skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Wouldn't it make more sense to let someone else be the bad guy and instead focus on defense?

Maybe an analogy is more like an unsafe building collapsing randomly versus a controlled demolition after getting everyone out? The thing is going to happen, but if you're the one to make it happen, you can prevent it from being as much of a disaster. Not all possible AGIs are equal, he sees it as making it so when there is an AGI, it's aligned to his values.

It's being defensive against bad-AGI by developing good-AGI first. It's not clear if it will work, but it's better than just hoping setting up a good framework for UBI will keep your from being turned into paperclips.
In terms of accessibility I don't think it would be bad per se if chatgpt.exe would be able to help you with that. Though both of us know that there is maintenance involved and once something catch fire (which will happen at some point), you are kind of helpless.

Something like pikapods.com certainly helps with accessibility, even if it isn't self-hosting per se.

But all of that doesn't have little to do with incentives or disincentives. Even with very high accessibility there are disincentives to self-host. It will cost time and money in some way. For some people the intrinsic motivation will override those disincentives. But I think for the majority of people there will still not be enough motivation to do it.

There are more important things to do for them.
That was Sourceforge really I suppose wasn't it - I enjoy GitHub for the opposite reason really (that I am a 'smelly nerd' and do want code more often than an executable, well actually they said '.exe', and I never want that) but I've definitely come across repos, even maintain one^, where they have that kind of real world leaking in, not really realising GitHub's not for them and then getting frustrated by it or just doing strange things.

(^I'm a collaborator on awesomecv, a latex CV/resume template, and we get a lot of PRs from people trying to edit their own information & experience into the example. I keep meaning to set up a template repo of how to use it properly as a latex class, maybe include rendering in Actions, the way my own use of it is basically, and more strongly point people towards that in the readme, maybe even remove the example. But I've been saying that for years, since before 'template repo' existed in fact.)
>Apple is just coasting on the incredible design and vision of Steve Jobs

Jobs has been dead for over 12 years and according to everything I've read and been made aware of he pulled back from leadership at least three years prior to that.

If you think Apple has been coasting for 12-15 years, you haven't been paying attention.
The omnipod isn't setup with the g6 yet. Can't wait.
I had to look it up because I couldn't believe it was real but... https://old.reddit.com/r/github/comments/1at9br4/i_am_new_to...
Half of that population was already displaced and lack basic services such as food, shelter, and electricity.

Israel even goes to bomb civilian shelters because why not. I’m glad you’re not being targeted by any genocide but if you would. I’d stand for you.
There's a sub-reddit for the worst of it: https://www.reddit.com/r/LinkedInLunatics/
> but "to avoid being defeated by evil we must become evil ourselves" is not really the point

Well the world is not black and white.

> For things like chemical weapons we have treaties banning it

There was a treaty Russia signed (along with US, UK etc.) which guaranteed Ukrainian Independance back in the 90s. All treaties are less than worthless if you can't enforce them.

> while for conscription all politicians are quiet about while pretending to care about human rights.

Would you rather have conscription and not live in Russia? Or have conscription and live in Russia? Realistically these are basically the only options some people have.
They pretty much are. They don't even had facilities that older consoles had like an accessible web browser or custom theming.

Just because they have general computing hardware doesn't mean they are general purpose computers.
No, but I breathe oxygen radicals 24 hours a day and so do you. A study about the free radical content of the air in a bag of Lay's Potato Chips is pretty pointless despite it being proven to cause cell death.
Made a mistake, why? They either comply right away, or just pretend to be deaf with their own interpretation, make Epic sue them again, pull the situation for a few years keep profiting off developers with their 30% rent, maybe at the end of it the EU will fine them some peanut and the rest is just profit, can’t understand what the mistake is here
Immediately invoked function expressions! Takes me back to a simpler time. Nice work.
What do you do on mobile?
I was curious about this article. How much of the AI hype was demoralizing to his perception of the company's future? Attempting to read between the lines, maybe he was down no more than just no-code. He might have thought AI would outperform in the same space where internal tools platforms (Airtable/Retool) currently live. Following that thought, perhaps Airtable/Retool may be looking to pivot away fast from low-code/no-code into AI-first connections to internal knowledgebases & databases.

https://www.airplane.dev/blog/no-code-has-no-future-in-a-wor...
> If having more information leads to worse outcomes, that's fundamentally a problem with how you're responding to the information, not with having the information.

Not necessarily.

Rohin Francis (Medlife crisis) has I think a video on overtesting, but for example, if you have a new technology that tests and suspects a tumor, which results in CT scans for patients, if millions of users use this tech there's a likely non-zero number of people who may get cancer from the CT exposure.

"What about those who actually had the tumor?"

