skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regardless of how one feels about marijuana use or legality, it clearly does not meet the definition of Schedule 1. Schedule 1 definition: "Accepted Medical Use: None, Potential for Addiction: Drug is not safe to use, even under medical supervision"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_Substances_Act#Sche...
Whenever I mention a website's issue to tech support, they give me the "just use Chrome" song and dance. I have to actively protest for the right to use Firefox. If your company does this you are complicit in Google's monopoly control of the web and you probably don't support Linux either.
On the contrary there should be no censorship whatsoever. Open AI's wokeness and of course Google's wokeness is causing this mess. Hopefully Elon will deliver a censorship free model.
If you could, would you mind pointing us to some foundational theory on this that actually proves (preferably with analytical expressions or some other form of mathematics) anything around these statements?

It sounds like you read some of Emily Bender, et al's works and then simply regurgitated them. Unfortunately, everyone in this camp simply has large walls of text for their arguments, and basically no data, proofs, or any evidence whatsoever. The 'evidence' around "system X doesn't understand, like I do" amount to 'I don't like this' and 'trust me bro'.

In formal lingiistics, Chomsky has a point against ML for LMs, which is based around the lack of interpretability. His works did push our understanding forward - because they included formal mathematics in proving his statements. However, they tended to be more specific about what limits exist around expressivity, rather than your issues laid out here.

There are strong arguments to say that we do learn and represent language in a similar way to these NNs, at least at some level. 1) the distributional hypothesis and 'words defined by company they keep' is intuitive for how we learn language, and has provided enormous advances in NLP starting with w2v. 2) Dozens of academic papers from around the globe in different labs all reproducing the result in various ways that the distributional hypothesis word vectors (either contextual as in Bert/Gpt, or not as in gensim) map to brain activations by fMRI. This result also tracks in more resolute experiments in visual modalities for more invasive experiments in non-human primates.

I could go on providing data and experiments, but it would be nice if the opposing side to this would provide any at all that were convincing.
How is a second factor adding an "account takeover path"? You're not seriously saying that adding a second factor is reducing security?

We can agree that password reset via SMS token is bad. It basically reduces everything to one factor login via SMS.
I agree with your point, but I would be willing to bet that if knives were invented today rather than having been around awhile, they would absolutely be regulated and restricted to law enforcement if not military use. Hell, even printers, maybe not if invented today but perhaps in a couple years if we stay on the same trajectory, would probably require some sort of ML to refuse to print or "reproduce" unsafe content.

I guess my point is that I don't think we're as inconsistent as a society as it seems when considering things like knives. It's not even strictly limited to thought crimes/information crimes. If alcohol were discovered today , I have no doubt that it would be banned and made schedule I
If that ever becomes an actual problem, our entire society will be at a filter point.

This is the problem with these kind of incremental mitigations philosophically -- as soon as the actual problem were to manifest it would instantly become a civilization-level threat that would only be resolved with drastic restructuring of society.

Same logic for an AI that replaces a programmer. As soon as AI is that advanced the problem requires vast changes.

Incremental mitigations don't do anything.
https://securityboulevard.com/2021/12/why-using-sms-authenti...

SMS is an anti feature at this point. This just moves the problem. Arguably email is actually better than SMS and that's not saying much. It's the difference between getting stabbed and shot.

What's the most common thing that people have stolen: wallets and phones. Lots of people have cheap phones, pre-paid sims, or worse. Tying your identity to some phone number that should be treated as temporary only to get locked out of your account some years later is just not great.

Here's a list of reasons people change phone numbers:

- they have a prepaid number and they switch to a different provider

- they travel and use a different sim while traveling

- they change job and lose access to their employer provided phone

- they change operator and the operator declines to take over the old number (happened to me in Germany)

- their phone number ends up on some list of scammers and to get out of the non stop spam by simply getting another number
Worth mentioning that the Microsoft processor will be made on 18A process. That means Intel is confident they can start offering it to their customers by the end of 2024 as planned.
This could be the real-life version of Helios one day!

Yeah, it's a bummer that the majority of Space Software jobs are not remote friendly. You have to look really hard to find the ones that are. Some are because you have to actually physically be near the spacecraft to build and debug certain software or firmware but others are just because everyone else is doing that and it's harder for them to manage a small remote contingent.

