skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah but 10,000 connections is WAY past any reasonable motherboard lifespan. Meaning the minimum for USB-C is ridiculously over-engineered for any motherboard.
I got that modal for some time, switched to yt-dlp for that time, and now I get zero ads or modals again with FF/uBlock. Not sure what they are doing, maybe I'm just lucky.
It did 15 years ago. And I have a feeling it still does for the people not checking the right diversity hire boxes.
Art of the Dotflag
Same thing in Saunas, staff will tell you to take your clothes off.
Your body has a limited capacity to digest both protein and fats, which are passed in the excrement if you exceed that capacity. Carbohydrates, on the other hand, are digested primarily in the stomach from which they are transferred directly to the blood stream, elevating your blood sugar. Your pancreas creates insulin in response to elevated blood sugar which is a hormone that instructs your cells to switch to sugar metabolism. This shuts down fat utilization in the body as your fat cells stop participating in the gluconeogenesis cycle and begin converting sugar into fat. Only after your blood sugar returns to a normal level can your body switch back to fat metabolism and begin the gluconeogenesis process again and start eliminating body fat. A diet that is nearly entirely devoid of carbohydrates, as nearly everyone's diets were prior to the rise of agriculture on the order of 8 to 12 thousand years ago (which isn't that long ago from an evolutionary perspective) forces your body to run primarily on fat metabolism and combined with the aforementioned capacity limits on protein and fat digestion limits your maximum weight. Previously in human evolution carbohydrates were limited by availability and seasonality. (Good luck finding fruit in the winter.) But the rise of agriculture, industrial agriculture, global trade, and factory-produced processed foods has lead to a scenario where the vast majority of humans find it more convenient to eat their food from a boxed product - consisting primarily of carbohydrates, which again halt fat metabolism and tell your body to begin storing fat instead - and are consequently gaining weight on a pandemic scale. I'm happy to provide references and more information if you like.
If Altman gets to return, it’s the goodbye of AI ethics within OpenAI and the elimination of the nonprofit. Also, I believe that hiring him back because of “how much he is loved by people within OpenAI” is like forgetting that a corrupt president did what they did. In all honesty, that has precedent, so it wouldn’t be old news. Also, I read a lot of people here saying this is about engineers vs scientists…I believe that people don’t understand that Data Scientists are full stack engineers. Ilya is one. Greg has just been inspiring people and stopped properly coding with the team a long time ago. Sam never did any code and the vision of an AGI comes from Ilya…Even if Mira now sides with Sam, I believe there’s a lot of social pressure for the employees to support Sam and it shouldn’t be like that.
Again, I do believe OpenAI was and is a collective effort. But, I wouldn’t treat Sam as the messiah or compare him to Steve Jobs. That’s indecent towards Steve Jobs who was actually a UX designer.
isn't that exactly the same with ffmpeg?

The handbrake GUI has a drop down list of encoding presets. I find that as an amateur, selecting one of those presets is the best way to make a file smaller.
Sounds like a bad time if the burnout actually comes in full force and you have dependents + mortgage. All the more reason to actually research what burnout is and how to avoid it if you ask me.

What you wrote is like saying "well, I'll just work through the pain" when someone asks about avoiding heart attack. That's not how heart attacks work, and that's not how burnout works either.
Oh I thought you were talking about property loss, not violent break and enter into your home. So you’re talking with people speaking out against lethal force in home invasion. Ok. Got it
I built a product that no one believed in. What did I learn?
That link validates the board's claim, does it not?
"Not being candid" is a form of communication breakdown.
There are lots of other people and companies with $10 billion though. Why does it have to be Microsoft? Even after this circus, Open AI could still probably raise a ton of money from new entities if they wanted to. Maybe that is the point of this.
This distinguishes the best :
1. Works at a company not only on tickets but collabs with other teams/devs/PMs to understand what really could improve the product, build out tools to increase productivity, talk to community of liked minded people outside the company also , make others aware of awesome tech out there, give presentation and finally ability to take responsibility if something goes bad within the team.
2. Does not work at a company, but freelances yet follows all the points in 1.
Why does this not getting downvotes?
Exactly this.

