skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What happens when you unpack an archive that uses non-fully utf-8 compliant names.

Exactly what you would want to happen (this is the actual error message you will get, BTW)?

> (cd /mnt/funkyfilesystem && touch $'\370' && tar cf my-bad-file.tar $'\370')
> tar xf /mnt/funkyfilesystem/my-bad-file.tar
tar: \370: Cannot open: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

Or are you trying to tell me that your life isn't complete without tar or a git checkout silently dropping some nonsense byte sequences into your filesystem? In both cases you can map the names to something saner explicitly and continue with whatever you were doing, or checkout to e.g. a tmpfs where you flipped off utf8-enforcement. BTW, unless you work with fairly unusual git repos or tar archives on a regular basis, this is very unlikely to ever happen to you.

> And even if you settle for utf-8 you'll still have to deal with differences with filesystems automatically canonicalizing names or being case insensitive.

(Case-preserving you mean? I think truly case-insensitive died with 8.3 DOS filenames). These are also annoying, but a much more minor issue, e.g. you don't need to create a new weird string type just because of them.
Take what you can before it collapses.
Northwest African Neolithic Initiated by Migrants from Iberia and Levant
You wrote--

> It's decisions about market fit by executives, not a moral crusade (as we have seen, Hollywood execs aren't really the type for that).

As a Criterion Channel subscriber, I take them at their word when they say in their mission statement [1]--

> No matter the medium... Criterion has maintained its pioneering commitment to presenting each film as its maker would want it seen...

Which leads me to ask, did the maker of The French Connection want those slurs removed from his film? (William Friedkin is, after all, still with us.) He certainly seems to have left those slurs in when he and his distributor released the film to audiences in the 70's.

Which makes me curious--just how tough were those previous audiences to be able to withstand the onslaught of slurs that today wilts the average modern viewer? Those moderns could probably use a bit of that stern stuff when looking at the past...

[1] https://www.criterion.com/about
I did read the article. It paints Weber as being correct just because she is a victim.
The billions who use their search everyday would likely disagree. The billions who use YouTube per day would likely disagree. The billions who use android would likely disagree. The hundreds of millions who use gmail, or gsuite would disagree.

Products.
AlphaCode is more specialized in programming (competitive programming to be precise) though whilst GPT4 is much more generalized.

AlphaCode also tries dozens of solutions for one problem, not sure if GPT4 does this.
Global Solar Power Investment Will Top $1B per Day This Year
I would argue that this in turn is driven by a complete failure to enforce any of the anti-trust laws that are on the books.
Inflation is complicated.

For one thing, if wages increased as fast as prices, it would actually be a good thing. It would make it easier to make your fixed-rate mortgage payment. It would allow increased construction to bring down real housing prices without bringing down nominal housing prices and causing millions to go underwater. It would devalue your debts, and the national debt.

But a lot of influential people don't want those things. Banks would make less money in real terms because people would have less real debt. Housing speculators wouldn't get their returns. And wages are sticky, so once they go up, it's hard to get people to take a pay cut even after the supply chain issues that were contributing to higher prices abate.

So now the policy is to suppress "inflation" -- which is to say, nominal wage growth.
Ask any purported “AGI” this simple IQ test question:

What is the shortest python program you can come up with that outputs:

0000000001000100001100100001010011000111010000100101010010110110001101011100111110000100011001010011101001010110110101111100011001110101101111100111011111011111

For background on this kind of question see Shane Legg's (now ancient) lecture on measures of machine intelligence:

https://youtu.be/0ghzG14dT-w?t=890

It's amazing after all this time that people are _still_ trying to discover what Solomonoff proved over a half century ago.
> People have discussed Marcan's anime alter ego

This is pure and poor conjecture, just like the rumor (originating on chan boards and KF) that a person close to marcan had faked suicide. Exactly this sort of rumor mill is what is wrong with HN linking to Asahi developers.

> As a 'queer person' myself, I find that statement utterly ludicrous and I reject it completely.

Are you a cis gay? I remember a few cases where people reached out to have information redacted to dang and it took weeks. While the people mentioned above were digging into private lives. This site absolutely requires you to shut the fuck up about your own life if you are at risk of being turned into a "lolcow" or pedojacked or whatever else these people will come up with. I understand that's not a consideration yet for 'queer people' currently not conscripted to the front of the culture war.
All this creative thinking is nice, but what has the US done in the past decade that is a full foot forward in terms of progress and increasing any quality of life? Everything is at a stalemate or deep freeze whether by politics, greed or just sheer ignorance.
Seems like Bard is still way behind GPT-4 though. GPT-4 gives far superior results in most questions I've tried.

