think the basic summary is we can look back to the industrial revolution, though this time with white collar work and a few things modified to the present and that will land near the general consensus that a lot of people will have.

If you're looking for the more technical side of things (reasoning, etc) then I'd recommend taking a look at the original Shannon and Weaver paper, plus information topology from there on out. That field alone is interesting enough to dive down to a Ph.D. in.
See also Weyl sequences for generating samples from a discrete uniform distribution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weyl_sequence
Ask HN: What is the go-to SSO in China?
I'm working on a web app that we think could have a lot of Chinese users. We currently have Google SSO, but Gmail isn't available in China. We're trying to figure out the best SSO option (or authentication method in general) to serve Chinese users. Any tips?
Always had a thing for radio control, so eventually in 2015 or so I had a look online and discovered crawlers (1:10 scale replicas of 4x4/AWD/rock crawlers). There are quite a number available to purchase in ready to run form, and self-build kits.

Lost interest in the geeky side of mechanics and electronics - they're neccessary to buy, or make a body. Jeeps, Land Rovers and Toyotas seem to be favourites.

The thing I love about it is two-fold - first is building unique bodies never done before, using styrene. Second are the events, where you meet other RC geeks, see everyone else's builds, take part in comptetions (individual and team events). In France there's an annual event that runs a pretty sweet Camel Trophy event. SuperScale in Germany is amazing for having the longest 1:10 scale bridge seen in the hoppy. USTE (Ultimate Scale Truck Expo) in Florida USA holds the largest scale RC event I've attended/know of.

Axial Fest in the US is also a big deal in the calendar, but I've never been. They have a "float you rig" challenge which got me building rafts for my trucks. Herds of fun.

Some of my trucks and build progression at https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/Play/RcTrucks.aspx

I also get a kick out of building houses/bridges/and so on for events - some of those are here - https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/Play/RcBuildings.aspx

My most ambitious build took 5 years to (almost) complete - https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/Play/FordF5Coe.aspx
I'm from the US. I've definitely heard US EMTs talk about ignoring DNRs. I think that's pretty unethical.

I was taught in the US to check for a medical ID tag. You've already covered the locations for one bracelet and a necklace during your pulse check. You'll want to know if your patient, for example, caries an EpiPen for a serious allergy.

DNRs are underutilized in the US. As this article points out CPR might not be worth it even if you aren't in hospice care. A DNR would invalidate implied consent so technically doing CPR after seing a DNR tag would be assault.
Last year, Stephen West had an episode of his podcast, Philosophize This!, on Camus' The Fall (https://www.philosophizethis.org/podcast/episode-170-the-fal...). He is notably more sympathetic to Clamence, making no mention of him as "evil" or "a monster".
> People assume you're stupid if ask questions like this, and you get the equivalent of someone speaking louder and slower when they realize someone doesn't speak english.

I'd genuinely tried to answer the question. If this came across this way, I'd love some feedback so I can not come across this way in the future.
Yeah, but no multi threading concurrency, only multi process. Not even parallel reads. There's a giant mutex around the call to read data from a dataset and my colleague's take on it was that it would be months of work to unpick all the state and make even reads thread safe.
If you're sticking to the corporate shlock that's promoted on the front "explore" page of every podcast app, sure. If you stick to smaller podcasts that are patreon-backed or have a couple 1-minute ad breaks in the entire 90 minute show, it's fine. I mostly listen to comedy podcasts anyway and they tend to make ad reads entertaining by riffing on them. If it's just someone reading from a script, I'd skip it.
What 100 yards are you talking about? Stepping out the doors at any terminal at LAX takes you to the parking lot if you walk 100 yards. To get off of airport grounds would take a much significantly longer walk without any pedestrian walkway
I guess there is a hack that can work on current systems but it is less seamless to setup.

The '+' symbol combined with a 10 char UUID can be used to filter
Both Gmail and Fastmail supports "+something" in the local part of your email address, so you can just add a foo+*@domain filter to block everything or move it to a folder, and then add a foo+someapprovedsender@domain filter before it for anyone you want to reach your inbox.
I don't know about serverless, but it's hard to beat Crunchydata for PostgreSQL these days. They're my goto.
I think some of it is mitigated relatively straightforwardly in UX by having a relatively dumb, discrete model that appends hardcoded warnings.

That way the ultra clever, complex natural language model can go wild responding to your request for a scientific paper about chicken chicken chicken written in pirate-speak, whilst dumb old model that simply scans for indications the interaction has a citation in it appends a hardcoded "it looks like this response contains citations. Please be aware these citations may not refer to real documents" disclaimer without being perturbed by the lack of intersection between citation warnings and pirate speak.

