skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn’t claim to. Paxys claim is that if you are not involved in the development in AI, you are not a stakeholder in its development. My claim is that as soon as something begins affecting the public (e.g. by mass deployment), then the public is now a stakeholder.

As a general rule, as soon as you start doing something that affects other people, they have a stake in what you’re doing. This is a basic, basic tenet of a society. It applies to listening to loud music, driving fast, and yes, developing AI.

Pretty straightforward.
Not really, modem firmware even for wifi and BT is pretty much tied down "thanks" to regulations, you won't get far without an exploit bypassing the signature verification. Governments are apparently very afraid of people modifying their chipsets to be more powerful in range than allowed.
Google play services is arguably bloatware.
Hooks definitely build a complex data structure. They don't actually run immediately/imperatively. Even `useEffect(callback, undefined)` (no defined dependencies) which gives the illusion that it runs "immediately" on every render is still an illusion of sorts and there's a complex scheduler apparatus feeding on the data structures under the hood that useEffect builds.

The data structures that Hooks build in React gets built in a strangely bound, somewhat liminal `this` space so it effectively "disappears" in JS. That's certainly not how I would have built it. You are right that I probably would have used something more like JS Promises, given the choice. But I didn't build React's Hook systems, I'm just an outside critic. I'm very happy to agree that use of `this` bound things is about as impure functionally as you get in JS. (That said, it is a very JS solution that predates React and gets to old debates of whether or not JS is truly "OO". Prototypical OO is a gray space between OO and functional paradigms.)

Hooks are never imperative, even in the most complex multi-hook components. They use and build data structures. Those data structures are mostly hidden from view and hard to inspect, but they exist.
Our vendor tells us their product hosted in AWS Central is down because of an outage there.
have you checked the current state of somethingawful?
>As it stands now, the future without AI seems pretty doomed too.

As pessimistic as the current zeitgeist is, very few imagined futures reasonably result in actual human extinction.
Reading the article it makes it seem like Niantic has leaned in to pay to win a little too hard.
I'm idling on OFTC, Libera and two private servers.
What is Langchain and why should I care as a developer
CommonJS requires invoking the code before the modules can be resolved, versus the ESModule syntax with "import" can be parsed out of the code separately (from the AST because it is a keyword). No invocation required.

I don't know if that's the entire story -- probably not -- but I do know that is one major differentiator for things like generating import-graphs and performing tree shaking.

(you can still do like `import('foo' + someVar)` which will only invoke dynamically at runtime, so I'm not sure how that case is dealt with)
Yeah, I wish there was a Matrix client which was equally beautiful.
I also want to hurt Javascript.
> If you aren't contributing to actual progress in the area then it's best to not shove yourself into the conversation at all.

By that same token, if you aren't working to make landmines more efficient, you don't deserve to have an opinion about landmines.
Or National which is almost all gone today. Or rather rebranded to Panasonic. Before the early 2000s the company was selling most of their products under National brand in Japan. They've introduced Panasonic to sell speakers abroad because, as it turned out, the National name was not available. The reception was so good over the years that the National brand has been discontinued and all the products are called Panasonic now.

I've learned only today, while double checking the facts, that there is `panasonic` TLD.

https://holdings.panasonic/global/corporate/brand/history.ht...
We've always voted money straight from the Treasury. Government contracts, government subsidies, you name it, it's been from Day 1. Every tax break we give is money that the Treasury could spend. Every "incentive" we provide is the same. The Whiskey Rebellion was Treasury money...
>*we have good reason to be concerned about the alignment of current AIs with human values and objectives*

We hear a lot about alignment these days, but is there a canonical source for litmus-ing alignment in the available AIs?

Is there a standard 'alignment prompt' that can tell us of the alignment of either the LLM, AI, Prompt, etc?

What questions am I not asking about alignment?

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>"Please take a look at the current cadre of political candidates and map them to
DND alignment charts, based on their actual votes/political activity"

I hope we can get there one day.

