skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what's the premise here? this thing will become iteratively better until it could potentially be capable of bad outcomes?

if that's the case, how much resources do you think should be dedicated to regulating it? more or less than currently identified existential risks? which entities should be paying for the regulatory controls?

what's the proposal here?

it's odd because only this one single company that is hedging it's entire existence on "oh boy what if this thing is dangerous some time in the near future" is doing silly stunts like this. why aren't they demanding nvidia start building DRM enabled thermite charges into A100s?
Sadly, nowadays the shareholder will sell the shares and buy properties to pass on to children. Land owner is fast becoming the only profession with inter generational prospects. That's why a property crash is the only hope for a return to a normal economy (where people run businesses, develop skills, do actual work)
Evil + NewYork … was inadvertently funny.
How many loot boxes would it open under the same criterium?

/s
>"“Unfortunately, the technology underpinning our critical infrastructure is inherently insecure because of decades of software developers not being held liable for defective technology. That has led to incentives where features and speed to market have been prioritized against security, leading our nation vulnerable to cyber invasion. That has to stop,” Easterly said."

How they can make software liable when nobody, including government wants to pay for security. The development and testing costs will rise maybe 10 times. Alternative why connect critical things to Internet at all? Pay through the nose and keep physically separate and secure network.
I've the entire solar system is there a way to know if it's a first?
Very true. There are those who want a computer to make suggestions and those who want the computer to do what they tell it to.

I suspect those who want the computer to make suggestions have evil intentions.
my grandfather was a custom cabinet builder, and for whatever reason 4 legged tables were his absolute nemesis. i have the last remaining 3 legged table of his. it's a round table, so i thought the 3 legs were a design choice. that notion was corrected when my dad started laughing at remembering his dad's sheer frustration when he realized 3 of 4 table legs were the same length...on multiple occasions.
I'm more worried about a scenario like Elon Musk buying the company for the data and making the data available to extremists who would love to target people of certain ethnic backgrounds who happen to be in positions of power.
I just went back and did some new combinations with early ones and I'm still getting intermittent delays even though all early combinations must be done, so I assume part of this is just the server itself being a little overloaded and so even responses that are cached remotely but not locally may experience delays.
Yes (insofar as Microsoft Teams can be said to work at all, even natively on Windows), but calls don't work. I never get the call ring--only the "missed call" notification. They do work on Chrome on Linux, however. RHEL
ChatGPT: Fart generator https://chat.openai.com/share/ab325bcc-6963-4212-bff4-5e408c...
Dot com bubble burst - In 2002 I had a job interview and the lunch portion was at an outdoor BBQ place. A construction worker was listening to our interview. When we got up to leave, he asked my interviewer for a job interview. He said he was an out of work Solaris sys-admin.

Things seem pretty bad right now. It seems like 2023 created fewer new tech jobs. But mostly it is a gut feeling based on anecdotes and news stories w/o hard numbers.
There's a great video explanation too with interviews of people behind the scenes:

https://youtu.be/4HHUGnHcDQw?si=APHEQwVxTvcOfC5c&t=382
Superhuman artificial intelligence can improve human decision-making by incr...
That one was from UK BioBank data and published in April. This one is from John Hopkins in the USA and was published in July.
Followup:

Residents fear Newfoundland shipwreck will be swept to sea before its story revealed

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/residen...
Ask HN: How to learn to solve problems using AI?
As a generalist software engineer, my first instinct to solve problems (day-to-day stuff like making my life better with productivity tools and the like) using conventional software engineering techniques using a typical programming language. However, with the rise of AI tools/APIs, there are other ways to solve these problems by leveraging these.

How does one go about learning this muscle? If this is something that will build over time in your brain, any means to fast track this by reading through application whitepapers/inner workings of tools etc.?
i discovered monkey pox :(
why do we say a rectangle has four sides, when it's just 2 reflected
WFM on NixOS unstable. To use screen sharing I need to log into GNOME with X, not Wayland.
> the way the borders of Iraq were re-drawn, Iraq was completely cut off from any sources of fresh water.

In the geography which with I am familiar, Iraq has two incredibly famous rivers and the Persian Gulf is actually salt water.
Here's the text of the article directly:

> During his online tirade, Tan posted photos of his private liquor stash, and indicated to a fellow Twitter-user that he was inebriated.

Describing the tweets adjacent to the offensive one gives useful context. This is not the reporter dredging up some irrelevant trivia from deep in Tan's past or something.

Readers might not know who Tan is. It is even more essential context to explain that:

> Garry Tan, the CEO of Y Combinator and a heavy campaign donor to efforts to oust progressive politicians [...]

