skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except of course that a lot of the 'anger about immigration' in the way you put it is thinly disguised racism or xenophobia. It is quite hard to separate these (on both sides of the debate), and so have a sensible discussion on what a good policy on immigration should be.
Same here. Even though the "new" Dune has a lot of good VFX, I found it boring to watch, and that was only Part I. Before watching "new", I watched Lynch's to have something to compare to. I vastly prefer Lynch's Dune. It wasn't boring. He managed to cram the whole story in less than 2h30 and in (to me) coherent and understandable way. Although the movie did demand all of my attention and weaving of threads in my mind while watching. Lynch still wins, hands down, not the least because of the atmosphere.
>The kids who drove best ended up having a 10% lower-than-average crash risk. The ones who experienced major issues had an 11% higher-than-average chance of getting into a wreck.

That seems pretty weak in terms of predictive power.
In today's environment, moralists would argue "it's immoral to not have an opinion, i.e. if you are in a position of power and are not actively using your voice to reach out to your audience in order in favour of populist opinions, you are in the wrong."

I don't know what to make of it. I think it's great that people fight for what they believe in but at the same time, "inaction" is becoming more and more difficult.
Covid?
The plane in question was JA56AN [0], which according to PlaneSpotters.net was delivered in June 2009 [1]. Forbes [2] indicates that the service life of a fight deck window is ten years (it's not clear if that applies to the windshield as well as passenger windows)—if that's accurate, it's likely that this is completely unrelated to Boeing's significant manufacturing problems lately. Unfortunately for Boeing it doesn't matter, anything involving a 737 will get news coverage right now.

[0] https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/nh1182

[1] https://www.planespotters.net/airframe/boeing-737-800-ja56an...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/marisagarcia/2018/05/19/airplan...
> I think Apple’s always cared about ease of development over the possibility of bare metal optimization

I would disagree.

Apple avoided managed runtimes this whole time and made people think about memory safety a lot compared with Java/C#. Programming was not as easy as it could have been.

It has also always been trivial to fallback to C/C++, and the interop story with ObjC code is a lot cleaner.

I think the driver for this was because they highly valued a buttery smooth UI, and this requires a lot of bare metal optimization.
It's totally reasonable to favor gun rights and AI caution at the same time. Guns, after all, really don't act without human involvement, whereas the whole point of AI is to act without human involvement.
I see this curious bit of misinformation repeated quite often, but believing it requires one to be quite credulous.

You have to believe Hamas casualty numbers but ignore IDF, AND you have to believe Russian casualty number but ignore Ukraine’s.

Weird, right?

If you listen to Ukrainians, who I have to believe are at least as credible as Hamas, something like 25k civilians died in Mariupol’ alone.
> "Unsecured AI also has the potential to facilitate production of dangerous materials, such as biological and chemical weapons."

> "You could ask them to design a more deadly coronavirus, provide instructions for making a bomb [...]

Moreover, I call total bullshit.

I'd like for these people to show me how an LLM can instruct them to make a better virus.

Where's the hypothetical open source LLM that understands viral genomics? At the level of a PhD student?

Where?

Please show me. I'm waiting.
Because hardly anyone knows what they're talking about (even if they think they do).

BTW. CrYpTo is all going to 0. Bitcoin is going up forever Laura.
Ditto. The Orson Welles story always cracks me up: https://youtu.be/c6xQd0vJGkg?si=uJe1Z9BtNkM1Ycso
> Hacker News is the place to post random news that have nothing to do with computers or hacking.

Thankfully. If HN was just posts about Docker or Web stacks I would have left a long time ago.
A little towards this is included in the British driving test, like the example of the boy missing the car behind the trees.

The "hazard perception test" is a video showing driving, and the student must identify (by clicking) the likely hazards.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SdQRkmdhwJs (I think, I can't watch it with sound right now.)
> New Dune however feels more like Young Adult Entertainment.

Paul Atreides (the main character) is 15 years old in Dune.

Most people that read and revered Dune probably did so during their young adult years.

I say this as someone that loves the Herbert's works, but it is really apparent that the first Dune book originated from an ecological article, and mushrooms (of the psychedelic kind).
> Not available in your region yet.

How does that work for a decentralised app?
It's actually the opposite imo. With polarizing events like some people will indeed dislike her greatly and judge her for it but others who agree with her position will rally behind her and go out of their way to hire her. As long as there are people in her camp, she has likely received an outcry of support and multiple interview requests with likely some leadership opportunities.
https://archive.is/SCgSa
Few other languages are as committed to backwards compatibility as Java though.
Plumbing is not a job no one wants. Picking strawberries is. Being a bin man is.

