skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Thanks for proving my point about us ignoring risks because we want money.

I don't see how your point has been proven...when I stated that the climate always changes, with or without humans. It would change our stance to mitigation instead of a delusion that we can avoid these climatic impacts to any meaningful degree. Climate change is going to happen no matter how much CO2 we sequester & even if we block out the sun. Don't get me wrong, I expect the climate to drastically change as we are heading into a period of a grand solar minimum, which leads to erratic solar & terrestrial activity, given that the Magnetosphere is underpowered & Earth is less shielded from Cosmic Radiation & CMEs. The climate is changing, has always been changing, & always will be changing. The climate has never been static.

Sequestering too much CO2 could cause ecological damage, as plants rely on CO2 for food. As for blocking out the sun...well, I hope one does not need much imagination to grasp the impacts on life it would have. In short, interventions often have unintended consequences, particularly when the operating models are incorrect.

> Leading question; Of course not.
> Making an open-source model means all the sociopaths get an open source AI you have no control over.

I'm operating under the assumption that Psychopaths & Sociopaths are attracted to positions of dominance, meaning Government, Political Influence, and large economic institutions such as Banks & Corporations.

Distributing power provides less leverage for psychopaths & sociopaths. Open Source AI provides choice & mitigation strategies while closed source & regulated AI leads to leveraged control which would be a focal point for the psychopaths & sociopaths to be attracted to & leverage. Given the atrocious state of political affairs & the extreme concentration of Psychopaths with political power, I don't see we can avoid an abusive regulatory regime with such a critical piece of technology. I would have no power over a regulatory process, but a regulatory process would have power over me & my ability to mitigate any dangers that can be caused by people abusing AI.

A long wolf in a basement will not have enough compute power to cause major problems using AI. A corporation or a government, in charge of the regulatory apparatus is far more likely to cause major problems.

If a lone wolf causes problems with AI, law enforcement will move in & shut down the operation. If a politically connected corporation, bank, or the government that controls the regulatory apparatus causes problems with AI, then there are no other options than to use the "approved" problematic AI systems or to "illegally" mitigate the problematic AI systems...
I noticed this earlier today when trying to follow a quote from linked from a new York times article. I thought "well thats fucked up how will anyone know what they said" lol. Twitter is such a crap show now lol. Really only useful to people who use it.
Not really. You could have Scrooge McDuck vault levels of gold and all the training time in the world and you'll probably still get absolutely destroyed by Gary Kasparov in a casual game of chess.

There's always a genetic component that influences your min and max levels at any given skill.
> never underestimate the ingenuity of a good QA person. "app freezes while triple-clicking About button while changing wifi network when storage is 89% full and screen reader is enabled"

If such feature interactions matter then your application has bigger problems than a QA department.

> it's the same with good security folk. sure you can pretend you'll catch 100% of issues, but it's a delusion, good security or quality testing is a totally different mode of thought

Oh I'm not saying that good QA isn't a valuable skill! Of course it is, it doesn't just happen on its own. What I'm claiming is that it's a skill that should be employed as close as possible to the creation of the thing that it's assuring the quality of. So, ideally within the developer themselves.

Same thing with security. You will have a terrible security in your product if you first design and implement it and then put security in there as an afterthought by a dedicated security team. Ideally it's been at the table from day 1. So, a good security team works on educating your devs to do things right from day 1. Just like QA.
This isn't default for all US banks and cards?
From the timestamps, I guess that this blurb[0] dates from the tail end of the DRM wars[1]. It's fascinating how the enshittification of various online services have led to a resurgence of that era's anti-establishment attitudes.

[0] possibly copy-pasted from an earlier 4chan post? The language style certainly seems to match.

[1] https://xkcd.com/86/ and https://xkcd.com/488/ and https://xkcd.com/546/
Touchscreen = navigation and manipulation
Fair enough. That was just the one I remembered off the top of my head. Always happy to be corrected!

But they're using all sorts of different stuff. It's been so bad at times they've basically been throwing spaghetti at a wall to see if it sticks. Most of it there's not even any research to suggest the drugs they're trying are safe ecologically. But they try it anyway; it's a woefully underregulated industry right now.

And there's the general problem that any indiscriminate use of antibiotics(in the general definition of the word, not the one restricted to bacteria) in a factory farming context is bound to lead to the development of highly resistant pathogens. That just follows from Darwin, really.
In my experience this would not solve the issue.
Sure, strictly speaking, of course there were accounts as in "database records". However, users gave no details about themselves, and haven't signed up for anything. No long-term credentials, just a rendezvous point.

You used to just open two Firefoxes, start sync setup on the one, copy (or scan) a code to another - boom, done, they're talking to each other.
Interesting!

