skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it's a mistake then copilot (and by extension both Microsoft and everybody who uses copilot) needs to be held accountable when it makes a "mistake". It's not alright to steal code from open-source projects like this.

This is what I was saying earlier about AI companies talking out of both sides of their mouth; when it's convenient for them they want AI to be treated as a human but whenever something goes wrong they talk about how it's not their fault, the system will get better at this, some problems are inevitable, etc. You don't get to have it both ways.
In that case I also see "large" PRs, but I point the reviewer to "file X and then 4999 copies of file Y." When doing large no-change refactors, I submit standalone PRs and merge them quickly because no one will review 1k identical changed lines (e.g. if I change the location of /lib/ imported 600 times in the project)
A few points there:

* classical shared memory (mapped into the main address space) is very hard to do in the context of Webassembly, especially in a performant way. Not impossible, but complicated. It would be valuable to add, but there are different approaches as well (like sharing additional Webassembly-level memories between instances, for example)

* WASI already has a concept similar to select

* unix sockets would be a pretty straight-forward addition

> Why include error-prone cruft?

A big goal here is to make existing software compile to Webassembly, with only a relatively small amount of changes.

For writing new software the direction of WASI (going towards the fine-grained capability model) is a very valid approach. But that won't get you compatibility with pretty much all software in existence.

And there is space to explore both directions.
This is a difficult UI design challenge, but not an impossible one.

I think ChatGPT needs to start returning contextual tips alongside responses that might suffer from some of these problems.

I made a mockup of that a while ago: https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1641467385688489984

UPDATE: I blogged better mockups here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/May/30/chatgpt-inline-tips/

To save you the click: the user asks for what's trending on pinterest, and ChatGPT (in my mockup) shows a little inline warning note with a warning icon that says: "My data is only accurate up to September 2021 and I am unable to access or search the internet for more recent information."

I need to re-make that mockup because I don't like the way it says "My data ..." - I think it should say "ChatGPT's data ..." instead.
Does Qualcomm’s comments mean this that the foundry business is in trouble?
The Easiest Introduction to Neural Networks (2023)
terrible or not my point still stands, and it is a truer point now that nobody is using the fork that was io.js.
How do we stop AI from being evil? Maybe we should be asking how do we stop people from being evil. Haven't really made a dent in this so far. Doubt we can do so for AI either. Especially if it grows smarter than us.

We can just hope that if it indeed becomes more intelligent than humans it will also be more virtuous as one causes the other.
As you say, in D it's:

case 0b0001_0000:

case 0b0101_1000:

which indeed looks much nicer. I have no idea why C++, when copying the feature, didn't use _.

P.S. I copied this feature from 1983 Ada. AFAIK, it was a completely forgotten feature until D had it, then other languages started copying D.
He's not a defendant, he's a prosecutor's witness. The state ought to be covering him here, or they risk losing his testimony.
Also, a witnessed arrest likely means it's because the heart stopped vs the heart could no longer operate because of other problems. Also, vfib is far more salvageable than not operating at all.
Agreed, but half the comments here are getting hung up on him saying he's being sued when it really appears that he isn't. Which then brings in the "what did he do that is appropriate to sue over?" arguments...which can't be answered, because he isn't being sued.
I think it's more about streamlining application deployments and removing the containerization hurdle...The dream seems to be a universal byte-code (WASM) vm that would open the door so that Python, Node, Java 58LTS, Rust, C or freaky Lua scripts could run on the same runtime -- easily -- without container wrappers that each have to be secured (patches) and with a startup penalty.
IBM Plans to Replace Nearly 8k Jobs with AI – These Jobs Are First to Go
If AI improves by 0.0001% per year on your favorite intelligence metric there will eventually be a point where it surpasses human performance and another point where it surpasses all humans combined on that metric. There is danger in that scenario.
To point 1: Goat and sheep herding is kind of a weird one, where they are really more akin to H1B workers than your standard exploited immigrant. Raising sheep and goats is a skill that is typically learned as a child, and there are just not enough qualified sheep and goat herders born and raised in the US. This has been an issue for so long that Boise still has the largest Basque population in the US, because even a century and a half ago, it was hard to find shepherds

To point 2: by and large, I'm with you. But the problem stems from the issue that laws meant to protect workers in one operational structure (workers on farms) are being misapplied to a completely different structure. Grazers have more in common with wildland firefighters than fruit harvesters, and not just in the benefit provided to society. There's an argument for raising the salary for a wildland firefighter, but it is truly obscene that the salary of 1 preventative goat herder is potentially double the salary of 1 wildland firefighter. Granted, the cost of the goat herder is probably still less than a crew of firefighters, but if the perverse outcome of this is that it is in fact cheaper to risk the lives of firefighters, residents, livestock, and wildlife than to pay for 400 goats and 1 shepherd, then I'd argue that the worker protection laws failed.
Wouldn't he be able to recover the costs for complying with the subpoena under Cal. Evidence Code section 1563?

