skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sooner or later, this can accidentally slip into important pieces of code.

Attackers could upload malicious modules that don't exist yet due these hallucinations.
Age of Napoleon isn't the same topic at all, but it's exactly the opposite tone. I've been glued to it lately. If you don't already know about Napoleon, this will probably scratch an itch for you.
I feel like this overemphasises negative hype whereas probably the more impactful direction has been overly optimistic hype which has driven bubbles etc. and lead to overreactions in the opposite dimension i.e. AI winters when that hype hasn't panned out.
This is the straw man that people who want to argue against the possibility lab leak use to try and ad hominem the person arguing for the possibility.
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You're missing the point here. Yes, late payments are normal and happen all the time. What's happening here is not simply a late payment. It's a refusal to pay an already agreed upon price as a negotiating tactic in order to get a significantly cheaper price. How many stories of that do you have?

If the story here was just "Twitter is late paying its Google Cloud bill, and Google is giving Twitter additional time to pay in full", then that wouldn't even be much of a story.
Yeah but you're bringing up a kind of chicken/egg problem, where if we had thought about this properly from the beginning we wouldn't have ended up in a situation where we are now slaves to the technology, as in not having enough farm land for everyone without industrial fertilizers relying on fossil fuels, or not surviving without the car/truck infrastructure like you mention.

The initial adoption of those technologies should've been discussed and decided through a different lens rather than through convenience and monetary profits.

And now that we're past the point, any solution would involve destruction of some sort. That's a large conundrum.
nvidia doesn’t NEED tsmc, they have actually proved otherwise with the success of ampere on samsung chips
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Nonsense. Most real companies have real Accounts Payable departments and pay on a strict and reliable schedule.

I had one customer who (top professional auto race team builder) who made a practice of paying as soon as possible. I once got a check in the mail so fast i couldn't figure out how they turned it around that fast (exact amt of invoice, not tge estimate). Guess who always got absolutely prompt attention to their requests & requirements?

Non-payment is just a move for selfish a*holes, which Musk is turning out to be (& yes, I've defended him here before).
If I introduce regulation to prevent vertical integration, how is preventing vertical integration not the end goal of that regulation? I really don't understand what you're trying to say.
Not just gender, but also supports plural rules for numbers which is great even if you have just one language (for example "no user/one user/2 users"). No more hacky string manipulation in programming language!
I am the person you are replying to and I totally agree.
As a late-30’s dev who plays competitive daily, this is the most frustrating thing in my day, but also the best way for me to vent out daily frustrations.
"What these people don't explain is why all those other people with a virtually identical environment didn't become mass murderers!"

I am curious how you conclude that their environment is "virtually identical". I seriously doubt that. What is a paradise for someone can be hell for someone else and to the observer it looks the same.

So this would rather be an indication that the modelling is flawed.

And in the Unabombers case we have among ideological things the actual MKUltra experiment(I think no participant enjoyed it). A experiment designed to break someones mind. But to me it sounds you just concluded that he is evil and this wasn't a factor because other participants did not became mass murderers?

Side question, do you consider the designers of MKUltra as evil?
Really nice guide to understand how to drive your OSS project, I run an OSS project and many things written in the article feels right. The positive point is that I see many users/customers that fully understands that if they want the project to last, they will need to contribute financially, it clearly makes your life easier.

One point I want to emphasize is to think long-term. If you want to build something great that is solid, it will be hard and it will take years. You are also building trust with your user base and this takes a lot of time too.
So you need to ensure that you won't be burned out by your project, both for you and for your users.

On the negative side of things, I see several OSS projects that try to oversell (consciously or not//too much marketing) their project to speed up the growth, this makes all the more important the assessment of an OSS project before putting it in production.
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Interestingly enough, I think the core gameplay loop of the first cell stage has actually influenced gaming much more than anything else in spore. All of the popular .io games I know (Agar.io, snake.io, diep.io) all have some feature of that stage as part of the game. Growing in size, fighting other players, getting new abilities: it's all there.
>What do you know that Reddit's investors do not?

The experience I get as a user of the app? Is it that hard to believe that people at the very top can be out of touch with the average user of their product? I'd be surprised if any of those people have even seen the Reddit homepage once. We've seen plenty of companies go down because they made an incredibly out of touch change which caused mass migration to a better product(the example floating around is Digg). All this happening right as they prepare to go public is really all the indication one needs to deduce what's going on.
You mean to say they started a few decades ago, around the time actual high quality guns began hitting mass adoption in the US? Sure, we've always had guns, but it wasn't until after WW2 that actually decent quality guns began filtering down to the masses. Within a couple decades most gun owners had significantly higher quality arms than would have been available just a couple decades before.
so just to clarify, are you endorsing violence? you made clear that you personally don’t endorse teddy k (RIP) but you’re dealing in hypotheticals.

hypothetically if Donald Trump poured crude oil on your mom, you might find it just to hit him. you might say you would do just that. if that’s not likely to happen to you, you’re blowing smoke. which is bad for the environment.
> Most importantly, the general reader should know that all labs researching viruses do research on dangerous viruses. After all there is no incentive to research benign viruses. So the fact that the Wuhan lab worked on coronaviruses is not in itself an indication of any ill-intent.

