skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “Metrics around engagement or the performance of AI models are so highly prioritised that ethics-related recommendations that might negatively affect those metrics require irrefutable quantitative evidence,” the report said.

When OpenAI decided it needed more money in order to scale, the course for the industry was pretty much set. They thought they were still the most responsible and ethical AI researchers, but that in order to set the direction of AI development and make it responsible and ethical, they needed to grow faster than they could grow by being responsible and ethical. At a certain point (maybe a point in the past?) they'll realize they're a SaaS company and just lean into being Google, that other company that was going to be humane and develop ethical AI, and did so by turning into an adtech company with a phone. Not that OpenAI will serve advertisements, they'll chart their own path toward the north star of maximum money for investors. And at some point, hopefully not too late, we'll all realize that To Serve Man was a cookbook.
I agree regarding documentation. There was a request [0] for something similar, though not specifically covering this important point.

Regarding sending a ping flood, Trippy allow you to reduce the minimum and maximum round time (and grace period) to send packets almost as fast as you like. For example, to send at 50ms intervals (with a 10ms grace period):

> trip example.com -i 50ms -T 50ms -g 10ms

[0] https://github.com/fujiapple852/trippy/issues/853
There are a few coffee shops that open late (a Starbucks that opens 24h) but they're all on the east side (suburbs). I would have expected them be in the city, but I guess there's no late night coffee culture there -- it's bars or nothing.

Just a little bit north in Vancouver BC, there are a ton of coffee places that open late.
Once you understand that inexperienced is an HR-approved euphemism for young, and experienced is an HR-approved euphemism for old, then the discussion they’re having falls into focus:

If large companies need to train someone (typically on a company-specific toolkit) they want to train someone with more room for optimism in their workplace expectations, fewer points of comparison for the quality or utility of the toolset, and who will have less of an ability to exit post-training.
Ya, to corroborate that I know road rage deaths increased in certain areas. There is evidence that people started speeding more too. Since people started speeding during 2020 (deaths per mile went up as total miles traveled went down) my thought was that maybe people became accustomed to not being policed and just started driving much more dangerously and then had a hard time adjusting back. I don't know. Reduced policing could also explain it, or maybe just a general decline in socialization. No one will look into it probably.
It's because people are unable to handle these topics without delving into conspiracy theories.

That's not a reason to flag a submission, that's a reason not to read the discussion.
I use Emacs, mostly for Org Mode, but not registers. I also understand perfectly the problem, and I also can't understand the upside.

The only clue I see is in the polite objection the author quotes who writes "I agree it's safer..."

But I don't understand safer in what way or why 1 person gets to decide safer=better=forced.
Public consensus on Israel-Palestine ceasefire vs the stance of their "democratically" elected, to enact "the will of the people" politicians also reveals the the theatrical aspect as well, even without adjusting for the massive home field propaganda advantage.

How much longer they can keep this illusion running has got to be THE most interesting thing happening at the moment if you ask me.
I did not notice that. I only recently started using ChatGPT to bootstrap code and am in awe each time it spits out fully functional code. The iterative discussion works well too ("add a function to send a message to an MQTT broker" for instance)
Linux rootkits meta really did not change much since 1999.
Just Hire Talented People and Empower Them
Nope I'm not interested in your data.
I am building several AI Trading bots that give clear signals for each stock on a daily basis. These signals are not 100 % correct. You should take a look at the backtesting result.

