skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Comparing Twitter back when the "Arab Spring" occurred to TikTok feels somewhat unfair, in that the former was often a pathway for journalists and human rights activists, an the latter is a CCP propaganda outlet.

I'd also point out that the Arab Spring was a total failure, leading to nothing more or less than disruption, death, and either a return to the status quo ante, or something even worse.
> It's unabstractable for people, because the most abstract model that works still has far too many variables for our puny brains.

Abstraction doesn't have to be perfect, just as "logic" doesn't have to be.

> Abstraction in art is just another, unrelated meaning of the word.

Speaking of art: have you seen the movie The Matrix? It's rather relevant here.
OpenAI Dissolves High-Profile Safety Team After Chief Scientist Sutskever's Exit
Couldn't they use irradiation to kill the spores in beehives?

AFAIK irradiation kills everything when used to treat food for long-term storage, for example.
Calculating the Unimaginable
"""Quantum computers promise to offer computing power far beyond anything we can imagine. They have enormous potential, especially in the pharmaceutical industry. That is why we have a task force that is preparing for “the big wave”.
Imagine you are spinning a basketball on your finger. Under the laws of nature, the ball spins either to the right or to the left, but never in both directions at the same time. The world of quantum computing is different: Here, the ball can revolve in both directions simultaneously."""
A huge part of art is distinguishing between what "feels" right and what would be the case in reality. Even in the spaces I usually work in-- 3D animaton and film-- things in the background or maybe out-of-focus in the foreground or whatever are often distorted and weirdly juxtaposed to make something that looks right even if it wouldn't map to a real-world configuration that makes sense. 2D art is even less tied to real-world representations than that. What we can see in applications like this is how incredible our brains are at conceptually constructing ideas based on relatively abstract representations, and how incredible artists are at operating in the less-defined realms of that space. Maybe a scene seems to have a coherent perspective to the viewer, but the couch and end table in the BG were drawn as they would look shot with a 120mm lens while the foreground is deliberately claustrophobic and drawn like it was shot with a 30mm lens? It could look fine to us because we don't need to reason about the realistic 3D space those characters exist in-- we just need to understand that they're in a space like that because we know what it's like to be in spaces, and how people interact with them-- good art gives us just enough to communicate the core ideas making them the focus of the message, and lets our brains subconsciously make the connections and add all of the context to make a complete 'experience.' Everything is a potential layer of communication to achieve deliberate artistic effect-- the type of couch and end table, the often skewed or exaggerated scale and relationships between objects, etc.-- and it often just doesn't have a coherent real-world representation. Beyond that, in any given shot, things are certainly moved around to aid in composition, emphasize certain interactions, etc. etc. etc. If you notice it, then it's a continuity problem. If you don't notice it, then job well done. In the overwhelming majority of cases, nobody notices it, and we just happen to have a world where everything from every angle has really compelling composition.

An algorithm that needs to look at the lines and try to figure out a real-world scenario that correlates to that representation might be trying to create something that could never exist in any coherent form.
Musk is just the useful tool to get weapons into space, not the final server of death warrants. That responsibility falls onto the deep state.
Head of Alignment at OpenAI Resigns
in the US, almost nobody has your financial interests in mind.

Individuals want the most expensive care when they are sick, because costs are distributed over their insurance pool. Insurance companies want the most expensive care, because profits are capped as a % of expenses. PBMs make money on the difference between list price and rebates. Lastly, manufacturers obviously want to sell for the highest price.

I honestly think that if you asked most people with 6 months to live if they would prefer care or to give their children 500k, they would choose the latter. When it is saving other people 500k, they dont.
I used to use one, so I was curious. It was hard to find good info by googling, but I eventually came across a presentation which claimed that the Selectric carbon ribbon "consists of a carbon wax coating on a polyethylene base":

https://www.scribd.com/presentation/419638824/typewriters (slide 21)

Searching for those keywords came up with this, which uses the exact same wording:

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Scientific_Examination_...
Subtlety, shcmutlety, its literally French and half-french colonizers repressing indigenous islanders. What the colonists vote for does not make democracy.

