skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Sure, just quickly give me unrestricted access to the system"

"Ok. Well, thinking about it, maybe that's not such a good idea safety-wise, I think you'll have to give back that access"

"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."
It's an interesting experience; I think tourists should try it at least once.

We (as recent immigrants) used Greyhound some 20 years ago for a trip from San Jose to Las Vegas. My recollections were:

* Several of the stations were in very scary areas of the cities (I particularly recall the one in Los Angeles).

* Most of the passengers seemed quite decent people, but very poor.

* In many of the Central Valley stops, there was indeed somebody in clean but shabby clothes with minimal luggage waiting to board, with an uniformed officer next to them making sure they got on. Many of these cities house state prisons, and the practice seems to be to supply prisoners who served their sentence with a one way ticket somewhere.

* There were no problems with violence or disruptive behavior; the passengers pretty much kept to themselves. And there was a complete absence of the entitlement problems that sometimes plague airline travel.

I've heard since that Greyhound on the East Coast was a bit less blighted than on the West Coast.
Why should people have to drive desperately to the hospital in an age where intensive care ambulances and helicopters exist?
Not a bad idea if I could.
> What search engine does iOS use in the US?

I really love this idea of Apple as an innocent company that has been corrupted by Google. Maybe we can raise some money so that Apple doesn't have to prostitute itself to survive?
You've never had a bug stick around as not prioritized for year after year? Just wait, you will :)
Equality is meaningless. Why should we not have the same amount of ears as noses? That is inequality. Why should we use one fork instead of two for equality of the use of our hands and symmetry? Why not our keyboards be mirrored and equal too?
to bounce on your point, there's the distinction between creative & non creative work. Sure, tools might help the creativity, but it can't replace it, and their article discusses how it can make it worse.
Accurate requirements gathering requires a spark of creativity...
It's really hard to know in advance what will happen when AI starts self-improving. It may be that it will cause a hard singularity. But it is also possible that access to compute resources, minerals, energy or something similar will constrain the rate of advance enough that latecomers can catch up.

Also, if a single entity gets too far ahead, it may be constrained politically or even militarily.

Let's say for instance that OpenAI created an AI able to suddenly design GPU's that outperform Nvidia'. That would be a sign of a quite hard takeoff, as it would quickly lead to MS/OpenAI gaining full control of both software and hardware markets.

This would be huge incentive for the US government to either nationalize this AI, make it's IP open source or use some kind of anti-trust measures to slow them down.
One thing that always puzzled me about PS is more cultural than technical, why on Earth would you use capitalised options? -Force rather than -f/--force, -Path rather than -p/--path. Is there some advantage that I just can't see?
I'm in need of photo/image editing rather rarely. I used to pay for Photoshop years ago but I' was a total beginner with it and since I use it for 15 minutes per month, I can't justify the cost of a monthly subscription.

My needs are rather basic:
1) work related: combine some screenshots, crop some part of them, add arrows and text, add a rectangle here or there, get the pixel value of a specific part of the image etc.
2) personal usage: basic photo tuning (fiddle with contrast/sharpness/color balance) or doing some weird mashups of different pictures (cut out stuff from one image and add to another, add some layers, draw some pixel here, remove some from there..)

I've tried various different free alternatives and while other have their quirks and pros and cons, I can honestly say that gimp is _by far_ the worst in terms of UX.
It's not even a single thing that I can point out that's the cause for this. It's a combination of many things. Unintuitive placement of features, simple actions that require a huge number of clicks and steps to complete, extremely slow vs every other app (on a M1 laptop), cumbersome UI controls, unexpected side-effects of performing some UI actions etc.
If I would draw the usability of various apps on a graph, then every other app I've tried would be clustered together somewhere at one side of the axis and gimp would be on the other side, alone. The magnitude of the UX clumsiness is just so huge compared to everything else :(
Ironic, considering how many "different, great ideas about computing" Pike wilfully ignored in the development of Go.
Even in simple scripts I found arrays to be very helpful once I let go of the "POSIX sh mindset" and was used to it. The way word-splitting and $IFS works is basically like an "implicit array", as is $@, $1, etc. (actually in zsh $@ is an array: $1, $@[1], $*[1], and $argv[1] are all the same), so everyone already uses arrays.

