skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I somehow missed this:

> “Building smarter-than-human machines is an inherently dangerous endeavour. OpenAI is shouldering an enormous responsibility on behalf of all of humanity,” Leike wrote.

Leike clearly did the right thing by resigning, GPT-4o is dangerous and irresponsible. But if that tweet is how OpenAI employees actually think of themselves and their technology...... yeesh.
I've found that the many of the relationships I'm most proud to have in my life are with those who had a reputation for being difficult and/or insufferable.
> Does that mean the creator of the mathematical concept and the code should be punished?

Code isn't an idea, code's a thing you make. There are entire classes of thing that are illegal for a citizen of many countries to make or possess or both. While I don't particularly care about this case except in the general "cryptocurrencies appear to exist for grift and need to actually prove their value to society or be stomped" sort of way I view all of it, it isn't legally outlandish.

> My complaint is really that the authorities are willing to stifle such radical innovation to continue to maintain control.

I don't think a system of blind drops but, in fine patent-office-esque fashion, With A Computer are particularly innovative at all, so this is begging the question.
Cool. It will have a market cap twice that of the US nominal GDP!
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If human brains are proof you don’t need the energy of a star to do 10^15 operations/second, doesn’t that just mean our understanding of how to build efficient computers is very primitive?
> They hold them on your behalf.

Possession is 90% of ownership
Does Guix offer guarantees of build reproducibility?
That’s a good point, if you can get the equity liquid - I don’t think the lawsuit would go far or end up in bankruptcy. In this case, the truth of what happened at OpenAI would be revealed even more in a trial, which is not something they’d like and this type of contract with lifetime provisions isn’t likely to be enforced by a court IMO - especially when the information revealed is in the public’s interest and truthful.
> it's functionally impossible to build new overhead transmission lines anywhere

This isn't really true, new overhead lines are being built all over the place. It definitely depends where they're being built and there is definitely strong opposition from councils in e.g. some parts of Germany, but see for example in the Netherlands there are definitely new overhead lines being built: https://www.tennet.eu/nl/projecten/provincies/groningen/eems...

That being said it's true that it's much more challenging than it used to be to get planning permission.
I mean, he presumably wasn’t sharing them with the enemy. National security is not at risk from the action of sharing documents an sich.
null is not a problem and is arguably useful. Look at how zig does it, extremely safe. The problem with most languages is that null is unguarded, and/or generally emittable as part of any given type.
Here's the actual judgment, including the particulars of the offence.

https://www.courts.act.gov.au/supreme/judgments/r-v-mcbride-...
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I hope not all things last forever. A while back I stumbled upon my first .com, from the 90s, which was hosted on Angelfire and dutifully rehosted by archive.org and it went about how you'd imagine.

Despite being in 4th grade when my little friend and I made the webpage, things on there (while fine for the era) are just not okay by today's standards even if I understand the context for what led to it being there. It was nothing terrible, but just distasteful in a blissfully unaware way a 4th grader in the 90's would be. I realize that stuff will probably never be off my conscience and I just have to deal with it and hope nobody sees it.
Don’t forget about the “safety of children”.
I don't think Russia invaded Ukraine because it threatened to join NATO. Russia invaded Ukraine because it threatened to have a color revolution leading to a viable democracy in a culture/society that was similar to Russia's. Putin, personally, could not allow that to succeed. It threatened him, personally, too greatly.
Eh, we even had an entire week of snow this winter, so I don't see what all the fuss is about...
This is a deliberate mischaracterization of democracy. If the system meets these criteria then it by definition isn't democracy. Allowing people to claim that it is democracy just let's them hide behind the idea without having to meet any of the obligations that idea puts on them.
https://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/ (dead tree form: https://www.amazon.ca/Quantum-Computing-since-Democritus-Aar...) is a soft'ish introduction to much useful background.
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Hello everyone!

I am Francesco and I created Ink Studio AI out of a personal need because I wanted to get a new tattoo but wanted to experiment first and see what AI could come up with.

You can generate quite anything with it and the results are pretty accurate.

Let me know if you have any ideas/feedback for this

Thank you!

P.S. I am NOT planning on getting a Donald Trump tattoo
If I understand correctly, in principle there isn't an asymmetry based on point of view, only on time.

If the New Yorker had been able to publish their story in the days immediately following the trial, it wouldn't have been blocked.