> It reminds me of redditors criticising France for sending their army to Mali but if they researched for not even 5 second they wouldn't have discovered that Mali explicitly asked for France to send troops on their territory....

Yeah, the former French-backed governments, 'asking' France to please send troops to Mali. If the enemies of 'the West' do it, its bad and its imperialism. But if 'the West' does it, its magically 'okay'.
Yes, archive.org is really slow.

Also: live site and archive.org both load the JS, archive.ph does not.

here's all of them at archive.ph:

2024: https://archive.ph/t2az0

2023: https://archive.ph/Zy43I

2017: https://archive.ph/YNAQP
Do you mean leaving most of the model in its initial, randomised state and only training a LoRA?
Perhaps using Unreal + nanite + PCVR would be a better option? Nanite can handle highly complex meshes and algorithmically simplify them in realtime. Basically a highly advanced LOD system. Not sure what limitations are but it's worth a try. Also I highly recommend using Reality Capture for photogrammetry. The pricing is super cheap and you pay per scan.
Perhaps my experience in such a place has been more fortunate than yours, but I don’t recognize the majority of what you’ve written as accurate.
I really wish people minded their own more, then my ears wouldn’t be assaulted by boomboxes on the subway and I wouldn’t be accosted at an atm vestibule
> Long said fewer than eight percent of the country's 8000 beekeepers were currently affected - and there were 2900 reports of AFB made in the past year to May, down 15 percent on the 3449 reports the year before.

I wonder if that's just due to people not self-reporting due to the cost of doing so.

> "Beekeepers have to notify and then destroy hives within seven days after finding the disease - and most beekeepers, including Steve, usually comply with that regulation.

And yup. "Most." "Usually."
Ohhhhh — OK, I watched in on my phone, and did not actually see the faint shadow of the pen body itself, and thought we were discussing the preview of the pen tip.

I retract my statement, haha — that is indeed some pretty nice attention to detail. :D
Love that Thunderbird is moving forward. The UX work is great, and looks like they are finally getting to some more deeply buried issues too, like https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=479969 - my main reason why I can't switch fully back yet
Neither. It was pure hype to get free column inches.

Anyone who's used their AI and discovered how it ignores instructions and makes things up isn't going to honestly believe it poses an existential threat any time soon. Now they're big enough they can end that charade.
A problem arises when Schuko and Type L are used promiscuously in multi-standard sockets, since the former has slightly thicker prongs and it tends to loosen the contacts inside.

But then I suppose Europlug suffers from the same problem when used in CEE 7 type sockets.
Inflation is one thing. Rent extraction from the ecosystem isnt done only because of inflation, but because investors want profits from capital appreciation. That’s one of the failure modes of capitalism. Sure it works well in early stages (providing capital to promising startups) but there are diminishing returns and ultimately huge negative externalities to this model of stock ownership forever. Whether by pension funds or the public, the incentives are just toxic.
Or be less competent and accidentally destroy humanity. Both seem possible with imagined future AI-enabled weapons systems.
They threw them all in one sentence and that made me think vaccination of bees is forbidden in NZ!

"Burning the hives was more painful when other countries used tools like vaccines, antibiotics and sterilisation - measures prohibited in New Zealand and in some export markets."
Not your bad at all. It is definitely their bad for having the logo link to the blog instead of the main page.
I didn't say that, did I? Why do you believe I think that?
This doesn't happen in FF using Google Search.
> Comparing Twitter back when the "Arab Spring" occurred to TikTok feels somewhat unfair, in that the former was often a pathway for journalists and human rights activists, an the latter is a CCP propaganda outlet.

Yeah, when social media helps the US regime change operations, it's 'free speech and democracy'. When it hurts them, it's 'CCP propaganda' - or whatever 'national enemy' that's being targeted at that point in time.