I am very open about each model and stock performance.
I could totally do this in Seattle. Heck, most of the time my routing software avoids the freeway anyways, in favor of 25-40 mph roads. It’s a sore point though: we just have a couple of north south freeways and one east west one. Well, it’s better than nearby Vancouver BC at least.
Might not be a god, but he’s canonically the most powerful mutant in the marvel universe.
The metaphor extends to cover your point! I doubt that the wifi installers were unaware of the existing design patterns, since the language is pretty clear. I think it more likely that they were working to a budget and a timescale, which led them to prioritize functionality and expediency over maintaining the purity and clarity of the design. And isn't that like so much software maintenance?
I strongly disagree. If the report was guaranteed to be a whitewash (it may well turn out to be one, of course, but that's exactly what the current fight is over), the ex-Board & Shear & Taylor wouldn't be appealing to it constantly in all their public statements, nor would they have made it their primary condition, nor would they have brought on Summers to oversee it as a 'broker', nor would Altman sound so nervous about it and talk about how he welcomes it and will cooperate to better understand his miscommunications etc, and especially isn't talking or acting like someone who expects to be there forever with OA as his personal fief once he packs a new board with loyalists.
Why Frozen Pizza Is the Best Pizza
Eluciating Astract Concepts&Complexity with Quilt Metaphors(2007) [pdf]
For websites at this point in time I’d recommend Mozilla’s Getting started with the web: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Getting_start...

I couldn’t get through Godel, Escher Bach, but can recommend I Am A Strange Loop by the same author! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_a_Strange_Loop
It’s a slippery slope

”it looks like you are trying to create a buffer that is not attached to a file. If that is actually what you intended please confirm with RET so that the buffer can be created but keep in mind that. . .”
Just because a system works doesn’t mean all outcomes out of the system when it’s working are equally good.

Even the best working system will still require people to make good decisions to have the best outcomes.
I don't believe that for a second, they haven't demonstrated anything yet
'AI Ethicists' is the ultimate grift of all time.

For one, all these are self-appointed and they sort of fell back to AI Ethics, when they couldn't do hardcore (AI/ML). It's like how people who couldn't write software fell back to QA testing (Yes, I know there are exceptional QA testers who are passionate about QA, but those are exceptions).

Unless you understand dynamic complex systems (Math and Physics), who can effectively calculate the NET Benefit of AI over the next several decades, you are as clueless as any other person

Second, none of the AI Ethicists ever talk about the positives of AI (climate change, healthcare, material science, productivity) but always some imagined hurt for 'marginalized community'. Considering how these same people roasted Mr Beast for helping the said marginalized community, I'd take their opinion with the grain of salt.

Third, in the extreme case, there is massive anti-tech, anti-white, anti-bro harborings from these AI Ethicists and want to shut down AI just because.

If you don't believe me just watch the Twitter feed from Timnit, Alex Hanna. They are your typical flag-bearers for AI Ethics
I'm sure Spokane is less liberal than Seattle, and it's also kind of an island if you look at that map. It doesn't take much driving to get you into pretty red areas.
SVN is only 5 years older than git, and while git is distributed, people basically use it like it's a centralized VCS these days.
Epidemiology of musculoskeletal injury in military recruits
People have different priorities than just money.
I for one would never move to SV even if I get 3 times the salary there.
There are a lot of other factors that make life great than just money.
Pliosaur discovery: sea monster emerges from Dorset cliffs
Hyperstack
not to get too leaky, and this is a bit dated, but…

the math produces results that are understood but not, because the math is calculating with some implicit inclusions, and things get weird when you start explicitly including.

the answers make sense, but not quite for the questions being asked. (but the answers are valid for a question, and more importantly, immediately useful for making dollars.)

unfortunately the vagueness of this will likely irritate a doctor. it certainly did years ago.
Unless you read The art of war you cannot possibly become a 10x ninja developer. /s

More seriously, I have read the design of everyday things about 10 years ago and it was one of the most boring books I have ever had to go through. I only remember doorknobs and something about affordances. Read refactoringUI as well, some vague shiny UI tips of which can't remember any but 'have decent spacing'. I still can't design even a simple form. I am starting to suspect that if one wants to be good at web design one needs to start doing lots of web design until one gets better. Reading books may come later to place that practical knowledge in some coherent mental framework.
Excellent at producing a specific outcome (optimizing for certain variables) - whether that specific goal of an outcome is anywhere near optimal in a comprehensive sense is another matter entirely.
None. The thing is for UX you have something like don't make me think but UI is a matter of taste so everyone has their own rules which might not appeal to you. You can check out the windows 95 design docs as that might give you some ideas and then I would suggest using an uncommon UI component library and let that do the heavy lifting till you can hire a designer.
Mind sharing your data provider(s) ? Thanks
> The Emperor was a symbolic figurehead who helped unite and reconcile postwar Japan.

