skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would also point out that if someone has purchased life insurance, they have explicitly made a decision about the cost of a life when they choose the amount of insurance they are willing to take on.

Isn't that the amount they can afford, rather than the value? Their wage is roughly irrelevant to their value
That would probably irritate all buyers not interested in the game console aspect.

A bundle would be nice, though.
Probably the first team to get sacked when the money runs out. Like every R&D teams.
> while Llama's license says it can only be used for research purpose

Minor nitpick, but we still don't have a clear legal answer on whether this would be binding to people who didn't sign that agreement, because we still don't have a clear legal answer on whether model weights are covered by copryight.

That being said, it is good for projects to point out that there's uncertainty over whether Llama can be used commercially; so I agree with the overall point.
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I like to use vi as a kind of IDE for shell commands, because you can, for example,

!}somecommand

to pipe a paragraph through that command, or

1G!Gsomecommand

to pipe the whole editing buffer through that command, which is also equivalent to

:1,$!somecommand

which I find less obvious as a way to do that, even though it makes sense historically in terms of ed and ex.

You can also, in vim, use u and ^R to undo your pipe transformation and redo it, so you're basically then doing a series of shell pipe transformations with interactive history.

If you need to generate text with a shell command instead of pipe existing text through it, you can use

:r!somecommand

Commands that I like to use in this context include tac, rev, tr, cut, grep, and sed (although using sed this way is a little silly since the substitutions I'm doing are normally also available natively inside of vi itself).

A simple example that I like a lot is

1G!Ggrep .

which removes all empty lines from the current file. ("Line 1 go to line, pipe from here to result of movement go to end of file, command 'grep .' [print lines that match 'any character']")

The classic ed/ex way to do this is

:1,$g/^$/d

which is just as many characters, but which requires lots of explicit thought for me, while the "1G!G grep ." version seems to no longer require explicit thought at all. ("For lines 1 to last line, repeatedly match ^$ [line beginning immediately followed by line end], delete matching lines.")
I mean, you could set any other non-standard bit in the header and get the same "covert channel." There's nothing special about this bit aside from the fact that some middleboxes will drop packets that have it set (which makes it an unreliable channel and thus a particularly bad candidate for data exfiltration), and some monitoring tools will parse it. Whereas if you chose any other non-standard bit, you can guarantee no monitoring tools will know how to parse it, and it's unlikely any middleboxes will drop it (unless they're dropping any packet with non-standard bits in the header).
> This is a weird comparison.

Oh?… I like weird! (I don’t care for how you use the word though.)

Stylistically, semantically, and philosophically I think you’ll get more mileage by avoiding your negative, constrained, unfamiliar-is-bad usage of “weird”. And now my unsolicited advice comes to a close.
A crocodile in Costa Rica had a virgin birth. Here’s what that means
The US basically ignores transport efficiency though. Otherwise, there's be shipping on boats within the US

Why not put the burden of compliance of the operators creating the risk?

Otherwise, the trucks will build themselves bigger, such that the improved aframes are no longer sufficient. Somebody walking around with a bomb doesn't make it reasonable for everyone else to have to bomb proof everything
Oh wow. Thanks that made my day.
I think instead of panicking over temporarily needing to wear a mask on public transit, you would be better served directing your energy against the trillions in handouts to the already wealthy or actual incursions against our rights like the good ol' Patriot Act.
Apartment rent growth is declining, shifting the market to the tenant’s favor
How do you differentiate trading and investing - do you consider them different by long/short term outlook? They can certainly have overlap but curious what you mean on a more granular level.

I think you make a great point, though.
Good luck with the dog, and thank you for sharing that. I agree that was a reasonable response but I may be biased because I recently had a conversation along these lines and the hit most of the same beats. It is certainly free of the defects I mentioned. Thank you so much for the counter example, its perfect.

I wonder if it is significant that you didn't ask it for a specific kind of response?
It'll have a scene like in 'Say Anything' with John Cusack except instead of holding up a boombox outside the house it's an nvidia DGX rack of H100's.
> view source
Okay, it looks like those were added in Java 9, which was after I stopped following Java (and well after the C++ memory model was largely settled, in 2007).
LEDs fail due to heat. A related failure is manufacturers driving them at their max limits. An LED driven correctly with good airflow can last a century.

https://www.ledsupply.com/led-heatsinks
I worked in an office and from home. The best results in my industry were from home. Offices are for people that need to be monitored. Weed those people out and smooth sailing. Most people can't handle the personal responsibility of working from home. They screw off. Once we got rid of them it worked out well.
Wish I could get the Win2k-era scrollbar back. Now that we have 8x? the resolution, thin/hidden scrollbars make no sense.

https://cdn.maxxinteractive.com/uploads/images/gallery/2020-...