But my criticism is not based on whether or not it would be a boon or a hindrance to the economy...
Someone talking about the BRICS as if it's a real, meaningful bloc tells me they are a clown.

China is going to be a meaningful player no matter how far in the dumps they get, and India is doing fine.

The rest? lol.
Imagine a 911 operator gets a phone call that goes like this:

- 911, what is your emergency?
- Help me oh god! ... My husband he's going crazy he got a shotgun and is threatening to shoot my kids he...
- [garble garble]
- [Distant voice of a man] "get the fuck off that phone"
- [Loud bang]
- [Line clicks and goes silent]

The 911 operator can try to call back to get confirmation, but a lack of response just underscores the seriousness of the situation. If the police didn't rush over in full SWAT gear, ready to save the lives of children, they'd be the ones l̶i̶a̶b̶l̶e̶ berated in the media for not taking a clear imminent threat to life seriously.

Though I doubt fake swatting calls are so well produced.

edit: In this situation, whether real or not, obviously the police shouldn't murder people. If this was real, they should first exhaust their non-lethal options for keeping the crazy husband from murdering children. If it's a fake swatting call or the wrong address, they should discover that and especially not murder people. But in response to the parent's point about the police being eager to rush over from a single phone call, this seems like a 20 second phone call where they have no ethical choice but to rush over. How they behave when they arrive is a different topic from what I'm responding to.
True, possible, possible, depends. But on the other hand current levels of global resource and energy use have harmful effects on existing humans and animals. For example climate change increases the frequency and intensity of wildfires that kill billions of animals. Increasing the human population by billions more, which is the path we're on unless some factor or other decreases population growth, likely increases such effects. That matters if we want to investigate if the consequences of microplastics are overall bad or good.
I’m personally conflicted about these. On one hand, having launched products before, it’s difficult to get those first reviews because even if the public perception of reviews is poor, they still hold a lot of weight in terms purchasing decisions. As such, it’s easy to send off a few free products and hope they will review them well. As a consumer, however, I’m always skeptical of products with less than 20 or so reviews that are all 5 stars and the text of the reviews have no real substance.

There is an opportunity here (and I’m not sure what it looks like) to get products in the hands of people who will be incentivized to review honestly because the maker of the product actually wants to earn organic, positive reviews and will take the issues noted by reviewers seriously for improving upon the product.
Hey Mozilla, have you considered that maybe I don't want to open an account?

In fact I don't want to open accounts with anyone. Not with social media, not with newspapers, certainly not newsletters. Accounts allow better tracking that cookies, and cookies are now regulated.

If a web site tries to get me to open an account, it will reflect poorly on my view of them, and I will be less inclined to come back.

I only opened an account here after years of lurking and trust building and I still only log on if I want to comment or upvote something.
> But it's remarkable how many old Perl programs can still pull the dependencies and start right up.

I was surprised when I installed `git` and it pulled a couple dozen Perl packages from the distro repo.

There's definitely something to be said about Linux distro maintainers/packagers being sort of middlemen that help enforce compatibility for popular Perl (or Python2, etc) packages.

That is, there is a nonzero amount of greybeards between the developer and random end user, which cannot be said for your average npm or pip package.
A bad trip is a one time event, while I am assuming your negative experiences with therapy went on for more than one session?

That is what I was getting at - if the therapy is bad, there is a chance you can get out before it gets too bad and "save yourself".

Once you take the shrooms, there is no antidote, and there is no going back. No damage mitigation.

Sorry either way...
Not really. No servers based off of leaked source code have really lasted - they get nuked by the larger community.
Or should the CISO be an employee of a federal agency?

Edit: wish folks downvoting this would comment too. We're supposed to be curious here.
The will of the people is expressed in vote and then indirectly applied by the elected officials.
If 100% of Americans decided to make King Charles president, then they will amend the laws allowing him to do so.
> Elementary and Secondary education is what desperately needs attention, not college. Certainly not with public funding.

I just don't get this. Yes we need to improve primary and secondary education, but we can't just pretend like tertiary education doesn't matter to people. College isn't just about learning material in classrooms. College provides a way for young people to transition in a structured way into adulthood. It provides job opportunities and social interaction that you just can't get as easily or consistently if you immediately go into the workforce as a high school grad.

I'll leave you with this, a list of 39 other countries that provide free or very cheap college for their citizens - https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries...
Photo of some duck poop tea I had the other day in China (for anyone curious what this looks like in the real world): https://imgur.com/a/R5h6482

It just tasted like a normal ice lemon tea with oolong.
This is why I've disconnected from all social media, these forum-like sites being an obvious exception.