> Tan is a well-heeled donor for San Francisco’s moderate causes and candidates. He sits on the board of Grow SF, a political pressure group favoring moderate causes and candidates and targeting progressives. Tan gave more than $100,000 to the 2022 campaign to recall then-District Attorney Chesa Boudin. He gave at least $20,000 to the 2021 school board recall, too.

If Tan was just some random person with no influence and no relation to SF politics this would probably not be much of a story. That he is one of the major donors to the political rivals of these supervisors is the reason this is a political shitstorm. Tan's tweet damages the reputation of his "Grow SF" group and the candidates they support, and has possible further political implications:

> Peskin today asked the City Attorney’s Office to look into requiring public disclosures from recipients of political donations from “purveyors of hate and violence.”
Again bringing up post from NIH from 2022-2023 concerning this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36912594
Actually it seems pretty accurate. Novelty-seeking is a well known phenomenon in curious individuals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novelty_seeking

Literally getting dopamine rewards for seeing something new is what keeps people glued to tik tok feeds and twitter.

I tend to get bored halfway through a book if it is predictable.
Sorry - I meant a workday at the GE Research lab you mentioned.
Or an intentional marketing tactic to make it seem more powerful.

Redacted = dangerous
The radicalized pool is important in the context. If I, Joe-Blow Nobody send out a tweet saying "Bob from accounting is a dick, somebody should deal with that", there's no real threat there. By far the most likely person to do anything about that is me, and if I don't, it's basically a guarantee that nobody will.

If instead, I'm a respected member of a political movement with a pool of radicals, and my target is a rival to my political movement, and I target the radicalized members of my political movement with a call for violence by relying on the movement's normalized justifications for violence, then there is a much, much greater chance of someone rising to the call.
There's clearly a sweet spot in the amount of entropy/unpredictability that is "interesting". Otherwise observing white noise would be the most interesting thing imaginable.

I don't know the details, but probably you would want to seek unpredictability in a higher level representation of the observed state. White noise is highly unpredictable per pixel, but will get a very predictable representation after a layer or two of featurization if the features are trained/designed for real world observations.
Again, I am impressed by your magnificent intellect. Thank you for sharing a little history of how your acquired it.
There's an obvious solution: .local for mDNS, and any (or all) of .Iocal, .locaI, or .IocaI for internal use.
Then you have to also agree that Lamborghini cars are Audis (/Volkswagens), and before that they were Chryslers.

> Patrick Mimran sold Lamborghini to the Chrysler Corporation in 1987 for US$25 million. [...] In 1998, Mycom Setdco and V'Power sold Lamborghini to the Volkswagen Group where it was placed under the control of the group's Audi division.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Lamborghini
The particular chat.svg file in the linked post is (hopefully) not the way that the data will truly be "redacted". This file feels more like an export from a design mockup, as I cannot imagine SVG being the default output format for interacting with OpenAI models.

But I also have extreme doubts that proper redaction can be done robustly. The design mockup image suggests that this will all be done as a step subsequent to response generation. Given the abundance of "prompt jailbreaks", a determined adversary is going to get around this.
Wikipedian Osama Khalid celebrated his 30th birthday in jail
It says "First discovery" e.g. https://i.imgur.com/iagu3WZ.png
I' not sure I would agree that you need any sort of "moral framework" to know how to do the right thing, such as religion.

Knowing how to do the right thing is simple human decency.
You can say anything as long as you add a footnote saying "This is not intended as a threat" apparently.
I went from Pocket Casts to open-sourced AntennaPod, and I highly recommend it. It's available on F-Droid.
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> The rationales for the introduction of driverless cars include eliminating human error and allowing people with disabilities to get about without having to rely on other human beings. A more convincing rationale is that the corporations which own them can keep income that would otherwise have gone on drivers’ wages.

That's just your opinion man. It's disgusting how many people get maimed or murdered due to the inattention or impatience of human drivers.

Anyway, multiple things can be true at once. But if humans continue to drive the way they do, they don't deserve their cars.
> why can't people that loose hearing later, learn sign language, and thus stay active, just like the deaf.

Did their friends and family learn sign language as well? People who are deaf young tend to get a social circle who can communicate with deaf people, while old people are unlikely to rebuild all of that.
Fair coins tend to land on the same side they started: Evidence from 350,757 flips [revised 10 Oct 2023]

https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.04153
I think the problem is pretty interesting though. Better definitions of curiosity might still have this failure mode. Human curiosity definitely does!
In general domains are set to auto-renew. The problem isn't remembering to do it. It's generally one of two things.