"All reasonable costs incurred in a civil proceeding by a witness who is not a party with respect to the production of all or any part of business records requested pursuant to a subpoena duces tecum shall be charged against the party serving the subpoena duces tecum."

Something's not adding up about his twitter posts.
Set a hard password, save it somewhere, log out and let the browser forget it.

On desktop just use SelfControl.
I haven't read the entire article but my biggest complaint is the lack of tutorials to deal with the new way of defining forms and tables using the new function components in Phoenix 1.7. Yes, the official documents do explain how function components (in general) work and are defined but what I really wanted was a superficial guide to use specific components without delving into the internals. I did bite the bullet and read the documentation and looked at the source code but I feel I didn't really need to do it. Just tell me the new tags I could use, what the attributes mean but I don't need to know how the sausage is made.
Well, it's better than a lot of these "open source" product announcements that are actually not even close to open source. They just want to capture the marketing and SEO advantages of being labeled such. A lot of these have been popping up lately (especially around low/no-code and ML tools) and are actually under a proprietary or other non-open-source license. (Sometimes the founders even push back and say, "but it's on github, you can read all of it, that makes it open source according to my definition!")

Open Core is a fine concept and can work well, my only ask is that companies which do it clearly explain which features/functionality are in each version so that I don't have to sift through marketing drivel to figure it out myself. Or start using the software and click on an interesting button only to be told, "oh snap, you gotta pay for that."
This particular statement really doesn't seem like a marketing ploy. It is difficult to disagree with the potential political and societal impacts of large language models as outlined here: https://www.safe.ai/ai-risk

These are, for the most part, obvious applications of a technology that exists right now but is not widely available yet.

The problem with every discussion around this issue is that there are other statements on "the existential risk of AI" out there that are either marketing ploys or science fiction. It doesn't help that some of the proposed "solutions" are clear attempts at regulatory capture.

This muddles the waters enough that it's difficult to have a productive discussion on how we could mitigate the real risk of, e.g., AI generated disinformation campaigns.
... make that "compound complex" sentences.
Why not both: a clear argument for concern written by an expert? https://yoshuabengio.org/2023/05/22/how-rogue-ais-may-arise/
Your claims are wildy misleading. Last winter, renewables contributed almost 50% to the German electricity mix. You're using the value for overall _energy_ though, which includes heating which is of course still using fossil fuels for the most part in Germany.

Also, Germany does not have the highest power bills in the world.

Solar and wind don't provide energy 24/7 which is why you need storage. Which Germany adds at a breathtaking speed (1+ GWh of storage added just in the first quarter of this year).

I am not against nuclear, but this bs is also completely unnecessary.
You mean France buys loads of coal power from Germany?
Given the state of Flamanville 3 and Olkiluoto 3 if Germany had chosen nuclear instead of renewables they would still be running close to 100% fossil fuels today.

Yes, coming from the oil crisis in the 70s France chose energy independence through nuclear while Germany at the same time chose coal. Today nuclear is a black hole of cost while Germany is building the future.

So what are you even arguing about?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamanville_Nuclear_Power_Plan...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olkiluoto_Nuclear_Power_Plant
JWST Spies a Gigantic Water Plume at Enceladus
"...Using the sensitive NIRSpec (Near-Infrared Spectrograph) instrument onboard JWST, the researchers were searching for organic compounds in order to characterize the composition and structure of the diffuse plumes. However, their observations revealed only emissions of water..."
Cloud guys appreciate the information you have provided. Unfortunately some concepts are very confusing and hard to grasp for me, should have taken MBA or something
> Anime/furry culture has a significant overlap with the Rust community as far as I can tell as an outsider

Just look at the official and unofficial Rust servers on Discord.
It's unclear what exactly the article is trying to conclude, but it seems to imply there's some agenda to keep doing this technique despite evidence to the contrary - perhaps I should clarify by saying "no medical professional is under the illusion." They know the odds, and have for decades, and it is still recommended training for people, and it should be.
Why is this surprising? While cultural can somewhat amplify and repress parts of human nature, human nature hasn't changed. There's a reason US students are assigned to read "The Scarlet Letter" and similar works in middle and high schools.
> I would rather have
> uint8_t b = 0b1111_1111;

In D, you would have:

ubyte b = 0b1111_1111;
Particularly ironic given this isn't actually what the focus on...

https://www.safe.ai/ai-risk
How to draw any regular shape with just one JavaScript function
The Company Where Every Employee Earns the Same UK
You mean a virtualized Linux on Mac, that in turn runs VirtualBox?

