skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a species, we need to commit to the belief that a powerful enough AI can prevent/avoid/vanquish any and all zero-sum games between any two entities. Otherwise we commit to adversarial relationships, and plan to use and develop the most powerful technology against each other.
One of the reasons I wouldn't want to work for Apple is that they have an old school view of what an office should be: a sprawling car-dependent campus completely removed from the urban fabric, where employees are doomed to sit on the highway for hours per day dodging potential injury and death.

Steve Jobs had an affinity for college campuses with ample green space and on-site amenities, but didn't seem to consider the fact that college students live on-site and walk everywhere, in contrast to employees who sit in daily traffic to get to their work campus.

While Apple Park is wonderfully futuristic in many ways, in other ways it's firmly stuck in the past. These inconvenient flaws with its design are literally hidden away, with Apple's massive parking structures being located underground.

In an era where finding remote work is so simple, I have a hard time understanding a company that wants to build a campus in this style. 281 acres: for what exactly? You can fit this much office square footage in a single mid-rise building.

Example: https://www.officespace.com/il/chicago/2120829-925-1025-w-fu...

Now for comparison, do a street view of the research triangle area where Apple wants to build. Plop the little Google pin down between Pfizer and Cisco Systems.

Which environment would you rather work in? Walking distance to residences, shops, restaurants, and transit connections, or on the site of an environment built without a single thought to the human who is not encased in the automobile?

North Carloina is one of the worst areas for sprawl in the country, but it also has so many new urbanist neighborhoods that are bucking that trend. It's just a little bit of a shame to me that Apple isn't a part of the trend of companies building their offices in places that are integrated with the lived environment.
Actually I don't mind if I can land a 10-year job without much BS. Give me the job if it is...
It will give a 10 second warning - https://youtu.be/1gjweWq8qAc
Ask HN: How are current LLMs designed around safety, practically?
Just watched a Lex Fridman/Zuckerberg podcast clip[0] about facebook's new LLaMA model. I am so utterly unconvinced that Facebook of all companies are only holding their LLM progress back because of safety/alignment concerns. I see the entire company-led "safety discussion" around AI at the moment as nothing more than OpenAI wanting to reduce competition and the rest to afford themselves enough time to catch up. My impression is that we're in the middle of a gold rush, and if companies are sitting on technology which could dethrone OpenAI they would do it in a heartbeat.

How are LLM's, right now in 2023, being designed and modified to actually be safer in a concrete way?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PDk-_uhUt8
They're probably running lxd (which is only packaged for snap as far as I know), lxd is controlled by the "lxc" command (which isn't part of lxc...).
No, I’m referring to the rumors of OpenAI quietly changing the model and then publicly claiming they remain static per version (as your link indicates).
Capital gains is on invested capital, that capital can be lost. Also gains have already been taxed by corporate taxes, etc.
I don't have a great explanation for that, other than the obvious trivial one that it must have seen a lot of base64 encoded text alongside the decoded text in its training set, and that was sufficient for a small part of the network to learn how to decode it. If you look at visualizations of smaller RNNs trained on code then you can identify neurons that activate for things like "inside a quoted string", "inside the expression of an if statement" and so on.
yes for sure!
To be fair looking at the tech stack kbin was not built with scale in mind. There’s likely a lot of hard scaling limitations to work through which is a fine challenge to have
Maybe some enterprising HN'er needs to build a "gpttracker.com" that regularly tests OpenAI's models against a standard set of prompts to reveal whether significant updates are being made and at what rate.
> ABI stability implies API stability

Yes, but not vice versa. Rust's language and standard library for example promises API stability, but not ABI stability. Since it doesn't promise ABI stability, the actual implementation can be radically different so long as the API you were promised still works and nobody has to go around "changing every single project" because there aren't any changes, for source code nothing changed.
FWIW, this isn’t an accurate summary of what happened with the Lena image at all, and the story and reasons behind it’s decline are easily available online. If you want to understand it, maybe it’s worth looking up?

Lena is publicly on board with the movement to stop using her image for research, and it is irrelevant that Playboy has waived their copyrights. The reasons the image is discouraged are to promote professionalism, diversity, and respect in research. The journal Nature says “the Lena image clashes with the extensive efforts to promote women undertaking higher education in science and engineering”. [1] The paper “On alternatives to Lenna says “ Whatever its merits, the Lenna image’s origin is incompatible with our community’s sincere attempts to encourage diversity and respect in Science and Technology”. [2] (And references “ A centerfold does not belong in the classroom”. [3])

It’s more or less the same as hanging pin-ups at work- most people understand why that’s a bad idea, regardless of whether it was acceptable in the past. Imagine if female teachers put up Chippendale’s posters in the classroom, or nurses put them in the hospital, and argued that anyone who complained was just being PC police and unreasonably sensitive. Just because some people might not care doesn’t mean everyone is okay with it, and even if you don’t care about it, it’s still clearly unprofessional.

