skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New Vegas is great but in FO2 you can get married and then sell your spouse into slavery. You can become a porn star or perhaps just a fluffer. You can become a boxing champion or even a child-killer or slaver.

Silly, yes, but the amount of freedom one has in the isometric entries is staggering.
She also has a partner who’s working - I’m sure they live quite comfortably.
There are technology moats as well, but for the most part, you're correct. Everything else usually matters much more.
What you just said is really bizarre and I can't make sense of it.

Could you rephrase to try to help me understand?
Looks like blog is about the diff between 6.0 and 7.0; see https://zulip.com/ for screenshots. BTW, threaded conversations (called "instances" in Zephyr https://sipb.mit.edu/doc/zephyr/, which Zulip's model is inspired by) are infinitely better than anything Discord/Slack/IRC have to offer and greatly contribute to discussion culture: it is considered a faux pas to not switch an instance when conversation topic changes, so you can easily narrow in on the entirety of a conversation even if a number different conversations are happening at the same time.
To be honest, this sounds like you've made up your mind that poor people are icky and gross and of course you shouldn't have to touch anything they might've touched or else you'll get poor cooties.

Tool libraries work great. They can even utilize the free market so you don't have to get icky poor germs and can touch only tools used by other upstanding freedom-loving Libertarian tools, or whatever floats your boat.
So lets look at a scenario.

An LLM is tied to a bunch of APIs as an event response agent. Maybe in some poduck enterprise support group.

But... there's tons of other LLMs tied to event response agents, in ... less podunk groups.

... and there's some fancy black box org in the CIA that then employs them as some crisis monitor.

and a cascade of false reporting leads to "oh my god there's nukes in flight, and the system has autolaunched nukes in response".

What current AI is good at is faking being intelligent, so that they can be used in many many places to substitute for "real intelligence" humans.

But... that means dangerous cascades in all likelihood.

That isn't skynet, but it is 90% of what the Terminator skynet disaster scenario was: an AI triggered a nuclear exchange.
Funny enough, I started reading Butler to the World. First chapter retells an ancedote from NSA General Michael Hayden. In 2003 he called up his GCHQ counterpart and told him that in the event of catastrophic failure at the NSA, GCHQ would "run the show". Hayden's words.

So much trust involved in a possibly nuclear-level scenario, and you're not curious at all how that trust was built up? Such as by sharing intelligence?
Abandoned ant hill excavation reveals a city
>We originally published this video of a giant, abandoned ant hill being excavated by scientists way back in 2013. Every so often it goes viral again, and with good reason! It’s fascinating.
> Indeed, focusing on this particular threat might exacerbate the more likely risks. The history of technology to date suggests that the greatest risks come not from technology itself, but from the people who control the technology using it to accumulate power and wealth.

This is where you lose me. AGI (not LLMs, but intelligence smarter than us) is qualitatively different from anything else we've ever made. The one example we have of this in history is the development of human intelligence. It did not work out well for other species, and now we own the Earth. This isn't a perfect analogy! There are some reasons why AGI may be better (we'll be actively trying to align it to human interests) but also why it may be worse (there will be pressure to make it more powerful and take off guardrails).

There may be good reasons for why we'll be able to control AGIs, but "history of technology suggests..." is not one of them.

And I'm not arguing that all the "human misuse" problems are not important! They're hugely important! A likely outcome, the way we're going, is that a bunch of people get really rich and everyone else becomes super poor and possibly starves, and wars break out. I just think that, after that, AGIs also end up in charge of the planet and from there we either die or we have no say in how things go from that point on. I don't object to working on the former problem, except to the degree that the solution makes the latter problem worse (like, "open source all the models", which is likely to happen at some point anyway).
The situation here was pretty clear cut.
I would love to see some screenshots or examples of the service on the landing page. Right now the landing page is sparse and I have no idea of what the experience will be like. There will be a huge hurdle to get people to leave the assortment of networks they are already on. What makes this different than Signal, WhatsApp, Discord, Facebook Groups, Telegram, or any other messaging service?

Few suggestions
- The "Get started" button should take me to the sign up form, not the login form. My assumption is I am clicking the CTA to start without having an account. Going to the login form results in an extra click for the user.
- Once I click "get started" the app breaks the back button. I can't go back to the landing page
- Make your terms of use & privacy policy accessible from the landing page. Claiming to be "privacy first" but not having an accessible privacy policy feels in conflict
Imgur does not generate content and interest on the same level of Reddit/Twitter, etc. It would not be reasonable to assume similar API pricing.

It seems the OP has a very distorted impression of what "reasonable" means to another for-profit company.
And it prints the description on thermal paper, and the cost of the picture is about 1.25$ - it's so close to a polaroid! It's so cool.
My comment was mostly about the comment about developers underpricing their apps. If all apps would charge a minimum of $5 there would be a lot fewer app users.