Yes, the symbol of the Nanjing Massacre.

> and reconcile postwar Japan.

That was the US's doing, Japan still functions by the constitution imposed by MacArthur.

Also, more generally, the fact that people in the West are white-washing guys like Hirohito is a very big part of why we're in the current geopolitical mess. It would help if, for once, the West would admit: "yeah, we let that killer in place because it suited our geo-political interests back in the day". But were they (the Westerners) to do that then we wouldn't have blog-posts like this one here which totally goes over Japan's war-crimes (and does not mention Hiroshima nor Nagasaki, although it doesn't forget to mention that China, Russia and North Korea now have nukes).
That’s a really awful way to put it.

These AI are statistical models. Next token generators. Not living beings.

That’s like calling a cellphone a “communication slave”

AI is just a tool. All this “safety” work feels like theater to keep everyone thinking that AI is a cool sci-fi level computer-person.

It’s essentially search, but with natural language. If they really wanted safety, they just would spend the extreme time and effort cleaning their datasets.
It seems like Emacs has a fairly toxic development process.

Arguing that because something has been committed to the development branch it can't be reverted, is a terrible policy.
Software doesn’t quite have the same fungibility to allow for this, but imagine your job was only being responsible for urgent, high severity tickets throughout your company.

There was no time to mull over a problem, pair code with a peer or junior, or talk to a product owner because everything was urgent and on fire.
systemctl stop is a oneshot operation, right? Perhaps sudo apt remove unattended-upgrades?
An article whose follow-on discussion is mostly offtopic conspiracy theories (which they were) ought not to be here, imo, but maybe I'm wrong on the guideline etiquette
And, you know, the whole thing where they nuked two Japanese cities.
I don't think that's the right way to reason about it.

I find that I can learn a ton from those industries, and as a software engineer I have the added advantage of being able to come up with zero-cost (or low cost), self-documenting abstractions, testing patterns, and ergonomic interfaces that improve the safety of my software.

In software, a lot of safety is embodied in how you structure your interfaces and tests. The biggest cost is your time, but there are economies of scale everywhere. It really pays to think through your interfaces and test plan and systems behavior, and that's where lessons from these other industries can be applied.

So yeah, if you think of these lessons as "do tons of manual QA", you'll run into trouble resourcing it. But you can also think of them as "build systems that continuously self-test, produce telemetry, fail gracefully in legible ways and have multiple redundancies".
Presumably Seattle; Gooey is a prolific tagger. This appears to be their instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gooeygue/
The number that's been reported re: the detained Palestinians is that 30%-50% of them are suspected to be combatants and the others are uninvolved and were either released or are in the process of being released.

And yes, we agree to the facts of military aged men, in a combat zone where civilians have been asked to evacuate, stripped (EDIT: to their underwear) and arrested. That's what I also said in my reply. I explained why Israel strips potential Hamas combatants/activists ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Palestinian_suicide_at... ). I took issue with the "paraded" part. It is most certainly not sexual violence.

Apparently there are new instructions to the IDF to provide them with clothing immediately.

Do I think the police and the courts are always fair to Palestinians... Nope. But at least they have some legal recourse. The Israeli Supreme court, which is independent (so far), can intervene and has intervened in the past. You can read one case here: https://casebook.icrc.org/case-study/israel-detention-unlawf...

By the way extreme right Jews have also been held under administrative arrest.

