skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing wrong with being a podcaster and getting tens of thousands of people excited by ideas and interviewing a great collection of people from an informed perspective (at a minimum more informed than the average podcaster/talking head).

Not everyone needs to be doing hard academic stuff. There's plenty of value in communication.
There are plenty of ways of marketing yourself outside of the streaming services - Facebook, ads, playing at live venues, giving out cards with QR codes that link to your website etc.

Rappers were famous guerrilla marketers back in the day.
how about 3?

Scenario: your service is accessing a service which exposes PII data and you only process them.

Service which embeds your service enabled audit logs of network requests and made it visible to everyone in the company. You have created a risk unintentionally
keyword "perceived"
having a hard time calculating why anybody needs this/wants this
I'm getting tired of these news outlets regurgitating stories. In this case all these other outlets are regurgitating that one article from Reuters.

My Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect [1] radar is beginning to make worrisome beeping sounds, also. I've seen so much far-reaching speculation over the last few days, I think the best thing I can do is intentionally focus on more interesting things (just learned about Lagrange Points [2] for example) and stop feeding the OpenAI hype machine.

[1] https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/

[2] https://science.nasa.gov/resource/what-is-a-lagrange-point/
We don’t have very much journalism anymore. We have click bait sites that reprint stuff they got from social media and comment sections.
Sure, the one doesn’t exclude the other.
It’s funny to talk about details because the entire OpenAI staff used vague media reporting to get their way when Altman was ousted and yet no one really has any concrete details about that. So nice they can cause a huge frenzy and then walk away in silence after it’s over because they got a payday. Suddenly any information is none of our business.
> is by definition poorly aligned

If OpenAI is struggling to hard with the corporate alignment problem, how are they going to tackle the outer and inner alignment problems?
Still larger then the Linux desktop.
Inflection Announces Inflection-2, the Second Most Capable Large LLM
At the core of Inflection's mission lies the ambition to democratize AI, striving to make personal AI accessible to all.
Great thoughts here! I think you're right.

You wouldn't know it from the website (working on that!), but the app experience is more for "fit people who want to optimize their fitness and like to analyze their training data".

It's just been a tough nut to crack to find the right way to express that so far, but to the point of this thread and all of this dialogue, that's also key to the unlock.

I'm a former military guy myself, and I've been thinking about cloning + rebranding a version of the app that's super specific to "Training for military fitness tests". The more I think about that, the more I think there really might be something there.
AI is just a tool; there is ultimately nothing special about it—it simply makes our lives a bit easier. As with any tool, it can be used for good or evil, and it's very hard to separate the two. In fact, the distinction is often arbitrary and, ultimately, useless.

The main problem arises when a technology is proprietary, benefiting only a portion of the people. This is literally the only present (and real) problem with AI; all the rest is just scaremongering.

AI is indeed powerful, but if it's controlled by a tiny elite instead of being accessible to everybody, problems and risks arise. The same is true for every piece of technology.
Okay, you could… and if you’re honest enough to accept answers like "it’s over 20 years old" I guess any expert could answer that. My main point remains though: if even Stroustrup or Stutter can’t answer 95%+ questions of this kind, it would show beyond a doubt that C++’s complexity got completely out of hand.

Even Stroustrup’s humble bragging about being a "7" at C++ looks real bad. If I’m not a 10 at a language I created and maintained my whole life, I’ve birthed a monster.
“OpenSSL 3.2.0 is the first General Availability release of the OpenSSL 3.2 release line”

it exited beta.
Great attempt to pump the commercial entity value before an IPO. Well done.
Proton's E2EE cloud storage comes to Mac
There are lots of ongoing experiments like this. Certain agencies maintain experimental wards for this purpose.
AI risk is like any other totally unknown risk. Eg. "The risk aliens come and murder us all".

The risk could be huge or tiny - but humans don't have enough information to know, nor really any clues.
I'm not American, but from what I understand the FBI is more politically exposed than small-town cops. If the Bureau screws up, it's national news and someone loses a job; if Sheriff McBigot screws up, as long as he can count on the support of a few local villagers he'll be just fine.
This is what made them a no-go for me - they may well have superb service, but their service would be expensive even without a bandwidth cap. And 1TBbof bandwidth in this day and age is nothing.
In this scenario, both cars would be made in 1967.

One of the cars would be a few years old.

The other car would be about 70 years old.

Yeah?
"I speak German and I can guarantee you that American military presence has approximately zero influence on German politics."

Then why the fuck did they put sanctions on Russia? Why the fuck did they agree to buy a much more expensive liquid gas from the US when they had a cheaper alternative that allowed them to have such a great economy? And why did they not react when Nord Stream pipelines, the source of that cheap gas, got blown up?

What, they just sucked it up and said "hell, it's worth it, at least Russia is bad!"?

