skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And even were it true, would it necessarily be a bad thing? Personal bankruptcy is an orderly process in which an individual gets to legally terminate all his debts. If a person with medical debt declares bankruptcy, his creditors lose out but he still has all the medical treatment he went into debt for. He still has all the non-bankruptcy-liable assets (e.g. certain pension and retirement benefits, and in many states his home and vehicle) he started out with.

Medical bankruptcy isn’t really the problem. Medical insolvency might be, but the two alternatives are not to receive treatment at all, or for the State to pay for it. The former is obviously worse, and the latter is arguably worse when looked at in toto.
We are lucky that we live in a sweet-spot era where the universe is old enough that we have 13 billion years to look back on, but young enough that all the galaxies haven’t receded behind the cosmic horizon yet due to the accelerated expansion of the universe. In some billion years, intelligent beings will only have historic records, if anything at all, to look back to how the observable universe used to be filled with billions of galaxies.
It's better because you almost never need to give root permissions to the installer, unlike on Windows
I generate those with VIM macros. For example, I might type "day", "may", and "buy" on separate lines, move cursor to "day" and then type something like

qayy3pklli[^<ESC>A]|<ESC>gJli[^<ESC>la]<ESC>A|<ESC>gJi[^<ESC>la]<ESC>A|<ESC>gJi[^<ESC>la][^<ESC>la][^<ESC>la]<ESC>q

And then @a to apply the same expansion to "may" and "buy". (Rather than parsing the keystrokes above, it's probably easier to derive keys with similar effects by using VIM interactively).
> There's a lot of sentiment here uncritically equating "right" to "the law".

I wonder what percentage of the population is stuck in stage 4 of Kohlberg's "Stages of Moral Development".
I asked it directly and it confirmed that it is based on GPT-4:

> Can you confirm or deny if you are chatgpt 4?

> Yes, I am based on the GPT-4 architecture. If you have any more questions or need further assistance, feel free to ask!

> Can you confirm or deny if you are chatgpt 5?

> I am based on the GPT-4 architecture, not GPT-5. If you have any questions or need assistance with something, feel free to ask!

It also seems to think its date cutoff is November 2023. I'm inclined to think this is just GPT-4 under a different name.
I'm pretty sure it's pretty much like that in most other countries (at least most other European countries). I believe its the US/UK that are unusually easy to open a company in.
And the rest of them on yt shorts? :D
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You don't have to do sports to do physical activity.
The market still desperately needs engineers. We’re still at a point in supply/demand where experienced engineers are making 2-3x national median salaries. It’s tougher for juniors to land the most lucrative positions, but there are still tons of jobs out there. The more money you accumulate early in your career, the more time that money has to grow. Interest rates are high, so it’s a great time to be saving money.

Also, the skills you learn as an engineer are highly transferable, as you learn problem solving skills and executive function - many top CEOs have engineering backgrounds. So if you do need to pivot later in your career, you’ll be set up for success
Not sure. 1500 sounds like a fairly normal sample size for studies like this and more or less representative if it's reasonably unbiased.
When video terminals first came out, everyone started out using line editors even though line editors make no sense when you can display arbitrary buffer. It took a while until editors changed to be "screen native". But they did change, meaningfully.

When GUIs first came out, editors were just "terminal editors in a window". Took a while for the modern concept of an IDE to happen, with hovers, red squigglies, sidebars, jump to definition. All of that was possible on the first day of the GUI editor! But it took a while to figure out what everyone wanted it to be.

I think we're at a similar inflection point. Yeah, everyone today (myself included) is comfortable in the environment we know. VS Code is lovely. And AI (plus realtime multiplayer) is not a display technology. But I think it's a material technology shift in the same vein as those two moments in history. I would not bet that the next thirty years is going to continue look like today's VS Code. I don't know to say what it WILL look like — we have to keep prototyping to find out.
I've always felt that a "smart" person isn't smart because they know everything, but because they know how to find the answers. Smart users of LLMs will use the output as an opportunity to learn how to think about their problem, and smart implementations of LLMs will guide the user to do so.

I'm not saying that every interaction must be Socratic, but that the LLM neither be nor present itself as the answer.
sorry can you explain what the correct solution is. Do you need to know how much the density of alcohol is rel. water? Also water and alcohol volumes don't add as far as I remember, so you need to account that that too?
That requires seniors to adopt these AI tools. So far, I only see juniors going hard to those tools.
I just want to be clear that this is all heavily theorized. The density of interstellar space has an assumed ablative rate based on speed of travel, but it wouldn't take much to exceed that. We are at least a few trial runs away from knowing, and that alone makes the prospect of interstellar travel far into the future. (again, repeating my main point)
Disgusting world we're hurling towards.
nah, i already have far more junk computers than i need.

