skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> He said his intent was [...] to assassinate the Queen in a Star Wars-inspired plan to avenge [a 1919] atrocity during British rule in India. Prosecutors said that Chail was encouraged to undertake this plot after discussing it at length with an AI-powered chatbot that egged him on and bolstered his resolve.

> According to prosecutors, Chail sent “thousands” of sexual messages to the chatbot [...maybe an important distinction in details here...] that advertised itself as primarily being for erotic roleplay...

Certainly this is bad PR for AI, and a maybe a good lesson for non-technical people with utopian notions about AI...but it sounds like this guy could have been similarly "egged on" by Eliza, a Magic Eight Ball, a tarot deck, or James Bond movies.
Plz let the Tasmanien devil have no place in tcm.
Is branching library open sourced?, AFAIK Neon is.
I remember actually looking forward to new OS versions as a teenager. DOS 6.00 was genuinely exciting! What a contrast to the forced updates of today.
> On the front-end it’s been a mess for a really long while now though

I don't disagree, but also front-end was a mess for a long time.

Now Rails (with Rails 7.1 + Hotwired + Importmaps) is a pleasure to work with.

But we had to wait for good support in browsers of at least ES6 + Import Maps.

See the date of this article here: https://web.dev/import-maps-in-all-modern-browsers/ -> 28 March 2023 announcing importmaps is available on all modern browsers.

Thus there was no way around Webpack Yarn or any other helping tool for JS until now.

Now we have importmaps and good support in browsers for east least ES6 (https://caniuse.com/?search=es6) thus there is almost no need for extra tooling so you can write modern JS.
The Experiences of American Indians in North Carolina’s Urban K‑12 Schools [pdf]
Ask HN: Getting traction from companies but no actual product help?
So the past four months I’ve been working on a social app that takes a new take on social commerce and control. Long story short, scrolling through IG and TikTok, I noticed that people were always active in the comment section asking the creator “What podcast is this?”, “what pair of jeans are those”…etc. I’m pretty sure it has happened to one of you

Coming from product and marketing, I did what I do best…create.

I set out to design a social media platform that allows users to mention products easily so users don’t need to check the comment section. I wanted to give the creator the ability to mention anything from “brand-product” to “artist-song” and so on…A way to empower even the “little guy” who wants his song to be heard that he just posted on Apple Music or Spotify. Then I realised that this could scale to posting reviews about specific places,, restaurants, hotels…BUT it needed to be done in a very smooth and clean way.

I always hated the whole “I have 15 million followers I should be paid X amount for a post” mentality (sorry if I have offended anyone). I wanted to build something where no matter the following, your voice can be heard by a community that cares about the same things as you. I like to call it leveling the playing field.

Realistically, the app doesn’t revolve around pushing an algorithm but more around joining communities with like-minded people…kinda like Reddit. I also forgot to mention that the users won’t be teens but over the age of 18 so no dancing trends

So if I joined the men’s fashion group, I could see men talking about fashion and I could also see what products they mentioned…which I could go on to buy if I wanted.

I finished designing the prototype on Figma and cold-called a couple of companies in Europe (where I’m from), from companies focusing on home decor to companies focusing on tech gadgets…to see if they’d be interested in populating their catalog for users to mention. They loved it and are extremely interested…it would cost them less in marketing costs.

This brings me to my problem, I can’t find anyone to help me build it. I’ve tried YCCo-founder, reaching out to people on LinkedIn, and my internal network (I know nobody who’s a dev). I also applied to YC recently but getting in without a Technical Co-founder is pretty much a shot in the dark.

Anyways, I just wanted to know your opinion on this whole debacle and if anyone would be interested in working together on this or if you might know someone who would want to work on this together…equity will obviously be given.

If anyone is curious about what I bring to the table; a solid 8 years of experience working in Product Mgmt and Marketing.
My last job was as Director of Marketing for a Green-tech company.

I’ll add my email here: gustafstrom3@gmail.com (FYI: this is a thruway e-mail) in case anyone wants to talk…who knows, maybe this can be the next coinbase situation.

Thanks a lot for taking the time to read my post and have a kick ass Friday.
Not at all.

1) These are colleagues I know and trust and have a lot to say about their time there. I wouldn't pay attention to them if we didn't have certain things in common, re: cultural expectations and opinions on what a good place to work for looks like, which increase their weight. It's not like I'm reading random Tweets or something (I don't have a Twatter account and wouldn't work there either).

2) I have worked with a lot of middle managers that came from FAANG. They have had this weird kink / fetish about FAANG companies and how projects and people should be managed, and they constantly talk about their time at those companies and how they are taking these processes and cultural opinions directly from that world. Many are some the worst people I have ever met and they are directly representing those companies. It might be a small sample-set, but if that is any indication of the types managers that work at those places then it's enough for me to not be willing to take the risk.

