skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not fan of Musk, but stories like this where "X wanted to do Y but actually didn't" are not a "scandel" or even bad in my books. This stuff happens all the time behind closed doors and it seems like in this case the checks and balances in the company prevented it from happening, which is what I care about.

If they actually did this, then I'd think twice. But I think what you are seeing is more that the true haters who bring these "didn't actually happen" things up all the time don't have a huge affect on people buying the product.

The closest thing that actually worried me was the recording of the external cameras. Yes they can record stuff in your garage which isn't great. But I don't actually care at all about them recording stuff on the street around me and sharing that. I WANT them to do that to improve the system.
Btw, Apple's CoreData, commonly used by iPhone and Mac apps, uses SQLite by default. That part works fine, so you can study it if you'd like and ignore all the bad parts built on top (ORM, MVC framework, etc).
could've used this a few years ago before jq became so second nature, cool
It's sha1, collisions are unrealistic
You literally redefined sentience again here: "don't consider them sentient" and your flag pole is "or I guess not enough because they don't feel bad about killing them".

You're drawing arbitrary goalposts for goals that aren't even relevant: At the end of the day we don't need philosophy to prove Lemoine was a schmuck.

Millions got got access to RLHF chat. We can see how they would have made his initial mistake. But following up with months of badgering and protest after being guided with kiddie gloves until he gets fired was the height of delusion.

The fact he now works on optimizing for the thing he rang the alarm on says it all.

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Also your comment shows why guidelines aren't perfect: From your first comment you've taken the most aggrandizing borderline inflammatory tone possible without technically being un-nice.

Are little pot shots like: "So how can a subject-matter expert confidently prove that a language model isn't sentient? And please let David Chalmers know while you're at it, I hear he's keen to settle the matter."

really justified after dropping what, quite frankly, was not a well formed or even self-consistent argument?

Not everyone plays the HN backhanded-niceness game: I assume most people here are adults and can handle some directness.
Order of the Eastern Star, a craft for women, is in concordance with most of regular masonry I believe, but some continental european lodges that are mixed, particularly those in France (and I believe Italy) are not accepted as regular masonic organizations. There are a variety of organizations that claim to be masonic or deriving legitimacy from masonic origins or traditions, but they are not acknowledged by the legitimate grand lodges. Some of the graduation rituals for engineering schools are very masonic, as are some fraternity initiations. I haven't done a PhD, but I hear some of those have related ritual as well.
ya that's another way i would say it as well
> Seems like anything that has legitimate uses could be used for evil too.

Ok, let's assume that anything that has legitimate uses can be used for evil. But what if the technology is mostly useful for evil? Would you call it neutral?
This sounds like it would make the alloc logic much more complicated and branch-y, defeating the purpose of bumping down anyway, unless your implying some compile-time way to do this.
At least I get eggs from a neighbor and not “big egg”; I keep thinking about getting my own chickens but that’s not the way I want to feed Mr. Fox who lives in my neighborhood too.
I don't entirely disagree that treating IO as something special at the linguistic level is a good idea, but I do think that async is a wildly indirect and confusing way to achieve that.

Language designers don't add async to make IO look special, they add it as a concurrent programming model.
Unleashing the Power: Optimization Techniques in AI
This stance is absurd. It's your device, you choose what content you want to consume on it. Do you imagine a world where you buy a monitor and once every hour it shows you fullscreen ads from the device manufacturer without your consent? Maybe you do, but for everyone else that's a dystopia.
This stuff made a lot more sense when it wasn’t yet crystal-clear that we’re on a shortish path to zero or negative population change.

Why build and pay for a complex life support system in space when… I’m living on a really big and really good one for free? It doesn’t seem like we’re going to run out of space for people, so why expend resources making mediocre space environments for people to live on, except for certain narrow purposes?

[edit] I think the problem becomes obvious if one considers colonizing the oceans with big ships and floating platforms. We haven’t really done it, and it’s hard to imagine why we would—it’s just so much more expensive and less convenient than living on land. Space is like that, except all the bad parts are even worse. What do we have on the oceans? Resource-gathering operations, shipping, exploration ships. I don’t see why space would see more colonization than the oceans have (which is nearly zero, mostly temporary purpose-specific habitation and movement across it to land)

I’d include Mars and such as places much worse and more expensive to colonize than the oceans. I don’t see it happening any time soon—why would it?
Even calling BP code from C++ goes through an interop layer and is still much slower vs the equivalent C++.

I'm not saying never use BP, but everyone should realize the performance cost of using BPs is quite high.
Is it just me or is it totally reasonable in a review the cars sensor data in a case of an accident?
I often chuckle that same people who vehemently defend vaccine safety studies also decry studies that show processed seed oils, glyphosate, aspartame, and hundreds of other molecules or compounds are unsafe over time. That's the beauty of medical studies! Whether they're good or bad, your own biases mean you can simply ignore the ones that don't align with your opinions.

