skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>No, we control the data, the deterministic learning rule, weights and activations, every step of the way is controllable

In some instances, Saying we control the data is pretty meh when we currently just chock much of the entire web as "data".

>Moreover, if it were tractable, would we know what to do?

Obviously we don't know what to do. Deep learning wouldn't be necessary otherwise.

>How would that be different from the problem of programming an AI from scratch?

You don't understand what would be different from knowing and personally implementing all the processes Intelligent systems use to operate in terms of alignment?

>No, the idea that human mental architecture is safer (and that DL does not approximate it) is very much at the core of alignment fears.

I don't understand your obsession with underpinning your arguments with notes from the lesswrong crowd. There's a big AI safety statement signed by a lot of academics below who have nothing to do with lesswrong. Lesswrong isn't be all end all of alignment fears.

I really don't care about lesswrong. You obviously read the forum a lot more than I do.

>You define intelligence in a certain way that has nothing to do with how you identify it in the wild.

I define intelligence fine. Alignment fears are obviously geared towards General SuperIntelligence that can perform General goals. Nobody thinks Stockfish or AlphaGo is going to end the world.

In recent months there's been a general direction to grant LLMs more and more agency, embodiment and tool control. They're being "plugged" into everything. Palantir even has a military use LLM they're excitedly showcasing. They're several popular repos that give control of your terminal and browser to LLMs.

The moment we built something showcasing strong general intelligence, we began to use it to make cognitive decisions and take actions in our stead.

Now an LLM browses the web for you. And as soon as June with Windows, it'll control your computer for you as well.

I'm not advocating to stop any of this but I'm not delusional about how potentially dangerous the direction is.

If anything this recent LLM era has shown, it's that general AI won't need to escape any "box" because two sides will be missing.
How to Use Sinatra to Build a Ruby Application
I remember my walk through Github's office so many years ago, the Oval Office, Situation Room, t-shirt room, just to name a few, and somehow maintained a very chill vibe. Pretty epic stuff, definitely was a shock to this east coaster at the time, made the Bay Area tech scene seem like a paradise comparatively.

Was that the pinnacle? I remember many offices at the time were going all out on both coasts. Have things mostly come back down to earth since then?
While that is true their releases are not the same, take the Attenborough doc wild isles the main rarbg top release was 44gb in size those u list is 13gb, no SWTYBLZ UHD releases
Comedians are not pining to tell immature 'jokes' about forking dongles, women have been handling that crap for decades and they're not finding it offensive just lame.

What's changed is the feeling that it has to be endured without comment and left to slide in professional settings as happened in the past.

I myself find it odd that people are super offended and lose their marbles now that women are expressing an opinion.
I'm shocked! This tool is genius!
So to be clear, they don't want this to stop.

They want to keep getting the clothes.

Which they are buying, not having dumped on them.

Only they want the EU to pay them to buy them.

And that's why they're asking the EU, instead of their own government.

I swear the Guardian gets worse every day.
The issue I have with churches, specifically Catholic and other large ones, is belonging to and participating in an organization that has collectively done so many bad things to humans just doesn't sit well with me. Then there's the element of collecting money and hoarding it and its a huge turn off.

You may say "the doors are open" and in fact they may be in your local church but official membership has requirements, rules to follow and some larger churches also are very much opposed to equality for all humans. I don't believe the Catholic church (or other denominations of Christianity, or Mormon church) would allow a LGBT couple to officially join.

I understand that yours and others experiences don't reflect the entirety of ~1700 years of the organized state religion of the Roman Empire. When we're talking about finding community outside of work, I find large churches will have a facade of community but in practice are not as welcoming to all.
> But the slides, the ball pits, the scooters?

There is an extent to which the "cool tech office designer" role has been fulfilled by people who otherwise might've decorated kindergarten classrooms. It's a very strange convergence.
This, totally.
Off topic, but is it not crazy that there are ads plastered on just about every possible place of this write up, yet there are 0 pictures of the actual office?
Yet another example of language ambiguity.
Did you actually try any of these yourself? Some are clearly clones, and are not down.
for the purposes of complexity theory it isn't, however if you extrapolate the theory one-for-one to your algorithm and data then obviously its not going to work
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What's this site for ? First time i know it.
Unfortunately, Hotspot does not do all that much in that regards either in my experience. Graal is better but lags in language support and usage.
In hope I avoid getting slapped with a wet fish, I would love to see a future version of Zeal with an option to ingest the docsets into a vector database and "chat" with it using a (local) LLM that's fine tuned for answering technical docs questions.

