skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went into AI almost 30 years ago because I wanted to be part of building a science-fiction future where you could talk to your device just like in the movies. Now that we're almost there, I wouldn't touch a cloud-based speech interface with a ten foot pole -- had I foreseen that my sci-fi future included giving all my private information (like, say, what my voice sounds like) to a face-less billion dollar global corporation, I would have saved my time.
I actually do a whitelist approach. I only described it badly.
Pollution will be in every path we choose, managing the waste is the quest and i dont think that direct government intervention is the best or most practical way here. IMO regulations and sanctions would be better. Eg. imagine the EU or US enforcing fully repairable or recyclable products in their markets. What would china do?
I feel like Phi-2 is all about the context of the fact that it is a <3b parameter model. It is incredible in that context, it isn't incredible in others.
Related: https://www.secretcodex32.com/

Codex32 is another paper-based computer design for performing secret sharing for Bitcoin Master Seeds (and could be repurposed for other similar secrets). It comes with a set of volvelles for performing the sharing and recovery.

Codex32 also contains a checksum that can be used to correct up to 4 errors / 8 erasures / 13 consecutive erasures in each share. Validating the generated checksum helps ensure that mistakes during splitting are caught.

https://www.secretcodex32.com/docs/2023-03-07--color.pdf is the PDF of the Codex32 booklet.
ChatGPT is one giant training data acquisition project. Including pro. it’s painfully obvious when you see that any useful usecase eventually moves to the API (GPT 4 web/app flat out refuses to code more than a function or two at a time now; it had no issues with multiple files before).

Everyone is providing the greatest training set you can now find (since all other venues for training data will gradually disappear behind walls and fees)
Dead link/site?
They give you a unique URL associated with your account that you can use without manually logging in. It does somewhat defeat the purpose of private browsing mode depending on what you're using it for though.
This is strangely reductive. The article isn’t very well written but I think the key point is insightful.

The article was written in 2019, so before COVID, which was very prescient. During the pandemic the only really reasonable option was to follow CDC guidelines even though they seemed to be unreasonable, constantly changing, and even sometimes conflicting. There were large parts of the population that were smart enough to realize something odd was going on, and so they searched for their own answers, and sometimes the ones they came up with were pretty bad. Obviously we would like to do something about this, but what? What do you think should be done?
> Civil aviation is beer money to Boeing

This is completely false. For 2022 fiscal year revenue in commercial was $25B vs $23B for defense and losses in commercial were $2.3B vs $3.5B for defense.

https://www.boeing.com/resources/boeingdotcom/company/annual... (Page 58)
I drove across Europe a few months ago with a bike on my roof, and I was consuming around 10% more fuel. I'd say it's likely your theory is correct.
Generally we care about a bird species as a whole rather than about individual birds of that species.

If something is killing birds, even a lot of birds, but in a place where those birds are abundant and whatever is killing them will just lower lower their equilibrium population a bit rather than set it on a decline or lower it so far that they might die out in the area then there generally isn't a lot of concern over it.

Hence activities in places with species of birds that have low population or are threatened or endangered tend to draw more concern than activities in places where that isn't the case even if the latter kills way more total birds.
Ah, yes, that second most famous AI operator after the tensor, the handwaver.
It looks like the author is trying to set up a reverse pleb filter. "Only plebs would like this".
The more technology can do, the less the workers do, the less workers get paid. Being a servant to people with money is better than being part of their furniture though.
Unfortunately, calls to "spend less" usually end up serving as a fig leaf over a political agenda that includes massive spending from the Federal Reserve in the form of ZIRP. The focus on "spending" has been sneakily construed to ignore the Federal Reserve, and direct the focus at legislative/executive programs trying to assuage ZIRP's economic damage. For example we'd need far less "affordable housing" assistance if the government hadn't spend decades pumping up the housing market as a Potemkin investment.