Though the New Yorker story itself does contain claims that more recently there has been an asymmetry based on point of view, at least in some cases of self-censorship.
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What realm of science are we? Linguistic or math?
Yes, you can, but that doesn't mean there isn't a real need in some, if not many, cases. The big questions are how do we balance the real need to protect national security with the actual harm to public interest and how do we eventually address the actual harm to public interest that occurred when something was classified.
I’ve seen some people putting out charts showing the kind of effect that the massive reduction in sulphur content in shipping fuel is having, and this is the first El Niño we’ve had since that happened (around 2020). It is an improvement, but the sulphur dioxide pollution had the side-effect of basically masking some of the global warming that had already happened by blocking some of the solar irradiance, especially over the ocean.

This is apparently changing stuff like cloud formation and seems like it might be a big part of the puzzle. Of course, reducing this pollution is overall good, even if one of the side effects of it being in the atmosphere was somewhat positive…

EDIT: Although some analysis such as this - https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-how-low-sulphur-shippin... - suggests while there is a big effect, the effect shouldn’t be anywhere as large as what we’re seeing.
To be fair, many towns don’t actually want to only attract guys with trucks. They also want families, professionals, schoolteachers, etc.

It’s not evil for a town to prefer that developers come in and build housing in volume to enable the growth the town desires versus individuals coming in and building one offs.
Donald Knuth would love to have a talk with you about the need for theories as basis for scientific inquiry, not the opposite.
Unless you explicitly want write, I'd leave it at read-only anyway since they had a (very, very quickly corrected) bug that could result in data loss for external libraries not mounted as read-only this last week.
Achterveld works in some German dialects !
Your mental model of the past is idealistic, morality in the past was lynchings, cop raids against gay people, racism against everyone, segregation, sexism, and imperial power.
JS and AI are good for context loosers (but not for memex).
Well, I guess the argument would be that a billionaire financing the construction of space habitats could make them effectively company towns, but of a highly educated workforce. Once enough of them are there they'll have their own economy, and whoever owns them/the oxygen supply/whatever would be getting a lot of return. I don't think that's a great argument, though, for multiple reasons. I think it's better to just frame it as building a legacy. Put humans in an entirely new place that many of us desperately want to be, end up having the equivalent of a city named after you.
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I believe the US “poor” could be made to behave better if standards were raised (more and better policing). Nobody seems to have the stomach for that so coddling is the solution.
I looked for information on gradework, and couldn’t find anything.

From your description, it sounds like you presume the software is accurate.

I’d expect there to be peer reviewed studies about its error rate, a description of how it works, limitations, etc. For instance, if you ask for a one sentence factual response to a question, there’s no way it will be able to distinguish LLM from human. I’m sure it has other limitations.

I met someone that built one of the better packages in the “don’t copy your answers from google” space a while back.

He routinely gets pleas for help from people his software has falsely accused of plagiarism (the tool is open source and popular and maintained by others).

He generally sends strongly worded letters to educators explaining the limitations of the tool, why it’s probably wrong in this case, and that says he will happily testify against them in court as an expert witness.

I imagine the commercial vendors are less transparent, but not more accurate.
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Yes, I am, I'm living within his fantasy, in which he didn't mention the much stronger loss

Also, he isn't that ancient, he was growing up post WWII
The code on Stack Overflow is already licensed with Creative Commons, plus people put their code there with the intent of being shared and used.

There are GPL projects which provide people their livelihoods, because they get grants to develop that code with a GPL license. Ingesting the same code to a model sans it’s license not only infringes on the license, but allows this code to seep to places where it shouldn’t (by design), and puts this man’s livelihood in jeopardy.

Companies frowned upon GPL for years because of its liability, and now they can feast over this code with these models.

Same is for source available repositories. These companies put their code out for eyes only, not for reproduction and introduction to other code bases. These systems also infringe on these licenses, and attacking to the business models of these companies.

I’m not a copyright stickler. I just respect people and their choices they made with their code.

P.S.: I can share the tweets of that researcher if you want.
I don't think you understand what I'm saying. If we discover causal forces "outside the physical realm" (as we did when we first developed the theory of electromagnetism), we will simply redefine "the physical realm" to include the new, previously-unknown physics. (That, or we'll expand the domain of physics while preserving the legacy terminology, like when we decided that "world" meant a planet, or an "atom" could be separated into parts.)

> What meaning do you assign to the symbol "real" in this context?

Doesn't matter, because physics doesn't care whether or not its domain is "real". We can ignore the metaphysicians because physics is the study of models, observations, and discrepancies, and would work just as well if reality were an illusion.

> I doubt you can actually see the future. If you disagree, please explain, using only physics, how you can.

Information enters my brain. My brain gradually builds a predictive model, according to some (presumably physical) process that I call "me". I can then make confident conditional statements about the future, which historically have been overwhelmingly (though not exclusively) correct where the antecedent is satisfied. By induction, I infer that I possess the general ability to see the future with high accuracy, in certain domains.

