skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no such thing as AI safety. AI is far too dangerous. The only thing that exists with regard to AI is "distracting the population so they think AI benefits them" or "AI is too amusing so I don't want to think about the consequences".
That will break if there's comments in the file, or if any one of the variables' values contain spaces. You can use `set -a` to load .env into an existing shell instance instead:

loadenv() {
set -a
source ./.env
set +a
}
My family lost the Civil War. Last year they lost a symbol of power
If you’re not being serious, I appreciate your sarcasm. If you are, this may be one of the worst things I have ever read. It’s fucking math people. Math. It will not create some scary golem. It will create marginally better chatbots. You are arguing for totalitarian control over computing to line Microsoft’s pockets. Shame. Shame shame shame shame shame.
I logged into the CRA website and found something.
Yep, but for ideological reasons they reversed it.
The Internet has been around long enough at this point. Maybe your parents might never be able to read a URL and there will always be people who get scammed.

But we should be taking the obvious steps like enforcing government domains on .gov . Attacks and scams are getting more sophisticated, so I hope when I'm elderly I can atleast check the .gov portion and know it's an actual government website.
Yes but the junior engineers aren’t the dumbest morons you’ve ever seen. This isn’t a realistic depiction of how the tools would get used anyway. It’s not “generate a plan from scratch” and submit for review. It’s “carefully iterate small parts over and over”.

The junior engineers would be the ones reviewing the outputs. The senior engineer would be the one reviewing what is still constructively the junior engineer’s work.
No, I get what you're saying.

To be clear, I don't believe we're being visited by aliens.

If we are, though, they're obviously extremely advanced. To put it mildly. So clearly they would know that relatively high quality cameras are now ubiquitous, and adapt their behaviors accordingly if they preferred to remain unknown to the general public.
Just make the college a guarantor for the student loan. That would solve a lot of the issues with higher ed in the US today....
the layoffs are to fearmonger employees to stop asking for more, duh
Seize the domains is doable but there's no guarantee the US has jurisdiction where the scammers are.
I don't like playing prophet, so this is a very personal hunch: I believe we're at a social dead end. Whichever new trends we'll see in the next twenty years will come after some kind of mindset switch flipping.

If that sounds too abstract: less safetyism. We could see new kind of vehicles, sports and space exploration.
If you believe that is so, why is it incumbent on us to accept China's businesses worldwide? Shouldn't we be banning them more to protest slave labor and concentration camps?

No country has a right to do business anywhere and everywhere. I feel like people are really grasping at straws to squeeze this argument under some kind of "freedom of speech" or "freedom of action" umbrella, but those concepts have only ever applied to humans, not nations.
The real research behind the wild rumors about OpenAI’s Q* project
even that is too much for a rock that returns very low for a decade. return of below inflation is only a rock would make it possible
Why is a facial recognition database dangerous though? The vast majority of Americans publicly upload pictures and videos of their faces online in a way that it would be trivial for any nation state to gather them up.

Everything you've pointed to can be done already by mining the publicly available treasure trove of YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, etc. A pretty small team can scrape these sites and do what you're insinuating.

And lastly, I still don't see the danger of releasing this info? I mean, can't any foreigner travelling on a tourist visa record public vistas for 30 days and essentially do the same thing?
This is a great idea. Having been on the "automatic denial" side of the fence one too many times, I'd subscribe. But I'd want the service to act as an ombudsman for all insurance -- auto, home, health, etc.

I suspect the real trick would be to keep insurance company lobbyists from finding a way to shut that down.
Her thesis is that increasing interest rates creates a headwind against the most successful strategy (leverage) corporations have been using to make money. It's true that often people reach conclusions and then back fill justification for those conclusions, but she has certainly laid out an argument detailed enough for a blog post.
This is a very, very bad article that reeks of LLM-generation. If you want to actually understand this bill, read Zvi's analysis:

https://thezvi.substack.com/p/on-the-proposed-california-sb-...
I would love to have a script that also reports it as spam.

In self hosted email setups this is very easy to do reporting to SpamCop and others. Someone else would have to chime in if they know of commercial solutions that allow custom scripting or custom reject messages. Most of my experience is around self hosted but that is a very big topic.

For the domains I have pointed at Fastmail, they do a decent job figuring out if something is spam. They also give the option to adjust the score/threshold at which something is spam and the threshold at which they just discard the email. This is off by default. Their web interface allows reporting the spam.
Dark Design Patterns – illegal in India, unethical in any UX design (2023)
I was obviously joking, but it's nice to know that you treat this seriously.
Light Waves Brought to a Stop in a Crystal Promises New Ways to Control Photons
Fighting LLMs to get the types of response you want
TF? since when do corporations give a shit about you?
Human activities have an intense impact on Earth's deep subsurface fluid flow
Unfortunately, like most silicon valley companies, Meta has spreading disinformation as a core principle of business, they are only interesting in filtering out certain kinds that are inconvenient truths in the current political climate.
RCS messaging being adopted on Android has meant that I now get added to spam group chats called "USPS" by some criminals impersonating the post office.
It feels to me as if gold is cherry picked.