3) Facebook gave us React and GraphQL, Microsoft gave us Windows & Telemetry, Google gave us a world of tech surveillance and Apple gave us... well... every Apple product ever. Those companies can't NOT be toxic based on their products. It might not be fair to single them out since they're not the only companies to produce evil but I can infer what goes on in those corporate offices after 30 years in this industry, and seeing how people from that world operate. That was implied in my initial comment. You don't have to agree with me about how evil they are, it's not a crime to have wrong opinions :P
No I’m referencing the fact that both had pretty strong teams overlapping in Northeastern University.
I have to wonder, how much of it saying what it is saying is just based on societal views (which leads to most written text that it was likely trained on having a certain opinion) vs supposed "thoughts" on the opinion or pushing certain opinions by the company.

Based on the example of it bringing up the ethical slut (fantastic book btw that I highly recommend even for people in monogamous relationships) and then turning around I have to wonder if it is the former.

There is still a ton of stigma around non traditional relationships and kink that it makes sense for something like an LLM to lean in that way without additional tuning. Especially when any ethics about releasing untested AI goes completely out the window.
> The model doesn't know anything - people personify LLMs too much.

Perhaps reading people's posts little less literal would help the conversation. I obviously know that the model weights don't 'know' something in the sense that a human knows something, but the model does store information. That information happens to (primarily?) be the statistical likelihood of one token following another token. What it doesn't store is a string of tokens that represents Sarah Silverman's latest book.

From what I can tell, all this angst comes from 3 or 4 related, but different, issues.

1. Did companies break copyright laws when assembling and using training for these models?

2. Does the model represent some form of copyright infringement in and of itself?

3. Does a model's ability to output chunks of copyrighted work have some implication of the legality of the model itself? (using said copyrighted chunks is already a solved issue)

4. Do we as a society owe it to humans benefitting from copyright the continued ability to create copyrightable content without competition from ML models?

I think comingling all of those points is doing everyone a disservice.

My assertion was only about #2 and none of the others. I feel like it's a clearly demonstrable situation that these models _don't_ infringe copyright directly. That being said, I am obviously not a lawyer, and my opinion is just that, an opinion.

FWIW, my general feeling on all of the points is: 1. Quite Likely (but fair-use is a fickle thing), 2. No, 3. It shouldn't, and 4. No, but we need to think through the long-term societal implications of ML decreasing the amount of human labor needed across all markets and come up with a plan that doesn't involve our fingers in our ears.
> The US' population is much more diverse than European countries

Having lived in both continents I can tell you this is absolutely not true, particularly in Western Europe.

Large Western European cities/capitals are usually a huge melting pot of locals, foreign Europeans, North Africans, Sub-Saharan Africans, Middle Easterners, Central Americans, South Americans, South Asians and East Asians.

Cities like Amsterdam and London are even white-minority, highlighting how multicultural Europe can be.

Go to some of the largest German cities and you'll feel like you're at a UN meeting.

> I think it's likely we are leaving a subsection of our population behind economically and this is showing up in the population numbers.

Well, this is unfortunately a human problem and I'm not entirely sure if there's a solution or if it could be mitigated. I like UBI as a concept and I do think it would be enormously beneficial for humanity as a whole, but I'm not sure if it's feasible.
Maybe it’s because Android is a shitty OS to develop for because they want to make everybody happy at the expense of a streamlined development experience.
Hey @sz0u
Thank you for applying. Unfortunately we have some contracts with large customers that forbid us from accessing data outside US borders, so right now to my knowledge we require all work to be done within the country.

Some of my favorite colleagues at former companies were working outside the US, so I know how much we are missing out with these restrictions. I hope as we grow we’ll be better positioned to negotiate and then be able to have a more inclusive, global team.

I wish you the best of luck with your job search and thank you again for applying
I bought a large telescope a couple of years ago and the first month was out for a few hours every night paying close attention to the sky.

It's amazing how quickly your mind develops a map of what's there. Planets take on this odd motion/3d characteristic in your mind because they are very clearly moving against the backdrop. The orbital ecliptic of the planets become obvious and their mean flow towards the horizon reveals your latitude clearly and gives you this odd existential perspective on which you can visualize your latitude on Earth and its inherent spherical nature. You feel the spaceship we're on.

All of this with just stuff that you see every night.

A sudden bright light that is sixteen times brighter than Venus is going to catch everyone's attention. It's going to be unmistakable. People would have noticed the extra light cast on the ground and would have walked out of their homes to see what is going on. Everyone would have been talking about it.
AI firms working on “constitutions” to keep AI from spewing toxic content
What I Learnt Making a Teeny-Tiny 1kB Webpage
Most consulting contracts are work for hire where you explicitly agreed to transfer and relinquish any claim to the IP.