> Those farm workers don't even get minimum wages and live like modern day indentured slaves. Give them a FAANG salary and work culture and you will get millions applying

Where will the money for paying those salaries come from?

Of course the problem is the rich class wanting to exploit workers, that's something we know since before Marx, hence why he wrote Das Kapital...
> at a place that keeps saying we are all family

Is this actually happening now? It's a great trope and probably most of us have seen it in action, but I wonder if it's even reality any more.
Rel https://rxdb.info/replication.html
Everybody has a preferred learning style but I agree that presentation handouts (assuming the slides are well designed/done and with enough space) are a great way to highlight and add your notes and pay attention to the oral explanations and reasoning instead of furiously writing/scribbling and sometimes deciphering the hieroglyphs the prof wrote scratched on the green blackboard.
Yes, those games! Dune 1 directly uses a lot of movie imagery, down to Kyle MacLachlan's look, and it is also a very unusual hybrid of an adventure and strategy games, I struggle to name any other game that is like it.

I replayed it a few years ago, and it holds up really well.
It's obvious this company has zero care or compassion for it's employees. Their company culture starts with the CEO and co/founder Matthew Prince and he doesn't have the slightest clue of what that is. When you lead a company your primary role is to lead and care for the employees and in return profits will follow. Matthew has no leadership skills, his HR Department has no leadership skills. This will eventually be the eventual downfall of this mediocre company run by a less than mediocre CEO. Brittney should have chosen a better company to work for, starting by doing a little better background research on the company she chose to work for.
The "Dead Sea Effect" will have been going on already, but this certainly speeds it up.
The US does not officially consider Taiwan a sovereign nation so China doesn’t throw a tantrum, but in every other way it treats it like one.
Using GPT-4 to help with complex health issues (tweet)
Gary Gensler said the agency is taking the cybersecurity incident seriously
This fetishisation of zero copy, whatever that means, usually ends up in a less than optimal solution anyway.
Much of the original planning and ideas of Jodorowsky's Dune was eventually used in Jodorowsky and Mœbius' "The Incal" series[1].
Two years or so ago Taika Waititi and Jodorowsky announced they're working on a movie version of that[2]. I really really hope that one will get made.

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

[2] https://www.theincalmovie.com/
Well if we're all just spitballing here then what about the uniquely dangerous outcome of having the ruling class enslave the world's population in a techno-feudalistic surveillance state utilizing the AI that only they are allowed to own and use? If people thought overthrowing a cruel king was hard imagine if they have cameras everywhere and an army of killbots that can swarm any position in under 5 minutes. Which they might use even if their systems detect your potential crime coefficient gets too high, even if you haven't committed any crimes.

Or more mundane you're only paid for the seconds the AI detects that you're "really" working, of which there isn't much after most of it got automated to serve the wealthy who have escaped to their fallout shelters and private yachts to remotely control their empires and leave everyone else to starve to death from the climate collapse that wasn't averted.
well written...
Careful, comments like that get flagged around here
Every time one of these an article comes up that says that what Israel is doing (and has been doing for decades) against Palestine is *WRONG* , people come out of the woodwork to call it "antisemitism". (look in "showdead")

Yes, the WW2 Holocaust happened. That doesn't entitle the current Jews living in Israel to "1 free holocaust" coupon.

I took "Never Again" to actually be just that. But in reality it's "Never again to us, and anybody who denounces us is antisemitic!"
>from water that makes your teeth black

???
https://nitter.net/PatrickJBlum/status/1745900287565402503
Sign in with Google in Go – Eli Bendersky's Website
Isn't that wishful thinking?
"Apparently" doesn't mean "actually".
Your own?
In the UK at least you can take your test pretty much whenever, typically your instructor would say you’re ready to try and put you forward for it but there’s no requirement that I’m aware of to do a minimum number of hours.

We also don’t use simulators, UK driving students are on standard roads with other road users.
> The problem was that airlines want to skimp on the training.

The airlines weren't entirely at fault; Boeing misrepresented the necessity of serious pilot training.

The FAA - not Boeing - eventually mandated simulator-based training for pilots transitioning onto MCAS-equipped aircraft.
You miss the whole point here...
Things like making a more deadly coronavirus etc., are also trivialities, within the reach of any university professor, probably many PhD students in biomedicine.

Things that you can't publish, not because they're dangerous, but because it's boring and of no scientific interest.

Bombs are of course even easier, but so boring it's not even worth thinking about. I think people need to accept that the reason people don't do these kinds of things is only that they don't want to and that these things are relatively straightforward-- that there's no way to protect oneself and that the technical capability to do these things is and will forever remain widespread.
What are your thoughts on the sci-fi miniseries?
It was Meta that released llama -- a move which Harris specifically cites as irresponsible and dangerous. So he's certainly not writing in support of them -- rather the opposite.

