skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Here are the ideas Tim.

> I could go on, but I think that’s enough.

All of those are "bad" ideas. Capitalism isn't actually about building better products for the customers, it's about making more money for the owners. Sometimes an extremely competitive environment can bring those things into alignment, but that requires a strong, active government to maintain.

However, cutthroat competition reduces the resources available to each competitor, so it's not all good.

Personally, I wonder if the best model would be: extreme cutthroat competition to get the initial product evolved, then once a winner arises, then have highly regulated monopoly maintaining a standardize platform (and then forced to implement the kinds of requirements you outlined)
Humans know when they've made a mistake. So there's ways to deal with that.

Computers are final. You don't want things to be final when your life's on the line.
HN has been surprisingly good today. Seen a couple of very high quality posts (at leasts posts that are to my liking), this one included. I thank OP for posting this.
Fortunately using OpenTofu is just s/terraform/opentofu/g at this point.
Yes. In TypeScript, everything placed in type signatures or type definitions is erased at runtime.
I totally agree. Their UI is hot garbage.
And entirely predictable from the first one: https://openai.com/index/introducing-superalignment/
It's always interesting times at OpenAI!
In Brazil, in the 90's there was a campaign called "Drogas nem morto" (drugs not even dead). I heard about a guy who used a t-shirt of the campaign to sell drugs.
Drop a nuke into a volcano /s
I have noticed, and I am concerned that they were the leaders of the Superalignment team.
I wish they could make a more user friendly rpi that is all in one: router, smart tv, adblock, vpn, private cloud, private media server, wireless charging pad, universal miracast/airplay/chromecast.
I thought the whole point of making a transparent organization to lead the charge on AI was so that we could prevent this sort of ego and the other risks that come with.
Blautia maintains colonic mucus function under low-fiber consumption
This is a classic disclaimer put on top of all types of financial documents, you can see it all the time on IPO's, mergers, any type of corporate actions like repurchase offers, shareholders / bondholders meetings etc.

My understanding is that the source knows they have no way of controlling the dissemination of the document, and thus use such disclaimer to attempt to push the responsibility to any party receiving the doc - "ah! see our disclaimer? you should not have read this doc, its on you now!"
The fundamental problem is that drugs are fun and the bad effects are offset by years or even decades.

Also the fact that vast majority of people who do drugs never realize the bad effects from it. They do it in moderation, use them responsibly, and stop without much thought. It's the hockey stick at the edge of the chart where all the destructive narrative comes from.
Yeah, but the theoretical endpoint of training a GAN is that the generator gets so good that the discriminator has to resort to guesses and become unable to tell with any sort of accuracy as to whether the example it is shown is real or generated.
> Don't get me wrong, I understand the rationale. High interest rates, dwindling pension funds, executives wanting wages closer to US execs, fewer high-performing tech companies, Brexit isolation and a lack of committed domestic investors have all contributed to the LSE’s downward spiral.

Those might be factors but I'd wager the dominating factor to choosing to list in a US exchange is the monthly volume of ETF flow on the indexes you join. In the current world I think this factor dominates many others.
The problem with CO2 levels is that no one likes the solution not that we don't have one. I highly doubt adding AGI to the mix is going to magically make things better. If anything we'll just burn more CO2 providing all the compute resources it needs.

People want their suburban lifestyle with their red meat and their pick-up truck or SUV. They drive fuel inefficient vehicles long-distances to urban work environments and they seem to have very limited interest in changing that. People who like detached homes aren't suddenly affording the rare instances of that closer to their work. We burn lots of oil because we drive fuel inefficient vehicles long distances. This is a problem of changing human preferences which you just aren't going to solve with an AGI.
This is how Dutch public healthcare motivates its general aversion to medical testing, as many a foreigner finds surprising and incongruent to the generally OK level of healthcare outcomes provided by the system. You can test and detect, but the error margins are often large (so many false positives and/or false negatives), would generate way too much workload to follow up and thereby cost time and money for better leads. Plus, as you say, knowing early doesn't always or even often mean you can actually change the outcomes.

Now, this is what they say... I have tried to find the actual literature they use to motivate their protocols, and apart from occasionally, have not been able to find that evidence. I'd love to have a resource that demonstrates these sorts of things.
Wouldn't it still expect a weird joystick?
Recording media at the time didn't do well with the "big boom," every sample maximized, sound mixing trends that came with CDs. Record needles would jump tracks, tape would print echos on the reel.

They have remixed a lot of 80s music.
Your application wants to use Postgres.

Kubernetes, which it runs on, wants etcd.