I still think "arrested Hamas and Islamic Jihad members" is closer to the truth than "abducted random Palestinians".
The USA has tariffs on Chinese cars, and vice versa. Actually, China does the same thing with Japan, so I expect protectionism to make Chinese cars more expensive there also. But it’s primarily rules china put in place to protect their car market and encourage domestic production, and the rules in Japan and the USA are in retaliation to Chinese tariffs (which ironically are protecting them now instead).
Taliban Members Fed Up with Office Work, Ready to Quiet Quit
In response to the spirit of the article and ignoring the specificity of content, a great way of retaining knowledge over time is Sean Whitelys Memletics courses. His frameworks and practices for studying, learning and retaining any subject matter are very practical. While his “Learn” tool can get a bit verbose, the concepts of reviewing notes in an irregular patterned method over time are extremely effective. I recommend using the Learn tool on a simple subject just to observe the effect the process has on your own experience of retaining knowledge over a few weeks, months and years. I don’t know where this guy Sean ended up - but if you get your hands on his materials, hold on to em! Hopefully that helps.
"From Memex to Hypercard"[0][1] might be insiteful digression related to 'spreadsheet architecture'.

Just keep in mind how libraries worked before the advent of the computer.

Decker[2][3] current modern take on hypercard.

various types of spreadheets with user interface (vs. use editor with a plain tabular text file):

teapot : https://www.syntax-k.de/projekte/teapot/

visicalc : https://www.visidata.org/

sc-m : https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im

or mix files & manipulating 'spreadsheet' text files, gawk[4], webawk[5], python awk[6].

not as compact as excel, but diy gui for awk[7] with screen[8]/menu[9] or gui design courses[10]

informal discussion about moving beyond 'text' files: https://twitter.com/llama_index/status/1733653470987825452

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[0] : https://elearningindustry.com/memex-hypercard

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

[2] : https://beyondloom.com/decker/index.html

[3] : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33377964

[4] gawk : https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/

[5] webawk :

a) https://github.com/agordon/webawk / https://agordon.github.io/webawk/

b) https://www.npmjs.com/package/awkjs

c) 'awk driven iot' : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14737978

[6] pawk : https://github.com/alecthomas/pawk

[7] https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey

[8] screen: https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-use-linux-screen/

[9] menu : https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/menu-driven-shell-script/

[10] HN suggested gui design courses : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38591437
Your cat doesn't feed itself and is artificially selected to hunt for fun which skews this comparison a lot more than just the physical size.
The posing as a VMware helper process and timeframe hints this may be associated with the recent VMware compromise epidemic(s).
I 100% agree that free speech and academic freedom protections must include even reprehensible speech. I also think that criticism of Israel on an international/California
forum like this is probably anti-Semitic, but at least misinformed.

I also dispute that the "middle east scholars" are afraid to voice their anti-Israel opinions. It makes no sense. Everybody and their grandmother is voicing criticism of Israel. BBC, WHO, UN, Harvard, U Penn, MIT, HRW, Justin Trudeau, even Paul Graham, on and on. On the contrary, assuming Israeli good faith gets you called a white supremacist, disturbed, a genocide supporter, a Jew (used as an insult) (source: happened to me here on HN, I can give you the actual post urls). Even simple expression of condolence to an Israeli gets nasty insults and downvotes (yep, here in HN).

What is legitimately horrible is the call to genocide "Zionists".
Pula lol
Well, idk who has problems. They never exactly liked exalted islamists, or anyone with a bad attitude here, but otherwise people are pretty laid back.

Once I saw a guy from Turkie being given trouble at the airport, but that's about it. We shared a taxi after that.

Basically no one gives a fuck so long as you don't cause any trouble.

It's polako worldview you see.

https://www.montenegro.travel/7-culture-keys-for-understandi...
No, you just weren’t making as much of one as you think.
I think you're agreeing with userbinator here.
At the end of the day though, it's emacs.

