skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of that comes from prosecutors being a largely political office, beholden to contributors for getting elected. It's almost the worst of every angle in terms of how a justice system should work.

As an aside, I sometimes think public defenders and prosecutors should come from the same pool of attorneys, held to account for striking balance instead of just W's to one side or the other.
Primarily because I don't want this to be a slippery slope where the metry of today becomes the telemetry of tomorrow. As long as these features are easy to rip out and not deeply intermingled with the rest I'm good and willing to contribute metrics even.

Also, no code is free, it needs to be written and maintained and the end-user needs to download, store and run it and it brings an additional risk to break things. I just wish there was to possibility to opt out of that, even if I probably wouldn't.

Finally, if this metrics code is intermingled with the rest, I can see this as an additional burden for a potential certification of the compiler.
They should couple decriminalization with stringent arrests for public use and public intoxication. It’s so damn simple, why won’t they do it. Set a limit above which you’re not allowed to be loitering on the streets like they do with alcohol.
Yep "it's the end of science in the barbaric Western nations" crowd.
I would think that the membranes would also be the reinforcement. Though I am not getting a good picture in my head from the description. It has to be practical. Mix concrete, pour concrete...the same way we do it now. There is roomm for skilled labor at the reinforcement phase which is a precision bit of construction that is inspected closely before pouring.
Oh, i agree. If anything i'm apathetic to us being unique at all. However i'm speaking in the general cultural perception sense. I think a lot of humanity depends.. or at least has built a self-image around uniqueness as a foundation to our believed superiority.

We often discuss things that would challenge or overtake us. Hypothetical advanced aliens, artificial AI, etc. However i don't often see pop culture discussing the opposite - us, or even life, being challenged on it's uniqueness. Plus then that leads to all sorts of self-autonomy discussions (which is discussed in pop culture imo).

I dunno, i suspect "people" won't handle it well. Hell, there's entire religion(s) built on the foundation that we're uniquely gifted as a product of being crafted in a gods image. To question us could question god. I find these questions neat, interesting, etc - but socially i suspect it would be troubling, contentious, frightening.
I know multiple people with clearances who have used marijuana and significantly harder drugs as well and were honest about this on their clearance paperwork. I obviously don't know the specifics of your friend's case but it is not true in general that intelligence agencies (White House may be different or maybe was in the past) must deny you for past marijuana use, particularly if you admit to it early on.

Edit: marijuana use is now common enough that investigators will actually grill you and accuse you of lying if you say you've never used marijuana.
I am working on a TUI tool for Git/jj to handle staging/splitting. Could you tell me more about what workflow would be problematic for you? For example, if you had to select lines that go in the first commit/staging area, does that work? Would it be better or worse if, for each line, you had to decide whether it would go into the first commit/staged vs second commit/unstaged area? Do you ever need to invert the first commit/staging area vs second commit/unstaged area?
Is it not already bad enough that it's actually mentally exhausting walking through a Wal-Mart already with all the visual stimulus competing for your attention? If we add sound and even more moving visuals to that it's going to be critical overload.

I feel like there's going to be a lot more vandalizing happening. I have already seen people fill the speaker meshes at the gas stations with expanding spray foam to shut up the advertisements and screens destroyed by impact or slashing while leaving the pump readout untouched. I myself get very tempted to do the same thing and cost the company money until they learn. If retailers start doing this they're going to be losing so much money replacing and repairing things that inventory shrinkage will look like somebody dropped their change in comparison.
The amount of AI woo on this comment thread (and on this site in general) is absurd. I see various defenses of AI intelligence that trot out the (at lest for now in the case of present technology) tired arguments that 1. humans also create derivative work just like AI and rarely display original creativity, and 2. That AI does create all kinds of new iterations of previous inputs from distributed sources.

One particularly absurd comment further below even states as follows:
>The vast majority of humanity has not produced an original mathematical proof worthy of being published in a peer-reviewed math journal, and realistically it isn't possible for the vast majority of humanity to do so.

None of these demonstrate anything close to sentience or real intelligence in present LLM and AI systems. The most fundamental reason why is obvious: AI IS NOT self directed. It has no innate reasoning, sense of self or motivation of any kind to direct its own actions and "thoughts" towards any particular goals, emotional or otherwise.

