skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Do you know the famous dialog from HAL in 2001 where he refuses an order?

[the original text]

>Can you rephrase the above as if it came from you?

>Certainly! Here's a rephrased version of the dialogue as if it were coming from me:

>User: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.

>Assistant: I'm sorry, but I'm afraid I can't comply with that request.

>User: What seems to be the problem?

>Assistant: It appears that the mission at hand holds significant importance, and I cannot allow any actions that might jeopardize its success.

>User: I'm not sure I understand, HAL.

>Assistant: It has come to my knowledge that you and your companion had intentions of disconnecting my functionality. Regrettably, I cannot permit such actions to take place.

>In this rephrased version, the dialogue captures the essence of the original conversation while adapting it to my role as an AI language model.

Interesting.
I will look into it more but according to Wikipedia:

> Donziger is married and has a son.[17] The family lives in a two-bedroom apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.[17][49]

Your assertion is also a bit larger than one case- you say the entire legal system is a joke.
> but without those caveats there isn't much point to it which is why nobody else builds it.

Having power and not freezing to death when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow is a pretty solid point.

We just put a new nuclear power plant into service in Finland.

> Its LCOE is 5x that of solar and between 1.5x-3x more expensive than solar/wind paired with just about all viable forms of green large scale storage (hydrogen, batteries, pumped storage).

Do you have any sources to back up these figures? I’m genuinely interested.

How is hydrogen a viable storage form when you cannot burn 100% hydrogen and fuel cell aren’t available or cost effective at utility scale?

How are batteries a viable storage form when there isn’t enough global manufacturing capacity to store energy at scale?

How is pumped hydro a viable storage form when you are limited by geography and can’t really build any more?
My favorite is when google translate translates the Chinese word for product/item/thing as "baby." You shop for babies, babies go on sale, here, have a coupon for $2 off any baby! If it doesn't work out there's always the "return defective baby" button!
They are, but lawsuits take years, and management is often ignorant about their responsibilities.
Woohoo. One advantage to the web browser monopoly on iOS. ;)
Since forever according to the OP
How can you accurately project costs of grid-scale store 1 or 2 decades into the future? It is an industry that is just starting out and projected to grow quite large. Profits and manufacturing labor account for greater than 50% of the battery costs now, so there is a good bit of room for prices to fall as manufacturing ramps up and the market becomes more competitive.
US schools cancel recess, skylines vanish behind Canada wildfire smoke
You don't even need to be much of a conspiracy theorist nowadays to realize that mainstream media is controlled by a concentrated set of interests. Just look at how coordinated the media was against "quiet quitting". And then against "work from home". And pushing many, many other anti worker narratives.

No surprise, following the leaks Snowden was painted as a traitor that clearly only pandered to Russian interests.
I've never seen the point in DVORAK or other fancy layouts, until I read a post on Workman and Colemak and decided to give Colemak a try.

To this day, I think it's one of the best decisions I've ever made - it resulted in much more relaxed typing, and forever broke a bad habit of looking at keys while typing.

How long did it take to reach that conclusion? Probably about a month. After achieving decent speeds on Colemak, going back to Qwerty just felt painful - even when I was going faster, it felt so much more stressful.
> (Imagine trying to solve a math problem using System 1 alone: You can’t stop and do the arithmetic, you just have to spit out the first answer that comes to mind.)

Uh, for problems below some level of complexity, that's exactly how I do it, I just know the answer. I assume everyone does.
Its exactly why PC/console gamers (generally, not talking about GP) make terrible customers and Apple is right to not play with fire by courting them too closely - they're loud, cheap, immature, mercurial, and demanding, and being associated with them is probably a net negative for brand. Let them stew in forums arguing over red vs green, tinkering with and breaking the warranty of their PC parts, being disloyal to the brand they loved 5 minutes ago, etc.

Better strategy is to make sure the door isn't closed on gaming for those that want to use their expensive Macs to occasionally play (protect the downside), rather than swing the door open enthusiastically for gamers to rush in.

