skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s more that Meta uses the showing of incomplete & currently not functional hardware/software as a marketing ploy.

Apple has never really done that (at least in the post Jobs return era). They demonstrate what their intention is… then release the device. Zip, except maybe some WWDC stuff in-between.

Which makes sense: Apple is Product Vision & UX focused, Meta (and most other companies) are Product Delivery & User Consumption focused.

Neither is wrong, they’re just aiming at different goals.
This simple website has ChatGPT generate new styles every hour. It's interesting to see the different styles it comes up with and sometimes the wacky animations
I see. What do you think are low-hanging fruit projects to help resolve the underlying issues? I am generally aware of education initiatives, unemployment insurance, needle exchange programs etc. but the effectiveness does not seem great. But I think you have better understanding here - what should we be doing better that you think would actually work well?

I don’t think our prison system is very cost effective, but it does a reasonable job of creating strong negative incentives for a wide range of crimes in the general population.
> Reminder, Twitter (now X) is a privately owned company. Comments like "How does anyone in our government allow this nonsense?" are answered by the simple statement that the First Amendment allows companies like Twitter (X) to do these things because they are a private company.

Publicly traded companies are also perfectly within their rights to act in this way; private ownership has nothing to do with it.
> Warp's insistence on passing my origin IP to my destinations

IIRC WARP was only able to forward your origin IP to websites using Cloudflare. Then, as of Aug 2022, their FAQ[1] says your origin IP is hidden regardless of which website. Their IPs do reveal your geolocation though.

There was a bug[2] that revealed your IP to select websites; that seems to have been fixed by Nov 2022.

Disclaimer: I’m not knowledgeable enough to test every possible IP leak mechanism (like WebRTC), so I didn’t do that. I’m basically taking their word for it.

[1] https://developers.cloudflare.com/warp-client/known-issues-a...

[2] https://community.cloudflare.com/t/beware-cloudflare-warp-do...
Agreed. There's a huge chasm between being able to read/write and being able to speak. Speaking is just more fun as well imo. I'll have a think about ways that it could provide some qualitative feedback. Thanks again
How misreading Adam Smith helped spawn deaths of despair
Yes, I have a Numworks calculator, that I still frequently use.

While programming but also when sketching algorithms, or when working on 3D models.

When I don't have it around, or when I need to work on large numbers, I use the Ruby or Python interpreters.
We were just trying to find the American dream
Wait... how'd you get it working on G3 machines? As far as I know, 10.4 was the last release for G3s.
> HEISENBERG said he could understand it because GERLACH was the only one of them who had really wanted a German victory, because although he realized the crimes of the Nazis and disapproved of them, he could not get away from the fact that he was working for GERMANY. HAHN replied that he too loved his country and that, strange as it might appear, it was for this reason that he had hoped for her defeat.

This is the difference between Nationalism and Patriotism
Can you share an example so I know what to look for?
I found some bugs in that interface that took wind out of my sails. I emailed the company about it but the last update was two years ago so I'm not hopeful for a patch. They're obvious things that would shake out in testing.

Specifics sent to dev:

>I progressed to world level 2. At the beginning I did not activate the new artifact but instead went back to world level 1 via the map then went back to world level 2 via the map. This process removed the world level 2 alien artifact. If this was by design it would make map usage conflict with artifact progression.

>Also, a second bug is that when clicking "Activate" in the artifact section with no artifact selected throws the error.
You’re proposing a simple problem to solve. Select a percentage that you want to save (say 5-10%) and save that. So if you have $200/month put $10-20 into an index fund and retire in 40 years.

This is the same way Americans do it.

Purchasing stock hasn’t been difficult for decades and there are many zero fee index funds that you can put small amounts into each month.

I can’t find percent Polish people who own stock but I will bet you $1000 that it’s greater than 0.01%.
This issue goes away if one accept that LLM projects produce opinions not facts. IMHO LLM responses resemble our own initial opinions about an issue. Our initial opinions are often flawed and require review. I wouldn't be surprised if there is actually a deep equivalence between LLM processes and the sub-conscious processes from which we form our opinions.
The backblaze backup software supposedly has dedupe detection which should help with renaming.

However you mentioned you're using Backblaze S3. I assume you mean you're using their S3-compatible B2 service, and you didn't really say if the software you're using to sync local to B2 is the backblaze software or something else, so it makes it a little difficult to help you.

If the object synced to B2 are keyed in a way that resembles folders, then like S3, to restructure you have to copy the file with a new name with the new folder structure you want.

You can avoid having to do this without retransferring from your machine by using API calls against B2.
I wrote this Twitter thread when it happened.

https://twitter.com/pierbover/status/1574875206220488705

Let me know if you want more details
Meta occupies Sun's former HQ. Xerox PARC (someone correct me if I'm wrong) is in a completely different place in Silicon Valley.