Wouldn't the appropriate comparison be real estate (as a class) with precious metals or maybe even commodities (as a class)?

Otherwise I can easily state that, parts of NY and SF and London etc may have appreciated differently relative to each other, but a London home has appreciated very well across most time periods.
It’s a chicken and egg problem. The Mac 128 was considered useless by experts and useful for people who only knew typewriters.

I think the vision pro exists simple to introduce the user interface. I don’t expect to cret anything with mass appeal with the vision pro. I want to experience the environment to experience it and see how the experience can be leveraged.

The physical form factor is a big hurdle. They may as well improve it by 10x before version 2.
IBM still makes cool things. Google serves ads.
I had a rental Mercedes made in 2023 this January. The whole UI is a terrible mess, especially the music player interface, and the navigation experience is totally useless - nonexistent roads and existing roads not recorded, doesn't know POIs, doesn't understand local addresses, wrong layouts of intersections, highway on/off ramps totally wrong, and the whole system is slow, full of lags and bugs. Had to buy a phone holder at the first gas station.

Otherwise a great car but I'm not going to use Mercedes again if CarPlay is not an option. I had a rental Volkswagen a month before that and the whole experience with CarPlay was smooth - I just wanted to charge the phone so I connected it to the USB-C port and everything has set up itself instantly, it played my Spotify through the car and displayed my running Waze on the main display.
In the US, the vast majority of legislators are lawyers. Lawyers have their own “unions” (eg the American Bar Association”).

I can definitely see this kind of protectionism occurring.

OTOH, I also see potential for a proliferation of law firms offering online services that are LLM-driven for specific scenarios, or tech firms (LegalZoom etc) offering similar services, and hiring a lawyer on staff to ensure that they can’t be sued for providing unlicensed legal advice.

In other words it might compete with lawyers at the low end, but big law could co-opt it to take advantage of efficiency increases over hiring interns and junior lawyers.
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What you call dystopia, I call paradise. Evolution didn't give us bodies that are adapted to life in modern technological society. The better technology gets, the more unnatural the world gets for our bodies. People who are unfit to live won't die, because technology breaks the evolutionary process. Since we know that technology is better, the only way we can keep having it and thrive is by using more technology to hack our bodies so they're adapted for existence in the modern world.
Agree on the disservice; I'm aware of this and many other gamified ways to learn 'vim'.

I'd be more likely to buy/support lifetime over six months, or really, any interval. This is a largely-unchanging editor. Why drag out this relationship? Once I learn the things, it's on me to put them to practice/make it real. Six months is lifetime, if you haven't mastered it by then I'm not sure you will.

I can't say whether or not this would be more effective than others, I haven't played it.

The proposition of buying a license at all is a bit of a hard sell. Again, there are a lot of free things to give me the info and gamified experience. Perhaps not as nice, but this needs to do a bit more to sell me than look pretty.

The hard part is aided by several other freely available games, yet experience of all kinds still teaches. I have a feeling it's more motivation or personal choice, than game(s), when it comes to why my arrow-key usage persists.

Then again, I also don't use services for languages. I'd rather read. A lot.
No, but in whatever little bot/scraper blocking work I did, user-agent blocking was an incredibly powerful low-hanging fruit.

For sensitive material, we would often insta-ban anyone who hit us with a 'curl' user-agent and that definitely killed a lot of script-kiddies' dreams right then and there.

Obviously, if you are a determined "hacker" you would get past that and hit the honeypots but simple filters could filter out enough scrapers such that the rest of the attacks could be manually evaluated by humans.
Neovim has plenty of IDE stuff! What do I gain using a horribly bloated Electron app. Maybe there's an argument when you're working in a group that standardized on VSCode. But Neovim is quite popular these days.

I've used the neovim extension using neovim remote and it's not a good experience, the two just clash together too much to make it enjoyable.
Politics are depressing :/

Has the tech industry always been so cutthroat, or is this a new trend? Maybe I just didn't hear about tech companies lobbying for power in the past?
Well, the same argument stands. The way software works, using software makes you highly vulnerable to the whims of the software controller. Software is a new kind of product, rebranded lately as services, that takes control away from the customer after purchase. If you don’t take advantage of that dynamic, investor groups start questioning your ability to run the company, and governments start saying you’re helping criminals or terrorists. Wasn’t a law renewed recently allowing the USA to use surveillance against non Americans via tech? Honestly, I bet the eu isn’t that happy about being stuck with various products they can’t control. It’s a sovereignty issue. We should expect this to happen more and more in the next century
The point is that it should be able to point you to the source article. The synthesis isn’t necessarily more accurate, but you can check its work easily.
>the CAPABILITY to use this influence to influence the US