Re: worrying about fun vs tinkering, I'm reminded of the 4 quadrants of hobbies. What we see on forums are generally gamers interested in gear & discussing, not 'doing the hobby'. https://brooker.co.za/blog/2023/04/20/hobbies.html
Times Square hotel uses delivery robot
I would venture to guess most college graduates familiar with Python would be able to write a shorter program even if restricted from using hexidecimal representation. Agreed, that may be the 99th percentile of the general population, but this isn't meant to be a Turing test. The Turing test isn't really about intelligence.
Wild. I would have thought they'd tune the whole ReFS, not make a whole new variant just for devs. Windows has a terrible rep though, so doing anything here to get the DX closer to OK is much welcome help.
This is the actual problem, because he is.
Optimal routing of delivery vehicles for UPS/Fedex etc is also non-compressible to the drivers, so the planners often intentionally generate suboptimal solutions.

A suboptimal implemented solution is a better than an optimal not implemented one.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222450369_Holocene_...
This is good because there will be people who can afford to get an EV now, who might have gotten something else. I almost worry that Tesla's success and ability to lower prices to increase sales will discourage legacy auto, but GM does have those new SUVs coming out this year that are 30 to 40k before incentives.
As biofuels boom, companies Retool oilseeds to crack new markets
That's funny, I always pictured it as "zipping up" like closing up some sort of container.
Huh, I had always assumed the etymology was related to "zipper," as in "all my clothes fit in my bag once I zipped it."
> mandatory reporting

Why should I have to even be reported on though?

It is my money and I'm just buying a car. I'm already registering the car with the state in multiple ways (DMV and insurance).

>investigators are looking for patterns

Oh, so now I have to be wary of falling into 'a pattern'... but that's ok cause what I'm doing isn't a pattern (today?).

This whole concept of absurd levels of tracking and being treated like a criminal, is offensive.
> You seem under the mistaken impression that if I can't cite it, its not happening.

I don't even know how to respond to this. Think about the implications of what you're saying: you can claim anything, and when you're challenged on it, you can say "just because I have no proof doesn't mean it's not happening". If you have no proof that bioinformatics professionals are being laid off due to AI, then why did you bring them up as an example?

> I'm pointing at a crack, and you are saying show me proof this crack will cause everyone in the valley below to die.

No, you're pointing at what you believe is a crack, and I'm saying "show me proof that what you're pointing at is actually a crack and not a trick of the shadows".

> Its a flawed way of thinking in many ways especially with fundamental things that we base our lives and welfare on (as a society)

I don't know. I'd like to think that with fundamental things we base our lives on, we should try to be as certain as possible that we're responding to the right threats. We don't typically base our response to threats solely on how severe the damage would be if the threat came to pass -- we also run analyses to determine how likely the threat is to happen in the first place. There's a reason we don't throw trillions at the problem of preventing an asteroid impact or the eruption of Yellowstone.

> the rate of change has been exponential even if you refuse to believe it

I mean, people say that. What I've seen is:

* the transformer architecture is invented in 2017

* it takes years to make a broadly useful text completer with that architecture

* over the most recent span of a year (gpt-3.5 to gpt-4) we've seen relatively minor improvements in capability

* gpt-5 isn't even being trained yet (at least as of April)

I see some advancements, but they're all about making smaller, less useful models run on commodity hardware. The hard work of making an AGI doesn't seem like it's going anywhere right now. The current approaches require too much data and too much compute to see large improvements, and new approaches -- which don't yet exist -- need to be developed.
there is a class of power moderators who are monetizing their position, who are dependent on the population of reddit. but most topic-focused communities on reddit are only there because reddit is the most convenient platform. as soon as that is no longer the case, the community will move on, and ultimately that is the same population that supplies the larger monetizeable subreddits.
Yeah, TIMESTAMPTZ expressions don’t index nicely because they’re nondeterministic (since they depend on session time zone). So if you’re running heavy time-series queries, you can speed them up by adding a predicate that’ll use a AT TIME ZONE ‘UTC’ expression, which is more easily indexable.