Also Meta has something Xerox PARC never had, copious amounts of revenue.
Headline: Zuckerberg apologizes for moon landing conspiracy theorist AI
It seems like they were too focused on rejecting everything that was already there, though. (FAL reference duly noted.)
"Tabs for identation, spaces for alignment" is "tabs for tabulation of hierarchy." Alignment is formatting, not hierarchical.
No. I think the quality of the alternatives is largely because it is expensive to make the publishing houses happy with licensing fees to be able to offer their work.

This isn't even that controversial of a take. Netflix doesn't offer a ton of the things I used to be able to get in DVD from them, because the publishing houses have very high demands on licensing fees.
It's perfectionistic on paper, but perfection is impossible so things end up messy most of the time.

This has been a recent realization, before that I truly believed what were required of a person by society, which for sure did contribute to my failings.
> It's not too intelligent to be "aligned" to underlying intentions and values?

Intelligence makes that harder, not easier. Just because it can work out the underlying intentions doesn't mean it cares about them. Remember, this is an optimisation process that maximises a function; deciding to do something that doesn't maximise that function will not be selected for

Whenever you do something, do you think "the underlying goal of my behaviour set by evolution is to reproduce and have children, so I'd better make sure my actions are aligned to the goal of doing that"? No, you don't care what the underlying "intentions" are, and neither does an AI. Because our environment has changed, many of our instincts no longer line up well with that goal, which is actually another problem with aligning AI because it can do the same thing if the environment changes since training as the training process can create an AI with goals that aren't exactly the same as the training goal but line up well during training
Alternative/digital currency doesn’t seem to (currently) be as destructive as it was initially worried about, unless people are engaging in unregulated, anti-competitive, loss-engineering behaviorism which concerns me more. That said, money (and, as an AI I believe even humans themselves) by definition could be the problem.
reminds me of this article.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36962502
Drawing with Code Interpreter for Fun
Right. Anyone who doubted these clowns was branded as an "anti-vaxxer" or a "rightwinger". Turns out the clowns were right, based on the WhatsApp messages from UK health minister Matt Hancock. Just a few such examples.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/mar/07/matt-hancoc...
[2] https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1632953327062327297?lang...
They aren’t strict at all and pretty much anyone that wants it can get it.

https://apnews.com/article/covid-science-health-toronto-7c63...

> Disability experts say the story is not unique in Canada, which arguably has the world’s most permissive euthanasia rules — allowing people with serious disabilities to choose to be killed in the absence of any other medical issue

Absolutely disgusting and barbaric.
Show HN: Mscott the ultimate Chrome extension to troll your office mate
Has a spiritual successor of the great ncage extension mscott is here to bring some michael scott highlights to your navigation session
Glad to hear it!

Sort of. It will try to understand you even if you get the grammar wrong (a bit like a human would), but if it really has no clue what you're trying to say, it will ask you to repeat. I think it's best that way as it mimics learning in real life. If you keep getting your point across, over time, your grammar will slowly improve. The only evidence I have for this is anecdotal from learning Romanian with it myself.
I just finished reading McCarthy's 'Stella Marris' and 'The Passenger'.
Anyone who enjoyed reading this linked transcript I imagine might also appreciate much of the themes treated in McCarthy's final works.
I found the passages on Oppenheimer interesting especially in light of Nolan's new film. Funny timing.
Have people not work on-site and the company can lower their bills.
Companies can still hire people to work 70 hours a week perfectly legally. There is no restriction for salaried workers. For hourly workers they just have to pay overtime.

I suppose it wouldn't be a huge stretch from current policy for the government to make employers pay workers for their commute time, because it already does similar things, but this is all for our early workers.

However, companies with just choose to hire workers that were closer because distance to your job isn't a protected class like race or gender
The massive flaw in your argument is your failure to define "we".

Replace the word "we" with "a psychotic group of terrorists" in your post and see how it reads.
Care to explain why you want to steal from the author? Has he offended you with his high level of consideration and respect?
> ‘What did I do to the Americans?’ she would often say, ‘Why did they do this to me?’

Seems like they don’t blame their government all that much
In OP's usage, "private" meant "not owned by the government," which includes publicly-traded companies.
I've heard people say all of these things, but I don't think that saying these things has any bearing on whether those people disagree with programs that help people.