I'm interested in comparing Google's Duet AI with GitHub Copilot but so far seems like the waiting list is taking forever.
Please explain why you think that.

Courts are not perfect because they are made of human beings but what is a better alternative? The alternative that you are implying is that courts and laws are only for people you don't like and since you like (or agree with) Julian Assange it's not necessary.
Nope, there's no reasoning. It's just generating the text that best matches its training data. They admit that themselves, which makes the statement "bard is getting better at reasoning" even more irritating:

> Large language models (LLMs) are like prediction engines — when given a prompt, they generate a response by predicting what words are likely to come next
The truth is Canada is actually not very big when you consider only a tiny strip above the US border is livable, and over 50% of the population live below this line: https://blogs.sas.com/content/graphicallyspeaking/files/2021...
It's a huge country so it's difficult to generalize, but in Vancouver/Victoria we're constrained by the ocean and the mountains, and by farmland.

There's a strong but slowly diminishing opposition to medium-/high-density housing because neighborhoods of detached single family homes have defined the character of these cities for decades.

It's been years since I lived near Toronto but the city is ringed in on all sides by the lake and what's called the Green Belt, which is a protected swathe of farmland and nature preserves. Toronto's doing a better job than Vancouver in terms of managing the density and growth, but every city has problems growing and we Canadians lack the culture of collectivism that makes Tokyo work.
Look at what "they" did to Manning. (And to be clear, in the case of Manning, they were rightfully jailed, IMHO). But, their treatment after the trial was brutal [1].

Snowden himself thought being Gitmo'd was a real possibility [2]

At the time when this happened, there were loud, vocal calls for violence against Snowden by people in powerful positions [3][6]

Snowden has said: "I would like to return to the United States. That is the ultimate goal. But if I'm gonna spend the rest of my life in prison, the one bottom line demand that we have to agree to is that at least I get a fair trial. And that is the one thing the government has refused to guarantee because they won't provide access to what's called a public interest defense," Snowden told "CBS This Morning."

The Government has refused a simple guarantee, meaning they have no interest in a fair trial. Had the Government offered a guarantee, and Snowden refused, you may have a point, but as things are now, no.

The Council of Europe believed strongly enough that Snowden would not get a fair trial [5]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/mar/12/bradley-mannin...

[2] https://thehill.com/policy/technology/212549-snowden-i-can-l...

[3] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/bennyjohnson/americas-s...

[4] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/edward-snowden-nsa-cbs-this-mor...

[5] https://theintercept.com/2015/06/23/european-council-calls-u...

[6] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2543375/I-love-bull...

Edit: pronouns
> We already get a trial that is as fair as humanly possible so asking for a "fair" trial is ridiculous. Is every other trial unfair?

No, but every other trail is not conducted under the restrictions of the espionage act, as has already been explained in this thread. What Snowden is asking for is what most of us can expect should we find ourselves on trial.
Show HN: I built an on-site survey tool with AI insights
Feel free to downvote this because it is a very simple observation and not based on deep academic study. I really hate wages have been so stagnant and have not kept up with inflation. I feel like I've been treading water the last 10 years of my adult life despite making above minimum wage. But I also can't help but notice a lot of people used to say "$15 dollars per hour is going to equal $15 dollar hamburgers" and now where I live $15 dollars per hour has become a pretty common starting wage and now everything is more than usual inflated.
I don't know what tags were in question but there are a lot of really-ambiguous terms out there, a lot of which get co-opted arbitrarily, so it's not outrageous to have allowed a click-through wherever doubt existed.

Minor examples: I tagged something saying only a #sissy would use it, but the only other content posted under that tag is feminization psyops porn.

#lolita should be explicitly outrageous, but it seems we use it to describe fashion style for both prepubescent children and the creepy adults who dress like them.

#FKK is some German acronym about nudism and families or something. I don't know if that's even allowed on Instagram but it comes up a lot on other platforms, usually adjacent to child porn.

The notorious Children of God cult used to deliberately conflate names of acts of sexual abuse with innocuous terms like "Bible study" so children reporting to outsiders would sound like idiots. "Please help, they make me do Bible study..."

This sort of induced confusion is how you get away with operating in plain sight.
> Adolescents are spending less time gathering in shopping malls, movie theaters and rec rooms, and more time connecting on Instagram, TikTok and Discord.

