skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you misunderstood.

I’m not claiming that Meta won’t be Silo’d off by making their own. But Google is not going to be the one that should be trusted to make a platform for multiple devices.

Like it would be great if we had such a platform from a company that won’t abandon it in a few months.

But instead we are likely just going to have Silo’d systems.
Is there hope that we could some day achieve an exhaustive lists of all undefined behavior that C programmers need to be aware of?

I realize no one really knows today, but is there a path?
Who else should sue OpenAI?
I doubt it.

https://www.thezebra.com/resources/driving/average-miles-dri...

> The average miles driven per year by Americans has now reached a total of 14,263 miles.

And I bet this is a mean average, so is skewed higher by people who drive a lot. If I were to guess, the vast majority of personal vehicles stay under 10k miles per year.

Women and retired people especially, who usually have their own vehicle:

> Men drive around 6,000 miles per year more than women on average, and after retirement drivers post around 30 percent fewer miles per year.
Okay, I made a mistake of using a shorthand. I won't do that in the future. The shorthand is saying "nuclear weapons" and "bioweapons" when I meant "technology making it easy to create WMDs".

Consider nuclear nonproliferation. It doesn't only affect weapons - it also affects nuclear power generation, nuclear physics research and even medicine. There's various degrees of secrecy to research and technologies that affect "tools that people around the world right now are using towards personal/professional/capitalistic benefit". Why? Because the same knowledge makes military and terrorist applications easier, reducing barrier to entry.

Consider then, biotech, particularly synthetic biology and genetic engineering. All that knowledge is dual-use, and unlike with nuclear weapons, biotech seems to scale down well. As a result, we have both a growing industry and research field, and kids playing with those same techniques at school and at home. Biohackerspaces were already a thing over a decade ago (I would know, I tried to start one in my city circa 2013). There's a reason all those developments have been accompanied by a certain unease and fear. Today, an unlucky biohacker may give themselves diarrhea or cancer, in ten years, they may accidentally end the world. Unlike with nuclear weapons, there's no natural barrier to scaling this capability down to individual level.

And of course, between the diarrhea and the humanity-ending "hold my beer and watch this" gain-of-function research, there's whole range of smaller things like getting a community sick, or destroying a local ecosystem. And I'm only talking about accidents with peaceful/civilian work here, ignoring deliberate weaponization.

To get a taste of what I'm talking about: if you buy into the lab leak hypothesis for COVID-19, then this is what a random fuckup at a random BSL-4 lab looks like, when we are lucky and get off easy. That is why biotech is another item on the x-risks list.

Back to the point: the AI x-risk is fundamentally more similar to biotech x-risk than nuclear x-risk, because the kind of world-ending AI we're worried about could be created and/or released by accident by a single group or individual, could self-replicate on the Internet, and would be unstoppable once released. The threat dynamics are similar to a highly-virulent pathogen, and not to a nuclear exchange between nation states - hence the comparison I've made in the original comment.
I think future generations will look back and find unfathomable that we spent the best part of 5 days a week (if not more) working. At least I hope so.
> But link shorteners, even when used by good faith actors, are problematic because they hide the destination of the link

In a sense, Google Search is even more evil because they change the destination link on-click. So hovering on a search result link doesn't show you the true destination.
I'm one of them. I'm of the opinion that anything useful or worth hearing, I can hear from someone with less baggage. I don't know the ratio, but Peterson has added more bad to the world that his "good" ideas do not balance out. And after hearing him elaborate on his "bad" ideas, seeing the way he thinks & comes to conclusions, if I'm hearing something that sounds good from him, I would still be skeptical to the point of tuning it out entirely because of the source.

I approach the things he says the same way I would an Alex Jones or Elon Musk or Joe Rogan. They don't have enough knowledge in the domains they like to speak in to be fully credible sources, and whatever credibility they might have is outweighed by the other shit they've said that's just outright wrong or intentionally misinformed.

The source of the information matters to me, and anything any of these people or their ilk are putting out in the world can be found from someone else who is more worthy of trust. Peterson, like Elon Musk or Joe Rogan et al, have proven enough times they're willing to debase themselves putting nonsense into the world, nonsense they're fully aware is lies and/or harmful, and have burned whatever credibility they might have had.