There certainly needs to be regulation about use of bioweapons without sufficient human supervision (which has already proven a problem with prior systems), and someone will have to make a decision about synthetic viruses, but closing the gain of function labs does absolutely nothing to protect anyone.
There's been instructions for manufacturing weapons useful for terrorism floating around since the BBS days, nothing new here
Fretting about the responsible use of bio weapons is a waste of time, it’s a weapon and like Bazooka manufactures we don’t need to worry about ethics…

See that’s the thing you can say A is like B, but that doesn’t actually make them the same thing. AI has new implications because it’s a new thing, some of those are overblown, but others need to be carefully considered. Companies are getting sued for their training data, chances are they’re going to win but lawsuits aren’t free. Managing such risks ahead of time can be a lot cheaper than yelling yolo and forging ahead.
One word: Alignment.

It's a Buddhist concept that says that to achieve tranquility (end of suffering) you need to have what you value, what you think and what you are actually doing aligned and going in the same direction.

When you're feeling lost, ask yourself these 3 questions:

- What do you really want?

- What do you really value?

- What are you really doing with your life?

I've wrote a longer post that you can read here: https://kerkour.com/alignment
Ask HN: Sci-fi stories under a Creative Commons license
As the title say. I've already discovered Shiner, Watts, Doctorow and Stallman. Any other interesting guy?
> If MS breaks the lease agreement with OpenAI

The first thing OpenAI would ask a court for is a preliminary injunction to maintain the status quo while all of this works out in court. IANAL.
It feels like to me the ai field is filled with Corp speak phrases that aren't clear at all? Alignment, responsible, safety etc. These aren't adjectives normal people use to describe things. What's up with this?
> Many of those "progressive" academics put politics above truth.

Such a claim needs a citation. So here it is:

157 university [institutional review boards] provided reviews of 9 hypothetical proposals that were identical in their treatment of human Ss but differed in sociopolitical sensitivity and in level of ethical concerns (e.g., presence or absence of deception, debriefing). [..] Nonsensitive proposals that did not involve ethical problems were approved 95% of the time vs only 40–50% of the time for comparable sensitive ones. Content analysis of the narratives that accompanied decisions revealed that the primary reason for rejection of sensitive proposals was the potential political impact of the proposed findings (e.g., discrediting of affirmative action policies). [0]

As for the Wikipedia article on political views of American academics, it's amusing to see it include a section on loyalty oaths during McCarthyism [1], but nothing on the fact that diversity statements are, today, required for one-fifth of academic jobs in the US [2].

Edit: I should clarify how damning a result the 50% vs 95% approval rate really is. At first glance it seems like there would be half as many published studies with politically unfavorable results than there should be. But it's far worse, because the people on the review boards are a sample of the researchers. If half the time they will deny a valid study for political reasons, how likely are they to propose such a study?

In other words, they're like goalkeepers. They let the opponent's ball score half the time. But there is nearly nobody on the opposing team. They have a 50% fail rate at defending their goal, they don't have a relative 50% chance at scoring an own goal.

[0] https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1986-12806-001

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_views_of_American_ac...

