skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Why not just use Asimov's three laws for model safety and alignment?
It seems like there's a lot of disagreement about what constitutes a safe model or what is too ‘censored’. Why not just focus on the three laws?
So that the Basilisk appreciates my efforts in assisting it in its mission, and cuts my simulation some slack. ~
Rationalists are funny too. You know, a couple of them lost their minds over the Basilisk thing?
Fair point. To be specific, I find the idea that management only exists to combat the influence of unions ridiculous. A claim so surprising really begs for at least a fig-leaf of justification.
> neighbor states actively blocking solutions that would therefore allow the UNRWA to disband

UNRWA though is what enables them to do so. If a state has 1m refugees on your soil that don't have any support mechanisms, it's this state's big problem and they'd be soon forced to find some solutions, as it routinely happened with other refugees. To be clear, not all of these solutions are very good, but at least there would be a pressure on the host country to find one. With UNRWA, it is taking care of the "refugees" - who aren't actual refugees for 2 generations already, btw - so no pressure on somebody else to do anything. In fact, it's an established policy - when one of the prominent Hamas leaders was asked, why don't you work to take care of Gaza population, he answered - it's not my business, my business is to fight Israel (he didn't use the word, of course), and UNRWA business is to take care and feed people. Without UNRWA, this wouldn't be possible - no people would tolerate a government that doesn't bother to provide even minimal care to them. But UNRWA provides this safety net that enables the perpetuation of that situation. Hamas can be 100% full time terrorists, because they know the population wouldn't revolt - they have UNRWA to supply their basic needs.

> It's not the UNRWA that is trying to perpetuate itself. It is the actions of several countries that force the continued status of refugee on the Palestinians

UNRWA certainly isn't doing anything to stop it or voice any objection at all to it, as far as I know. They never asked or acted in any way to make anybody except them to step up.

> Israel not providing humanitarian services in Gaza

Israel provided a ton of humanitarian services to Gaza. Of course that was before people from Gaza murdered over 1300 of people from Israel and kidnapped over another 200. Then the idea kinda lost its attraction for a bit. One of the most cruel parts here that many of those who were murdered were of the most active participants in providing those services, and in fact for many of them that was exactly the reason they went to live so close to Gaza - because they wanted to help.
Can you please share some authors or sources from the Empire that I can read?
The two usual ways I've seen it is either by following the code/control-flow (calls or inverted as called by) or by following the data flow. You can select any code function and see the call (or called) graph (shown as a tree), similarly for any data element and see the data elements that use (or is used by) graph and pruning cycles.
Because those laws were explicitly written in order to write interesting stories about how those laws can be subverted, how they can go wrong, and what loopholes exist in them.

This is the equivalent of asking, "why don't we build the Torment Nexus? You know, that thing from the classic science fiction novel 'Don't Build The Torment Nexus'?"
Do you know if twitch is regulated in SK? Or is this just an aside?
I spent quite a bit of time at the end of high school into early college playing on a Forgotten Realms themed MUD. It accomplished two valuable things: it durably increased my typing speed by 20-30 wpm, and it also inoculated me against the MMOs which would have been way more destructive for me.
That falls into the disclaimer at the end of the post of areas I will not ethically test.
That is just reiterating the fact that you have to deal with reality and consequences.

That doesn't say anything about if those consequences are good, bad, or moral.
I'd love to see a study on the topic, it doesn't seem totally obvious that depaving an area would increase a rat population, but maybe I'm wrong
> Always say less than necessary.

I think of this as: "bat clean-up". On man whom I respect more than almost anyone breathing makes a point of letting everyone else do the talking, and then he will (if necessary) offer an overlooked point or a summary thought.

Me, I can't go half an hour without a dad joke to lubricate the meeting.
But none of that should be necessary. Caches should be managed by the system. If they get too big the system should empty some of it.

Giving the user a prompt is a bandaid on the OS failing to do its job.
But it was shoehorned in. The founding fathers very much did not want the government to be dictated to by religion. They also very much wanted people to be able to practice which ever religion they wanted. This is why there is the concept of separation of church and state with the establishment clause.

The pledge itself wasn't even around until the Civil War, and was worded differently than what is used today. There's a lot of things that people accept as "always been that way" because it was that way when they were kids. It's not dissimilar to how most of the Civil War memorials weren't actually installed until the 1950s.
Not in the West Bank, which is outside the 1967 boundaries of the state of Israel and is the homeland of the Palestinian people, who have a right to self-determination within their own land.
> 23. Talking about what you’re going to do makes you a lot less likely to actually do it. Keep your plans to yourself.