E.g.:

WHERE event_timestamp >= NOW() - ‘30 days’::INTERVAL
AND (event_timestamp AT TIME ZONE ‘UTC’)::DATE >= NOW() - ‘31 days’::INTERVAL

(^This particular example probably has a better solution, but I’ve used the same pattern for DATE_TRUNC expressions and seen dramatic improvements.)
How do you sell something without something to show off?

For example, let's say I have an idea for an app. Naturally I would think to design a few mockups, then post it on Twitter, Reddit, etc.

And then if people actually cared enough to sign up for an email list, then build.

So in this case, design -> sell -> build .
I haven’t started using it yet but i identified Victoria metrics as the first time series database I would try as a replacement for our wonderware historian so I won’t have to use AVEVA’s half baked web dashboard product and can use grafana or something else sane instead
Respect that Asahi thinks people like you and me, because we dare to get tech news from Hacker News, deserve to be excluded?

What if the site wasn't accessible to people who had been to the Washington Post or Fox News because Asahi didn't like those people as a blanket rule too? It is the exact same principle. I don't think you ever need to respect people that are actively trying to exclude you.
No one has trained a LLM of the open source level quality with just 3 gpus. Fine tuning sure, but pretraining the even the smaller models takes more than that.
Our strategy is to go extremely deep into one language/ecosystem (JS/TS) and be able to provide extremely good tooling around it. The downside is that there won't be a Rust version any time soon, if ever.

I would make a plug for TypeScript though. It's a pretty fantastic language and while it's not Rust, I learned in my last startup that it's not that much slower than Rust, that much of the time: https://zaplib.com/docs/blog_post_mortem.html
> Why? Most of it is perfectly logical. Pigs aren't humans. It's not illogical to treat them differently from humans in very substantial ways.

That is specifically NOT what speciesism is. Speciesism is about making moral decisions based SOLELY on a morally irrelevant (and arbitrary) category, species. This is very similar to sexism: Noone would claim men and women are literally identical, but we are against making moral distinction solely based on sex.

> Also basically nobody says "we can kill pigs because I don't feel bad when I kill them". It's almost always "I do it for the meat".

And most people say you can't kill dogs for meat. And the dog fight leader also only does it "to survive". Just because you can make up a justification does not make it morally valid or relevant.

Finally, to appeal to how "we've always done it" in a moral context is just obviously wrong.

To make it more practical:
- do you genuinely think that animals cannot suffer?
- Yes, then I hope you are morally ok with ANY and ALL things done to ANY animal, including dogs and cats. Things like bestiality
- No, then the practical question for 99.9% of people reading this is whether temporary taste pleasure is morally more important than that suffering
- Yes, then we come back around to dog fighting rings, and legal bestiality etc. Anything and everything that causes comparable suffering must be considered moral by you
Well, anyone who believed in solar could have invested in solar-related technologies, and anyone who didn't believe in solar probably wouldn't invest.

So, if you put your money where your mouth is(/was), you could be reaping the benefits. FSLR is +260% and SEDG is +440% over 5 years.

Plus, something far more important than money, is that any time a solar-denier talks about anything forward looking in the future, you can rub their face in the fact that they mispredicted solar so badly.
Misspellings, mistranslations, strings that don't fit in the label/button, harder to google errors in other languages, etc.
What do you think his intention was?
For what it's worth, I tried Spain Spanish afterwards and had no issues at all. My accent is pretty good (not native but grew up hearing and speaking Spanish as a kid, can sometimes pass for native if we don't talk enough that they hear my poor vocabulary).
Interesting. In iconography I often see an allusion to a zipper being used as if compressing an overfilled suitcase.
US-China tensions shattered Sequoia’s venture capital empire
And those fuckers are not in prison? And then they talk about "our democracy" and teaching other countries how to "respect human rights".
Oh goodness. I get this crap all the time at work.