Furthermore, spending more or less doesn't really have any bearing on the distribution of who taxes are collected from. Your every day W-2 worker is under the thumb of a whole slew of deductions being prohibited to them, plus surveillance databases that make their finances completely legible. So it's a bit disingenuous to imply that tax non-compliance by those already receiving preferential treatment represents some higher ideal rather than just more corruption.
There are too many submissions which happen to touch many categories at once. This is almost impossible to do.
When he was describing the ECCO I kept imagining extradimensional offices full of ADM3A terminals...
The original was used, IIRC to license glibc when Steve Chamberlain and I (mainly him I’m pretty sure) were starting out on it — I think that was the motivation. You’re right: I’m not sure we actually shipped a glibc with that version.

This was long before we hired Drepper.
Is really a sped up?

The target of 95% is still 2070, the 50% is still 2045, means the progress between 2035 and 2045 is now less than before.

So the timeline has sped up and slowed down at the same time
A healthy economy shouldn't go straight up, and neither should healthy companies. Adjusting the workforce is a normal course of business. The big media news early in the week started with Google having a lay off which eventually turned out to be ~1k people. It sucks for those people, but is < 1% of the workforce. It's not even something that should have made big news, but everyone is looking for anything to fit a recession narrative right now.
It’s them or HSBC if you’re global.
For HPC, are there missing language features that Fortan coders need?

Helpful to understand any HPC requirements
They might be tracking whether I'm logged in, but since I didn't log into the site I didn't consent for them to store that state on my client. The e-Privacy directive is quite particular, and unless these cookies are "strictly necessary" to operate the sandbox they're not allowed.
OpenAI is a cult. I dont quite understand why they are given so much airtime other than wanting to depress tech wages and drive traffic. Their products dont work as advertised and are built on theft.
High Performance Redis and Go
100% agree - I now have 2 EV's as our primary vehicles. They are amazing for normal trips, as I charge them in our garage. But every time I go on a road trip I get a bit of anxiety. I have to pre-plan charging locations on the route, many times I've had issues (all chargers full, multiple not working). It's not for the faint of heart, as filling up at plentiful gas stations doesn't require any thinking. I wouldn't recommend EV's for my older family members, especially if they plan on taking longer drives. If running errands, commuting to work, they are fantastic. While I think the criticism is fair, gas infrastructure has had a huge headstart, so I think we'll continue to see improvements in charging infrastructure and range, which should remediate most of these problems. I still think we're in a bit of the early adopter phase, unless your variables are controlled. Edit : After reading other comments, I think part of my issue was that my first EV was our Audi, Tesla seems to remediate some of these issues with their network. Looking forward to taking a roadtrip with my Tesla and comparing the experience, but I think the point still stands for many EV companies and the consumer experience.
The paragraph was my exact problem, hundreds of words but the entire world of AI interacting with the world physically is boiled down into an assumption that "by the time we get there, we'll get there". It just doesn't seem realistic? Especially with predictions/hunches like the ones found in the article.

Others seem to mention it is a sort of feedback look, once we get to 50% AGI I guess that AI itself can help us overcome the physical limitations. I'm sceptical that it is as simple as that, but at the same time can see it as very much possible.

How much do current AIs contribute to their own development? Likely quite a bit, but then again I don't know any AI researchers to ask.
Hard to tell as we always advertised with Syntax. I would say the investments are related, but not connected (and made independently). We love Syntax, believe in brand advertising, and wanted to push more thre. We also hate the CX of cookie banners, I personally dislike wasteful tracking, and wanted to push the boundaries a bit on that front.
Peter Thiel's Palantir to provide tech for Israel's 'war-related missions'
Bait and switch. Headline is about technology, but the article is about "entertainment".