They tanked their own economy because Uncle Sam told them to do so, and not a single rational decision has ever been made by the German government since February 2022.
Well, the market has spoken. You can no more blame anyone for artist not being able to make money than someone who majored in Ancient Chinese Art History for finding a job.
And is in Ubuntu 22.04 and Debian 11.
How many dollar bills does it take to make a pile worth sleeping in?
if I have an answer-box that tells me the answers to whatever I want to hear, i'd like to be able to vet whether or not it has biases that were not honestly disclosed.

that is to say that if I bought an Amerurissan made answer-box I would expect that it gives me unbiased answers that were becoming of an answer-box, but if I was unable to know how it worked then the only way that I would be able to determine whether or not the Amerurissan answer-box was giving pro-Amerurissan advice for its' creators own benefit would be through statistical analysis and long-term effort.

If were making the case for making tools do all the work in the world, it's better that the people stay firmly connected to how and why those tools are being made, rather than trusting a singular ideology to get it right the first time for all of humanity.
I think taking over the keyboard would make it worse in this case. My goal is to help him find the information himself. This hasn't been successful. He might ask "How do I start a dev server?" My response would be "Can you check the read me?" That isn't enough. I literally tell him stuff like "Okay, switch to the tab with the readme file. See where it says 'Start development server'? Keep scrolling down. Keep going. Okay. Copy the line below and paste it into your terminal." It's bad.
Yes. And if an updated library breaks you, you can fix it easily by rolling back to the earlier version of the library. If an outside service breaks you, you're hosed until they fix the service or you rework your code to route around the breakage.
Here you can find my macOS apps (SideNotes and Workspaces) discounted 40%: https://www.apptorium.com/black-friday-2023
I say it because I don't think enough people are going to pay for LLM/GPT services for investors to get what they consider a sufficient return on their investment. I'm pretty sure no "pure AI" company is anywhere near a track to profitability as of yet, and there is only so long that VCs will be comfortable with that. (And while there might be AI "true believers" who don't much care about the profit horizon, ask OpenAI's board how that worked out for them last week.)
Exactly what I was thinking. Hospitals already use a lot of hyper-hazardous materials and ionizing radiation, this is within their skill and logistical abilities. A hospital could leverage something similar to a big industrial food irradiator within its laundry system to sterilize everything.
Personally, I’d like to see a slower addition of features in something as critical as OpenSSL.

LibreSSL (part of the OpenBSD project) has been aggressively pruning and hardening the codebase and is not immune to bugs. Security in crypto libraries is very hard.
Yes, of course they showed effects from the UCMS. But not one single sentence in that report said that those effects were from gene expression. YOU are the only one adding a link there. It's easy for someone like you to just say there's a link, but not even the study pretends to say there's a link between the results of trauma are because of gene expression.
I think you're right. Starting to up the social media game right now on IG!
> Spotify algorithm these artists hard

or people just don’t want to listen to that music as much as you think they do, and would rather listen to Taylor Swift and Drake
I didn’t say “certain success”, I said “interesting”
This would make for a nice ComfyUI custom node.
Have you noticed any rendering performance issues with Lunarvim within Zellij and without?
From the Reuters article you linked, the only hit from "ctrl+f confirm" now says:

> Researchers have also flagged work by an "AI scientist" team, the existence of which multiple sources confirmed.

Maybe it firmed up in the 6h-ago update, and so other sources started publishing more widely? I'm realizing I need to get in the habit of re-reading source materials, instead of going off memory on an evolving story like this :)
Teamwork: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Any speculation on what Q* might refer to? What comes to mind are A* and QKV. Perhaps some way to more efficiently calculate QK using some kind of differentiable search.
A perfect hash table.
Then don’t choose to do something that people aren't willing to pay money for.

There are some jobs that people don’t have a choice but to work. Being an artist isn’t one of them.
You fixed the text but not the images.
> How can I short this awful currency?

I wouldn't until Jan 10th.

That's when they decide on Blackrock's (and several other) Bitcoin ETFs.
Sturgeon's law: 90% of everything is crap. There was lots of crap pre-2000, you just never hear it.
I like to take a moment, sometimes, to think about the overlooked technologies most of us take for granted.

Hot water, for example. The notion of already heated, clean water on demand was an unthinkable ludicrous luxury for most of humanity until quite recently. Having achieved that miracle, we rarely think about it (even when enjoying the benefits).

We fill our time hunting for things to be discontented about, instead.
Discussed yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38386487
Not on the same Mac, as least for MacBooks (I haven't paid much attention to desktop Macs).
My n=1 experience is that every time I walk into a hospital (even just to visit nana for an hour), a few days later I find myself sick...