Well it's possible that 99% of these cases would've been symptomatic anyway in a few more months.

By explanation isn't the best, but over-medication is not a non-issue.
Yeah. I hope they're at least doing it gradually. As in, rewrite a small component and have it run side by side with the rest of the original app, then rewrite another one and so on.
Not ignore, no. But the bar for holding one accountable for collateral damage changes. Considering, for example, the staggering scale of tunnels that have been built to funnel military supplies through civilians areas; clearing operations to destroy these areas entirely feels defensible. When a hospital is used as an arms hub, it is incredibly complex and costly to try and seize it by encirclement and small arms siege versus just blowing it up. This is a very difficult situation.
That assumes upper bound of published figures, 130. Lower bound is about 90. If 130 is 10%, 90 would be 7%. In my estimation post I took conservatively wikipedia's count, close to the lower bound.
You don't know if it's a false positive or not until you do further interventions. Realizing it's unnecessary is only evident in hindsight.

E.g. CT scan shows an incidental, tiny lung nodule. You do a biopsy. Unfortunately, during the process of getting a biopsy, you develop a pneumothorax (an uncommon but well-known complication of a lung biopsy) and need a chest tube, hospitalization, etc. You get discharged and you're fine, but man, that wasn't fun. Biopsy comes back negative for cancer. Nodule goes away on its own with time.

Edit: that being said, I'm excited about OTC CGMs! But the "data" we have in medicine is not as accurate as other fields and always subject to false positives/negatives.
I think it's a legit concern and it worries me too.

We can only go by the articles that users submit, and then only the subset we see, which is a function of (a) randomness and (b) users bringing specific cases to our attention. If there's a bias in the stories that have made HN's front page, that bias is present in the underlying data (I mean this stream of articles) to begin with. Why might that be? Well, there are a lot of possible reasons and people would most likely dispute about those as much as they do about the underlying topic.

For what it's worth (which may not be much), all I can tell you is that we want deeply, and are trying hard, to be even-handed. At the same time, we're not going to apply some sort of mechanical both-sides balancing because, although it might make things superficially easier in the short term, I don't think it would be in the spirit of the site, and we don't do that about anything else.

The even-handedness I'm talking about is probably easier to notice in our moderation of comments, so far, than of the articles. I feel pretty confident that we've done a good job of that [1], more than I am about the articles. Perhaps that's because there have been thousands of comments, but only a handful of frontpage articles, on the topic. One consistent lesson of HN is that you can't draw general conclusions from a handful of datapoints. It takes a lot more than that before reliable patterns show up.

What matters to me is that there be principles underlying the moderation and that these get applied equally. This isn't fully achievable because there's always interpretation involved—we don't get every call right. But I think the principles are the right ones for HN (I've explained what these are in the links mentioned above), and I'm always open to hearing arguments about how to apply them more even-handedly. When people make a fair point, such as xyzelement did about the submitted URL of the OP (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39621225), we're happy to change something. Another example that sticks in my mind is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39146630 from a few weeks ago. That was about title, not URL, but the principle is the same.

I don't know how satisfactory this answer can possibly be but I hope it's at least clear that I hear you and care about the question.

[1] That is, when people break HN's rules in the comments, such as by posting flamebait or snark or personal attack, we flag and/or reply and/or ban irrespective of what the commenter is for or against. It might not appear that way to many readers who have strong passions on a topic, but it's not as hard to do as one might assume, especially after 10 years of practice.
In Firefox I use them to customize HN. For example font sizes and text colors.
Extensively discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39297185
SpaceX Starlink terminals trafficked by New Jersey man
I like the idea of TCP as a leaky abstraction because it points out the difficulty of engineering the abstraction we really want. It would be wonderful for TCP to be a guaranteed connection abstraction, but it turns out in today's world, the abstraction of a reliable connection is TCP + a network administrator + a guy with wire snips + solder (metaphorically). Maybe down the road, AIs and repair bots will be involved, and the guaranteed connection abstraction might become real or much much stronger. Although it gets more complicated because if a message takes hours to deliver, is that going to work for your application? Yes if you're archiving documents, no if you're trying to set up a video conference call or display a web page.

TCP is problematic in modern circumstances (think: Inside a data center) because a response within milliseconds is what's expected to make the process viable. TCP was designed to accommodate some element of the path being a 300 Baud modem, where a response time in seconds is possible as the modem dials the next hop, so the TCP timeouts are unuseable. QUIC was developed to address this kind of problem. My point being, the abstraction of a guaranteed _timely_ connection is even harder.