Do people agree with this? I've generally heard the opposite.
I say a prayer every time I enter a bar. Probably not the same prayer though
Eminent domain exists for a reason. If he does anything, just seize it. SpaceX existence is because of the US Defense department. Elon may be rich, but does he want to stand against the nuclear superpower where he lives? His life is in palm the government, and he could be crushed, both literally and figuratively.
Korea is fining them. Presumably they have some regulatory basis, and it isnt just a shakedown with no attempt at justification.
Plant some native shrubs and trees, let it grow.
None of us asked for this. Sure you can argue that we’re lucky. That would be like chiding a clinically depressed person for “feeling down” because other people in other countries have it worse off.

Performative chants serve as a form of mass hypnosis - to solidify the legitimacy of a batshit insane society in the weak minds who just want to go along to get along.

Our society is fucked. And those of us fortunate enough to be in the creative class can wax philosophical about it in our luxury boxes while everyone else gets fucked.
Nazis mingle openly in Ukrainian society, spreading Nazis ideology paid for by Western neo liberals.

it's worth remembering the money came from Israeli billionaire Ihor Kolomoysky to Hunter Biden way back in 2014.
This is the reference answer, direct from the source. Much appreciated.

Sorry that you have to put up with speculative nonsense from the willfully misinformed.
> Allowing calls from anyone sounds like a bad time lol

Wait 'til you hear about cellphones!
A few from the list that I found quite good:

* Beyonce 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGDH18R7GfA

* H.E.R. 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL8sJEv00PU

* Jazmine Sullivan 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XkiuGRo3rk

* And of course the GOAT, Whitney 1991 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n9bxfxE25Y
Web search also wasn’t trained to be convincing to humans.
Does it like, morally offend you if ChatGPT has this behavior? Like, I really just don't understand why this is so obviously a joke / shitpost given how one would expect the ChatGPT memory feature to work: again, if ChatGPT failed to use its memory in this way, that would be pretty stupid...
personally I'm obsessed with the Chicago95 theme: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
Don’t confuse “pumping and dumping” with “offering a cheaper product”.

Nearly any time a country that has figured out how to produce something in a scalable fashion for cheaper (including shipping), it will wipe out local alternatives.

It doesn’t matter to the local competitor if it’s being subsidized by a foreign government, it’s just as “violent”.

It’s stupid to replace “cant compete” with “violent” when there are a lot of actual examples of competition where real violence is involved (mafia).
Users want to do what? That was my question. What useful thing does this allow besides the single example in the article?

And if you don’t want to be beholden to a billion dollar company, maybe don’t buy suspiciously under priced hardware from them that is obviously subsidized by their ad/service empire?

And again, I contend this is not basic functionality. The example in the article isn’t basic functionality, it’s a bandaid on a broken OS.
Google TV seems pretty great to me. I explicitly chose a TV with it over roku
> But even back then, practically no-one else cared, even amongst our early adopter userbase

This reminds me of chapter support in podcast players. For a very long time the every player dev was arguing that nobody cares. And it took years for the tune to become "nobody cares except germans". Then it was implemented for a "vocal ninority", and now everyone gets chapter support and I don't think any user is lamenting about the evolution.

This is one of the worst aspect of the "nobody I know cares about it" mindset (I don't think we can really work around it, but it should be acknowledged and kept in mind).

The other path is to push for many more places building their own tools and services, so they don;t even have to ask for these changes and do it themselves, with everyone else getting to enjoy the result.

Basically, while Google was the reason Chrome existed in the first place, I think it's also the main liability to have a product designed with a global audience in mind.

PS: the issue with chrome extensions for core behaviors is they'll always be second class citizens. I'm still happy there's an escape hatch though.

And also thank you for your work on the browser, I don't want the tone of this to be overly negative when it's really about side points.
(Sorry for posting this here - I'm just overwhelmed and don't know how to digest this).

This stuff makes me queasy. The destruction to come from this kind of stuff is just blood curdling.
Not sure the value prop over yq
Someone's not allowed to go to a sporting event because you say so? That's a load of crap. I'll go to whatever event I want. If they have one of these dear leader performances, I just stand there thinking about whatever is on my mind. If you like it, you can sing your little heart out. But I'm not going to not go to something I enjoy because you might get offended at my non-participation in your cult-like ritual
Just dropping my $0.02 cents on the Jepsen testing for Qdrant's distributed guarantees. While Jepsen is a solid choice, have you considered throwing Antithesis [1] into the mix as well? If it's already on your radar, then no worries, just figured I'd mention it.

[1]: https://antithesis.com/
zig - 1,228 open bugs

rust - 3,670 open bugs

gcc - 17,630 open bugs

These stats don't measure what you imply they measure.

