skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I jumped to Kraft Dinner and wondered why that was the kind of perception you’d want to cause people to have about your product.

Kraft Dinner and Kraft Singles, my two favourite almost cheese products.

Names are really hard.
But you don't need "most of the researchers" or relocating them, nor you need legal data - with sufficient money and hardware, if North Korea or any other country puts a bunch of median CS grad-students to the task, they can train whatever models they want; the code and data is practically available and will be, no matter what the bans.
So this is just OpenAI reconfirming their commitment to closed artificial intelligence?
Here are some videos of the robot moving: https://twitter.com/alexkoch_ai. The advantage of this robot arm design is that it's very lightweight. The XL330 motors are just 18g each. This makes it very suitable for teleoperation and robot learning.
Hah well, that's true. But there may be tougher cases than the one I came up with.
Also, Roughs Tower (a WWII fortification twelve miles off the coast of Suffolk) was a site of the pirate radio station Radio Essex in the 1960s before the late Roy Bates declared his new "nation" of Sealand on it and declared himself prince.

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I wonder what insurance rates on these look like now
> cheap, high quality

Most mechanical things require you to optimize for cost or quality
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Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39895994
No money was at stake there, I think?

It's not that I think the US supreme court will never rule correctly in favor of speech or other basic freedoms. I'm sure they will, as long as none of their corrupt interests are threatened. As they say, "the rules only matter when the outcome doesn't".
git clone --sparse --filter=blob:none --depth=1
I have seen investments come through, I don’t doubt that.

The company I know that got the funding I would not have invested that kind of capital in , ever.

Then again that’s VC for you, a long list of failed ventures and a shorter list of impressive huge returns on investment.

I subscribe to very conservative accounting principles, I get insanely fixed on burn rate, I cannot sleep at night if my company is in the red. If everyone thought like me innovation would be at a humanity level low. Huge credit to all founders, it is a big mind fuck.
At this point, wouldn't a penetration tester stance by the state be more effective?
Basically the institutions try to subvert the production process by sabotaging via infiltration, and then look for the corresponding paper-trail, fixed product, caught pentest.

It would keep everybody on there toes, every process functional and the regulators working without getting caught.
Yep noisysockets is based originally off wireguard-go but is an attempt to simplify and make things a lot more idiomatic for library use. Filling in the gaps etc and improving the ergonomics. Hoping to build a bit of an ecosystem of supporting projects around it, eg. I'm currently working on a STUN server implementation based on the approach described in https://nordsecurity.com/blog/reaching-beyond-1gbps

One of the recent feature divergences from upstream is support for network exit nodes / gateways.
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It's a quote from the movie Dogma.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39903005
No separate extension needed; it’s right there in the container settings now!

Somebody has the detailed steps in a sibling comment.
We have a “Lego sheet” - just a regular bed sheet that goes on the floor before playing with Legos. When it’s time to collect, you make a “bag” with the sheet, grabbing (most of) the pieces, and then we “pour” them into the final container. The sheet goes in top of the pieces on the same container so it’s also the first thing that comes out the next time.
The lyrics are so culturally appropriate to that time that anyone listening now wouldn't probably get it.

The same with Futuristic Sex Robotz with the Hotel Coral Essex album - some of those songs on there are so pinpointed in time that they just remind me of the computers and using them.
I find it a bit amusing that Bing doesn't censor the naked mannequins.
Part of the backdoor was in the tests. The attacker in this case could easily have sabotaged the test as well if a test was required.
Also: (re) foster an environment where people can highlight issues without being ignored or even harassed for it. Once people start noticing that their reports about potential issues are ignored or makes colleagues act differently towards them, it's game over.
Like the price for a brand new plane with pilot recertification, but in rates.
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>people who I know tried it (e.g Atkins) had their moods significantly worsen

Dieting is stressful?
I second this recommendation. This particular episode is unfortunately one of the shorter ones, but it is very good. The entire podcast (at 18 episodes as of today) is brilliant.

You can find it here: https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/
It wasn't meant to, but it realistically and potentially feels only useful in those cases.

To me in most cases it is used it seems to just overengineer and obfuscate things unnecessarily when much simpler code would be easier to understand, etc.

It shouldn't be a thing that is done by default, only when it really makes sense.