On this point, I’d say the problem lies with the former becoming irrelevant. This is why I’m really interested in creating new types of IRL social spaces and shared experiences. There’s just not a lot of options really, and for The Kids, bars are out.
That looks amazing. What about video? How much data is one model?
Agreed. I keep hearing about these record corporate profits, and I always ask "are they record profits after being adjusted for inflation?" I would bet that some of them are, but these companies want to claim record profits (willfully ignoring inflation), so their stocks go up.
Credit availability is largely a function of federal reserve policy.
I was indexing some of Georgi Gerganov's llama.cpp code yesterday with DoctorGPT (https://github.com/FeatureBaseDB/DoctorGPT/tree/main#readme) and was thinking about doing what you are doing with CodeZen regarding reading in a whole repo. I see you have some limits in indexing larger files and have used a solution for that in DoctorGPT. I'll dig into your code and maybe we can chat about it if you are interested.
If so, how do said corporations get access to the the money that would have previously gone to savings?

More plausible to me is the idea that stimulus — printing new money by fiat — resulted in more cash in circulation. Corporations are like organisms that have evolved to capture and eat cash. They fed on the surplus cash, and their waistlines show it afterwards.

Meanwhile those of us with savings accounts pay the price when inflation reduces the buying power of the cash we had diligently set aside for future use.
chatGPT-4 Result:

Sure, you can use the following Python program to output the string you provided:

```python
print("0000000001000100001100100001010011000111010000100101010010110110001101011100111110000100011001010011101001010110110101111100011001110101101111100111011111011111")
```

This is the simplest and most direct method to output the string. If you have a more complex task in mind, like generating this string according to a certain pattern, please provide more details.
> "I'm just gonna leave" power

For a lot of companies, that's a feature, not a bug. You get to avoid layoffs and all the costs associated with that.
even within 100mi of the border, there's not even close to a shortage of space to build housing. land is not scarce. Even in the GTA or Vancouver metros there's plenty of buildable land.
i plan to buy 3 of these
I was under the impression that you could just stay at home working until they fire you and then collect unemployment.
It's even possible for inflation to occur when people don't keep buying things, because inflation is measured in terms of price alone, not transaction volume, and not revenue (price x volume).
Since Google has already established that JPEG XL is objectively inferior to AVIF [1], and some of its employees, speaking for themselves have also shown similar testing results on twitter. I would actually ask Google why would they be interested in supporting an inferior image codec?

Unless they were wrong in the first place?

[1] https://archive.is/MwJxy
You're assuming the intelligent species is anywhere close to the size of human beings. And that their generations are anything like our generations. You're assuming that they eat like we do, or weigh as much as we do.

Just because a human generation ship would have to be large, it doesn't mean some other species' generation ship would have needed to be.
Toronto is already so big that "Toronto is an hour away from Toronto." I prefer more density than the sprawl, but I don't think most voters think likewise.
This is a nice article, and the comparisons to a war economy are rather valid. The idea that something as complicated as inflation can be controlled just through a single lever, the central bank interest rates, always seemed somewhat ridiculous.

There's certainly a lot of peril this way if market based price control mechanisms get overused, but there's also a lot of peril in trying to cool inflation by just decimating the economy and curtailing investment.
NYC Weed Bodegas Have No Fear
We still have only one data point for life and one data point for intelligence.

It's absurd to claim intelligent life doesn't exist, as we know it does on Earth. And it's absurd to claim any level of probability for other intelligent life until we have one more data point.
The last thing I still use my windows machine for is the occasional gaming session. I'd love to be able to be rid of it forever. This seems like a positive step in that direction.
While I tend not to use disposable email addresses, I am a huge fan of having unique ones for many services or web site accounts. Not only does it tell me which ones have had a data breach or sold my info, but it also helps differentiate the spam that purports to come from that site, but isn't addressed to the specific one I _did_ use there.
100% agree on copyright. The way that interacts with edited works like this is really unfortunate.
We've already crossed the Rubicon of single player games that require internet connectivity and are unplayable if some server disappears.

GPUs will probably get a PhysX-like API for these kind of AI calculations in the future.
we trade a little life expectancy and comfort in airplanes but outside of that there’s a lot of upside so to speak
I never learned to type formally and also use a limited amount of fingers. On my left hand I use my thumb+middle+index finger for everything except zaq and modifiers which I use my ring finger, and on my right hand I only use my middle and index finger for everything except for backspace/delete which I use my ring finger for. Still manage to hit 100WPM.
Pretty sure it paints her as correct because … she looks to have been demonstrably correct.
But prices will go up and to the right
This is why the word 'should' is used in the title.

