skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“We know so little. We oftentimes as human beings tend to focus on things that we can see or perceive directly, and we have to remember that the world is not necessarily designed for us.” - Dr. Akito Kawahara, Entomologist

Ha, I like this guy already.

"Stupid fly can't get out because of the glass" - yes, the window was not designed with flies in mind.

"Look at this great Li-Fi bulb. It's perfectly safe for humans" - ah yes, because only humans exist in the house

"Look at our amazing new seafloor beacons!" - zero consideration for aquatic life

There are countless examples like that. It's almost as if making things harder for everyone else is the point
These are all things the state used to do without AI - people did it perfectly well. Regrettably it isn't a matter of technology that prevents this sort of thing. It is the hollowing out of the public sphere, the shrinking of state workforces, and the diminishing horizons of what is considered to be 'feasible' - where feasibility is often determined by consultants.
Interesting. I maintain a forum (~50k visitors/day) and have been quietly, slowly turning up the information density on the site by reducing font size, padding, etc. Most of our users are 30-50 years old.

Now they see about 25% more than they did before before on a mobile screen. Hasn't had any impact on traffic, but I like it.

The designers either haven’t noticed or don’t care.

Is there a reason most designers go with 16px/1rem as the default font size? Feels comically large to me.
> if companies are sitting on technology which could dethrone OpenAI they would do it in a heartbeat.

If you believe the benchmarks, LLaMA + Vicuna gets remarkably close to GPT-3.5 performance. Not a like-for-like comparison, but even a non-commercial public release of LLaMA would probably force OpenAI to sweeten the deal for 3.5 users.

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

Depends on how you define "safe". From a pedantic POV, it's only text - whatever an LLM outputs is nothing that couldn't exist in the Library of Babel.

The only thing commercial providers like Meta and OpenAI care about is liability. If you're concerned about societal wellbeing, rest assured that the free market is leaving that "innovation" to their competitors.
I'm not sure. I vaguely rememeber the story about certain academics treating "the orangutan" as a great taboo that leads to endless fighting. Bizzare to an outsider, similar to my perception of the Diamond controversy.
How were they hidden?
Right but not for any technical reason. HN has what I presume to be excellent moderators, plus it has simple momentum.
And that assumption is relevant in the context of OPs concern but not yours. You created a different hypothetical and orthogonal situation where the assumption need not apply, and to be honest, I lost the plot a bit. It's possible for there to be a branching set of concerns, each of which having their own set of perfectly valid but otherwise disjoint assumptions.
The Bay Area German bar that brought down Apple’s famed iPhone security
Address nothing about the misleading headline. Call the person that points it out as part of a cult. Maybe you should take a harder look at yourself.
> Do you only have to pay if you have been exposed to an attack?

It's like insurance. Do you buy it after an accident or before?
Are you making the argument that children do not come with an innate ability to read text and thus cannot learn from it, or are you making the argument that the internet does not contain, among other things, fairly detailed instructions on various ways to feed oneself?
Well, if their brand is that strong, that itself allows them to start making something else - you know, "from the makers of <stuff_that_just_wouldn't_die>"; won't need much brand building and convincing because people are still eating the pudding containing the proof.
Not sure about Lemmy. But for mastodon, there’s an incredibly high amount of servers to federate and keep a connection with. Then add all the storage for all the content being created. I can imagine it being heavy.
Maybe I misread, but this author creates some pretty huge straw man arguments here and in so doing over simplifies what is, I think (as a lapsed but trained historian),pretty valid critique.

While some of the pop culture criticism of Diamond could be assigned to so-called cancel culture or “racism,” that characterization really does not summarize much of the academic critique of Diamond.

The best critique I’ve read and certainly the most fun is the Davids Wengrow and Graeber’s big tome “Dawn of Everything.”

Part of critique is simply Diamond making some broad strokes and it’s always the nature of synthesis that they decay quickly as new research comes available.

I’ll link to their more broad editorial, but the David’s’ biggest critique of Diamond and other neo-Raussians is that much of the foundation of those assertions are based on broad and bad preconceptions about so-called pre-history from the Enlightment. Once stated more plainly, very few of us in 2023 or even 20-40 years earlier, would agree with anything stated about other cultures in the Enlightment. And yet somehow, entire world histories - Diamond’s included - never question these basic foundational assumptions. This is a mistake that is increasingly disputed by not only pre-existing 20th century anthropology, but most certainly by 21st century anthropology included LiDAR and satellite imaging.

This author addresses some of that critique but to frame it as some kind of racist critique or cancel culture is frankly absurd. I’m surprised because as a historian surely Kedrosky has read the same books and articles I have, and certainly must know how historiography works - likely better than I do! - and yet this framing is so disengenious it’s a bit surprising.