I think Joel could have expanded his thoughts to include the degree of leak. SQL is a leaky abstraction itself, yes, but my own take is that ORMs are much leakier: Every ORM introduction document I've read explains the notation by saying "here's the sql that is produced". I think of ORMs as not a bucket with holes, but a bucket with half the bottom removed.
I agree that would have been nice. But that is not the consumer's fault; it is however in the consumer's interest to have strong antitrust laws which restore a competitive environment.
Exactly. If I'll have to depend on someone else anyway (and I will), might as well build trust because a life being cautious about everything and everyone is not worth living. Only those with already vast amounts of money can afford it because they trust (heh) other people working for them to taue care of that, but to non-jokingly propose it as a standard for everyone is a dystopia.
Are there?

If I look at a common MCU, my choices are UART, SPI and I2C. Out of those, UART is the only interface which can easily handle printf-style debug messages without additional protocols. I can manage something with SPI or I2C in a pinch, but this would be non-standard and require special software on PC side. If I really hate UART for some reason I can set up SPI master, but this will just require 2 extra wires and a very special host adapter (all the ones I saw are master-mode).

More expensive micros have CAN and Ethernet. Ethernet is nice but needs magnetics, probably overkill for debug port; plus once you have Ethernet on-board no one is happy with raw frames, so you end up with ARP, DHCP, IP, TCP and lots of memory usage. CAN is pretty cool, but developer tools are overpriced and very bad, and most larger SOCs do not have support for it. Plus you still have to select baudrate for it :)

Sadly, there does not seem to be anything "new" people could agree too... The combined inertia of billions of microcontrollers will keep UART alive forever.

... but hey, if I were a head of R&D for microcontroller company, I'd totally design my own debug protocol. It'd be pulse based (to allow random clock rates but also keep line quiet when there is no output), potentially capacitively coupled (because I hate ground loops), use single signal wire + ground (because debug channel does not need full duplex), have integrated "packet end" mark and predefined packet types for text logs and binary TLV. It'd also have fully open debug tools. But I am not designing my own chips, so I am just using UART.
It started in the early 2010-s. First, relational databases were discouraged for new projects, then some projects started migrating from RDBMS to DynamoDB (or to the special internal NoSQL storage systems). The final push to move off Oracle (and RDBMS in general) started around 2016.
I think this is illustrative of how the economy gets more scammy the faster and more secretly ownership of a product, company, or brand can change hands

To me, this cuts at a fundamental logic we take for granted in the paradigm of Intellectual Property: That a brand is a fungible commodity that can be sold, like any other good or service. We treat this as a transfer of ownership of some property, but I think it makes more sense to treat this as a form of fraud. A name or brand is a signal people and businesses use to indicate who made something, and its chief value is the trust that's been built by the people running whatever operation carries that brand. The fact that it is not only legal but common practice to buy a brand explicitly for this trust in the operation is, from my perspective, obviously a big part of why everything is so scammy
I wonder whether those drops might have used dry loops from the phone company, which used to offer circuits with no power or dial tone ostensibly just for alarm systems (but which could otherwise be used creatively). Maybe they were effectively on the dry loop equivalent of a party line.
Founder of windmill.dev, the open-source alternative mentioned at the end. This market is tough, our customers are both very demanding and hard on price. We are doing very well because we kept the team very small but I cannot imagine the pressure to deliver when having raised 20x what we did.

I love what I'm doing and I feel very fortunate for the opportunity to build a startup in a domain that I cherish, devtools, and have grown to love demanding customers as people that care about our product. But if I wasn't passionate in it and its technical challenges, I think there are easier opportunities out there to make a successful startup and can easily imagine how disappointing this segment is with the track records they had as founders.
The court did not say that Israel is committing genocide. It didn't even require a ceasefire.

Do you not know what "preventing" or "committing" mean either?
I have fired people for insubordination. Specifically public insubordination.
I've also used Extensions Update Notifier [1] in the past, which has the option to disable extensions on every update. It hasn't been updated since 2016, but recent reviews say it still works. It doesn't detect ownership changes though.

[1]: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/extensions-update-n...
> This has also been one of the deadliest wars for civilians in general.

That's not actually true. The ratio is similar to other wars. Civilians die in war, they die a lot. War sucks. But Gaza is not unusually deadly compared to other wars.
I didn’t say you were. I am pointing out a more directly analogous war to demonstrate that similar militaries have waged similar wars against similar adversaries for far, far greater spans of time yielding far fewer journalist deaths.