[2] https://www.schoolinfosystem.org/2021/11/11/study-diversity-...
In the vast majority of cases when people use guns to prevent theft, no shots are fired. Usually brandishing a weapon is sufficient. These incidents happen all the time, yet they don't appear in any official statistics.
Just to be clear "force projection" is a euphemism for bombing the shit out of something?
Open source models in general. Meta has for instance released DINO which is a self supervised transformer model. LLMs are also going multi modal (see LLaVA for instance). The name "LLM" has stuck but they should really be called Large Transformer Models. LeCun is working on self supervised visual world models (I-JEPA) which if successful and released could form the basis for killer drones. It's still a lot of engineering work to fine tune and put a model like this on embedded hardware on a drone, but at some point it might be easy enough for small groups of determined people to pull it off.
I have no issues paying for it given how much value I get out of it especially having no ads on their iOS app.
I guess it’s also something cultural depending on where we live. I’m from France and here a lot of people cross 7 and Z, and write 1 with a bottom bar. When I went to Japan, I found that a lot of people were disturbed by those "European" variants.
It's scaling the colors differently to account for perceived brightness differences instead of just averaging RGB values.
Meta’s products have damaged and continue to damage the mental health of hundreds of millions of people, including young children and teenagers.

Whatever their motivation to release models, it’s a for-profit business tactic first. Any ethical spin is varnish that was decided after the fact to promote Meta to its employees and the general public.
Have you seen much fat acceptance talk in real life? I have in the media but basically zero in real life.
Science was never meant to be a political tool where you can bludgeon those who dont agree with you as being unscientific. The more you use it as a weapon the more people will start resenting it for being used on them.
Still as people moved from religion to ideologies like communism and nazism as their new God, now they abandoned those and moved to science as the single spring of truth and morality. For most laypeople science is now a religion that must be "trusted" instead of a tool fundamentally based on falsification.It is not a tool for establishing principles of morality and conduct.
If you think you can trust the "science" then you are fundamentally unscientific, science is based on finding counterexamples not on trusting.
Have you seen pyinfra? Looks similar to me.
> your test jigs are almost certainly

Why assume that? Why not be humble and just ask the person with first hand knowledge instead of basically attacking their setup based on guessing?
I've seen a lot of discussion about YouTube banning adblockers, but as a user of Firefox + uBO, I have never seen it happen for me. Perhaps the Firefox extension ecosystem makes it easier to push blocklist updates or something. Or YouTube's detection is browser-specific and they bothered with the largest first.
Patrimony is the English word for money, goods, or cultural goods one receives from their father. It also refers to something that belongs in a church, like a relic.

Even inside Romance languages, false friends exist, so I wouldn’t assume the meanings are exactly the same in Spanish and French. (Obligado vs. Obrigado, for the classic Spanish Portuguese example)
FTS is designed to stop the craft by puncturing its tanks, there are explosives involved but complete destruction isn't necessary.
I feel the same way. I have managed to cut down on doomerism and actually start cultivating friendships again.

I got a lot better at life when I started studying deep and ancient history in detail and figured out that there's been multiple worlds before this one. Many systems have been exercised and they all have a life cycle and eventually collapse.

Much like living beings, societies are born, mature and wither. It is inevitable that ours will collapse eventually. It isn't good or bad. It just is.

I've since embraced the roll of researching these life cycles.
Don’t tie your success to social media, SEO etc is another avenue

I only work on my side project on rainy days, never when the suns out

Are you actually money driven? I’m not, I’m passion driven, so I work on passion projects. Money is just a part of the picture, it’s not the main driver.

Work less hours if you can too, if your finances allow it
No one forced you to react this way. Though you did.
Regarding the Liquidrom...

> Perhaps more than anywhere else, this is where travellers can experience Germany's "textile-free" culture head on.

Understatement of the century. I visited here about 7-8 years ago. The big dome pool pictured has a unique acoustic property of transferring sound from one side of the giant pool to the other. You can expect to hear the heavy breathing of amorous couples from about 20-30m away as if they were next to you. That said, aside from the inappropriateness that seems to be common nowadays in these high-end spas, it was a beautiful venue.
Turmoil at OpenAI: after firing Sam Altman, what's next for the home of ChatGPT?
Consistent with how language works. Words have partial overlaps and “subset” relations all the time.

In the case of less and fewer, there isn’t even really a problem, because there are very few cases where using less when fewer would (also) be appropriate leads to confusion. (Otherwise the same distinction would surely also exist for more.)

