skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem to have a problem comprehending what I said. I said "with the level of incompetence being shown by officials". It has nothing about following procedure. It's the ignoring of warning signs and the willful disregard to prepare for windstorms like this. So yes, I want to jail top-level officials who could have done more to prevent this (government as well as those in charge of Maui Electric). Not the low-level workerbee who just setup a barricade.
Yes, this is for training your own public facing chatbot. So that it does not easily break character and go wildly off-script, like bing, and start ranting at the old lady trying to check her balance. This will likely dramatically increase the number of chatgpt customer service bots in the near future, but on the up side, at least they wont all be regurgitating that "as a language model" shtick. That is if they are willing to pay to beat it out him.
> If an English-speaking adult was placed in a monolingual Spanish family, in a part of Spain with no English speakers, after a few years they might find they’d learned Spanish “easily” too.

That is not so. That person would have an accent, struggle to say as well as understand things and make weird grammar mistakes that a four-year-old native speaker wouldn't.

Oh, and how about being immersed in a household speaking a language that is not even remotely related to English?

A child which speaks nothing and is learning Spanish natively is not comparable to someone who already knows English, which is in the same Indo-European family and has tons of congnate words with Spanish.
This study was done using data from the UK Biobank [1] which is registered as a non-profit. Participants were also volunteers only.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Biobank
Apple lends support to California State Right to Repair bill
Why do you need to do a clean room? The fork is of Open Source code.
I prefer to because it centralizes updates for apps from different makers. Way more convenient than manually checking each piece of software.
> Historically, for example, log cabins are popular in the woods because logs are plentiful [...] I wouldn’t build a masonry house in the forests.

Why not? Perhaps the US is different, but in mainland Europe you'll find plenty of brick houses in the forest.

Yes, historically you'd build a log cabin out of materials found on-site, but is anyone doing that anymore? Presumably you'd want logs shipped from elsewhere, if only to get ones that have dried out already.

At that point, why would it be prohibitively expensive to choose other building materials?
Add smoking as a risk factor, in addition to high sodium in diets. This is especially the case in asian countries [0].

[0]https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-10014-4
Posts like these make me wish I could be consistant and keep a single notebook until its done and then move to the next. I always end up starting a project or scibbling down a thought on random scraps of paper. I try to organize and consolidate but really there is not much point after the fact since, if the note is made, transfering it is just busywork.

I leaned into it last couple of years, I have a 2 corkboards (a bit larger than A4 sized) on the back wall of my desk and I actually mounted a stationary clamp under one to have blank papers (A6) handy. It works pretty well until I fill them and move on to another notebook scrap paper etc.

I wish I could stick to a notebook and have everything from each time period but I have too hectic thought process I think. Maybe I could somehow combine them...
Teen Lapsus$ member was behind the leaked GTA 6 footage, London jury finds
Let's assume for a moment you could sort of trade parallel computation for vast space, fast search and retrieval. So in this hypotheticals computational theory, you could build a lookup machine from CPUs and ssds.. squeezing the parallel cores into one CPU, by squeezing the shaders running into a million hashes.. And before you know it your simulating a micro verse trying desperately to find out how to avoid climate change. What if God hates recursion?
No, 17 javascript trackers IS a problem - because somebody in your org or your client's org wants them there, and somebody else has accepted that request and is taking money for it and thus it has become your task.

A "simple solution to the problem" could be to abstract away the tracking code into a system of well documented and typed generic internal events with a plugin architecture. Rather than scatter hundreds of tracking calls everywhere you just need one in each place. Then write a plugin for each of the damn trackers to translate those internal events into whatever is required for each tracker.

Getting rid of all the trackers is avoiding the problem entirely. I agree, that's what we should do! But it's not a valid answer when your boss comes to you and says "now we're adding 17 javascript trackers, and yes we do have to do it".

The checkbox animation is your problem, as the developer, because the designer has decided that's what should be done and has already sold the concept to the customer. The designer is an idiot, but an elegant technical solution to the task of animating the damn checkbox is not "I've decided not to do that becuase you guys are idiots". Not doing it is just doing something simpler instead.
Feels like this comment is stuck in 2019 or something. Have you seen DLSS3.5 announced yesterday with ray reconstruction? Have you seen path tracing in CP2077?

Seems like you’re really dismissing the massive speed ups these past few years. Agreed that ray tracing in games is only at the beginning. A lot of that is gated by the consoles/AMD but that’s generally how it goes. Would love to see Nvidia in one of the powerful consoles to accelerate adoption of these technologies.
I forgot about this part of your comment, and it's important:

> We need to understand what caused those mistakes, but even more important we need clear and practical rules about how to avoid that entire class of mistakes, including future similar mistakes that we have not made yet

Fully agreed! I think it's worth debating what led Hitler down this path, and how he could convince people of its righteousness. To be clear, I'm not arguing against debating this. It's important, like you said, to get rid of whole classes of colossal mistakes (another example would be: "in order to prevent genocide, we need to commit genocide first!" -- the root problem is still genocide). Understanding dictators, torturers, flawed political systems is always important and valid.