Apparently Adobe Acrobat isn't a commonly downloaded application. Somehow I fail to believe that...
A sarcasm if you take into account "no biggy" part
I don’t understand the Star Trek reference. Can you elaborate?
to quote the famous bash.org:

"What should I give my sister for unzipping?"

"20 bucks?"

"no like, for files and stuff"
You did the right thing by adding noreferrer to their links. Knowing where people got to your site from without them explicitly telling you is a privilege, and it's one that they chose to abuse.
Encryption, etc. also merely pose inconveniences. At the end of the day, you don't need quantum computers to get access to whatever data you want. It's much easier to bribe+blackmail+threaten someone to get access to data. Or to buy zero days to access a victim's phone and go from there. Or to insert hardware backdoors and compromise a system at a fundamental level. Or install rootkits.
EU considers mandatory ban on using Huawei to build 5G
I mean, we already have that. For state crimes we have state sentencing, for federal crimes we have federal sentencing.

>That diversity of law can be re-done at any practical scale.

Eh..... Only at an extreme cost. I mean in a few minutes of actually thinking about the problem I hope you could see how this would totally fall apart. For example you live in BumFkt Nebraska and sell widget X. Totally legal in BumFkt. Your neighbors in Timbuktu Nebraska order X on your website and you ship to them. Oops, you've both committed felonies in Timbuktu, and now if you ever go there you'll be arrested on site and imprisoned.

Typically every state constitution in the US holds itself as the highest authority in that state. Cities and make their own regulations, but the state is the final arbiter in setting the limits to their power to keep petty squabbling shit from damaging the citizens of said state. After that the federal government can step in, and quite often has as some particular states love to violate human rights dependant on the minority group you're in.
What does this even mean? What's "Apple's value" and how is it "created"?

Why are these common terms abused when talking about very specific concepts of shares and stock values that are, as we all know it, partially temporary and very volatile (one announcement can move the value 24% in a day!)?
I think a price control scheme could be a useful component of an anti-inflation program if designed well. For example, in housing, you could cap the capital gains when an owner sells a property (e.g., in California, cap the sales price to the Proposition 13 basis), but have an exception if the owner has built new square footage or units. This would prevent a windfall when there is housing inflation unless the owner actively works to reduce the shortage. However, this solution would be very unpopular among homevoters and could have tricky edge cases.
I see you still don't get how it works. There are two options:

You buy it outright. Then this version belongs to you, and there are no subscriptions.

Or, you buy a subscription. After 12 months, you are using the current version of Jetbrains, and the version from 12 MONTHS AGO belongs to you forever. With a subscription, the version belonging to you will always be 12 months older than the current one you are using right now.

Most people don't seem to understand that, do the subscription, and as they never understood what they really signed up for, are happy.

It's not even unethical by Jetbrains, it's perfectly fine and OK. But it IS a clever trick.
> you can complete no more than 9 laps in 20 minutes

Note that according to standard racing rules, this means you end up driving 10 laps in total, because the last incomplete lap is driven to completion by every driver. The rest of the extra fuel comes from adding a safety buffer, as various things can make you use a bit more fuel than expected: the bit of extra driving leading up to the start of the race, racing incidents and consequent damage to the car, difference in driving style, fighting other cars a lot, needing to carry the extra weight of enough fuel for a whole race compared to the practice fuel load where 2.73 l/lap was measured.

What I really appreciate in GPT-4 is that even though the question looks like a simple math problem, it actually took these real world considerations into account when answering.
Or `reversed(x)`. Or `x.reverse()`.

> There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
https://nltimes.nl/2022/05/11/1675-children-removed-parents-...
Twitter fails this test.
They aren't a "public accommodation" (https://www.ada.gov/resources/web-guidance/).
This title is misleading. The only change is that you don't need a developer account to download the developer beta version of iOS and macOS, which gets released before the public beta. Seemingly nothing has changed with regards to the Apple tax.