In any case I recommend Dawn of Everything. It’s not a retort to Diamond/neo-Raussian as it is a kind of “huh!” with a lot of fun framing of preexisting research - some of which Diamond himself pulls from.

An op-Ed to whet the appetite:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/opinion/graeber-wengrow-d...
That's because systemd is the default. You can choose sysvinit during installation

https://wiki.debian.org/Init#Changing_the_init_system_-_at_i...
A highway is any public road per legal definition. https://law.justia.com/codes/california/2022/code-veh/divisi...

40mph is more than enough to kill someone.
https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/ddos/detai...

You pay for it at a price of 20% of your plan's price. If you have a $25/mo plan, it'll be a $5 add-on. You can enable/disable it so that it's only on when you want it and it is pro-rated in that case. If you want to respond to an attack for 2 weeks of the month, it'll cost $2.50. So you can manually turn it on if you're under attack and only pay for that time, but if you want it to automatically handle an attack you have to pay for the month.

I think most people would just turn it on if they were a likely attack target. You don't want your site to go down and either get paged or find out about it hours later. If you're an unlikely attack target or a site that can stand some downtime, you could leave it off and just enable it when under attack.
Who is this "they" you're talking about? Lots of people and lots of groups are trying to use AI in different ways. So yes, obviously people are looking into that too.

You seem cynical.
there is human cost associated with operating this that s3 and other fully managed object stores don’t have.

there is just no reality where you build your own service for this with better reliability, less management, and less maintenance than s3 (and when i say s3 i’m including all managed object stores).

pointing at hetzner and saying, “look how cheap this is”, is missing the point.
> the simple fact that without it the hardware you've invested in won't work

How is that different from the "if you want to run linux don't buy a winmodem" that we said convincingly twenty years ago ? Would you have approved that linux 2.0 added binary blobs to the kernel in order to correctly work with the hardware that you had invested in (some random winmodem) ?
You really think there’s no engineering difference between system that’s designed to actively kill you, and others if you don’t pay attention vs system that’s designed not to do it, and company putting their money behind that statement?
This happens to me too. I end up blocking the channels which works, no other signalling does the job.
Here is a good historical reference from a western viewpoint.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_children_in_the_m...

I am less familiar with other regions of the world but understand it to be common place in some of them to this day.
That’s interesting. I want to know more. What so I google? Uac, windows users, windows administrator, steam?
Strip it down, mount weapons and booby traps to it. We're probably not going to go all "Mad Max" anytime soon, but it never hurts to be prepared.

Depending on just how defunct it is, static art may be a use for it. See if you can get a tree to grow out of the engine compartment.
Only on CERTAIN highways if it's daytime and it's not raining.
When I worked at Amazon they had an onboarding system so complex it had its own web application and was filled with trivial tasks. Lots of video courses. Specifically I attended about 8 DEI based trainings in total, some were instructor lead and some were videos with quizzes. The instructor lead ones were extremely hard to schedule because every new corporate employee had to take them and Amazon’s churn rate is bananas.

But that’s just a gripe, the real issue that people ran into consistently was setting up their laptops. We also had an “onboarding buddy” system so I was responsible for helping several new team members follow IT’s instructions. It’s worth mentioning that myself and almost all the people I worked with are software engineers and had experience with the OS they were using, we were all quite “computer savvy” and still ran into issues. Sometimes we were able to resolve on our own with trial and error but it always overran the allotted time and sometimes took a whole day.

It did not go smoothly for me, or any person I helped. Usually because something small had changed slightly either in the OS or in the software Amazon runs and IT was still shipping out laptops with old images on them or they had not updated their instructions.

It was frustrating, but I don’t think the IT people were incompetent. Quite the opposite. Just a lot of moving parts to juggle.
I think parent poster refers to emacs being essentially a lisp interpreter, plus lisp itself being a literal AST spit out, enabling all kinds of extensibility
They had claimed they were found before this, but they retracted it. This time they did find them.

Edit: I believe the president is the one that tweeted it the first time, and he retracted.
I'm on testing, which just released as Debian 12. mate-desktop is 1.26.0, but a few things (like mate-applets) are 1.26.1 and a few (like mate-panel) show up as 1.27.0. I don't use Ubuntu, so I don't know how these compare to whatever Ubuntu uses.
I've not found the models in the Western tradition to be helpful, few and paltry as they are.
That's a word to be avoided in branding, I think.

The former German SS (Schutzstaffel) translates to "protection squadron" in English.
"The president came under criticism last month when a tweet published on his account mistakenly announced that the children had been found.

He erased the tweet the next day saying that the information - which his office had been given by Colombia's child welfare agency - could not be confirmed." quote from the article this thread is about.
Kraft durch Freude, for a dubious rabbit hole
> You will be charged up to 20% based on your total monthly resource usage covered by DDoS Protection with a total monthly maximum of $1000/mo.