First, the payment method on file with the registrar became invalid. Often because of turnover as you say -- the old IT manager's company credit card got turned off and the payment failed emails went to their email address, also turned off. Sometimes for other reasons, e.g. the credit card company changed the card number because of a data breach and then the non-payment notification got caught in a spam filter.

Second, there's somebody whose job it is to check which of the company's 5000 domain names are still being used. They find one with no public DNS records, or old ones that point to nothing. They call up the web server team and the email team and ask what it is, they've never heard of it because it's not them using it. So they cancel the domain -- and the company doesn't even notice at first because the internal systems carry on using the name as ever, until somebody else registers it and starts using it.
I'm not exactly charging, my only ask is that you contribute to the community I want to build in some way. If you want to pay me, we can find a sum that works for you, but you could also teach me a skill I find useful, or find some other way to make it work:)
Uh, no.

Push is not locked to Live at all. I wrote the support for it for Ardour.

Osmose uses MPE, just like other MPE devices, and it's not weird, its actually quite elegant.

Sysex was always meant to support device specific control, so of course it's "strange". And almost every bit of MIDI software "deals with" sysex in some way.

"Pretty much every DAW has some non-standard plugin/scripting system" - there is no "standard" scripting system, and in fact most DAWs have no scripting facilities at all.

CLAP offers nothing that existing plugin APIs do not, except for modulation ala Bitwig, and since no other DAW so far can do modulation like Bitwig, the value proposition here is low (not zero, but low).
as mentioned elsewhere this is from nearly six years ago and uses a very crude model for curiosity - and poses this as some sort of unsolveable problem instead of a decision made by the researchers in order to investigate particular behaviors of the systems they were working with.

It is a fun thought experiment - how do our brains systems manage to reward seeking new information without getting trapped by simplistic pseudo-RNG patterns in nature
Sorry, the GP has it right. I've worked in that industry, and (like lots of other industries) there's plenty of money (even selling the output at "normal people" prices) sloshing around to pay everyone involved a decent wage. Instead, most of the proceeds are extracted by the people who have the most power. That this will (in the long-term) cripple the entire enterprise (I think we're already seeing it) is not a concern for those making the money now.
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This seems highly suseptible to what a human might consider irrelevant randomness. Given random images just shuffling indefinitely a curious individual will just give up and say, even though I can't predict the next thing it doesn't pertain to the domain of curiosity.
It's not a complete definition for a number of reasons, but it's a crucial component of curiousity.

If you're not surprised at any point in mapping out an unexplored thing, in what sense is it unexplored?

There are pretty high odds you've never been to this exact page before: https://oeis.org/A000079. But once you click on it, is there any remaining curiosity? It's an unexplored thing, in the sense that (I presume) you've never looked at this exact page before. But it doesn't provoke curiousity because there's nothing there to surprise you.
Mutative 1.0 – A New Era in Efficient Immutable Updates
My argument is not that those things don't exist - its just that to my knowledge, I never heard of any real-life implementation that's guaranteed to be NSA-proof[1] - you're welcome to offer a counterexample.

1. Your fancy encryption scheme is pointless if your plaintext can be acquired at either endpoints, of if a bug in the implementation leaks data. The security of the whole matters a lot more than the individual parts as attackers go for the weakest link.
Neuralink implanted a device in its first human
How can they link your family's DNA to you if they don't have a profile or account for you? How do they know you exist? And if they know you exist, how do they know you are related to that particular family without some DNA information about you to link to them?
I believe it, I knew some folks at the company who I mentioned who left (before the acquisition) and said it was because they CEO didn't to sell.

Personally I've found it never a good idea to bank on that kind of thing.
The politics of Section 230 reform: learning from FOSTA's mistakes
How Big Tech Makes the U.S. a Spying Superpower
Perhaps it should use prediction error on some higher level of embedding, that way boring changes like static would be treated similarly but genuinely novel things would be treated higher.
Can Nextcloud News scrape the full article text if its not included in the feed?
Except it's the same problem for experimental papers. My thesis was based on a highly cited experimental study. My role was to "support" that paper with numerical simulations. And yet, at conferences, people would openly discuss if the original, highly cited paper, was fact or fiction.

The guy built/fabricated a device, and reported interesting measurements. Want to know if it's true? Build it yourself! Except when you do and get differing results, there will be quibbling over whether you built it properly. There are always details left out of the original paper that can be appealed to. The original author is king of the field, and people will simply ignore your contrarian findings.

