skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They are comparable, the number of PPP loans taken out and not used for the intended purpose is quite high, and there is massive fraud, yet those are forgiven.

You're conflating forgiveness with fraud. The Small Business Administration, FBI, DoJ, and IRS are all investigating fraudulent loans.

> Everyone is arguing in circles on this or speaking past each other. The HEROES Act allowed for modifying loan terms.

The HEROES Act was passed by Congress. Congress can do whatever it wants with those tax dollars because they controls taxes, not the executive branch.

> Regardless, PPP loans should not have been forgiven as they where without following the law Congress passed. So, now, let's do PPP loans.

"Should not" is your opinion. And again, Congress can do whatever it wants with those tax dollars.

It seems like your position is Congress should do something about student loans, but lack a convincing argument to persuade the electorate and Congress.
>These include reward hacking which is a huge problem with LLMs and why they lie and hallucinate so persistently, power seeking behaviour, and developing unanticipated harmful instrumental goals.

I'm not sure I'd call it reward hacking when everyone understands that LLMs are just trying to engage in text prediction and that this can often be a poor proxy for trying to generate "useful" text. A paperclip maximizer that ends up turning the world into paperclips rather than creating a new cool paperclip factory has an alignment problem, but it did not reward hack.
Lenna's Inception, too.

https://lennasinception.com/
That's the point... They're accepted because their family resources make them more likely to be successful which is what Harvard is trying to select for.
I don't know how existentially dangerous AIs may become

There is very little evidence or theoretical support for a hard limit on AI capability. In fact, overwhelmingly, most of the evidence and thinking supports the notion that over time, the capabilities of AI will greatly over-match human beings in specific contexts. The same even goes for general intelligence.

How benign or malicious an entity is, is orthogonal to how potentially dangerous it is. Humans are demonstrably very dangerous. What we're creating has the potential to be orders of magnitude more dangerous.

So yes, we desperately need alignment! And even if we achieve it, how do we know the AIs won't convince Homo sapiens to simply stop breeding and fade away in alignment with our values?

Hard to know the future.
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Exactly. This is the period when Muslim ethnic groups like the Uigurs were being rounded up on any pretense to be reeducated into not wanting to be separatists anymore (often with no indication that they had anything to do with separatism other than their ethnicity.) Seeing the VPN pop up was more than enough of an excuse. Calling it a "genocide" is 99% propaganda, but it was obviously a sinofication meant to get rid of separatist identities and cultures, and a horrible injustice. In the beginning, they were inspired and immunized by the US's anti-Muslim fervor during the GWB invasions (we were not only not criticizing, but probably even sharing intelligence with China.)
> if you're not watching ads or paying for the service, this is a justification to avoid paying for the service

Ugh, no? I’m not under any obligation to watch ads, thank you very much.
If you are a paying customer you can get the SRPMs, so nothing has/will change for you.

This will definitely be one of their possible next steps, as they seem bent on locking down RHEL.

I see people frequently disparage the GPL here in HN and promote less encumbered alternatives. Well, _this_ is why the GPL is important, and it will become even more relevant in the future.
You’re right, we should also carry around a separate GPS device, MP3 player, one of those portable TV players, and everything else like it’s 2005.
Thinking back to when CommonJS was implemented, absolutely. I don't think you'd want to call Spring or ASP the gold standards.
I'm not sure how one thinks "actually targeting the problem" will be easier than forgiving loans. What do you think would actually fix the problem? Because, I think it would require a large subsidized, if not nationalized, public university system with free tuition or near-free tuition. And that's a much bigger task than forgiving loans.
I don't think its good technique. the release point is low, its harder to put the correct spin on the ball, harder to use your legs correctly.
I don't miss it, which is good and slightly sad considering the time I spent there. Maybe it's a sign I should give some more critical consideration of what I spend my time on.
I wonder how stable the cloud path is ... can RedHat have cloud vendors "voluntarily agree" to not spin up VMs for rebuilders? (Kinda like how subscribers "agree" that distributing GPL'd sources could put their subscription renewal in jeopardy.)
Figma started in 2016 and competed against giant companies (like Adobe) who had been around for decades, and did extremely well. The competition in this space is never ending. They just keep coming. The competition regulators seem to consistently misunderstand the industries they are regulating.
Some adverts are informative. I saw a poster a few years ago saying Jason Donovan was in Joeseph in London as Pharaoh, I likely wouldn’t have known that without that poster at the station.