I get that someone has to pay for this, but if I had 50 servers here and they all got shit on, I'd be on the hook for a lot of money through no fault of my own.
I direct new people to the documentation with instructions to look for things that are wrong and then when they find something wrong get it's fixed. About 80% of the time what is wrong needs an expert to fix, but 20% they can figure it out and fix it.

After a few years our documentation is pretty good and mostly up to date.
Right! My reddit comments are public and reflect my preferences and interests pretty well. Yet I’ve never ever felt like clicking a reddit ad. Instagram on the other hand had me clicking on ads occasionally
Completely agree. People love to tout the boots theory but the reality is that the people who claim this are often far beyond the point of optimal cost. Mass manufacturing inherently allows for better value to be delivered at greater scale, which tends to occur at the lower end of the price range. Beyond a certain point you're paying for prestige rather than lifespan.

I've had the same wallet for 10 years. It cost me $16 and was made from recycled leather scraps (thanks, Phil's wallets!). I plan to use it at least another 10 years. Will the $115 wallet pushed in this article really last 7x longer than my scrap wallet? I doubt it.
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Congratulations
Cultures that don’t practice infanticide are the exception in the historical and anthropological record. Not killing your children was invented by the Egyptians, taken up by the Jews and spread by the Christians, Muslims, presumably other Abrahamic faiths and cultures derived from them. It has not been obvious to the huge majority of people ever born that there was anything wrong with infanticide. If you think it is obviously wrong you might want to make an argument of some kind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infanticide
The matter is murky in the details, but it certainly isn't a "conspiracy theory".

Not surprisingly -- different participants have different recollections of what was said, and in what context. As a counterpart to the above, we also have Baker's assurances, made to the Soviets at the time “neither the President nor I intend to extract any unilateral advantages from the processes that are taking place". And that the Americans understood that “not only for the Soviet Union but for other European countries as well it is important to have guarantees that if the United States keeps its presence in Germany within the framework of NATO, not an inch of NATO’s present military jurisdiction will spread in an eastern direction.”

Which certainly sounds like verbal promises that "NATO would not move further east". There is also Gorbachev's famous assessment of the whole matter, after the fact: “It [NATO expansion] was definitely a violation of the spirit of the statements and assurances made to us in 1990".

Not that these assurances had the status of signed treaties -- and not that any of this stuff in any way justifies, minimizes or "explain" the current conflict, which as we know has one aggressor and by this point is entirely one-sided.

But the statements above are part of the historical record -- not some conspiracy theory, or the inventions of Russian apologists.
It's also worth pointing out that this is an extremely limited system:

> On suitable freeway sections and where there is high traffic density, DRIVE PILOT can offer to take over the dynamic driving task, up to speeds of 40 mph.

Basically, this will follow the car in front of you in slow freeway traffic. It won't navigate, it won't even change lanes. It won't work (and it's not clear to me how it disengages) when traffic speeds up.

That's not useless. There's a reasonable argument that this is the product the market wants. But the "Germans beat Tesla" framing here is really quite spun. Autonomy and capability aren't the same thing.
I’ve been maintaining a machine deployed to my mother-in-law’s house for ~4 years with Mint.

She went from needing tech support every time I was at her house to never overnight.

I highly recommend Mint for this scenario.
Pro tip: anyone this argument would work on is currently learning about and tinkering with the tech. The people stuck in the intelligence speculation are tautologically the people you can't stop speculating.
Lot of talk about agents.

Goes back to Schopenhauer:

"Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills."

If it is morally ok for Lions to kill their prey.
Then it is also morally ok for humans to do human things, which includes killing each other and eating everything in sight.

The only morality is enforced by humans on other humans. There is no universal morality. Humanity is just a group of monkeys that would prefer to live where killing within their group is not allowed and appoint other monkeys to police their area and put any killers or thieves in a monkey prison. Note, killing or stealing from other groups of monkeys is a-ok.
But "buying for quality" and "buying for status" are different, and I don't think rich people conflate the two (or the people here). The person buying Louis Vuitton luggage (or whatever rich people buy these days) knows they are buying it for status among their similarly wealthy friends. Although, you also get counter-signaling among "old money" types, where it's seen as déclassé to try too hard; they wouldn't be seen dead with something as vulgar as Louis Vuitton luggage.

However, I don't think this conversation is about them.

The smart middle class family buys the best they can afford given their budget, but the less-smart family buys the cheapest 'Buy well, buy once' encourages the first approach.
Mercedes shipped a system that’s legally self driving, under some set of conditions.

Tesla sells system that’s not legally self driving under any set of conditions. You’re always driving, and Tesla will fight you in court if you want them to take liability for any action it took.

There’s nothing misleading about this headline.
they're also all different topics
As I understand it "firmware" is essentially just the same as an EEPROM, except that using volatile memory is cheaper and easier to upgrade. No one seems to have great issues with EEPROMs (FSF doesn't anyway), but uploading that same code to the device when it starts is a huge problem? I never understood this, and especially given the huge practical trade-offs the entire thing seems fighting windmills.

