skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It helps preventing people from succeeding to search for negative affairs on Google. Try “scandal Facebook” vs “scandal Meta”. And it barely impacts the brand recognition if you do marketing right.

I wonder why politicians don’t all rename themselves “Joe Smith”.
>This is what I found out so far*
Does that contract contain conditions forbidding employees from also joining other unions?
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/24/sam-altman-wants-the-gov... shows the same conclusion from several months ago.

However Elon Musk has openly worried about AI for a number of years. He even got a girlfriend out of it: https://www.vice.com/en/article/evkgvz/what-is-rokos-basilis...
Maybe SO2 is what the Venusians tried.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.08393
CMS: WordPress

UI: USWDS: https://designsystem.digital.gov/

Source: Wappalyzer
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You appear to be confusing safety with investment returns. As an asset class, bonds with high credit ratings have a lower risk of losing capital than stocks. Those bonds will lose some value as interest rates rise but they very rarely go to zero. For investors approaching retirement age it's more important to preserve capital than to worry about interest rate risks.
It's a yearly average. As the trees lose their leaves and they start to decompose the CO2 levels will spike. In the spring the CO2 levels will dip again, but when you average it out you can see the trendline pointing up.
> Internet speeds are maturing, and maybe it is time to try again a self-hosted or distributed model.

Distributed, maybe.

Self-hosted? Not a chance. Sure, if you just want to share a video with some friends and family, that's fine. But if I reached the popularity of even a moderately successful YouTube channel (Say, 100K subscribers?), even the lucky few with gigabit internet at home could not handle the load.
Absolutely. Those folks arguing for AI regulation aren't arguing for safety – they're asking the government to build a moat around the market segment propping up their VC-funded scams.
I think the real dismissal is that people's concerns are more based on the hollywood sci-fi parodies of the technologies than the actual technologies. There are basically no concerns with ML for specific applications and any actual concerns are about AGI. AGI is a largely unsuccessful field. Most of the successes in AI have been highly specific applications the most general of which has been LLMs which are still just making statistical generalizations over patterns in language input and still lacks general intelligence. I'm fine if AGI gets regulated because it's potentially dangerous. But what I think is going to happen is we are going to go after specific ML applications with no hope of being AGI because people are in an irrational panic over AI and are acting like AGI is almost here because they think LLMs are a lot smarter than they actually are.
Our daughter loved Tangram: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangram
He was talking about the actual signals in chips being continuous I believe.
Woke is a fake alternative to fair. Even Amazon is super "diverse" and "accepting" but talk about unionizing and you'll be out in no time.

Woke culture will never change anything.
big corporations just created the ultimate AI monopolies, with the clueless governments backing
Thank you for the recs ! Would you have one book per author to rec ?

And indeed Illich is not anti-tech, he's not a luddite
You can have a thoughtful idea at the same time you have someone cynically appropriating it for their own selfish causes.

Doesn't mean the latter is right. You evaluate an idea on its merits, not by who is saying what.
Child labor in chocolate industry: 'It is worse than you may realize'
"For Halloween, the Last Week Tonight host delves into the long-lived child labor practices in the world’s chocolate supply"
So not really global, is it?
> If you want to use a pi as a server you won't get away with a slow microSD that kills itself every year

That's not true at all. Pick one rated for the workload, eg A2 ("application" rating, optimized for random io) which can be had for < 15usd and you're not gonna run into issues.
You have me there. Worked most my life in angel-backed startups or government-funded research, so it’s hard to conceive of a going concern! Everything in tech feels boom-or-bust.
> What would you expect astronomers to do if there's a building-sized asteroid headed for Earth in 40 years

Tell the truth. Display a counter reading "39 years, 11 months, 29 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes until the astroid hits Earth".
Anyone have inside stories to share on more modern software cracking in Scene/P2P?
That's your opinion, but I also get messages from people saying the opposite.

My hunch is that familiarity is actually what makes something more or less readable.
100k or 100M?

200M + 100k = 200.1M, and I doubt the 200M figure had 4 significant figures.
You're right that there is a lot of differences in how autism expresses itself, but I would just add a counter-opinion that it is quite refreshing when people are confident to express a view on a topic like this and not adding "maybe", "sometimes", "with certain people" to every sentence. This does however require the reader to digest the content as anecdote and not fact.