I lusted after a Cray T3E once that I coulda had for $1k and trucking it across TN and NC; but even then I couldn't have run it. I'm two miles away from 3 phase power and even then couldn't have justified the power budget. At the time a slightly less scrap UltraSPARC 6k beat it up on running costs even with higher initial costs so i went with that instead. I did find a bunch of Alphas to do the byte swizzling tho. Ex "Titanic" render farm nodes.

I've been away from needing low budget big compute for a while, but having spent a few years watching the space i still can't help but go "ooo neat" and wonder what i could do with it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray_T3E
Yeah, children should be on the fields, working and socializing with other children, not watching the interwebz.
I skim little python or bash scripts after downloading them. Therefore, there’s at least one person who does it… sometimes. Nobody checks an exe!

Mostly it is the same though shrug. There thankfully don’t seem to be many hackers going after the niche of desktop Linux users.
Investing in the Future: The Case for Hiring and Mentoring Junior Tech Talent
Anecdotally speaking, this is kind of true. Most parents just give up and instead of disciplining and raising their child. It’s just easier to give them a tablet loaded to the tits with “YouTube kids”, parental controlled Netflix, TikTok, and other short form video services. Have even seen children get access to unfiltered YT, TT, IG.
Well, they eat lots of them, just not deliberately.
Windows checks the code signing certificate of the exe, and if it isn't present and the binary not widely used shows you a big scary warning to discourage you from running it. And if the exe is signed that at least tells you where to send the police after you were infected.

Of course open source projects rarely sign their exes because those certificates are expensive ($300+/year).
> We had man-portable ATGMs for decades, they did "lower the value of a tank".

ATGMs did lower the value of tanks, but not to 0. Anything that can knock out a weapons system decreases the value of that weapons system.
Criticism of one (in a vacuum) has become criticism of all,

Absolutely not true of the movement as a whole, by my lengthy and up-close observation. And by what my Jewish friends tell me on the subject.

The distortion you are promoting here (especially in regard to items 5 and 6) is plainly unrealistic, and definitely not helpful to the current discussion.
I personally agree. But I've also seen quite a few parents who use ipads as nannies, so it also wouldn't surprise me if it were accurate.

I've come around to the screen-free childhood plan, but most people who I know that have implemented it are affluent enough to have a stay-at-home parent or a high quality daycare.

Not using screens as a babysitter requires a significant amount of a parent's time and energy, so I also won't condemn any parents who use that strategy.
Another word that is often used incorrectly. "Ambivalent" doesn't mean "unruffled" or "unbothered". It actually means to have two (possibly strong) contradictory emotions. It's more like "bittersweet" or to be "of two minds".
I read TFA. Why would a truncated partial download happen and still run the script?
Similar here, but hot glue is my go-to for stuff like this. :)
1. The new Frontier Model Division is just receiving information and issuing guidelines. It’s not a licensing regime and isn’t investigating developers.

2. Folks aren’t automatically liable if their highly capable model is used to do bad things, even catastrophic things. The question is whether they took reasonable measures to prevent that. This bill could have used strict liability, where developers would be liable for catastrophic harms regardless of fault, but that's not what the bill does.

3. Overall it seems pretty reasonable that if your model can cause catastrophic harms (which is not true of current models, but maybe true of future models), then you shouldn’t be releasing models in a way that can predictably allow folks to cause those catastrophic harms.

If people want a detailed write up of what the bill does, I recommend this thorough writeup by Zvi. In my opinion this is a pretty narrow proposal focused at the most severe risks (much more narrow than, e.g., the EU AI act).
https://thezvi.substack.com/p/on-the-proposed-california-sb-...
The headline doesn't specify UK only. I wonder what the numbers are in other contries.
Exactly my experience. Many years ago I watched perhaps 3-4 episodes and stopped. I recently finished the entire series and by the end I was binging it in the most traditional sense, watching multiple episodes a day, telling myself I'd watch the last 20 minutes of this episode in bed and end up watching 2 more after that, etc.

