skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Even if you give it all of these things, there's no manual for how to use those to get to, for example, military servers with secret information. It could certainly figure out ways to try to break into those, but it's working with incomplete information . . ., and so on, and so on...

Please recall that "I" in AI starts for "Intelligence". The challenges you described are exactly the kind of things that general intelligence is a solution to. Figuring things out, working with incomplete information, navigating complex, dynamic obstacles - it's literally what intelligence is for. So you're suggesting to stop a hyper-optimized general puzzle-solving machine by... throwing some puzzles at it?

This line of argument both lacks imagination and is kinda out of scope anyway: AI x-risk argument is assuming a sufficiently smart AI, where "sufficiently smart" is likely somewhere around below-average human-level. I mean, surely if you think about your plan for 5 minutes, you'll find a bunch of flaws. The kind of AI that's existentially dangerous is the kind that's capable of finding some of the flaws that you would. Now, it may be still somewhat dumber than you, but that's not much of a comfort if it's able to think much, much faster than you - and that's pretty much a given for an AI running on digital computers. Sure, it may find only the simplest cracks in your plan, but once it does, it'll win by thinking and reacting orders of magnitude faster than us.

Or in short, it won't just get inside our OODA loop - it'll spin its own OODA loop so fast it'll feel like it's reading everyone's minds.

So that's the human-level intelligence. A superhuman-level intelligence is, obviously more intelligent than us. What it means is, it'll find solutions to challenges that we never thought of. It'll overcome your plan in a way so out-of-the-box that we won't see it coming, and even after the AI wins, we'll have trouble figuring out what exactly happened and how.

All that is very verbose and may sound specific, but is in fact fully general and follows straight from definition of general intelligence.

As for the "self-improvement ->" part of "self-improvement -> doom scenarios", the argument is quite simple: if an AI is intelligent enough to create (possibly indirectly) a more intelligent successor, then unless intelligence happens to be magically bounded at human level, what follows without much hand-waving is, you can expect a chain of AIs getting smarter with each generation, eventually reaching human-level intelligence, and continuing past it to increasingly superhuman levels. The "doom" bit comes from realizing that a superhuman-level intelligence is, well, smarter than us, so we stand as much chance against it as chickens stand against humans.
Well the people removing them are likely going to sell them, I don't see why anybody would do the work for you.
I split the difference with a Montessori School. Broad range of ages in each class. The whole school interacts during the 2 hour collective lunch and recess time. It's been a good experience for my kid and the school continues in a somewhat similar way after elementary. It's more of home school cooperative than public school in style and I'm okay with that for now. I'd like my daughter to move at her own speed and get more help or more advanced work if she needs it. I just can't be the one to do it. I have no patience
This is extremely cute. Great work! I had a lot of fun playing around for a few minutes. Only input I would give is that ability text can be way oversized for its textbox.
WeWork Plans to File for Bankruptcy, WSJ Reports
As a long term DataDog customer… no it’s beyond that.

DataDog have an extractive pricing model. It’s undergone a number of changes over the years that separated out features previously under the host price into their own products with separate monthly costs. They put limits on the numbers of unique containers you can have per host before charging container fees, so better hope you don’t have too many crash-restart loops or. Theres the per unique host per billing period pricing model that makes it impossible to scale your own infrastructure up and down to save on hardware costs, one personal case I can attest to was case the changes would halve the AWS bill but increase the DataDog bill by more than 10 times, a thousand percent… and you would think surely you can talk to the sales team if your use case fits extremely poorly with the pricing model…. Hahaha no… unless your a whale they give zero fucks about giving you any flexibility on price.
If we accept that as justification, then we should actually be running re-education camps for adults.

And what if I want my kids to go to a school where they’re encouraged to think for themselves? To be interestingly wrong rather than boringly correct?