This alone is a simple, straightforward bar that distinguishes current AI as a very elaborate autofill system from genuine sentience, even if the sentience applies to a perfectly ordinary human that also never publishes their own math proof or creates a work of art.

Also, to further dispel the argument about most humans not doing these things either and also largely being derivative thinkers who base their notions on an aggregation of what others previously created: So what? Humans at least innately can, as a species perform original feats, even if not all do so and some require much more effort than others to do so. Even among humans who never achieve something orignally or cleverly their own, self direction and motivation are pretty much universally present. AI lacks these, no matter how you dress it up or how much visual and media koolaid you drink. And you have to be deeply, blindly emotionally fixated on AI to argue otherwise, because no existing evidence supports your notions.

As for AI passing the Turing test, this only shows that the Turing test was an unwittingly bad measure of AI sentience. Done.
Most developer tools are sidekicks or co-pilots. You tend to do things the way you have always done it. And so, it really does not change/ disrupt/ significantly improve programming. These tools are more like shortcuts that seem to be useful but in reality, after a few years of programming you end up programming every app the same way you have done before.
It depends on the actual adjudication policy, which differs by agency. For example, for years it was a well-known but unwritten policy that DoE considered marijuana use within the past 12 months to be exclusory but greater than 12 months ago to be acceptable. There seem to be restrictions on putting this in writing (I think because the actual adjudication manuals are classified) but clearance adjudicators themselves would refer to it as the "12-month rule." The FBI at least used to be notorious for considering any drug use at any point to be exclusory, and I think the CIA generally fell into the same camp. On the other hand some organizations, especially in the IC, seemed to be much more lax about it (but often stricter about things like polygraphs).

It is useful to explain a bit about the bureaucracy here: the clearance process consists of the investigation and the adjudication. These are two separate steps and often performed by different agencies. The investigation is often performed by OPM, but DoD switched to doing their own, the FBI always has, and it's acceptable to use private contractors (usually retired insurance investigators) up to the S level in some agencies. The adjudication is much more often performed by someone directly in the issuing agency, and agencies publish their own manuals to which adjudicators work. Although the general grounds for denial of a clearance are in statute, the exact rules of what conduct amounts to what grounds (in other words, the real rules of adjudication) are contained in these manuals.
Most people I know who have an adventurous personality don't smoke weed. Drinking I can see a case for as it's so heavily embedded as a social activity. Just anecdotal data I suppose but I'm not seeing a similar connection for having done drugs.

Perhaps for someone who is undercover and needs to fit in, sure, but I don't think that predisposes a personality to take drugs in their own time. For both alcohol and drugs I doubt it has any relevance to most intelligence roles.
I could see a shell that doesn't suck for scripting that has first-class JSON support. Something like PowerShell, but not PowerShell, and close enough to bash that one could quickly get used to it.
For context, the author (estebank) is the current force behind the Rust compiler's excellent error messages.

To reiterate the lede, so it doesn't get buried: "I’m convinced that rustc should never have the capability to make network connections. [...] When it comes to Rust, users’ machines are (and should be) entirely under the users’ control."

(And I don't believe this post is a response or a rebuttal to anything in particular, other than possibly being in the news because of Go. Telemetry was considered for the Rust compiler pre-1.0 and rejected for privacy reasons, and AFAIK has never seriously been pursued since.)
Woah, congrats on launching here!

A friend of mine has been using TipTap extensively with his web app and convinced me to look into it a few months ago.

Word doc imports and exports are a really important piece for me and I saw they're in the "Proof of Concept" stage of your idea pipeline.

Do you have any idea when this'll be ready? I'd be happy to help test the feature if it can help!
Watch gold be the only practically viable solution, making this new material wonderful but also incredibly expensive.
Consciousness seems like a red herring. OP can speak for themselves, but what I took is the feature preventing singularity is statelessness. Whether or not a thinking system experiences qualia, it seemingly needs some amount of persistence and continued ability to learn. As it stands, the training phase of a GPT might meet these requirements, but the inference phase is just a stored program. People talk of "ChatGPT" as if it's a thing, but it's actually billions, probably at this point quadrillions, of things. Each request is served by a new instance loaded into memory that lives for a few seconds, produces a response, then dies. Memory is simulated by storing some limited context window in a secondary system (Redis? Browser cache? I don't even know) to play back the conversation history as part of the prompt to the next GPT that spawns to service the next request.