What's amazing is how there are still people who use the word 'CCP' as if it was a scare word that would have any effect on the people from the global south. And actually even Europe.
Jan Leike's OpenAI departure statement
X posts aren't readable without being logged into an account.
X.com links are currently broken on HN so I posted a screenshot instead

https://x.com/janleike/status/1791498187313963308
what makes it reneging? People in 1924 didnt have fancy end of life care. People today dont have future technology.

Why cant the social contract be an honest and up front discussion?
Capitalism is the engine that has lifted more humans out of poverty than any other. Countries which have embraced that fact have been better places to live than others. Cost/benefit analysis of medical treatment for the terminally ill does not suggest capitalism is "destructive".
Iirc intersection requires the HLLs to have similar cardinality, otherwise the result is way off.
I'd actually really love the ability to follow just the 'Show HN's of a particular user, for those who consistently post interesting projects. It would at least lessen the FOMO causing me to check HN a little too often.
Well, in the specific case of the Supreme Court and the Senate and House, I think a lot of those people enthusiastically embrace racism.

But yeah, "racism is solved" is their justification, at least until Trump II when then can drop the façade.
If the file was ever staged with `git add`, it'll be in the git object store (note, git doesn't have a cache, it maintains a whole repo) as a blob until the next GC run, otherwise you're out of luck.

Even if it's in the object store though, it may be hard to find; if it was never commited, it was only ever referenced by the index, and now it's completely unrereferenced. Maybe you could enumerate all unreachable blobs, diff them with the current version of the file, and manually review all the blobs where the diff size is below some threshold.
Good point about Gen0, because Go's GC isn't even generational or compacting so you really do pay for all of these nested and repeated messages in full every time. At best the allocation is serviced from the thread-local cache, but the deallocation will almost always be done by a separate GC thread that now has to do a ton of fenced loads from main memory.

If the GC fully keeps up, it's all outside your critical path and you don't really notice it. But if it doesn't keep up, then the routines doing the allocation are tasked to assist the GC to catch up, adding up to a 10ms pause in the critical path of the routines actually serving requests. This is quite an exception to the claims that Go's GC is good for low-latency applications, and it's yet another reason to contort the entire schema to minimize heap allocations.
Same, but on YouTube.
The bigger concern is that the failures are either ones that make society worse but nobody will fix, or, the failure is catastrophic (e.x. It didn't go full skynet, but who the heck knew -that- set of datapoints would trigger an autolaunch?)
The truck, yes. A few extra batteries and a charger are somewhat expensive, but within expectation of the job I think. I doubt most locations are entirely without power that they can use. Even public parks often have outlets at specific locations.

In the end the extra battery cost might be cheaper than the gas and maintenance requirements for gas blowers over time.
Keep in mind that operational failures don't always look like a quiet fizzle. Failures can just as well be catastrophic or can trigger further reactions that become so. I'm not sure there's a silver lining there worth looking for.
We humans really live for one another, and without other people and especially love, why bother?

Reading the essay I couldn't help but think that there was something missing from the author's calculations, and this quote really brought it home.

We do live for one another, and that brings not only personal benefits like the joy of loving and being loved, but societal benefits: it is part of what binds us together and makes us stronger in groups than we are alone.

The value of many actions is not purely in their direct effects, but also their performative value in demonstrating and reinforcing societal norms. This value is an externality in the calculations of the author. Spending enormous sums to add some small amount of time to a terminally ill person is a manifestation of a societal value for life, generally. When someone's life is in jeopardy, our societal norm is to try to save them if we can, without stopping first to count the cost. It is the same mentality that motivates expensive search-and-rescue operations. We don't abandon people to die at sea or on freezing mountaintops, even at enormous cost and when the person came to peril through their own foolishness. Not without at least trying, anyway.