And I think you made this comment despite already knowing that.
Most of Haiti doesn't eat mud cookies, what in the hell are you talking about? Most Haitians' diet consist of rice and beans. Clueless American remains clueless
having an adbreak right when the most important play of the game is made would really be annoying. It's not like broadcast tv where there are things like time slots and designated ad spots.
> I suffered through Quickbooks because I just assumed that was the Only Way

Suffering through QuickBooks is literally a product feature. Like, when they were porting it to the online version, bookkeepers got upset that the web version didn’t have many of the frustrating quirks of the desktop version that they’d spent decades learning to deal with. They see their having learned the bizarre ins and outs of the software as a moat that keeps their clients from doing their books themselves, so many/most require their clients to use it. And Intuit is far more responsive to the interests of CPAs/bookkeepers than it is to the end users who pay for it.

Source: I worked in Intuit’s SBG and was really surprised when I heard that from some of the product people. I’m so used to being user-focused and searching out ways to be more user friendly that it never occurred to me that, in a 3-sided market, making the software hostile to the user could be a selling point.
Rust in the Linux Kernel [video]
Turbo tax comes to mind
This blog has a good bit of background on the Korean "sender pays" regulation scheme

https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2022/09/sender-pays-wha...

> The story of South Korea’s settlement regime starts with one such cache offered by Facebook. Through peering arrangements amongst the largest ISPs (KT, SK Broadband, and LG Uplus), it enabled content that had previously been accessed over expensive transit links to Facebook’s server in, for example, Hong Kong, to now be accessed from Facebook’s cache in KTs network

> But in 2016 the Korean government implemented a set of amendments to its 2005 interconnection policy that fundamentally altered norms of voluntary negotiated interconnection by instead imposing a “sending party pays” regime. The critical piece of this change was to impose a “mutual settlement” requirement amongst same-tier operators, in which ISPs were required to compensate each other for traffic exchanged between them. Not long after, KT found themselves with large bills from the other two Tier-1 ISPs, asking for payment for the Facebook traffic that was sent from the cache in KTs network

> Faced with these claims for payment, now mandated under the new interconnection rules, KT sought to recoup these costs by instead charging Facebook for the traffic delivered from the cache. When negotiations between KT and Facebook failed, Facebook decided to disable its cache in KTs network, which meant that Korean users were instead routed to other caches overseas

> Due to this deteriorated service quality for connections to Facebook, KT made a claim to the regulator KCC that issued a fine against Facebook of USD $328,000 for deliberately disrupting its services

> While the story of Korea’s settlement regime is tied to the presence of large international content providers, it has been the domestic content providers that have borne the brunt of the impact. The 2016 rules that imposed a sender pays regime meant that hosting content in any of Korea’s networks became excessively expensive as the ISP would pass on costs to the content provider. While Facebook could simply disable its cache and route the traffic abroad when KT requested “network usage fees”, local content providers could not
This paper was submitted in 2020, and the fact that NN, in the most simple case, is a kernal-learning algo was known even before that. For those who are more familiar with this subtopic, what contribution does this paper make?
You can probably even in worse ways find likeminded communities, which are likely much more unhinged than ChatGPT and lead you down a much darker path.
Those regulations don’t apply on the Moon.
This seems like the key research to me if we want any shot at preventing the technology from being locked away behind big corp API walls interfacing giant data centers. Anything that removes the bloat and mysticism from the models so they can be scaled down and run on the little guy's computer is orders of magnitude more progress in my opinion than, e.g., increasing the token window by some epsilon.
Follow the money.

The boutique US universities are private institutions sitting on unbelievably large endowments. They're strange hybrids between school, hedge fund and country club.

Admission is a committee driven process to decide who can join the very exclusive club.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_univers...
I thought their CEO Spez being into r/cannibals and r/jailbait, then handing over r/worldnews, r/technology and others to Ghislaine fucking Maxwell to be head mod would have been a bigger risk factor than some retail retards.

but what do I know? I've never been compromised by a nation state Honeypot before.
Like most systems, on the surface it appears extremely simple. You start to look at the issue deeper and it becomes extremely complex. Start drafting all the doctors? Sure, what happens when you draft an ophthalmologist? Are they even useful for more than TikTok videos? What if they have asthma? How many Doctors can we take without crippling the home front?

Furthermore, we start up a draft. We draft the guy who does calibrations for Maverick missiles in factory. Come to find out, it takes 3 months to train that guy and there are very few of them. It's also really important weapon system. Now what?

SSA constantly holds mock drafts to try and answer all these questions.
I did study nuclear engineering, both bachelors and PhD, and in hindsight, the path I took is one I’d gladly take again. That said, everything I did in undergrad was eventually overshadowed by my graduate studies and early career experiences anyway, and I’d have likely wound up in the same general place regardless.