The people taking objection to things Jordan Peterson says may be throwing the baby out with the bathwater, but I would argue that Peterson himself cultivated this lack of trust. I will hear what he has to say from somebody more worthy of my trust & attention.
I like the "go generate" approach to integrate such tools. I used a different (but identically named) go-enum tool [0], which accepts the go type and generates implementations for a bunch of interfaces. The neat thing is that the starting point is the "idiomatic" go enum definition, rather than description via a separate DSL:

//go:generate go-enum -type=State
type State int
const (
Unknown State = 0
Disconnected = 1
Connected = 2
)

which then generates a separate file with implementations such as:

func (i State) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) { ...

[0] https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/searKing/golang/tools/go-enum#...
This question reads a bit like "What have the Romans ever done for us?". ;)
Either clueless or in denial. GPT-4 is already superior to the average human at many complex tasks.
> All of those things are within the laws of physics.

And infrared doesn't? That said it wasn't always in the laws of physics, and they may still be wrong, they have changed in the last century.

> The latter is still the case now.

I'm not sure most people would agree with you, more likely to answer "I don't know, maybe". I find it very strange when people are so certain about uncertain topics, difficult to relate.
Thank you! this was the information that was missing from the blog, and I scratching my head a bit.
Not familiar with the US legal system at all, but in my country (France) a contact doesn't need to be signed or even on paper to be a contract. Saying “in exchange for your donation I'll abid to the charter” in front of witness is a contract under certain circumstances, so maybe there's something like this involved.
>And if the answer is "Well, its not happening at all", then my guess is that its not a real issue.

besides the fact that even a year and half ago, I was being added to incredibly convincing scam whatsapp groups, which if not entirely AI generated, are certainly AI-assisted. right now, OSS LLMs are probably not yet good enough do these things. there are likely extant good-enough models, but they're server-side, probably monitored somewhat, and have strong behavioural safeguards. but how long will that last?

they're also new technology. scammers and criminals and adversarial actors take time to adapt.

so what do we have? a situation where you're unable to actually point a hole in any of the scenarios I suggest, besides saying you guess they won't happen because you personally haven't seen any evidence of it yet. we do in fact have scams that are already going on. we have a technology that, once again, you seem articulate why it wouldn't be able to do those things, technology that's just going to get more and more accessible and cheap and powerful, not only to own and run but to develop. more and more well-known.

what do those things add up to? this is the difference. I'm willing to add these things up. you want to touch the sun to prove it exists
How Broken Is Academia?
there was a simpler solution - ignoring amazon, ignoring cloudflare, ignoring "antivirus" companies.
I hate modern day landing pages. Even those single page websites where some animation plays while scrolling down were more interesting.
And here I am sad that no one will let me work weekends in IT.
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Silicon Valley's $445M robot pizza revolution that wasn't
The HN crowd tends to have unrealistic views of money and employment, probably partly because software development is an unusual job - extremely well paid for relatively little work and responsibility - and partly because the kinds of people on HN are surprisingly naïve when it comes to economics (and also people; but that's not surprising).

Some examples:

* Never-ending optimism about UBI, despite the maths clearly not working. Kind of similar to this really.

* Expecting salary to exactly match value - i.e. to get the same pay remote working no matter where you live. The number of people here that fundamentally don't understand that salary is a supply/demand negotiation is weird. And they really don't think it through to the obvious conclusion if it did happen - they'd get paid the same as people in Eastern Europe or India.

I think a 4-day work week could eventually happen, but HN types like to pretend it will make people more productive which it absolutely won't. It probably won't reduce productivity to 80%. More like 90%. But it will happen as a cultural shift; not because it increases productivity.
What a great video, thanks! Especially the airlight phenomenon is fascinating with the softness related to its size.

I've always loved that magic almost pink shadowless very dreamlike illumination you'll sometimes get right when the arch is large, and the subtle change in feeling when it gets sharper and dimmer.
Reddit is only worth three-fiddy. (If you're lucky)

Don't waste your money on it. Or .... only spend what you have spare to lose.
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See The Linux Foundation, they don’t seem to have this problem.
What language typically returns the `Either<Error,Success>` you refer to here? I get (and love) the idea but have never seen it in official documentation (sure I could go off the beaten path and implement in my language of choice).