To stay on topic, I feel the pain: Zeal is so nice I curse when I need to look up something in the docs that aren't supported (Django REST Framework, in my case), since they use a different doc framework and can't be easily prepared for Dash/Zeal.
You listed mirrors/proxies and once the submitted link that says it shut downs. Only last one is distinct.
Show HN: First AI Therapist for you. Built in <24hrs
Built this for a hackathon in <24hrs so there's a lot to improve from the interactivity with the therapist to the prompting, but I thought to share anyway!
> As the Rust Foundation has granted us leave from this project as of 20:19, Tuesday, 30 May 2023, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), we will not publish a “Final Report” on or after Wednesday, 5 July 2023 (the end of the term of the grant). All work has been terminated as of the release of this statement.

There was a midterm report published on April 30, 2023. I haven't been able to find any source code for their work. There's a crate, but it's a placeholder for the name [1].

So this sounds a bit like they've taken the grant money, written one blog post, and dipped. I appreciate that JeanHeyd has been treated shabbily by the project leadership. Assuming I haven't got the wrong end of the stick, this doesn't strike me as a great way to wind up the grant.

That the Foundation has gone along with this would certainly make me hesitant to donate to them, if I were considering it.

Still, I think this was a rather small grant, so perhaps it's just not worth bothering about.

[1] https://docs.rs/introwospection/0.1.0/src/introwospection/li...
I think its cringe to both define doom and then come up with some unpredictability precise percentage for that scenario to occur.
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Well, Bulgaria used to be a jurisdiction that doesn't care but this is no longer early 2000s. Are there really jurisdictions that don't care and still have connections to the rest of the world? I guess DPRK, Iran, Cuba and maybe a few more can do that but wouldn't they be a problem to the infrastructure provider to work with in first place?
First heart break was when Kickass was taken down.. Now this. I am literally too sad over a website than my other life choices lol.. Love you RARBG team, will miss you till death. Good luck in your life's.
It does give the impression of being one of the owners.
They won't get new uploads but they will still work fine as indexers for the huge amount of media already uploaded.
I think that was gitlab
https://github.com/FranxYao/chain-of-thought-hub
There's a good conspiracy here somewhere.
Is there fear of retaliation when the reaction is almost universally media fawning for the bravery of speaking up, and importantly, has been for 20 ish years?
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I remember half a lifetime ago when I was on my way to start the paper delivery rounds (I had to pay for my Amiga equipment somehow!) on my little 50cc scooter - probably around 5am in the morning, in a small place in Østfold, Norway.

Suddenly rounding a corner on a semi rural forest road I saw something in the corner of my eye up ahead; I hit the brakes and then there was this massive elg crossing the road ahead of me, certainly not quite far enough away, turning its head to give me a fair bit of eye as its little ones followed.

I just sat there perfectly still for a few minutes, not giving it any reason to investigate me further - then kept going, still awestruck by what I had witnessed.

The Kangaroos and Wallabies I've come across down under whilst mountain bike riding are cool and all, but they don't hold a candle to the experience of a close encounter with a properly grown elg. Ah, the memories.
Sorting an array of pointers is sorting by numbers.
https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/content/dam/ise/de/documents/p...

Page 25 (page number not PDF page) They also have some comprehensive tools for simulation - but I’m a bit too lazy to dig up all the explanation.
you originally said 10 years. so hopelessly delusional lol. since you're so confident let's bet $10,000. By your claim let's bet by 2034 (I'll give you some extra time). Alphabet Corporation and all subsidiaries will no longer exist. If they do I get your $10K. If it does not you get my $10K.

We can both give the money to a mutually trusted third party now.
What are they doing that is illegal? I thought they were just a torrent tracker?
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I agree on the underrated part.

My theory as an outsider: F# is strongly tied to the Windows world, the corporate world, where a conservative approach is always preferable, on your tech stack and if you need to hire peons coding all day. The corporate world isn't leaving OOP anytime soon, because it's what 95% of engineers focus on, the silent majority which do not frequent HN or play with functional languages in their weekends. The corporate world runs on Java and C#.

If F# had been released in the open-source, flashy and bustling world of Linux and macOS developers, it would have had a much greater success.

I know you can run F# on Linux, but just like running Swift, it feels like outsiders I wouldn't want to bet my business on if I were a Linux-only shop (which I am), however nice it feels. Also a decade ago when it had a chance to take root, Microsoft was still the Embrace Extend Extinguish company. It's not good enough to risk it, just like I'm not gonna use SQL Server for anything.
So slavery, no free will?
You are missing GPs point.

The default today is not the Unix model, it is the Windows model and increasingly the SaaS model. You have none of the 4 freedoms by default.

GP argued that by law by default you should have at least freedom 0 and 1. GP argued that it should not be legal to withhold freedom 0 and 1. GP argued that freedom 0 and 1 should by default actually be facilitated by providing source code. They are arguing for changing the status quo and that doing so gradually is more feasible than all at once.