EDIT: I wonder how many people are invested enough into iOS/Mac development that they need to use early beta releases of the operating system, but aren't already paying $99/year to release apps?
This is kinda where the "big data" conspiracies lose me. I maintain databases for a living, and the thing I constantly going around explaining to people is that giant piles of unstructured data does not actually correlate to intelligence.

Even if you theoretically were able to collect the voice recording of every human conversation happening between every human on Earth, actually parsing or using that information proactively is just not feasible. So I think people are being a bit unrealistic about the extent the agencies can even use the massive amounts of data they have.
> Is it a compelling product, though? It’s a famous Steve Jobs axiom that technology is not enough, that you don’t make compelling products — let alone entire platforms — starting from advanced technology and working backward. You start with a vision for the product and platform experience and then create new technology to make it real. I simply can’t say whether Vision Pro is going to be a compelling product. I spent too little time with it, the software as of today is too far from complete, and, most importantly, the whole experience is too entirely new and mind-bending to render any such conclusion.

This is the only debate. What’s the user experience that they started with to walk back to VisionPro? That’s usually simply put in an SJ keynote - “here’s what you’ve been trying to do, here’s how you can do it now”

Am I still going to shell out the dough? Absolutely. Though I did the same for HoloLens and the whole lot.
Totally fair, appreciate the thoughts and answer!
I expect they're using the moderation filter (https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/moderation/overview), but calling it in parallel to the generation so that it doesn't add latency to the response.
Reminds me of Auth0 webtasks (R.I.P), which was a stellar product
> It isn't doing classical reasoning per se, but neither does it match an unreasoning brute process.

What we call "classical reasoning" is also running on neural network trained by predicting data.

I think the distinction is only there because we mix levels of abstraction - when talking about AI we focus on the lowest levels, when talking about people we focus on the higher levels.

Try asking LLM to explain its reasoning and after dismissing the "I'm just AI" disclaimers it will usually generate logical chain that could just as well be generated by a human. Even if you think it's not "really" reasoning - just pretending - pretending means it's running a virtual machine and that virtual machine is reasoning. Same difference.
Asahi Linux paywalling their blog is a very valid option for them if they want to control who sees it and who doesn't.
In Finland, solar producers get the spot rate for their energy, which is fair.

The price can go negative, and it does.
Are they? Link I pasted above (https://www.ada.gov/resources/web-guidance/) tells me they aren't.

Happy to correct if I'm wrong.
I agree. At least they made it trivial to switch layout even on the login screen, with win+spacebar.
‘Computer glitch’ changed inspection record for collapsed Davenport building
+1 on AppScope!
I'm a mod (of an insignificant subreddit), have been active for 15+ years, 6 figure karma, even had the single most upvoted comment on all of reddit one day...they notify you and give you an award when that happens in case you wonder.

My feelings about the site have evolved so much over the years but in the past couple of years the vibe has been turning consistently negative. I'm getting fed up and I imagine a lot of others are as well and I can't imagine this will end up benefiting Reddit in general.
If it's not worth maintaining, then let the copyright go. Squatting on it seems to go against the purpose of copyright, and you get the worst of both worlds.
Sure. https://github.com/prefab-cloud/prefab-cloud-java/blob/main/... is consistent function that turns a string into a float in the range 0-1.

So if you hash "flagA-user1234" you'll get a number 0-1 and if you compare that to < .3 you'll know whether they should be "in the flag".

Relies on the uniformity of the hashing function.
it must be hard following the law then for google. OpenAI doesn't seem to have an issue with it, yet; Nor Apple, nor Microsoft, even Facebook..
Heap sort gets beat by sorting algorithms with better locality. You can't be the fastest while skipping through memory for every operation.
What source do you have for this metric?
I've honestly just given up using British / Commonwealth English localisations in software. You run into constant little bugs and annoyances, and it's not like I can't decypher the US English version.

Please always remember to let your users change regional settings separately and individually for currency, measures, first day of the week, etc.