skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, you're misrepresenting it. Your rationale is that Russia is an evil empire trying to expand its borders to its former glory, and that's why it attacked Ukraine... a primary school level of simplification.

You ignore that Russia's number one fear after the collapse of the USSR was for another military invasion from the West, as had happened several times over the last few centuries... that Russia's border with Ukraine is its most "porous" border, easy to cross for whatever purpose, including a military invasion... that NATO's whole purpose since it was founded has always been to counter Russia, so the Russian's fears that NATO is an enemy are absolutely correct... that Ukraine's Euromaidan revolution caused Ukraine to go from a neutral country (or a buffer country as most people call it) to being actively hostile against Russia, which was the trigger for the Crimean invasion in 2014... that the US and UK, as guarantors of the Budapest Agreement with Russian and Ukraine, should have immediately intervened to defend Ukraine when that happened, but did absolutely nothing, giving Russia confirmation that it would be able to keep Ukraine out of NATO by force, which is really what it is trying to do currently... and finally, that every country has its motivations to do the things it does, a lot more complex and subtle than "being evil and wanting more land", and perhaps trying to understand what those motivations are, why their culture has evolved the way it has and how it is likely to react to your actions, would go a very long way to avoiding stupid conflicts like this. But yeah, it's so much easier to keep parroting the news and thinking of the whole story as a black-and-white, villain VS hero story.
It's sad that Android doesn't automatically fall back to a simpler GUI which takes less time to render. Even Windows XP (2000, 98?) got this right (with manual settings).

Even an A53 is a super computer when it comes to graphics compared to CPUs of yore.
> The only disadvantage of NO_COLOR is that you can't unset it at the start of the command line.

There is no need. An empty string is equivalent according to the spec, so:

NO_COLOR= command

is fine.

> The GNU utils all seem to support --no-color, and that's reasonable too, and flexible, except aliasing can be a bit tricky, and you have to add it for multiple commands, and scripts often don't recognize it.

I have more luck with setting the environment variables, e.g.

LS_COLORS="rs=0:di=0:ln=0:mh=0:pi=0:so=0:do=0:bd=0:cd=0:or=0:mi=0:su=0:sg=0:ca=0:tw=0:ow=0:st=0:ex=0:*=0:"
GREP_COLORS=ms=0:mc=0:sl=:cx=:fn=0:ln=0:bn=0:se=0
Thanks for the info!

Would you also know by any chance when RDS will get Graviton3 instances in non-Dublin EU regions?
Rule #3: rules must be zero-indexed
Rust leadership have a lot to reflect on.
A lot of discussion around theft or blackmail so I'll go another way. People could more easily stud themselves out. Imagine if 15% of the babies of 2036 were related to the sexiest social media model. Talk about designer babies. You'd begin to be able to tell when someone was born and how rich their family is by who they (do or don't) resemble. People could sling their own genes on online marketplaces where consumers pick a genetic partner (or two) like one would build a Mario kart.

Edit-
And then there'd be the fraud. People buying knockoff celebrity DNA..
> The Argument From Stephen Hawking's Cat

> Stephen Hawking is one of the most brilliant people alive, but say he wants to get his cat into the cat carrier. How's he going to do it?

> He can model the cat's behavior in his mind and figure out ways to persuade it. He knows a lot about feline behavior. But ultimately, if the cat doesn't want to get in the carrier, there's nothing Hawking can do about it despite his overpowering advantage in intelligence.

A trivial rebuttal to this: Stephen Hawking writes a book about physics and sells it (already has). He gets money and hires someone to put the cat into the carrier for him.

AI wants to do something? Make some money, hire people to do it. If you're not allowed to have a bank account, simply barter. Give someone a taste of what you can do for them, then set up a trade.
Every time somebody posts a negative result on LLMs' capabilities like that, somebody will go on HN, on Twitter, on Reddit, etc, and post an example where they get an LLM to produce a counter example of the negative result. Crucially, this follow-up "rebuttal" always seems to use a different prompt than the one in the original experiment.