I am in the process of getting diagnosed and I relate very much to wanting to understand the reason for things before doing them, and will only respect competence and good personality traits, not authority.
You make a good point, but I’d hazard to say that software “quality” - or even product quality- is often orthogonal to the actual profitability of a tech company.
This is really cool. Do you also plan to show the code before compilation / allow it to be edited and be compiled on your demo page?
Seeing some of the mailing list threads about this gives me anxiety. If you thought your PR review process was painful, try reading through some of the nitpicks, useless feedback, and tangents Kent has fought through. You can find it on lore, I'm not going to link directly to anything specific.

As an outsider, there seems to be too many egos to placate when it comes to contributing to Linux.
Evaluative and generative models are not so different. Often, one is the reverse of the other.
They can but that has several widespread problems: the biggest is that you need skilled people in the government who can review bids and oversee work – otherwise you get a $10M contact form because someone at BigCo1 wanted to play buzzword bingo and keep their buddies employed, and the “overseer” from BigCo2 wasn’t going to saying the team, often former coworkers, wasn’t performing well because that’d invite honest grading on other contracts where the relations are reversed.

Beyond that, you get various efficiency issues: contractor turnover tends to be higher, which is terrible when institutional memory matters or when you’re relying on their best people to keep a larger group productive, and there are often various contractual or policy issues making work less efficient. One challenge is that managing contracts is a lot of work, so there’s a temptation to go with the big companies who offer many services but that often means that they’re only good at one area and you get mediocre results in the other ones which were lumped into the same contract - often banking on the difficulty of taking corrective action meaning that people will accept low performance in non-core areas to avoid jeopardizing a core project by the same company. None of that’s intractable but it adds up and fixing it is hard.
I believe that it would be possible to make artificial biological intelligence, but that is a whole different can of worms.

I don't think neural networks, language models, machine learning etc.. are even close to a general intelligence. Maybe there is some way to combine the two. I have seen some demonstrations of very primitive clusters of brain cells being connected to a computer and used to control a small machines direction.

If there is going to be an AGI I would predict this is how it will happen. While this would be very spectacular and impressive I'm still not worried about it because it would require existing in the physical world and not just some software that can run on any conventional computer.
> Also, there were lots of face books at the time.

Trademark-wise, "Facebook" and "Book of Faces" are different things.
The Cretaceous is a lot farther back than 6 million years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous–Paleogene_boundary

If you can remember the Jurassic Park tagline (original movie), "an adventure 65 million years in the making", then you've got a good ballpark figure for this.
The UK cannot take action because their laws explicitly allow this kind of data collection. So they would first need to update their laws before any lawsuit could have a chance at being successful.
This doesn't actually bother me. I find video recommendations on social media and via other channels I follow. I think the big downside here is that without any sort of free tier less people recommend Nebula channels because most people can't watch the content. Most often it is a YouTube recommendation that I then see is on Nebula.

I think in an ideal world the recommendation engine and video host would be separated. You could be recommended videos on all platforms (including single-creator websites).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur_dioxide#Impact_on_clima...
Do you take the money with you on the cruise? I imagine fully packed rolling suitcases that occasionally shed bills at the seams.
> When you are young, you have time but no money. When you are old, you have money but no time.

I've heard it described as a three-phase progression:

* Child -> Time and Energy, but no Money
* Adult -> Energy and Money, but no Time
* Elder -> Time and Money, but no Energy

(Where "Energy" is a short-hand including also physical capability and bodily health)
> but not because they rested less or got up to stretch their legs more often

There is so many more things that are very different between them and industrialized counterparts, I feel this is at best a stretch that maybe it's all the squattings doing.

Seems the diet, sunlight exposure, environment, social habits, exercise habits, it's all different.
Your CO2 sensor is probably calibrated to 400 ppm. Most sensors auto calibrate to setting the lowest value over a period of time to some base value, usually 400 ppm.
Some researchers are experimenting with additives of various sorts to use concrete for carbon sequestration: https://news.mit.edu/2023/new-additives-concrete-effective-c...

The obvious economic quirk about capturing carbon in concrete is that given time and pressure you can convince carbon to harden. Concrete that continues to pull in carbon in its process in theory has good chances to be stronger and hardier. If it continues past the initial set, you get "self-healing" concrete.

You joke about plants, but yes plants have been doing variations on that for epochs now, there is probably some more lessons to apply from them if we want to build a "diamond age" with all the excess carbon we've spewed as a culture.
The AFR piece that underlies this article [1] [2] has more detail on Ng's argument:

> [Ng] said that the “bad idea that AI could make us go extinct” was merging with the “bad idea that a good way to make AI safer is to impose burdensome licensing requirements” on the AI industry.