You should check your contract to see what it says. In all likelihood, it is unreasonable to request royalties.
Funny, I was thinking a web app is ideal for thread per core. The application itself generally has very little state outside of a request (other than for the socket listener and database connections, which can be segmented per thread), and what state it has is probably mostly static across requests (so caches don't invalidate often). It should be easy to deal with ownership of shared state because there isn't any.
I picture you having them all hooked up at once, one-man band style.
Why would the AI answer, then censor itself?
Indeed, I was asleep. We have a lawyer who handled the terms, presumably adding a bit of boiler plate text that we should have removed. This should definitely not be the case, thank you all for flagging. Will update today.
I agree with your diversity point. As Americans, we don't realize how diverse some other places are. Places in Europe. Places like southern africa and Brazil.

I know it's just anecdata but when I first started traveling when I was younger, I lived in Europe for a bit. I can tell you I definitely thought there were nations that were as diverse, (if not more diverse than), the US. France, for instance, is extremely diverse. Not everyone white is Christian. Maybe because of old colonies? I don't know? Not sure. But the place was so diverse that it was striking to a young American from the upper midwest.

I've come over time to realize that our diversity in non-normative, but nowhere even close to unique. There are more diverse places out there.
Singapore recently did a deal with a company no one has heard of for their immigration process and the results are cameras that don’t work to the point of the officials needing to manually adjust them, forms that don’t contain consistent data across pages, and my favorite “save a photo of the confirm just in case lah.” The old system just worked, the new system insists upon APPs.
I'm out-of-steam with this argument but making a probability-derived argument based on a cherry-picked agreement rate of 90% instead of an empirical argument that considers the legal deliberation process and culture that produced this agreement rate isn't persuasive to me.

Kalven-Zeisel specifically argues "Disagreement rates were no higher when the judge characterized the evidence as difficult than when the judge characterized it as easy, suggesting that the disagreements were not produced by the jury’s inability to understand the evidence." It seems impossible to mathematically tease out how much of the agreement comes from a shared understanding of the reasonable doubt standard vs other facts from the case -- either way, the idea that juries generally ignore reasonable doubt and err towards convicting people is not evidenced.
This is an important point.

Take a look at Switzerland with four different official languages (five if you include English for many official settings), something not found in the US.
Given the cost of gpus it would be negligent if they weren’t at least looking for alternatives. A story like this could also help negotiate prices with their suppliers. And everyone is looking at the success Apple had with custom silicon. But I suspect they’d prefer to partner or find alternative (cheaper) suppliers
https://pastebin.com/gcsNs6Sw

Oh, look. Something that statically typed languages solves.
game creator here! hope all are having fun, let me know if you run into any issues
I had a boss who was pretty excited about CueCat. It's funny that it took another 15 years to catch on as smartphones and QR codes!
just an animation haha
I sort of did that at my first web-job. I thought it was a bit unhandy that the customers had to be mailed a link to the admin interface, why not just put a link to the login on the front page? A couple of days later I learned why. There's always a good reason somewhere, you just don't know why yet.

The reason? Well, the admin interface was written in ASP. According to the guy that called me in panic said that ASP version was so very old it was extremely insecure. I didn't have access to the database so could not verify anything but the webserver logs had a lot of "Bobby tables" in them so I have a strong suspicion it wasn't all ASP's fault...

Anyway, we ended up with the database disappearing in the night or containing random data until I got that phonecall asking why we were linking directly to the admin interface :-)

They were very good at restoring the database though, just took an hour or so every morning until they found the reason.
The problem is that in the past versions of these, the influence of food companies has resulted in guidance that was not entirely nutritionally sound. There is every reason to think the same influence will have the same result in the future.
>So, I'd love a language with a type checker that when ahead-of-time compiling code would refuse to emit libraries/binaries when it couldn't statically prove types were used correctly. In interpreted mode, it would only refuse to load code that it could statically prove contained type errors. Maybe when used within an interactive session, it would still allow (but warn) when code provably has type errors.

Haskell can do that. https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.8.2/docs/html/users_gui...
As others have stated the pandemic is over and it’s now an endemic.

Everyone’s health situation is different, but I think comparing this to HIV is a bit of a stretch.

I do wish everyone has the choice to decide what works for themselves. In my case, I do just that and I don’t subject myself to anything I don’t want.
Are you suggesting that the reason that 250,000 houses that have been empty for 6 months isn't enough for 250,000 homeless people, is something other than the houses being nowhere near the job opportunities?
> The trouble with turbine engines is that, below bizjet size, they don't seem to get any cheaper.

That's because of the lack of demand. GA is extremely conservative, most designs date back to the 50s-70s and the more modifications you make to a design the more extensive and expensive certification becomes. They're still flying with leaded fuel, many decades past the removal of lead in car fuel, because up until last year there hadn't been a certified alternative (and the one that is is not suspected to be readily available until 2027+).