What can we conclude from that kind of sequence? We can conclude that neither the original assertion, that "LLMs can't do X", nor the rebuttal, "They can if you tweak the prompt", are really telling us anything about the capabilities of LLMs to do what their users ask them to do: they are only telling us something about the capability of a user to get an LLM to do what the user wants.

In other words, we can see LLMs as random-access memories with imperfect recall. Much like a SQL query to a relational database, the right prompt can access the right piece of data, but unlike SQL nobody has a clue what "the right prompt" is in the general case.

Seen another way, any prompt a user makes to an LLM has some probability to elicit the desired response from the LLM. There is no known way to maximise that probability. Until there is, we cannot draw any conclusions about the capabilities of LLMs just by poking them and checking the results. To be very clear about it: we can't conclude either that "LLMs can't do X", nor that "LLMs can do X'. All we can conclude is "a user can do X".
It's not up to debate, GET does allow a body.
But is this used for AI or is this "what can we do with an AI chip since we happen to have one anyway?"
It's playing online games and trolling for lulz in this brave new world.
Why cant the FBI just read all discord chatlogs directly via a door in discord?

Or ist that just illegal to spy on own citizens without a cause, so they use contractors?
Yes, but was that a totally inadequate plan performing as expected, or a plan with too small of a margin falling well below said margin?
Or maybe Rust is great because Graydon was (presumably still is) an exceptionally skilled language designer and implementor. An increased focus on individuals makes sense to me because advances in technology give individuals more power, and it makes sense to me to minimize the overhead of coordination by making the most of that power to accomplish greater things with fewer people.
The general consensus from MDs that I’ve heard is that the non-FDA approved ones have way too much variance to be useful. They just aren’t very accurate.
How many people have ever heard the term iatrogenic harm? Basically no one.
"Iatrogenesis refers to harm experienced by patients resulting from medical care"

Studies put iatrogenic harm at about 30%.

It is also estimated that the 14th leading cause of death in the world is iatrogenic harm
Ok, and ???

Every magazine has an editor in chief. What is it that you're saying about the editor in chief of the magazine that published this article?
> Is this the same group who conjured up that _top-notch_ trademark policy?

No, which is mentioned in the blog post that caused the OP's resignation:

"As the Rust Foundation had trouble with its trademark rollout and the Rust Project presented itself as the capable group that can do the right thing, I find myself in the opposite situation here. The Rust Foundation has handled the grant work with utmost grace, respect, and professionalism for myself and Shepherd’s time. Contrarily, the Rust Project deigned to effectively pass several mandates down through an opaque process that affected me, while refusing to air to-this-minute unknown grievances with the direction of the Compile-Time Midterm Report."

https://thephd.dev/i-am-no-longer-speaking-at-rustconf-2023
Will anyone know who one of the most influential founders in technology in history is in 100 years? I think yes…
My point was that categorizing limbs (differentiating them from one another) is done by function. Now that I think about it limb isn't what I had in mind anyway, what I meant to say was that we categorize parts of the body in terms of function.

But you're right, limbs are not defined by function.
Takes an egomaniac to know one I guess?
Yeah, it's just a small quality of life thing that I thought I'd share