Eventually with all those injections you are going to cause a situation where making any changes becomes really complex, if there are any use cases you didn't foresee at all.

In 90%+ cases you don't need interfaces and or DI, you should just be able to follow the logic with your IDE, it makes no sense to obfuscate that.

If the impl truly must vary for whatever case, then sure, you can use it.

But I would also say that don't do interfaces and impl before you actually need to switch them out dynamically depending on the context (and not just for testing).

If you have something that does Storage, and Storage drivers could be different like FileSystem, GoogleDrive, whatever, then sure use an interface, but not otherwise.

It's like DRY. Unless you actually use it 2-3 times, don't make everything unnecessarily into a reusable fn.

If you don't foresee having multiple storage methods in the near future then just use a class for storing which you can move to, to see how it does file storage or similar.
> But both come from the same authors.

The Git repository comes with a history containing each and every commit, along with checksums and sometimes cryptographic signatures for it all. The tarball is just a bunch of random files.

If somebody wants to rewrite the Git history, that will get instantly noticed by anybody that had an older clone of it. If somebody adds a hack to it, it will be at the top of the history and easy to notice as well.

If somebody adds something to a tarball, there is nothing to tell you that something changed, you'll have to audit the whole thing from top to bottom (or compare it to the Git repository it came from).

Also the author isn't in control here, the tarball can get changed after it was uploaded to the server and there would be nothing in the tarball itself to tell you.

People are using PGP signatures and checksums to secure tarballs some more, but that's always an extra step and doesn't happen automatically. And even that still doesn't give you the history.
Haven't read the paper, but I can't tell from this summary article if they tested any other diet programs as a control - is it possible that the improvement comes from being more ordered and thoughtful about food choices, rather than from the specific diet used?
It's just a documentation change. Likely made to add reputation to the account.
It was legit when it first came about, I know that much, and was started by well known and trusted people in the tech scene back then, but any platform that has money flowing through it will undoubtedly be found and utilized by folks who aren't legit, looking to scam, or to otherwise move money between hands.

I'm not saying AL has that, but it's old enough now to where I'd be surprised if it didn't have that. Same is true for GitHub Sponsors, Patreon, GoFundMe, etc.

These platforms are all ripe for laundering imo. Investment or sponsorship funds go in dirty, and come out the other side as clean income complete with year end tax documents. Again, I'd be more surprised if this isn't happening on these platforms, but that doesn't mean the platforms are not legit either.
Not just for hardware support: https://github.com/serde-rs/serde/issues/2538
Yeah.

We need an MIT, but with a “you can’t serve this tool over a network in exchange for money” (not a lawyer, obviously) kind of clause.
Is https://leyaai.com online right now? I'm timing out.
>You need to have both.

For employment the most it does is set a ceiling on wages. Pushing up your ceiling doesn't necessarily push up your wages.

>I would also push back a bit that a PhD adds immense value.

Of course, that's a common opinion. Blue sky research is vastly underrated in the west. This is partly why the Chinese are overtaking us.
Actual enterprises do not have a better track record. I would go as far to say that if Big Corp maintained an SSH client and server then a lot of distributions would shun it out of distrust. How many products from actual enterprises phone home with telemetry or leak data in other ways?
Well, I guess that’s a reason, at least. I’m intensely sceptical about its value, though, when the difference is less than a thousand lines: a subfile containing the usual ifndef gating and a million `a := b` lines adds less than 0.05s on each subsequent inclusion, on my laptop (the first, about 0.15s.)

10,000× `include gmsl`: around 0.1s.

10,000× on including a single-file modification: around 0.7s. Cull all the blank lines and comments and merge continued lines, 197 lines left (excluding license information, which I will acknowledge has some purpose) and it’s around 0.28s.

I haven’t ever used makefiles on large projects, but the performance difference feels like it should be completely negligible.
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Sure, nobody can deny the Arabic influence in Spain. For example, around 10% of the vocabulary of modern Spanish comes from Arabic.
To your footnote, you're not wrong, but climate change is a better and more encompassing description for what people experience: more extreme weather, be it heat, cold, precipitation or drought. We can't feel an average temperature rise of 1.5 degrees, but I can certainly tell you that we just experienced the hottest summer peak temperatures on record.
It's a bit ironic that a company named Silobreaker wants people onsite.
> On average, the participants lost 10% of their body weight; reduced their waist circumference by 11% percent; and had lower blood pressure, body mass index, triglycerides, blood sugar levels and insulin resistance.