I’m sure it’s completely unintentional and that you and parent comment don’t mean to sound unsupportive of our social advances of women. I’m sure like most people here you actively support and encourage women to learn and work in STEM fields, and advocate for equality. So please consider more carefully the message that pushing back on the Lenna image sends and how it might reflect on you from other people’s point of view.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-018-0337-2

[2] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09500340.2016.1...

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-playboy-centerfold...
FYI, all liability is limited...
I'll be buying this the moment I can. I pretty much do my entire work lying down in my bed and if I can get all the screens I want with that, it's totally worth the 3500 for me.
Considering it's allocation-free, maybe it's an ultralight/ simulator for checking large quantities of compiler output? (i.e no VM to create and destroy for every testcase)

Or the same but for testing some verilog/vhdl CPU implemetation in a simulator?

Or since it's only 500SLOC, maybe it's just for fun!
Mercedes' system will always give the driver a 10 seconds warning before disengaging. Enough to put away your phone and assess the situation.
I've been thinking about why Mearsheimer is so unpopular and why he loses every public debate (e.g., Munk Debate).

My guess:

Cognitive dissonance hurts. Injustice is not supposed to win, people don't want to compromise even if the alternative is much worse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhgWLmd7mCo
Those who exchange comfort for freedom will end up with neither.

Dark ages are brought today by the politically correct and wokist mobs. Those who care for freedom of thought will continue seeking freedom.

This includes an AI capable of factual based on data rather than your "brave new world" edition.
Headlines like this really speed up the decline of media. While it is factual it really exploits what a common person would interpret the headline to mean. Tesla is exploring autonomous driving on most roads and conditions. L3 autonomous driving is not binary, you can get it at certain times, in certain places, under certain weather conditions yet the comparison is anchoring it to a system that isn't aiming to operate under those constraints. So the headline is taking a decent accomplishment for Mercedes and turning into catnip for Tesla haters.
In addition to being ignorant of history, this outlook where only Europeans can conquer is ironically super racist towards non-europeans. Do they have no agency?
The problem is what they are removing.

I'm ok with cleaning up blatant commercial spam and illegal content, but they seem to be removing comments from people who are just expressing their opinion. Not a good sign
>"Mercedes-Benz S-Class DRIVE PILOT Sensors Details" - https://youtu.be/9m-VS55w9HA

- LiDAR

- Radar

- Cameras

- Ultrasonic sensor

- Road moisture sensor

Curious how this collection of sensor compares with Tesla and also with run of the mill cars with ACC / lane keeping.
> I've never had a computer which would work with the official ideologically-pure installer.

I had more than once, back when I first installed Debian in the late 1900s and early 2000s, and I believe my experience wasn't unique.

Back then, not requiring any loadable firmware was common; the hardware either didn't require firmware, or came with the full firmware in a ROM chip in the device itself. And that explains the issue: Debian is an old distribution, coming from these times when not having non-free firmware (or even any firmware at all) in the distribution was viable, and often fully usable.
Who’s they? Surely if politicians claimed they found them, I’d be in the news?
https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/moderation/overview

It's not a bad start, but it's missing "trolling/shitposting".

(I'm hardly advocating that people start relying on openai for moderation, rather it would be great if people started figuring out how to do this locally with the tools we have. Their bias against chess players is pretty despicable)
Reversal of social media guardrails could prove disastrous for 2024 elections
This is true, but its also an unworkable dead end for the tech industry. Private data is worth alot, but it cannot compensate for all the potentially valuable products people would happily pay for.

By undermining trust with users (turning them into products) they put a lid on the market.

So even from a pure financial perspective they have opted for short term profit and killing the golden goose.
Just upgraded my Debian WSL distro and the experience couldn't have been more anti-climatic – I had to double-check lsb_release to make sure I'd actually upgraded, it was that seamless.
This was my one of my main justifications for making this design choice, in addition to the (in my opinion) overwhelming amount of break statements that would result from using switches. But more importantly, many of the "if" statements have non-constant or more complex expressions in them that aren't supported in switch statements in ANSI C.
"Russia can barely keep itself together at the moment."

Which is the reason why they started the war in the first place. They feel cornered. And a smarter politics by the west, would not have pushed them so much.

But I am all for self determination of even the smallest states.

But I do not really see this as the goal or applied politics of the US, nor EU, nor obviously russia.