I really don’t think the facts you give as examples are that important when it comes to equipping a child with the skills they need for a lifetime. They’ll be faced with a different set of facts later in life anyways. The foundation of an education needs to be a little deeper than “not my enemy’s political views.”
For a file manager I would just use mc and it is available on most servers. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Commander

It rarely makes sense to install another app, especially if it is proprietary. Just checked out termius.com a ssh manager. With a monthly subscription? 10 USD a month, a steal!

I just use sshpass now via C&P.
There's less risk of damage from running off a single disk in a faulted mirror than to rebuild the mirror. The stress the drive is under to rebuild can and will kill drives at the end of their life.
Hmm I wonder what kind of code quality can be accomplished by looping from phind->gpt->copilot for multiple iterations, asking for criticisms of the code qualities then seeking code which addresses the ai-generated criticisms etc until it knocks out better than I would in a second.
When you aim at the "long side" of a car, rather than its front or back.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadside_(naval)
> similar to what Apple has done over time by copying iOS features enabled by jailbreaking

Could you please elaborate? What features are these?
> Treating all these scenarios as a single thing that you can hold a single, consistent opinion about suggests to me a lack of familiarity with its wide spectrums along multiple dimensions.

I'll give it a shot: in all these scenarios, there ought to be a minimum standard-- backed up by the state-- to ensure none of these children are being abused or neglected. Public and private schools benefit from the children having to be around many other people every day, some of whom are teachers and administrators who have a profession obligation to report such things.

AFAICT there is no common standard to enforce this across the myriad concepts of home school you mention. There obviously should be. Importantly, none of the "very dissimilar" concepts of home schooling you mention obviate this need.
Does GPT-4 Pass the Turing Test?
Results from a public online Turing Test show GPT-4 passes 41% of the time, falling short of chance and the human baseline (63%).
> if a disk fails you'll have to go into a read-only mode during the rebuild

That's not correct, you can rebuild online. The readonly mode is only relevant when you reboot during the failure and don't have the right options set on the volume.

But you totally can replace a live drive without affecting the availability.
Or a locally run and operated coworking space.
Matthew Perry and the Loneliness of Addiction
It's not an issue of space, but one of mass. Tesla's newest batteries are supposedly around 270-300 Wh/kg. 5 tons of these batteries would give you 1500 kWh of energy.

Compare this to diesel that has an energy density of 12,640 Wh/kg. Diesel engines are less efficient, but you would still save multiple extra tons in weight for the same distance traveled, which would increase your distance traveled further.

Electric buses do work, but the more batteries you cram in there the more extra weight you have to pull around at all times.
That is disappointing. What is the motivation for them to actually obey the law?
When you go to a garage sale and buy a used TV antenna off your neighbor do they usually ask you to crawl up on their roof and remove it?

I think what Twitter was expecting is what was strange.
It's insane. I was just commenting to colleagues earlier today that $10 now gets you more compute than I had for the first decade of my career. And not just a little bit more either.

https://www.marktplaats.nl/v/hobby-en-vrije-tijd/elektronica...
I think it's likely they were literally referring to the economy rather than return to office, considering WeWork stands only to lose when employees work from their employer's office
These sums of money are so pathetically small. We routinely drop similar sums on seemingly random stuff, none of which ever returns even a small amount of awesome.
Nobody is opposed to relevant ads on TV (I mean, not any more than they're opposed to ads in general).

it's the means by which they make them relevant.

No one would be cool if Facebook sent agents to your home each night to rifle through your drawers to learn about you and "tailor ads to you and make them more relevant".

That's the problem, the data-collecting and spying.
Because I would pay money to not use Windows 11, and the Macbook hardware is generally better than the alternatives.
This just reads weird with the “wives cost money” and “your wife isn’t gonna be happy with the massive downgrade” angle. You understand why that’s poorly phrased, right?
Comments like these always cause me to spend 3 hours on wikipedia trying to rebuild industry from scratch using bone tools to work a rock into a knife.
> anything goes, you can be whatever you feel like and there's no judgement of any of your actions

Wow, what a terrible take. If anyone needs religion to live a moral life, I'm glad they have found it and hope they never lose it.