Keycloak wants to use Postgres and Redis for sessions.

Plausible Analytics wants to use Clickhouse and Postgres. Matomo specifically wants to use MySQL.

Lago Billing wants to use Postgres, Redis and Clickhouse.

Prometheus uses TSDB, but okay, it’s “just” files and a WAL. Wait a minute, so is Postgres…

Jaeger wants to use Cassandra or Elastic.

Thanos wants S3 APIs. So maybe you use Minio.

Okay. That’s 2024: in production, you will wind up with 7 different databases. At least.
I don't agree with the point GP is making, but presumably something like two processes writing a file and reading their changes back. If the writes and reads interleave you'd get a race condition.
"sort of"
You'd be surprised, even Nintendo doesn't get it perfect themselves. When N64 games were first made available on the Nintendo Switch Online platform, there were several problems with graphical effects and input lag. Here's an MVG video from the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSyBMSOfPxg
i don't know about European healthcare but in the US, there is this huge mess of unstructured text EMR and a lot of hope that LLMs can help 1) make it easier for doctors to enter data, 2) make some sense out of the giant blobs of noisy text.

people are trying to sell this right now. maybe it won't work and will just create more problems, errors, and work for medical professionals, but when did that ever stop hospital administrators from buying some shiny new technology without asking anyone.
That would be illegal, and "the public" is much larger than just the customers of a particular company. This is beside the point though. The government asks "would the average person be willing to pay $x to lower their chance of death by y%". The corporate executive asks "would I be willing to pay >$0 to lower their chance of death by y%". "Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I am willing to make."
> There's really been such a long period of time that if runaway climate change were going to happen, why hasn't it happened already?

I don't think runaway climate change or even something like a reversal of the Gulf Stream were ever any of the mainstream scenarios from IPCC. The worst scenarios, IIRC, were a global warming of +6 to 10C.

And that is over several centuries, provided we do nothing to stop it.

This century, the worst scenarios are about 4C hotter than today.

Also, it's not like the temperature is going up that much everywhere. For instance, heating an area near water from 34 to 38C means a lot more water evaporation, and thus more cooling. Also, stronger winds mean the humidity may be blown away more quickly.

Now even 4C of heating, provided we don't develop any technologies to either counter it or cope with it could cause a disaster that could cause similar disruptions, forced displacements etc as WW2, but the world didn't end because of WW2. It was only a minor speed bump in the grand scope of things.

Anyway, the probability that it should take 100s of years to reach AGI seems quite slim. And once we have AGI/ASI, the world is going to be so fundamentally different that I'm not sure how much some warming really means, at least for humans.
Let's say you want to check if use after free can ever occur. Your translation is bugged and translates the whole program to a single "nop". Then the verifier happily asserts that the translated program does not cause use after free.

I doubt the translation would be that bad but it could have more subtle issues of the same kind.
What you get when money meets corporate meets engineers who don't say no.
Pinokio is a browser that lets you locally install and automate AI on your PC
That is just plain wrong.

Android tablets absolutely don't suck if you put as much money in them as you would in an Apple one. It is just that people have been convinced by marketing and by people like you (believers) that they suck at any price and that if you have to put as much money, you better get an Apple one anyway, which is just plain wrong.

You seem to conveniently forget that the reason iPad got so much traction is because they launched at a price that was very competitive. It was state-of-the-art technology and even if you wanted to put more money there wasn't much better to be had.

Now you are somewhat right telling people to not buy an iPad, but they also have the right to complain about the state of things, particularly since switching OS is an expensive (have to rebuy all the software, possibility content held captive in the "Store") and time consuming (need to figure out how to transfer everything and learn new stuff). This is especially true since Apple has made this part very difficult for obvious reasons.
If you relied on their messaging platform there is just no other way than to export and archive, losing all continuity and if you relied on their office suite there is no other way than to export and recreate any files in a competitor software. This problem exists in other parts of this industry but it's rarely as bad as with Apple...
And there is the fact that since their hardware doesn't support any other OS, telling people to just change hardware that is still in good shape, that should be more than sufficient for their need is just stupid peak consumerism. "It's fine, you just need to re-buy all the things, and then it works "

So, people complain against their disgusting behavior and ask for better solutions for the money they spent, as they should. You don't have more legitimacy telling people to just chose another vendor no matter how you feel...
Pinokio is a browser that lets you locally install, run, and automate any AI on your computer. Everything you can run in your command line can be automated with Pinokio script, with a user-friendly UI.
Template literal types solve ordering for a very specific type of parameter-order problems which happens to include the (explicitly identified as an example) terrible hash function that just prepends "hashed_".