What exactly are you trying to say here anyway? If they were researching some other virus type it wouldn't be getting a look. But they were researching coronavirus.
Very neat idea. I think if employers were required to realize economic impacts of commutes they’d be a lot more open and judicious about who they require to come in to the office. Being able to effectively price in the cost of the commute and potentially saving money via tax credits or something is cool.

On the other hand this presents a bit of a problem for, say, Boeing or Honda or Caterpillar who require workers to physically be present. I guess you could argue well then they should figure it out, but that probably results in private transit infrastructure and company towns and those probably aren’t a good path either.

One thing that kind of sits in the back of my mind is that you can effectively create a rat race about going to the office since ostensibly the C-suite team will have the company pay for their commute and then so on and so on as more people demand the company privilege of being able to go to the office.
I'm really, really glad I've never spent hours of my time standing up a website dedicated to meticulously and condescendingly criticizing the ideas of others. What a waste of energy.
They wouldn't want to be avoiding only prosecution, but also whatever embarrassing details might come out. Iran-Contra, for example, was personally embarrassing for very high-level people. Lots of documents mentioning, quoting, signed by, etc, high level folks[1]. Abu Ghraib, on the other hand, was mostly pawned off on the lowest level people, as if it weren't sanctioned by the Executive Office and the CIA. Related embarrassing documents were mostly signed by lawyers without direct quotes from high-level leaders. Partially because the top-down instructions took a form that was much less discoverable/accountable.

[1] https://www.brown.edu/Research/Understanding_the_Iran_Contra...
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Good distinction, agreed.
If I know that an entity goes to great lengths to conceal secrets, why would I ever believe I know of their most secret secret?
Here is a GH repo about two (now patched) MW2 exploits: https://github.com/momo5502/cod-exploits.
You put into words what I could not articulate. Having tried to get into it several times as well, I concluded they were going for a fast-paced conversation well-suited for a bar, not for substance.
People will look back at this period in history and laugh/cringe/mock at people's response to ChatGPT and the out of control hype.
Couple do things since I actually live in New York

> The fraction that doesn't work is either too young to pay taxes anyway, or they had used road commutes before they retired. Everybody else are within the margin of error.

If you buy anything anywhere in NY you’re paying taxes.

> Additionally, if you are not using a car for commute, you're likely to be in the lower tax brackets and thus not paying (much) in taxes anyway. I had a paper looking at exact numbers bookmarked, but I lost it somehow

In NY this wouldn’t suffice for the income level (6 figures bracket) we’re talking about. it’s infeasible for a majority chunk of residents living in Chelsea , Hell’s kitchen, Upper East Side , FIDI, etc, to own a car since the cost to have it , pay the insurance, and store it working make economical sense. Especially so since if you’re affording to live there you’re job is also on the island.

It a bell curve where the beginning are the low income residents living in Harlem and the outer boroughs that necessitate having a car (with the space to accommodate for it and wouldn’t be hit by congestion pricing), the middle curve of 6 figures+ making residents that would be in the best position to not have a car, and then the rich or dual income families that has the ability to pay this congestion tax anyway.
Nah, but this ‘meetings to attend that you cannot postpone’ is almost always bullshit. I see a lot of managers in meetings where their presence is more hindrance than help. If they drop those they suddenly have 50% of their day free.

Of course I won’t actually know until I am one myself, but it certainly feels doable if I’m willing to sort of trust my team.
That's not necessarily true. The algorithm ( transformers) was done by Google in 2017.

Even while they missed the opportunity, Gpt-1 was released in 2018 by OpenAI.

Then they incrementally added parameters in the next versions.
This struggle is entirely reasonable. I think it comes down to how we, as world citizens, should regulate this technology, including research, dissemination, and use (if it should be used at all).

What I find abhorrent is the immunity given to those Japanese war criminals who conducted those experiments on Chinese civilians (and ultimately killed them) by the United States at the time.
If we make it a national system:

- For any requirements to be a part of the system, you can't pay a developer in one country and be accepted as part of the system in another country.

- Developers in one country will not get money from users in another country.