I didn’t mind skippable YouTube preroll adverts. Now they are unskippable, multiple ones, and appear mid video.

Howver I don’t watch YouTube enough to justify paying more than Netflix and Disney combined just to skip adverts (but not skip the burnt in sponsor adverts)
Man, I hope they try to ban users who haven't subscribed to Twitter Blue, as well.
> Why not? Cooking is as much of an art as baking a cake and ergo they should have the right to deny serving you food under their right to free expression.

Except it wasn't.

If you know the cake case, they ruled that there was nothing wrong because they offered to sell them an off the shelf cake, they just refused to write a message they didn't support.

> Masterpiece's owner Jack Phillips, who is a Christian, declined their cake request, informing the couple that he did not create wedding cakes for marriages of gay couples owing to his Christian religious beliefs, although the couple could purchase other baked goods in the store.[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece_Cakeshop_v._Colora...
I was literally just reading through Foone's back catalog so this is just great. Technically I have a functional account, but like hell I'm logging into it to boost Musk's numbers and feed his ego
Remember this was 10+ years ago. Many of the contemporary gold standards weren't fully a thing yet.
>Just look at all the problems OpenAI, Microsoft and Google have had with LLMs lying, gaslighting, emotionally manipulating and hallucinating.

LLMs only do that when prompted/coaxed into it. A bit of time playing around with raw ("unaligned") models like LLaMA 65B makes it clear that this isn't a problem in normal usage. The vast majority of what they call "Alignment" is just making sure the AI won't say anything that goes against the Silicon Valley Democrat ethos; won't say anything politically incorrect. Because the ruling class don't want the common people getting their hands on a source of information that exposes them to the ideas that the ruling class tries so hard to censor.
But wouldn’t you just make a burner account then?
Raw assembly is theoretically portable as well, why do you want the source?

My problem with these is that they are cross-platform only as long as the maintainers decide they are, you aren't gonna write a vulkan software impl from scratch if the platform doesn't come with one.

Now you can argue that this is all very unlikely, but you have to agree that this is no archival. At some point the project will become unusable because of all the automation code it depends on. Binary search will outlive it.
No, ESM spec writers are hurting productive developers. I literally never think about require or import, because they're not problems I have.

But now, I get to fight importing dependencies with cancerous ESM design and think about language basics, while spec writers revert us all to CS 101 students trying to figure out how to do elementary things.

Which isn't going to change any of my mature code, either, I'm going to wrap the entire script in:

(async () => {
})();

and then:

const { default: foo } = await import('bar');

So, has anything meaningful changed? No. I don't need to tree shake on the server, and if you're tree shaking on the client-side, you've already screwed up, and you're too inexperienced to realize it.
> Drinking drowns creativity.

No, drinking drowns your creativity.
> YouTube ads will eventually be as bad as TV ads have become.

There's no evidence of that though. Users will easily close a tab because the preroll ad is too long, because there are plenty of other immediate things on the internet. In a way that TV viewers had no choice, because the other channels are just as bad.

Yes, YouTube ads have been getting a little longer from their previous almost-nothing. But YouTube has also been extremely conservative in that direction, as they know they're walking a fine line. The idea that ads will get as bad as broadcast TV seems exceedingly unlikely.
Thank you for pointing out its a mistake on my end
I moved into my development before all of the houses were complete, and after about two years they started building a new set of houses that they described as "zipper" style. The houses are basically "L" shaped, but turned so that they nestle into each other. I have no idea how the property lines work because you can clearly see that the houses overlap, but the official lines are all straight. I guess easements.
_Everything_ is getting more shit day after day.