According to Apollo's developer 80% of the users make less than 500 requests per day, so I'm guessing the proportion of power users making a lot of requests are in the single digits. I doubt enough of them want's to pay enough to subsidize the others.

There's also the point that using Reddit is a two way street. Reddit is made up of user created (or user stolen) content, and moderators are working for free. Reddit's whole value is made up of user interactions, allowing users to make those interactions is not just a cost.

Why should the app developer pay anything at all? The users are also Reddit's users, they authenticate and can use Reddit's resources in a number of ways, why not charge them directly? Will Reddit be sending a bill to Mozilla for my page loads?
For 1), if by "traumatic" you mean "bodily trauma" then it's actually the opposite. If your heart stops due to bodily trauma, it does so as a result of other problems like a lack of blood volume, or something physically impairing your body's ability to oxygenate, none of which are improved by CPR.
I've never worked as a waiter/waitress in any country. But any developed nation with a fairly decent salary index would support you making enough to backpack in a poor nation like Thailand. The whole idea of backpacking is spending basically nothing.

The internet says $20-30 a day, assuming you go for 30 days, and assuming higher range, that's $900.
> is limited by GPU availability.

Which is all the more curious, considering OpenAI said this only in January:

> Azure will remain the exclusive cloud provider for all OpenAI workloads across our research, API and products [1]

So... OpenAI is severely GPU constrained, it is hampering their ability to execute, onboard customers to existing products and launch products. Yet they signed an agreement not to just go rent a bunch of GPU's from AWS???

Did someone screw up by not putting a clause in that contract saying "exclusive cloud provider, unless you cannot fulfil our requests"?

[1]: https://openai.com/blog/openai-and-microsoft-extend-partners...
If you put all your money in Luna, FTX, and NFTs, you're down ~infinity x over 2 years.
Correlations don’t entail a specific causal relation. Asking why asks for causal relations. I’d suggest a look at Reichenbach’s principle as necessary for science.

I’m getting really sick of conflating statistics with reasons. It’s like people don’t see the error in their methods and then claim the other side is censoring when criticized. Ya, they’re censoring non-facts from science and being called censors.
When covid first started I bought a few hundred, and I definitely managed to get a bad batch in there. 99% were fine, but one box had like 4 break. YMMV.
Wonder if they'll be sensible enough to acquire some apps after they become worthless to replace official app.
Large sequence models for software development activities
Not really, you wouldn't even be able to cover most of your living expenses on that kind of money.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Discord, Instagram, Snapchat, Clubhouse, and TikTok all launched with first party apps.

Twitter and Reddit both allowed a thriving third party ecosystem to develop before they made apps. (And in both cases they just bought the most popular apps.) Hell, the word tweet was invented by Twitterific, a third party twitter app.

While it certainly is completely up to the platform to allow whatever they want, it's shitty to make a change that big and alienate many of your original most dedicated users.
Almost magical: chemists can now move single atoms in and out of a molecule core
It's clearly intended to weed out third party apps, same as Twitter. I have a pet theory that all the companies doing this are converging on the same long term plan - kill third party apps, have premium subscriptions (Facebook recently launched one too), and then give the users the choice - use the service for free, with forced opt-in into personalized marketing, sharing data with 3rd parties, or pay for premium.

There's legal precedent already in Europe that this is fine by GDPR rules, as long as the price of the subscription is "reasonable".

That way they get to preserve (or even improve) their ad targeting business, on the assumption that most users will just choose selling their data over a subscription. And if they go for a subscription, even better. In a sense, let the market decide the value of privacy.

The first step in this would obviously be killing any third party alternatives that would be the first place of refuge when they make that move.

In any case, a pet theory, but there's been a strange convergence by these big companies and the way they're changing their business models.
Same. I can’t stand their web version or their own app. It’s Apollo or nothing for me.
> perhaps AI will be generally intelligent, but please for the love of god, let's only consider that scenario what it actually happens.

This only makes sense if you think that at that point, it will not be a "the genie is out of the bottle" scenario and already too late to put it back in. And yet that's what people constantly say about current LLMs.
looks even better. thx
>I PROMISE you once Adobe has market saturation on this and people have embedded it in their workflows and work without it feels painful they're going to be slapping a $40-$100 (It replaces literal days of work and literal team members, they can charge what they want) a month price tag on it on top of Creative Cloud.

I think 100 a month is a low price for this.... if it saves literally man-days of work. The equivalent value addition is something in the ballpark of 3k per project (assume 100 an hour over 3 8 hour days).

Add in the fact that your velocity has increased significantly, they could probably get away with at 5k a month at the "Pro Tier"
Ukrainian Intelligence Says Its Getting ‘Closer and Closer’ to Eliminating Putin
Not necessarily zero.