But this is communist era logic used in some countries to this day to ban "foreign" and "corrupting" materials. Forgive me if it smells like repression and tastes like repression, I think it is repression. Shaping the minds of youths is not the exclusive purview of the US political class. That's some 1984 logic...
Why can't they divest the app/brand/whatever and license the algorithm to the buyer?
Maybe we can see this as a positive, if it gets bad enough, the people coming into tech from the bootcamps who just did it for the money might move onto other fields.
How much gold would we need, in $ terms?
What are your biggest challenges on building a community for your startup?
Hey there,

Are you a startup founder, product manager, or marketer?

I'm currently working on a project aimed at enhancing community management for startups. My goal is to gather insights into the challenges and pain points you've encountered in your journey, not looking to sell anything just wanting to understand how things work.

Your experiences are valuable, and I'd love to hear about them. Would you be open to sharing?

Thank you in advance.
Bhavya
This isn't the first article of hers I've read, the advice for investment in hard money, or at least putting a significant % of your savings is essentially gold and btc based on previous articles of hers.

I understand what she's saying, and I agree with that part of the article, but she's big on the "hard money" portfolio (lately? I think?). The advice to buy index funds is basically "you own a % of all of industry" which is these money printing machines I talk about, and i'm more confident people are going to need industry in 20-40 years than "hard money."
In my opinion, for the vast majority of people, and hence for society, we are past the point of diminishing returns when it comes to truly improving the world with technology. We should now switch from unfettered development to trying to be more sustainable with the tools that we have.

Academia has become a game and tech development has become driven by pure consumerism in the race to replace human relationships with the experience of "The Product" so that we have to continually upgrade to maintain any semblance of social cohesion.

There is very little left in tech development that is good. We should think about being more sustainable instead.
Literally over 50% of the viewport is taken up by sticky toolbar crap, depending on the window size.
I hate working for big companies for two reasons:

1) Big companies have an enormous amount of friction and hassle that must be overcome to get things done. This is by necessity -- workers have to be coordinated with each other, and the more of them there are, the more overhead is required to accomplish that.

2) Big companies are boring to work for. Even when they're doing interesting things in the big picture, you're not likely to be working on the interesting bits. And when you are, it will be done in a way that makes it as tedious as possible.

I know many people with sensibilities similar to mine. I also know many people who strongly prefer to work for big companies. Big companies are just a different sort of beast, and if you enjoy riding it then more power to you. It's just not for everyone.
No, it’s not a good point. It could be 10^100000000 flops and it wouldn’t fucking matter. There’s no evidence that would do anything at all. “AGI” may not even be possible with those flops. You’re talking about what would require unprecedented control over computing to ease fears over a scary robot fanfic. None of the “safety” concerns are real. A GPT4 open source would do nothing but hurt Sam Altman’s bottom line - YOU ARE BEING DUPED.
Yeah, few people realize what it means to sit on a paper loss for 14 years. Not many have the mental fortitude to do that. But it's really hard to convince the millennials and younger who experienced nothing other than a roaring bull market throughout their investing lifetimes.
I think they are believed to be, but the opposite is not true. There are a lot of exponential or factorial problems that have no efficient QC algorithm, and are not beleieved to be likely to have one.

Also, at least the most famous problem which has an efficient QC algorithm, integer factorization, has no proven lower complexity bound on classical computers. That is, while the best algorithm we know for it is exponential (or, technically, sub-exponential), it is not yet proven that no polynomial classical algorithm exists. The problem isn't even NP-complete, so it's not like finding an efficient algorithm would prove P=NP.
Apparently she still hasn't figured out that it's possible to invest in the entire market of stocks and bonds. Therefore it doesn't matter that most of them perform badly (by some arbitrary standard), as long as they perform well as a whole.
It seems unlikely that such sequences exist for the majority of words. And I asked in English about Portuguese words.
Assuming they re-nationalise the railways, I merely hope we extend the scheme to work everywhere. Tap in and tap out is the right UX imo
offshoring isn't limited to India. devs in Canada, Europe, and South America are superb and cheap
(f) “Covered model” means an artificial intelligence model that meets either of the following criteria:

(1) The artificial intelligence model was trained using a quantity of computing power greater than 10^26 integer or floating-point operations.

(2) The artificial intelligence model was trained using a quantity of computing power sufficiently large that it could reasonably be expected to have similar or greater performance as an artificial intelligence model trained using a quantity of computing power greater than 10^26 integer or floating-point operations in 2024 as assessed using benchmarks commonly used to quantify the general performance of state-of-the-art foundation models.