Any person that loses 10% their body weight through a diet is going to feel much better.
I think you're asking two different things. AngelList is legit. They have a popular investment platform many legit investors use and many other products and features.

The private syndicates on the platform is a different story. I would be very cautious with my money. If you don't know and trust the people in charge, you better off investing your money somewhere else. I doubt most of them can make meaningful returns, yet alone not losing money.
Well, if they rushed a plane through due to pressure to get planes done quickly, then that shows that pressure works. So just apply it differently.
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I really liked the list, probably cause my resume kinda fits and as a true generalist, my resume rarely fits anything.

It is true that working for free is bonkers. Priority number 1 is always rent, at minimum cover that so that business is priority 1.
I would posit that the proportion of "originated from 4chan" notes on knowyourmeme.com are an indicator of its outsized influence.
Not sure I'm going to get any traction here, but seeing as the 'support' button in the website is greyed out, not sure where else to post this. I got double-charged for my subscription, and I'm hoping you folks can help me get a refund on the extra charge. I was going through the subscription flow and got an error. The website allowed me to subscribe again so I did, assuming the first one hadn't gone through. I now have two charges on my card.
What the f-word is the k-word?
I think there is a fundamental "proxy problem" with AGPL-like licenses.

If I put a transparent proxy in front of the service and let users connect to that am I exposing it to them? Almost certainly yes.

What about a proxy that provides a HTTP API for the database and then translates it to the native protocol? Probably also considered exposing.

If I put stock data into the database and put up a website that displays a stock ticker am I exposing the database to them? Very likely not?

But what if the user can also write stock values? What if they can sum the values of various stocks.

Basically there is no clear line where you stop exposing the database to the user and you stop needing to provide the source of whatever intermediate services you are using. So lawyers will recommend erring on the side of caution and just not touching it.
For Xen, it's historical reasons funneled into "don't break things for your users". In the olden times, Xen had our own fork of QEMU, as well as our own fork of Linux, and some other useful tools like pvgrub. These were developed in a separate repository, but it was imported into the main Xen release tarball, so that you could just download the main tarball, do "./configure && make && make install" and have a reasonably complete Xen system.

These days most Linux kernels can do everything we need, and our release tag of QEMU might only be one or two patches not yet in the upstream branch; and in any case, you can always use the most upstream release. So this isn't necessary anymore (and indeed we only include QEMU in the release tarball, not Linux or pvgrub). And you can still "./configure && make && make install" to get a fairly complete system, it will just clone other repositories on your behalf.

On the other hand, I actually checked just last month, and the tarball for Xen 4.18.0, released back in November, was getting 700 downloads a week. Who are all these people downloading the release tarball, rather than using the distro version of Xen? Do they want and need these extra bits inside? We don't know and were hesitant to make any breaking changes.

I think with the xz fiasco, we now have justification to switch entirely to a `git archive` tarball of a specific tag, whether it's inconvenient for people or not.
> Perforce isn't trying to gain adoption by giving its software for free to distro maintainers

Perforce has been giving its software for free to OSS projects since forever. FreeBSD used to use Perforce, for example.

OSS people and projects don't want Perforce, not the other way around.
The relicense doesn't bother me. That straight up lie, though.
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Ah, now I see my mistake; I gave a list of what I see as things of political importance without making it clear this is what I was doing.

That the source code for unbreakable encryption fits onto a T-shirt made it clear to the US government that it was a "speech" issue, and also made it clear that it was in any practical sense unstoppable.

That big models can't fit onto most person devices at present is indeed likely to be a temporary state of affairs, however it does also mean that the political aspect is very different — the senators and members of parliament can't look at the thing and notice that, even if the symbols are arcane and mysterious beyond their education, it's fundamentally quite short and simple.

And, of course, if they're planning legislation, they can easily say "no phones with ${feature} > ${threshold}", which they've already done on various compute hardware over the years, even if the thresholds seem quaint today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2ThMmgQdpE

Politicians don't care if all of us here think they look silly.