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"Please take a look at the current cadre of political candidates and map them to
DND alignment charts, based on their actual votes/political activity"

I hope we can get there one day.

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I wonder if we can find FORK BOMB or rm -rf / type exploits on various GPTs/LLMs/AIs?

I cant wait to see how devestating these will be -- or the first full executed security exploit by AI alone with a single prompt?
> Due to inflation the exchange rate for our imaginary currency went down. Oh! Also there is inflation in the fictional universe so fictional prices have gone up as well, sorry about that!
After the immediate success of Pokémon GO, I was curious what happens next in the AR game space. Niantic also stimulated people to take additional photos of objects for their platform, so I expected something new to appear.
But unfortunately, for some reason, everyone including Niantic just does the same game with different setting. So disappointing:(
I hate chat history. That's corporate mentality invading your non-work brain. IRC should feel like walking into a bar full of nerds, and you just join the conversation wherever it is. Even at work, if I'm out for a few days I definitely don't "catch up on slack" - that's not what chat is for. Long lived conversations belong somewhere else - email, or PR, or (god forbid) jira.
YouTube is a vertically integrated monopolist in the video space. There is no where else I can go to consume the majority of content they host.

Why would any regular person empathize with the criminals in the commission of their crimes?
What a bad take from the EFF!

> Break up the ad-tech sector, open up app stores, end-to-end delivery

I thought they stood for freedom, and now they want to pass laws on how software can work?!

Their literally saying this software code can't be this way, you need to submit a PR to change how it works to match this law. If this isn't the antithesis of freedom I don't know what is.
Cloudflare all but confirmed: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/g0078jjwv9kp
If a business hired a hundred people to go to a soup kitchen to get free soup and then went out and sold the soup surely that seems wrong.

PS - these comments are going to be used to train the next GPT aren't they?
Uggh, apparently this is a well-tread genre of YouTube videos
I wonder how much money Khaled has made over the years from mirc
I agree that we should have another web programming option besides JavaScript.

However, the big boss still says "use JavaScript, period", and the tech economy dictates that supply side has the upper hand. The users are simple peasants who have no say in the matter. And frankly, none of them really care.

Unless Google execs start pushing an alternative on Chrome, we're stuck with what we have.
UpGrad in Talks to Acquire Majority Stake in Udacity
#1 Can you fix the 2h commute? (edit) Would companies consider paying for commute time as work time?
I think his words are relevant. Whether or not the Supreme Court chose to cite them in this case.

I don’t think we should be cheering when our government digs for legal loopholes to get around the fact that it can’t pass a bill through Congress.
LinkedIn v. HiQ

In case anyone wants to read more about it - it’s very relevant today.
> If I'm reading this right, Quebec's forest fire area burned year-to-date is 150 times higher than the ten-year trailing average, which is absurdly high

Earlier this year (late May) the stat for Alberta was that already they had seen 100x more hectares burned than in all of last year.
The Plan9 discussion from a few days ago shows that quite a few people here don't know what a file actually is either.
I'm kinda unfamiliar with Debian. The main 12 release happened about a month ago, right? Is it common to have point releases start so soon?
Holy shit this GUI framework looks good. I am a Qt fanboi, but this looks great. Normally, I skip all the "X for Rust" posts as a bunch of fanaticism. Could it really be different this time???

The feature list is really impressive: https://github.com/iced-rs/iced

Plus, here is the road map with many things already done: https://github.com/iced-rs/iced/blob/master/ROADMAP.md

Wow, wow, wow: Keep up the great work.