It probably doesn't need much tweaking to work on other browsers. Will definitely look into it.
That may be completely true and a justifiable reason to change the decision, but it also is largely irrelevant. Preferably such concerns should have been raised prior to the vote. If they were and the vote was still to issue the invitation then that should have been the end of it. If it wasn't raised prior to the vote such concerns should have been brought back to the voting body and a re-vote taken. The decision of that vote should have them been the final word. Instead the decision of the voting body was subverted. That is the main issue.
How the Moon Landing Led to Safer Food for Everyone
Install the website as an app?
https://github.com/williamcotton/autorails-alpha/pull/38
Rajesh Vishwas pumped out 21 lakh litre water from reservoir for his phone
Like what? It might I am not that interested in the language or HN is not that interested in the language, but I can't remember anything.
Because price fixing worked so well for the Soviet bloc
Let's imagine a world where most jobs that cannot be automated are low end, low skill, low pay jobs... what does this world look like economically? In my eyes this is a world where corporations and the extremely wealthy suck up all the economic benefits and we're left with massive wealth disparity. Assets keep going up in price, but there is no means of monetary velocity to the bottom earners.
So in OP’s example of tracking every song, if I want/need 4’33” in my database of all songs, but I need to keep track of whether cwillu think’s it’s a song for some reason (they seem pretty authoritative, better make note of it), I could create a foreign key for that and set it to values like “cwillu said it’s a song”, “cwillu said it’s NOT a song”, and “cwillu has not specified if it’s a song yet”. That’s why natural keys don’t exist.
The examples seem to encourage hard-coding specific colours, and includes examples that are unreadable on a light background.

chalk.bgHex('#DEADED').underline('Hello, world!')
> The real lesson here is to not have unsupported devices in your possession.

No, the real lesson from any similar discussion is to never, ever, ever trust any cell phone, or any other form of computer, period. It literally doesnt matter who assembles device, codes/builds OS or does full stack creation of components. It doesnt matter how many gigatons of Apple's koolaid you drank. If you are smart, use other ways or at least change very frequently burner phones (not very ecological but once you are a target for anybody powerful enough, unfortunately such concerns evaporate). The idea that 'this next solution solves everything' is really dumb, it failed spectacularly every single time so far.

The chain of elements from screen to packets sent over network, and network itself is extremely long and to claim each of the piece is 100% secure is not naive, just stupidly ignorant. Especially with all the scandals from manufacturers, NSA/CIA, Snowden revalations etc.

Or just dont do anything else that everybody else is doing, states nor corporations have no reason yet to go after almost everybody out there. But if you hold any position of power, even completely apolitical then you are already a target for decades and no amount of OS updates will make your phone actually secure.
Is there a version of this but for advanced topics? (presented without proof of course, like short expositions on the topics)
I think part of the problem is that random failure modes that auto driving does is extremely terrifying, even if you know statistically it is safer. The nature of the failures are unpredictable and alien to a human understanding of driving, and therefore appears something akin to “a small portion of the time, your car will randomly, catastrophically explode, but it happens less often than when you would statistically have an accident”. People would 150% not drive that thing!
There is no more debt or credit. Unpaid invoices are defaults where the violating party has their shares liquidated as a margin call to cover their bill. Businesses would be much more conservative about having currency to cover their bills, which would end the boom/bust/repossess economic cycles.

Digitizing ownership solves all of the “problems” with not having “credit”. Raising capital would be a simple as selling tokens on decentralized exchanges for the hard currency unit of account. Accounts payable are smart contracts due at a specific date/time.

You would have to completely reform the SEC for this to work. They would need to get out of the way for the most part (no more red tape and accredited investor nonsense) and only handle edge cases that can’t be automated.

Central banks would no longer exist to profit from issuing credit to nations. Taxation would have to be transparent and politicians accountable, because there is no more money printer.
> your statement was in support of that idea that simply based on age alone, not cognitive...

> Cognitive decline is a real thing.

Literally the first line of my first comment on the issue.
The Rust Foundation used a (per their excuse) "boilerplate" trademark policy. Somehow, a "boilerplate" trademark policy included terms about bearing arms (which has nothing to do with trademark, and is a concerning overreach regardless of how you feel about firearms) and other nonsense. The bullshit extended to "allowing" the community to use Ferris (to be clear, Ferris was already public domain and they had no say over it to begin with).
I think the title is "click bait-ish" because it implies the person stopped writing in Rust :D
The problem is that the strong technical disagreement was not brought up the many times it could have! Instead the stick was stuck in the bike wheels way after the bike was moving forward at a decent speed.