It's a fantastic show and while there are certainly some smaller arcs that could have been written better as is the case with any long-running show, especially one made for cable, it doesn't spend the two seasons completely destroying its reputation like most do. It ended at just the right time.
If you're buying dot-coms in 1999, you absolutely have 99x as many losers as winners.
Well, you're going to run the thing the script downloaded with exactly the same user and privileges as the script you're running.
Unless you're doing a full audit on all the code and not only a cursory look on the installation script, this looks to me more like security theatre.
The issue is unpresidented.
> Since the invasion of Ukraine I think it's pretty clear to everyone involved (and many have been making it publicly and loudly clear) that appeasement doesn't work with Putin.

When was Putin appeased?
>> Not to mention the skill of being able to "check work" usually flows from deep experience of "doing work."

> Precisely, but you need far fewer of these people, which is why this is being so heavily pushed.

That sounds like extremely specious reasoning to me, probably due to working backward from technology to application in order to hype the former.

Firstly, is it's anyone experience that it's easier to understand an unreliable system that was barfed out of some unreliable process (doesn't have to be an LLM, could be a bad offshore team), than it is to try to build it right from the start? It's still garbage out. It's like abusing the QA process by saying quality is only their job, then carelessly pumping out crap work and expecting them to catch all the mistakes.

Secondly, where are these "fewer" skilled people supposed to come from? The technology, if embraced this way, will have the effect of cutting off the the skils pipeline. That would work in the short/medium term, but in a generation when you start to see lots of retirements, you'll hit a skills dead end.
I saw an article that US revenue is not enough to make it worth wild for them to divulge their algorithms. They would try to fight the law in court, but it they fail, they will not sell.
My partner and I kid sat for a family of 3 brothers, while the parents were out of town.

The youngest, about 7 I think, would come home after school and just watch a TT-like show on TV where it was just endless "scrolling" through short videos that appeared as though they were straight off TT/Insta. He was literally addicted to it.

Imagine someone producing/moderating that in a way to get kids to just continue to watch it non-stop.

My point is, you don't even need an app and age verification... this stuff is just right there on regular old TV.
And how did a portfolio of randomly selected dot-coms of that vintage do in comparison?
I skim little python or bash scripts when I download them. It depends on the project. (I try not to download much source code because this is a pain to do).
But when are those changes going to happen? Ozempic is available today.
Unfortunately this is not reliable, many Non-GPT models happily claim to be GPT-4 e.g.
Idempotence isn't guaranteed either
Windows and particularly macOS makes it difficult to run things that aren't code signed with trusted certificates. Same with packages in Linux package managers. That provides a large level of assurance that the thing you download is verified by a distributor that you presumably trust (otherwise why are you using their software?). Pipe to shell has no such guarantee: if a bad actor either MITMs you or gets access to their server and stuffs something bad in the script, you're out of luck.

Basically, if you believe that code signing is a good thing (and I hope we all can agree on that), curl to shell is not great security practice.
A serious question for any Linux-heads here, no insult intended.

How is it possible that there are ELEVEN different possible package managers that need to be supported by an installation script like this?

I can understand that some divergences in philosophical or concrete requirements could lead to two, three, or four opinionated varieties, but ELEVEN?

Does that mean that if I want to write an app that runs on Linux I should also be seeking to support 11 package managers? Or is there something unique about tailscale that would necessitate it?

edit: Thank you for the responses so far, but noone has yet answered the core question: WHY are there eleven of them?
Ask the bottles team how they feel about maintainers and the job they are doing.

A fair number of upstream developers are unhappy with what maintainers and how they deal with bugs and updates.

The real problem is that software packaging and distribution is so very broken. I had a systems admin say "I love containers, they are a circle of salt around demonically bad software"... He wasnt wrong.
Going further still, forget all the NAT breakage and require all devices to actually use the privacy extensions described in RFC 4941 17 years ago. A router could auto-block an IPv6 address that's been in use too long, with a whitelist for servers.

There are reasons you might want your desktop to have the same address for a long time. I can't think of any reason why I'd want that for a light bulb.
The xz situation proved that while you didn't read the script, someone did detect the problem. It shows the benefit of many-eyes.
Interesting! However this comes with the overhead of having to modify your code to adhere to the framework right? I was looking for a solution more along the lines of paying for the GPU when a task is actually scheduled or running on it rather than paying all the time when the VM is turned on. Basically a serverless GPU sort of a solution?
What do you think the ultimate causes of poor diet and lack of movement are?