The Linux-libre people even removed the warning that the CPU is vulnerable to spectre/meltdown if you don't update the microcode. But ... your CPU already comes with that microcode out of the factory, just a different version of it. How is running an older known to be buggy microcode better?
Not out of the box, but it should be able to. I haven't tried yet.
thats what helicopters and drones are for
You really think Mercedes legal filings guarantee a safer system? It is more important to focus on the technical capabilities of the systems than who can add more asterisks to their crash statistics.

You are comparing a mature system with billions of miles of testing to a system which you will struggle to keep engaged for 2 mile intervals.
I run a mix of Debian and Arch/Manjaro.

Debian is fine right up until you have to build something and find that the dep you need is too old so you have to build that from source, and that dep has a dep that's too old so you have to... basically build hell.

Arch seems to not have these problems but is a hair buggier on occasion.
Executable Examples in Go
I can only speculate.

That being said, my impression is the “legacy” users are a vocal minority. I suspect legacy users will notice a decline in quality, but “new” users won’t. The new experience is already so muzzled that it’s barely even the same communities.
I think that was meant in a very narrow sense comparing to SQL. In SQL the columns being selected go before the the table name so the IDE can't suggest a set of valid columns. In LINQ the order is flipped. But other than that there's no grand language design there to support tooling.
> Rules like "don't murder people" don't ever work.

What about the Golden Rule?
It would provide for not killing others, except in self-defense.
Marxism has to do with pointing out how capital operates on societies; there are no Marxist governments, though he did theorize that the world would eventually work its way to communism, in much the same way that we somehow worked ourselves almost to the point that we're not using slavery anymore.

Of course, we are all still carrying around child slavery in our pockets, most of us. It's got a shiny touchscreen and it helps us find our way around, through the power of child slavery.

The above paragraph is me being a Marxist.
At the risk of sounding like the "why do you need DropBox if you have rsync herr derr" guy, why... do I need DDoS protection from my VPS provider if I have Cloudflare anyway?
I don't know that it's "unwise"; that depends on failure rate.

But it's absolutely true that the practical difference between "human must supervise" and "human must be ready to take over" is MUCH smaller than people want it to be. Mostly everyone wants to yell about Elon Musk and "2 vs. 3" is ammunition.
I'm aware of Elon's opinion: "LiDAR is lame. LiDAR is lame. Lame. Losers use LiDAR. LiDAR is expensive."

I can't stomach watching a video that starts out like that.
Having used Ubuntu and then Pop!_OS, I have been thinking of going back to the roots and just sticking with Debian. But I also like to get the new stuff (not bleeding edge because I don't want things breaking all the time) and I have heard that stable is, well, old stuff (hence stable). Which makes me wonder how unstable is "unstable" in reality? I have a very strong preference for sticking to .deb packages due to their wide availability so not really looking at cool distros like Arch.
I debated this several years ago (when they released their horrendous redesign and "old" Reddit became a thing, which in my mind signaled the inevitability of what's going on right now). In the end I decided to go through with the full deletion of all my posts and comments instead of just deleting the account for a few reasons:

1. I felt like my content existing on Reddit could give the incorrect impression that I still support the site in some fashion, which I did/do not.

2. I'd been on Reddit for over a decade and was a very different person from when I first signed up, and even though I don't think I posted anything particularly offensive or problematic I still had a fear that some ancient thing I said could some day be used against me.

3. If I had simply deleted my account I would no longer have any control over my old content, so the easiest way to put my mind at ease was to blanket delete everything.

Not to put my younger self down or anything, but I don't think too much of value was lost. The tiny amount of content that I was particularly proud of continued to exist on other sites anyway.
AI Weekly Roundup – Eddie on AI
Part of the promise of the book is that going through the process once will change how you shop as you develop your sense for which things you really want to have around.
The economy is a national security issue though. If other countries take over the globalized economy due to leveraging ai, it is destructive. And, after all, the Soviet Union fell due to economic and spending related issues, not due to military maneuvers
Your site design is slick, very nice!
> And yet I'm left wondering why the investors had such a bad reaction to its launch?

AAPL made a new all time high this week and yesterday it set a new all time high closing price.

Selling off 3% after running up to a new ATH prior to WWDC is not a bad reaction, lol.
Terminal commands don't work that way. Open a command prompt, type 'sc stop spooler', and observe the 'Access Denied' message and the lack of a UAC prompt.
It doesn’t take a lot to retro-fit roads with autonomous guardrail markers when we repave. It’s going to take a federal-level effort to accomplish this (which should have been apart of pandemic infrastructure stimulus).

I strongly believe this would improve safety for autonomous vehicles by 1000x.