In lisp alone, you can get the old behavior back if you want it.

I think usability decisions like this are one of the harder things to decide by committee in an open source project because they are, at the end of the day, questions of taste. And people can have conflicting and equally valid tastes. Here, a swap is being made between editing speed and accuracy, with the one perhaps having the better claim for purely historical reasons (but if you let historical reasons dictate design, you end up with faster horses not cars).

Me personally, I'm a committed emacs user and I don't have skin in this game. If I don't like the new UI, I'll just add the necessary code to swap it out for the old UI.
> fail to see why one would need to write a long blog post and maintain a fork because of something like this...

Probably because, and it certainly appears the case, that the process is being ruled by fiat not by good technical/policy decisions (and the approach of broadcast is intended to replace the fiat by overwhelming numbers)
I think there are two main factors in doing this: The first is creating the passion for the subject matter by making it both fascinating and accessible and by that generating even more curiosity and motivation that I believe are innate in everyone.
The second is never letting anyone feel that they are treading water (although this can be seen as a by-product of making things accessible).

Even when babies learn how to walk (assuming a healthy and secure environment) they do not need (or would understand) any assurance that the struggle will be worth it. They go for the struggle because the instinct/motivation to explore is already there - it gives a sense of autonomy, of being in control, of making progress, of being involved, of being alive.

But no need to make assumptions about what motivates babies - you can look at how people feel when playing games, solving puzzles etc. They don't see it as a struggle, it is something that is a joy to participate in, even though it might be very challenging. A great teacher is someone that makes learning a by-product of having fun. I believe this is possible for any subject, no matter how "difficult" or "boring".
I am sorry but this whole post seems like gaslighting. Looks like maintainers welcomed a patch bringing the old behaviour behind a flag [1]. Eshel Yaron then writes "Sure. I'm attaching two patches", while doing the exact opposite of what was asked, namely undoing the commit that has already landed on the main branch and introducing merely parts [2] of the new behaviour behind the flag.

It's totally fine to disagree with people. Agreeing with people while doing the complete opposite, is quite unacceptable, in my opinion.

[1]: https://yhetil.org/emacs/837clv6sga.fsf@gnu.org/

[2]: https://yhetil.org/emacs/87r0k2pgq6.fsf@posteo.net/
Got to pay more for less. Apple will come out with a 5000 dollar device, made in india for 5 bucks, to save everyone dont worry.
Funny enough. I usually say:

Don't let your memes be dreams.
Hiding your C&C behind clownflare is basically the default mode for a lot of actors.

CF are terribly slow to respond to abuse, their ranges are allowlisted everywhere, and it’s not terribly hard to hide your backend infrastructure (origin) even from cloudflare itself.

Sure you have to deal with the eventual takedown of your domain, by CF or more likely the domain registrar, but it’s trivial to work around that (backup domains, frequently rotating them, etc).

What’s funny is how Namecheap are now absolutely god tier at doing takedowns on malicious domains - they used to have a very poor reputation and now will process a takedown (provided evidence) within the hour usually.
Elon Musk says Ilya Sutskever should jump ship for xAI or Tesla
I would call this [0] a constructor, why wouldn't you?

[0] https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/constructors.html
The keyword is hidden. I'm a digital nomad who recently moved to Croatia, but my incentive was that I have roots here and speak the language. So I'm using one of their smaller cities as a home base while I travel around in other countries.

It's definitely a nice place to live cheaply if you can work remotely. And if you have a schengen citizenship it's even better.

I always say that it's on the fringes of the EU. Sort of like Romania. Cheap prices, lots of cash business, but still relatively safe and decent infrastructure. And of course close to other countries outside of schengen that are even cheaper.
> U.S seems to have adopted advanced protection against dumping of Chinese EV vehicles, via the signature climate law and languages in the inflation reduction act.

Those same laws exist in China though, which is why Tesla had to open a factory in Shanghai.