For a jet engine powertrain on a plane the size of a Cessna, you'd need to redesign the whole frame, you'd need to design appropriately sized engines and maintenance procedures, and you'd need to re-train all the pilots. Before that happens, GA will go electric.
Ninety-five Percent of Penicillin Allergy Diagnoses Are Wrong: New Test Helps
I think the comparison with the old Burning Man is apt, but not since valley people have been flying in en masse and it seems more like a rich people playground.

Never been to Burning Man, so take with a grain of salt. I've also not been to the CCC for around 7 or 8 years, so not sure how much the original counterculture spirit is still alive.

"The Tribes of Burning Man" was a good read, but in stark contrast to everything I've read online for the last few years.
> There are so many more mature frameworks

Please name "many more mature" frameworks. I am curious about how many web frameworks are still actively maintained today.

Please note for me, mature also includes age. So you have to state frameworks that are at least older than 2005 (I would also accept created in 2005).
Seems the new version is still quite buggy, i enabled it today but now it takes like 30seconds for the video to start working, it also looks a lot uglier.
What Ancient Egyptians Knew About Meteorites–Long Before Modern Astronomers
You passed the first test!
So I feel the need to disagree with the last part of this because Asexual people exist. I am in a long term relationship with one.

You seem like someone that I would describe as "sex positive" and I feel the need to point out that being in that realm we shouldn't ignore that there are asexual people and it is possible to get different things from different people.

I may not have many sexual relationships with my partner but being in an open relationship myself I don't have to put that pressure on him.
It literally means we are the best in the world.
> Also frankly I think most software does it wrong, if it is possible it shouldn't ask before delete but just allow to undo the step easily.

Obviously. When undoing is not easy or possible automatically, there is the "Are you really really sure?" dialog.
Agreed. Imagine the junior did this after the senior left and didn't have them to fall back on to restore things.
I wonder what technology they are using to wrangle these forms... I remember reading an article a few days ago concerning vuejs project to do something similar.
Western Europe is about 85% white. The US is about 60% white. It’s not even close.
>only possible because of crypto

Marcus Hutchins: Why Destroying Bitcoin Wouldn't Stop Corporate Ransomware

https://youtu.be/LDIGJRd_PyE?si=-TUIEnONm3_D8LzZ
Obama did more drone strikes in his first year (563) than Bush did his entire term.
I can't find the specific months, but it's unlikely it was all done in the last quarter. He also authorized the first drone strike on an American.
With the length of your response, you could have actually elaborated your point further, perhaps without the drama (or with it, both is still good. Real emotion is the spicy magic that separates us from LLMs).
The US has smartly standardized on nuckle coupler while Europe stupidly continually used manual coupling.

Thankfully this might be finally changeing. Because its now 100 years later we can jump ahead in technology. Having cargo cars that automatically couple, but not just physical, also hydrolog, electric and data, plus the ability to digitally decouple. Swiss Cargo already does this in production.

Making it a Europea wide standard is in progress.

https://www.dac4.eu/

This is something we really need to interduce to continue to push electric rail transport.
What a surprise! Executives get a lot of special treatment at the office. They get actual offices with doors, for example.

If I got a ton of perks and had people buttering me up all day I'd be more likely to take risks, too.
Ever heard of PROMIS? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROMIS_(software)
OK, I clicked on this for humor but came away with some new ideas about the future of this technology ("AI"), how it will be rolled out, and what I should do about it.

Specifically, and as pointed out at the conclusion of this article, corporations deploying "AI" of various shapes are going to do it experimentally like this. They likely don't know the outcomes much better than we do. To me, this presents a risk to early adopters (In this case, people who decide to rely on "AI" to some extent). The effects may ultimately be proven to be positive, but the risk is there, for now. Like the hoverboards that had the potential to spontaneously combust.

I will be trying to teach my children that these toys ("AI") are not something to be trusted, for now. And I will take it more seriously than I have been. Use of "AI" in quotes is obviously intentional. Something programmed to avoid certain topics seems to deviate from the definition as I understand it. I don't think we're really see AI yet.
Depends what they've got under the hood.

If they found a theoretical way to infer something like GPT-3.5 without using so much RAM and can build a chip which makes this feasible in laptops or (holy grail) phones, they've got their moat for a 12-24 months, possibly more if they manage to patent it. Big if though.
I agree that the capability might be present, but you forget how strong a stance the EU countries have for PII. A government that would abuse an identity mechanism would immediately be public knowledge and receive universal opprobrium inside the union and most likely outside of it too.
Reaction: RHIP...and maybe some of them reached executive status by taking risks & getting lucky?
How can anyone be surprised by this?
recently came across Orb, it's a linux VM cum docker runtime. VM boots in seconds, access any folder on Mac as linux folder

https://orbstack.dev/