Because afaik, as soon as MacOS is not on Apple hardware at some level, it's not license-compliant.
I found that it's only useful to browse sites that don't have dark mode (built-in conversion without any extensions) since they actually put some effort into making it work.
A long way to admit you were wrong but ok?
There are two examples I like to give for things like this.

First, a friend of mine with a literal PhD literally in quantum mechanics literally from Cambridge, who thought a form on a game website offering the possibility to sign up for a free user account to record high-scores and achievements was asking for money.

Second, a time I visited a samurai sword shop in Brighton and didn't notice the signs saying "do not touch" until almost the last second when one of the people I was with stopped my hand; and only then did I see the signs that were literally every meter both vertically and horizontally across the entire wall.

Even smart people can be shockingly oblivious.
https://gradprograms.mines.edu/space-resources-graduate-prog...
> Also, Germany does not have the highest power bills in the world.

While I agree with everything else you said, this is only technically true, last I checked. Only small island nations had more expensive electricity.
How :not() Chains Multiple Selectors
There's a civil lawsuit involving the State of California and Amazon. When you have a civil case, you can get discovery from third parties using subpoenas, which seems to be what's happening here.
They are not hiring immigrants because they are cheap, they are hiring them because they are specialized skilled labor.
> Why, for example, can ChatGPT simply not recognize when it’s being asked to generate factual citations and caution the user to “check my sources”? Why can’t it respond to someone asking “is this text AI-generated?” with a clear “I’m sorry, I’m not capable of making that judgment”?

This is another big frustration for me, as someone who has been in the field for a long time (over a decade at this point). These are complex systems that are just reaching the point of usability, and yet people are going "well why don't you just simply do XYZ?"

If it were simple, it wouldn't have taken so long for these systems to emerge. We already barely get them to do what they're doing, and they still suck at that, so "just make it not do that" is so frustrating. The only thing worse is when people ascribe malicious motives like openai is nefariously deciding that it should inject those mistakes.

Maybe this is the "I could build that in a weekend" of ML. Sorry for the rant, it just makes me want to vent.
Given the sea change in recent laws, I expect those numbers to come closer to parity in the next few years.
Guess the place by seeing streetview only
Maybe. It's happened before. [1] And several of the signatories have expressed views about AI risk for many years.

That said, the renewed anxiety is probably not because these experts think that LLMs per se will become generally intelligent. It's more that each time we find out that the human brain does that we thought were impossible for computers to do turn out to be easy, each time we find that it takes 3~5 years for AI researchers to crack a problem we thought would take centuries[2], people sort of have to adjust their perception of how high the remaining barriers to general intelligence might be. And then when billions of investment dollars pour in at the same time, directing a lot more research into that field, that's another factor that shortens timelines.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14780752

[2] https://kotaku.com/humans-triumph-over-machines-in-protein-f...
I think the point being made is that the lawsuit or criminal case is not against him, even if he seems to be tangled up in a case to some degree.
I installed the “one sec” app suggested in a sibling comment. I tried opening it about 25 times in the previous 7 hours.
Zabardast!
I spent a lot of time programming WE32X00s, they were very much similar to 68Ks/32ks - CISC descendants of vaxes. While I didn't get to program any of the CRISP cpus as I understand them they are much closer to 29Ks/SPARCs (RISC, with a form of register windows)
"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."

-- Edsger W. Dijkstra

However, I do believe that astronomers put references to the actual instruments they used in their publications.
Has the title changed?

At the present time, it is "I criticized Amazon’s policies in a blog. Their lawyers are trying to ruin me" which appears to be entirely accurate.
Some would disagree with this take:

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/24/ukraine-the-wests-oil-war-ag...

Analysis published Wednesday by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air, an independent Finnish think tank, found that Russia’s revenues from oil exports have recovered from levels reached in January and February.

The findings show that Moscow has been able to successfully claw back earnings from fossil fuel exports in recent weeks despite the imposition of import bans from the European Union and a broader G7 oil price cap late last year.

Energy analysts at CREA suggested the failure from the so-called Price Cap Coalition to revise price levels and enforce the policy had resulted in the measures “losing traction, integrity and credibility.”
Fully agree. I'm also a very happy Fastmail customer of over 10 years now; I could never go back to gmail
CPR is particularly unlikely to be life-saving in a wilderness scenario (like mountaineering) because professional medical care may be many hours away. Even if you can get a patient's heart restarted with CPR, they may not survive to reach a hospital.
It's also more difficult to bisect to find the actual bug. Small commits have a lot of advantages.
I have a weird interest in houses around my city that clearly used to have businesses in them when people didn't travel as far all the time. Some operate as cofffee shops, small specialty retail, or services like therapists/accountants. But others are fully homes now, just with a front room area that was aimed at having customers and sometimes a residence in the back or above. They feel like little markers of another time.
> We should be very suspicious of policy that is based on propositions so obvious that it's borderline offensive to question them.