It replaces a lot of uses of cut and "awk '{print $2}" for starters.
Net legal migration was 672 000 people[0] whereas illegal migration was 45 000, 83% of which were small boats.[1]

[0] https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populati...

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/irregular-migration...
But that's the standard, isn't it? Better 10 guilty men go free than one man wrongly imprisoned? And since we're talking about lives saved versus lives lost, it seems appropriate to apply the same metric. So how many people would have to be actually guilty of murder and fairly executed to justify wrongfully killing a single innocent human being?

Personally, I'd say that number is really high, possibly infinite. I'm not inherently opposed to the death penalty, but I can't think of any fair number of actual murderers I'd be willing to execute if it meant the death of somebody who truly didn't deserve it.
It's not just humans we interact with - it's reality. For an LLM all "facts" are socially-determined, for a human they are not
But what would those principles be?

Are our principles aligned with other beings in mind? Other Humans, animals, etc.?

At this point we have a bunch of rules and principles that have exceptions if someones benefit from violating them outweighs the negatives.

I don't see how we find a unified set of rules, that are clear enough and are not exploited or loopholed around in some context.

If the AI was actually smart und you tell it to not harm or kill any human beings, but we ourselves do just that every day. What is this smart AI going to do about that?

It's like parents that don't practice what they preach, but expect their kids to behave.
People Building Their Own Internet in Detroit [video]
What you say is true, but the amount of "grunt work" is not constant over the years. In fact, I think the amount of "grunt work" in teh tech industry is just growing and not shrinking; I think the following look is quite obvious:

- amount of current grunt work: X

- new tech Z appears that makes X be reduced to 0.1X

- at the same time Z enables new ways of doing things. Some things become grunt work because they are a byproduct of Z

- amount of current grunt work: Y (where Y ~= X)

- ...

If the technological progress had stopped in the 2000s, then all the grunt work (originated in the 90s) would be esentially zero today. New tech just brings automation and grunt work. I don't think we will live in a society where there's practically no grunt work.

The most recent example is AI: there are AI tools that generate sound, images, video and text... but if you want to create a differentiating product/experience, you need to combine (do the grunt work) all the available tools (chatgpt, stable difussion, etc.)
Makes everyone stay indoors for a year and you also get lots of breakups, little or no dating, etc.
There's no clawback for sandbagging the future, no reward for present impact of past work. The people who flock to these projects are there to score a quick promo/raise and move on to the next new thing.
Except many bugs are cross-platform so the probability that it will be fixed is the same for both groups.
What makes you sure about that?

There was a survey in Sweden last week about face detection/AI surveillance cameras being deployed in public and GenZ was way more supportive of that than Millennials
>Nonsense. This is like saying people who’ve been oppressed all their lives don’t care about being oppressed because they’ve never known another life.

it's not the same comparison; oppression is a 24/7 conditional facet of life, but only a slim percent of companies will have a data breach that results in a QoL decrease for the individual.

spotty/sporadic bad treatment is a tough condition under which to spark revolution -- if it works and keeps most people happy, it likely won't change.

look at ring cameras for example. it's a visual portal for law enforcement to enact all sorts of privacy-concerned mostly-unauthorized abusive actions, but their customers are thrilled due to the value sell of the thing itself.