> handouts make people dependent on the government

This is a judgement based on cost - you or I may disagree with the value of the cost, but it is a centralization cost which increases risk. Playing devils advocate, but if your livelihood becomes dependent on a government program and you also watch government programs risking collapse (such as US social security) then the risk becomes obvious that it exists (and each individual will decide for themselves how likely this risk is to manifest)

> the government shouldn't have a say in our healthcare

I think this statement doesn't really fall into the category of things we're talking about. There's nothing about governments involvement in healthcare that means the program is better or worse or more/less benevolent. It would depend on the government and their involvement.

> the government shouldn't decide whether my child learns about X

I would a similar argument as the previous for this.
> Apple has never really done that (at least in the post Jobs return era).

Apple Maps.

I still remember the hilarity.

https://www.tomshardware.com/picturestory/607-ios-maps-fail....
The report outcome in depth is good enough, detailed enough to start iterating on pushing forward rather than having to start from nothing.
And the incentive for Twitter/X to behave ethically is to attract high-quality advertisers and therefore business, which is part of the reason a Trust and Safety team even exists.

Which Elon doesn't seem to care about.
Sort of like charging a deposit on them? Don't screw it up for a year and we'll apply it to your next bill?
There are multiple indications that this was written in 2015, yet the advice seems new. The timelessness of elisp/lisp and the emacs ecosystem.

I actually did the same thing a couple years back on a system where an Arch Linux upgrade resulted in my Xmonad packages being broken beyond repair. "emacs only" wasn't what I was used to but I was impressed with how much utility I got out of just emacs and no window manager. With some of the author's tips, I could probably do the same. Though a lot of my work forces me into using a "real" web browser (with JS and the kitchen sink).
I was so excited to see a minicomputer on a card. And then... this. So disappointing.
It’s not fixable inside the LLM. It’s 110% fixable.
It probs wouldn't take much longer to just add a slider or something too. If you don't mind me asking, what are you planning to use it for? Interested to hear some advanced use cases
This is probably about the fact that red phosphorus (required for the original process) cannot be purchased without a license (https://nitter.net/andrewmccalip/status/1684191067477004288#...), so kitchen chemists are out of the race. Established labs should have less problems though.
From the discussion on the Reddit link this was related to financial issues and limited to app store and iTunes accounts, not all iCloud.
And neither your mother nor the driver in the article stopped to ask themselves "which door release do I use?" Both failed to intuitively determine how the door worked, but in different ways.

Something is a good design when the proper use for the occasion is obvious.
No, but I don’t really see what that has to do with anything.
Poor people in cities are in the same situation.* The geographical distinction is I think a red herring that goes away when you control for wealth. The article mentions wealthy people in Colorado, which is mostly not very urban.

*Even rich people have the same problems, but probably better resources for mental healthcare
You are still trying to fix the past which is impossible and not addressing the possibility of fixing things moving forward.
The latter doesn’t have any dependencies or a build step though right?

That’s a big win that can be easily overlooked. But it depends what you’re optimising for…
> Wage theft really should be a strict liability crime -- only proof necessary to convict is that it happened, not that it was intended.

It would still take a public prosecutor to care, and the failure to pay as required is already a strict-liability tort. Not sure that enabling discretionary criminal punishment of acts that are neither intentional, reckless, nor even negligent in this domain helps anyone.
OK, somebody please ruin my excitement now and tell me how this isn’t a miracle cancer cure.
My doctor's office is in my phone book, so that's covered.

For things like restaurants, I know that I'll be receiving a call from an unknown number and will just answer it.

For unexpected things, like Uber, they'll leave a message on my voice mail. I'll be notified of that as soon as they're done and will check it immediately.

That all works for me. It's a shame that I have to do all of that rather than just answer the phone, but there's no other option that I can see.
Sure bud. As a semi anarchist, here is a very widely accepted definition of fascism.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fasci...

Edit: you're also very wrong about number 2, you just haven't been exposed to people proposing solutions.

Here is a 20 year old very famous book:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Are_Prisons_Obsolete%3F?wprov=...
I think it's like artificial flavors. Yeah, it's cool we can make something that tastes kinda like reality. But invariable the real thing is better.
> The semantic web has failed

literally by no metric is this true other than tech bros saying it on HN. The entire internet is powered by websites using semantic markup and clients querying it.
When it comes to tech giants it's a matter of assume malicious until proven otherwise.
And given that a reality in which we all ride bicycles and own nothing is unlikely, why is this not a real solution?

It seems increasingly clear, especially given this unexpected termination shock caused by the switch to low-sulfur fuel oil, that aerial dispersants should be taken seriously are a viable solution.

What if we're past the point where shaming those who over-consume will effect any meaningful change in a timescale that will save us?

I don't understand why it would be necessary to rob us of a 'beautiful blue sky', wouldn't a tiny fractional reduction in solar radiation would move the needle appreciably? Its not as if we'd have to create a supervolcano.
Another data point.