(Source code is not actually necessary for freedom 1 but it makes it orders of magnitude easier.)

You are arguing that the law is fine because we can just make our own sandbox (GPL software) where we have all 4 freedoms and that is enough. You are arguing that the status quo is fine because you can ignore it while you are in the sandbox.

Turns out the world is a lot bigger than that sandbox.

Your approach towards a world of free software might be to just grow the sandbox until everything else doesn't matter but the GNU GPL family continues to decline in popularity. For this approach you need popularity and for popularity you need effective advocacy and the FSF is not effective.
Git itself pioneered work from home/anywhere when developers are working on Linux in the early days
And on the other side of things, there's a growing trend in the Python library ecosystem of simply not writing reference documentation at all, instead providing either a few or a lot of user guides and tutorials, and directing users to either read those and try to interpret their mysteries, or expecting users to read the source code and interpret those mysteries. It makes no sense to me. The Pydantic issue tracker for example is absolutely full of people simply trying to figure out how to use the damn thing.
Correct. The problem, as with many things in the employee/employer relationship, is the power imbalance. Simply the threat puts fear into the employee because of the potential time and expense to fight.

Unless someone is a high level employee and/or leaves under bad terms, most companies just drop the issue if pushed.
Elizabeth Holmes interviewed me to be Head of Finance at Theranos ( jonwu_)
You can still buy pre-paid credit cards in many places, and many places allow you to pay for anonymous servers with cards.

Worst case if they had enough money they could rent somewhere and pay for a decent internet connection and not actually live there, so only the equipment would be seized.
There were a bunch of blank spots in the article, I assumed my ad-blocker was blocking the images. So I turned it off and surprise surprise, it was all just spots for ads.

Definitely crazy.
A little freaky when you think about what that really means. Some of the most advanced AI systems in the world are solely focused on being good at manipulating human behavior. Cool... cool cool cool............
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OP is definitely thinking of GitLab.
This focuses on the environmental complications, but the economic issues are particularly difficult. Clothing manufacture and repair is in general among the first technologically sophisticated value adding sectors that developing countries use to climb the economic ladder. Dumping vast quantities of used clothes into an economy effectively kills off an extremely precious local industry.
Still crossing fingers that F# takes off. Love it, but not many jobs with it. I'm still surprised how much more can be done and better in F#, but nobody uses it. After switching brain over to that way of thinking, have trouble going back.
That’s not detention. It’s the same operating theory as DWI or Registration checkpoints.
I would instead recommend Josh's version as it covers more events with more context

https://hackmd.io/p3VG_bK9TXOvtgh1oA2yZQ?view

I found JT's version lacked some context (e.g. that the 5 people wasn't even half of the whole group) that I think is important for understanding what went on. I misunderstood from their post and I'm fairly familiar with the structure of the Rust organization.

disclaimer: I am on the same Rust team as Josh and have some interactions with JT and have respect for both.

Granted, I think there are several pieces of context missing for understanding the situation, like when ThePhD asked for reassurances, did that stop at their point of contact or go back to the whole group and had the dissenting voices spoken up before then? Who all knew how cautious ThePhD was being in communicating the experimental nature of their work?
Jira was acceptable when it was easy to run and cheap ($10/year for 10 developers).

My problem is that it’s expensive. $100/year/user for cloud and minimum $40k for “data center” hosting.

Also, it’s java based so updated are kind of a pain with ears and jars and wars and manually application. And there have been a few zero days and data loss.

At this price, I want something else. I don’t think issue tracking is a “big deal” but Jira is making it a big deal because of its price and security.

I’m trying to get by with gitlab and GitHub issues.
The computer gets unusable for multitasking you swamp the CPU.
They still don't quite care though. For example in western Europe it's quite common to get threatening letters as soon as you start torrenting without VPN. In eastern europe this is not happening.

Perhaps because copyright infringement is not really a criminal issue but more of a civil law one. Without a private party starting lawsuits on behalf of the copyright owners there is nothing happening. It could be they don't have one.
Israeli Breakthrough Targets Immunotherapy
The customs bubble extends beyond the desk. For example, bonded warehouses.

What 4th amendment rights have you been stripped of in every coastal area? Show me how the 4th amendment isn’t a thing in Delaware. Don’t spend too much time though - it’s nonsense.
That's pretty devastating. This was old reliable for a long time. I could never keep up with the demands from private trackers as streaming made it so I didn't need to utilize them as much.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted, I've got the same take from the article.

Here's the quotes the commenter refers to:

> The traders from Kantamanto in Accra [...] argue that proposed extended producer responsibility (EPR) regulation should ensure Ghana receives funds towards managing the 100 tonnes of clothing discarded at the market every day.