- Why wait for policy makers? The sooner we get something working the better.
Apparently this is a junior person's blog promotion and hence the controversial (or plain wrong for me) title which has raised several discussions here.

Since we are talking about it though, let's apply the 5 whys:
1. Why do companies need managers? Because they need they're employees to be managed
2. Why do companies need their employees to be managed? Because they are not certain that they will follow the company's short/long-term strategy and vision
3. Why are they not certain? Because they're having trust issues
4. Why are they having trust issues? Because they are not investing in proper hiring
5. Why are they not investing in proper hiring? Because it's expensive and requires tremendous multidisciplinary skills, time and effort

We are dealing with one night stands masked as serious dates ladies and gentlemen. Managers are just pawns which patch the original issue. Solving hiring would make them redundant.
Absolutely. I mean someday, whenever that is, who knows. But this time around, and the whole LLM architecture behind it... definitely won't replace competent programmers, except at the extremes.

The test I apply in my own mind is this: If it could be done 10x better, but at the same cost, would it be worth it?

There's so much software architecture and implementation of software-intensive systems to be done that to me the answer is clearly yes for those jobs. But the same holds true for a soldier, or a surgeon.

OTOH will applied statistics models replace writers? Like of daily news? Sure. But only if they were already writing undifferentiated crap. Because you're already producing shit, nobody cares about the quality, so yep.

But should humans even be doing those jobs? I'm reminded of a (very surprising!) argument I had with a girlfriend in 2004. I was working on robots and I was explaining to her how robots could be trained to pick up litter and dog shit in industrial parks and university campuses, etc, so no human would ever again have to do those jobs.

She was incensed: What about the old guys who just need an easy job?! What are they gonna do?!

I have to admit I was stumped for an answer. Because in the incompletely-visualized world I was looking forward to, not picking up dog shit every day was an unqualified win... but what? Did everybody have UBI or housing or something? I hadn't really thought it through.

But anyway, the programming jobs this generation of applied statistics LLM automatons are going to take away are the picking up dog shit jobs. Which Copilot already does for me daily, and I really appreciate it and am more productive for it.

For $20/month or whatever it is a great deal. But for even $500 it would be laughable.
Yeah it is just you. Non-American users aren't Russian/soviet bots. It is interesting to see the tactics in discussion being used here: add conspiracy to facts so they seem less plausible.
Anyone use this technique for the generalisation of point in (cubic bezier) spline?

(Ghana also seems like too simple a polygon, having neither holes nor interior nested within those holes, etc. ... but raycasting ought to do even better with more complicated interiors, so maybe that was the idea?)
with more dialogue like this, even if the instigator is less willing to come to the table as diplomatically, less willing to talk openly, at least initially, so long as true discourse can occur, the need for violence will hopefully decrease over time.

thank you.
so you do your online and offline database operations using the Django ORM?
It's not the ideas, it's the unhinged and specious claims.

Providing some sort of balance or counterclaim is very much a good thing.
I'm a Croatian developer that develops apps with multilingual interfaces. Fluent has been great for me.
Yes. It is really nice to see some interesting research instead of the usual "Japan is a homogeneous collectivist society that blablabla".
I disagree.

Let's say I work on a project where we keep Elvis alive in a super secret bunker in antarctica. What can I do? Call the cnn and tell them? Make a post on 4chan? Make such a claim here? Look, I'm leaking top secret info, and nothing will happen. Until CIA officially admits keeping Elvis there, noone will believe me... (except a few conspiracy theorists, branded as nutjobs by the general public).
Has there been any serious proposal for hydrogen to replace reticulated gas in domestic supply? The cost to refit existing infra would surely make it less attractive than something like power-to-methane.
Security doesn’t only have to imply software / online security. There’s physical security as well, which this seems to be referring to.
Because owning a car is expensive. And owning a self-driving car is likely to be even more expensive. If you can still get the same convenience for a far lower cost by just using a taxi, why would you continue to own a car? (Also, this is something the automotive industry does not want, as it will reduce their sales substantially. This is something that is claimed by self-driving companies which are not also automotive companies, and most people who analyse the economics of self-driving, especially looking at which technologies which are more likely to succeed).
I mean, while a condescending and dismissive comment requires less energy, it's often also a lot less useful too.
When I took my sons out to practice driving I most certainly could not take control.
Mental health care, well I’d use a different word than “care”, but the institution system took a lot of crazies off the street. It had a lot of other issues too but it may be time to revisit it instead of just passing out pills to everyone.

As for why we see more mass shootings today I think you need to consider that until the late 90s a shooter wouldn’t get publicity outside of their locale. So copycat shootings didn’t occur. On top of that the insane amount of psychoactive pills we prescribe. And no way to get people off the street early via institutions.