I’m afraid, the only real “problem” is that for people who are accustomed to the distinction, using the “wrong” one gives a nails-on-chalkboard sensation.
I mean I enjoyed it, not exactly realistic but more so it is just something that made me actually smile. I think it is the kind of thing this forum is made for.
"Sir, you'll have to take your junk out or I'll have to ask you to leave"
I have used this in the past, but I've never been able to get the subtitles to sync up properly. Typically they're copied over, but the first subtitle will start as soon as the video starts (as opposed to when the first spoken words start) and end when the video ends, with all the rest of the subtitles spaced out apparently according to the correct proportions, just at the wrong times.

I've tried fiddling around with when the subtitles should start, but because the subtitles end up stretched out so much, that makes all the later subtitles wrong. And I'm typically ripping a bunch of TV shows, so I want to do as little manual work as possible for each episode, because that all adds up quickly.

Do you know if I'm missing a library or a setting somewhere? Maybe I just need to try again with the latest version and see if it's been fixed over time.
Done! Can't believe this slipped my mind haha

EDIT: Have added an example of both a shrunken output, and a detailed zoomed out output.
My USB C’s sometimes fail. The slot is not firm, and is loosened over time.
But overwhelmingly they don't.
i would not call myself a writer though my education was literature, and whether by intent of my instructors or just by how the writing process works, this is more or less how i write more formal or “professional” items.

it’s not nearly as conscious of a process as what the article describes but this really is the self-check process in my head as i write. each section i just try to understand what do i want to say, have i said it anywhere else, have i effectively made the point with supporting context for it, and have i expressed the source/type of information i am presenting (it’s my opinion, my thought, as best i understand a fact, etc).

it’s a discipline for sure and as such i don’t always do it well, but for any piece i want to write for work or blogs or creatively, this process helps me and after some practice it’s very easy to fire off unconsciously.

the best thjng for me was having very good instructors who did constructive criticism
well; they tried to understand my intent and purpose of the writing and noted places where i didn’t quite meet my intent or there were better ways to express it.

i got into programming later on in life and i would equate the process to a good code review. it can be strict and intimidating given it’s a critique of how you express yourself in the medium, but the strictest code reviews are immensely important for my growth as a programmer, and even more so as a writer as writing with human written languages is a lot more “open” in many ways with less strictly defined methods of accomplishing a task.
Is it really that far fetched? It sounds like a self-imposed regulatory group, which some companies/industries operate proactively to avoid the ire of government agencies.

Yeah, product teams can/should care about being responsible, but there’s an obvious conflict of interest.

To me, this story means Facebook dgaf about being responsible (big surprise).
Americans wanted the orange man out so bad that they picked someone who brought US on the brink of WW3. Under Trump, the tensions with North Korea and Russia were lowest. By the time they'll realize it'll be too late though. No use in regretting your decisions in a nuclear shelter.
The speculation I've read online is that he may have also been paid in profit sharing units.
It's relevant when the solution you propose to people driving>160km/h on drugs is just "you car shouldn't allow you to drive over 100mph"
That and a big battery pack.
Please don't make personal attacks against other people on HN, it really ruins the community here.
Seriously? This is just silly. Everyone knows the barrier to terrorists using bio weapons is not specialist knowledge, but access to labs, equipment, reagents etc.

It's the whole Guttenberg's printing press argument. "Whoaa hold on now, what do you mean you want knowledge to be freely available to the vulgar masses?"