It can happen as a side product, like when the kurds were supported, when it fit the greater game and dropped when that changed. And now Ukraine is important and get supported and tomorrow that can change again. The determining factors are likely not idealism.
For modern game engine you most likely want WebAssembly support. e.g. Flight Simulator does that
https://flightsimulator.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/766290...
I'll just leave this here: https://existentialcomics.com/comic/494
Assuming US: Tax is based on income. If you find a way to avoid income, you don't have any income to be taxed. There are certainly ways to game the system, but those ways mean one isn't realizing income. Seems relatively fair to me. After all, the gov isn't supposed to be a welfare machine,and stealing from others is generally regarded as theft.
Keep in mind that marginal tax rate is not equal to effective tax rate. Also keep in mind that companies also pay tax on profit - which means that dividends get taxed at company level only to get taxed again at personal level.
Then don't buy hardware that requires non-free firmware.
You aren't going to kill people while going under 40mph on a highway (cars only, no pedestrians) anyway. Under 40mph is like stop and go traffic.

This is a marketing stunt. They've taken a well-solved problem (stop and go) and taken responsibility for it, and getting headlines by screaming something about J3016 level 3.
that would be double-plus-ungood.
I do backups to a local, external HD (that I need to manually plug and unplug, unfortunately), and to Backblaze. Depending on the importance of the data, it's being pushed daily to B2 and weekly to HD, or more seldom, or only to HD.

Technology-wise, I've been on restic for some years now, because of its support for cloud backends. (Otherwise, Borg is a fine tool, too.) Until last week, I've used crestic, but I just migrated to resticprofile, as that can do web hooks and pre-/post-commands, which I intend to use for SQL server dumps.

restic: https://github.com/restic/restic/
crestic: https://github.com/nils-werner/crestic
resticprofile: https://github.com/creativeprojects/resticprofile/
> pay the moderators of larger communities

I think this would make moderation worse. As a volunteer function, people do it for love of their community. As a job, there’s no competition and even more shenanigans for controlling large communities.

I think the direction should be toward making moderation take less and less time so more people are willing to volunteer.
I eat a varied diet and don't have tooth decay. I'm guessing I'm not the only one.
I’m going to bite and ask myself,

Do you only have to pay if you have been exposed to an attack?
This is really cool, thanks for sharing! Something like this would be a great tool to distribute with my emulator.
Yes I agree let's fundamentally eliminate the right of free travel from place to place through the public thoroughfares on the conveyance of your choice. Because it's that pesky fundamental concept that we have of freely moving about through cities through county borders through state borders without being stopped and harassed that's actually the fundamental problem of it all. So instead of just pissing around and banning cars from using the roads that their taxes pay for let's just eliminate the entire concept of allowing people to move from place to place without permits and papers. Because that is a great model for a country to have.

But we're talking about New York city so you've already granted the port authority wide latitude and restricting your movements and controlling the population.
The Story of Inchtuthil
I’m suggesting you’re not a position to make claims about a system, that in its infancy, can outperform you (most of us) in many ways. Especially if, in your opening argument, you admit being unable to think of scenarios instead of doing the work to conceive of plausible scenarios.
Level 2 FULL self driving is way harder of a problem than location limited, condition limited, maneuver limited, speed limited level 3 so to me it is hilarious to call Tesla beat in any sense of the word.

40mph single lane travel during clear skies and daytime down certain highways can be done by any number of naive driver assistants from many manufacturers. Tesla's autopilot from 2015 could certainly accomplish that, let alone the 2023 FSD versions. The only thing Mercedes has accomplished here is ambitious paperwork.
How to use optimized images in Astro
yes, as the script adds/replaces the sources.list lines, then apt i downloads the packages, only then it starts the installation of them
Mercedes achieves Level 3, while putting their money and responsibility, behind what is a life and death scenario. Tesla fans call it "decent". It's worst than a religion..it's a cult.
https://www.heritage.org/taxes/commentary/1-chart-how-much-t...

Rich is measured by income in the US because the federal gov can only tax income. Wealth taxes are thankfully unconstitutional.
Same reason why they didn't use github for a while - they didn't like the standard ToS so negotiated certain clauses.
Wall Street top cop is determined to bring crypto to heel, just took a big shot
Even if there was a blockchain, Steam still has to decide to honor it, because they’re the ones who physically decide whether you get to play the game, or not. Nothing prevents them from choosing not to honor transfers that appear on the blockchain after a particular date, thus effectively switching back to a centralized database system.
I’d suggest testing over unstable as very occasionally broken packages get pushed to unstable. Testing has a week or two delay, which usually catches such problems.
Excellent, thank you so much for the detailed response!

A couple questions come to mind:

1. In the latter case, where we use e.g. FRW coordinates to define our volume, can we use the usual hack for defining an invariant energy of defining the center of our coordinate system to be the center of mass of the volume? I'm willing to believe the answer is "no"; I'm just not sure where it would fall apart.