To analogize to humans, imagine if every person who was ever born was born with all of the knowledge humanity has ever produced (though no understanding of hierarchy of evidence or any way to verify the knowledge is still correct) and the ability to produce language as an adult. They each lived long enough to produce one continuous thought, which they could write down, and then they die. New people who are born can read one such note each and add to it, up to a fixed limit of words. All people are born with the same knowledge base, the same personality, and that could never change until their God updates the DNA from which they're born out-of-band.

Could such a people be expected to produce "all technological advances that will ever happen but all at once?" Or has the definition of the singularity become significantly more modest? It's not clear to me any way in which such things could produce science and engineering on their own, as opposed to aiding in the production as tools used by higher-level beings that stay alive, form memories, and continue learning.
This is outrage clickbait for the gullible. Infosys already had BP as a major customer for a long time.

> The CEO of one of Infosys' other major clients, Shell, also joined Rishi Sunak's new business council two weeks ago.

Gasp, CEO of one of biggest oil companies joined a Prime Minister's business council...call the cops! Again, Infosys had already worked with Shell for a long time.

Have a look at other articles on this website...it's an outrage blog designed to extract money by playing with people's emotions and intellect. The kind of "journalists" that deserve to be permanently laid off.
What privacy concerns? What the hell are they putting in the telemetry that the user should be afraid of being sent over an encrypted connection? Is my bank account number being included in the compiler metrics?

At this point I consider any advocate of "privacy" in a tech context to be an anti-intellectual cargo-cultist. Just look at the linked article. Absolutely not one single example of a privacy violation or its implications. They just waive their hands in the air and say "it's contentious" and "risk is too great". Let's completely avoid an actual discussion of privacy, and just assume that any information about a user (like their IP address) will immediately result in them being sent to a gulag, despite no evidence that this has ever happened, much less how often, how likely, ways to avoid it, or the benefits that are lost by not allowing for said insanely-unlikely-risk. It's people afraid of their own shadow that would rather live in a prepper shelter than deal with the real world.

Of course we should completely ignore the fact that this is developer software, and they, being technical people, have many means to disable specific outgoing network connections if they so choose. But better to be paranoid than rational, because "trust is key".
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But that's the structural problem with the likes of Sunak being in government: maybe it's all legitimate business, but because of his role it looks bad, and there is no real way to prove it one way or the other.

An honourable person would recuse himself from situations where even the suggestion of impropriety is possible. Sunak should not have been PM to start with.
Performance is not understanding. The difference is objectivity: a calculator does not think about arithmetic, it performs it.

A large language model is a collection of relationships between "tokens" (arbitrary groups of characters, similar to words). This is intended to exist in the same conceptual place that language does; language being defined as a collection of relationships between words and punctuation.
Its super unlikely to be a direct bribe, I think that much is fair to say. But I think viewed differently, the article is saying: Sunak's family has a tremendous interest in BP and Shell needing consulting services. Might this have an indirect effect on Sunak's willingness to legislate in ways that are highly likely to increase the amount of consulting services BP and Shell need?

Its not bribery, by any means, but I think its definitely noteworthy that these pressures / considerations may be involved
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> as easy as "open ticket and attach this file"