One of the rendering engines is Skia by Google. This library is sneaking up fast on us...
I'm not sure either, but it's HN :)

Native attachments support was personally a big thing for me (inline images or gifs.. not so much) but what I meant to say is that I think the ecosystem could have survived without it if that were the only issue - just look at how long Reddit went without any sort of image or video upload support. Ultimately and "at some point," attachment support would have "just happened" naturally. I just really think multi-presence w/ history and the lack of a good web or mobile client was the bigger deal. Unlike attachments which you can just staple on to the UI and squint at it the right way, these were actual, fundamental issues that required a rearchitecture (or even rewrite) of existing servers and clients, and despite how obvious their importance was (at least to some of us) the mainstream client/server options didn't really relish the idea or jump on board.

I still vividly remember being locked out of a hacker space maybe seven years ago and needing to figure out how to get on the irc from my iPhone. I scoured the app store looking for a good (free) client for this one-time need I had and found nothing. I searched online and found a really shady, insecure, and ad-infested website that would open an IRC connection in the backend and then stream the text to your browser in an interface intended for desktop use. The interface was neigh impossible to use on a phone, all the UI bits were overlaid atop of one another, text wrapping was broken, etc.

I was able to use this to post on the IRC channel and get someone to let me in, but every time I changed tabs or my phone timed out and turned off, the connection would be severed and I would have to start again.. and ask "sorry did anyone reply to my earlier message, I am logging in from a web frontend and was forced to refresh, I might have missed your reply if you did."
Key document may be fake in LGBTQ+ rights case before US Supreme Court
I wanted a new small camera recently. How did I find it? By trying to find opinions of people who had owned different cameras, and comparing their opinions about the ones that they owned.

I didn’t need an ad to tell me to buy a camera. I didn’t see any ads at all! Rather, I decided “I wish I had something to take pictures with”, so I started researching how I could accomplish that thing.

And ads would not have helped me find the best camera option at all, in fact it’s probably a slightly negative signal — they must have big profits to spend lots of money on ads, compared to a company that just makes the best product and has their customers promote it for them.

Same thing with any other product. I see my coworkers using a terminal app I’ve never seen. It looks better than the normal one, so I ask them about it.
I don't think so, the battery on one still works fine, and on the other I have replaced the internal battery with a DC-DC converter, so according to the tablet there is a "battery" which works fine and never runs dead :)

I always do this when I use tablets as wall panels, because eventually the battery will bloat and possibly catches fire. This way I can remove the battery altogether. None of the tablets and phones I have tested are capable of even starting up on USB power alone: With a dead battery or removed battery they simply won't even power on.
This is the reason I want Arch Linux on my phone. I have my option of mobile interfaces (Plasma Mobile is still a thing, right?) or I could literally roll my own (there are i3 mods that allow using touch screens).

I'd love to be able to run a mainline Linux kernel on a standard handset. It would enable a bunch of goofy things, like using old phones as IP wifi security cameras.
Why the fixation with "post-IBM"? Ever heard of PNAELV?

https://lwn.net/Articles/578768/ for the history (up until 9 years ago).
So they’re drug dealers?
Not really an alternative to JavaScript, just an add-on.
I know nothing about LLVM backends, but it’s pretty common that libraries aiming to solve 100% of users problems eventually become unwieldy and slow compared to a more optimized alternative. Web Pack vs. esbuild is an example of this.
Every time this is mentioned, the person is heavily downvoted.

But if you were here in the 2000, that's exactly what happened.

In fact, this very article starts with "JavaScript, the undisputed king of web development, is being sabotaged — not by a rival language or a revolutionary new technology, but by its own baggage from the past.". That's the first sentence.

Nobody wanted to work with JS, it was used to make snowflakes on your home page on Xmas at best.

Then things like gmail happened (using GWT!), and the web became the most awesome platform in the world. By then it was too late, JS was the de facto language of the coolest tech of human history.

It was such a trap Google spent billions and hired the best minds out there to make chrome, with a VM that could execute it fast enough, so the company could make its vision happen.

At the time, JS was a nuisance and an embarrassment, something we had to deal with. The "good parts" was the bible because it's a language you could only use if you ignore half of it.

Case in point, the most popular JS techs created after that existed precisely to avoid writing ES5. Like coffeescript, babel, webpack, etc.