The only difference with LLMs is that you do not have to search for this knowledge by yourself, you get a very much hallucination prone AI to tell you the answers. If we extend this argument further why don't we restrict access to public libraries, scientific research and neuter Google even more. And what about Wikipedia?
Mmmmm forbidden cable....
We’re talking about making sure chatbots don’t say “nigger,” not bioweapons. At some point you need to trust that the people using the tools are adults.
My opinion on extended lockdowns or anything else Covid-related really doesn't have much to do with my opinion that when forming strong opinions on complex subjects, especially ones that differ from consensus of experts, you should have good understanding of the basics of the subject as well as what are the experts basing their opinions on and why. Especially in science where the whole basis of the whole thing is evaluating how well your model performs predicting real world, throwing that all out and feeling things out really isn't as great method as many people seem to think.
> I was just thinking the other day how strange it is that so many blindly defend capitalism but love open source. Those are inherently contradictory positions. Open source is inherently anti-capitalist.

Are they?

Open source is inherently anti-copyright, but copyright is not inherently capitalist. Copyright is a restraint on trade enforced by the sovereign.

Saying "open source is inherently anti-capitalist" looks similar to saying "smuggling is inherently anti-capitalist". The logic is not obvious.
1. There's different people here with different opions.

2. CEO's at fast growing startups are very different than at large tech.
Yes, sorry I should have been more clear about that in my initial post. I would not condone someone going out and explicitly seeking violence after the fact.
People are too hungry because processed food generally fails to trigger the fullness response properly. This is an obvious target for regulation which could address the obesity problem, assuming we can come up with a way to roughly quantify fullness (doesn’t seem impossible).
Such teams are just panicked by the idea that these models might not exclusively push their preferred ideology (critical social justice). We probably shouldn’t shed a tear for their disbandment.
HandBrake uses some parts of FFmpeg libraries: libavformat, libavcodec, and libavfilter. But even so, it's an entire different app, the decoders, some demuxers and some filters are the same, but the way they are connected together is entirely different than FFmpeg cli app.
I watched Angela Collier, an astrophysicist, on YT the other day. I'll paraphrase an off-hand remark she made:

This is a really cool technology, but then you think how big companies are going to ruin it for profit, as they do with everything. It's hard to get excited about technology these days.

I think this is the root of problem. If you want to make technology cool again, you need to cut out the gold rush that's ruining everything. Almost tautologically, the motivation for a society to do things must be something else than "make more money".
Is your MX Master the "mac" version? The reason I ask is because my 3s came with a USB-A dongle (which I prefer instead of Bluetooth). I've never used its charging cable, so I don't remember whether it was c-c or c-a. It also didn't have a C-A adapter provided, so if you want to use the dongle and only have usb-c ports available, you have to supply your own.
novel-writing: chatGPT vs code-davinci-002
I adore how the side defending public policy for the last 3 years during covid has tried to pretend we didn’t hear or see the things that the “scientists” told us.

Face it, the established scientific organizations were blatantly wrong so many times in the last three years, anyone who actually paid attention has become permanent jaded, and no amount of damage control is going to repair the trust that has been broken anytime soon.
Context: This was posted in January 2023. Two months later, OpenAI removed access to code-davinci-002, the GPT-3.5 base model. They never provided access to the GPT-4 base model.
Stolen car in S.F. leads to ridiculous journey over a parking ticket
I used it in the past and this used to be one of my favorite free software for MacOS.
For me, social media platforms are on a scale that goes from negative to positive values. The negative side is energy-burning, the positive is energy-adding. One side inspires me. The other makes me feel drained.

I have to keep on the positive side of the scale - Hacker News, some great YouTube channels about things that really interest me. Sometimes, I can venture to the slightly negative side, like "funny" videos about people farting in public and cute dogs... but this is like diving - it is fun for a short while, but if you stay too long, you run out of air and die. And I know from experience there are depths of the negative side where I cannot go - TikTok, Twitter, those crush my soul (subjective thing, I'm sure some find those inspiring).

Also, like with everything else, moderation is key. Even with things on the positive side.
I don't think so. I don't code anymore because I am responsible for around 100 FTE but can still pair programme effectively. Coding is just the tip of the engineering iceberg.
I do know first aid, but some situations are beyond my abilities.

Not every road is unsafe to drive at high speed.