Oh, before I forget! Red meat and saturated fat is terrible for you! Wait, no, it's actually sugar that's evil. Vegetables are great for you! Oh wait, most vegetables contain oxalates and other defense, mechanisms and compounds that are actually bad for you overtime.
Let me know how it goes.
My thoughts:
- I would add "objective" you are seeking what?
- It sounds like you have learned how to code yourself and don't have a degree in CS. # of lines of code would be helpful to get a gauge of your coding skills as individual contributor.
- Legal experience overlaps your work, so it's a bit confusing , quick line on what exactly is it would probably help.
- I would link the article you have on substack. I myself did a quite a bit of research on vector db, and can relate to topic.
HoMM 1-3 were fairly straightforward iterations on the formula. Most of the changes in the second and third games was just adding more stuff and filling in some obvious holes in the previous game. HoMM 3 was the point where the game was sufficiently complete that doing this another time was no longer a viable strategy, and HoMM 4 had to figure out how to make itself stand out as a new game. They didn't really succeed at that, and while it's a good game it's not really a better game than 3. 360 running out of money while developing HoMM 4 was unsurprisingly a big problem for the game.

HoMM 5 was a much more successful rethinking of the formula, and while the game as originally shipped had some major problems, with the expansion packs it's arguably the best game in the series. It's a meaningfully different game from 3, though. Many of the changes made the game different moreso than better or worse, so some people prefer 3 and some prefer 5.

I never played 6, but what I heard was that it had a similar problem to some of the Civilization games where HoMM 5 plus expansion packs was just a much more complete game than 6 with no expansion packs, and then it didn't sell well enough to justify continuing development to "finish" it.
Don't forget the bus that promised 350 million extra per week for the NHS !
China *also has a backdoor in to. FTFY
I think a lot of that is that they are security minded, open source, and Gitlab is loud about their vulnerabilities, as part of that ethos.

GitHub enterprises, the on-prem version of their product, has plenty of vulnerabilities [1]. There's probably just as many in their hosted product, but we don't hear about them because they're fixed quietly.

[1] https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1191...
Parallel Processing and Load Balancing [pdf]
Nice hypothesis, but far away from the reality
IEEE 754 is well defined so that $a+b=b+a$
But it can't give you warranty that $(a+b)+c=a+(b+c)$ (well known error propagation issue)
Perversity has mass; yet is very hard to observe en masse.
> Is that a crazy conspiracy idea, or actually a possibility?

I am investing in IBM under the assumption that this is an actual possibility. Their public QC roadmap actually looks like a realistic journey now.

I strongly believe that the NSA, et. al. currently have access to a very powerful quantum computer - likely constructed by IBM under contract.

The game theory around this is such that it is impossible for me to accept that there are zero secret quantum computers in existence by now. There is too much to lose by not playing that game as hard as you can.
Most companies not even bother to make their software usable what is baffling.

Am I supposed to play a multiplayer game when it takes 10 minutes to open and another 5 in queue and then few before it starts?

Blizzard launcher downloads 137 MB to launch some games EVERY time. In fact some game did not even start, probably due to mismatch of version on the patch server and game server. Nobody in Blizzard seems to notice nor care at all. The whole management board should be fired.

I remember paying 10 dollars for starcraft remastered and it plain didnt work, because blizzard doesnt bother to fix their battle.net app (all they did was try to rename it to blizzard app).
Now statcraft bw works, but it didnt for few weeks.

You finish your work, want to start the game and it cant even start fast.
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True, I almost said "data science exploration" as a way to avoid this inevitable comment :). Java can't nearly compete with python (right now) for a certain type of data science programming, but you're right that a ton of data science infrastructure is built with Java.
Ah okay. Just two bad companies. Thanks for the correction
Seems like you just end up with a mixed population that eventually just becomes the new "native" population.
Doesn't Tom's key fragment have to be on a disk somewhere for things to work?

That's the actual weak link to attack.
Well, it's a loss of projected income, which in many ways is not real.
There is: https://github.com/boramalper/magnetico. Working like a charm.

You also want to know which torrent looks legit, so you may want to query trackers ... Here you go: https://sr.ht/~rakoo/magneticos/
Is it also unethical to not read the ads in a newspaper? Or to not watch the commercials on TV?
We tried to use it to improve AWS lambda startup times but desisted as it was a pain to use it with an existing app.
It required too many tweaks as there are waay too many things that rely on reflection :(

Things that broke include:
JSON (de)serialization using Jackson, validations using hibernate, validator, AWS SDK, and even simpler libs like picocli...

