skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Context length / window. Think of them and the "number of words" that the model can effectively process. 1 token is roughly equal to 4 characters or 0.75 words for English text. The number of tokens is the total number that can fit into a context window, which again is the space of "input" i.e. prompts and output (response/ completions) that the model can handle
I do agree that it -wasn't- a direct threat per se, maybe a more implicit one? Or maybe I'm reading too much into it.

It sounded to me a lot like 'well, if I'm costing you money, give me money and I'll stop costing you money.'

Quotes my interpretation, not direct quotes.
Rodney King was before my time, but the main Rodney King riots happened after the cops involved were acquitted, right? The main difference does have a little to do with social media, in that the George Floyd death video could be reshared in real time. The main reasons BLM took off in 2020 is that it had already taken off in 2014 and, importantly, most people were in COVID lockdown for 2 months by that point and had become a little stir-crazy.
Did you just call Randall Munroe a non-technical person?

> They believe that it is impossible to have perfect security, and that every single piece of software ever built is either already hacked, or waiting to be hacked by future hackers.

Yes. I do believe that.
Ok, so you say the climate is not allowed to change anymore?
> It's not okay to dislike people for the circumstances they were born into

This seems rather incompatible with:

> Every cop, at least in the US, made the conscious decision to join a broken system

If you believe the system is broken, and if you believe police are necessary at least in some form, how is extending your dislike to every cop not similar structurally to disliking people for the circumstances they were born into? (I'm not making a claim of equivalence in terms of the impact - racism is clearly worse - but of a similarly fallacious generalization).

In other words, if prospective cops could join a different system, they would, but no such system exists. Many join thinking they can influence/change the system, and I don't doubt that they try, but clearly this doesn't work well. This is not the same as joining a system for the purpose of benefiting from its rottenness.

Don't get me wrong: the system is clearly broken. But it seems deeply problematic to throw out all nuance and embrace a binary position here. Categorical statements like "joining automatically means you plan to dehumanize people you don't like and reap the rewards of corruption" does not withstand rational scrutiny.
When I was first learning Ruby knowing Perl rather well, it was discovering that it supported DATA/__END__ that made me feel like I was at home ...
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The concern is not that people will start dropping like flies, it's that the changing climate will have destabilizing effects on the economy, geopolitics, and the ecosystem. For example, drought contributed to the Syrian conflict, the rise of ISIS, etc: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1421533112

If individual citizens can affect their local politics to mitigate climate change, it is important to do so.
This is exactly why we need GrapheneOS in airplane mode w/o SIM, and a secondary phone w/ cam and mic removed as wifi hotspot
Maybe, but not for this HN commenter. I enjoy my work and make good money doing it. I'm certainly not alone.

Besides, it's the mandatory part that I find problematic. If I want to open my doors for business no one should stop me for a holiday of all things.
Gotta train the LLMs on something
Have they stopped quitting because they like their jobs or because they are back in debt now so they cannot quit?

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=16O3M
Mostly what this means is police is allowed to use Pegasus type hacks
Wow, I had no idea that `<div/>` wasn't interpreted as `<div></div>`.
Perhaps that's because your memory is based on recalling what you were thinking about when you did something? If you "became the icing" then you probably weren't lost in thought, talking to yourself like "I should create a budget, I wonder what my spouse is making for dinner, I need to take out the trash, ..."
I'm noticing that an increasing number of people are taking advantage people's general lack of interest in history as a means ideologically rewrite it.

Just because some nobles and bishops said that peasants had it easy doesn't mean that they actually had it easy. Anyone who has actually tried homesteading or even garden knows that the this lifestyle isn't leisurely even with the wonders of modern technology. This isn't even considering all the chores they had to do by hand: washing clothes, making the soap used to wash clothes, rendering the fat used to make the soap, making the lye used for soap, chopping the firewood used to make the lye, and carrying water that you require for all these other chores. This was what peasants did with their "leisure". It was until the Victorian era when the modern concept of leisure
Is it time to flat out abandon smartphones?
Exactly. The total number of cases doesn't really matter that much, it's the capability and willingness.
We need to keep hearing about it because more than half the global population is in denial about it and we are not doing much to prevent it while preventable catastrophe looms.
They're unhappy because after the last 10 years of low interest rates like 90% of people completely forgot how interest rate products , whether that is mortgages or savings accounts, work. Your average person has no idea how he can get these 5% rates by simply taking a day off work to just move his money into a money market fund.