Though information theory is usually considered a branch of mathematics, the (incredibly eldritch) field of thermodynamics allows theorems of information theory to be translated into theorems of physics, and (in some cases) vice versa.

> Do you believe that aggregate reality is constrained by your cognitive abilities,

No, but again, that's irrelevant.
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Hey, I got fed up of having to reimplement all the important stuff all over again when I wanted to create a new SvelteKit project, so I built SupaKit to solve this.

It is a SvelteKit boilerplate with authentication, payments, database, email and UI components all ready to go, you can find it at supakit.app and feedback is encouraged
Agreed! It's a great platform for a game like that where you're following a fixed path.
Framework improvement is ortogonal to AI helping with error messages.

Both can and are coexisting just fine.
Google really needs to overhaul their incentive structure. I don't work at FAANG and as much as I'd like the TC I never will. One part of that is the incentive structure discussion. It's better to launch a feature than to support one. So, too, do you artificially inflate user counts of a system you want to grow a market for because your bonus demands a straight line up in something labelled activations and as a result on the following page when your paycheck just says 'yes' .
I’m not in that space but it sounds familiar. In my experience there are a few phases in fixing a problem:

- Noticing the problem

- Finding something better

- Finding a way to migrate between the problem and the fix

The hardest is the last bullet. It is easy to say “things would be better if X” it’s much harder to build a roadmap and buy-in on how to get to X.
I have similar material. If it's reassuring, we all were just kids/teens and learning of the world. I feel a lot for the youth after us that made the Internet more accessible and, at times, more permanent.
The story of the Therac25 is an important one. I first read it in college and re-read it every 5-10 years.

That said, I don’t think it’s a strong rebuttal to the arguments here. Context matters. Earlier poster mentioned they’d use it for a React front end but not a backend deletion.

Knowing the tool and the appropriateness of the tool in context is one of the lessons to be learned from the Therac 25 tragedy.
What’s your goal for showcasing your skills? Is it just to do something fun? Or, is it to get hired?

If it’s the prior, this is a fun project.

If it’s the latter, this is going to be a low effort activity. Employers aren’t going to watch it during your application. Further, Your target audience (people learning react) isn’t going to have much overlap with hiring managers.
This would surely have a safety line if used in real life, no one would want it falling from ten storeys up onto a busy street. So it wouldn't have quite as much freedom of movement as it ha in the lab.
We have HTML now, which is a great advancement. Don't forget about that.
I'm no VC, so take my advice with a grain of salt.

The problem is not your skillset. The problem is your scope. I've browsed through your projects and none of them are something I feel many people would have a need or desire for.

You need to look at people's complaints about the current ecosystem, you need to find out what it is people want that they don't currently have. Offer solutions.
Wish i could convice my employer to use this instead of teams ffs
So, the researcher published the study long after the man was dead?
How can we know the study wasnt faked? It happens now, and why wouldnt it happen in the past.
They remote-first and global, so it's aimed at developers outside of the US.
> It’s a website that shows every movie screening in every cinema across the entire Germany.

Nope. The first two towns I tried (with cinemas, and not far from his example Hannover) were missing. The third town I tried: also missing.

I think it's obvious that there are more than the maybe 300 cinemas shown on the web page in all of Germany.
> Does that mean the creator of the mathematical concept and the code should be punished?

You mean the guy that launched the service? Yeah.
We build satellites that look at our sun. That's one part of our dyson swarm. The beauty about a dyson swarm is that it can be built incrementally over time as we find new uses for space.
That was my immediate reaction. They’re completely different and I imagine incels would rage against all groups including this one.

But I do agree with the original commenter in one way — leave traditional marriages alone and let them be happy.
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Except more people are prosecuted in UK. Compare stats how many get jail for "hate speach" in UK and for criticism of war in Russia!
As the story is available in print or via the New Yorker app, the explanation that the story can't be published in the UK seems incomplete.
Wow, absolutely atrocious. There really is no justice for the victims of war, is there?

This guy must be a sociopath.
Please see this video: "Science Needs Pseudoscience to Advance": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ-031A4G1Y
We need to prepare to not be destroyed on the cyber front brings us closer to war? Hard disagree. In a world with sharks, you don't make having to battle a shark more likely by looking less like prey.

Not preparing brings us closer to someone (Russia, China, Iran, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, whoever loses the next presidential election) being able to blackmail society with war-like consequences if we don't do what they want. Worse, more than one adversary could have that level of blackmail on us at once. That's the kind of situation that free peoples fight wars to get out of. And the ones who won't, aren't free for long.