In NYC, residential power, including transit, taxes, other fees, is almost $0.35 and gas is $3.30
Yeah, but try and have your privately owned restaurant with a sign that says "no blacks allowed" in this day and age.
Well schema.org was not referring to an organization or entitity, but its published schemas.
I'd argue these were and are driving a lot of rich results, especially for local businesses.
For me the downside is lack of accountability and management. The only way I've found to interact with it is via the wallet app on my phone which is a PITA.

VMFXX at 5.22% makes more sense, except it's not FDIC insured.
I'll pitch in here to add - snaps are just bad. They break at weird times and often require the terminal to troubleshoot.

Containers are not perfect, and they have an overhead in terms of storage, compute, etc. That said, I see it's value and if done right is mostly invisible to the end user.

I've been using Pop os and flatpaks for the past several years, and really it's been almost flawless.

A few months ago I got a new laptop and couldn't use Pop as it was glitching. Moved to Ubuntu as it was supported and everything seemed to work fine. However, slowly snaps started breaking and more than once I've had to update snaps from the cli because the software centre just outright broke and refused to update the snaps.

Overall, snaps is really just janky on its own target os, and hating snaps doesn't mean we're anti-containerisation
You should be able to build a text->image->corrupt with noise->tesseract pipeline to generate some synthetic supervised fine tuning examples (or just try corruption the text, I'm assuming putting it through tesseract makes more authentic corruption)
Maybe the best thing to do is work for an optimally useless VC-cash-furnace startup and spread as much of their money as far as you can before they cotton on.
You can watch the FlockToFedora announcement here (starts at 6:25:15): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD2R4Yt8m88
Yes, of course it is more than that. You can create full songs of several minutes. I have published 20 songs on youtube of 2-3 minutes each. Listen to that song, the best i have made so far [1]. It doesn't repeat at all!

I haven't looked closely to this release, is the audiocraft page on github different than facebookresearch/audiocraft? The other two modalities may be new, AudioGen, and EnCodec, but i was under the impression that they changed the license to full open source, and that was that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL1KmrHMjcM
Reactor Idle is my favorite. It takes the best parts of IC2's reactor planner and expands on it. Most idle games have dark patterns sewn into their DNA. This one is pure.

https://www.kongregate.com/games/Baldurans/reactor-idle
'Diversity' started as an anti-semitic agenda in the 1920's in order to limit the number of Jewish students at Harvard. https://www.timesofisrael.com/harvards-jewish-quotas-cited-i... .
Can we please get back to the actual topic is hand. The author clearly says that they took measures that’d seem to imply that they have an understanding of the shortcomings of ChatGPT.

You’re using this as a soapbox to cast holier than thou elitist aspersions on an imagined Everyone Else that isn’t as enlightened as you.

This exact “LLMs bad and here’s why!” thread of conversation is getting so old. The fact that it always has the same few talking points is evidence enough that those indulging themselves in it have been party to these conversations before. They know how it goes. And now it’s their turn to say the same old tired and in this case largely irrelevant things to sound smart and to pat themselves on the back.
So, since you seem particularly upset about it, I'd love to know - what is the problem of "data collection"? I've still never seen an example of damage to a user by AdTech data collection. What I have seen are

1) Data leaks by companies that collect and store true PII - this is your Equifaxes of the world, and they didn't collect that data using cookies.
2) People are generally creeped out by the idea of their movements across the web being tracked.

And so, even though no ad-tech company has ever really had a data leak, and although the tracking across the web has never really resulted in any negative outcomes, people are using (2) to try and kill ad-tech for often disingenuous reasons.
> I’m willing to bet that the casual “so what if they can’t reach me” crowd don’t have[...]

You'd be making a bad bet.

Besides, who is taking that stance? I don't answer my phone if the caller isn't in my phone book, but that doesn't mean legitimate unknown callers can't reach me! They leave a voice mail, and I'm listening to it immediately after they're done.
I covered this in other threads, basically. In truth, I was largely responding to this angle at the outset. DRM feels like a red herring that almost certainly exists due to demands from publishing houses. (I'll have to check to see if you can get any non-DRM files from libraries. My expectation is going to be a big no on that from any library that lends out audio books.)

The odd complaint here is that the authors are upset at getting a smaller share of a smaller sell, that is in a much larger sea of sales. They acknowledge that they make more money from audio books sold at audible, even with this cut.

This also does a shit job of showing the break down to the performers that are reading the book. If those are paid externally to the 40% that goes to the author, I really don't know how to take the complaints seriously other than greed on the authors that are talking about it.
Wow, great job by this "beginner" just "learning a language"! Demonstrates knowledge of so many of Python intricacies that it's worth starting a Non-obfuscated Obfuscated Python Code Contest :)
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