On a more local topic: I know 4 people in my personal friend group that have had their financial situation basically get ruined because they did not bother switching from SARON(Swiss variable mortgage rate) when rates were stupidly low and have had their monthly payments like double. Literally none of them understood how screwed they would be if interest rates moved even 1% because the bank never actually bothers telling you that.
The French have a long history of fighting for freedom, I'm surprised they'd roll over and let their government have a pocket recorder on them at all times 24/7.
"C#/.NET

The focus in this release was on bringing feature parity between C# and GDScript.

When using GDScript, you can define a new node type to use in the editor by adding a global class name to your script.

Starting from Godot 4.1, this is also possible in C# by adding the [GlobalClass] attribute to your file, thanks to Raul Santos and Will Nations. You can also use the [Icon] attribute to give your global class a unique icon.

Note that as of this release projects made with C# still cannot be exported to mobile and web platforms. We are working on providing the support as soon as possible, but the resolution of this limitation will likely depend on the release of .NET 8 at the end of 2023. This means that the work on enabling mobile and web platforms can only truly start later this year."
All they did was reply with a link.

For all I know it's selling me essential oils.

Is it so much to ask for some basic human decency?
Seems unrealistic to me. Evernote's backend platform sure has to be pretty substantial (and legacy!) and managing and operating these types of platforms does not seem Bending Spoons' forte.
I live in a small city. I think the reason that social media hasn't really become central for community here is because we have a small free arts & entertainment newspaper that has served the role for longer than I've been alive. That's where everyone expects to find public announcements, events, buying/selling things, etc.

Craigslist is also very popular here. Does that count as social media?
> Many others got it for Final Fantasy VII.

Sometimes I think about how weird it was that a JRPG was somehow the most important game launch of its era in America. Everyone bought that game and I'm not sure why. It's a fine game if you're a JRPG fan, and they did a great job moving it away from the usual themes, but it's so weird that it caught on with so many people that had never even heard of the genre or wouldn't have wanted to play a JRPG before.

Was it the FMVs during summons? Why was that particular FF game so culturally relevant unlike any before or after? It was so successful that there was a bubble of JRPGs put into the mainstream for awhile there in the late 90's.
Not sure what you mean, but the transformer model can only predict one token at a time. The final output layer needs as many nodes (or neurons, if you will) as there are distinct in the token vocabulary. So a large token vocabulary is expensive and that's why GPT-3 and LLaMA have only about 50000 different tokens and use BPE to find a set of useful tokens. They still can express every possible English text because the token vocabulary contains the whole latin alphabet.

Unicode 15 has nearly 150000 characters and CJK languages have even more than that because of Han unification.

A model like GPT-3 can only output a very primitive version of Chinese. My question is how real Chinese models deal with this and specifically how tokenization works in that case.
But doesn't code-davinci-002 also have OpenAI's filters in between you and the model?
The inconstancy is annoying. At the very least validators should allow self closing everywhere.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/dreamweaver-discussions/new-w...
I don’t think most experts are saying literally everyone will die. I think they’re saying many will and that there’s no reason to think conditions will be as favorable for humanity after we change the planet.

For example, consider that humans have been around for hundreds of thousands of years but only in the past 10k did civilization develop.

Was it because we sat on our hands? Did it take us that long to domesticate plants? Domestication of wheat does not take anywhere near that long even if you’re not really trying. One theory it’s that until 10k years ago there was a big ass ice age that made living pretty rough.

Once conditions became favorable human behavior changed pretty rapidly. To make all this.

So why should we be afraid of climate change? Because climate wise these 10k years have been pretty favorable for humans and there’s absolutely no reason to believe the next 10k will be if we fuck it up.
well, 'just die' implies some sudden event. I think that the first deaths caused by global warming have already happened but are not easy to definitively measure. given another generation of time, it will perhaps be easier to measure it, and eventually there will be a 50th percentile consensus that it's happening.

I think around the time half of people publicly agree it's happening, there will be strong support to do something reactive, and do something. My hope is that this interim time between now and then, the people who should be deciding if and how to do such a thing, are making good progress for why or why not, and how or how not to execute on it.

The other thing that keeps me up at night is that one single billionaire might try to just 'fix it' on a secret mission, botch it, and now we're all in on one person's decision. But we're already in bag on so many other topics - the next pandemic being just as existentially scary to me.