What I'm arguing, plain and simple, is that whenever anyone decides genocide is the solution, that is in itself a moral failure and a horrific mistake, regardless of any other considerations. There may be other mistakes (like waging war against the Soviet Union, or failing to consider the industrial might of the USA, or even failing to understand the logistics of protracted war), but even without those mistakes, genocide was still an a priori moral failure.
As an non-amateur EE, i fully agree with this. If you can draw a basic circuit for 9 keys on paper, you can draw a full-keyboard one in many of the easy cheap PCB platforms, most of which offer a web interface (no installation of any weird software), rendered 3d views and a very cheap production price.

If you really want to do it without a chinese PCB manufacturer, you can do it on a perf board ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfboard ). If you have more GPIOs than keys (eg when building a very cheap steam deck with 9/12 keys), you don't even need any kind of "matrix" multiplexing, and you can just connect the keys to individual gpio pins. If you take a better microcontroller than a teensy, you also get bluetooth (and wifi) capabilities, like with eg. esp32 (~$5 on aliexpress).

But either way, doing fun electronics, be it on a pcb or when soldering "in the air" is a lot better waste of money and time than many other things most people do.
Like a lot of the problems with AI, this one is very familiar but not quite the same as problems we've faced before. It's also really frustrating to even reason about because it's so nebulous and new.

But say you're a digital artist. Maybe you make a webcomic. What if a bunch of individuals started drawing their own art of your characters? Generally, that'd be seen as a big success for you and your art. If someone started reposting your art and claiming credit, that's clearly a problem.

Something about the scale of it trips people up. What would you do if an entire army of thousands of artists suddenly started doing detailed re-draws of your whole comic with little changes? That's an insane hypothetical, and I think a lot of people would be unsure how to answer it. Now, what does it mean when I can spend a couple thousand dollars on a machine that can produce millions of copies of your work with any change I want?

It's the same problem but fundamentally different in a way that most people aren't prepared to handle. I can't make up my mind about it, but I'm sure that however we solve this problem, it will be a huge change for society.
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He's worth way more than that. https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/jenhsun-huan...
My understanding is that the game is usually about the money saved between the offer and the target salary band.

Companies have their review schedules and the new hires would be boarded before the reviews. This would allow to hire at low ball and then give a "raise", effectively leveling it.

Not only aiming at below market figure saves company the money, this also serves as a retention tool.

So, it does pay to know an approx of the target comp band AND your own "happy" target. The hard part is to formulate it as a package.
But now you have dark mode and fancy flat design languages that enhance your "corporate image". /s
FQL vs. SQL Examples
This is interesting. Do you find this simpler?
This is one of my retirement dreams. Not baklava, but take a food item that I cherish (I won't divulge which one!), and execute on it as well as I can possibly imagine, vertically integrating as much of the inputs as possible. I love his minimal waste approach with the auxiliary soap output.

Basically, the Unix philosophy applied to cuisine.
Have you thought about digitalizing them?
Yes, that's how they do the GDP survey.
Cheaper entertainment.
Wannabe Twitter/X Killer “Threads” not quite living up to the hype
Forcing the company to name a number first works well when the person has absolutely no idea what market rate is.

However, the idea that it’s the optimal strategy in every situation has been blown out of proportion online. When you force a company to name their price first, they will start with usually a number lower than their target compensation because most candidates will then want to negotiate up. Of all the salary negotiations I’ve done in the past decade, I can’t remember anyone who asked us to make a price first and then didn’t counter with a token $5K or $10K (or more depending on position) counter request. So the easy bet is to take your mid-range comp target, subtract $5K, and then most candidates will end up at your target after they “negotiate”. It’s basically a script that everyone who reads internet advice follows, and once you see it play out you can start to predict it.

If you want to get the upper end of what companies are willing to pay, you often have to start by naming your price and letting them negotiate down. This is scary to people who don’t have a lot of data or who are afraid of being told “no”. It can also result in outright discontinuation of the interview process if the company doesn’t want to pay a lot, but that’s not really a big loss if your goal was high compensation anyway.
I agree with the sentiment but I’d wager the choices they make are more rational without ads than with, which is all the argument needs.
It's a common opinion. I find this stance a bit weak, since it doesn't hold the justice system to the highest standards and expectations. I know, death seems so immediate and there is no taking it back, but things aren't usually that trivial in reality, a life in prison can also mean the person dies in prison without reparation, or even if revoked, the person might spend most their life in prison and has a few years to live free. A person on death row might have many years to prove their innocence. I guess we could also apply a statistical analysis and determine if the error margin is tolerable, sort like how we handle hundreds of deaths in traffic.
You'd think that, and it's probably even the smart strategy for the employer... But I remember what the guy who wrote homebrew said about his Google interview process.