JS is a decent language now, because the community invested so much into it. Provided you use tooling. A lot of it.

But that's not how it started. We were forced to use it, and had to spend considerable resources to make up for how bad it was.

I've yet to met anybody who knows Python/Ruby/C#/Java/Rujst/Go and JS to chose JS outside of the web. Because there, we have the choice.

Electron, unfortunately, might take a chunk of that choice, because once again, the browser platform is that great.
I can speak to the one listed in the article: "difficult to tree-shake, which can remove unused modules and minimize bundle size."

This is because of a much deeper issue: static analysis is highly complex with the near-free-for-all that is CommonJS require & module.exports syntax. ES Modules is stricter and much easier to statically deal with.

At a high level, why? You can throw just about anything in an exports.module statement, and the syntax to "require" it also has a lot of leeway. You can actually see the code for this in the Node codebase--module resolution is handled in javascript @ /lib/internal/modules/cjs/loader.js
vs /lib/internal/modules/esm (heads up, both approaches are a Lot to grok)

Understand that with the CJS approach, you can dynamically export modules at runtime under whatever name you wish, with whatever value you want, which may even include dynamic require statements themselves. Nightmare for static analysis.

It makes a lot more sense if you try it for yourself. Build a module resolution algorithm including: determining all the imports, all the files those imports are from, mixing with 3rd party and local imports, and building that chain recursively.

You can do it, but the edge cases surrounding CommonJS make it super difficult. I'd go so far as to say it's basically impossible to get 100% success in all the desired scenarios without directly invoking the code.
At age 10 I hopped on every BBS I could that wasn't long distance. Then I did a few free trials of AOL.

At age 12 I got unlimited internet for $20/month where I spent all my free time on mIRC. I learned to code making mIRC bots, then I found eggdrop bots.. Then I had to learn Linux to run them. Before I knew it I was a teenager with better coding knowledge than most of the professionals I knew.
AI is a generic tool, not a life form.
Just like a pair of crutches can either be used to aid someone to walk or misused to break someone else's head, it is all on who uses it and how. When something bad happens (and it will, 100% sure about that), blame the user, not the tool.
There's already a lot of people out there exploiting other people using whatever instrument they have at hand, and AI will be just another tool in their bag. As much as we wouldn't give a screwdriver to a psychopath, it's just a matter of making sure that the wrong people can't abuse AI to harm others.
I haven't read Sapiens, but The Selfish Gene does have a section on memetic fitness which IIRC addresses the helpfulness of both being compelled to spread the idea and reject value systems that could destabilize it.
Restricted funds are not limiting to generally spending on the school. Many of them are more specific, I assume
See also: https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/14n4ig1/useast2_networ.... AWS Support is out of sync with ground-truth, which appears to be a reliability issue.

Also, were are the post-event summaries from AWS[1]? Did AWS decidedly opt-out of post-event summaries and CVEs? Is that even aloud? This is worrisome.

[1]https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/technology/pes/
The power and potential danger of AI-generated code
Apple Became a $3 Trillion Company
Probably you should email them and explain the problem, for starters. That’s not going to help you with the old info, but it can help you and the others with the new one.
Not if we don't care c:
I see you didn't publish it to crates.io because of patched dependencies. I registered the "halloy" name so no one else abuses it. Contact me to transfer it to you.
Multiple tech companies have said that. I really wonder about why any of these CEOs thought it was a permanent state of affairs though. The prior example, the Spanish Flu, was fought with lower tech and science and lasted what 3-4 years?
Great question. I'd like to know too! I always thought C is a better target for compiler makers because every target architecture has got a C compiler for it. The number of targets that LLVM support is far less impressive. Also ton of work has gone into optimizing C compilers for any architecture you can imagine. I'd like to know too why compiler makers generally target LLVM instead of C?
I dislike this move from Red Hat, but I think that bug-for-bug compatibility is overvalued. Everyone who either likes the general RH ecosystem or has to support RH customers could probably continue working on CentOS.