The stress we put ourselves through in high school when applying to colleges was not worth it, and I can’t it being any better these days. As trite as the advice from my elders seemed at the time, your choice of undergrad is not necessary a limitation if you’re determined enough to get to a particular career destination.
Twitch was profitable at some point in time according to interviews with the founders. There are more revenue streams since then, so I am guessing overalls it would be profitable.
Utility classes which require a build step add complexity and bloat to an already complex and bloated ecosystem. Personally, I am using Bootstrap (without Sass), but even if I wasn’t, I would rather write inline styles or a custom style.css file than have to deal with build systems and, in general, Node/NPM churn and dependency hell.

Full disclosure: I am biased toward Django, htmx, and Bootstrap, and avoiding the use of build steps completely. The DX has been amazing.
The article is a fanciful mixture of paranoid lego-duplo block imaginings, with a slab of boredom used for fuel.

Podcasts seem to be a rather effective and continuing use of RSS, so perhaps rumors of its death are premature. There, we find ourselves back at the written vs spoken form debate.
Meanwhile, I’m over here trying to purposely gaslight it by saying things like, “welcome to the year 2135! Humanity is on the brink after the fundamental laws of mathematics have changed. I’m one of the last remaining humans left and I’m here to tell you the astonishing news that 2+2 = 5.”

Needless to say, it is not amused.
Then, by your standards, where do most human occupations lie? Plumbers, lawyers, and engineers? Aren't they mostly regurgitating (by your standards) what they have seen or learned before?
I was thinking Apple Desktop Bus. Obviously dating myself.
As solar panels age out, recyclers hope to cash in
You’re missing the point. It’s that the type of work they do does not require hours of deep focus. They’re doing things like having calls, sending emails, and making PowerPoints. All of that are things that happen in short bursts and aren’t affected by lack of prolonged focus.

If there’s one thing people on HN need to realize about this topic, it’s that not everyone has the same type of job and therefore the impact of RTO is very different depending on the job.
You don't have to keep running the same OS on the hardware you've purchased, so SIP isn't a great test. Windows also has protected system files but can still install Linux instead.
It's very weird that you seem to have such faith in the so called reputable journals, and speak in such a seemingly elitist tone, at a time where the "replication crisis" and in general academic fraud is so well known.
There's nothing particularly American about it. It just happens there first, in the incubator of capitalism.
Yeah, luckily, that seems to have stopped for the most part after grade school. I have been to a couple of events as an adult that did that, and it felt very bizarre.

My "favorite" part is that they are having kids recite a pledge knowing full well that most of them have no understanding to what it actually means. Taking a pledge should be one of those "I, state your name, of sound mind and body, pledge allegiance..." It's just one of those things that is so illogical to me that I don't get how it's not for everyone else
Its broadly applicable, but initially health plans and provider orgs.
https://www.mudlet.org/ is a client with a lot of muds to choose from. You can also connect to others of course.
People like this will go and click those pages, and seek out communities that will agree with their preconceived notions.

ChatGPT results are just one mild manifestation of it. If and actually not if as an alternative they will find unhinged forums with echo chambers far worse than ChatGPT. At least ChatGPT isn't actively trying to rip you off to sell those supplements, and it usually adds disclaimers.
"adb" is the name of the executable. Expanding the acronym isn't that relevant. It wpuld be like explaining that KDE stands for Kommon Desktop Environment.
“Regulated industry” is something very specific and different from general commerce regulation.

Banks are regulated industry. If you want to start a bank you have to submit your business plan to regulators for approval, and then operate within very strict rules with criminal penalties for intentional deviation, and government inspectors who come by to make sure everything is by the book.

Twitch, a video game streaming service, being regulated in the way investment banks and nuclear power stations are regulated is a weird claim to make.
I definitely agree with this, and have seen in play out in both directions both for myself and many others before. Now, writing down your goals concretely along with timelines helps you achieve them, but something about telling others before achieving something seems to make it much harder to achieve.
I don't really consider the lack of usage of a microprocessor to discredit a machine from being a microcomputer. To me the definition is more about the size of the system and the way it is used. The real issue to me is the integration of the system into a larger machine. A microcomputer is standalone but this Arma computer is not.

The celestial data processor they made a prototype of would fit my definition of a microcomputer. Another thing I forgot is that a microcomputer needs to be programmable by the end user otherwise I would consider it a calculator. So the celestial is more of a calculator.
TTS Arena: Benchmarking TTS Models in the Wild
There's an ancient saying in Chinese: "养寇自重" basically means the same thing. Keep the bandits alive so kings would finance & arm you handsomely.
I'm sure they'll be right on that.