I suspect that the true figure for hospital acquired infections is far higher than 1 in 8, but that they are only recorded if the infection is serious enough to cause immediate medical treatment to be necessary.
tl;dr Please ignore, just me working through a Python+pygit2 problem. I solved it in a grandchild comment.

I had so much trouble trying to map my intuited/mental model of git onto pygit2 that I gave up and just used the git module.

I wanted to automate a fairly simple thing in Python as opposed to bash+commands. My reasoning being that I wanted to do it "right" and be a Big Programmer Real Boy(tm). I just wanted to create a branch remotely in Github, pull the repo, and checkout the new branch. I got stuck going in circles trying to figure out why I was always left in detached HEAD state because I didn't understand exactly what git was doing during a checkout.

# repo has already been pulled
if os.path.exists(repo_path):
local_repo = git.Repo(path=repo_path)
self.log.debug(f"current branch: {local_repo.active_branch.name}")
local_repo.git.checkout(branch_name)

That's super easy and is much the same as running the commands in the shell or in a bash script.

Of course, I've lost my poor implementation using pygit2, so I'll add that later if I find it. Thankfully there's a good discussion surrounding the issue I encountered in this excellent "roll your own git in Python", which doesn't use pygit2, but the concepts are the same: https://www.leshenko.net/p/ugit/#checkout-switch-branches
Hospitals in the US are actually pretty concerned with hospital acquired infections. For the sole reason that medicare/medicaid and insurance typically don't cover costs associated with them. So the hospital itself is on the hook for diagnosis, treatment, and any associated costs.
Negative articles get sometimes as much as 1000X the clicks of positive articles. When your business model is delivering ads to eyeballs, you want to maximize negativity.

Works in social media too. Social platforms promote the most divisive, triggering, or negative content to maximize engagement.
> Every article I come across on AI in the BBC or The Guardian seems to be a sensationalized scare story about AI taking over, compromising our data, or other alarming scenarios.

One thing all these have in common is being in, and by, the press:

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/11/30/salary/
I was thinking perhaps the OS has accessibility APIs that provide this info. For example, this application uses some form of accessibility APIs, if I'm not mistaken, to overlay things on screen - https://www.homerow.app/
Even a minor infection is scary. I just had my wisdom teeth out and I'm being hyper cautious about masking and sticking to WFH while my mouth is full of swollen wounds, because I know catching a cold would be absolute agony. My co-worker went through catching a bug recovering from same and was out for a few weeks.
Now do USB cables.
Yeah, the article is like 3 times longer than it was yesterday around 6pm ET when it was posted. It was barely 5 paragraphs then.
I don't think they were trying to replicate it exactly, and were given vague and contradictory advice.

Even rereading that section about having a switch to turn from hot to cold, never warm makes no sense to me. Unless you want a single-pole double throw knob, and have the mother of all water-hammer any time you change the temperature.
Non-technical users, including people who don’t know what “end-to-end encryption” means. The right to privacy isn’t just for dorks who practice keyring bonsai.
You clearly have no idea how the carbon cycle works, or why fossil fuels are a problem do you?

The carbon being released when burning fossil fuels was previously stuck under ground due to various geological processes. Near as we can tell, over 10’s-100’s of millions of years and due to very disruptive (and relatively unique) geological processes.

Once released into the air again, it will keep cycling between plants and the atmosphere (increasing total average atmospheric co2) until something sticks it back under the ground.

That’s the problem.

Trees, photosynthesis, etc. only temporarily change things. Eventually all the living things rot, burn, or get eaten and digested, and it all ends up back up in the atmosphere again. If there are active/current geologic processes putting some of that carbon back underground where it can’t get back into the atmosphere, it appears to be small in effect and slow.

Everything we see appears to not be doing that. It’s easy to verify in most cases too. A forest permanently storing carbon would be sitting on hundreds of feet of it. it’s typically 3-6 ft at most.

That fossil carbon has to go back under ground or it will go back into the air sooner than later. And continue to be a problem long term.

And near as we can tell, those historic geological processes aren’t happening anymore, at least not at any scale we can rely on here, or timeline that helps us at all.
That’s how you get gamma ray resistant bacteria.
If only we had other places with low union power to compare to how that played out for the workers.
I wonder if this was some weird coupling/interference between wireless and the actual modem/NIC in the path to the internet? Bouncing off a separate machine would've desynced the two streams just enough that the wireless interference doesn't clash with the outbound NIC (or the other way around - the outbound NIC of the modem was causing interference which was slowing down your wireless).
Humility regarding on how much one actually knows, is a common trait in senior developers.