People could also just fork and long-term-support CentOS to provide a more stable platform.
How is it unfair that everyone chips in and pays my mortgage off? What harm does it cause them?
The Rise of the AI Engineer
Right, legacies are obviously the biggest value add of ivy's for the non legacy students, and it's not particularly close.
Well, then let's play the prisoner's dilemma best solution thus far, and do "tit for tat".

That's a nice EPEL you got there. Sure'd be ashame if it went away or if it got left-pad'd!
What Foods Are High in Polyamines?
Write-off is an accounting term that would seem not to have a meaning outside of taxes.
Is it Japanese only collaboration?
There's fsync. Unfortunately, if you want atomicity but not durability you have ~zero options on common filesystems.

(On ZFS and bcachefs you can get that by disabling syncs completely; they never reorder writes in a visible manner.)
C++ is overrated. Use the crab language, instead.

/s
More than 50 different chemicals are now pumped into consumer products in place of BPA. These BPA-free alternatives can be as bad as — or worse than — the original.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/many-bpa-free-plasti...
Is ROCm actually usable in this years machine learning ecosystem? Can I just drop in any PyTorch model that was developed on CUDA and expect it to work?
Fun website. Please make it less aggressive on the lazy loading.
If wanting an immutable currency that is not controlled by a central government means I’m in a cult of like-minded, then guilty as charged.
This reality just looks very different from the scenarios proposed by AI doomsayers, as the current LLMs, instead of being quiet, deadly things poised to take over the world, are instead loud and ineffectual and prone to making up all kinds of nonsense on the spot. It is far more likely they will make defective products instead of too-effective and deadly ones.
I read messages like this and it always seems like folk think Red Hat are missing out because people aren't using a free competitor.

What I think this change will make happen, 80-95% of the companies using CentOS or Rocky stop using RHEL based linux distros. But the rest start paying Red Hat. Those who moved away were never going to buy anyways so why should Red Hat care if they don't use a free competitor that used their work?
SUSE or Ubuntu
Even if, for purposes of argument, you stipulate that there are families that would make effective use of a very large house, the design for a family with a lot of kids and/or an older parent living with them is going to look very different from that for a couple or small family that throws large parties on a regular basis.
Reddit, for one, is not about to do any such thing. They're clearly trying to cash out on the grounds that they are a giant source for AI companies, and they're fighting their own users who try to remove their content or gate it.
Do you mean freely available in a technical / security sense, or legal / financial sense?
Is there any battling? You collect Pokemon in real world locations...that's kind of neat..but what's the game beyond collecting pokemon and bragging about all the different ones you've collected?
When people recognize how cognitively harmful ads really are, there will be a movement to pirate and rehost all content decentrally, edited to remove interstitials and sponsored segments.

Ads targeting children would be an international crime if our world was just.
What's remarkable is this quote comes from a book written in the 1920's
Meta-analysis study from China says fluoride in drinking water lower IQ by 7 points on average in children, with more fluoride causing higher effects [1]. Probably politically infeasible to do such a study in the US because of left-right polarity but I'm sure once it gets widespread acknowledgement in a couple of decades, there'll be people saying how it was obvious all along.

Other studies too from a quick google search. Pregnant women drinking fluoridated water lowers children's IQ by 3-4 points [2]

1. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/fluoride-children...

2. https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2019/08/20/fluoride-an...

From google

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18695947/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31424532/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5285601/

This is a good article as an overview of the problem:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41390-020-0973-8
>I block ads because they're psychological warfare that corporations wage against me. I don't care how unobtrusive the ads are.

Lol, then there are ads like the Liberty Mutual ads. All I know is I will never, ever purchase car insurance from that shithole from having been made to watch their obnoxious ads on loop.
Report finds most US kale samples contain disturbing levels of forever chemicals