skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The good thing about free markets is that you are free to choose to not use proprietary software. Unfortunately, there is some proprietary software that you have to use to function normally in the modern society. Chat apps, as you mentioned, banking apps, etc. – precisely because the markets for such software are not free. That's not a problem with capitalism itself, but with insufficient regulation. The new regulation by the EU (Digital Markets Act) will hopefully eventually sort out the situation with chat apps and inspire more regulation to address similar problems.

On the other hand, I can easily imagine a communist government requiring people to use certain proprietary software.
FSL: A License for the Bazaar, Not the Cathedral
FT reporting investors pushing to get him back at OpenAI

https://www.ft.com/content/466bf00a-1e76-4255-be2b-3c1d37508...

unpaywalled- https://archive.ph/zZWUy
uBlock Origin and Sponsorblock works on Firefox for Youtube even signed in
I think those points are just the symptoms. The real problem is having an out of tree dependency on LLVM. It is too much work to keep up with. The LLVM project does not care about breaking their external users' code.
Then coercion succeeds. The point of coercive ads is to make you spend money. Either on advertised products ... but if they can force you to pay for just not seeing the ads it's even better. It's cutting out the "middle men" of real world economy from this extortion scheme.
The problem is that warm lights just look dimmer than they are in reality, you need objectively much brighter warm light to see anything at all. 505nm is a commonly available wavelength that is very near the eye's peak sensitivity in the dark, so a very low powered light would provide sufficient light, and it wouldn't be more overstimulating than moonlight unless it's way too bright. The only drawback it seems to have is that it's rather close to the O-III astronomical filter, I don't know how much it matters.
Would that help much when it's the same board that elects new members to itself?
> they are notoriously overrun but low education bracket people that get into fist fights so vehemently

I don’t understand the need to make this elitist statement? In fact, why is shutting up and complaining on HN your preferred solution?
It is not an ad blocker, all it does is seek through videos.
Wouldn't it be loads of self-awareness? Clearly aware of internal angst.
So "dangerous" Autobahns are right in the middle of the pack suggesting speed limits have nothing to do with it https://www.statista.com/chart/25098/fatality-rate-and-speed...
Some positive names not on the list: solar importers/installers, electricians, auto repair techs who reskill to EV, everyone who breathes air (collective medical costs), EV charging networks operators, ... I'm sure there's more.
Yeah, that's what I have been wondering all the time, people claiming that Adblockers stopped working, now people are developing new extensions/blockers, but here I am, playing YouTube without ads like before, with nothing more than uBlock Origin....

It feels like I am missing something...
I have one of those USB-C to HDMI + USB + SD-Card etc adapters on my laptop. It definitely looks like it's not doing the connector on the computer any good. At some point I'll 3d print a holder to take the strain off the connector.
To be fair I'm not saying ban all cars, but otherwise you're right. Over the last ~100 years a lot of cultures and activities have grown up around super easy car ownership and use. Just like, teaching your kid to drive is a big cultural thing. It's a huge lift, but the downsides of car-centric societies are pretty well known at this point.

I don't for a second think the US will do this, FWIW. We'll probably over the next 10-30 years give the highways and interstates to AI (at insane expense) and never slough off the scourge of SUVs in the last mile. The US probably has enough natural resources to manage this, though as fewer and fewer Americans want to be miners and auto workers the burden will shift internationally, which is its own moral issue. We'll still have all the problems of noise, tire pollution, pedestrian/cyclist/motorist deaths, drunk driving, waste cars, super inefficient use of energy and labor, and an increasingly isolated and sedentary society, but IMO it's clear the US is fine with all of that.