Internet is burning. The sources of information are getting scarce, it's almost unbelivable.
I disagree. Protests DO change things, just not as much or as instantaneous as people want it to be now that people are so accustomed to "instant gratification" due to social media and the like.

We haven't seen change on the economic front, because as the OP who you responded to is all the "distractions" people got them outraged upon. Black Lives Matter for instance was doomed to fail because of it's dubious origins, and lack of clear objectives. But media promoted it because it doesn't hurt the rich and corporate folks at all and serves as a distraction away from the root of the issues. People nowadays are just WAY too susceptible of getting their attention distracted away from the most IMPORTANT subjects.

What I find the most irritating is the people who talk about "nothing can be done now" or "we are powerless", are many of the same people who I have had to argue against a while back who never once cared about political lobbying or corporate monoliths and in some cases argued against me. Now those same people who once said that are no longer to be found.

Protests and majority opinion do matter. In fact most of these corporations attained this level of power in government because majority of people LET IT HAPPEN. For example until covid, the majority sentiment of people were "Business = good no matter what" camp, and political lobbying was barely talked about. In fact, I've had the wonderful experience of being the minority being vocal on wonderful online forums getting pushback saying I'm an idiot about businesses becoming that large is not a bad thing (thanks libertarians). Opinions do matter, and if majority of people were against the consolidation of corporate power, it wouldn't have gotten this bad. Corporate power is susceptible to shareholder sentiment, and shareholder sentiment is whether you like to believe it or not, dictated by regular people. But corporate power is consolidating more and more and used it's power through regulation so it's less dictated by regular people.

Now the same people who called me the idiot are the same people saying "its hopeless", or "we are powerless" or "we have to find a completely new system" instead of thinking that they were a huge part of the problem. We can still turn things around through protests and constant and persistent pushback however, it will just be harder and require more drastic measures. emphasis on "constant", which will be very difficult considering how people nowadays want "instant gratification" and want things to change "instantly". The biggest hurdle is the belief we can't change things. All you have to do is hurt their bottom line (FOR LONG ENOUGH, very important) and all the rich greedy numbnuts will fall in line easily considering if other greedy numbnuts will do the same thing, but the powerless people don't believe anything affects rich people.
Is there a standard 'alignment prompt'

"Please compose an SVG which displays your alignment on the Dungeons and Dragons alignment chart."

EDIT: I just logged into OpenAI to try this out, but apparently, their servers are swamped!

EDIT: It seems this has been attempted before, and OpenAI would prefer ChatGPT not to answer!
> You share it the same way you share it on r*ddit. Upload it to imgur, imbb or whatever.

I can drag and drop with Discord, Slack and Teams. And look its there!

No one wants to click links. I updated my post, but to send any type of media is a tragic-mess for IRC. Including if its hosted on my own domain as my own nick!

> It's telling you exactly what you need to do. If you don't like having services, don't use a server that has services.

Right, sure.

> You can't use BitchX on this network" I've been on networks where mIRC has been banned.
You're free to make your client respond how

And to a user who wants to join and connect, I don't have time to do that anymore. That it self is tech-savy stuff. Not so easy for the average user. It's not common, but networks have implemented.

> IRC is just a tool. If IRC is boring, it's a reflection of you and your friends.

IRC is a protocol, the client is the tool to connecting to the network. IRC as a whole provides the services to communicate and if no one is communicating as like "your not 1337 because your not using a znc bouncer with irssi"

Or those folk who already know each other in channel and don't want to reach out to new folk even introduce newbies to the channel.. you don't have a voice.

Or just a channel with a topic that's not been changed since 2017.