> “There’s a standard regulatory capture playbook that has played out in other industries, and I would hate to see that executed successfully in AI.”

> “Just to be clear, AI has caused harm. Self-driving cars have killed people. In 2010, an automated trading algorithm crashed the stock market. Regulation has a role. But just because regulation could be helpful doesn’t mean we want bad regulation.”

[1]: https://www.afr.com/technology/google-brain-founder-says-big...

[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20231030062420/https://www.afr.c...
> that approximates the British civil service, which is actually highly functional and effective

Not when it procuring large systems, IT or otherwise. As routinely discussed and complained about by the National Audit Office (NAO) [0]. The civil service relies massively on external consultants and contractors to achieve anything.

[0] https://www.nao.org.uk/
I don’t have a lot of experience using dtrace, but AFAIK the big advantage of eBPF over dtrace is that you do not need to instrument your application with static probes during coding.
Something that helps me: instead of reading "blazing/blazingly fast" as "blazingly fast", read it as "blazingly fast". As in, it is fast at doing whatever it's doing, as are almost all entrants in... whatever this stuff is. But it is doing it in a way that is figuratively analogous to a large conflagration. Whatever is running on it will end up a blackened, twisted pile of wreckage. Perhaps after achieving its purpose, perhaps a bit before.

I'm not saying that's what they're saying, but I am saying it's a valid interpretation of what they're saying. It's worth speculating about which interpretation better fits the subject at hand.
> Peterson is / was a drug addict

Peterson was taking doctor prescribed medication during a time when his wife was dying of cancer and like many in the US (opioid crisis) he got hooked on them.

He is now off of them. If anything this should be celebrated, not denigrated.

Like or dislike Peterson, it's important that we get our facts straight and avoid editorializing for the sake of manipulating readers.
> The CO2 Coalition was established for the purpose of educating the public about the important contribution made by carbon dioxide to our lives and the economy.

That's satire, right?
Propaganda presented as data.

* data source on x-axis changes at 1958

* y-axis does not begin at 0

Fundamentally dishonest for the purpose of manipulation.
I use the WebCodecs API with VideoDecoder with a very specific use case, to get data arrays using the great compression of video codec and the data having temporal coherency.
Demo here : https://energygraph.info/d/f487b4fd-45ad-4f94-8e7e-ea32fc280...

And I have some issues with the copyTo method of VideoFrame, on mobile (Pixel 7 Pro) it is unreliable and output all 0 Uint8Array beyond 20 frames, to the point I am forced to render each frame to an OffscreenCanvas. Also the many formats of frame output around RGBA/R8 with reduced range 16-235 or full range 0-255 makes it hard to use in my convoluted way.
My favorite is that cover songs are basically outlawed by default on YouTube, even though they're entirely legal. ContentID can come and slap your channel for melodic similarities...and it's entirely down to the rightsholder whether they "allow" the video and simply take all monetization or if it is taken down and counts as a copyright strike against your channel (eventually leading to termination). And there's no way to know which will happen until you upload.

But the thing is: copyright law specifies that mechanical royalties are compulsory. Artists don't get to stop you from covering songs, as long as your distributor pays the legal n% to their distributor. But even if you pay LANDR or whoever to administer those royalties, so you can release your cover to Spotify and whatever, YouTube will still smack your channel for uploading the cover. At worst, content strike, at best you still lose all monetization.

As it turns out, "sync licenses" (the right to pair music with visual media) are not compulsory and that's what YouTube primarily cares about. Even if it's just a "video" of your album art with the music playing, you can still be arbitrarily penalized on the most popular platform for music discovery, because it's technically video and record labels can do whatever they want within the opaque framework YouTube has created.
almost 5 years actually https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_proces...

And to a sibling comment: RX 480 is not 6 years old but actually coming up on 8 years here. Yes, these GPUs are quite old now.

People don't want to hear it but at some point graphics technology is going to have to move forward from Pascal and Polaris. You can't stay behind on legacy technology forever.

AMD knows this very well themselves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqLea0QUW1k&t=176

As Roy says: Don't be cynical, developers are not going to just stop working. But they're not going to be bound to supporting legacy pathways and obsolete APIs/feature-standards forever either. This is literally the "when developers commit from the ground-up" that AMD was referring to.

Remember, DX12U is just DX 12.2, it would have been a full api release in the past, and that eventually does come along with the old stuff eventually falling out of support. It was a pretty shortsighted move to downplay all these features for all these years, and eventually sooner or later some big titles are going to utilize them to an extent that makes a legacy fallback impossible or un-performant.