Lastly a general decay in our society, family structures, and communities.
Yeah I've done multi week backpacking and hunting/fishing trips. Hopefully you're afforded time to take those kids out in the woods!
IIRC it came to light when documents that were supposed to be shredded were declassified by mistake. The government has shown that it's actually really good at keeping secrets, or at least keeping things quiet. Elsewhere in this thread there's the discussion of a possible FBI program to get people to commit mass shootings that's widely considered to be a crazy conspiracy theory despite there being individual documented examples ie https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/29/politics/aby-rayyan-fbi-terro...

My whole thing with MK-ULTRA and Ted is that researchers were happy to do stuff as damaging and way less (potentially) useful than his experiment.
Alternatively, when an organisation reaches a certain size, there becomes enough high level coordination needs for it to be a full time job, and also some HR-type functions work better when distributed to the edges rather than the central org.
Wonderful summary, if smarter part of cranks realized this then we as society could have a serious conversation.

As things stand thought, there is no point, who has the time to defute lies within half truths within other lies, based maybe on some truth. While other side thinks you are a manipulated idiot anyway.
It’s hard to have an undefined goal. Where do you put the horizontal lines ?
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I've switched to a lightweight trailer, pulled by my everyday hatchback sedan.

No fussing with rentals, I can load it up with debris for a trip to the dump while it is detached, and I can fit drywall in it and still have a backseat for car seats.

The trailer cost something like $1000, the tow package $300, plus another $400 to have someone else install it. Probably equivalent to about 30-40 short rentals in price, and far cheaper than a second or larger primary vehicle.
How many of those creations were phallic though?
I never thought much of Yuval Harari, but after seeing his NY Times piece, I think even less.
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Continually sending the position of the plane would be an improvement so that black box can be more easily located after an accident.
Not necessarily the same, but you can share a readonly link to conversations with ChatGPT, for example:

https://chat.openai.com/share/2ec10eb6-a7f1-4b27-9f56-0ec7f2...

(share icon the side menu)
It was hard not to let your imagination run wild after SimCity and then The Sims. Both games felts infinitely complex at the time. The Sims 1 in particular had so many hidden interactions and secrets.
commenting from HACK rn!! it reminds me of apollo in a good way :)
I've mentioned this elsewhere but one of the long-recognized features of harmful drug addiction over the millennia has been the buildup of tolerance, leading to ever-higher doses to achieve the original perceived "benefit".
Well, my original point was the legal precedent. Invading another country without the need for self defense. (Or were there any indications, that Iraq was about to attack the US at all?)
So at no point I said it is the same.

But if you want actual official numbers:

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

200 000 dead Iraq civilians

vs

9 000 in Ukraine

And regarding torture and rape, you might have missed Abu Ghraib and similar institutions?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_priso...
How do you know this? Is there strong cryptographic integrity protection for traffic from the official servers that prevents active attacks injecting malicious messages?

(Also, why aren't you supposed to use other servers?)
Attack the idea and not the person
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The perfect would be investing in a high end rail network, city rail and then light and medium EV.

You're not really stuck with cars in any term. Both redesigning cities and building transport is a multi year programme. The HEV will prevent the perfect solution, in the opposite of the parable.
I did not even know Spore had DLC’s lol
How do you know it was their most secret experiment?
I was starting to read one of the critiques but it seems to start out rather odd

>But guess what? NLP isn’t a subfield of “AI”.

But it actually is.
Sure, it’s only gotten worse since it was privatised.

My commute is £40 by train and £15 for petrol. With two people in the car, it’s even worse.
This comment is evidence that you can now cover up any misdeeds as nothing but "Russian propaganda" and people will buy it.
But instead write dismissive comments about the ideas of others on HN?!
Yeah but not programmer jobs. If you could pay your engineers 2x to be 3x more productive, you would. But you can't.

But if you could pay some automaton 0.1x to make them 2x more productive, you obviously would. 2x is a stretch today but the price of applied-statstics-model add-on is still way way less than 0.1x. So your surely would augment them that way as (I think?) most companies are now doing.

So I think you're generally right but "AI" isn't remotely close to being able to do 90% of a fresh frontend bootcamp grad's job. It's literally more like 1%.
Also expensive and far too big, specially for entering a city.
Why should anyone assume the CIA or other agencies aren’t doing similar things now?

They do these terrible things, completely get away with it without any repercussions or even remorse, and we assume that they aren’t doing similarly bad things anymore.
There’s a lot of noise in the background - strong hiss and what sounds like music playing on the radio.
> Am I missing something here?

reddit's ceo does not behave like a logical actor but instead is driven by emotions, mostly negative ones towards 3rd party apps.