There was a similar looking scrollbar with a feature I loved from IRIX. When you would drag the middle slider, it would leave a shadow underneath it. So you could easily see where it was if you wanted to go back. Haven't seen another scrollbar before or since with that little nicety.
You don’t need a pirate ship to build legos

But you do need an interpreter to interpret/run any algorithm

So you can never really separate the algorithm from the interpreter for any practical application

If your algorithm requires the capabilities that define an interpreter as Turing-complete, then the algorithm will be Turing complete as well
I work from a co-working space on Mission & 20th and see them all the time.
These are all pretty good ideas. Will give it a try. Thanks
Here is an idea: forums are easy to build. What if people got back into them and just hosted them on their domain and then there was a webring attached to all forums like sites were back in the 90s, except there would now be a main site that would serve as a directory of forums divided by interest. so everything would be owned separately: the directory and each forum, but all connected through a webring like it was before. It would "decentralize" the Web in some ways (except for there being a directory).
There are around 18 million college students and 2 million members of the armed forces. Your proposed solution can’t possibly work due to this discrepancy. It is good though that you agree there is a problem and it needs a solution. One proposal is to shrink the military budget. Spending on national defense is more than double the money spent on public schools in higher education.
Asking the wrong question: the nuclear bomb was developed before nuclear power, and was developed in an environment where it was suspected that the Germans and Japanese - which the US was at war with - were trying to do the same.

But there's another component to that too: the ability to "level another nation" isn't quite a function of nuclear weaponry - it's much more a function of rocketry which makes ICBMs possible. It's perhaps an interesting thought exercise that a world without nuclear weapons could still have a very large scale build up of say, ICBM-delivered thermobaric weapons which would enable a country to rain effective destruction down on any other while being at no risk of being responded to in-kind.

Nukes short-circuited that: because it's much cheaper to put a nuke on an ICBM, and as such all ICBMs are presumed to be nuclear until proven otherwise, as a result now, no one uses ICBM technology to deliver anything but nuclear weapons since launching anything else invites a nuclear response (one of the big problems with most of the "carrier-killed" missile concepts - their launch sites look indistinguishable from nuclear ICBMs).
Tell HN: Locked Google account reopened after two years
A long time ago I set up a Gmail backup account and transferred all my Yahoo Mail emails there to save them for posterity. Once in a blue moon I would log in, reminisce over 20+ year old messages and attachments, and move on. I did just that in June 2021, except this time it triggered some suspicious activity flag and that account got locked. Unfortunately (lesson learned!) I did not associate any recovery information with this address, so Google basically refused to let me back in, despite the valid password. I tried every suggestion I came upon - resurrected old phones and laptops, attempted logging in in the same geographical area that I used to live in, etc - nothing worked. Eventually I came to terms with the idea that those memories are forever lost, behind Google's unresponsiveness.

Every few months I tried logging in, without any expectations or success. Except today it worked! Logged from an incognito window and during the recovery process got asked for a phone number. And then I was in (and as a first step fixed the backup info). I can't help but notice that almost exactly two years have passed since the lockout. Don't know if there is significance there, but just wanted to share with folks that there might still be some hope. Too many stories of locked out Google accounts with zero transparency or follow-up possibility from the company.
The article links to one of her videos where she talks about the owner of a veterinary practice who buys reviews. I brought one of our cats there twice last year for after-hours urgent care, and my experience was -- fortunately -- positive both times. Friends bring their dog there for primary care regularly.

I'm just really wondering why the owner feels the need to do this. Is it a situation where you just have to do it, else you'll get buried under your competitors? Should I expect that our primary vet does this too, and that the other vet practices in our area also do it? Shady either way, but could it be a damned if you do, damned if you don't type thing?

Certainly there are business sectors where there's so much competition that some of them will resort to shady tactics like this to gain customers. But if anything, there's a shortage of vet practices in San Francisco (and the entire bay area, really). Gaining customers here feels like it's more about having available appointments in a reasonable time frame than anything else.
this sounds like PR crap to me.
Oh! I do df but for whatever reason I don't think of it as using f.

Muscle memory is a weird thing.
Maybe not, but can a group of Neanderthals with spears contain you riding a M1 Abrams battle tank?
I’m not a subscriber via the App Store but have previously had an online subscription for NYTimes. In my experience they have low intro pricing that expires and bumps to standard pricing after a duration.

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Uh, no, I wouldn't bet on that.

You can guess that they're overselling phosphorous as a landmark

Finding organic carbon everywhere used to seem very exciting - turns out that's just the fate of low-number metals in the universe. Who'da thunk such a thing.
It's already illegal to enforce non-compete agreements in California. So more like "remaining 48 states" :)
Could you remind us what the "non-lab-leak scenario" is again?