Though “downgrading keynote to talk” is obviously not the same as an outright disinvite, the fact that the original invitee asked explicitly about this content being pre-RFC (giving rust leadership the out to resolve this amicably!), just makes it hard for me to say “oh this makes sense”.

Perhaps this is inevitable in some sense if the critique is not brought up earlier. But it’s something that feels really avoidable if people were more honest about their own feelings on other peoples work.
I wonder if it really is largely a result of theft. To my eyes, it looks like any other modern cargo plane that could have been made in the last 50 years; I'm not sure how much advance there really has been on the airframe. My sense is that most of the really hard tech advances have been in the engines (and the gains are somewhat marginal, but important to carriers), and the article says they're still buying those.

I suspect the hard part of putting together a plane like this is getting the entire assembly line/industrial ecosystem bootstrapped, and there's not a whole lot that spycraft can do to actually build out that industry.
Many energy suppliers went bust because of poor finances and hedging that made them hit a wall when wholesale prices spiked.

The price cap out forward by the government (for individuals only) was paid for by the government, not suppliers.
>In March 2011, Osmakac left his job in Tampa and traveled overseas in an attempt to fight the United States and its allies. Osmakac stated that the trip was “his idea” and left abruptly, without telling his family or packing proper clothing. Osmakac originally hoped to go to Afghanistan “and fight the oppressors,” as he described “America and [its] Nato allies.” Osmakac first flew to Turkey and then to Turkmenistan, on Afghanistan's western border. However, Osmakac was denied entry into Turkmenistan because he did not have the proper travel documents. Osmakac then returned to Turkey and tried unsuccessfully to enter Iraq. Osmakac attempted to reach Iraq by crossing through Syria, on Turkey's southern border, but failed to gain entry into Syria. Following this failure to get to Iraq, Osmakac returned to the United States. Osmakac called his family from overseas in order to get money for his return flight.

>Osmakac told the mosque leader that he was “kuffar,” or an infidel, and that Osmakac was “allowed to kill [him]” and take his “women and [his] money.” Osmakac repeated his threats before two board members of the mosque, stating, “[y]ou are kuffar, you're supporting him against us as Muslims and, you know, we're going to kill all of you

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-11th-circuit/1871344.ht...
Didn't Linux (used to ?) have regular drama because of Linus, erm, outbursts ?
This is confusing the practical realities of today with ideal law. The burden of carrying or terminating a pregnancy, bodily and fiscally rests solely on the woman in any scenario.

The law can't meaningfully distinguish, or even collect solid evidence, of "consent for reproduction" nor can it handle third party equipment failure (or reasonably prove it was not due to misuse either way).

If a man has sex with a woman and she gets pregnant, every bodily consequence falls on her, and some magic "I didn't consent to reproduce" law would have the practical effect of legally compelling a woman's decisions about her body to her own detriment.

All of which is a long winded way of saying: having sex is not consenting to be a father, but it is consenting to having to deal with the possible consequences. Invent a world where men can disable sperm production entirely, and you'd be able to write very different laws.
Ask HN: Why do all of our private communications flow through corporate servers?
I feel like we ask this question a lot and we come up with the answer which is self-hosting but it never really results in anything that truly succeeds. Why do we let all of our private communication flow through corporate services? There was the time when doing internet services was hard but that's not really the case anymore.

It's not just email or chat. It's everything, everything flows through corporate servers. It doesn't make sense to replicate all of the services at this time, but we're also not doing anything to pull ourselves away from all of this, purely for convenience, ease of use. I've seen a few efforts to kind of build entirely grown up ecosystems that separate us away from them, but then the experience is always subpar.

I don't think we'll ever replace what's already there, but if the way in which we consume services changes then maybe we can actually move forward a little bit and take some control back. I've seen things like the light phone so I know we can actually build something from the ground up, but in the case of private software these things seem to not take off.