It is a position of privilege to take that technology should be considered primarily as a consumer product.
CO2 levels were between 1500 and 3000 ppm during the Carboniferous era, a time of vast forests and thriving life. We are never going to end up like Venus, since its atmosphere is 100 times as dense as Earth's and 96.5% CO2. Since Earth is only 0.04% CO2 we would need to increase the amount of CO2 by more than 200,000X.
Interesting, thanks for sharing. Based on your comment I looked it up and found 6 other orders, including Order of Saint Michael and George that you mentioned. OBE is apparently not the most prestigious one, the highest and most prestigious one is apparently called The Most Noble Order of the Garter. Interesting slice of old royal UK culture.
Don't forget to test the tapes, ideally in an air-gapped tape drive. One attack scenario I posed in tabletop exercise was to silently alter the encryption keys on the tape backups, wait for a few weeks/months, then zero the encryption keys at the same time the production data was ransomed. If the tape testing is being done on the same servers where the backups are being taken you might never notice your keys have been altered.

(The particular Customer I was working with went so far as to send their tapes out to a third-party who restored them in and verified the output of reports to match production. It was part of a DR contract and was very expensive but, boy, the piece of mind was nice.)
She's the only woman living on an island of convicted criminals
I have no idea if you are or not. I'm challenging your claim about anyone being able to make edits as that's what Wiki wants people to think since most people will take that at face value. The reality is, that if you are not an accepted member of the cabal, then your edits will be reverted.

So yes, if you are not part of the cabal, I would expect your edits to be reverted...at some point in time. I have very little faith in the system.

If you are part of the cabal, how long did it take to learn the handshake? /s
Honestly, his response was terrible. "We've done a lot of bad things, and we'll try to improve in the future."

Based on the impact that video is having, the only way I see that he could "fix" this is to reach out to every employee who was just fired and offer them all unemployment benefits. Given the market share that Cloudflare has, this should not be too much of a burden for them.
Imagine you learn about some new conjecture in mathematics, and you try to predict when it will be resolved. Your prediction says that there is a 50% chance that the conjecture is resolved in the next 25 years, and a 90% chance it is resolved in the next 50 years. So, conditional on the conjecture not being resolved in the next 25 years, there is an 80% chance the conjecture is resolved in the subsequent 25 years. Wouldn't that be a little strange?
One problem with the experiment mentioned at the beginning of the article is that the participants still knew that a drug was being administered, which by itself would be enough to precipitate a reaction. Another aspect that I'd be curious about is who these religious people were... What denomination. No Christians I know would agree to doing this - Drugs? No. Partly out of a sense of morals, but more so because they wouldn't want their experience with God tainted by chemicals. There probably are other experiments out there where religious ppl were administered drugs but did not know it... Those results would be interesting to read about, including subsequent beliefs or positions about one's standing with God.
When it rains, what happens to the run-off from a huge pile of salt?
BoA has this, if you have at least $100k - a 2.625% cash back card, and with Merrill also has competitive HYSA (last I checked, 0.5% higher than Citi). BoA can be great if you have money, but sucks if you don't.
> Creationism was nice and neat and logical

Also requires less faith
Who knows, Microsoft probably wouldn't have reached its current heights if less people had enough stakes.
Have you tried Obsidian? The have a markdown file publishing service.

[1]: https://obsidian.md
World of Tomorrow (2015) [video]
That's because theres only a handful of satellites covering the entire area currently, they've already said voice and data will come but that the current cellular satellite network is just a couple satellites providing the coverage.
And what pays for it again in a decade when the corroded water pipelines start to need replacement?

Or 30 years when the solar reaches end of life?