What I think will actually chafe us is watching other societies do better. It's already happening. The wealthier among us travel to Asian or European countries see how they're not car-centric, and feel envy. They agitate for it in their communities, which puts them--even more--at odds with other US cultures that love cars, and political strife intensifies. The elite will force auto manufacturers to stop producing ICEs, car America will rebel, blah blah blah.
Would you have called the possibility of large language models helping millions of people "unhinged" a few years ago as well?
I'm using Qt and LeanQt with C++; it's fast, can be "tweaked" to any look and runs on nearly all platforms. PySide and Python use a lot of resources, are not very fast, and deployment is far from trivial.
The conflicts of interest here are staggering. Non-profits are supposed to benefit the public. At a minimum they need an Independent Review.
I’m pretty sure it’s catastrophically bad. OpenAI’s deal with Microsoft happened when ChatGPT took off at insane rates and OpenAI experienced scaling troubles. There was literally no one except a handful of cloud operators—Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc. who could provide enough GPUs to keep things running. Microsoft basically stepped in and said “we’ll provide the GPUs and pay the hosting bill for half the profits.” OpenAI now runs everything, from ChatGPT inference to GitHub copilot to GPT-5 training on Azure GPU instances.

If Satya is as pissed as it sounds like he is, and if Ilya et al double down on their madness, Microsoft could back out and shut that all off tomorrow. OpenAI would be dead in the water, with no running product and no path to recovery.
The big TDD misunderstanding is that most people consider TDD a testing practice.
The article doesn’t talk about TDD, it gives the reader some tips on how to write tests. That’s not TDD.
> tugging the cable to the side of your PC because your foot got tangled in it.
> USB C is extremely fragile due to its size and not much can be done to help it.

Zip tie the cable to the case?
The handouts at https://fleuret.org/dlc/ are fantastic.

Also two books: Data Science from Scratch and Deep Learning from Scratch. They are more hand-on, but you'll build all the low-level things in Python and learn a lot.
I'm a little naive to the weight problem, is it really an issue for like, buses? Is this actually an area where trams (gasp!) are better?
I am confused by your comments.

I read them as asking why Calibre does not provide a renderer as the main thing but provides other things that people don't need.

My comments are that calibre is designed for the things you say people don't need and the renderer on Windows/Mac/Linux is an afterthought and due to its architecture it can't run on mobile devices why KyBooks etc are designed for.

I really don't understand the point you are trying to make.
They are being grouped together because they are the only two on the board with no qualifications. What is an AI safety commission? Tell engineers to make sure the AI is not bigoted?
Thanks for your commonsense comment.
Most of Europe is small, walkable cities. There are of course still highways and city roads, but most things here function as you're describing. Come on over, the water's warm ;)
Even ChatGPT-3.5 could do more than a little math:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qy5dF7bQcFjSKaW58/bad-at-ari...
> Now, you change a little thing in your code base, and the only thing the testing suite tells you is that you will be busy the rest of the day rewriting false positive test cases.

If there is anything that makes me cry, it’s hearing “it’s done, now I need to fix the tests”
Animotion: A new web-based Visual CSS Animation Editor
Animotion lets you create CSS animations visually, by dragging, resizing, rotating, clipping, and more, including a keyframes editor, a collection of ready-to-use animations and 29 built-in easings.
Damn that's a good idea
The author uses the general meaning of the word and not the now-popular subset meaning: scientific theory.
You can ask the LLM "is this answer showing too much hubris" and instruct it to fail the player any time it determines that to be the case.

Text prediction with non-lateral application lets you get a lot more out of the model than just what was in the training set
>> It is smaller, more consistent, you are not forced to release your changes...

They're trying to move away from proprietary software, not create more of it.
> Never change your code without having a red test

I'll never understand why people insist on this. If you want to write your tests first, that is fine. Noone is going to stop you. But why must you insist everyone does it this way?
If "AI ethics" means being run by so-called rationalists and Effective Altruists then it has nothing to do with ethics or doing anything for the benefit of all humanity.