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f.1: anyone who has taken a basic cpu arch class knows that int and float are significantly different computational effort. One could see an entity using this in court to greatly lower the threshold for qualification after the fact. i.e. lawyers play word/text games and one could say something to the effect that 1 float is 10 int ops, so the limit is 10^26 int or 10^25 float ops

f.2: future proofing against better algorithms based on today's benchmarks... to the point where effort no longer matters. They seem to be drawing the threshold at today's benchmarks, whether or not they are reflective of capability. I could see a small model be trained to do poorly on these benchmarks while excelling at the problems they are concerned with, like making nuclear weapons...
I saw a RAG demo from a startup that allows you to upload patient's medical docs, then the doctor can ask it questions like:

> what's the patient's bp?

even questions about drugs, histories, interactions, etc. The AI keeps in mind the patient's age and condition in its responses, when recommending things, etc. It reminded me of a time I was at the ER for a rib injury and could see my doctor Wikipedia'ing stuff - couldn't believe they used so much Wikipedia to get their answers. This at least seems like an upgrade from that.

I can imagine the same thing with laws. Preload a city's, county's etc. entire set of laws and for a sentencing, upload a defendant's criminal history report, plea, and other info then the DA/judge/whoever can ask questions to the AI legal advisor just like the doctor does with patient docs.

I mention this because RAG is perfect for these kinds of use cases, where you really can't afford the hallucination - where you need its information to be based on specific cases - specific information.

I used to think AI would replace doctors before nurses, and lawyers before court clerks - now I think it's the other way around. The doctor, the lawyer - like the software engineer - will simply be more powerful than ever and have lower overhead. The lower-down jobs will get eaten, never the knowledge work.
Why stop there? Edit back in a royalty free fictitious person of your choosing? For bonus points add imperfections then get the lighting and shadows right.
They are completely down because of the breach. Insurance in any context is irrelevant.
c3 is another built-on-top-of-d3 thingie: https://c3js.org/examples.html
While not strictly improper, this feels needlessly confrontational and pushing of an ideology. You might find you ruffle more feathers than you think by doing this.
Yes on Android also.
> That's $400,000 of just CPUs to sell.

But do you crater the market for those CPUs? What's the demand for 2016-era Xeons and how much of their price comes down to supply?
> The politicians are gunning extremely hard for open source AI. It's crazy.

I hope someone has / can do some investigative journalism to check out their links with commercial / closed source AI; I can imagine the investors and those that benefit from companies like "Open"AI have close links with politicians. There's probably no direct links, they've become really good at obscuring those and plausible deniability.
When you stop and look at QCD in the big picture, it's sort of shocking how little we know - like, really, really know - about the internal structure of the proton, or even the nucleon!

It's the curse of "probing" with massive energies. No one's a hundred percent certain of whether they're detecting something that's actually there - like there there - or whether they're looking at by-product of enormous collision energies.

Physicists are smart people! I could never do what they do. But there's a limit to certainty, and inside the proton especially there's unknown first principles at work. Bringing the precision of photons and lasers into this nucleon party is going to be huge. I can't wait!
That's my point. Nobody smokes synthetics. Semi-synths are not synths.
I've thought about this in the past. When we can spell out the rules & formalize the task, machines can usually outperform people at that task. But our cognition doesn't just operate on simple rules, like in a chess game. It has the capacity to recognize similarity, for example. And that's a lot harder to define. Like when is a face a human face? Obviously technology has come a long way, but I don't think computers always had an answer to those sorts of vague, but intuitive, questions.
It's been USPS.com branding since at least 2000, aka the Bush administration. [1]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20000229182038/http://www.usps.g...
There are too many stakeholders, it’s too forkable (guix, flox, Anduril).

Maybe the official leadership has a shuffle, maybe it’s even big.

I’m not changing my Nix investment, I discourage others from changing theirs.
So, Roblox.
Insightful, but by no means complete (missing, among other things: matching of liabilities with assets; risk or diversification or the basics of modern portfolio theory; the notion of real vs nominal returns (only alluded to); etc.)
> But if you could rebuild streaming from the ground up for the cloud, you could achieve something a lot better than fewer disks – zero disks. The difference between some disks and zero disks is night and day. Zero disks, with everything running directly through object storage with no intermediary disks, would be better.

That's still a trade-off. Object storage, simply by the overhead of HTTP + SSL, has higher latency than EFS, which has higher latency than EBS, which has higher latency than local SSD. So in the end your service (no matter if it's Kafka or anything else) has _higher_ latency if you also want consistency (aka resilience against "everything goes dark in an instant") as all writes on all machines in the pool have to be committed to storage.

The only way a "zero disk" anything makes sense is if you have enough machines in enough diverse locations with enough RAM to cover the entire workload and to pray there's never any event taking the entire cloud provider offline.
How many people dislike Twitter only because of Elon musk?