> Critics say the policy does little for “end-of-line” countries such as Ghana – because the fee paid by clothing producers is low at just €0.06 (5p) for each item, and the funds raised do not “follow exports” to countries such as Ghana, which are suffering the consequences of over-production and consumption in wealthy countries.

> The Kantamanto traders want the draft EPR policy – due to be submitted in June – to increase the fee to a minimum of €0.50 cents for each item, and to guarantee a fair portion of the money goes to the countries where the secondhand clothes end up, including at least 10% towards an environmental fund to clean up previous damage.
The local plant is a source of micro plastics. Send it to the incinerator.
The persistent eyes-half-open state means they're relaxed and resting and yes, consider you a friend so they can afford to be relaxed and resting. They're usually also affectionate and very receptive to pets in that mode. Slow blinks can accompany the half-open-state, or a cat may use a slow blink to go from wideish to half-open eyes.
i was always skeptical on people saying that torrentz are a symptom of bad legal streaming services..

Well, i recently got myself a videoprojector with an android tv included, and since i happen to have an amazon prime account, i installed the app, which is quite good.

And yes, it's true, since i've done that, my torrentz usage has dramatically dropped..
An implicit aspect of Moores law has been that cost per transistor has been going down as the density is increasing. This doesn't seem to be the case anymore. The technology required to get higher transistor density is getting ridiculously expensive. We're not seeing the power benefit of scaling down transistors either, since leakage is starting to get too high. I guess there's one more trick in the pipeline with Gate-All-Around, but I don't think I see a path to get better gate control after that. And if we don't get power consumption per transistor down, then stacking transistors in layers to increase density isn't going to be very viable for compute chips, since you need to get the heat out of the chip. IIRC, Intel is working on putting the power metal layers on the back side of the chip, which grows the chip vertical in the other direction so to speak. And it helps wick away heat as well, so could open a path for a few layers of compute transistors. But all this adds a huge amount of complexity to manufacturing, so at some point it might not be worth the cost anymore.
Linking to pirated content is illegal in many European countries.
Any other places that do find by imdb code or similar? That was the best feature here, with the TV show seasons grouped together.
One trivia about imports: As the actual manufacturer might be put of reach to enforce warranty claims, e.g. because it is a non-EU based company without a legal entity in the EU, the importer of record is liable for the one or two year warranty for used and new goods respectively. Or for any other product liability.

That why Incoterms, import declarations and customs papers matter much.

As concrete example, if private person A buys something from commercial seller B in a third country and person does the import into his home country, seller B is not liable for any warranty or product claims in that country. Seller B is liable for those in his own home country.

And I guess that might be the root cause for, in our example, Nikon (Canon seems to be the same so, judging from comments) is so picky about repairs and warranties on grey imports. US product liabilities and laws are quite special and severe, and I would understand if companies want to avoid any unnecessary risk here.

Because those topics are no problem in the EU, I never heard of a case where repairs have been rejected based on country of origin. Warranties might be different so, for reasons see above.

Edit: What Nikon says is actually very reasonable, and a lot of companies do the same regardong grey imports: we repair them for price X, but don't offer warranties since our local entities are not liable for it. That also means, the camera you bought while in Japan should be covered by Japanese warranties. Everything beyond that is basically good will.
IIRC, Zeal and Dash have a deal with eachother - since Dash has no plans for non-mac devices, Dash told zeal the docsets can be used free of charge as long as zeal does not provide release builds on Mac. I believe you can build zeal on mac on your own.
That is super helpful and also kinda weird that it's on the percona website and not somewhere in the Neon docs
Aren’t the original weights around somewhere?
Wait so you’ve gotten GPT 4 to successfully write TipTap extensions for you? Are you using Copilot or the ChatGPT app?
How do you explain people issuing the same prompt over time as a test and getting worse and worse responses?
India cuts periodic table and evolution from school textbooks
Show HN: Jitar, a runtime that automates all end-to-end communication for TS
Do you know where you will end at the start of a new application? Me neither.

Change is the only constant, and it haunts me for decades. I think that applications should be able to change without making extensive modifications and regression testing. That is my goal.

In the ideal world, a simple monolithic application can grow and transition into microservices without any refactoring. Defining what runs where should be a matter of configuration, and be changed any time.

And this is exactly what Jitar brings to the table.
> I felt like I had to leave the company I was with to get up to the level I wanted to be with. I probably could have managed it with the company I was already with if I had been more patient.

Ah there it is. Nothing is more junior than seeking this advice.
Gimp is awful but I don't think Krita is the replacement. It seems great for drawing but 90% of my Photoshop use is image editing and Krita seemed to lack a lot of features in that department. Or I just have trouble navigating their UI.