I'm judged by my peers, my family, my community, and my country. But even if I wasn't, I would know what's right and what's wrong. Moreover, I guess it's good that amoral people can find ethics from 2000 years ago (when women were without worth, slavery was acceptable, etc), because maybe that's better than nothing (only maybe!), but can we all start a religion based on everything we have learned since then?
I've seen some horror stories at companies with that sort of custom column schema. Today I think just adding a new column is a lot better in the long term. Custom fields systems will quickly contain several different "versions" of the records, but there is no easy way to see which is what. At some point it feels like re-inventing a datalog or key-value database, but those have query systems better-suited to the task.
The NIRCam image has a fuzzy feel to it, almost a soft focus feel. It looks like an issue with the image format not able to cope with the level of detail.

The MIRI image almost looks like an entirely different subject and almost looks like a microscopic subject.

Using their viewer with the slider to compare the two images aligned is just pure awesomeness. The tech we have now to make astronomy so approachable is simply amazing.
Extending that analogy, imagine what one could do with 128B tokens.

On cast off/cheap workstation/server hardware.
>You want mandatory return to office? Really?

I have absolutely no reason to leave my house, and my intellectual tendencies keep me occupied without any other people around. Personally? I would welcome a staffed office to go to. I go to coffeeshops (with the other regulars) and it's nice but it's not the same
This is not isolated, my parents were involved in the church in many states and internationally, it was everywhere.

Which church?
"most profitable tiktok trend" more accurate. Fame has to be measured along specific indeces of space and time.
I don't think many people are opposed to relevant ads. What people are opposed to is tracking of behavior, interests, etc. If there was a way to get tailored ads without the privacy issues people wouldn't be so opposed to it.
It’s not inherent in the system though, although you experienced some disorder.
yes, I was, motivated by my extensive studies in the dismal science and finance, and my stock portfolio :)
Oh, for a minute there I assumed this was all about removing a TI calculator chip from the package. I was very confused why people were doing that with knives vs a band saw or a grinding wheel..

But if you are going to cut open one of those Costco clamshell things, just take the same approach you would cutting thin sheet steel. Stout gloves and a nibbler.
I should add, unless said magician is being a dick or legitimately putting someone’s life in danger. Penn is extremely vocal about this
Oh I know, I've heard all that before. But it's a cop out. Just more sophistry. If science doesn't try to explain our origin, they have no business thinking about the big bang or evolution or anything else that happened billions of years ago. They should only be concerned with the here and now and future prediction. And this is part of the problem. They can't actually test these theories. It's all conjecture. Nobody is running a big bang experiment under various hypothesized conditions to see if actually works. The most charitable characterization of Cosmology is that it is a history, not a science. I think a better description is pseudo science.
You can buy that 80's gear for pennies on the dollar but: slides will get noisy due to dust ingestion, even if you're very careful.

I've got a big Tascam here that is from the 90's (32 channel) and it absolutely rocks but it's also physically large enough that you won't be taking it anywhere. But you never have enough channels ;)
On domestic organizations, local governments, etc.?
Despite the warning that it might not work on mobile, it works quite well on my iPad… that said, a few of the monster fights happened at just over postage-stamp resolution.

Super fun little game.
Ask HN: What do you plan to get this Black Friday/Cyber Monday?
I maintain a list of items that I plan in advance to buy on Black Friday/Cyber Monday/Thanksgiving. I am interested to know what are the other popular valuable stuff people get at good price during these yearly sales. Also do you follow any page for it?

Example this time I plan to buy these things.

1. Software Licenses

* Alfred5 Powerpack
* TablePlus License
* Beyond Compare License

2. Items

* Herman Miller Aeron (This is a chair for my office space)
* Robot Cleaner
I am of the firm opinion that there is no substitute for a formal education.