These norms don't come from nowhere, though. Like all societal norms they must be taught and reinforced through action and demonstration. The author is only able to get away with counting the costs in the way he does because he is talking about his own life. If he wrote the same article about a stranger, it would seem to most people as a ghoulish violation of social norms. (Maybe not to some rationalists, I guess.)

But of course, in some sense he is right, at the aggregate level, we must think of these costs. And so -- in well functioning democracies, at least -- we delegate the aggregate decisions on these things to elected bodies, who make the aggregate decisions like deciding budgets for emergency services or subsidized health care, but not individual decisions about who will be saved.
"In the DeepMind paper there are many examples of predicted materials that are clearly nonsensical."
You're arguing from the wrong position. The cost of a defense system competes against the cost of other defense systems, and only very indirectly against the cost of the attack.

If you haven't read the article: The final paragraph addresses most costs. Prototyping the laser - which is always a bit more expensive than a productionized version - was $73 million. A single missile shot is $4 million.

That's 20 missiles shot at drones. That's it. Which means, on a pure cost basis, this thing getting off 20 shots at drones means it's paid for itself. Given it's capable of firing 6 shots per minutes, you need 4 minutes to make it worth the investment. Which, given drone speeds, probably means you fire for 2 minutes and start moving - another advantage it has over a more stationary missile systems.

Cost isn't the issue here.

As the fine article points out, the problems are of an operational nature.
We have to be better. We have to break the cycle.

I am not saying these criminals do not deserve punishment. However, it should not be cruel nor unusual per our constitution.

Also, by torturing/killings these individuals we are no better than them. We have come a long ways away from Hammurabi's Code. No need to return.
AWS to Invest €7.8B in AWS European Sovereign Cloud in Germany
It makes it look like the tech is so rad it's dangerous. Total bollocks, but great marketing.
I was actually referencing public transit, but (poorly) chose to write "railways" last night because it rhymed with highways.
- "an the latter is a CCP propaganda outlet."

I'm simply quoting the New Caledonian politician explaining his own motives in his own words, and he said it's "to stop protesters from "organizing reunions and protests"". So I think the parallel to 2011 is a solid one.

- "I'd also point out that the Arab Spring was a total failure"

I agree with Obama's well-chosen words: human rights are "universal", not consequentialist. "We should deny you freedom of political speech because your politics are a failure" is not a category of argumentation I can accept, if you see where I'm coming from here. That's a generic justification for any autocrat to silence their opponents—their politics are wrong (from my point of view), so, I shall crack down on them for the good of the public.
> The purpose of the risk team at OpenAI was to prevent the destruction of humanity.

Yeah, the problem (in this outsider's opinion) is that that charter is so ill-defined that it's practically useless, which in turn means that any sufficiently loud voice can apply it to anything. It's practically begging to be used as a whip.

> I think you definitely want people who have that responsibility to "wield their authority like a whip without regard for business value".

No, because without thinking of value, there is no enterprise, and then your mission is impossible. Essentially, it creates an incentive where the best outcome is to destroy the company. And, hey hey, that's kinda what almost happened.

> Whether it's "We don't really think our technology is that dangerous (and therefore valuable)" or "We don't really care if we accidentally kill everyone", it's not a good message.

I don't think it has to be so black-and-white as this. Meta, Microsoft, and Google did the same thing. Instead, those functions have been integrated more closely into the value teams. And I can't imagine Amazon or Oracle ever having those teams in the first place. They likely all realized the same thing: those teams add huge drag without adding measurable business value.