It would be great to see a truly open and truly human benefit focused AI effort, but OpenAI isn't, and as far as I can tell has no chance of becoming, that. Might as well at least try to be an effective company at this point.
Ilya, who deposed Sam, is very much not in the open AI camp. His beef is that Sam is going too fast and making product available to the masses too soon.
Solving Rush Hour, the Puzzle
Whether it's a country, a company, or even a family, external threat forges bonds, and lets internal conflict seem trivial.

With no external threat, internal strife grows. Effectively, we're wired to search for, identify, and deal with the most current, visible threat.

OpenAI is very much far in the lead. If it was fiscally sound, but had visible competitors on its heels, I bet this little coup wouldn't have happened.

It is amusing to me, that if there is no threat, or high threat, people can fall apart. Only with some-but-not-too-much threat, is perfect harmony achieved.
Instead of Test-Driven Design, it should’ve been called Design-By-Testing.
Right, it confuses me that people think $14/month for YouTube is a bad deal and then turn around and pay $10/month for Spotify or buy three Starbucks coffees a month.

Like, is it that hard to imagine someone using YouTube a lot and finding the premium service worth the cost?
Why they don't put the Tesco over them? In Turkey, there's this tradition(?) of renting part of the public infrastructure to businesses. Mosques are especially popular, many mosques have a shopping centre or a supermarket at the ground floor.

Like this: https://maps.app.goo.gl/ftmq3tw4oDDKJwWt7

The downside is that it's ugly AF and they obviously don't sell alcohol in these, however it doesn't have to be ugly.
I bent a few pins in a VGA connector due to misalignment once. This was when the cable was hardwired into the monitor!
>I don’t understand the need to make this elitist statement?

What's elitist about some facts? Do you know many chemistry PhDs who get into fist fights or do they tend to avoid conflicts? Overall the more educated and intelligent a populace is, the less physical violence and crime there is.

Not everyone who is poorly educated starts fist fights, but people starting fist fights are always poorly educated and low intelect, who give in to their instincts telling them conflicts are solved by acting like a silverback gorilla.
In the UK it's £13/month which is noticeable for people in ordinary jobs, paying rent, and with half a dozen similar things wanting monthly money also.
There’s no way to build out a wet lab with a chatbot for weapons production. It’s just not feasible. Your example is a fantasy.

Fraud is covered by the legal system.

I don’t know anything about nerve agents.
That's why we're not already dead.

If anyone releases all the weights of a model that does everything perfectly (or at least can use the right tools which I suspect is much easier), that model is far too valuable to make it disappear, and dangerous enough to do all the things people get worried about.

The only way to prevent that is to have a culture of "don't release unless we're sure it's safe" well before you reach that threshold.

I'm happy with the imperfections of gpt-3.5 and 4, both for this reason and for my own job security. But chatGPT hasn't even reached its first birthday yet, it's very early days for this.
There is an incognito mode within YouTube by clicking your profile picture and “turn on incognito”

Also available on mobile.

Works great with Premium.
They all do. Yet it still doesn't help. Those 4 little retaining lugs are fixed into the board only by solder, which is fragile and will crack after a while, esp. when the connector is mated/demated constantly and forces are applied to it.

USB A has those lugs much larger and usually also bent under the board or twisted, so the connector isn't fixed into the PCB only by solder.

USB C and micro USB are mostly designed for clamshell enclosures such as a typical phone - in that case the connector shell is supported by the enclosure itself (ideally through some flexible padding) and not only by the flimsy contacts/solder lugs.

However, there are plenty of devices on the market where these connectors are not supported like that because the designer has been an idiot - and guess which devices end up in the landfill with broken off connectors the most.

Breaking the old school USB A, square USB B or mini USB is almost impossible like this unless one applies really unreasonable amount of force. I have only ever managed to accidentally destroy a USB A port once like that by accidentally hitting a USB stick hanging out of it - but the board and the adjacent ports were fine, only the port shell and contacts were destroyed.
If you do TDD, you write your tests first. If you don’t follow TDD, you don’t have to. The author insists on this because they assume a TDD approach.
If I read it correctly those are Xray, Tango. Which means:

XT Weather expected is bad.