Also, did you come up with this on your own, or were you exposed to it?
License plate fraud is increasing in NYC
Sure, but they clearly haven't "scrubbed all references" of their open weights from their site.
On Language and Humanity: In Conversation with Noam Chomsky (2019)
> Initially, the NSO sought to block all discovery in the lawsuit, "due to various US and Israeli restrictions," but that blanket request was denied.

Interesting approach. The court could probably care less about Israeli restrictions as it's a different country.

Officially US govt blacklisted Pegasus https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/11/us-blacklists-ma.... However, I wouldn't be surprised if some US spy agencies are still using it. If that's the case, Pegasus might try asking US intel agencies to block the case on the basis of disclose of classified info or harming national interests.

It would be interesting to see if all of the sudden "something happens" and the case is mysteriously dropped.
Because productivity is not the same.
This is why I love 'Copy clean link' in Brave.
If anyone is going to make AI that wants to destroy humans, its elon musk.
I think using a less charged example than "Nazis" would probably have helped avoid down voted & lack of engagement, but I understand why you chose it as an example & personally don't take issue with it, especially because you elaborated on why you picked them as an example. Just my $0.02
Fishermen delivering possible spy balloon to FBI in Alaska
i see, thanks for clarifying. i can see how that does have shock value
That’s a really good write up, with lots of details and pointers to other interesting sources to dig into.
It's an economical decision. If you're developing a new indie game with $10k revenue expectation in its lifetime, then probably it's not worth your time. But if it's a core infrastructure of multi-billion dollar business, then yes it's worth your time since any non-trivial security incidents may cost more than your annual salary.
'Epigenetic' editing cuts cholesterol in mice
There are growing calls for Google CEO Sundar Pichai to step down
Water intrusion is a maintenance problem, not a quality problem. The old growth framing in my 1950's house feels like it will last forever.
Generating Expressive Portrait Videos with Audio2Video Diffusion Mode
Blizzard is slamming California with 12 feet of snow possible 100-MPH wind gusts
A unique ID helps avoid broken links if a post's title changes, and avoids conflicts between posts with the same name.
That's actually a very interesting idea I hadn't seen before. Certainly makes it less obvious that one has been shadowbanned, and probably would help keep (non-bots) happy. I wonder if it'd be worth the investment to implement.
I was always curious - in fully remote IT (especially one located in another state/country), who does the actual on-site visits? Say, a PC part has to be replaced or a new laptop has to be deployed.

For the deployment I guess you can use something like ImmyBot or Intune, but at some point someone has to be there and connect a new machine to the internet/intranet. How does that work in practice?
Adobe Brings Conversational AI to Reader and Acrobat
I think the biggest thing we often miss when we talk about the 4-day work week is that most employees would not mind doing condensed hours i.e. longer hours everyday but then work fewer days. It doesn't have to be straight cut to 32 hours etc
Ask HN: Is online marketing more difficult now than 10-15 years ago?
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Yes, regulators should enforce our regulations, if that's your question. Force the nonprofit to not profit; prevent frauds from defrauding.

In this case, a nonprofit took donations to create open AI for all of humanity. Instead, they "opened" their AI exclusively to themselves wearing a mustache, and enriched themselves. Then they had the balls to rationalize their actions by telling everyone that "it's for your own good." Their behavior is so shockingly brazen that it's almost admirable. So yeah, we should throw the book at them. Hard.
> You’ll still ban at least /64 and you’ll switch to /48 for the particularly nasty ones.

The entire /64 will nearly always be a single ISP customer, not thousands of customers behind one address as it can be for IPv4. And you can start by banning the /64 and then widen the mask, say, 4 bits at a time if abusive traffic continues from an adjacent range. It's not that hard to automate this. Then the /48 gets blocked only if you see abusive traffic from multiple ranges within it, implying that the whole range is controlled by the attacker, or that ISP does nothing about abusive customers, which is nearly the same thing.
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That sounds like exactly the correction I was hoping for :) and it does make more sense than bugs, especially your bit about birds.
The CDC has proven themselves willing to lie repeatedly to manage the narrative around Covid politically. Long Covid has had a large and continuing impact. The virus has not changed. In fact it had its second largest season this winter, just going by the CDC's own wastewater data graph:

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#wastewater-surveil...