All other things considered, how important is it that proximate or ultimate causes of obesity are addressed?
Blender Misses Oblique Projection
Hi. This has been bothering me for as long as I've been using Blender, my absolute favourite modelling tool! It is sometimes confusing to know the difference between orthographic projection (especially axonometric) and the dreaded oblique projection. But how come it is not already there, in a tool as versatile as Blender?
I don't believe in copyright at all, even in principle. The closest I can get is that it should be within the power of the state to grant temporary monopolies on things that it wants to encourage. But there is a basic conflict between freedom of expression and the fact that expressions can be copyrighted.

However, the idea that IA is going to defeat a copyright industry worth hundreds of billions of dollars is laughable. If you're going to fork between government choosing to end copyright and government choosing to end the IA, the IA is 100% dead.

Characterizing people who don't want the IA to risk all against copyright as copyright-supporters is not fair at all. It's like calling people Assadists who didn't want to invade Syria.
HIGHLY highly recommend The Bureau, which is the most real spy show I have ever watched. The Americans is excellent (i've watched all of it) but has some unreal TV-like drama that The Bureau is able to avoid and is imo the pinnacle of spy genre. George Clooney is apparently making an American remake of The Bureau (which is in French).
Isn't the rate of the expansion of the universe increasing?

And that assumes the observable universe is homogeneous, which it isn't
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Just skip the middleman and have chatgpt generate financial times articles to train on
I believe 'curl XXX | sh' will start executing any complete shell statements in the input, before the full script is downloaded.
30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are Watching TV

> People nowadays are letting their TVs be nannies instead of caring about their children.

> This is fundamentally different from the last thousands of years because <some bullshit>
Pykrete is one of those things that makes sense in theory, but in practice and from a practical perspective just isn't great.

There aren't a lot of places in nature where you have tons of trees and easy to get ice. So a society would never default to pykrete because those two things tend to be the opposite of each other. Its a somewhat unnatural thing to do.

Industrialized societies just can make steel and steel doesnt start to soften until 500-600 degrees F. There's no need for a 24/7 refrigerator power plant to keep steel from melting. Steel also is strong and rigid. Steel is of course still used today for both war and civil ships, and has been since the day it became technically and economically feasible to do. Its really hard to beat steel. This project has some nice technical merits and pykrete itself is interesting, but it just doesnt seem to ever have a practical use.
I wonder how dynamic this place is. I know it's light years across, but is there any chance to see movement within the smallest structures if we were to revisit the same image on a ~yearly timescale?
No, power is power. If you're a company, you don't have the power to set rules, or lock people in boxes, or (in some places) kill people. The state has power.

Capitalism says that companies don't get power. They need money to survive, but that doesn't mean money is power. Money is money.

> Under capitalism the government mostly exists to protect the interests of businesses and property holders

No, that's not right. That might sometimes happen, but it's in no way fundamental. Under capitalism the government sets and enforces the rules, and provides currency and other bits and bobs to let people trade fairly and at a minimum standard.
A few things that I’m seeing folks in the comments misunderstanding about the bill (full disclosure: I’ve been one of a group of folks advising Senator Wiener on SB 1047)

1. The new Frontier Model Division is focused on receiving information and issuing guidelines. It’s not a licensing regime and isn’t investigating developers.

2. Folks aren’t automatically liable if their highly capable model is used to do bad things, even catastrophic things. The question is whether they took reasonable measures to prevent that. This bill could have used strict liability, where developers would be liable for catastrophic harms regardless of fault, but that's not what the bill does.

3. The bill requires developers to test their models and report whether they have hazardous capabilities (and the answer can obviously be yes or no). Even if the model does have hazardous capabilities, the developer can still deploy it if they take reasonable precautions, as outlined in the bill. For perjury, you would need to intentionally lie—good faith errors would not be covered. I get that models can have unforeseen capabilities, but this isn’t about that. If you are knowingly releasing something that could have demonstrably catastrophic consequences, it seems fair to have consequences for that. Some things which already require folks to certify under penalty of perjury:
lobbying disclosures, companies’ financial disclosures, immigration compliance forms.

4. Overall it seems pretty reasonable that if your model can cause catastrophic harms (which is not true of current models, but maybe true of future models), then you shouldn’t be releasing models in a way that can predictably allow folks to cause those catastrophic harms.

If people want a writeup of what the bill does I recommend this one by the law firm DLA Piper (https://www.dlapiper.com/en/insights/publications/2024/02/ca...). In my opinion this is a pretty narrow proposal focused at the most severe risks (much more narrow than, e.g., the EU AI act).