> 2) Claiming that the benefit of people being able to run the models locally is only 5% is absurd. The privacy benefit of not sending your sensitive data to a third party is worth more than that by itself, much less setting up some huge institutions to have an oligopoly over the technology and subject everyone to all the abuses inherent in uncompetitive markets.

This seems a surprising claim, given the popularity of cloud compute, Cloudfare, third-party tracking cookies, DropBox, Slack/MS Teams, Gmail, and web apps run by third parties such as Google Docs, JIRA, Miro, etc.

There are certainly cases where people benefit from local models. The observation of all these non-local examples is part of why I think that benefit is about 5% — though perhaps this is merely sample bias on my part?

> But from the perspective of those institutions they want to classify those benefits as costs, so they try to come up with some malarkey about how they need to gatekeep for "safety" because so they can control you is unsympathetic.

They've been saying this "malarkey" since before they had products to be marketed.
> I believe the goal is more along the lines of trying to make some progress with the foundation of what "safety" even means in this concept.

Right now, what “safety” seems to mean in practice is, big (mostly American) corporations imposing their ethical judgements on everyone else, whether or not everyone else happens to agree with them. And I’m sceptical it is going to mean anything more than that any time soon.

If one is seriously concerned about the risk that “superintelligent AI decides to exterminate humanity”, I think this kind of “safety” actually increases that risk. Humans radically disagree on fundamental values, and that value diversity, those irreconcilable differences - from the values of the average Silicon Valley “AI safety researcher” to the values of Ali Khamenei - creates a tension which prevents any one country/institution/movement/government/party/religion/etc from “taking over the planet”. If advanced AIs have the same value diversity, they’ll have the same irreconcilable differences, which will undermine any attempt by them to coordinate against humanity. If we enforce an ethical monoculture (based on a particular dominant value system) on AIs, which is what a lot of this “safety” stuff actually about, that removes that safety protection.

It would be rather ironic if, in the name of protecting humanity from extinction, “AI safety researchers” are actually helping to bring it about
I feel like that kind of abuse would be easy to spot on GitHub.
> which I've never heard anyone suggest ISN'T healthier than eating a large amount of animal fats

I see you haven't run into the anti-seed oil nutjobs.
On the downside, it does away with ethical and quality standards, in trying to maximize viewership while minimizing cost, which in turn tends to make the content objectionable anyway.
They also made some really strange UX choice.

Like hitting the copilot shortcut opens the pane but cursor focus doesn’t go to the text input. I’m not here to admire the pretty pane - I want to type in a question.

How does that make it past testing? Sure a single attempt to use it by someone vaguely awake would reveal that issue
More discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39838131

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39896994
I live in a country where stone houses are the traditional norm and wood frame houses are still seen as flimsy despite becoming increasingly popular for new family homes.

The way I understand it, a major difference between the two construction styles is that stone is wet and wood is dry.

Stone shouldn't be sealed (hence the notion that stone walls can't be painted) because this traps the humidity and erods the stone. A major downside of this is that this means stone houses are more prone to trapping humidity, especially with better insulation, and grow mold.

Wood on the other hand must be sealed so you can use forms of insulation that are highly efficient but very susceptible to damage from humidity. A major downside of this is that the outer layers essentially act as a water barrier and even things like driving a dowel into an exterior wall can cause damage over time from water entering the wall via condensation on the screw.

Traditional wood frame construction in my country used wooden beams along with loam or stone. Because these buildings often expose wood to the elements and are generally wet because of the stone and loam there is an inherent risk of the wood decaying over time and I've seen restorations that removed almost everything but the wood frame to remove integral beams. There are many very old wood and loam/stone buildings left in my area but there are probably many more that had to be either torn down or stripped down to the bones for restoration.
I think it's different. In the US, if you want an electric car, Tesla is the default choice (this is less true in Europe). So something that pushes people away from the default will have far more effect than something that attracts people to the default, because the default is, well, the default.

Also, though, how many people actually like his antics? Like them enough to _buy a car_ that they wouldn't otherwise have bought? Do those people have any money?
Depends on what the goal is. If the goal is safety, that might make sense. But according to what Boeing been doing for the last decade or so, the goal is no longer safety but higher production numbers, then doing something like that would work against getting there.