There are plenty of reasons to disagree (Steve Bannon's ilk didn't need AI to "flood the zone with shit", they used Meta to do it, and it's really not obvious that AI increases the threat), but he's not writing propaganda for Meta.
The way we use transistors does not leave any room for tri-level circuits to be more efficient.

The high clock speeds we get rely on fast switching of power levels, this is generally done by targeting a voltage well beyond the switching threshold. The smallest transistors we produce generally have a big variability in amplification, they would be really bad for analogue circuitry, but in digital they just have to amplify enough, and it is ok if some of them amplify way better than that.

Now consider tri-state, we have to target a voltage in the middle band if we are to produce the middle signal, so less room for over-targeting means slower switching. We probably also need to supply the whole circuit a higher voltage to make proper room for the signal levels, that is a big L in efficiency.

One could build a circuit with three levels of input current, but that ends up more or less doubling the transistor count, so not an obvious win. I guess that is what the Setun did. If adding this complexity to a tube doesn't increase its cost much I guess that makes sense, but in the transistor world it is just a doubling.
I liked reading this article because it is almost 100% THE OPPOSITE of my viewpoint. It is healthy reading well written and well thought out arguments contrary to our own beliefs.

Where I think the author goes very much wrong is not in pointing out the dangers of open models, but rather ignoring the huge positive potential benefits to society of open systems.

I think Mistral is one example of thoughtful release of open model weights. Mistral-7B and mixtral-8-7B may be black boxes, but they are also powerful and useful engineering tools for building a huge range of useful and interesting applications without relying on big tech. Obviously, Hugging Face, Meta, and other companies are also making important contributions.

I think it is important to evaluate potential gains along with potential risks.
> Karen Walsh, the president of the UW Board of Regents, said she was “alarmed” and “disgusted” by Gow’s actions, which were, she stated, “wholly and undeniably inconsistent with his role as chancellor.” But Gow’s actions were neither consistent nor inconsistent with being chancellor. Strictly, his actions were outside the scope of that role. Or they could be considered so, if most Americans simply chose to see the situation that way.

People's actions outside of work are still an indication of who they are as a person, and being an effective leader generally requires that your subordinates have some level of respect for you. As the article itself admits, the majority (58%) of Americans consider porn to be immoral. Most people aren't going to have much respect for someone who engages in behavior they view as immoral, particularly if the individual has a long history of such behavior (as is the case here).

The leader of an organization is also viewed by people as a representative of the organization's values. If people view the leader of an organization as immoral, it will deter them from engaging with that organization.
So they want to stifle AI from normal people. All these restrictions are something only large corporations can adhere to, meaning any hobbyist stuff is immediately dead and no new competitors can emerge.

Bad actors of course will still have their “unsecure” models and those will just be couple years behind and sold on the dark web with other illicit materials
Problem is, it's not a good explanation. Almost none of the arguments actually require the given syntax, and they invent problems where there aren't necessarily any, as demonstrated by so many existing languages.
Do you mean we’ve become to lenient or too strict? I feel like image outside of work has always been something that employers have concerned themselves with and anything legal but untoward has been perilous for anyone in a highly paid career that’s image conscious. I guess what I’m asking, was it ever not like this? The internet has just made it easier for the overly image conscious to purge the ranks of unseemly people.
This would not be possible to implement in a lot of businesses where the "public image" of the employee (even during non working hours) matters to the company and its business.

But I agree with the argument "Judge the art, not the artist".

As Camus attempted to portray in "The stranger", the protagonist was on "a trial that judged his character and the ways in which he integrated in the society, not on a trial for killing an Arab".
Put "faster support" and then don't do anything different (or maybe do, it's money after all)
One of the best projects I saw was made during the “early” days of generative AI (2022) and the strange output fits perfectly the story.

Summer Island by Steve Coulson [1] is a short comic book made by an art director who can't draw well. He used the AI to its strengths.

[1] https://ianetica.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Summer-Islan...
The Airbus A330 and A350 share the same type rating.

In fact, they do not in the United States.

https://registry.faa.gov/TypeRatings/

In Europe, they do:

https://www.easa.europa.eu/en/downloads/11737/en

However even within the same type rating you may have additional training or restrictions. For instance the FAA prohibited Southwest from using the same pilots across three generations of 737 (Classic, NG, MAX), so Southwest ditched the Classics when they bought the MAX.
It depends on the application, but four hours of duration is typical.

You'll find that most new solar installs in states with a lot of existing solar will include storage already, so that they shift some of their power to times of higher power proces.
This is why none of this should have been invented.
Basically best to understanding Boeing and the US Government as one and the same the only difference is Boeing has a ticker symbol.
This happened a few times to 737.