Only difference is that nvidia was the first one on the draw with this DX feature set.

GN made the case for the importance of early testing and early adoption of these featuresets, back in 2016. Then they lost their mind over Turing... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qiQH29KAXg
Yes, and moreover it is in the APA's Principles of Medical Ethics to decline to comment on public figures they haven't seen personally:

> A physician shall recognize a responsibility to participate in activities contributing to the improvement of the community and the betterment of public health.

> […]

> On occasion psychiatrists are asked for an opinion about an individual who is in the light of public attention or who has disclosed information about himself/herself through public media. In such circumstances, a psychiatrist may share with the public his or her expertise about psychiatric issues in general. However, it is unethical for a psychiatrist to offer a professional opinion unless he or she has conducted an examination and has been granted proper authorization for such a statement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldwater_rule
A lot of people have learned to 'small talk' like fancy autocomplete. Part of our minds have been mechanized like that so it's not spontaneous but a compulsion. Once people learn the algorithm they might conclude that AI hacked their brains even though it's just vapid, unfiltered speech that they are suddenly detecting.

I think the pandemic hysteria will seem like a walk in the park once people start mass-purging their viral memes... Too late to stop it now if corporations are already doing regulatory capture.

Nothing to do with the tech. We never had a technical problem. It was just this loose collection of a handful of wetware viruses like 'red-pilling' which we sum up as 'ego' all along.

But I think if we survive this then people won't have any need for AI anymore since we won't be reward-hacking ourselves stupid. Or there will just be corporate egos left over and we will be in a cyberpunk dystopia faster than anyone expected.

I had nightmares about this future when I was little. No one to talk to who would understand, just autocomplete replies. Now I'm not even sure if I should be opening up about it.
That’s not going to get good people unless they’re doing it to help.
> what kind of a shitty tank this is

Evidence suggests all modern tanks without "cope cages" are vulnerable. There are videos from this month of FPV drones destroying a bunch of Leopard 2's and even a Merkava.
Yes, James Hansen. His page [1] has links to his newsletter posts, but here's a recent example that looks into the shipping emissions reductions and the role they may be playing:

http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2023/FlyingBlind.14Se...

1: http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/
From the article:

> Regardless, the primary purpose of the Linux demo was to showcase that Linux was working on the Snapdragon Elite X as well – that it’s not just for Windows – as Qualcomm has aims of getting the SoC into Linux laptops as well.

Some person on the internet [1] says "The good news is that the exclusivity of Microsoft's Qualcomm 8cx series has ended. Moving forward, we will be able to encounter the 8cx series in a greater variety of form factors. For instance, there are plans to incorporate the 8cx Gen4 into Chromebooks as well." I'm not sure if exclusivity of 8cx Gen4 is different from X Elite though.

[1] https://x.com/Tech_Reve/status/1670038184405901313?s=20
I am not sure what Qualcomm is hoping to accomplish by releasing this, rather than committing to RISC-V.
Funny! I read your comment in exactly the reverse way: "2.13 / 7.82 gigatonnes" sounds high. 0.28% to 0.04% sounds absolutely tiny. Maybe THAT's the right way to think about it?
Just google for the unhinged Empress rants, everyone else is not interesting
Sure, but before I developed this trait school was hell. I failed the Turing test in Kindergarten and wound up graduating from elementary school the way Ender Wiggin did.

I would say for the most part I have that behavior under control (except for a time when I developed bad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquired_situational_narcissis...) and might do things that are slightly antisocial and that only harm others in a minor way, such as that cutting in line. Maybe the state really needs the money for the traffic ticket but I would not be in the slightest resentful paying for it I'd gotten it. I'm sure the cop had a better day than if he had to deal with somebody who gave him crap about it.

See

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Analysis_of_the_Self

for an analysis of the "False Self" that is quite different from the earlier analysis of Winnicott. I've come to the conclusion that I have a neurobiological difference that makes development of a "True Self" impossible so I make the most of what I can, even if that means putting on the skin of a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitsune in my imagination (no, I am not a furry, I'm a kemonomimi)
Here's the thing... It might actually be 4x standard deviations higher, if not more. "Almost 2x absolute value" conveys less information here as the absolute minimum co2 value in the entire known history if the earth is non zero. And it is non zero. If I recall correctly it's closer to 80% of the value of recent preindustrial values (one should check this).

Would be cool to see that value on the graph, also a median/average/max preindustrial value.
It’s always the cloud costing ridiculous amounts of money.