Other words that indicate ambiguity in the article itself include:

> Air quality problems on Wednesday are likely to be worse farther south in the United States

"likely to be worse"

> Models of smoke patterns, vertically integrated through the atmosphere, suggest that this flow

"suggest"

> Overall the effects could

"could"
You can ship macOS native games on Steam as well. People need to stop throwing conspiracy theories. Their main motivation is to make sure games are native to macOS so they can take advantage of system-native features, which Win32-translated games won't. Otherwise games running on Macs will always be kind of janky and run slower than Windows.
Mysterious Covid strain found in central Ohio
It it tho?

Who would ask Bard to reserve a word in the first place? A regular user probably not. A programmer most likely would.
Is it wrong for a German economist to be interested in energy policy?

At least there’s room to improve from the legacy left by the previous decision makers…
This kind of defeatist, "They Live", everyone-is-lying all of the time mentality ignores the huge privacy gains the internet has achieved since basically just being an open message relay between hubs.

And on a purely practical level, law enforcement and prosecutors really struggle to make use of technical data to make cases, even in situations where they have warrants! Consumer encryption is so good that countries around the developed world are actively trying to pass laws to limit its power.
And just like that, a 32GB memory upgrade can be yours for the low, low price of just $629.99!
It used to be that you wouldn't get youtube ads on a chromecast. That changed and I never use the thing anymore since it can't block ads. A shame.
No, it varies hugely person to person. Plenty of us can do completely disconnected motion in VR and not get any nausea. I could do barrel rolls and "Sliding" movement in VR no problem from day one. For the people who are marginal, software and framerate improvements can help, but those "comfort" settings work by killing immersion. There's also a small portion of people that will never be able to play VR without nausea.
It is sort of like how when some people want to prove something is true they quote the Bible. I find the behavior especially strange when they are quoting the bible to prove the bible is true.
An incredible proportion of the Canadian population live basically on the US border. This means people are more familiar with nearby parts of the US and that internal Canadian logistics are distinctly barebones.

The absolutely insane part is how local the recent growth has become to essentially one subregion of Ontario.
To make more money, of course. Increasing your sales from 12% of the market to 20% of the market by offering a burger (or whatever) for $4 of pure profit instead of competitor's $6 doesn't stop the gravy train.
> how fast we can think [...] an analysis of one of our code bases

Well, with coding that's certainly true. I can spend all day trying to come up with a dozen lines of code. Input speed is not the barrier there. But for writing English prose, at around 90 wpm, my fingers are often lagging behind what I want to say. People can reach short bursts when speaking as fast as 300 wpm. When I get such bursts of thought, it can be hard to hold on to the end of it while I'm still typing the beginning.
In many cases, we should look at a civilization's institutions rather than at its individuals to judge its degree of "advancement". Institutions are often much closer to the ideals of a society than its people.

For example, in many countries, people are quick to suspect someone, whereas the judicial system sees a defendant as innocent until proven guilty. (Imperfectly, of course, but better than what people do.)

(Edit: typo)
The article mostly seems to blame social media, but I also think that the lack of good social spaces is also key. There's fewer and fewer spaces that a group of teens can just hang out without spending money (due to "no loitering" policies/signs), and that number is even smaller if you count spaces in walking distance of most families. I've also heard/read plenty of anecdotes about malls shrinking or closing down completely, which was historically a common teen hangout spot.

Social media just removes the incentive of isolation, imo. It provides just enough social interaction that there's less reason to go out and see each other in person. I'm in my late 20's and I haven't seen some of my best friends in months, but we all chat in Discord and play games together frequently, almost daily. It's not the same as actually hanging out, but it's enough to make not hanging out less painful.
Australia to phase out checks by 2030
The documents were obtaied thru a news/search service built by him as IT. The explanation is documented, plausible, likely, and verifiable to some degree.

Contrast that with your message from a vested interest that it's "a lie." You'll need a lot more than that to be convincing.
Don't forget to piggyback off OP's thread with a comment sharing links to your app/prototype/work if you also happen to develop something even barely related.

Too bad I don't have anything at this time to plug.
I've been using uBlock for a long time but I really don't think I've scratched its surface; do you (or anyone) have a good write-up on advanced uses of UBlock? That would be super helpful!
Nintendo's claim that emulation 'stifles innovation' is hypocritical
I claim that there are no purported AGIs.