Once an HR culture develops, anything sane or intelligent probably goes out the window.
CRLB
I'm sorry but this comment its terrible. This comment section isn't YT or Tiktok.
and France in 1945 edit: oh, 1958
Notice that the description didn’t say it was a good format in that regard.
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I’ll also point out amateur radio as a counterpoint, since that’s another activity that I have tried where the story looks very different:

1. There’s no way I could ever convince my friends to try it.

2. There is a very real chance that it will disappear in a generation under pressure by corporate interests who would like to utilize the spectrum.

3. There’s barely any young people joining the community for a variety of reasons.

Amateur radio is a dying activity. I’m grateful that the future of hiking and camping is much brighter, because I can imagine a world where it was also in decline.
> Don't give a number at all

Can you give an example of how this plays out in real conversation? Answering “I’m not telling you” or similar to the recruiters question “what’s your expected compensation” seems like bogus advice
I make my own, the pastry is available easily in the UK (sometimes not in stock everywhere, it isn't as common as other types of pastry). I buy refrigerated rather than frozen and have not had an issue with getting the warming-to-work-with timing OK.

Easy to make. A bit time consuming perhaps, but worth it. I've had mine "approved" by a colleague with Turkish family and a Greek orthodox grandmother, so it can't be bad!
> leveraging their good will against them and costing them deals

Spacelift co-founder here. I keep seeing this argument, and I'm puzzled. What good will are we talking about, and how are we leveraging it against anyone? Is building a good commercial product that folks love on top of an open source ecosystem somehow unethical? And if so - why? I used every opportunity to try and help Hashi build something better on top of core TF, both personally (applied for a job on their TFE team back in 2018, talked about many ideas that then went into Spacelift instead) and as a company (we tried VERY hard to partner). All to no avail.

On the other hand, for 9 years non-Hashi folks (including ourselves here at Spacelift) spent countless hours, for the first years contributing to Terraform core, and more recently when PRs were no longer accepted they were still busy building providers, modules, tooling, courses, tutorials, cheatsheets, they've been running local meetups, all powered by the open source ethos and the common good.

Not really sure who is leveraging whose good will here.
C++23: Compatibility with C
As stated in the article, that's exactly what is being considered.
Totally agree. In the hosted version built on top of the engine we block the answer from going to the question asker until an authorized user 'verifies' the answer. However these 'verified' answers are then stored in the context store and retrieved for few shot prompting.
While there's discussion on the topic here - are there any resources that can explain the exact mechanism of how a GAN works for image generation? I have a rough idea of how diffusion models work, but I'm still no AI researcher.
It can run Intel Mac applications via translation, but this doesn't extend to virtual machines. Your VM host (more accurately, your emulation host) must perform the x86 emulation itself. UTM for example uses qemu for this.
Writing is a good way to express your ideas and formalize what you are thinking. When you are sharing it with people, you open yourself up to scrutiny and pressure from the world, pushing you to think harder about the way you express ideas.

If you're uncomfortable with some stuff being shared and potentially being cancelled or used by an LLM or something, I think it's okay to shield. Shield things that are important to you and that you can't possibly have seen. Create everything else in public.

If it's not shared, what's the point of thought?
To expand on what I take as your implied argument-
Some (small) percentage of people are pedophiles, meaning they're attracted to children. Presumably they can't help that, just as others can't change their sexual preferences. Clearly acting on this urge with an actual child is wrong. That's true whether it's directly assaulting a child, or consuming child porn, as that market encourages others to exploit children to generate it. However, if it is possible to produce CP without involving actual children, it could provide an outlet for those desires that would reduce demand for actual CP, and thereby reduce incidents of children being abused to produce it.

One could argue that such an outlet could even reduce incidents of direct sexual assault of children by pedophiles, but there is also a counter-argument that it would instead serve to "whet the appetite" and encourage such behaviour. And of course there are other counter-arguments; it could make actual CP more difficult to detect, for one. Finally there is the argument from the perspective of fundamental morality, that depicting children in a sexual manner is wrong in and of itself, and therefore the various potential effects are irrelevant. (Much like it's wrong to murder an innocent, even if you could harvest their organs and save five others as a result.)
Similar experience here. Nostalgia from XP days is so strong I forget the monstrosity the OS became from every release from 8.1 onwards.
> What exactly is the argument against AI-generated child porn?