While passing on your genes is incredibly important and powerful, so is passing on memes. And a person who doesn't get caught up in the sacrifice of child rearing may be much more likely to study and develop novel ideas that spread and infect many minds.

A teacher is in some ways more influential on the future than a single parent, because the teacher influences hundreds of children's minds over a career, while a parent only creates a handful of children.

This is also why conservatives are increasingly concerned about putting their kids in public school which is seeding their minds with memes that they don't like.
Oh, that sucks. I don't use Apollo, but I imagine that this mean's I'll eventually lose RIF, which is an excellent mobile client.
How I've retained top engineers for a decade
What does an AWS user do with this advice?
Having been recently taken aboard by the mothership I expect they'll start trying to tune out anything related to programming to push people towards co-pilot X..

It's pretty hilarious and annoying to see bing start to write code only to self censor itself after a few lines (deleting what was there! no wonder these guys love websockets and dynamic histories)

Whoops!
My 14 micro is not much of a help aswell.
> It’s such a well developed and mature project. I can’t believe it’s not eating Slacks lunch.

Zulip was acquired by Dropbox before it was publicly available, and then after a few years Dropbox spun it out into an independent OSS project.

It's kind of unfortunate that Dropbox never really gave Zulip a chance, because that was just before Slack became successful. Zulip as a product is way better than Slack and could have either "won" or influenced Slack and competitors to adopt a better conversation model.

Of course, nothing is stopping that from happening today, but by the time Zulip was refounded and regained momentum, several critical years had passed in between and Slack was much further ahead in market share.

Having used Zulip, Slack is now literally painful to use, especially at scale.
Debian does that since forever. Release file also contains

Date: Wed, 31 May 2023 14:13:10 UTC
Valid-Until: Wed, 07 Jun 2023 14:13:10 UTC

which allows spotting any tries of "downgrading" repository to previous version with potentially insecure packages

Of course, you still have to get current time somehow but I guess once RTC is set the device can assume the changes in time won't be huge and just use any kind of https source for that.
How the U.S. Almost Became a Nation of Hippo Ranchers
How Ken Thompson’s Unix Changed the World of Computing
Sorry what I meant is I've been working on the open source Micro project for 8 years which underpins this. The chat app itself was not really something I meant as being open source but yes it's in a separate repo with the API hosting product I built called M3O.com.

https://github.com/m3o/m3o
https://github.com/micro/micro
You're right. This is an unsolvable problem. There's no way to provide education on how to use tools to anyone that might want to use one.
Agreed, self-hosting is a must, and for most security-minded/regulated companies it needs to be source available for audits. Deploying a proprietary app at the level this will need to be is a no-go unless you have a big (and trusted) corp behind it.
This is the same country that tried to derail the building of a shipping channel because it would have destroyed a bridge built by a monkey army, also known as limestone shoal.

https://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1663025,0...
But if you want to live in cheaper places with jobs where you work less, those are available in the US. And they don't require a master's degree and 2 years on a job market! Especially if you are willing to get paid less for that work life balance.

> My motivation is just so high because I gave up being near my family, higher salaries, the friendliness of Americans, and the amazing nature in the US to move here.

I applaud anyone taking on these big life adventures for fun, and I think Sweden is awesome, but this article is kind of "damning with faint praise". Outside of some pretty fraught financial justification, she is describing a lifestyle that is pretty achievable in the US, and makes a big deal about the sacrifices she is making to achieve it.
Query Engineering
Consuming an API is a tough business. Between Twitter arbitrarily blocking API access, and now both Twitter and Reddit now charging obscene rates. It's a death sentence for some really useful projects and reduces the total value of the ecosystem.
See ZeroNet, which uses bittorrent to sync websites, including support for dynamic content and accounts. (Accounts are somewhat centralized last i checked) https://github.com/HelloZeroNet/ZeroNet

The main/original author disappeared but there are somewhat maintained community forks.
Add blockers, micro payments, paying for personal blogs and projects
the official app isn't going to remain free?
Going for Broke
There's an obvious solution here, which is to stop participating on platforms that are ad-funded. Charging user subscriptions and fees to businesses should be sufficient to cover costs. If it's not, maybe it shouldn't exist.
I'm slightly out of the loop, but don't modern compilers often actually skip real assembly and go from source code to an intermediate representation (which is like asm but not quite the same) to binary? Or is that aside your point?
Maybe they are A/B testing further restrictions. Just now I tried scrolling continuously through r/boobs on desktop Firefox in a private window. I was able to load hundreds of posts after clicking the "I'm over 18" button. I also clicked on a dozen posts to open them in a separate tab. I never saw additional interruptions.
Ahh yes, I forgot that we are all actually just one freefloating being and all divisions are mere hallucinations brought on by the hangups of society, man.
Company that can’t make money desperately tries to gouge profit out of stuck users. There’s a playbook for this.
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> "The biggest news for this release is that Zulip is midway through a major visual redesign. The redesign is intended to give the app a clean, modern look, while preserving and enhancing Zulip’s highly efficient interaction design"

The design of Zulip is often talked about.