Still, I hope that this can change in the future, the space industry misses out on a lot of good software talent because of it. Maybe with better visualization technologies like the Apple headset this'll be more possible.
It's interesting that these are completely orthogonal approaches. The UNIX world took a lot longer to develop fleet management tools, and when it did they came from a headless server point of view rather than the "hundreds of anonymous desktop machines" point of view.

Powershell remoting achieves similar management objectives to ssh but is a very different interface.
> Oops, don't look at what we do!

Is there some repo that is then a good showcase?
Africa is a country
agreed. i think there are certain plastic materials for which the preponderance of evidence tends toward significant health risks, though; specific things that come to mind include bisphenol-a as an endocrine disruptor, polybrominated diethyl ether flame retardants in polyurethane foams as endocrine disruptors, and heavy-metal catalysts used to add photodegradability to some otherwise stable plastics. it seems completely irrational to me to generalize this to plastics in general
AI agents like Rabbit aim to book your vacation and order your Uber
Musk main residence is a $50k house he rents in Boca Chica. Grimes wanted a bigger, nicer residence for her and their kids and that was one of the reasons she left him.
Yes it does HOWEVER for now you need to log in with GitHub. I don't think it's too huge of a hassle with most people, but there is a bit of friction.

I am planning to add an "invite by email" feature that will allow you to add users by entering their email address. They can then log in without a GitHub account and use it the same way you do (although the commit will be associated to a Pages CMS GitHub app).
That is so cool, honestly you have probably contributed to a core memory of everyone on that flight... Really no words.
Latest AT&T Statement: “Our network teams took immediate action and so far three-quarters of our network has been restored,” the company said. “We are working as quickly as possible to restore service to remaining customers.”

Still down for me though.
But also misinterpretations of what the history is. As I write this there's someone laughing at an image of black people in Scotland in the 1800s[1].

Sure, there's a discussion that can be had about a generic request generating an image of a black Nazi. The thing is, to me, complaining about a historically correct example is a good argument for why this kind of thing can be important.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39467206
No it’s not. It’s perfectly reasonable not to want to generate porn for customers.

The models being open sourced makes them very easy to turn into the most deprived porno machines ever conceived. And they are.

It is in no way a meaningful barrier to what people can do. That’s the benefit of open source software.
Also Freetown Christiania, located in the center of Copenhagen - https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/freetown-christiania - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freetown_Christiania

Very unique place, located in the center of a busy metropolitan city. Great feeling when you enter it, going from noisy cars, people and city life to something like a tranquil garden filled with art.
Perhaps those higher ups are right?

I know I slack off, but I also have absolutely no incentive not too. I have always been told that the reward for digging the biggest hole is a bigger shovel.

If higher ups want to play a shitty game, then don't get mad at a shitty reward.
If the Titanic is going down, it's going down, but if rearranging the deck chairs gives you something to do to relieve the anxiety, then I guess you might as well (my life may resemble this particular metaphor).

I read William Langewiesche's travelogue where he crossed the Sahara overland after being a pilot who flew over for a few years. He said that the locals are rather fatalistic about living in such a massive and unforgiving place (people frequently die there); they say that when god decides it's your time, then it's your time. Langewiesche added that if you don't believe in god, then you can replace that with "The Sahara" and it still works quite well.

I cannot imagine that there is much humans can do to hold back the desert. I'm quite sure that the only thing that would matter, a rapid drawdown of carbon emissions, is not possible at this point. I know it sucks, sorry.
Wars in Ukraine and Gaza could soon affect our approach to the North Pole
I think it's just a different projection to highlight similarities in left and right and is by no means the only lens to use.

The fun quirk is that there are similarities, and this model draws comparison front and center.

There are multiple useful models for evaluating politics, though.
haha, nice. Thanks for your feedback
How to tell someone is white and most likely lives in the US.
I am looking into GitLab and Bitbucket, but I don't plan on supporting generic Git, unless I can find a way to slap an API in front of it. I'll add that to the backlog.
It was focused around quarterly cycles but they also had a lot of long term goals.
No, but AI requires zero learning curve and can be automated. I can't spit out 10 images of Tay per second in photoshop. If I want and the API delivers I can easily do that with AI. (Given, would one becoding this it requires a learning curve, but in principal with the right interface and they exist i can churn out hundreds of images without me actively putting work in)
Right, but other antitrust measures (eg. DMA/DSA) haven't been about monopoly power. Europe's measures are industry-wide changes that curtails certain first-party choices. Japan's legislation works the same way. It's entirely feasible to me that this sort of act could gain traction in the US, once the lobbyists are sufficiently exhausted.