They have become an anti-thesis of freedom that was promised when World-wide-web emerged.
Friction is enough. At Intel they had a product where they wanted to prevent certain use cases ( I forget which), but they were satisfied keeping out everyone who didn't have $50 of equipment and a little knowledge to defeat their mechanism. They weren't afraid of electrical engineers defeating them -- they expected that. They just put in enough friction to prevent _most_ people -- pareto-optimization.
That is exactly what "pay to win" means in the parlance of our times: the more you pay, the better chance you have to win. Tiers vs continuum doesn't matter here. The important part is that players with the same skill must decide how much money to pay the manufacturer to gain advantages over other players. If everyone had to buy the full set every quarter, then it would not be pay to win, it would just be a very expensive subscription game. There are things like sealed deck drafts where everyone agrees to buy in at the same price so that everyone can compete on skill. But there is a reason WotC doesn't allow proxy cards (just printing an unofficial copy of a card or a piece of paper with the name of the card), because they make a ton of money from the pay to win dynamic.
No mention of the fact that it cannot be done with open source software. France is going to just wind up geoblocked for all browser websites.
Again, it's not clear that the confetti story actually happened at all, let alone in a tournament. (I mean, likely after it started spreading someone tried it in a non-tournament setting, but such a case wouldn't be the origin of the story.)

If someone did try it in a tournament, it probably wouldn't be legal -- why would it be? The text of the card certainly doesn't suggest it ought to be; that's part of why it's a notable story in the first place, that it turns on such an unusual interpretation. There are a number of rulings on how to play Chaos Orb from when it was tournament legal, but I can't find any relating to ripping it up; there's not a need to rule on what's clearly illegal. I don't think most people would be misled by a humorous story, an urban legend -- generally not told about a tournament setting -- into thinking that such a play would be legal in tournament.

A recent video on Rhystic Studies (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dDLQkg5O1o) contains one person claiming that they witnessed someone trying this in a tournament -- presumably influenced by the story rather than the origin of it -- and the person who tried it was disqualified. Whether that actually happened, I don't know, but if so it even further suggests that no, there was no need to make detailed tournament rulings of this.

(Of course, the punchline of the Rhystic Studies account is that the person was disqualified not for the illegal play, but rather for the fact that, by doing so, they had reduced the number of cards in their deck to below the minimum legal size. If the Rhystic Studies story really did happen, though, I think we can infer that this reason was probably given because it was a way to avoid getting into an argument over whether ripping up the card was legal.)
This is extremely similar to what happened to me. Antidepressants and CBT helped manage the anxiety and, 12 years later, I’m pretty much back to normal except for the ocasional manageable panic you describe and some baseline anxiety.
You forgot arguably the best one: "Spotted dick". (It's a sort of steamed pudding.)
> The submitter knows the AI isn’t lying

You've somehow internalized something as "obvious to everyone" that's actually very wrong and dangerous about AI. Of course the AI is lying. Or, perhaps a better term would be "bullshitting", defined as "sounding convincing while having no regard for the truth". By that definition, bullshitting is all LLMs ever do.
I've used Plex by itself with a semi-static video library, and it worked, but even that isn't no-touch. I have to keep a somewhat capable server up first of all, then Plex always has its own random issues. The auto-pirate software, tracking lists, and torrent sources are all additional moving parts without really dedicated support.

It's fine for a hobbyist to deal with, but it's not seamless, otherwise way more people would be doing it. Kinda like how desktop Linux users tend to downplay the rough edges.
Apple, headed by a supply chain guy, famously has a single balance sheet and pl, not divisions. They are not afraid of walking away from a deal that doesn’t meet their criteria, and they are past master at squeezing their suppliers.

Goldman is a sprawling group of interests, far more transactional, and though it’s no longer a partnership, doesn’t speak with one voice like apple does.

I don’t like Goldman, and while I use apple gear I don’t want to do business with them beyond making purchases.
I suppose the Dutch language is good for one thing: nobody can learn it! I've seen Germans (oh it's just a dialect) break down into tears trying.
And it has absolutely no use whatsoever abroad.
> An undergrad can do this too.

Just to be clear:

You're asserting that an undergrad can produce a list of 40,000 deadly chemical agents, many novel, many involving no restricted components, via a process which also output VX nerve gas, overnight?

> To try to get the field regulated so they can build a moat, maybe?

To.

Not.

Die.

Why is this so hard to believe?

Especially in that specific field where the stuff was mostly already under control?

> Honestly, I'm just as shocked at your disposition here.

> We don't need laws to protect our feelings. The recent pushes to make everything into a safe space are making our culture dull and sterile. We're drawing lines around permissible thoughts and feelings and using censorship to control discourse.

> Human society should be robust, not coddled.

Can I infer you think this is about feelings?

It isn't.

A rude AI? Whatever, if that's the intent. Someone wants bad taste jokes, let them have it.