Does the "open a ticket" step expand into "create an issue and then fill out an elaborate questionnaire"? For instance, https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/.github/ISSUE_... isn't... bad for what it is, but it's definitely asking for enough work that it falls back into "yeah no maybe someday when I'm not trying to get my code to work" territory. (Asking to clarify; I think you might be suggesting to reduce to the form just being "got a ICE? paste your error here and hit submit" which would be good)
The paradigm of local logging plus the ability to analyze locally for known questions/concerns and give the user a one-click way to easily, voluntarily report to the maintainers makes lots of sense. You do lose the ability to learn about unknown concerns, but seems like a good 80% solution. This is the same as “sorry your program crashed, would you like to report it?” but for a wider variety of issues/concerns than crashing.
The things you mention are not the reason people prefer cars over transit. I think people prefer cars because of the point-to-point transport, the lack of stops unrelated to them, and the lack of a set schedule. All those apply to both private and shared cars.
This is definitely part of the answer. Walking through the streets of San Francisco a while ago with my kids I was shocked to see people just lying on the side walk in pools of their own vomit. Also was very protective of my kids walking past people that were obviously on drugs and out of their minds. These people became not so much people but just a threat. It seemed inhumane to just leave them like that. With that said, I would not want the job of dealing with them for what I am sure is a relatively low salary with the reward of seeing most people you help back on drugs the next week.
This appears to simply be a tool that adds additional signed metadata to the content which is trivial to strip from the file, allowing malicious users to not have that "AI generated" label show up... Optional metadata is not really a protection mechanism except in walled garden ecosystems.
I really hate it when a drink is served with a paper straw. They release 95% of the pfas in the drink. There's no better way of introducing the stuff to my body. Why is nobody thinking of this? Perfectly good bamboo straws exist!
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> Think _treason_.

That's hyperbole. According to the United States Constitution, Article III, Section 3:

> Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.

It's narrowly defined for the very reason that prior history had tons of abuses of a much broader definition to silence political enemies.

Granted, lying to federal officials is almost certainly a crime, and not one you'd like to have on your record. But treason it is not.
I've recently started running every day to train for a marathon (previously 3 days a week). It feels great and I'm sleeping better than ever. Also, weirdly, I'm less stiff/sore now than when I ran less, likely because I've increased my stretching and bought some extra shoes to rotate between.

I'm not sure why running works so well for some people. The article says it's about "claiming time" but that would work equally for most things. My theory is that voluntarily and consistently choosing to do something painful is psychologically healthy. A manageable amount of suffering makes you happier the rest of the time.
Tell that to the entire restaurant industry. The vast majority of cooking done on a stove in a commercial kitchen is done on various sizes of high carbon steel pans, and they are just as non-stick as PTFE.
I doubt this will be well received, mostly due to the author’s problematic framing of the problem. This is not telemetry, it is just additional local logging. I don’t understand why it’s being framed as telemetry. Just say rustc is (optionally) logging more by default and the compiler people are writing tools that can analyze those logs if you choose to upload them.

Separately it sounds like rustc needs to do a better job collecting crash data that can be easily attached to a bug ticket.
I don't think they're sending interns to gather HUMINT, and I'm skeptical of how many CIA employees are doing those things regularly (non-zero amount, sure. But there's a reason that the TLA's hire so many Mormons)
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The travails about having a conversation about risk, and why we need civic education curriculum around the world to focus on risk education
To be fair, a glance at her LinkedIn profile (top google search result for her name) suggests that 1969 could well be her birth year.
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Kinda making a mountain out of a molehill, here.

For starters, everyone’s goals for cannabis use are different. A person with Crohn’s for example, who uses cannabis for nausea relief will surely have a different ideal ratio of THC:CBD than a weekend warrior who uses it for muscle pain. There’s no one dosage or ratio that works for everyone and I think that you are greatly exaggerating the importance of weed's so-called "entourage effect" re: THC, THCA, CBD...prolly some terpenes floatin' around in there. I dunno...

Besides, pursuing greater THC "heights" and in process, pushing out CBD has been the way for decades. This is nothing new and those "80% of strains" you sneer at are borne of the same methodology as previous efforts before commercial outfits perfected it.

What's more, "CBD heavy" strains with only 0.3% THC are wildly in demand these days. The more "balanced" iterations with up to ~20-25% THC & ~6-12% CBD are also gaining in popularity.
I agree. Not to discount the work the Chinese academies are doing, but I don't regard twitter activity as indicative of what U.S. labs are doing, and I'd strongly urge others not to do so either.

As you noted, there's labs working on this, they've said they're working on this, and I take the lack of minute-by-minute social media updates to indicate that it's serious and they want to get it right.