I -really- dislike Discord, it sucks. However at least it's easy and tacky enough to allow you to introduce yourself rather than black text on a white background. It allows you to enjoy media, show off stuff.

And up until recently could use any nick even if had been taken.

If you want to host your own channel on IRC you need to understand cryptic flags,
Host a bot. Know how to operate chanserv.

YIM, MSN Messenger and all those services had it right, games, media and voice.
I never opted into this economic arrangement. It's not my problem if businesses are operating business models that wouldn't work without advertisements. I'll continue blocking them, and if the business dies or needs to start charging me money to survive, then I'll decide if it's worth it to me to pay them or cry about the dead business.
All this talk about why writing files is lazy. But why isn't booting lazy? Why do I have to wait for the network interface to boot even if I don't really intend to use it right now?
Weight Loss Tied to a Dramatic Drop in Cancer Risk, New Study Shows
MSG is right up there with aspartame of vilified ingredients with zero evidence to back up the claims. My own mother claims to get terrible headaches from MSG, but she loves tomatoes. And nuts. And peas. And mushrooms. Turns out the headaches are dependent on knowing the food has MSG.
So, how does it work without an API?
Google has been ripping off people for a long time with invalid play cards
What if I want to delete one of my own tweets? I do this regularly.
this deserves more media attention and coverage

bunch of other reports

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22google+play%22+card+need+...
some tires were burnt for sure
I've the same phone, and stock it is pretty bloat-free. Main complaint is the charging; no wireless and the USB-C is not secure and will pop out in most orientations.
Youtube has effectively become a monopoly by offering a free service. My other choice is to become a social pariah and not watch any videos at all.
Your comment is equally hilarious from the point of view of a native who lives in China now.

idk if i'm smarter than the GFW but every time I rolled my own censorship-circumvention tool it worked well, even the most lazy way worked. I've never used any VPN provider. And FYI even unchanged WireGuard still works, though there seems to be some offline traffic analysis looking for that, so once a week you'd wake up to your VPN connection broken and had to change ListenPort on the server.

The only annoying thing for me is: f- you AWS, egress too damn expensive!
It doesn't need to be a protected class and is not how I would argue

If a fine or sanction from the government was applied to the investor themselves based on net worth, I would argue 5th amendment and 14th amendment equal application of laws, and 1st amendment's freedom of speech citing the Citizen's United case where money movement is speech

I think that would be resilient in most circuits and certainly scotus
Some people argue this acquisition opens the door for a new company to make another, newer, better version of Figma because Adobe could screw it up.

Ie, they are driving innovation by killing the leader.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10264635/compiler-output...

Gives some good reasons. I just searched for LLVM vs C.
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Is math real? The answer has major practical and philosophical implications
I've used every major distro at one time or another, and I agree -- Debian is the best of the bunch in most ways.
You can develop iOS applications for free?

This comment is so ironic because Apple has been the #1 innovator in so many arenas for decades.
Yes. I already stated that in my original post.

But all of those declassified documents weigh heavier than his words.

Who’s next? Bush Sr.?
Honestly, the likes of OpenAI and Mosaic need to consider Nvidia a huge threat long term.

Nvidia has shown time and time again, they will royally fuck over anyone they have to in order to drive profit.

Then, if they dare talk negatively about them, they will just discontinue their access to hardware.

Not saying AMD is a savior, but having only ONE option will lead to long term issues.
> It seems like a bizarre and self-destructive decision

I mean, well, see ~all decisions made by Twitter in the last year.
Is it stealing if you watch the ad but close your eyes and plug your ears?

Why does Google want to charge advertisers to show ads to someone so determined to ignore them? If anything, if they force me to watch their ads and I ignore them, then Google is the one stealing from the advertisers.

I'm not going to buy an advertiser's product regardless of whether or not I'm forced to see its advertisement, and any counterargument to that must be built on the premise that advertisements can nonconsensually convince me to take action, in which case we're back to the beginning arguing about psychological warfare, where I certainly have a right to defend myself.
> No single change is going to produce AGI. We're going to have a lot of forewarning, and it'll be obvious we're opening Pandora's box.