And if that's subject to the "Scunthorpe problem" where it flags up loads of false positives who cares. It's a separate model that doesn't impact upon the quality of the actual GPT, it's not as annoying a fail as GPT bias towards refusing answers, and even when its labels are wrong it's aligned with the goal of training the human not to trust computer generated responses so much
What is modern monetary theory?
Build quality is exactly what System76 is improving on by creating their first in-house laptop. All of System76's laptops to date have been adapted from designs from ODMs such as Clevo. When System76 moved their desktops in-house with their Thelio product line, they were well-built and well-received. I'm optimistic about their new Virgo laptop after seeing what they did with their Thelio desktops.
he complied... the lawyers said that wasn't sufficient. As someone who may self represent, the courts have a responsibility to ensure due process and a timely case. He submitted documents. He didn't refuse. I'm suggesting refusing the follow ups but by all means, submit the documents for discovery.
I'm not GP but use a similar system. I just set up a global forwarding rule for the domain using forwardemail.net. The default is to let it through. If I get a spam message I'll check the "to" field in gmail and can quickly see who it was that sold it or leaked it. Can also create a rule in gmail to send to trash or can even add a forwarding rule for that inbox if needed in forwardemail
Till the time they are also bought and "sunsetted." That's the problem with all these shiny startups.
Are those somehow different from code signing certificates I use already for ages for my Windows products?
because the masked email API matches the rest of the JMAP API, so it's easy to extend and support. Also, 1Password isn't running Dovecot, Fastmail is. So they're asking a 3rd party is a fairly standards conformant way to go and create a new email alias
This might be a "don't let perfect be the enemy of good" situation. It might be that it was too politically risky to include those categories, so they did the next best thing.
I appreciate your perspective, but the thing that is missing is the speed at which AI has evolved, seemingly overnight.

With crypto, self-driving cars, computers, the internet or just about any other technology, development and distribution happened over decades.

With AI, there’s a risk that the pace of change and adoption could be too fast to be able to respond or adapt at a societal level.

The rebuttals to each of the issues in your comment are valid, but most (all?) of the counter examples are ones that took a long time to occur, which provided ample time for people to prepare and adapt. E.g. “technology making us fat” happened over multiple decades, not over the span of a few months.

Either way, I think it’s good to see people proactive about managing risk of new technologies. Governments and businesses are usually terrible at fixing problems that haven’t manifested yet… so it’s great to see some people sounding the alarms before any damage is done.

Note: I personally think there’s a high chance AI is extremely overhyped and that none of this will matter in a few years. But even so, I’d rather see organizations being proactive with risk management rather than reacting too the problem when it’s too late.
There’s a curious movement of people who spend their life afraid they will ‘endure’ CPR and live to tell the tale. And they come up with scare pieces like this one.

Sorry, if you go as far as getting a tattoo because you’re so afraid you will be resuscitated, you’re in way over your head and it’s time to focus your energy on something constructive.
Can GPT-4 use my iPhone like I do? (Should I let it?)
I'm a bit confused. What's the implication of this?
Pale Moon often hangs for me because some site or another runs intensive JavaScript that the author intended to run fast, and Pale Moon... isn't.
> they used to have fossil free nuclear power.

fossil-free, but not emission-free and also not independent from other countries. I am not against nuclear at all, but I am convinced that the future belongs to renewables for a multitude of reasons. Germany should have kept their reactors running longer (where reasonable and possible) but here we are.

The fourth largest economy in the world transitioning from 8% renewables 20 years ago to more than 50% now while maintaining it's position as having one of the most stable grids in the world is IMHO a pretty decent achievement.
You are just wrong. I don't know if you are intentionally wrong or mistaken. But going by the link in your other response you linked to (love the self-quotes), is the survey that the government uses to generate its results. Question 8 (which refers to parents losing weight on the survey) asks:

> In the last 12 months, did you lose weight because there wasn't enough money for food

(Emphasis added)

All the other questions also specify that underlying causes should be money or resource based.
I agree, it really grinds my gears when people use it as an objection to any attempt at improving a standard. People stopped taking it as what it is (a joke) and using it as an actual argument.
Well there needs to be an alternative... A GC implemented in WASM isn't ideal because it doesn't let you walk the stack so you need to make a second software stack which is slow, and it also increases the binary size a lot
It's not a boolean all or nothing.
Long term investment is after Russia implodes the EU won't have to spend as much on weapons as they do now.
System Shock Remake
No idea, maybe one day it can come to Windows,

https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2022/01/an_armful_of_cheris/

Although not CHERI, Solaris SPARC, iOS PAC and Android MTE (on ARMv9) are already doing memory tagging.
As is explained in the abstract, purely functional data structures are most useful when you want to avoid assignment, either due to the restrictions of your programming environment (f.ex. you're programming in Haskell), or because that is a property you're interested in for other reasons (e.g. you want to ensure immutability due to concurrency concerns, or exploit persistence to improve performance).
> treating the tokens as securities

It's rare that someone openly admits to this.
Usually one would use Redis for this problem, and you have a Redis-like system (but based on pattern matching) native to OTP, ets.