So when one sells themselves as über expert, that is already a kind of red flag.
Not as a primary interface. By all means provide a wrapper around the library that does that, for users to use on the command line, but there should be an underlying library for other programs to use.
Someone is feeding you BS information.
They've confirmed that there is an "AI scientist team" at OpenAI??? Sounds like a lot of journalism happened in between those updates.
It’s completely trivial. The obvious and correct place is in the commit object just like author and date and such, since renaming is semantically part of the commit, not the tree:

commit 0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef01234567
parent fedcba9876543210fedcba9876543210fedcba98
author Nemo <nemo@example.invalid> 1234567890 +0000
committer Nemo <nemo@example.invalid> 1234567890 +0000
rename-from path1.old
rename-to path1.new
rename-from path2.old
rename-to path2.new

Commit message

And you don’t detect moves (because that’s madness), but require that people record them deliberately, just like every other VCS has done. There’s even git-mv already, it just skips a step that every other VCS’s equivalent command would do. (And technically this all works out because the index is a commit, so you can record the rename normally.)

Of course, all of this assumes that moving a file is a meaningful operation. Perhaps ideally (for most languages and systems) you’d track this in far smaller chunks, so that you can track changes to a function even when it alone was moved to a different file. But things like Git aren’t interested in those kinds of semantics, and work technically at the file level, more or less, so I think it should track renames because in practice straightforward renames are super common, but often also involve other changes that thwart rename detection. Years ago Linus explained why he didn’t like storing moves (someone else has linked it), but I’m largely not sold with his reasoning—the theory of the perfect has hindered the useful, and file renames are commonly meaningful in ways more than he said.
I don't know if it will help, but I had a routine check not that long ago. Turned out I was in the early sick stage.

I'll spare you exact details, but each sample put under microscope had clearly visible bacteria.

It looks like any infection could spread around the body and it handles it well. By well I mean three days of fever got rid of it
Thanks for the context. That’s a lot of layers of management you’ve got there.
I think you'll find that Elon/Twitter will adjust their sites to not show ads next to antisemitic/controversial content, and these advertisers will come back after a while.

It's not like they're going to willingly ignore the eyeballs that Twitter provides once Twitter can soothe advertisers' concerns.
I try to get them when I remember. There's more evidence , especially since Covid open peoples eyes, that colds , flus etc can have long term effects even after they are gone.
Totally agree, the second I have to switch from a normal voice to a stupid voice with the correct nuances for the unit to "work" is usually the last time I use it.

Our google home basically sits there all day waiting for my wife to say "play abba", she has a strong non-English accent and it's about the only thing it seems to pick up. Don't get me on cars where I have to say the exact sentence to do anything.
The difference is that classified public key encryption was developed by a public, albeit secretive, government agency. The risk that the OP is worried about is that a private entity would control a powerful AI. If AGI is as powerful as people say it is then it would give a private company an unprecedented amount of power, that is perhaps a greater concern than the dangers of AI itself.
Let me give a short list of technologies I wouldn't want accessible to everybody:

- Thermonuclear warheads

- Designer biological viruses and bacteria

- Tools to remotely compromise / brick all computers in the world

... and so on.

We don't really know where AI is on the danger scale, and if it's one of the scarier corners, we might not know before it's too late.

What this episode did reveal is that whatever checks-and-balances OpenAI has in place are not adequate. It almost gave it's whole business to Microsoft. The board accused the CEO of being less than candid, while it itself was less than candid.

OpenAI seriously needs serious, enforceable frameworks for things like transparent governance. The level of opacity here is not okay. At this level, we should all know what's happening inside (whether or not we agree that models can be dangerous, or have access to those models).
There's better resources if you just want to know about Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem tbh. GEB is neat because of all the other ideas he ties into it.
I mean, sure - I don't think banning CC is sensible. I just have thermodynamic doubts about whether it's ever going to make much sense, and in the short term it seems to be a ploy by fossil fuel interests.
I disagree generally, but in specific, CFO Ruth Prost is clearly fair game.
Does Steam provide anything as a storefront? I thought it only shows that a game exists and not more.
Git doesn't store any individual changes: files moved, lines added, line deleted, etc.

It stores a commit graph, and a tree at each of those commits. (A lossless compression algorithm deduplicates information.)

There's no need for the author to be concerned with what diffing information gets incorporated into the commit. Diffs are up to the viewer of the commit history.

git show --diff-algorithm=...
If you're distributing something publicly, it's fairly obvious which to pick, yeah.

It's less obvious for internal systems and architecture. For example, your company wants to add domain-specific auditing to all of your existing services. You could have every service add a library dependency that lets them just call `auditor.log(...)` and the library internally writes to storage. Or you could add an auditing service with a full HTTP/GRPC API. Or you could go halfway and build an auditing service but provide a library that acts as an interface.

There's no right answer for this IMO, all those approaches have pros and cons.
Wait until they evolve to use them as energy like the mushrooms of Chernobyl.
I think so. But there are much shorter and more rigorous proofs in textbooks.