To be clear, is your "likeliness" determined on whether we can find a creature that is more similar to covid than RaTG13 (we haven't) or something else?
I've only thought about this from the perspective of TMSC fab getting hit with cruise missiles, but I've never gone down the long term impacts of the trade freeze that would happen with China. Decades of globalization having to be torn down and reconstructed in a very, very short time period.
> Human nature just doesn't work that way.

Citation needed. Look into Finnish driving culture; it seems quite reasonable to see it as nurture over nature. I believe that it would be difficult to effect such a change given the distance between different American subcultures but it’s been demonstrated that a society can actually choose to take this seriously.

> And sometimes those actually are your only choices.

This is the part that needs to die. I was still right when I chose to allow the other driver to cut me off; turns out I’m alive too. It’s not a dichotomy but treating it like it is suggests that the other driver was “right” because I yielded. They were not. I was right and I didn’t do anything dangerous.
@naet 100% this. Well said.

Wealthy people are given a ton of leeway until all the leeway immediately stops. You’ll see this throughout history. Elizabeth Holmes, etc.

A point made elsewhere, wealthy landlords have zero sympathy for those that cannot pay their bills. Their mightier than thou attitude that they didn’t get where they are in life by giving anything away for free or themselves getting any free lunches, so why should they cut anyone slack if they don’t pay their bills. However, they’ll be the first to not pay their bills if if the going gets tough because they have the knowledge of how the systems works.
The FDA regulates bringing a device to market commercially, doctors can use regular COTS software.
Same, but I get pinged twice per hour on average on Slack. And it's direct questions not @here.

It drives me bonkers and I tell people off but somehow it still happens.

I think direct conversations online is turning people into junkies of the now.

I actually day dreamed about going back to emails sometimes last week... Then I woke up when the notification bell went off.
The diagrams shown might be possible with that restriction if we allow "Jenga-like" moves: first, create a single vertical stack with the full height. Then, to widen a row with an extra tile, push the row exactly half a tile length to the left, and slide the new tile into the gap. (Since the tiles are frictionless, this would be much easier than real Jenga!) At every point, the stack should be balanced, even if it is not stable. Continue widening individual rows until the final pattern has been generated.

Intuitively, it looks like there should be a valid sequence of row widenings that generates the "brick-wall" stacks, though I am not 100% certain. Assuming there is, the next question would be whether asymmetric patterns such as that "oil-lamp" stacks can be generated, or whether in general the optimal pattern can always be generated.
Not sure if you first statement is accurate. There are things that aren't even AI that can cause damage and need containment, e.g. worms and viruses.
Yes, a single chimp is physically stronger than a human, but the human can come up with 100 different ways to kill the chimp, and most of those methods would be unfathomable for the chimp. e.g. try to explain death by poison to a chimp.
Nah. Any society probably suffers when people are legally limited in doing something they're trained to do.

On a philosophical level, I'm not sure it's good to allow people to sign away any kind of freedom, including the economic liberty to start your own company. Competition is also very important for capitalism to work for people who don't own capital...
Have you now enabled 2fa and recovery codes?
Which is useless in this day. I was in China last week and Google Map’s street layer was aligned correctly to where I was, but the satellite imagery was not.

This demonstrates that Google already knows the correct coordinates of street in China, including those of an airport finished in 2021. For some reason they have spent no time manually aligning the imagery.

Coordinates on the globe are constant whether China likes it or not, my only guess is that Google doesn’t want to spend time fixing data in a country that blocks them entirely.
The much cheaper and covers many/most use cases alternative would be a unit that disconnects anything on-grid, and has some in-unit/on-unit sockets you can use during grid-fail at point of device or run extension cords to.
To extend the metaphor, they have the ability to turn us off whenever they want. They choose not to, they have more pressing chimp business to deal with.

Hitchcock's The Birds but its chimps. Sounds like a job for Stable Diffusion...
It wasn’t meant to be a direct comparison, it’s that both men were very destructive and their ability for destructive behaviour goes up with access to more powerful tech.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely. So even a nice guy with powerful tools can turn bad.

Sorry if I caused any offence. I’m not trying to say the guy is as homicidal as hitler, but he is as dangerous and destructive.
Cal’s writing isn’t clear on where he lands. But he’s probably around to clarify, somewhere. Let’s all send him emails, tweets, etc and see how quickly he replies.
https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1643800261599825921
America is already doing some form of this no ? Limiting access to semiconductors for China and Russia ?
Yeah, "we're not emailing each other any more".
having gpt-4 as a dependency for your product or business seems... shortsighted
And yet we let them live... And we don't even enslave most of them in zoos... wtf?
https://mashable.com/article/substack-writers-leaving-misinf...