If you need a global, cluster wide counter, spawn a process with name {:global, :whatever} and let it be the source of truth for this value.

Depending on the problem, there are multiple approaches you can take. And a single Postgres instance is able to deal with massive concurrency, there might not be any need for premature optimization when SQL transaction could do.
I'm not a banking person but if you have a US bank account can't you do an ACH transfer from Wise to your bank?
That’s fair. Humans are far from angels though. There’s countless copy/pasting of code from repos and stack overflow everyday with no attribution. Yes Copilot is generating code at large scale but that’s compared to a single developer.
Ok, I've switched the title to say subpoenaed. If there's a better (i.e. more accurate and neutral) title, we can change it again.
> And yes, you can paint out the turds in Midjourney and tell it to fill in the area again until it gets it right. But the shadows are still going to be annoying, and the iteration time is painfully slow.

Just cleaning things up in photoshop and a tablet pen (or ipad) is much faster than drawing this from scratch.
Mis-labeling of a drug and withholding relevant information about an approved drug from the FDA (I think it is called 'surveillance') would be two things to examine I would think...
Cynicism is the refuge of the weak-minded and weak-willed.
like any innovator, they want to corner the market.

There is nothing nefarious about OpenAI.

It is just ... all about ... "machine learning".
Do you remember io.js?
Interesting, thanks! I'll take a look :)
It's much worse than that. It's a huge enabler for ransomware and other crimes with a side serving of environmental impact.
Totally agreed. This guy literally went to Congress to testify against Amazon. He's not just a guy who just wrote a little blog post, he chose to become a major critic of Amazon and part of a state lawsuit.

I totally commend everything he's doing, but I'm baffled by these tweets. When you go after a corporation, you should know what you're signing up for. Spending 16 hours gathering documents to deal with a subpoena is an expected part of that.

He's complaining about legal bills but hasn't actually explained what they are, and there's so much anti-Amazon hatred out there it seems like it would be pretty easy to get his legal bills covered either by a sympathetic organization, pro bono, or just a GoFundMe or something.

So I don't get what he's trying to accomplish by complaining. If there were a button to donate money towards legal fees, this would make a lot more sense. But there isn't.
> A community fork of a language named after a plant fungus.

Huh, so that's what former manufacturing regions are named after. Here I was thinking that it referred to particular oxidized metals.

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> There’s no reason in principle they can’t do more RLHF training to report errors more often.

I think it's just time and cost -- as I think they're doing a lot of this already. And the fact that the input/output schema is pretty much any text that fits within the context of a window size. So you can train on this set of prompts, but there can be a whole new class of prompts that you didn't think of before that are now problematic.

It's like the self-driving car on a closed track, versus driving in real life when there's a huge pothole blocking your freeway exit while in a construction zone and a school bus for some pulls over to drop off kids to help clean liter.
I wonder what the impact would be on astronomy, whether space based or terrestrial?
Any inflexible source of electricity will be a huge burden in the future (and already is today to some extent). Mark my words.
> Every time a change occurs to data within the user, the modseq is incremented by one and the new value is associated with the changes.

This isn’t what I’d call modern, and isn’t much fun. I’d really like to see a email access API standard that gives way on lock-oriented and session-oriented concepts.
I would put it that most people who think they are applying the Turing test, actually aren't. Part of correctly applying the Turing test is independently checking the statements the test subject makes against your own knowledge. Part of the "thinking" that the test is testing for is checking beliefs against reality, and the Turing test needs to test for that capability, otherwise it's not being done right.
AI also has a power budget. It has to fit in a datacenter. Inconveniently for AI, that power budget is controlled by us.
Yeah I also managed to run the web process without any issue:

```

heroku run bash -a myapp

$ bundle exec puma -C config/puma.rb

[All fine]

```

It's definitely coming from their router. Opened a ticket 1h ago without reply so far, and it makes you wonder why they even bother to have a status page.
Even if it’s just Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Stuart Russell, we’d probably agree the risks are not negligible. There are quite a few researchers from Stanford, UC Berkeley, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Oxford, Cambirdge, Imperial College, Edinburg, Tsinghua, etc who signed as well. Many of whom do not work for those companies.

We’re talking about nuclear war level risks here. Even a 1% chance should definitely be addressed. As noted above, Paul Christiano who has worked on AI risk and thought about it for a long time put it at 46%.
An off-by-one error. This proves you're a computer scientist.
I concur with your assessment.