I put a lot of energy into trying to accept that I can do a little but I can't do a lot. Life is short, and maybe 6 generations of invention and progress and explosive population growth and technology have cost is some more of that limited shortness. It should be ok to have faith in technology but I sure wouldn't use it as a coping mechanism. This topic can be all-consuming; terminal patients can still live their life and find beauty in the world.
It's such an odd thing. I don't think I've ever heard people refusing to say Stalin or Hitler's names. Andrew Jackson isn't alluded to with euphemisms, despite being a piece of shit who perpetrated genocide among other crimes. Nixon doesn't get this for his crimes and shitty policies, nor Truman for the a-bombs or FDR for mass internment of American citizens.

It seems like an idea people got from Harry Potter refusing to say Voldemort.
Feel that we’re at the beginning of a shift in the global order. Every country seems to be scrambling to secure critical raw materials and goods. Should be a good time if you’re a worker as a lot of jobs lost overseas start coming back.
If an interaction with the police revolves around something that is not criminal, such as speeding tickets, that involve a fine, you are effectively their customer so they are polite as long as you are, unless you make them feel in danger by reaching suddenly for things or being born into some stereotype or prejudice the officer has.

If the interaction involves criminal behavior, you are now "other" and you get to see the yucky side. My friends who were in law enforcement fell into people who got high on the control, people who got high on the adrenaline (worse), or people who came from legacy law enforcement family or just wanting to make a difference, trying to do the right things but knowing there were rules to follow and a line to maintain and thus got pulled down with the other two.
Thanks for the information. I am mostly migrating the game to get a first-hand idea of some of the changes I'm most likely to run into while developing the next one.

I, too, am happy to stay with 3.5.x. It works pretty well for my purposes, though hopefully 4.x will be a viable option for me soon.
It is impossible. Reliable AI content detection does not exist. You could only implement some heuristics, like some unreasonable rate of content publications.

Authenticity is going to the make or break for this problem. However, I just haven't seen any promising solutions. Theoretically, there won't be solutions as the very intent of AI is to be human like in every way if achievable.

I recently tried a AI art detector while writing my latest - https://www.mindprison.cc/p/ai-art-challenges-meaning-in-a-w... - and found it to be abysmal. The false positives made it completely unusable.
No… no it doesn’t.
I linked that in my original comment in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36616058
It's going to sound crazy, but "The Profession As A Whole Are Bastards But That Doesn't Mean Each Individual Cop Is" rolls off the tongue a little bit less well.

ACAB doesn't mean that your cop neighbor that raises puppies is a bastard, it means that the institution he works with and for is lacking any kind of oversight. And as other said, good luck on stopping being black. I don't think you can send in a resignation letter for that.
That's the rational concern. The actual concern amongst large numbers of people is that we are literally "going extinct", and those people are leading the narrative. I look forward to telling my grandchildren how millions of idiots doubted they'd ever exist.
woa what? what do you mean? I am just sharing info on the topic at hand, how is this deserving of such a response?
We have a free tutorial for Godot 4 that takes you from the start to a complete game in about two hours. You can find it here: https://quiver.dev/tutorials/create-your-first-godot-4-game/.

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But <tag /> isn't a self-closing tag, it only works for particular tag names, so you'd have to add all of those to your ruleset.

And then, when you've done that, you can just remove the "/>" bit, since it's a redundant rule.
Until you deploy the web or electron apps and realize it beacons out to the internet.
Coal miners don't have any sort of authority over you, cops do. And they carry deadly weapons with them, and they overreact. Not all the time, but let's say a noticeable amount of times.
Yes [0][1].

[0] https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/evtwote13/jet...

[1] https://youtu.be/Cl8q_356zZs?t=3013
iOS lockdown mode finally gets a use case
Right, I didn't mean that they don't have a valid complaint. I meant more that they were scapegoating CA buyers. I don't know the stats to know if they really are the reason things are going up. To that end, I think I agree that "sour grapes" is the wrong term. Perhaps I should say "scapegoating?"
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What is your theory in posting this? That people who work for the CIA must give up their right to free speech and future private employment? This just reads like unprincipled scare mongering to me.
> I agree it’s more effort but the metric isn’t effort so I disagree that qualifies the coefficients as copyrightable.

I know the metric is no longer effort. But there's a lot of creative choices that I've mentioned that greatly affect the coefficients, even if we don't know what those creative choices are going to do to each film grain in the photograph or coefficient in the matrix.

> You don’t own copyright to your normal dumps

Yes, there's an explicit exemption in LOC's guidelines for things that are the direct output of natural processes.

If you have a lot of choices affecting output, then the output is subject to copyright. Indeed, the Supremes above said that factual contemplations can qualify if they involve a "minimal degree of creativity".