It could be quite useful for a set of simpler apps though
It's not the same thing. You're comparing a white-listing approach with a black-listing approach. The example shell doesn't have any concept of directories or environment variables or anything other than cmd_foo and cmd_bar. The only things that exist are the things written to exist.
We're still accepting SAFEs. Contact georges@simulavr.com for details.
Visiting sites consume resources. If you walk into a store and take a gift card you're still consuming resources meant to be paid for, even if they're mostly digital resources. Regardless of the car or shoes you used to do it.

I don't welcome a world of paid products that also include ads. Yet ads do make some paid products cheaper, like say a Kindle or a TV. Folks blocking ads from a premium product probably have a stronger defense. Those blocking ads from an entirely ad supported service less so.
Well, your free range chickens aren't truly free range if they don't have to fend off the occasional (and free range) fox!

Nothing is more natural and free range than the occasional murder between animals.
The bump annoys me heatedly because it means that the phone don’t sit flat, and even a vibrate can send it falling off the edge of table, or the arm of a chair.
Anybody who publishes any kind of media can insert advertisements that are unblockable. For example if your content is in text-form, you have to make the ad a part of the body text, just like I do while I sip from a refreshing and healthy Dr Pepper. Of course you can not track, spy, or install malware on your visitors machines with such in-content ads, but there are other ways to check if the ads work.

Readers of this comment can get a 20% discount on their next Dr Pepper order using promotional code "Hacker1338". Limited time offer.
It was taken seriously, as commercial 3rd party offering, from which PTC and Aicas are the surviving vendors.

Also Android uses a mix of AOT and JIT since version 5.
With our current design, we break even at about exactly 1k units.
Care to explain the context and why you are keen on natural language inquiries? It seems to me like the example you gave is very simplistic and can be solved by a simple dropdown filter on Excel and or SELECT * WHERE clause in a database. Note, I'm not implying that you are wrong to use natural language, simply that there seems to be more to the question.
Switching from WebOS on my LG TV to the Apple TV as the primary interface was honestly one of the best consumer decisions I’ve made this year.

LG TVs get slower and more ad- laden with each update.
> he assumes that the West is doing the same

Of course it is? The CIA was openly crying in the press a couple years ago about their Chinese network getting rolled up, and later touted the establishment of a "China Mission Center."

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/21/china-stolen-us-data-ex...

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/16/1051170999/as-u-s-spies-look-...
Little Red Classrooms
Furan content in coffee too. Very low amount but still.

Coffee prevents headaches for me so I'll always drink it. And no it's not related to physical dependence although at this point the withdrawal will guarantee a headache.
It's more the international jobs impacts I'm concerned about in that case
Having dealt with this many times, it’s usually just easier to apologize and use their preferred pronouns/name. I tend to store that information in my contacts list.

On the other side, I’ve had to deal with changing my assumed name and some people just insist on using my previous assumed name. (Most people know me as Kayodé, not my legal name.) A few people forget from time to time. I can only imagine what it’s like for people who change their legal name instead keeping it for convenience.

Identity is a pain in the ass and it’s just not worth the argument.
But then you missed my point. If I ask "Are deserts really always dry?" (in a context where you can reasonably assume that I understand the concept of a desert) and you answer "Yes they are, except on occasions where they aren't", then what you actually meant was "No, they aren't. Sometimes they can be flooded, but most of the time they are dry".

I did not mean to ask "Is technology sometimes neutral?", but rather "Is technology always neutral, and in this case, is this particular technology neutral?". I did not write all that, but I assumed that it would be inferred from the context. And that, too, is how language works.

Also note that my above reaction was not aggressive. I genuinely find it interesting that they think "technology is neutral" but start their explanation with a sentence that clearly shows that they think technology is not neutral.
Maybe it's expensive because in the car centric model the costs are shifted to the citizen to buy a vehicle. Great source of profits, we're starting to introduce 7 and 8 year car loans for our best selling vehicles the Ford F-Series, Chevy Silverado, and Ram Pickup in the US.

People preference is why I wait 2 minutes at a crosswalk to get to my local park.

Cost can be solved. I'm not sure car dependence can be.
If you report 1,000,000 and certify that it's the right number, and the government audits you and find you should have paid 1,010,000, then depending on jurisdiction you might be entirely ok, or you might find you're not going to be paying just the difference, and interest, but also a fine, and bearing the cost of additional audits going forward, and that your finance director will not appreciate having to address questions aimed at figuring out whether anything criminal is involved. Repeat the mistake a few times, and the level of scrutiny will escalate.

There's a reason that in 28 years of working in software, the only thing the financial teams I've worked with have obsessed over have been whether or not we get the VAT calculations right, and the "sticker price" of the discrepancy has never been what they worry about. For calculations that does not involve getting tax amounts wrong, they often couldn't care less about much bigger discrepancies, but get tax wrong in the wrong jurisdiction and it's a lot of pain.
If someone can come up with the average density of a video card we can convert to volume!
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> to mess around with LLMs

You mean training or inference?
> All you said is that cooperative scheduling requires making the scheduling points explicit while preemptive doesn't, but "explicit is better than implicit" is a principle that a substantial portion of the programming community believes, and OP specifically expressed a preference for explicit scheduling points.