I am also pointing out that “this war is extra hard to prosecute” is not actually justification for certain actions. The difficulty of fighting the war falls on the people fighting the war, including the difficulty of protecting civilians during that war. What else would any standards or laws mean if that weren’t the case? The whole premise of these standards is to set a ceiling on what sort of awful conditions can be allowed during warfare.
code from the paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.18059

It introduces a novel approach of recursively embedding, clustering, and summarizing chunks of text, constructing a tree with differing levels of summarization from the bottom up. At inference time, the model retrieves from this tree, integrating information across lengthy documents at different levels of abstraction.
youre being pedantic about a 5-10% calorie spread here or there when 90% of people are overeating at a magnitude of 50-200%. everything you're talking about is insignificant for the average person.
I stayed at a place in the US a few years ago where I should have been able to walk the half mile to the grocery store but there was no path through the neighborhood to the strip mall where it was located, and there was no sidewalk on my side of the highway that was the other option.
The code you posted does not work. Try it out. One of these two lines is incorrect:

predictionsaccuracy = accuracy_score(y_test, predictions)
print("Accuracy: %.2f%%" % (accuracy * 100.0))

Either the first line should be:

accuracy = accuracy_score(y_test, predictions)

or the second line should be:

print("Accuracy: %.2f%%" % (predictionsaccuracy * 100.0))

I tried the corrected code against the CSV data file you pointed to, and got:

ValueError: could not convert string 'Pregnancies' to float64 at row 0, column 1.

You linked to a course that costs US$37. I don't see the code, though one of the images shows it uses that data set. Still, 1) tells me there's a copy&paste error, and 2) tells me that the dataset was somehow massaged.

> Is it no longer AI? If so why?

Okay, so I misunderstood your point. I thought your 'I promise you that anyone voting in this poll couldn't differentiate between what does and does not use "AI."' was in regards to the modern wave of using AI (typically LLM models) as a code assistant. Could someone tell if the code you posted was generated by an AI?

I could tell that the code you posted was not working code, so if the choices were "working code written by human" and "output from an AI model", it clearly belongs to the latter.

That is not your point, and I was wrong.

However, the point of the article is not "what is AI?" but more like "how much should you trust the results of everything described as AI"?

XGBoost was not generating false court citations. XGBoost was not generating images where the only scientists were white men. XGBoost was not submitting Stackoverflow answers. XGBoost was not classifying black men as gorillas. XGBoost is not the sort of AI that most people are thinking of when you say "AI".

FWIW, I'm of the classical school, and I consider alpha–beta pruning to be part of AI.
The point is that the government could pay 100% of the cost but chooses not to.
Your argument is that the study isn't worthwhile because it's "obvious" through other means?

Have you met consumers? That Lays study seems valuable...
Literally all of Epic's biggest shareholders are on board with treating the problems with Apple as more than a "kerfuffle." They've attracted quite a bit of investment in spite of the ongoing lawsuits.
I'm not sure how much I can say; I don't work for a CGM company, but my company is very interested in diabetes. There are non-device reasons you can't use a CGM indefinitely. The site becomes less reliable over time, and it varies from peron to person. I'm not sure if the Stelo has addressed any of those, or if the G7 was overly cautious, or something else, but there are biological things happening at the site that affect the time too.
It's how I learned web development
Are there any other examples from history where the goal of combatants was (or at least appeared to be) to maximize the destruction of their own side? If so, what were the outcomes of these?
I get that sense too. Probably does work awesome if you're inside. But man it's a mess when they externalize stuff. Just one example: their cloud platform CLI includes an entire python installation and takes 1.7G on disk, just to make API calls...
True, at their core though, those aren't environmental at their heart but rather something else green-washed, be it corruption, subsidisation or something else.
While I too would back out from anything requiring giving away credentials, is there no other way to transfer ownership? A charitable interpretation could be that they wanted to also buy the "popularity" of the extension simply for discoverability.

But it's equally easy to envision nefarious reasons of course.
I think it is something like "the wisdom of the crowd is the collective opinion of a diverse independent group of individuals rather than that of a single expert." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom_of_the_crowd
I can't speak to averages but I'll say car traffic into Boston is at least as bad as ever and commuter rail is still way down relative to pre-pandemic. So, yes, people take train but a huge number of people drive. (I try to take train the rare times I go into the office although it takes about the same 2 hours as driving.) And the commuter rail is totally impractical to use for an evening event.
I think the argument is that its a lot easier to protect journalists if there are very few journalists in the war zone, so absolute numbers are the wrong way to look at it.

Essentially base rate fallacy.
You’re being unfairly downvoted. The word genocide has been overused in this conflict. Genocide means an intent to erase a people, which is a hard point to argue when Gaza’s population has doubled in the last two decades under this supposed “erasure”.
From all the comments in this threat it seems a lot of people care about it. Of course HN public is specially tech/nerd oriented, but from the popularity here I think it's not crazy to think that non-HN audience would also care.
Could you list all the features you are thinking of?
I don’t think it ever was alive