skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> > Maintaining a rule that AI-generated content is not eligible for copyright would, IMO, provide an important safeguard against AI being used to displace, rather than assist, humans.

I like that even there is no guarantee that AI may be right, someone can have rights and responsibility for some compilation of generated texts.

I wish the web could be more like memex and you could mix larger contents freely, without loosing contexts (no JS, no AI) - so, some works that are not copyright if not whole but still right (and traced if tainted) looks fine ?
I am amazed they didn't seem to talk to any 3D animators before writing this. Because this is just plain wrong:

> The hand-drawn images are usually faithful representations of the world, but only in a qualitative sense, since it is difficult for humans to draw multiple perspectives of an object or scene 3D consistently. Nevertheless, people can easily perceive 3D scenes from inconsistent inputs!

It is difficult for human artists to maintain perfect geometrical consistency. But that is NOT why 2D animation of 3D scenes is geometrically inconsistent! The reason is that artists stylize 3D scenes to emphasize things for specific artistic reasons. This is especially true for something surreal like SpongeBob. But even King of the Hill has stylized "living room perspectives," "kitchen perspectives," etc. The artists are trying to make things look good, not realistic. And they aren't trying to make humans reconstruct a perfect 3D image - they are trying to evoke our 3D imaginations. It's a very different thing.

Pixar and other high-quality 3D animation studios intentionally distort the real geometry of their scenes for cinematic effect: a small child viewed from an adult's perspective might be rendered with a freakishly long neck and stubby little torso, because the animators are intentionally exaggerating visual foreshortening to emphasize the emotional effect of a wee little child. A realistic perspective would be simply boring. These techniques are all over the place in Pixar movies - it's why their films look so good compared to cheaper studios, who really are just moving a virtual camera around a Euclidean 3D space.

I don't want to comment on the technical details. But it really seems like the authors missed the artistic mark.
> I don't buy at all that people on the ground in an active war scenario would have any sort of macro view

They didn't claim this. The claim was that someone on the ground can better discriminate a combatant from a civilian than someone in the air. Modern warfare makes all of this less relevant, unfortunately, since infantry's work is less about shooting the enemy than protecting assets and calling in air and artillery strikes.
> The U.N. says Gaza's Health Ministry has been able to fully identify 24,686 deaths out of more than 35,000 people the ministry says have been killed in the Gaza Strip.

Then where did the false numbers come from?

They just made them up. Typically, when statistics are proven wrong you go back to the numbers and then check if other numbers have been completely false. Or maybe a different source of numbers was more correct. Maybe the source for the false numbers is still lying.

The problem is that people use the brand "UN" which is generally a respected brand. Unfortunately, on the ground in Gaza it means Palestinians who are often connected to the Hamas directly. That means a lot of the information that the UN broadcasts to the world as fact is corrupted by Hamas.

To be clear, I'm not saying there aren't many civilian casualties. I'm not saying this is anything less than tragic. I am saying that these casualties are far lower due to a conscious effort by the IDF to reduce these numbers. I'm also saying that Hamas has made a significant effort to increase civilian casualties (especially children) e.g. by using children as couriers between their tunnels and preventing civilians from leaving siege areas (e.g. firing on refugees).
I've done this in a lot of projects -- it works great. Protobuf is nice in a lot of ways and pretty simple, while gRPC is overkill (imo) for a simple web server that doesn't see tons of traffic.
In general, I'd rather we link to sources rather than other references.
People tend to apply such hard-core legal standards to those they don't like. As the corrupt dictator says, 'For my enemies, the law! For my friends, everything!' Law-and-order leaders almost exclusively mean it for people they dislike.

Let's apply some strict law-and-order to the wealthy and powerful, to corporations, to government officials. Then to all adults. Then I think it would be reasonable for kids with spray cans.
The most palatable solution (historically speaking) is democracy. Yes I'm being dictated to but at least we're all doing it to ourselves.

A modern technologically enhanced refinement of that is the best that I can think of.
Artificial INTELLIGENCE: The digital revolution has failed
"""The benefits of the internet are eroding. The AI boom is only accelerating their demise."""
> We've also seen what happens to pacifists, sooner or later they get conquered

Do you have a historical example?
Sure, but to be honest with my explanation I actually have a point with the distinction between fake and forged. Here is an excerpt:

> A textbook definition of forgery is the making of a false document with the intent that it should be used or acted upon as if it's genuine.

Notice the "with the intent that it should be ACTED upon", and given no one would be using a historic fake ID to use it for access, I think I have a point. Anyway..
To save the rest of us from the same fate, ‘rm -rf /‘ has been disabled by default since coreutils 6.2 in 2006: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commi...
Apple is indeed patenting Swift features
Performance comparison of string concatenation in Go language
to be clear this may kill you and any other nearby people
> What is a drone supposed to do?