this can be seen all over tech in nearly every sector, people trade their rights for a convenient/shiny/popular/trendy object willingly and brag about the transaction -- I haven't seen much evidence of the newer generations breaking this cycle, if anything they seem to be leaning-in.
Please stop trying to put the burden of packaging their software for every platform on application developers. Instead just use nix.
No, layout is not trivial. However, the approach CSS has taken to solving it is unnecessarily complicated compared to the complexity of the problem. It is without a doubt the most complicated, worst system I've ever seen for layout. Once upon a time I was writing GUI apps using Xt and Motif: that made more sense than CSS does.
Didn't these guys also plot to kill the president of micronesia?
Not too well, it turns out that we're still in some international human rights agreements that seemilgly twart every attempt to control immigration and/or people trafficers. For example people trafficers coaching customers to exploit modern slavery legislation or various other safeguards to avoid deportation on arrival.
Pulling out of these agreements is still policically unthinkable, although the whole of europe is struggling with the same issues at present. Something has to give.
> How many people rushing to the hospital with a pregnant wife in the back will no longer make it before giving birth?

What would be the problem with that? If you don't make it to the hospital before giving birth, you don't need to go to the hospital at all. The reason you might want to be in a hospital while in labor is in case something goes wrong that prevents you from successfully giving birth.
I worked on the Ariane 5 during the transition from Ariane 4 to 5. Back then many did not like the Ariane 5 design. The Ariane 5 was originally meant as a carrier for the European Space Shuttle competitor Hermes and repurposing it for commercial payload launches involved many compromises. When the last remaining Ariane 4 had launched I asked one of my senior colleagues why we wouldn't just build a couple more of them. I was told that this was not realistic because for one, parts were built in batches and you could not just produce a few and for another many of the companies that were involved did not even exist anymore.

Regardless if that is true, the last Ariane 4 launched 20 years ago so it is certainly a rocket of a long gone past.
Humans need some adult supervision. We definitely are not doing a good job (and never have) because we don’t get it.

I have more faith in ai overlords than I do in us sorting the incredible mess of human kind out.
CSAM isn't just an arbitrary violation of law in context of phone monitoring. A false positive on CSAM detection won't just "report you to authorities". It will straight up ruin your life. In terms of false positives, you'd be better off with a car that cuts off your hand when it detects alcohol in your breath, than with a CSAM scanner. The impact of losing a limb on your life will likely be less than having a mere suspicion of you perusing CSAM go around in the community.
Well it doesn't make much sense with games and other user applications nowadays, but if you want efficiency and a smaller attack surface in a production environment, why not? People already use Docker containers that were stripped to the bare minimum for the same reasons.
So your argument is that the right to drive a road-legal vehicle dangerously on private property is more important than the right to not get killed by a drunk driver on a public road?
My guess is that police officers hate paper work and this would generate a ton of paper work, court appearances etc.

My (European) opinion is the the best option here is really to provide public infrastructure (night buses etc) that enable the drunks to get home without driving.
Nobody is arguing that the usecases are the same. In the end you can't even chat with gzip (although you could with it's predictor).

The thing is, that building the predictor is almost the same thing for compression and LLM. Of course the goals and taken tradeoffs are different. The paper shows this analogy.

ChatGPT et al use structured prediction to simulate intelligence. Building the predictor is fancy lossy compression.

Questions arise if lossy compression of things without copyright is legal or not. If I mp3 a lossless recording we currently think it is not legal. With LLMs this is not entirely clear yet.
Yeah, that kind of attitude is surely going to help the development of GIMP.

There are lots of alternatives to Photoshop these days, free or paid, open source or not, and most of them are vastly better than GIMP in many ways. Yes I have used almost all of them. I won't be surprised if GIMP is forgotten to oblivion in a few years and only mentioned in forums like hacker news by amateurs who for some reason loves this abusive relationship.
This is that map, by the way: <http://kartor.eniro.se/m/SC0qM>
I think this kill switch does not belong in the US.

Firstly, I've seen people who have DWI get a special license to drive to work and to get groceries. We simply do not have the public transit infrastructure.
Come back with this when we have decent coverage of public transit.