They are making it a major focus to improve.

You can see the redesign at the link below (no account needed).

https://chat.zulip.org
It's a 0.07 mm piece of plastic which has to absorb the forces caused by two moving bodies weighing > 100 kg together. Thus condoms do and will fail, even if properly fitted. The failure rate is estimated between 2% and 12% pregnancies per year.

Or to put it in more visual words:

If you had $ 200 000 in cash (that's the cost of a kid), would you secure it against theft with a 0.07 mm piece of plastic?

It's insane that this is expected of men.
My instinct about numbers (i.e. incl. statistics) is that they should be reproducible: on-demand, with results and workings easily subjected to interrogation.

In reality in many fields - my experience is in finance, but also in science - calculations are scattered across different languages and systems. This adds friction to any process about reproducing, understanding, analysing numbers.

This is some motivation for calculang, a language for calculations I develop. https://github.com/calculang/calculang

For the HN crew it's an under-development(!) functional language with properties to permit flexible designs that can scale. It's for numbers and if you share the model alongside your numbers people can check them according to the model and see the workings.

It goes well with visual number [dev/person]tools that I will release one of soon, and in the future watch for a browser extension for the workings behind numbers you are reading.

Important, it won't address the raw data part of the problem, but where numbers following from that are concerned, it might get closer to that instinct.
I’m partway through reading the book: Hero with 1000 Faces. I don’t know what to think about the book, but it certainly goes a long way to pick out the things on which many religions agree. Interesting read but not an easy read.
Loss of jobs. It's loss of jobs.
Increasingly less so. Memorial day weekend had 2 separate fatal shootings in the lake view neighborhood, which is all young rich kids. Perps might have been gang members but victims definitely not.
At that point just use http + sigs.

If you have working signature infrastructure you don't need encryption. There is some danger, attacker can see what you are getting, but that's far lower than "the update broke"
So YOU were the ones that started that fire in October Sky
No, sorry that was unclear! Developers write the code that creates the tools on Onu and then non-technical teams use the tools that the devs create.
Cognitive Aspects of Early Firemaking and Possible Inventors of Firemaking Kits
You can get an ovulation test kit if you want to go crazy with it[0]. She can know exactly when she ovulates and you can expand/shrink your window as you feel comfortable. Pair that with a condom and pull-out and there's virtually no risk of pregnancy.

[0]https://www.clearblue.com/ovulation-tests
ic, makes sense. unfortunately political ads are just that. Even if they wanted to, people don't like being bothered with explanations
Sure, that's in an interaction, but that kind of phrase is a good starting point when talking about the situations in the abstract. As in any conversation, you then adjust and clarify as needed.
this is a great example of the hysteria I'm talking about. You don't need LLM for your scenario to be true. If you're stupid enough to allow nukes to be autolaunched this can be done today with buggy code. no AI necessary.
I agree in principle, it's just that the level of expressed worry doesn't seem to match reality. Currently we have no reasonable path to 'scary AGI'. It's some yet newfangled tech we haven't discovered.

As an example, consider the invention of motion picture. People were totally bewildered that you can have moving things and people inside a picture. Scaremongers could start claiming "Pretty soon the moving things may come to life and take over the world! Before you know it, they'll run our factories from inside the movies and we'll be their slaves!" That's more or less what this 'scary AGI' hype sounds like to me right now.

Btw "That Mitchell and Webb Look" is a great show ;-)
https://chat.zulip.org/
Or the dramatic medical documentary 'Hole in my Heart' by Alphabeat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FFpfF2AZzY
https://archive.is/ErB9Q
> You forget how unprofitable Twitter has been over the past decade.

I haven't forgotten anything.

> It's crazy this stuff needs to be said on HN folks.

This shouldn't need to be said, but "Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community." "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
no but the reverse is.
the risk is always people.
People don't. A company wanted a new market, so they made one and convinced enough people that they do in fact want this superior brushing technology.

Ooooh, so shiny.
My worry is that the attempt to regulate AI is masking a power grab by the large, politically well-connected tech firms to maintain control over the technology.
I second this but I'm not sure how much use it is outside of the former USSR. Most movies and TV shows there do come with original English soundtracks tho.
Broadcom says Nvidia Spectrum-X's 'lossless Ethernet' isn't new
Popular Reddit App Apollo Would Need to Pay $20M per Year Under New API Pricing
It's both.

They like that people are taking more personal responsibility to avoid getting pregnant in the first place, and therefore not committing what they believe to be murder in the form of abortion.

They also like that liberal minded people who consider abortion an option for an unwanted pregnancy are now increasing their rates of voluntary sterilization, thereby decreasing their future contribution to the gene pool.