Homeschooling is great if one or both parents are teachers or come from a teaching background. Homeschooling is a disaster if neither parent has much of a formal education, or lack teaching acumen, but still feel that they are qualified to teach their kids. Between those two extremes is a huge range of variability.

Exams are going to become even more of a factor to ensure kids coming from a range of diverse backgrounds meet the minimum bar for university.

At the end of the day, facts are facts. Not knowing them is detrimental to self, and if in a position of authority, to others as well. People can pretend all education is equivalent, until they need to see a doctor for a disease, or an engineer to build a house or a lawyer to fight their case. Then they want the best, the most qualified. Four years of engineering/medical/law cannot fix 12 years of poor educational foundations.

Edit: Downvotes are welcome, but it won't change what is factual. Homeschooling is guaranteed to increase inequality, not decrease it.
Good. Now all of that commercial real estate can be picked up on the cheap. With the multibillion dollar initiative from the government to convert single zoned commercial space into mixed use space, this is a perfect opportunity for developers.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-materials/2023/10/27/...
What's really funny is that the connectors are almost as large as the board (each).

This is well into 'infrastructure as code' territory, basically the hardware is doing the heavy lifting on a description that is cooked up using software. Of course you still need some hardware but all of the interconnects and functional blocks are soft. Very impressive work, and whoever built that library did an amazing job of it (and this person is essentially extending that library to full functionality devices).
Some sleep
I was at a WeWork in Philly two weeks ago and I was sitting on a couch when a rep met with a prospective tenant and was told that they were totally booked up at that location for offices. Later that day I was at another WeWork in Philly that was packed in all common areas.

There are some that are always a little sparse to be sure, like the Navy Yard in Brooklyn, but I’ve been to 75+ in the past year or so in 5 different countries and for the most part they are well used and the permanent office parts are really full.

Not saying it’s financially sound but the core product is real.

If I had to guess I would assume the issue is spending from boom times and debt. Theres an actual business there too.
Well, they EU can sue too and if the government sues you it is a different game and can get expensive.

Fines for breaking EU Competition Law
Overall limit: The fine is limited to 10% of the overall annual turnover of the company.

Annual turnover of Meta?
That's so wild - I wonder what the difference is?

My m1 is so good it seriously makes me wonder if I really need to upgrade.

What kind of workload are you running on yours?
Hope not. Those co-working spaces were a disaster.
People don't like it because it reads more like cult-lite than a coherent worldview or philosophy, whatever the core is. Goobers like SBF show that the reading isn't totally off base.
Because the data used for behavioral advertising are sold widely and abused for purposes other than advertising, and because “advertising” also includes micro-targeted, personalized propaganda and misinformation that has, and will continue, to be used as a tool of authoritarian control and violence.
This is solid - thank you very much. We will do some more research but basically sounds like - go as low as possible, as long as the underlying libs support it.

And re: kotlin - I last worked/played with it in 2016 and recall that it was MUCH nicer to work in compared to Java.

I just did a quick cursory look and it seems like Kotlin only has slightly slower builds compared to Java and rest of perf is basically the same due to generating similar bytecode. Neat!
> sad examples of MBAs destroying an app

you should go get an MBA, it's the closest thing you'll ever find to surrounding yourself with more interesting OKCupid-from-back-in-the-day characters than you can possibly date through in 2 years!

Meaning, if you don't think MBAs understand OKCupid, they do. But they also understand match.com
From what I remember from Adrian's Digital Basement or maybe
Jan Beta YT channel similar guides used to be available in print form back in the day.
The problem is that Meta collect so many data about you for that purpose. Data which then can be used for purpose we didnt accept in the first place.
If you remove this kind of advertising you remove a big reason to collect and keep these data.