Wait, until they put a 9mm on that thing.
There are bugs in how it handles duplicate letters. See this example, https://stevekrouse-staticwordle.web.val.run/eyJhbnN3ZXIiOiJ...
There's been renewed interest in Blogrolls recently, especially for OPML-based blogrolls. I've been building a blogroll network map [1] to track adoption and the linked article contains the steps needed to set one up for WordPress.

[1] https://alexsci.com/rss-blogroll-network/
Yesterday was my last day as head of alignment, superalignment lead
The way I approach this is integrating wisdom to my ambition. First step is to understand what the source of my ambition is. If my ambition stems from my need to impress others or gain superficial status then I understand my ambitious is misplaced and delusional. Kinda takes deep self-awareness to access the cause. I refuse to to leave my life in delusion. But if my ambition stems from a genuine internal desire and intrinsic motivation then I know I am in the right direction. In essence you want to align you goals with the truth of your being.

What is wisdom anyways? It is one of those things that is illusive to define and communicate. Wisdom is a check against your own self-delusion. And what is the true reality of things? Each one of us has a very unique and individual human experience. And when one truly accepts the solitariness of his journey there is no comparison possible and he is in an existential world where things simply “are”.
I mean, isn't this the whole point of inflation
I like this take best. :)

Most folks who are part of the startup, don't care to stick around for the scale. Different phases of the company tend to attract different types of people.
(Basically, Zuckerman vs. Zuckerberg, come to think of it ...)
My plans are more around layoff than retirement (it's happened to me before) and do feature some assets such that I can probably manipulate my income as needed, but given the Republican urge to get rid of Obamacare[0] and the likelihood of them winning control next year is pretty worrying. I guess there's always Mexico.

[0]https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/01/trump-o...
Unreadable on iPad.
> I must point out that Neo4j was the first to propose a syntax that made traversal feel simple and natural again

Was it the first? Does it predate path expressions in Hibernate Query Language / Java Persistence Query Language?
I could see that being very valuable to a job seeker, especially for someone who's just been laid-off. Provide an opportunity to earn a little cash while demonstrating your skills for an interview. That appears to be win-win!
What if you solve 100% of the problem over a smaller domain?

It is important to disambiguate the scientific problem from the engineering problem. We can prove that lots of programs halt, not that all programs can halt.

It isn't a reason to not do the research. Sounds like an armchair way to not try.
It's usually on public property, or sometimes on corporate property. I don't think I've seen much graffiti on some private individual's property. It's not on the front of people's houses.

> Most graffiti is just trash

People say that about modern art, and about that crazy 'rock'n'roll'!
Most paints in the Netherlands is also with RAL. Painters can look at your wall and tell the code.
I've been wondering that too recently, and apparently it wasn't that big of a deal [1] – more recent analog TVs weren't that susceptible to mains interference of the sort that benefited from being synchronized to the frame rate.

In other words, the mains frequency was never used as a frequency source for TVs, and the apparent frequency match was only to make interference patterns not wander around the screen.

[1] https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/164249/is-th...
Could someone explain why this is happening? Older generations of home owners knowing they can get away with it? Corporate interests buying up real estate and also tightening the ratchet? Construction not keeping up with population growth?

Not at all an expert in this area, but would love to understand the underlying dynamics here?
Not surprising with rates hiked to 5% in just a couple of years. Apparently we don't have rate control.
Not to nitpick, but to engage.

Can the quote be taken “entirely out of context” if the context itself isn’t “entirely clear”? Or does your interpretation of the quote and its meaning differ from the author’s?
Maybe companies will start selling the data to AI training operations, and won't need to resort to ads to keep free services running.
A refined version of this could be used to make stereoscopic versions of cartoons.

On the other hand you are probably better off only using the depth prediction and filling any voids in using image generation instead of this mapping process.
Departed OpenAI head of alignment: safety has taken a backseat to shiny products
I really wish I could donate to the project without giving them my full details. Why if I send you a couple bucks with paypal do I need to provide my address? PayPal does all the payment validation...

Has thunderbird started doing what Firefox does and categorize your emails to send those stats back to Mozilla corp? If so, or it's in their plans, I guess that would be a reason they may want all my data.

I was happy that thunderbird was abandonware, the protocols haven't changed in the decade since I started using it, and it kept Mozilla from bloating it like FF and seeking profit motives.

I may just move back to roundcube.
I think that it’s a feature of the protocol that it’s stream based. It allows for a fairly responsive interface even in rough network conditions.
> But does it have any advantage over (for example) the Munsell color space?