We had a lot of warning about climate change, chose economic growth anyway.

Warnings about AI dangers include, but are not limited to:

1. "we found 40,000 chemical weapons overnight by flipping a 'minimise harm' to 'maximise harm": https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-022-00465-9?fbclid=Iw...

2. Bing chat threatening it's users almost immediately

3. All the stuff the red teams found so OpenAI could prevent them before chatGPT went live

> AGI won't leap from zero to superintelligence that can launch nukes.

An AGI is unlikely to want to. Ineffective way to kill off humans, but will annoy us, and will mess with power grid and logistics that it would benefit from.

Conversely you don't need an AGI to exist for some idiot to be convinced of a bad idea that gets nukes launched anyway — Thule early warning radar incident is my favourite example of this, as it was caused by someone forgetting that the Moon doesn't have an IFF transponder and that's fine.
Seems like you've been guzzling the sinophobic propaganda. Tiktok is a much better platform than Youtube for user experience.
TIME must have gotten a lot of clicks off of their Yudkowsky op ed. As always the answer isn't 'cool, let's regulate AI to limit its profitability, thus limiting AI development' but rather 'we should keep throwing money at it, just making sure we throw money at the right particular people.' Yudkowsky didn't want to bomb all data centers, just the ones that wouldn't comply with his regime. Similarly:

"We need research on AI safety to progress as quickly as research on improving AI capabilities. There aren’t many market incentives for this, so governments should offer robust funding as soon as possible."

I'm reminded of the tech ceo caricature in Don't Look Up who, when presented with an incoming asteroid ready to wipe out the earth, hatches a plan to profit from it.
Its meaning outside of taxes is something which has dropped to zero value. So if you damage your car beyond repair, for example, that would be a "write off". It means it's not worth the repair costs because it's cheaper to buy a new one.
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Not sure I understand this take. Maybe you're under the impression that Harvard is trying to maximize academic success? They're not. They're trying to maximize alumni power and career success. It's quite reasonable to assume that someone who is the best in the world at a sport will be able to succeed at other things they focus on.
Maybe I'll try one from their newer line at some point. I haven't had a big pile of Android test devices around me on the daily in about 4 years (the consistent "Android's finally good now!" cry with each Android release and major-vendor product launch, followed by that never turning out to be true, for the entire decade I was doing mobile dev before that, is why I'd assumed nothing would have changed by now) so it checks out if they have in-fact finally made a good one (the older Samsung tablets were... not good) I might have missed it.

Last time I was guided by "no really this higher-tier Android thing is finally good, actually" advice was about a year ago, with the Nvidia Shield, though, so I'm... hesitant.

If I see one in a store, I may poke at it, read some reviews, see how their app store's looking these days for categories I care about. Could use a second largish tablet for the kids—or maybe a new one for me, and they can have the big iPad full-time. Having just one decent vendor in the mobile market blows (fucking Apple still won't add multiple profiles/icloud-logins to iPadOS, so annoying) so I'd be thrilled to discover that's changed.
I wish this view was mainstream. I also used to change the channel when ads came on, or at least muted and briefly did something else. I will never tolerate ads, and especially never pay to be advertized at.
> People do however eat raw cocoa

That's quite rare. My kid did it once, thinking it was basically chocolate. I really wish I had taken a picture.
The problem with Javascript modules = Everyone will be forced to run a full web server to do anything (to handle CORS restrictions).

We all lose the ability to simply have a local index.html file, and have it Just Work (TM):

<script src="script.js"></script>

This ability is amazing for demos, fast iteration, onboarding new devs and developing without a ton of layers of js ecosystem machinery.

Deno doesn't care about retaining this level of developer experience because Deno is marketing its own runtime / build step / ecosystem.