"Why people are so vehemently against leaving their door open for the amazon delivery guy to put the package they ordered indoor instead of outside in the rain, they pay for a safe delivery ?"

Because things that can be abused are abused
Was it "high jump kick"? That's the longest move name. I'll probably just abbreviate it instead of measuring the text :)
It’s HN, we have to keep in mind there is a huge self-selection bias that’s happening. In general, I consider good public schools can be good, bad ones can be bad. But even in the worst case you somewhat interact with other people at the least.

Same goes to the homeschooling — some can be successful, some can be disastrous. The majority of homeschooled kids that would fail, definitely wouldn’t be on these forums. So we’ll hear mostly success stories that came out of it.

It’s hard to apply the comments to a generalized idea from HN.
That might be some of it, but I don't think it explains why the numbers are staying so high. A number of parents got a view into the quality of education and decided they could do better themselves.
Surely that should be left to the professors, and not the PR department?
I would gladly fill out a form indicating what kinds of ads I would like to see. I do not want to be passively and pervasively surveilled for this.
This is a bit of stretch. Shiva is the god of destruction and is frequently avatared carrying weapons. While the scriptures may preach compassion, this is not what the majority of adherents see and observe.
An ancient tribe in Indonesia found a way to open these clamshells easily, they simply wrap dental floss around the package and pull quickly, the heat produced will cut the plastic.
I agree the global experience WeWork provides is really unique.

The question is whether that product would have ever been sustainable—had the company been better managed.
Why wouldn't one deploy be enough to convert a non-nullable column to nullable? Going the other way takes two deploys I can see, but this way seems like is entirely backwards compatible.
Thanks!

I don't have an iPad to test on but I'll try it out in the simulator. I assume you were using an attached keyboard? I would guess that the soft keyboard would not appear in the monster fights.
Melvyn Bragg Talks to Mishal Husain
To me the $15/mo plan is just bait so users pick the target $30/mo month. Why would you pay $0.016/search when you can pay 8x less and feel smart about making that choice?

edit: looking at it again, I think the $15/mo is actually just for people who wants Phind "private", so that their data is not used for training.
VRR is a property, node a mode. A VRR display showing 60hz will be running at 60hz. They can typically clock down in 1hz intervals.
> I got really into fencing as a kid, which for whatever reason attracted a lot of private school and homeschooled kids

Selecting relatively obscure sports that nonetheless have a decent representation on college sports rosters is a college admissions and scholarship “hacking” thing. Fencing used to be a great choice for that, dunno if it still is.
Distil-Whisper: distilled version of Whisper that is 6 times faster, 49% smaller
I'm trying to imagine why someone would want to do business with the deadbeat CEO^W (oops I forgot he's not "CEO"...), the answer I can come up with is "because there might be money in it for me". And secondarily "If I don't grab the chance someone else might profit instead!".

I guess it's due to the same reasoning that at the end of the famous fable, the emperor's courtiers were still pretending the emperor isn't naked, despite everyone, including the emperor, knowing full well he is.
What happened to housing "white flight"/moving to the suburbs/etc and pubic transporation is happening to education because the government caters to the lowest instead of centering the middle class family. Where these people can take their ball and go home, they are doing so.

In cases where they can't (ie a job in the city), it's just because they can't. not because they like "urban life".
Indeed, "opposed to relevant ads" is just a rhetorical trick or misunderstanding of the "opposing" position, akin to: "murdering babies" for abortion, "allowing criminals to go free" for maintaining privacy standards, "artists not getting paid" for opposing "modern" copyright, etc. The truth of the matter is that many positions are far more nuanced and complex; all in shades of grey.
Not sure if that's a serious question and you actually consider lawsuits by private individuals the only functioning method of law enforcement, but: enforcement by governments or regulators is a thing, and on top of that anyone can still sue Meta, they're just not going to get rich doing so.
Maybe instead of spending effort providing low res fallback options, we should be spending more effort making high res GUI-based options more dependable?