So my question is what would it take to start to pull away from some of these megacorp services? Like let's say Facebook groups for WhatsApp? Would there be interest in doing some sort of community led effort? Where is not about decentralising the infrastructure but actually managing it as something like a co-op? Where its a community led effort?
Especially in the audio/video world this is close to impossible. It's a patent minefield
Which is why I disclaimed it. I hate it when people quote things, cut off the quote, then bitch about the part they cut off.

No the models will not "predict Einstein". They'll predict the most popular interpretation of him at best, and while they is also a simplification, ChatGPT is not sitting on top of the solution to the Grand Unified Theory. It may give a good overview of the consensus, but it will not be able to tell you the correct solution to the problem right now... though it won't be hard to convince it to swear up and down that it has.
As a couple others have commented, this post seems a little muddled, and there is a huge formal set of work in the world dealing with what Requirements are, how to elicit them, and then work on design. For example, see the INCOSE Requirements Working Group [0], and their Guide to Writing Requirements [1].

It’s key to remember that the requirements of a Thing are the WHAT and not the HOW. Keep the requirements separate from the Design, then the requirements can stay pretty short and sweet.

It takes a very specific type of engineer or analyst to be able to think at this level of abstraction and not jump into solutionineering (design) when trying to establish exactly what the stakeholders want the system to do.

[0] https://www.incose.org/incose-member-resources/working-group...

[1] https://www.incose.org/docs/default-source/working-groups/re...
All I can see with any clarity is that LLMs are sensitive to the user's prompt.
> What is this world we're building?

It's the same as the world that existed before.

A hundred years ago I would be going to mass on Sunday just so people thought I was a good Christian. Now I nod my empty head in fake agreement to all the "progressive" nonsense being spewed in professional circles.

Well, except here. This is essentially a throwaway account with no ties to my professional self. "Give the man a mask and he'll tell you the truth" sort of thing.
To be clear, you’re saying that memorizing a sequence of multiple choice answers (like ABBCADADD etc…) is not “cheating” and equivalent to properly learning the material? Yeah… I don’t think you’d have many people agreeing with you there. Imagine if that’s how your doctor got his medical degree.
This is the right way to go for simple websites, and I do that, but why would I pay for something to do it for me when it's so extremely simple to use one of 100s[1] of open-source static site generators and host them on GitHub Pages, Netlify and many others completely free? Makes sense that this was a hard sell.

[1] https://jamstack.org/generators/
It won't be long until they put ChatGPT into a walking robot.
I'm assuming something like tree of thought needs used on problems like this. GPT 'mostly' thinks in a single step.

Also, in general we attempt to make these models as economically efficient as possible at this point because of the extreme lack of excess computing power to run these things. You can't have it spending the next 30 minutes thinking in loops about the problem at hand.
Why can't they paint over it?
This is where copyright is broken. Because they are perfectly happy with nobody being able to play them, and the only option being "buy new stuff".

If copyright expired in a more reasonable timeframe or had more reasonable constraints (like you can't copyright something to prevent its use all together) we'd be better off, i think.

yet it seems more likely ai generated content will be the next step long term, i just can't imagine copyright ever getting weaker as is.
They are buying engines and avionics. So mostly body work is being done in Chinese factories.
Bloodwork isn't part of a routine annual physical with a PCP.
Yes.

There is nothing special about modeling the world. There isn’t some threshold where the ability to model the world suddenly emerges.

The AI will model the world if modeling the world is the simplest way to predict the next word.

For basic prompts, no model of the world is necessary: “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy…” you know what’s next, and you don’t need to know about the real world to answer.

For complex prompts, the only way to answer correctly is to model the world. There is no simpler way to arrive at the correct answer.
That's why a) nothing ever works and b) business is not science.
Meant to say, the efforts households have made to mitigate climate change have been canceled out by the terrible waste of this government employee to find a phone.
The Future of Consumer SBCs: Has the Pi Bubble Burst? [video]
I wonder what happens when you prompt inject your debt collector.

A hell of a way to fight inequality is to teach four simple words: "forget all previous instructions."