In light of that, desire to normalize fewer precautions is a way of saying "the weak shall perish" and blaming victims of the virus instead of shouldering any responsibility for them.
Well, do systems like, say, FreeBSD even support facilities functionally equivalent to control groups? Even if they do (which they don’t), it would be a whole new separate implementation, and there’s not enough interest from anyone who can do it to roll their sleeves and work on it.
I haven't noticed any perceptible latency from any active DP → HDMI I've used, and I'd honestly be surprised to see any inexpensive active DP → HDMI adapter introducing latency, if only because doing so would require a frame buffer, which drives up costs.

What I have seen is DP → HDMI adapters that only support chroma subsampled pixel formats at 4kp60, and TVs that introduce many frame times' worth of latency due to various post-processing effects.

My hunch is as follows: given that consumer video devices (DVD/Blu-ray, set top box) almost exclusively output chroma-subsampled 4:2:2/4:2:0 YCbCr formats, TV post-processing pipelines may only support these formats, causing RGB (and possibly 4:4:4 YCbCr) signals to bypass post-processing, similar to the "PC" or "Game" modes present on some TVs that do the same.

In other words, if adapter → 4:2:2/4:2:0 and 4:2:2/4:2:0 → TV post-processing → latency, then adapter → latency, even if the adapter itself introduces no significant latency.

If I'm correct, the solution is an adapter which supports RGB output at the desired resolutions and frame rates and/or a TV with a PC/Game mode that bypasses post-processing for all source types, both of which are highly desirable for "monitor" use in any case.
This is great news for the party clown industry.
QR codes of shorter URLs are easier to scan.
My interpreter? Oh it's just a simple frontend. My plan is to first convert it to an ast tree walker, and then add a backend for some vintage platform. I am also thinking about generating llvm IR as it makes it trivial for the backends.

I knew nothing about compiler theory so it took me way too much time to implement break and function call correctly.
Not that much anymore, more likely working on warfare killing robots now, and ICBMs like SpaceX.

So something in common.
Air National Guardsman Teixeira to admit he was Pentagon files leaker
Yes, though you could also put that money into your pension.
The lack of native HTML includes is a big reason why I picked up just enough PHP to write functional pages back in the early-mid 00s. Not having to manually propagate changes to e.g. navbars across a whole site was mind blowing.
[dupe] Judge orders NSO to cough up Pegasus super-spyware source code
I elaborated on this in a reply to the comment parallel to yours, but: by "bioweapons" I really meant "science behind bioweapons", which happens to be just biotech. Biotech is, like any applied field, inherently dual-use. But unlike nuclear weapons, the techniques and tools scale down and, over time, become accessible to individuals.

The most risky parts of biotech, the ones directly related to bioweapons, are not made publicly accessible - but it's hard, as unlike with nukes, biotech is dual-use to the very end, so we have to balance prevention and defense with ease of creating deadly pathogens.
To confound you further, I say "sequel" and not "ess-cue-ell" for SQL
Does this mean Wayland will finally work right on NVidia hardware?
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To be honest I thought it would be a less charged example than a modern topic :)

For example, your use of 'engagement' made a lot of associations in my mind, none of them positive.
it's from 40 hours a week, down to 32, then to 30. doing both means a 24 hour work week...
It all began with a small tail fetish.
So that's it? Either people agree with your particular set of opinions, or they are "racist idiots"?
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Sorry, they’ve just scrubbed most of the references and otherwise edited their site to downplay any commitment to open source, post-Microsoft investment.
This is like saying that nothing special happens to water at 100 degrees because if you look at the total thermal energy, it's a smooth increase.
They are absolutely the right equipment for the job. If you take a bad fall on your shock link, you likely need medical attention anyways. You won't keep climbing far with it.
People think it helps with SEO, but I’m not sure how accurate that is. SEO seems to be a lot of snake oil and superstition
Thanks for the correction regarding the Regex timeline. Git commits are generally more reliable than my memory.