Source: https://www.seasources.net/PDF/PUB102.pdf
I think corn was eaten since thousands of years, too.

And whether food forests were a big thing and not just common in some areas, is quite disputable.
Goodhart's law would tell you what any metric-driven understanding of the cause of success would cease to be useful as soon as it was announced.

It remains plausible that the connection is neither causal nor spurious, but after the announcement of the correlation, the correlation becomes useless
> But even our human desires are mostly good. When we see evil in our midst, that is mostly not a failure of our own moral perception, nor of an unjust world, but just another problem that we have yet to solve. We are young in our reign and despite our occasional lapses into evil and failure we have been rewarded richly thus far for pursuing our best visions of flourishing futures and charitable goodwill. There is no reason to lose faith that this providential bounty will continue.

kudos to the author for this high quality unintentional satire
Berlin pools used to be rather disgusting, haven't tried for some years
On the other hand, the point at issue was not turgidness or unnaturalness but (emphasis mine):

“Likewise, do you translate it into contemporary English or archaic one? Old texts are sometimes intentionally translated into archaic language, so that you feel like reading something old. But, when they created it originally, they used their own contemporary language and made it sound pleasant to themselves. So, do you pick old words or new words for the same thing?”

and GPʼs point is salient and correct; to be perhaps more clear: the homeric style was already archaic when the Odyssey was composed. Moreover, it was probably intentionally and somewhat artificially made archaic, e.g. using the old inflectional suffix /‑φι(ν)/ also in the singular and not only in the plural, where it was solely used originally.

AFAIK, epic poems telling about times far away are often composed in an archaic style, e.g. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildebrandslied>, <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibelungenlied>; I guess Beowulf is similar.
Yeah it’s kind of unfortunate because they make a very good argument about defining a thing better, and in the title use a wrong definition of an adjacent term.
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Don't about 60% of Americans live pay check to pay check?

It's way less than that, closer to 20%.

And if you're in that kind of financial situation, you won't be able to afford killing someone over property. If you're that precarious, even if you're eventually 100% cleared of all the legal questions, the costs/time spent on it will ruin you. That kind of poverty is highly correlated with... Having a lot of difficulties navigating the justice system.
Thanks for sharing, interesting. But the named components in the article seem not to have received funding.
There is a free way for students to use it - with ads.
>A possible future innovation might be reinventing the highway pavement system, either materials or methodology of resurfacing

Yes. Perhaps we could replace tarmac and tyres with steel.

Obviously there would be grip implications, so we could cut grooves in the road, and add flanges to the wheels.
If we're talking about open-source LLMs, among the best embedding, multimodal, pure and coding LLMs are Chinese (attested and not just benchmarks).
The region is experiencing hugely fast growth and the strain is definitely being felt. Zoning and infrastructure decisions made decades ago are really biting us in the ass.

Plots of land cost millions yet there are several gaping holes in the Skytrain network. Major thoroughfares like Hwy 1 exits get incomplete maintenance. Locals who went to UBC, SFU, or BCIT can only afford to live in deep Maple Ridge or Cloverdale and then pay our gas prices for the privilege of working in the CoV. The same CoV that has single family density like you'd expect in Surrey.

It's a mess, and big solutions like expanding the West Coast Express to all-day service with a few more stations so that suburbs can reliably grow into the valley aren't even being mentioned. One level of government says "$amount of immigration" and it's up to the province (or delegated to municipalities) to try to adapt. Meanwhile the residents of those municipalities resist any changes to density or zoning.

And as a result, we get the mess we're in now.
I would pay a few dollars for ALL the Google benefits: no ads, a little bigger drive, youtube premium, music. Then i'd feel i had a bargain.
By splitting everything i just feel..milked.
You never had one of the pins slightly bending so the connector wouldn't fit anymore and you had to manually try to bend it back?
Being at the forefront of the development of new technologies means that you are sailing uncharted territory. It's my belief that in cases like this, previous qualifications are almost irrelevant.