Currently? The fact that all the models need training data and the law will see that as victimizing the people who were used in the data set be they adults of children.

Overall? The fact that it's disgusting and pedophiles deserve things which I can say IRL and everyone agrees with, but on HN will get me banned.

Many countries ban underage anime porn too. Children and their likeness are off limits.
Lol, take 1 guess how/why kid me discovered canned spinach is disgusting.
It s come to the point that people are begging competitors to do something in the space. Who knows, maybe some cheap Chinese asic that can do matrix multiplication ends up eating their lunch.

You d think that, at the level of capitalization of tech companies, competition would be cutthroat
Farmers want less stressed cows because they produce more milk. The underlying economics means they have other concerns, but even “factory” dairy farms will tend to optimize more for cow comfort than you might think.

People also overly focus on density without understanding cows are herd animals. They form dense herds even in empty fields.
In Columbus, Ohio the Columbus Computer Society has SIG's (Special Interest Groups) [https://ccscmh.org/special-interest-groups/]. I don't know where you live but if it's big enough (and especially if there's a concentration of computers professionals) there may be SIG's in your area where you can talk with others like yourself. SIG's are especially good for presenting topics [as strict9 mentions] if you want to prove to yourself that you really know your stuff.

The Linux SIG, for example, is part of a larger network of Linux SIGs worldwide.

https://ccscmh.org/special-interest-groups/
> Storm suggested creating a version of Tornado with KYC / AML enabled, but Tornado’s unnamed venture capital investors were dismissive, saying, “I just don’t know if anyone will actually want this.” The investor added, “It would be unlikely as a fund that we’d use a ‘compliant mixer.’”

Doesn’t this directly implicate the investor as well?

It’s always frustrating to see founders punished and the money get away scot free when everyone knows they’re pressuring the founders to grow at all costs.
I may be one of the biggest Rust evangelicals, but C isn't an excuse for a design that considers segfaulting expected behaviour on invalid user input. That points more to a lack of validation where needed, nothing that C makes impossible or even hard to do.
> I would have to have that right in front of me and read it word for word. And if I get pushed to reveal a number I would need to just pause and slowly repeat it again word for word like a robot.

LOL. I'd probably read it like a bank heist hostage. Ideally, while blinking rapidly and visibly sweating on the Zoom meeting.
Not if everybody in the entire industry is paid the same. :)
I know this is trivial BUT I really wish this was a physical book.
> “The waste of medical resources on you.”

?? There’s nothing unethical about riding a motorcycle.

I ride within 80% of my abilities. I wear full PPE all year round. My moto is maintained to a high standard. I drive defensively. I have taken safety courses, and continued my motorcycle safety training both in and out of the classroom. I am not careless about my life or the lives of others. I drive like everyone is out to kill me, and I’m a gentleman. Want to pass, go ahead.

Morally— I’m not needlessly risking my life or the lives of others. If it becomes necessary, god forbid, that I need life saving medical care, I trust I’m worthy of it, if, for no other reason than I take great care when I’m driving any motorized vehicle.

Shame on you.
> There is nothing wrong with any of the comments linked to by him in that thread, in my opinion.

Then there is no meeting of the minds that can be had.

> In my experience, this is always arrived at by some sort of absurd logic that goes "he denies that I am really a woman, and when you do that you make transgender people more like to kill themselves, therefore it is genocide" which is obviously nonsense.

What is happening right now in America is much, much worse than your strawman.

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/this-is-what-transgender-...

If you are trying to draw a distinction between murder and using rhetoric to encourage stochastic terrorism, criminalizing existing in public, destroying social support systems, blocking access to health care, and in some cases forcible detransition, IMHO you're drawing a distinction without a difference. Both the dog-whistle _and_ the fig leaf fallback positions are horrendous injustices.
It’s interesting that you use the way you played with matchbox cars as an example, as I’ve seen that exact scenario used by therapists to inform an autism spectrum diagnosis in children. Probably not a coincidence, since they’re a very, very common toy that’s accessible to every demographic in western societies.
...prone to pron?
Frequently missing people show up but do not notify authorities that they're okay.
> I dated someone I believe has NPD, and it was an abusive and traumatic relationship. I have had family members who definitely had NPD, and they were abusive to their children. I've both been & seen people profoundly hurt by this (the NPD sufferers included).

So you've done the diagnosis yourself, outside of a psychiatric clinic? See this is exactly what I'm talking about. You have observations coming from these completely biased sources, making pretty heavy conclusions about someone's brain, and when you look at the solutions to how to deal with these people it's super severe - like completely cut them out of your life, treat them like a dangerous animal. It should be completely obvious to everyone why this is a bad way of thinking and doing things.
Thought I was getting an article, instead got a teaser and shameless self promotion. Sounds like SBF knew how to attract similar people.