The problem is that the cooperative style makes mutual exclusion implicit and that's the important correctness assumption that is explicit in the preemptive style. The possible presence of scheduling point is the lack of an assumption, and therefore it shouldn't be explicit.

You're right that the issue is subjective, but it's subjectively determined in the overall design of the language. In Haskell, for example, there is an ever-present default assumption of lack of side effects and that assumption is at the core of the language, but if your language doesn't do that -- and Java doesn't and neither do C# or Python -- then the choice of cooperative scheduling isn't a good fit for the rest of the language. So perhaps I should have said that unless you design your language like Haskell (and unless you don't have the constraints the JS does), preemptive is the better fit for the rest of the language.
If it was automated and you still consumed the other resources (paid largely or entirely by ad impressions) then that case could be made.
Frankly, I have more confidence that a web app will actually work, which is why I usually default to them if I can.

I can't tell you how many times I've installed an Android app by a big company and it was fundamentally broken in some way. This would happen even if I was using a non-rooted phone, though on my current rooted phone the problem is slightly worse when an app somehow detects that I'm rooted and prevents me from using it. Say what you want about the "clunkiness" of webpages, but I've used tons of native apps that aren't even using webviews that are extremely clunky and slow. The web loads plenty of unneeded crap, but native developers don't seem to give a f*** if their app bundles are half a gigabyte. Maybe it's because they all need to ship AI models now or whatever.
Y’all really need to work on your finesse.
Does anyone know the difference between personalDNSfilter (recommended by lichess) and Blokada for DNS-based blocking? I use the latter on my phone.
For personal consumption?

I modify the ebooks I read, changing the font and other formatting, reducing the size of images or removing them entirely, and removing advert pages (sometimes, not compulsively). I do this for my own readability preferences (I don't have a formalized disability, just preferences at this point). As I am not reselling the artist's work, I consider this fair use. To what degree am I wrong?
Ha! Thank you! It was great meeting you too
I was very confused at first how a timeseries database would be used in a git workflow.
> But when left to raise themselves using the iPad-Babysitter you end up with the moral free for all that we are seeing today.

20 years ago long before iPads when I was in high school there were definitely kids that would have done this exact same thing if the technology was available. Lets not pretend as though lose morals are a recent invention.
Oracle offers two licenses: A "foot gun" license that would cost you tens of thousands of dollars, and a clean license.

> The fact is that if you're using Java these days (or for the past 13 years), you're using Oracle software under a license issued to you by Oracle, regardless of which website you download it from.

That is inaccurate. If third parties build the JDK themselves, then you're only subject to the JDK's license. If you get the binaries from Oracle, you're subject to the JDK license and binary distribution license.

Plus if Oracle's distributions and third parties are the same, but the risks are much lower with third party, then why NOT get it from a third party? You haven't named a downside, and I've explained the upsides.

You cannot, in good faith, argue that downloading from Oracle "supports" Java development, while also arguing that downloading it from Oracle is always free. The only reason it supports Java development is when people screw up and get billed.
And we had electric cars before internal combustion engines.. they are not at all the same, and not even my analogy gives enough credit to loom.
I've never met one of those people. In general people who decry vaccines (as a norm, not talking about the covid can of worms) tend to fall into the "alternative medicine" bucket and distrust all science studies, and those who trust vaccines tend to also trust other scientific studies...
> So I don't get the current trend where everyone is your majesty and god forbid someone mangles your name

The advice that people react well if you pronounce their name correctly has been widespread since, at the very least, Dale Carnegie's 1936 "How to Win Friends and Influence People" so not really a recent trend.

And of course in some situations other people's treatment of your name can have a major impact on your career - for example, if academics reference papers as "FamilyName et. al. (year)" it might benefit your career a great deal if they identify your family name correctly.

I agree that widespread chosen pronouns are a recent trend, though.
And teach engineers about ethics, too? I feel like it could help, because they are the one making the technology and often getting a ton of money for it.
Has anyone experienced a drop in recruiter spam when removing your information from databrokers with those services? I have daily unsolicited recruiter emails in the last few years, and I'm not on linkedIn since 2018-ish, so I have no idea where they are getting my info from.
Yes.

Realistically you can also build a server with 8 RTX 3090 and put in in colo in a datacenter. That would technically violate the license, but nobody is going to go after you for that. What Nvidia wants to prevent is hosting providers/IaaS renting out servers with consumer GPUs.
I don't think it will take 30 years. The problem is that it will be very hard to prosecute, it will have to concern possession rather than distribution (since you don't need to distribute the artifacts, you just need to be able to generate them).