And yes, there are ways to measure the business value of risk management, and weigh against upside value to decide the correct course of actions - it's just that most of those teams in big tech don't actually take a formal "risk management" approach. Instead they pontificate or copy and enforce.
The UK has been taking the US as an example for a long time - from its Reaganite economics to its deregulation. Greenfell is one result of that.
Earth-sized planet discovered just 55 light years away
I'm not advocating for companies pumping out tonnes of low quality garbage through traditional retail either.
I can understand his feelings somewhat since it seems electric cars spearheaded this malicious idiocy but rest assured it is already here for ICEs and getting worse. Rejecting electric vehicles might feel like the only way to signal distaste for this behavior if he needs a newer car.
Usually you can tell by the fact that nothing is wrong, since the 3D model is very consistent and on model. A hand-drawn car is usually not that.
Doom actually didn't permit overlapping rooms like Duke3d and some other games did, although some source ports of Doom do allow it (notably used by the trendy MyHouse.wad)
Thank you very much for having taken the time.. Your comments and function are both very helpful!
Thankfully, the tenured professor version works in Julia like so:

prod(1:63)

For bigger numbers,

factorial(n) = 1:n .|> BigInt |> prod
Some of the Pyramids were the largest structures in human history until the industrial age. They're definitely worthy of being considered their own category.
Maybe. But based on what I have heard Palantir has no problem finding talent. There are enough people in the world excited about Palantir's... niche... that have people lining up out the door for new job postings. That and they have a much stronger meritocracy than most other tech companies feel comfortable enforcing.
"Journey before destination"?
For me it's more often than not been the opposite. Although it's not just that you should use nix, you need to use their specific subflavor of nix features and anything else is heresy. It doesn't matter if the way it's documented is a mess, it makes sense to them.

I'm pretty sure that picking a religious denomination is less aggressive than hearing nixos users talk about how superior their system is.
Their “wrong theory:” https://www.wired.com/2014/09/wrong-theory/
Blood sugar has been good. A1C is basically back to non diabetic range
As much as I dislike VCs, I didn't find the Twitter post to be that bad. I can see his point about the company being an almost, and on top of that getting warning "signs". It wasn't the fact that the date was a few months old, it was the fact they didn't care enough to update it before sending the deck. It was the fact they did the bare minimum (or less than minimum).

I never really put it in words before, but I pick up a lot of these signs. From the way someone writes, to the way they text message, to the content they consume, to how they handle social dynamics like grabbing coffee together or a lunch. It all paints a picture of a person and/or team. These things matter.

If they can't take their time to update the deck, they probably skimp out elsewhere.
> if you refuse to build it, someone with less scruples will.

Every time you see an argument for the inevitability of X - especially something frightening - know that it's just an old rhetorical tactic, even cheap playground trash talk. It's comic book lingo. They want you to quit; they are afraid of what you will do.
I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you. Well... not that shocked.
I read a lot of sci-fi as a kid but really never got into Anderson despite there being a lot of Anderson books at the library but I do remember enjoying Tau Zero (a better story about Bussard Ramjets than any of Niven's... And funny Niven was my favorite author when I was 10 and I've got much less regard for him now, the Pak really spoil Known Space for me)

I wound up re-reading Tau Zero and was really blown away which got me reading the Ensign Flandry books, Corridors of Time, Star Fox, etc. I don't agree with his politics any more than I agree with Niven or Heinlein but enjoy his books anyway. I'm planning to read all the Anderson books at my library.

Heinlein wrote a few crossover books like "Glory Road" and "Magic Inc" but those were the exception for Heinlein and closer to the rule for Anderson because Anderson was just as important as a fantasy writer as a sci-fi writer.

I do have a copy of The Inverted World that I ought to read.
Oh, I see what you mean. Yeah it seems like you need a clock.
I didn’t say that everyone should buy it, I said the pricing isn’t insane.

You can disagree on the value and still recognize that $25/week is not pathological.
In California I assumed open foyer means literally open to the elements.
Great NPR segment about the cost of a life, and who dialysis set a lin in the sand:

https://www.npr.org/2010/09/24/130104047/who-decides-the-pri...
Ignoring instructions and making things up may very well be an existential threat. Just not of the SkyNet variety.
Universal Basic Compute
"""Sam Altman says instead of Universal Basic Income, there should be Universal Basic Compute, where everybody gets a slice of GPT-7's compute"""