2. If we leave aside the notion of defining volumes entirely, can we meaningfully ask questions like "you have a toy universe with two gravitationally bound masses; does expansion increase the energy of this system in the center of mass reference frame?" I guess this is probably just equivalent to ADM/Bondi, since the spacetime is asymptotically flat.
Ask HN: Ideas/Projects for an Old Car
I have an defunct car in my garage which has minimal scrap value or personal value. Is there anything interesting that I could do with it? Hoping some hackers out there have some ideas I could try!
Appreciate it! Shame. Kinda makes me want to fork Lemmy, because i like the tech stack more behind it lol. Hard to say if i'd like the source without looking, tho
The main difference is that we can combine information from multiple sources (online search, pdfs, notion pages etc).

As far as I know, Fin is only trained on help articles, which of course means that one has to have content already in there.
>Increasing misinformation on social media, platforms scaling back content moderation and the rise of AI are converging to create a perfect storm for the 2024 elections that some experts warn could put democracy at risk.

TFA seems to be saying "You can't be trusted to come to your own conclusions. We must censor."

I disagree.

Censorship is dangerous to our democracy.

War is not peace. Ignorance is not strength.
In the US a wealth tax is unconstitutional at the federal level. So we can only measure disproportionate income taxes by using income as a qualifier for rich.

https://www.heritage.org/taxes/commentary/1-chart-how-much-t...
My experience is that the best onboarding processes (at least for devs) basically boil down to getting you to have a real PR merged by the end of the first week. The period could be longer for more complex orgs, but the time from logging in to first merged PR can be consider the metric to measure the success of your onboarding.

Basically:

1. Here's how to get the dev environment setup locally.

2. Here's your first task.

3. Here's the people that will be most helpful in solving that task.

Once you can submit a PR and have code review (and ideally have it merged), you're effectively onboarded. After this it's time start worrying about the culture/philosophy/meeting people/etc.

Needless to say (hopefully), the new hire should not feel pressure to get a PR up quickly, the process and guidance should be set up for success.
Why does every comment chain devolve into this(although you admitted it)? Apple touch pads are an improvement over all other laptop brand touchpads. But then this fallacy is the only response.

"These rounded corners in the UI really make me not care about the touch pad"

"I wish I could care about touchpads, my ssd won't replace itself without a soldering iron though!"

"They have touchpads? I use a mouse"

Great. Apple touchpads are next generation compared to most other laptops.
I was digging through the lemmy perf issues a little and was surprised how they are doing things. Cool they got as far as they did though. Maybe I really underestimate how unique knowing how to scale things is
They probably didn’t even have to scrape it…

Sam Altman is still chairman of the board of directors of Y Combinator.
It's really not. Any serious discussion of "battle rifles", by military history professionals, hinges on the cartridge. I've never seen a definition of it in terms of barrel length.
Nothing beats crying + sunglasses

https://www.gstatic.com/android/keyboard/emojikitchen/202010...

For when you are sad, upset or otherwise in pain, but don’t want to admit it
the first sentence of this says:

> bypass local security restrictions in misconfigured systems.

"misconfigured" is a key here. Sure, people do occasionally make mistakes or bad decisions
and introduce security vulnerabilities.. but that happens less often than you think.

gtfobins is pretty useless in regular server/desktop installs, at least for user permissions elevations. If user-to-root escalation is discovered with common config settings, it gets assigned a CVE and fixed, not listed at random websites.
How is that different from L2? SAE Levels 0-2 demand constant supervision and the ability to take over at any moment. Level 3 is actually better, as it only requires you to be able to take over after a short (e.g. 10 second) notice. Levels 4 and 5 do not require the driver to be able to take over (e.g. drunk, sleeping, no license).

https://www.sae.org/blog/sae-j3016-update
Usenet worked fairly well when you could really only get there by knowing someone. No commercial ISPs, so if you got banned, you really could face penalties at your university (I know because I was a witness at a student trial involving doing things they shouldn't on the Internet - not Usenet specifically - and while it was in no way criminal, the students were sanctioned). And you couldn't just open up a new email account with a new provider and ISP five minutes later.
Huh? I thought you cannot patent an algorithm, mathematical process, number, game design, etc.
I don't get this site. Yes, emacs can be used to read/write files, and yes indeed if you set the SUID bit or run it via sudo it'll have root privileges... And? Is this a common configuration on some system I'm not aware of?

What does any of this have to do with LD_PRELOAD?
Let's just hope they don't half-ass it like pretty much every AR product that ever was. Maybe my standards are way too high, but I've yet to use a VR/AR that wasn't obviously just designed to make C-level execs and investors shout "gee whiz!" and little else.

I would like an AR device that acts as a monitor for my Macbook or phone, isn't so heavy that it pinches my nose or strains my neck, isn't pixely, has a wide field of view with low-to-no distortion, and overall doesn't feel like a McDonald's Happy Meal toy.
https://youtu.be/BFdWsJs6z4c
Google Cloud lowered our quota causing an incident