Just admit it's not a perfect thing, just another flawed alternative.
changing != improving

And a program can be improved even without it being changed substantially.
We just don't understand.
In what way is it bloated? IIRC, the executable is less than 2MB, and without plugins it uses about that much memory too.
I don't subscribe to Lee Enterprises but they run my town's paper.
> How many former spooks signed a letter claiming it had all the hallmarks of a russian information operation to influence an election? 50?
This was then promoted to "russian disinformation" and treated as fact far and wide across the media.

The Hunter Biden laptop did reek of a Russian operation. It was clearly an attempt to hurt Biden in the 11th hour.

Even if the content is genuine, which everything I've seen appears to be, the story behind it is clearly fabricated in an attempt to launder hacked/stolen data. Unless you believe that Rudy Guiliani is a paragon of honesty.
> SARS-like symptoms

Aren’t SARS-like symptoms just flu-like? I heard the same exact thing from an European friend and again I think it’s Barnum effect-like.

Given the transmissibility of the virus, I doubt that it was in the wild unnoticed for 12+ months before suddenly affecting millions in weeks.
On the contrary, I am very familiar with the Twitter files. What is the controversy that you speak of?
And almost certainly pictures of them in the act. Though no platforms will admit to surreptitiously capturing photos.
My personal conspiricy theory is that the "lab leak vs wet market" debate is a distraction in order to do nothing about either.

Wet markets and gain of function research should both be banned.
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What are you talking about ? Do you think the invasion of Ukraine would even be a thing if Russia didn’t have nukes ? The only single reason it’s gone this far is that Putin dropped the N word several times.

What about North Korea’s nuclear program ? It has happened already the wrong people have access to nukes already. It’s only a matter of time till one goes off again unless more work for peace and nonproliferation is successful and back on the table.
Imagine comparing coal miners to the equivalent of internet janitors who volunteer to work for free as long as they get their share of petty power.

Tons of them are basically just protesting since they won't be able to exert said petty power as efficiently as they used to.

I can't imagine getting to a point where I'd defend Reddit powermods, even over spez himself. But even in your very shaky analogy, the mods are at worse the petty bourgeois, not some sort of proletariat of Reddit wtf.
I don’t think the author nor readers should take it as a false dichotomy. This style falls into a common pattern of highlighting two examples. There’s no language that says the two examples are disjoint.
From a little after two oclock until almost sundown of the
long still hot weary dead September afternoon they sat in what Miss
Coldfield still called the office because her father had called it
that—a dim hot airless room with the blinds all closed and fastened for
forty-three summers because when she was a girl someone had believed
that light and moving air carried heat and that dark was always cooler,
and which (as the sun shone fuller and fuller on that side of the house)
became latticed with yellow slashes full of dust motes which Quentin
thought of as being flecks of the dead old dried paint itself blown
inward from the scaling blinds as wind might have blown them. There was
a wistaria vine blooming for the second time that summer on a wooden
trellis before one window, into which sparrows came now and then in
random gusts, making a dry vivid dusty sound before going away: and
opposite Quentin, Miss Coldfield in the eternal black which she had worn
for forty-three years now, whether for sister, father, or nothusband
none knew, sitting so bolt upright in the straight hard chair that was
so tall for her that her legs hung straight and rigid as if she had iron
shinbones and ankles, clear of the floor with that air of impotent and
static rage like children’s feet, and talking in that grim haggard
amazed voice until at last listening would renege and hearing-sense
self-confound and the long-dead object of her impotent yet indomitable
frustration would appear, as though by outraged recapitulation evoked,
quiet inattentive and harmless, out of the biding and dreamy and
victorious dust.

— Absalom, Absalom - Faulkner - first two sentences
In my opinion the only way to use it safely is to ensure your AI only has access to data that the end user already has access to.

At that point, prompt injection is no-longer an issue - because the AI doesn't need to hide anything.

Giving GPT access to your entire database, but telling it not to reveal certain bits, is never going to work. There will always be side channel vulnerabilities in those systems.
That sounds like an interesting story! Did it result in a kernel patch or at least a blog post?
Just discovered this -- it contains the optimal constructions for up to N=20. They don't prove optimality but they do claim it.

https://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/upload_library/2...
I wonder if theres some widespread issue with older asus monitors, because they are rather notorious for this “no signal” bug, where if you turn them on plugged into an hdmi even 100 or so times, the monitor doesn’t register an input.
End of the day SF is a reflection of those that live there and vote. If they want a certain environment they will get it and they got it. Salute to them on making it happen.
I suspect there's an aerodynamic cost as well. Over time, that might be significantly more expensive than the manufacturing costs.

Weight is also an issue, though in this case at least the weight is low to the ground and would improve the trailer's stability.
Ironically, your comment about the state of doctors is quite lacking in empathy for the doctors themselves.

Regardless of whether or not this article is a fake, I think you don't quite understand how overworked most doctors are, and how little time they have been given per patient to take care of what needs to be done.