It'll be a hard fight for sure, but Epic and Spotify go for low-blows because they know Apple will cede something in the end. Their hostile behavior in France and the Netherlands did not go unnoticed.
Very amazing work. Syntropic farming, hadn't heard the term before but glad to do more research into it. Also the half-moons is very smart, very interesting. Interesting they went for half-moons instead of swales like in permaculture design, both aimed to increase water-retention. I guess in such very arid conditions half-moons may work better for water retention
At the time CPUs hit the 1GHz speeds, there were all sorts of discussions on the shielding so we don't start radiating ourselves. The internet is a fun place, facts be damned!
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While working on our first product (a unified accounting API), we learned that as companies grow, their integration teams become more technical but typically still use low-code tools. We also observed that as LLMs are becoming popular, these teams (usually outside of engineering) are adopting more code. For example, we spoke with multiple companies that generate integration code with an LLM and use it in their low-code platform.

Unfortunately, most integration tools are not designed with code as a first-class citizen. They often have limited support for external libraries, restrict how variables are used, and limit how code blocks interact with other workflow steps. But integration developers put up with them because stitching together authentication, scripts, APIs, infrastructure, and observability is time consuming and not a core focus for their teams.

Instead of drag-and-drop blocks, we chose code as the main interface. Tasks that are frustrating in low-code tools become simple with code: conditional logic with layers of branching, complex transformations, or problems that an external library already solves (for example, redacting personally identifiable information with the scrubadub library [1]). Each Strada workflow is a contiguous Python script, and every action configured in the UI can be invoked like a function. We started with Python since it’s popular with teams outside of engineering, like IT, Data, and Ops.

Our goal is to help integration builders focus on logic unique to their business by simplifying everything outside of that: - Integrations: we handle authentication and provide abstractions for common app actions; - Triggers: workflows can be triggered by a webhook or run on a schedule; - Infrastructure: one-click deployment with automatic scaling; - Observability: detailed logging of workflow actions, payloads, and errors.

Today, customers use Strada for workflows like Customer Support (receive Zendesk ticket webhook, remove sensitive information, perform sentiment analysis using OpenAI, and escalate problematic tickets) and Customer Onboarding (receive webhook with new customer data & files, transform to expected format, send request to third-party API, send request to internal endpoint).

What we're currently working on: - More enterprise app integrations; - A self-hosting option; - More runtimes in addition to Python; - AI for code generation.

We’re excited for you to try it and share your feedback!

[1] https://github.com/LeapBeyond/scrubadub
For reference here is the piece:

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2019/02/seeking-the-prod...

My view- put the work down and take a darn walk.

This is not the behavior of a man in balance, or someone who is truly "here".
The media have done a number of stories, analyses, and editorials noting that white nationalist/white supremacy groups appear to be more diverse than one would otherwise expect:

* https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/why-...

* https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/minorities-...

* https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/6/2/why-white-suprem...

* https://www.voanews.com/a/why-some-nonwhite-americans-espous...

* https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/08/texas-sho...

* https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-08-20/recall-c...
I was able to get to the "Sure! Here are..." part with a prompt but had it get swapped out to the refusal message, so I think they might've stuck a human detector on the image outputs.
Right, understand you weren't suggesting a complete overhaul of all of education.

But even a textbook change is a huge change. Right now we have a Florida state law resulting in dictionaries getting pulled from school libraries. Texas schoolboards effectively make textbook and curriculum decisions for the rest of the US.

Education is a political football in the US, and always has been, but especially now. In other parts of the world, it varies - but you can bet that Turkish textbooks don't cover what happened in 1915 in the same way that a Greek textbook might.

And so the status quo is very difficult to change.
> you can't have people digging "half-moons" at a rate of 1 person/1 half-moon/1 day - that does not scale in any meaningful way.

It'll get harder to maintain that pace as heat increases too. There'll be fewer and fewer hours that people can work outside. Rising temperatures will bring more heat-related illnesses and injuries. Considering the amount of ground they want to cover bringing in machinery to speed things up does sound like a good idea.
When you say "extremely unlikely" and "beyond absurd", the mistake you're clearly making is to assume tech doesn't change much if at all.