In the end, we'll see.
"Apple complies with local laws in each of the countries in which it operates."
> The decisions that decide the fate of the world happen in the smoky backdoor rooms, not exclusively over zoom calls with an AI generated face.

Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?

What evidence is there for the physical existence of Jesus?

"Common Sense" by Thomas Paine was initially published anonymously.

This place, here, where you and I are conversing… I don't know who you are, and yet for most of the world, this place is a metaphorical "smokey backroom".

And that's disregarding how effective phishing campaigns are even without a faked face or a faked voice.
True! But the only solution to that is to organize/unionize. Wages must go up (to outpace inflation, which there is strong evidence is not being caused by a wage-price spiral [1] [2]), and profits must go down (which arguably have nowhere to go but down due to go forward interest rate policy, tax policy, structural demographics, etc [3] [4]). This is the only lever available to arrive at that outcome. Shareholders, boards, and executive leadership aren't going to give profits back willingly to the people who do the actual work.

Follow along the current Teamsters/Yellow trucking conflict. Yellow is threatening to close up shop vs pay reasonable wages, and the union is willing to kill the business versus allow them to continue to squeeze labor for their profits [5]. In a macro where labor is in excess demand for the next decade [6] [7], this is a reasonable way to operate.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35077748

[2] https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/feds-powell-acknowledges-...

[3] https://www.marketplace.org/2023/05/25/decline-in-corporate-...

[4] https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/feds/end-of-an-era-th...

[5] https://www.freightwaves.com/news/why-teamsters-is-willing-t...

[6] https://www.axios.com/2023/05/08/us-labor-shortage-older-wor...

[7] https://www.businessinsider.com/baby-boomer-retirement-surge...
They're still singled homed, right?

They just added redondancy to in/outbound routes.
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Also, I am tired of blaming all problems on climate change. There is a famine in region X? Let's just ignore that they have a civil war and population has tripled in the last fifty years (while arable land area has stayed the same), it must be because of climate change because only that fits our political agenda.
HTML tables are easier in the sense that if the length of the cell contents changes, or you add or remove lines within a single cell, that’s easy in HTML but inconvenient in Markdown (or requires special editor support).
Conflicts of interest aside, it sounds like a poor use of time for most startups, who are presumably building something and would want to be targeted with their marketing; I'd expect only a small number to have a good potential customer base in the podcast set.

There way be like a lifestyle/influencer founder angle for certain people that could get you the attention of similarly minded VCs, personally I think thats a lame strategy.
the world doesn't need more podcasts
There is a huge selection of HTML only web-browsers, especially in free and open source software. It starts with the text-based ones, like lynx [1] or dillo [2] (if you need a GUI). Of course you can always disable any scripting support in Firefox, which gives you a HTML/CSS only experience.

Perhaps you mean editors that offer something like a "class browser". Then you can go with Kate [3], or any of the web-oriented IDE, e.g. Jetbrains' Webstorm [4].

[1] https://lynx.invisible-island.net/
[2] https://www.dillo.org/
[3] https://kate-editor.org
[4] https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/
There's a book in that.

AI becomes ubiquitous, and provides media, information, and general assistance and is trained exclusively on content from before AI was on the web. This freezes pop culture in what, the late 90's through the 2020's? What are the implications for that moving forward? Do we stagnate? Do we become so reliant on it that innovation is dying?

I find that idea interesting.
yes! Here's my reasoning:

- conservation doesn't work in the developed world: there's simply too much sacrifice required, too quickly.

- conservation doesn't work in the developing world: no way will people agree to freeze development while watching rich people in the developed world.

- decarbonization/etc are cute but even if we did EVERYTHING and ASAP, it still wouldn't be close to enough.

I'll know we're serious about climate change when we invest $trillions into R&D and seriously consider large scale geoengineering, no idea too weird.

We're getting there: consider this $52B proposal ($100+B with the usual overruns) to temporarily protect NYC/NJ from sealevel rise: https://www.google.com/search?q=nyc+sea+level+rise+protectio... - now multiply to Miami, Jakarta and dozens of other cities.
Looking at European history, I don't think that we can claim that the continent is today more authoritatian than it has been in the past.
We think they lied to the judges. Or maybe there are no judges, because the entire thing is a secret system, so we can't know who the judges are or how they've ruled on the matters brought before them. All we know is that it is only used against foreign adversaries, except in the cases when it's used on Americans.
Judging by the amount of ignorance in this comment section ... we die.

And even if we do something about it, it will be too little, too late, and too wrong.
Worse, the book Console Wars doesn't have any in-text citations. So, you never know who's perspective you are getting.