I think I am right in saying RAL is a more open system than Munsell. I think anyone can print their own RAL guide as long as it meets the standard. Can't find a reference
Where do you live that you see that? I see it in places that are isolated, and as a proportion of urban surface area, very small.
Thanks that one is better! At least it says: "m Bild: Herkömmliche Lärmschutzwand und MetaWindow im Vergleich (Visualisierung)"

They should just use the new picture and not make the previous way of doing things so central. If one just looks at the picture it could appear as if the wall changes translucency dynamically.
I'm surprised a Rust alignment bug is fixed this late. Performance degradation issues due to bad alignment is usually pretty obvious and somewhat easy to notice. I'm assuming vectorized (SSE) code is often generated for 128-bit loads and stores.

Obviously something must have obscured it until now. Anyone knows why?

Edit: So it was an LLVM issue. Even weirder. https://reviews.llvm.org/D86310

Edit2: Ok, it's obvious: if you "fix" something like this you can break a lot of code that relies on specific struct alignment. Ouch.
"because it looks nice in the tutorial with apparently simple syntax, but then on real projects it devolves into a hundred lines of abstraction nonsense over environment variables and spawning programs"

you just described "make" as well as cmake. let alone autotools (./configure, Makefile.am, etc.)

"It has terrible syntax, terrible semantics, and you need to run Make anyway"

agree. the core reason, overriding all of that, is that it fundamentally does a different job. Make is an engine that takes a high-level description of rules and dependencies, builds a graph of them, and then executes on it. but in order to work correctly, you need a full dependency graph.

the problem is that when you have a large project with lots and lots of directories that build a bunch of inter-dependent artifacts, you don't necessarily like having one single big monolithic "Makefile". so of course you break it up. Every directory has a fragment that describes just what it builds, and so on.

the old way of doing that was hierarchical makefiles and "recursive make" [1] which kinda works OK, but treats each leaf makefile and directory as an independent product. the core makefile only knows coarse dependency information about those directories as a single unit. this also has pretty severe performance and parallel build issues.

the right way of doing it is some kind of multi-stage makefile system. the first stage doesn't build the product, it builds a concrete monolithic makefile containing the whole dependency graph from distributed information in each part of the project. the second stage builds the product.

you can write the first stage in python, bash, gnu-make, etc. but make is really a difficult tool to write procedural type code in. the linux build system does this though, but it's certainly not simple.

so that's all CMake is (wonky syntax and all) is doing. and it's just a bespoke system tuned specifically for doing C and C-like compilation that allows you to build a makefile (or Ninja or etc. etc.) backend. of course it has all kinds of other features as well, but to me the core difference is that make is low-level and cmake fills that role for a high-level system.

[1] https://accu.org/journals/overload/14/71/miller_2004/
What a lucid and well-expressed opinion. Kudos.
Costco also sells real vanilla beans. That's a must try for anyone who hasn't.
Seriously.

This is a new way to harass. And it is illegal ("gross misdemeanor" in WA, at the minimum) to do so.
In one of the guesses, I wish to reuse a grey letter to make a valid word, but it won't let me.

Edit: It allows me to guess invalid words.
Latency is really bad. Interesting idea but it’s not really usable.
unless it's Miyazaki films - in which case most humans are intended to be lifeless rigid objects and every machines are to be lifelike animations (/s)
I got into collecting Soviet watches, I still have them and love them, but I don't wear them as often anymore. They all work great, even the ones that are old. I also just love how they were nice, but not flashy. Also being a bit of a space geek, I also like how most of the names are space related and made many space themed watches (the famous Raketa Copernicus or the Slava Buran watch and the Sputnik watches).
> your network will not have a jump start on everyone else

I think this is not the most useful frame. You don't necessarily need to outcompete people for limited spots (I think a lot of people's definition of success or greatness is very narrow, and mostly informed by what others are vying for)

I think the bar for doing something great is shockingly low, most people aren't even trying. That's the impression I get every time I read a patio11 article (most recently the super long but worth it "story of vaccinate CA" [1]. This is not patio but same vibe, "Lies, Damned Lies, and Manometer Readings" [2]). My takeaway from these is that there are big problems in society that nobody is working on.

This is kind of a good thing for ambitious folks: everywhere you look there are problems everywhere, the bar for making something better than what is there is low. I think the network & support is critical but it isn't always given. I think great things happen when we start to move towards what we are capable of fixing, what is within our control, finding others who have that attitude and supporting each other.

I think for me now, the point isn't to outcompete everyone/make it to the top 1% or whatnot, it's to make it as far as is possible with what I have. Those two approaches are identical if you have the support to reach the 1%. But if not, why worry about what is outside of my control? I have plenty within my control in the menatime.