If you consider "not fighting wars" to be more important than "being free", there is nothing more for me to say. And if you think that being free will endure without fighting wars, I think you are hopelessly naive.
I'm still finding it difficult to understand how their move away from the non-profit mission was legal. Initially, you assert that you are a mission-driven non-profit, a claim that attracts talent, capital, press, partners, and users. Then, you make a complete turnaround and transform into a for-profit enterprise. Why this isn't considered fraud is beyond me.
I read 'drive and intensity' in a far more nebulous 'passion' that is thrown around by companies to attract true believers who will dedicate 90% of their waking hours to The Mission whatever that may be.
Sure, they know what they are about to release next, and what they plan to work on after that, but they are not clairvoyants and don't know how their plans are going to pan out.

What we're going to see over next year seems mostly pretty obvious - a lot of productization (tool use, history, etc), and a lot of efforts with multimodality, synthetic data, and post-training to add knowledge, reduce brittleness, and increase benchmark scores. None of which will do much to advance core intelligence.

The major short-term unknown seems to be how these companies will be attempting to improve planning/reasoning, and how successful that will be. OpenAI's Schulman just talked about post-training RL over longer (multi-reasoning steps) time horizons, and another approach is external tree-of-thoughts type scaffolding. These both seem more about maximizing what you can get out of the base model rather than fundamentally extending it's capabilities.
Could also be that they have a unique definition of vesting when they say specifically “vested equity”
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> "[compounds] tend to be written in separate parts. This would be an error in other Germanic languages such as [...] German, and Dutch. However, this is merely an orthographic convention."

I'm not sure Wikipedia is right here. It's not necessarily an error to write a space in between two words: it just changes the meaning, and it's an error if the meaning doesn't exist (just like in English: "ahorse" doesn't form a meaning like "alike" does, and so is likely a typo for "a horse"). It's also not "merely an orthographic convention" the way that, e.g., starting sentences with uppercase is a convention that could easily be changed because the sentence separator "." is already there.

The space separates two words. Having no space means it's one word. Adding the space means that what came before must be a different word, like an adjective or a preposition.

Take something like "patient data": is this data patiently waiting, or is it about data belonging to patients? In Dutch/German, "patientdaten" is unambiguously one thing and "patient daten" is unambiguously another (when pretending that "patient" exists as an adjective in Dutch/German, which it actually does not; but examples where it also exists as adjective are plentiful, see <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40399141>).
A dyson swarm is not a monolithic structure you build, but a civilization's collection of building.
What you mean with sell page? If you go to saas-forge.com, you can either click on the "generate random SaaS" button or select an industry and give the AI one or two words to generate your specific idea. If you have any questions or feedback, please let me know :)
I only use Facebook to stay in touch with widely dispersed family members. Nothing else. One peek a day to see what's up. Assuming you have an account, I find this makes the task much easier:

https://www.facebook.com/?filter=friends
I mean, I fully agree with you. But this is the demonstrable reality of modern democracy. They all meet these criteria, and yes, they all hide behind the term democracy while not actually meeting any of it's obligations. If pressed they would say, "What are you going to do about it?" because they designed a system in which you are powerless, and so they know you can do nothing about it.

Our planet is on fire and our world leaders twiddle their thumbs and prepare bunkers to coast out the collapse. Tell me how that's conceivably a result of an empowered populace after decades of said populace campaigning for climate change legislation.
If you cannot think for yourself then often someone else will think for you…
Agreed. UK tabloids are an absolute blight. I wouldn't generally advocate for the censorship of reporting on such a case, but if it's going to happen, then tabloid 'newspapers' would be at the top of the list of organisations to restrict.
The perversely capitalistic healthcare system in the US is perhaps the number one reason why US employers have so much more power over their employees than their European counterparts.
That sounds like basic in-band deduplication. Apfs just doesn't support it. You can find that on zfs though.
idk, i'm curious but ain't got time to look for that. you should look it up if you're curious, or are you trying to make a point?
Notice has nearly all electric and self driving car demonstrations are in places which have no cold temperatures and no inclimate weather.
Check out the approach that Pax is taking.[0]

Pax renders vector graphics to canvas layers and composites + clips + occludes native elements (web DOM nodes, iOS SwiftUI Text elements, etc.) in the same space to make a cohesive scene.

This solves accessibility and SEO, as well as dramatically reducing runtime size (~100KB WASM network footprint) because text rendering and atomic native UI elements don't need to be reinvented.

To my knowledge we're the only ones taking this particular approach so far (I'm on the team behind Pax) but it works quite well. Yes it was a lot of work.

[0] see pax.dev or check out a simple example: https://static.pax.dev/space-game/ ; source code for space game in examples on github https://www.github.com/paxengine/pax
Even aside from WW2 history just simply having more potential threats is bad.