Mostly if the "obviousness" just masks a social taboo, which I don't see being the case here. Do you?

> The problem is, lots of "obvious" things have turned out to be very wrong.

A much bigger problem is that lots more "counter-intuitive" things that people like to believe because they elevate them over the unwashed masses have turned and continue to turn out to be very wrong and that this does not prevent them from forming the basis for important policy decisions.

I'm all for questioning even what appears intuitively obvious (especially if much rides on getting it right, as presumably it does here). But frankly, of the many bizarre reasons I have heard why we should not worry about AI the claim that it seems far too obvious that we should must be the single most perverse one yet.

> Everything else is just intellectual fig leaves for the core argument that intuitively, without evidence, this proposition is obvious.

Maybe your appraisal of what counts as evidence is defective?

For example, there's been a pattern of people confidently predicting AIs won't be able to perform various particular feats of the human mind (either fundamentally or in the next few decades) only to be proven wrong over increasingly shorter time-spans. And with AIs often not just reaching but far surpassing human ability. I'm happy to provide examples. Can you explain to me why you think this is does not count, in any way, as evidence that AIs have the potential to reach a level of capability that renders them quite dangerous?
Molson says right in one of his tweets that he’s been “served with a lawsuit.” As far as I can tell, he hasn’t. He’s been served with a subpoena. Amazon has a right to subpoena evidence from third parties, and they have a right to extend their requests for evidence beyond just what has already been given to the CA AG. They have the right to look for exculpatory evidence, even if it’s more than what’s already been given by Molson. “I don’t have those documents” is an acceptable response to a subpoena, so it’s not like he has to come up with stuff he doesn’t already have. Amazon or the CA AG already having the evidence isn’t a reason to stop them from asking Molson for it.

Molson also has rights. The discovery process isn’t supposed to be used to overwhelm or harass third parties, so he should move to quash if he really is being overwhelmed. This is the reality of our system: if you’re a witness and you’ve got evidence relevant to a case then the parties (and the court) have the right to get it from you. This is especially true when someone is already involved as a witness for one side, as here. Unfortunately, being able to be roped into a lawsuit that you’re not a party to is not only possible but probable in the USA.
Sure, but clever mumbo jumbo won't distract from the principle point.

If AI can create a virus that kills all humans, another AI can create a virus that kills that virus. The virus has trillions more ways to be killed than to keep it alive, right?
You may have heard (I read it somewhere) that replacing the aging shop-owners with a new, younger generation is often met with a loss of customers.

Maybe it was regarding a sushi restaurant that I saw this about? The young'en had to apprentice for some time for the customers to get used to the new face before the owner could hand over the reigns. Maybe you need the old customers to age-out, new customers to age-in, ha ha.
NOTE: I am not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice.

Whats happening here is Molson a expert witness to a lawsuit filed against Amazon by the CA Attorney General Office. They've issued a subpoena for information (as is their right under the legal system) for additional discovery. A good chunk of it appears to be a repeat of the same discovery the state AG office is or has gathered, but they're also looking for anything related even tangentially to Molson's relationship with Amazon (emails, messages etc) as well. The allegation here would more closely be that Amazon is trying to abuse the discovery process by overreach.

I'm willing to give Molson the benefit of the doubt in saying "lawsuit" when likely its subpoena. I imagine this is a stressful time for Molson and it can be hard to get the nuances of the legal system portrayed right. The docs he posted make it all much more clear
Yep, I acknowledge this is the case. Thanks for the correction!
That is funny. For audio books I'm currently working on an `epub` command for `tone` which will be able to extract text from `epub` files, e.g.:

tone epub --format="markdown" --extract-sentences --one-file-per-chapter output-path/

As a result, you can use https://github.com/readbeyond/aeneas with the generated text / markdown files to create a json mapping file looking like this:

{
"fragments": [
{
"begin": "0.000",
"children": [],
"end": "7.920",
"id": "f000001",
"language": "eng",
"lines": [
"This is the first sentence of the audio book."
]
}
}

Since aeneas is a bit inaccurate, I'm also working on an improvement with silence detection for these mapping files.

If you are looking for something that is "ready to use", you could check out https://github.com/r4victor/syncabook or the according library https://github.com/r4victor/afaligner

If you have audio files, that are NOT audio books, the epub approach will not help you and the other comments are more helpful.
In (very) low earth orbit you can get by without radiation hardening. The ISS uses HP zbooks (and before that Thinkpads) and apparently they only really modify cooling and power, without any changes for radiation hardening.

Seems like they are reliable enough for their job and just need the occasional reboot. For more critical systems you could probably get by with three computers voting on the result, and if they disagree the outlier gets rebooted (a fairly standard setup in aviation and space)