[1] https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-story-of-vaccinateca/
[2] https://asteriskmag.com/issues/05/lies-damned-lies-and-manom...
I find it rather humorous to suggest that an agency like the DEA, with no actual function besides getting marketable goods out of a market should marginally lower their costs because market impact is a pipe dream.
Yeah in a billion years. We should figure out the common issues (tragedy of commons, etc) that will follow us wherever we go -- before we try to leave. A billion years is plenty of time to focus on that.
You don't have to parse this in terms of cartoonish stereotypes or opposing extremes. But if you look at his background, his statements (in the large) and the evolution of his career -- it's pretty obvious what the guy is, and what he stands for. As regards Ukraine, a review of Russia's relations with neighboring countries over the past 400 years will provide further context.
> The next 1000 years belong to China, for demographic reasons

That is quite a bold claim. Care to elaborate?
Ok so lets figure out our problems first and then move on. If we go too soon we'll bring all of our standard problems.
Jan Leike explains OpenAI's Superalignment research agenda (2023)
Sounds like it, yes. I remember negative refractive index materials, now that I think about it.
The press release should not invent its own term (meta technology) just to sound fancy. Just say meta material.
GP meant deterministically add jitter.

Long ago I was responsible for implementing a “rate limiting algorithm”, but not for HTTP requests. It was for an ML pipeline, with human technicians in a lab preparing reports for doctors and in dire cases calling their phone direct. Well my algorithm worked great, it reduced a lot of redundant work while preserving sensitivity to critical events. Except, some of the most common and benign events had a rate limit of 1 per day.

So every midnight UTC, the rate limit quotas for all patients would “reset” as the time stamp rolled over. Suddenly the humans in the lab would be overwhelmed with a large amount of work in a very short time. But by the end of the shift, there would be hardly anything left to do.

Fortunately it was trivial to add a random but deterministic per patient offset (I hashed the patient id into a numeric offset).

That smoothly distributed the work throughout the day, to the relief of quite a few folks.
"I don't know what C is used for but I want to make a Big Statement."
Inflation makes everything more expensive (light bulbs, nails, electricity). Regulations to make stuff "safer" also makes stuff more expensive. Places like CA have had a housing shortage for decades - they are short on houses built vs needed by tens of thousands a year for decades.

Add to that "investment" in rentals and the like.

it all adds up. I assume it's going to get worse.
I think "aligning super intelligence" is a nothingburger of a goal, for exactly that reason. It's not a problem that's unique to OpenAI.

The reason you can't "align" AI is because we, as humans on the planet, aren't universally aligned on what "aligned" means.

At best you can align to a particular group of people (a company, a town, a state, a country). But "global alignment" in almost any context just devolves into war or authoritarianism (virtual or actual).
Oh. I see it now.

> More shocking, and more important, the bank was sanctioned for failing to apply the proper anti-laundering strictures to the transfer of $378.4bn

But they locked up one dude who did:

> These 11 fictitious accounts alone were used by the criminal organization to wire transfer a total of $3.8 million to Mexico.

Justice was served indeed.
I live in Canada, and lost my first hive over this winter. I'm hoping to try again. Honey was delicious...just not enough to share with everyone.

Reputations are worth a lot. Canada attracts millions of students to come here to build its future, on reputation alone. Tough some say it's on the decline. Maple syrup, Ice wine, polar bears and polar dips play on people's imagination across the world.
I don’t and that’s dumb.
It's really a basic supply and demand issue. Austin TX had skyrocketing housing prices and rents during the pandemic. It also built a shit ton of new apartments that have come online during the past year (and are continuing to come on line), and rent prices fell considerably:

https://www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2024/02/austin-apartme...
> The world desperately needs a leader - a Churchill, a Lincoln, just about anyone - to stand up to it, to show people there are other, much better ways.

The Churchill who authorized the bombing of Berlin? The Churchill who authorized the bombing of Dresden?

The Lincoln that authorized Sherman's march to the sea with its intentional destruction of civilian areas to break the will of the south to fight?

The Lincoln who suspended habeas corpus?

I think Churchill and Lincoln were far more willing to use force in the service of what they saw as right than people think they were.
I feel like once you're concerned about SLAs for precision timekeeping, you need to start worrying about spoofing as well, which is tricky to combat in an inherently unidirectional protocol.

Galileo has an interesting signal authentication service [1], but even that is subject to replay attacks by definition (although you can't skip ahead a receiver's time).

In comparison, networked bidirectional protocols like NTP are almost trivially secure-able, by including a challenge in the request and a cryptographic signature over the response.

[1] https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/galileos-authentication-al...
In a way you are just debating who gets the power, and saying the people you like should have it. The fact that you or I like someone isn't a reason to give them power.

The buildings have a lot more impact then the graffiti, and arguably should have more community voices involved.
Neuroplasticity is a thing though, with plenty of cases of brains recovering from pretty significant damage. They also do evolve and adjust over time to gradual changes in environment. Lots of elderly people are keeping up with cultural and technological change.

Can't say the same about neural networks (yet?).
100%. Exposing people to second hand smoke for no reason.
Not enough supply. Even with the US population growth of 0.4%/year one has to build a whole new Phoenix,AZ worth of housing. That's just not happening.