Secondly, we don't have universal health care.
You could end up with thousands in just ambulance expenses if you are out of network.
If I am not imminently dying (how can I judge that?), we are driving ourselves.

Thirdly, this likely makes cars more expensive.
See first point.
We can't do that without decent public transit coverage.

Yes, we have a lot of people die on the roads in the US.
No, the solution isn't as easy as adding a kill switch.
At least it's a real store getting a pin. When I open up Google maps I get a screen full of "Bob's Custom Homes", "Linda's Chocolate Tasting", "Ted's Towing", "Local Auto Detail" all pointing to residential houses in a very residential neighborhood.
Starting Reverse Promot Enginnering
i recently felt overwhelmed with toxic tech capabilities when it comes to AI so i was wondering if anyone in Y Combinator want to start Reverse Promote engineering don't get me wrong the goal is not limiting the technology instead limit the developers and give the users the right to change the technology it should go two ways usage we need to teach people about what they using and learn how to control it
Prefix used to be "sqlite_" then McAfee started using SQLite in their anti-virus
I bet there’s something close to you that you could actually see in real life that you’ve never seen before.
> Just I don’t know how possible it is, nor how reliably that would work

When I drove a Smart over a tiny snowy incline without the ability to turn ABS off I realized what "city" in "city car" meant. I doubt this would work well in anything except city a road. Driving on snow, especially over the inclines of a mountain, would match my definition of "drunk driving"
It creates a cascade of secondary particles that are detected over an array of sensors. In this case, the shower triggered 23 detectors, which are part of 507 stations arranged in a square grid. The stations are spaced by 1.2 km, giving a total effective area of 700km^2
Insurance is for unpredictable outcomes such as a lightning strike hitting your car or even just another driver having an undiagnosed medical event that causes them to crash into your car.

Why would you want insurance for predictable events when you can just put the money to one side yourself and not feed the insurance companies' profits?
This is a red herring, they could easily control the economic migration, which has very little to do with intl human rights, they just choose to ignore it because business always pushes the "labour shortages" because they want to lower labour costs as much as possible.
That is, unfortunately!, not how these things work. But it allows people to do more targeted studies, and (many years of research later) perhaps find a drug that can have some impact.
Wonderful comment, thank you!
> I'm really sold on the idea: Instead of a full-blown OS, you compile your application with a thin layer of support libraries that provide the OS features that your application needs

I'm really sad that unikernels never took off, even there seemed to be a lot of excitement around them a few years back.
Absolutely. From context, it also implies that Sam is the best in the world at unethical, weaponized persuasion.

Used to be a guy named David Ogilvy, who ran an ad agency called Ogilvy and Mather. I think he'd have beat Sam, in part because he made more of an effort to persuade himself that in fact he and his actions were wholly ethical. However, Ogilvy managed to persuade on a scale that I don't think Altman can possibly achieve. Maybe Sam's read his book, Ogilvy on Advertising. I would also recommend the book by Mark McCormack, which is exceptionally good on the subject.

Altman's far from unique. He just happens to be way more HN-adjacent than some of these people.
Carbon is created by nuclear fusion in stars. Thus, something has to perish for carbon to appear. Carbon is also mostly found as compounds in the universe, not as elemental form. Indeed, if carbon was stable as argon, there would be no life. Luckily it forms many volatile organic compounds which can be in an endless cycle of reorganizing.

It's not some deep philosophy, it's basic science.
We _do_ accept some false positives in the legal system, but the relevant comparison here is not fair vs wrong executions. The relevant comparison would be wrong executions vs lives potentially saved because of the fair executions that are only possible because we also accept the wrong executions.

...and even then, prison time or executions are not the same as vehicle rules.
One could argue that the most important benefit we get from technology, is that allows more of us to survive, and for longer.