With picture
https://twitter.com/HawaiiNewsNow/status/1658175996925734912

Another one.
https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/Avelo-flight-from-Tw...

It's not specific to 737. 787 also had a bunch of cracked pilot window issues not related to external impact.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eemw9RNkU_k
Thanks for your response. What I'm understanding is that it sounds unbelievable/fake. Perhaps I should focus a bit more on the meta-learning I've been doing (transferable skills) and showcase hard evidence for everything I claim.

The word expert was a bit unfortunate. By expert I meant compared to someone who isn't a programmer. I suspect you mean it in the sense that it is a person who has worked for 20 years in compilers, for example. To them I'm not an expert. But the thing is that such a person could explain to me what they did and I'd understand most of it in most cases. A strategy consultant could do the same thing (I'd understand that too). Explain code to the business consultant though and there is 0 understanding, unless they do it as a hobby.

So far: programming, physics, math, theology (Buddhism - e.g. reading scriptures of Myanmar from a 1000 years ago and learning there are many interpretations of the texts) and related fields have been fields that seem hard to grok. One of the reasons I like programming is precisely because I found it hard to grok and still find it hard to grok in advanced areas.

Psychology, marketing, music (depending on the sub-discipline) and UX-design have been easily grokkable. People teach me a fact and I am capable of understanding it and applying it and reason deeper about it.

In my opinion, the hard part isn't learning, the hard part is grokking. With programming (at uni) I've often asked myself whether I was too stupid to understand it. I've never had that issue with psychology, game-design, business (courses) and UX-design (I did a one month full time bootcamp for fun).
Sounds were quite familiar to this anecdote from Feynman about his learning path:

https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/8691/in-what-...
She made a video of the whole conversation??? What else do you need to make a decision?? You heard both sides, take a position, (by the way, Milk Toast is not a position)....
> Just for your info, Israel killed more civilians since October than Russia did in Ukraine since 2014

Just for your info, that's complete BS. The people making this claim are comparing the deaths in Ukraine which the UN has independently confirmed (and discriminated from military casualties) against claims which have not been independently confirmed nor discriminated from military casualties.

Russia does not allow investigators behind their lines, so the official figures are a significant undercount - a fact which the UN themselves have specifically called out themselves as being the case. It is entirely possible and even likely that more Ukrainian civilians died in Mariupol alone than in all of Gaza.

At a minimum, as of more than a year ago, there were 10,300 new graves dug around Mariupol, as seen from satellite pictures. Pictures of those graves suggest that many of them contain more than one body, which was also the case in Lyman when the mass graves there were excavated. But none of the new graves in Mariupol are in the UN statistics because they cannot be considered "verified" without access.

And the stories of what has been going on in Mariupol from the handful of people that managed to escape and get back to Ukraine are every bit as bad as Gaza if not worse. And that's one city.

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-erasing-mariup...
A site that tracks the price of a Big Mac in every US McDonald's
That American universities have "foreign policies" is pretty damn obvious given how different the treatment of Russia's war and occupation of parts of Ukraine is from the treatment of Israel's war and occupation of Palestine.
ATACMS and GMLRS don't have Russian equivalents that are worth a damn. Same with Javelin, PZH-2000, Paladin, and the cruise missiles I listed. And hell, the ancient Bradley is knocking out the latest Russian tanks with it's 25mm chain gun...
If you need AI model to tell you how to make a bomb you are incapable of securing the materials and building one and now people want to “gatekeep” biological and chemical weapons as if the price of entry wasn’t already excessive to anyone who would have otherwise used these
There is that old lottery promo "you can't win if you don't play". There is this quote: "You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don't take. Even though there is only a 1-5% probably of scoring". There is the saying 9 times down 10 times up.

Getting lucky is a function of trying, as well. Saying you have to get "lucky" isn't about luck, it's about a mentality of keep at it.
If it's a rank and file employee then sure. This is about a university chancellor, though. I think it changes the optics significantly.
It’s pretty wild, considering that I haven’t had any of those issues and I’m on Apple stuff continually all the way back to next step days. I guess I’ve just had good luck in comparison.
I’ve been sponsoring on GitHub for probably two years now, didn’t even realize the paid plans went away (that was what I initially sponsored for).

Have nothing else to add other than [name redacted] has been awesome.
One convenient feature if you run a third instance on a server is that you can "distrust" the server by encrypting the files you sync (this is done at share level), then only entering the decryption password on the trusted end devices. That way plaintext file content doesn't sit on the server.

It's worth checking exactly what is encrypted as I don't think folder and file structure and names were encrypted.
so what? That doesn’t change what I’m saying.
Boeing made a business decision to brand a new model as a "737". They wanted to trade of the reputation of the 737. Instead they tarnished it.