For theoretical/numerical results, it is for sure valid to criticize assumptions. But in the longer time frame, the question shouldn't be "Are these assumptions valid?" but "Is there experimental evidence to support these calculations?" With a lot of the papers published (including mine), I can assure you that no one will ever be able to construct an experiment to (in)validate my results. And that was true for probably over half of the theoretical/numerical results in my field. We were all publishing things that most of us believed could never be connected meaningfully to the physical world. We're not talking string theory or high energy stuff - more like material properties.

The goal was to publish, and convince others. Not to understand reality. Hence, more like literature.
100+mb for a pie menu, we are reaching new levels of bloat never seen before..
I rarely used a RDBMS these days. But when I do I use a SQL Server. For the same reasons you just made.
Two points (x1, y1, x2, y2) or 4 total parameters (x, y, rotation, scale) assuming you're using the exact shape provided, but from the interactive egg you can free the location/angles that they used for construction so you can wind up with less egg-like 4-point eggs.

In the interactive link provided, you control the positions of 4 circle centers, each restricted along one of the axes. So you're giving 4 parameters (which also gives scale), and after including x-y offsets and rotation, it's 7 total numbers to make an arbitrary '4-point' egg anywhere in the plane
Barackasaurus was fun.
Yes but the question being discussed assumes they are fair. That’s why it’s a different question.
Check out the PR he submitted: https://huggingface.co/miqudev/miqu-1-70b/discussions/10/fil...
That's a bizarre concept. Names are generally not unique.
I don't know how much you know about graphics programming, but this comment is strong evidence you don't know much about audio/MIDI programming.
One of my fav bits of wisdom from Feynman: Disregard! (your distractions).

https://stepsandleaps.wordpress.com/2017/10/17/feynmans-brea...

You're right that this is a bit romantic, but nonetheless true.

I've never procrastinated with my main passion (music) - like a planet circling the sun, it might be out of my orbit for a bit, but i always come back to it. Not because someone told me to, or because I had a calendar reminder or a Kanban board.

Saying 'no' is hard, esp when you're younger I think (due to feelings of obligation) - but as you get older you realise that a lot those obligations can be dropped and that your life is short. It's also a lot easier to say no to distractions, if you're passionate. Less guilt about it.

There's a lots of techniques/hacks: Make what you want to achieve visible (e.g. surround yourself with carrots/only buy carrots).

Agree with you that breaks are necessary, but then you can enforce that by buying a limited amt of junk food for your pantry, so you don't spin out of control.

War of Art is a great book if you need some good cheerleading. . .but i read it, I didn't really need it because I'm fortunate to having something I love to do. I know that's not the case for everybody.
I think he’s best known for his alleged mathematical discoveries.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras#In_mathematics:

“Although Pythagoras is most famous today for his alleged mathematical discoveries, classical historians dispute whether he himself ever actually made any significant contributions to the field.

[…]

The Pythagorean theorem was known and used by the Babylonians and Indians centuries before Pythagoras, but he may have been the first to introduce it to the Greeks. Some historians of mathematics have even suggested that he—or his students—may have constructed the first proof. Burkert rejects this suggestion as implausible, noting that Pythagoras was never credited with having proved any theorem in antiquity.”
I've never gone to Disney but I got really interested in theme parks two years ago, first because I read some Baudrillard books and then because I saw links to my art projects and software development.

That got me to watching a lot of YouTube videos and there is a whole genre of "how do you manage the complexity", "look at the amazingly complex way Disney manages lines at Space Mountain", "it is too complex" and "the rent is too damn high" videos about Disney.

One case for limiting CEO pay is that executives have no insight into what people can really pay, even people at the 99%, 90% or 80% levels, never mind 50%. There was this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_Galactic_Starcruise...

which would have revolutionized the themed entertainment world if it were successful but the intersection of "people who would get the most out of this" and "people who could pay for it" was minuscule. In particular the experience would have had a lot of replay value and the audience participation aspect means that guests who had been through already could have made the experience better for everyone but priced as a "once in a lifetime experience" that just wasn't going to happen.
Sorry, I have no idea
How about a fourth category: Jobs where RTO and WFH are a draw, but if enough people WFH the company can save a large amount of money on renting an office.

There have to be companies where the C-suite people can look at the rental expense and see "money that could go straight to the bottom line, and make us look good for doing it", right? If WFH/RTO is a draw, those companies ought to financially out-compete companies with power-tripping or incompetent managers that demand RTO, right? Smart leaders (don't laugh; there are a few) have to figure this out eventually, don't they?