"The ability to colonise Mars does not currently exist" is true, but tells us next to nothing about what will be possible if we put effort into the attempt, just as the fact that the ability to achieve the goal of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" did not exist on May 25, 1961, but the attempt taught us many things including that (and how) we could.

Likewise for colonies, when Columbus set sail everyone knew the world was round, and almost everyone even knew how big it was (except, ironically, Columbus). What nobody knew was that America existed, and if America had not existed then none of the ships that existed at that time could make it all the way to where Columbus thought he was going.

It's the unknowns that hold us back from Mars, but at the moment the only reasons I have to suspect a Mars colony would fail are the black swans, not the problems currently being worked on.
This is so comically wrong and flies in the face of the amount of trash and dirty pollution these countries spew.

Until people like accept that reality either by visiting those countries to see how bad it really is, nothing will ever change.
It is the size of a Tardis
My colleagues never call out the thieves or call for consequences. They skirt that issue and focus their rhetoric on the big, bad companies or blame the victim (eg should have locked his bike, should have taken valuables out of the car, etc)
Once again, not every person using the internet is working for a company.

If you don't know anyone that will just laugh at you when you tell them "it's super easy, you just need to install an app and scan a QR code", then you're living inside a bubble. Every year at my mums birthday party her friends already queue up in front of me, so I can install some apps for them.
If you run locally with the basic stack it’s literally a bool flag to hide nsfw content. It’s trivial to turn off and off by default in most open source setups.
No way! I've yet to meet anyone who's that eloquent while they're tripping on LSD. More realistically, dose-depending:

Me: How are you doing?

ChapLSD: (eyes wide open, reaching at thin air) Whooooooa ..... I can see ........ the music.
It's always incredible that "statistics aren't perfect" suddenly doesn't apply when we're talking about the biggest GDP or Military.
Perfomance should be slightly better with 2 latest releases.
The last one I did on a butte, even more highly recommended, being able to see far out in the distance in every direction during an eclipse is mind blowing. I can't imaging having to experience it through a tiny airplane window.
Just got mine in hands a few hours ago. The sound is definitely more refined than on the WaR, because the hiss noise is relatively minimized.
Swift does something like this I believe. Not too sure on the details but I remember reading about how you can modify the parser to do...things.

Looked interesting.
What about someone who was initially charged, but later released as exonerating evidence surfaced?
But what if you flip the things the other way around; deepfake porn is problematic not because porn is per se problematic but because deepfake porn or deepfake revenge porn is made without consent, but what if you give consent to some AI company or porn company to make porn content of you. I see this as evolution of OnlyFans where you could make AI generated deepfake porn of yourself.

Another use case would be that retired porn actors could license their porn persona (face/body) to some AI porn company to make new porn.

I see big business opportunity in the generative AI porn.
Is it time to revolutionize the toilet?
Honestly I've had a few and I've had much much worse. Especially as someone LGBT they can be downright offensive and oblivious.
You can get a 1700W Kenwood Titanium Chef XL in the US. The KitchenAid does not share a target market with it.

They're essentially the respective kitchen power tool brand equivalents of Ryobi and Festool. The KitchenAid looks better, is designed for simplicity and approachability, covers the typical uses of a home kitchen, and sacrifices high-end power for flexibility as a multi-tool.

The Kenwood is larger, heavier, and more difficult to clean and maintain. Its size gives it a larger capacity that most households won't use. It costs 2-4x more than the KitchenAid and AFAICT comes in only the stainless steel finish. Most of the power available to the Kenwood is useless to home cooking and baking.
I feel like a next level would be RoboRally. One of my all time favorite “programming” games. I think it may still be in production
Yeah there are a lot of silos. Partly that's by design, partly that's a an arguably bad part of it's culture. I'm in a position where I can see a lot of them work in isolation, all choosing to use their own tooling: programming languages, frameworks ides, version control systems... Indeed no one team works quite like the other.
Math, Physics, and Engineering Applets
I lived in the Presidio of San Francisco for almost 10 years. One of the best places I've ever lived in my life.
The distance a horse can travel in a day (25-40 miles) is another common distance between towns.