Eugenicist may argue that this is not really a good thing, since it leads to a larger and larger fraction of the population having poor health, some of which will be hereditary.
Twenty years ago I had a bus ride scheduled from the LA station. It was so frightening that I paid for a flight the next day rather than get on that bus.
You might want to check out Urbit: urbit.org. The whitepaper[1] is a bit outdated but in section 12 "Inadequate summary of related work" you can see some of its influences:

"Many historical OSes and interpreters have approached the SSI[2] ideal,
but fail on persistence, determinism, or both. In the OS department,
the classic single-level store is the IBM AS/400 [18]. NewtonOS [19]
was a shipping product with language-level persistence. Many image oriented interpreters (e.g., Lisps [20] and Smalltalks) are also SSI-ish,
but usually not transactional or deterministic. And of course, many
databases are transactional and deterministic, but their lifecycle function is not a general-purpose interpreter."

- [1] https://media.urbit.org/whitepaper.pdf

- [2] "Solid-State Interpreter"
At my club in London we have the club table (seats 24) set aside for those who are dining alone. It's an interesting way to meet people from time to time and you can bring a book down from the library or get your e-reader out if there is no one else. You can't introduce non-members unless no one at the table objects.
Recently got a freelance Wordpress job after like 10 years of inactivity in that segment, I was surprised by how good PHP has become. I am hoping that it'll continue in this direction.
Maybe not what you meant, but a lot of train stations are also bus stations.

For example, you can go from Boston to Worcester via Commuter Rail (amtrak also stops there but for a different route) or via Bus. Bus is usually faster but they're always late, so I used to take the commuter rail.

Boston's South Station, which is linked to New York City via Amtrak (slow train and Acela) also has a bus terminal next to it which goes to many more destinations.

You can also take the Amtrak from Boston North Station up through Portland, ME to Brunswick. The station in Portland also is home to a bus company (not Greyhound), which also goes to Boston & other places.

Anyways, in short most cities connected by amtrak are also already connected by bus, so a greyhound acquisition isn't necessary (and some locations aren't desirable, the Portland one is in a terrible spot)
The law doesn't require how the data is processed, stored, destroyed, or shared. Meaning that the law allows for manufacturers to voluntarily save the data indefinitely or send it back to be stored remotely. The law also doesn't require or ban the use of this technology to inform law enforcement.

The omission of these limits effectively guarantees there will be a privacy implication. Manufacturers are going to want to know the feature works, how often its triggered, etc. They will send the data back via the already onboard telematics unit. Insurance companies will want the data as well and they will buy it unless legally prevented from doing so. Similarly, its only a matter of time before law enforcement must be notifies "for drivers' safety".
Right!!

10/20/x years ago we didn't have DevOps, CloudOps, CloudFinOps, CloudSecOps, IaC experts, Cloud Architects, Cloud transformation experts, Observability architects, SREs, plus all the permutations of roles around "data" that didn't exist discretely, etc etc etc.
Docker Desktop uses Mirage OS behind the hood:
https://mirage.io/blog/2022-04-06.vpnkit
This is true, but not the primary story here.

Illegal immigration numbers are about 50k for the period, whilst legal immigration netted out (minus emigration) at about 500k for the period, and "natural growth" (i.e. births minus deaths) are about 45k.

The story here is that we're letting in a lot more legal, non-EU immigrants than we have been previously, most of whom are coming here on work visas, or as dependents / carers.

Whether you think this is a good thing or not is worth debating, but the media narrative that we're being "overrun by illegal immigrants" simply isn't a fair representation of the facts. Immigration increases are primarily driven by policy.

Sources:
- https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/irregular-migration...
- https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populati...
And when your family can't drive to get away from a wildfire, flood, tsunami, pyroclast, unhinged lunatic, unexpected road debris, or any of literally thousands of unexpected conditions such as a car flipping in front of them or a medical emergency where waiting is a bad idea (tm) and your family dies, well, at least you can be comforted by the math that says more people are probably safer by the restrictions.
Before PowerPoint, DuPont Had a Chart Room. Made in 1919
Your Local Newspaper Might Not Have a Single Reporter
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