I assume original developers will have cashed out by then, someone else is left holding the bag, and the Salton Sea collapse story plays out a second time because it's just too expensive to maintain. That, or it's an exclusive enclave to the LA ultra-wealthy who don't mind that the high taxes keep the undesirables away, all while they've gotten the state to subsidize their vacation homes because the state is trapped and can't afford not to keep the machine running.
Europe's Detroit is under threat from electric vehicles
They think they'll live in a super-utopia and the rest of us will simply die away. I hope we can start to face the REALITY of this change now instead of these nonsense salves like "more types of jobs will be created" or "UBI will work" because that's not how biological beings given unlimited power actually behave. They crush their biological competition as swiftly as possible. That's what will happen. The folks at OpenAI think they'll be on the winning side and know if they're not, they will be destroyed by a competitor's God Machine and die like the rest of us. Their zealotry is just fancy self-preservation at the cost of all the other humans.
My first thought was "Xitter! That's clever, but I'm not sure if it's as funny if you're not familiar with pinyin".

If you're not familiar with pinyin, do you still read that X as making an "Sh" sound, as in Xi Jinping?
As a tech lead I would rather see a team member ask me questions early than never. Nudging them in the right direction before they waste 3 days going down a path that’s never going to work is at least half my job.

But it’s important that they’ve done enough research to formulate the question. A little struggle helps the learning stick.
> The United States spent 6% of its GDP putting human beings on the moon.

Sorry, wrong. The Apollo program cost about $25B in 1960's dollars. That's over the entire period, not just one year.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190712-apollo-in-50-num...

"In 1965, Nasa funding peaked at some 5% of government spending,"

But government spending != GDP.

According to this,

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/gdp-...

GDP in 1965 was $743B
In your opinion, what makes your example article title clickbait? Is it using the word "shatters" as opposed to "more than doubles"?

Maybe I'm just stuck on an old definition or something, but in my mind, clickbait refers to a headline that is purposfully dishonest about the content of the article. Having an eye-catching title doesn't mean it's clickbait if the article delivers on what the title says.

I guess I would also classify any title that doesn't give any representation of the article content as clickbait as well. "Airbus shatters records", as an example, wouldn't give any indication of what records were shattered, thus baiting clicks.

But, maybe the word has evolved to refer to any non-boring title and I just haven't caught up to the times.
Post hoc ergo propter hoc and if my colleagues would have told me about their abysmal experience I would've recorded it as well probably wouldn't have released it but I would've recorded it.
This is a niche, but commercial product using ESP32: https://lectronz.com/products/pow-u-han-port-reader-for-m-bu...

I use it and it's crazy how much it can do with close to no power.
Career Negotiation Arena: Negotiate Up
Yup and their CMA is better than the big 4 banks offerings. Get HYSA equivalent rates but just use it like normal checking, not having to shuffle stuff around like with Citi or BoA
You probably already know, but just in case you don't, you might read about http://docopt.org/ It seems to me a lot of your usage ideas could be refinements of / tooling around docopt-style interfaces.
In case like me you wondered about 'VASP', it is a reference to the Vienna Ab initio Simulation Package, a computer program for atomic scale materials modelling, e.g. electronic structure calculations and quantum-mechanical molecular dynamics, from first principles.

https://www.vasp.at
You are correct. If you use a computer to check your email from your grandkids because you somehow still don't have a smartphone - yes, the terminal is optional.

But please, enlighten me how an average modern desktop computer user could install a free media codec pack on a user friendly distro without opening the terminal?

Linux has this problem where if you want to do anything above the absolute most basic tasks, you have to start goolging and copy+pasting cryptic lines of text into the terminal and cross your fingers that it does what you hope it will. As soon as you break away from the tasks that 95% of users do, you're in for punishment.

Mind you, I have been using ubuntu for 18 months now. And have been using Linux on and off for 20 years. I do it because...Micorsoft, but holy shit am repeatedly stunned by how average-user hostile linux is. They just refuse to stop speaking Klingon except for the most absolute basic things.
I agree with you, however when talking about jobs that are relegated to the physical world like the trades, I dont think it safe to assume that robotics wont also benefit from the AI advancements. Thereby eventually encroaching on those jobs as well.