Of course you have to be competent on the subject matter, work hard, iterate and have luck.
I found Donella Meadows' book insightful, but I only read it after I understand system thinking so I might be biased. I wonder how insightful vs confusing it is to people from different paradigms
Probably not worth anyone's time to remove ads but I can't convince myself that the premium subscription is worth buying, I feel like many are in a similar situation and struggle due to how addicting (and useful) the platform can be.

About two years ago, pre-adblocking crackdown, I was having a great time with YouTube and I considered buying the premium subscription because I really liked the product.

Then the number of ads and their frequency changed massively, ruining the whole experience for me, the premium subscription went from feeling like "something I want because of perceived value" to "something I now need because YouTube has been made unusable in an attempt to coerce me into paying".

I went from checking out the prices and planning the purchase to blocking the whole domain on my pihole for all devices except my workstation.

I was also very disappointed by the subscription model: no yearly plan, no way to bundle it with the Google One subscription that I already pay for, the price of a family plan Vs individual subscription is predatory and anti-consumer (325% higher per individual).
Or you could not give them any funding to push their DRM agenda on the web?

I am happy to steal the content and I shall do that with yt-dlp and VLC because it is the best user experience for actually watching videos. The browser is not anyway.
> Steve Jobs who was actually a UX designer.

From what I’ve read SJ had deliberately developed good taste which he used to guide designers’ creations towards his vision. He also had an absolute clarity about how different devices should work in unison.

However he didn’t create any design as he didn’t possess requisite skills.

I could be wrong of course so happy to stand corrected.
Top AI researchers like Geoffrey Hinton say that large language models likely have an internal world model and aren't just stochastic parrots. Which means they can do more than just repeating strings from the training distribution.

Facilities are a major hurdle for nuclear weapons. For bioweapons they are much less of a problem. The main constraint is competency.
I can't tell from your post if this is something you checked or an assumption. My small town library not only has space for 20 people events, it has a dedicated tech space used for it-related education and events.

I'm sure not every town has that kind of facilities, but if you haven't actually checked yet, please do. Libraries are awesome and often overlooked.

Alternative idea: Some cafes that close in the afternoon are happy to open as a meeting space in the evening at not-terrible prices.
I find dreaming pretty fascinating. I like hearing about other people’s dreams too, just because they can be so wildly different to mine. I don’t have a strong visual mind I don’t think. My dreams tend to be in black and white, and sometimes they’re emotionally intense, but the visual stuff is pretty sketchy, but there tends to be a lot of internal dialogue which I also have when awake.
What I find most interesting about my lack of visualisation in my “minds eye” is that I can do some really cool artwork sometimes - but it’s almost always in black and white.
Hack(er)spaces are reflections on the members.

Ours (Leighhack) is small in membership but moderately wide. We have textiles, fabrication (3d print & CNC), electronics, woodworking and infra/security in pretty constant flow. We're just finishing building a darkroom.

Yesterday was two members sewing (one dress, one stage props), one member restoring an old Mac and cutting on the CNC (me), one designing and printing a flower pot for a monitored garden. And that's what I know of.

We've just finished up a six week sewing course, and we're looking to courses on 3d design and printing and I believe woodturning.

Different hack(er)spaces have different priorities, dependant on the members and community it serves.
While many technologies provided by the smartphone were indeed not novel the cumulative effect of having a constant access to them and their subsequent normalization is nothing short of revolutionary.

For instance, I remember the time when chatting online (even with people you knew offline) was considered to be a nerdy activity. Then it gradually became more mainstream and now it's the norm to do it and a lot of people do it multiple times per day. This fundamentally changes how people interact with each other.

Another example is dating. Not that I have personal experience with modern online dating (enabled by smartphones) but what I read is disturbing and captivating at the same time e.g. apparent normalization of "ghosting"...