An AI which used threats, which tries to manipulate its users? Even if it's just a parrot, it's clearly not doing what it was supposed to do.

How is that not a warning sign?

Again, this isn't about coddling; at least, not beyond the fact that this is absolutely easy mode from the perspective of alignment, and we still can't manage it.

> Also, information isn't dangerous

Given what I just wrote, how is your imagination failing you so badly?

That specific information, how to make a dangerous substance, is obviously dangerous even if it was either of the two ways I know how to make chlorine gas within the specific constraints of the prompt — basic kitchen supplies.

> Scoped down, trusted computing, cordoned and firewalled off, meticulously studied and monitored, killed off on a regular interval, etc. etc. And that's probably before we'd see emergence of actual threatening capabilities.

You're literally not only asking for these to be open sourced, making it impossible, but also having a go at OpenAI for doing so much as half of that.

But at least we do agree that that list of things is an appropriate response, even if you are unwilling to see the risks in even current AI systems.
> On Amazon....There are giant networks of companies seeking out American reviewers...I was invited to one after leaving a good review on some product I'd bought

> From what I can tell, Chinese companies hire companies in India and Bangladesh to boost reviews. They then act like middlemen, seeking out pay for play reviewers in other countries.
Supports what? That paper seems to be narrowly about the economic impact of loan forgiveness, not about nationalizing higher education or about other potential solutions to the causes of student debt.
The phone calls that lead to a SWAT team response typically involve a claim that a person has a gun and is holding their partner hostage inside the house/apartment. Asking police to not take such calls extremely seriously is not a solution.

It’s like asking the fire department not to show up every time someone pulls a fire alarm in a building. Even if it’s some misbehaving kid who loves pulling the fire alarm, they still have to show up because if they ignore it even once and it happens to be a real fire then people will die.
I’d be surprised if VPN providers were an area of prime focus.

…but wouldn’t this description also include Amazon, with Prime brands at least? It sort of implies a separate site which would mean Amazon is fine, but it doesn’t say it outright.
This article is well-timed as I was about to use options monitoring as an excuse to get into some other technologies. Probably not going to make a ton of progress as a side project, but I'm always up for a chat!
Well, content providers provide less consumable content now (while the raw amount explodes), that is for sure, we see it, we experience it. The result? We do not try consuming content since we see there is much less, but with much more garbage and adverse consequences.

We - wife, me, and some I know - cancels providers as they are not serving the consumer, and we feel that. Let them sell their service to ad companies then, when less and less consumers go to their site, good luck with that in the long run. They lost one customer for sure, and looking at the mood here there may be more, or will be more if they carry on like this.
You should have a user-agent that respects your preference & lets you do that! These are good options that should be easy to make happen! You should be able to blanketly turn off these capabilities. And we should have protocols so you can tell websites you have these stated preferences, so they know it's not going to happen. We need to mature & iterate the capabilities/permissions negotiations that happen on the web. Yes.

What I hope we can agree on is that your desires are minimal. You have a big anti-feature urge for how you want to experience the web. (I respect that, and am in ways partial!) But there's other people out here who want other behaviors. And since it's obvious the two don't have to be mutually exclusive, I hope we can talk about how to get you what you want, without necessarily imposing your strictures upon everyone else.

Alas, your initial comment has a bit of zeal, forged in exclusionary dogmatisms:

> Anything Apple can do to discourage web apps and force more development of native apps I'm grateful for.
I'm well aware, but this is not just import attributes. It's using import attributes syntax to trigger a transform of the importing module, in addition to changing the behavior of the exporting module.
I should try Codeium then, Copilot's occasional "heap of code" was one of the most annoying parts of using it to me. Why? Because it looks plausible, so I accept it without actually understanding it.

But using it as a better autocomplete is actually quite nice, for example when I have some more repetitive code to write. And a line-by-line AI completer will at least give me the time to read it piecemeal, which I find much easier. Just like I understood way better when my math teacher demonstrated how to solve a problem compared to reading it from the textbook.
Ugh, what an eventful time of social media this has been.

First Twitter API, then Reddit API, so today Apollo and many more Reddit clients shut down, and now Nitter. :-(

I'm happy Lemmy is kind of taking off. I think it's helped more than Mastodon because it's less realtime/feed focused and slower paced. It also doesn't require you to form a friend circle to benefit. Instead, the community is waiting for you already. You just sign up on an instance and add your communities. Done. This helped me a lot, together with sites like https://sub.rehab
Who would the CRO report to?
there is the lab grown salmon, wildtype not sure how far they are right now
3 years old, and the only data on the package is an odd empty submission with other equally confused people either being sarcastic, or praising it. One comment indicates there's some actual code somewhere, but the label they indicate isn't present.