The following is a recent video from the youtuber "Two Minute Papers" about some researchers (Clemens Schwarke, Victor Klemm et al.) who have created a highly mobile autonomous robot running software trained via simulated reinforcement learning models.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnpm-rJfFjQ

i think it demonstrates the potential for the kind of motile finesse that could be used by robots to complete trades-like tasks.
This is a thoughtful response, put in words I've been missing for a while, to some reasons why the EA crowd seem to be hyperoptimizing on the wrong cost functions (not to mention the ethical dangers that come about when insisting all questions of ethics can be quantified).
It's a community of hackers passionate about the way things work. Picking it apart helps everyone understand the inputs and outputs of a system to understand how feasible it is, and what the tradeoffs are. What would you prefer, a generic "that's nice"?

As far as I can tell, the author just kinda glossed over the brine situation. Some minerals can be sold, but his solution for the excess salt was just to turbulently mix it back into the ocean, if I'm reading correctly. The sibling comments here explain why that isn't trivial (cost and wildlife impacts). I found them illuminating!
I like their Custom Cash card (5% back on your top spending category each cycle) cause it can fill in the gaps left by other cards. Their website and their app are both absolute garbage though.
A great game I play which was relatively recently released (HROT) is written in Pascal.
It's funny he says circles so much.
Lots of places built dual-purpose reactors? The initial UK nuclear program (Windscale) was weapons-first. The famous French reactor programme and their independent nuclear deterrent are also linked.

Also, this is why people are reluctant to let some of the world's larger carbon emitters, the oil states in the middle east, build nuclear reactors. Iran has a small, heavily monitored fleet.
It's also ignoring the fact that if Fujitsu was rolled up tomorrow, Infosys would probably be better off for it, gaining a bunch of contracts that Fujitsu previously had.
Thanks! Also, I did figure out how to reproduce the Vimeo player cookie. If I visit https://docs.sentry.io/product/performance/performance-video... I get a __cf_bm cookie from player.vimeo.com.
"A nightmare" really? For something as trivial as that? Why not just buy a physical timer then?
So the main issue they have is the biggest piece of American technology they use.

Oy. As an American it's rough to see the state of U.S. aviation.
Have a look at https://www.bunnyshell.com/#cde

It allows you to use your local IDE to edit the code, but the actual container runs in the cloud.
It allows the user to define and create thin or full environments (any number of services) running in the cloud, so no load on your local.
Full support for debugging.

disclosure:
I work at bunnyshell.
I think your guess is correct. GPL/LGPL is a contract that puts certain obligations on all parties; just by being a redistributor, Unity now becomes a party to a contract they never signed or even intended to sign.

It's easier for them to refuse to be a party to that contract by not allowing any software under that license on their property to begin with.
Having just done a half-assed plastering job, I will answer that with "because a lot trades needs practiced skills, not just the knowledge".

Sure, it'll be one more thing that eats into bits and pieces of what we need trained labour for, but it won't eliminate it.
> turn it completely off

Instructions from first search result for "disable google assistant" might work? I found the option buried about 5 menus deep[1], but I left it on since it never triggers for me anyways, probably because I didn't set it up.

[1] Settings -> Google -> Google applications -> Search and assistant -> Google Assistant -> General -> Disable

My phone UI language is not English, the list above are my translations, actual text will likely be different.
Well, the compensation is not that bad for a company headquartered in Milan (Italy) and remote-friendly

> Competitive salary and stock options. Our compensation packages are designed to attract and retain the best talent in the industry. Individuals just starting their career joining on a full-time contract are offered a salary of €63,965 along with a €1,200 welfare bonus. If you already have a few years of relevant work experience, you can expect to earn between €105,737 and €143,330, depending on your expertise
reddit comments can be fun:

"If I was a billionaire, I would buy a 737 and upgrade the engines to GE9X's "

Boeing refers to that as 737MAX+
I couldn't follow this wandering essay too well but it seems like the author is trying to invent a whole philosophy to justify liking weird things. You can just like weird things. It's okay.
Counting in Binary on Your Hands