But what about when you have an actual hash function that can't be reasonably represented by a template literal type? What about when the strings are two IDs that are different semantically but identical in structure? What about wanting to distinguish feet from inches from meters?

Don't get me wrong, I like structural typing, but there are all kinds of reasons to prefer nominal in certain cases. One reason why I like TypeScript is that you can use tricks like the one in TFA to switch back and forth between them as needed!
if the idea that high taxes disincentivizes people from building stuff, california would be a wasteland.

but that's not what we see. people build because they still have a chance a making a lot of money.

also, like canada can build successfully tech companies. yes, I realize there should be more canadian tech darlings, but I don't think it has to do with high taxes so much as it has to do with Canadians being comfortable and not feeling the need to sacrifice everything to try and build the biggest thing.

If you look at Canada's most successful tech companies, the founders usually sell and enjoy a more comfortable existence.
The realization that almost all illegal drugs (heroin, meth, a handful like that that feel too good—probably exceptions) aren’t really in some much worse category than alcohol and nicotine, and that some are surely less-bad, even, was quite a revelation. Must be a shared experience for a lot of the DARE generation.
AirBnB, Databricks, Flipkart 3 of the largest banks in the world, some of the largest logistics companies in the world, at least 2K seriously large installations.
Imagine trying to keep something so far above us in intelligence, caged. Scary stuff...
I personally think this website is amazing... I mean, how do you even maintain something like this?
I would think management can't be that adamant about not letting users copy-and-paste... I would also think front end folks should try saying "no" to at least some of those silly requests
If they could have charged more for the car they already would have. A recall only affecting one make or model won't have a large effect on the profit-maximizing price of the car because the value proposition of the car hasn't changed (or got worse because of perceived unreliability). The cost would then be born by the company and not the consumer.
who is this and why is it important? [1]

super-alignment co-lead with Ilya (who resigned yesterday)

what is super alignment? [2]

> We need scientific and technical breakthroughs to steer and control AI systems much smarter than us. Our goal is to solve the core technical challenges of superintelligence alignment by 2027.

[1] https://jan.leike.name/
[2] https://openai.com/superalignment/
I was 13 when I started developing for my android phone. I did not have $100 to spend, or if I did, I was not willing to spend it on this. Developing for my android phone was 100% free with no restrictions. Putting my app on the play store was a one-time fee of $20.

So, android development, for one. Also Windows development. And Linux development. Web development, too. Pretty much any platform other than Apple.

And I suppose we should just ignore those who live in poorer countries, right?
> are besides the point

Except they aren’t beside the point.

> substantially similar (in both construction and operation)

The physical aircraft would have been similar, but airlines would have spent 10’s of millions more on training which makes a real difference to them and thus sales.

Boeing could have released the aircraft on exactly the same date while complying with the spirit of relevant relations though at higher costs, but the product would have been meaningfully worse from a sales perspective. Even today regulators have allowed Boeing and the airlines to treat the 737 MAX family as much more closely related to earlier 737’s than they actually are.
I can't remember the last time I actually used a Raspberry Pi. These days there are millions of cheaper, more powerful, "Raspberry Pi compatible" boards that are actually stocked.
I don't see any reason to even need one of these in 2024.
I wondered if anybody would have the courage to point this out, even on here.
> Playing with printed cards though is janky. It’s not how the game is meant to be played and contradicts the aesthetic experience.

My original comment was telling them specifically to find people to play with who aren’t like you.
Absolute positioning and manual html editing :)
I would equate this with a form of extreme slander, so your inference is wrong. They aren't a problem because they are real, they are a problem because they can be passed off as real, and the issue is in the reputational damage. I'm not saying there's a good solution but I don't think the problem should be dismissed so easily.
Perhaps you are right, but why should they do anything different when all the other countries are trying to do exactly the same? The US just unilaterally extended their border in the arctic.

https://alaskabeacon.com/2023/12/28/u-s-preparing-to-claim-n...
>What are the tech gadgets which folks need which haven't been made yet?

I'd rather ask what does exist today that Apple can also do but they don't yet? iPod, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, AirPods etc. All these things existed before, they weren't new things on the market.
I nominate anything run by Workday as the worst website in the world.

Anyone looking for work can probably empathize. All the other websites mentioned are distant runners up to that monstrosity.
This take is naive and bizarre. This is not about ‘making fun of celebrities,’ this is about whether we, as humans, have a right to our likeness and to be protected from it being used in ways we disapprove of.

This is an issue of privacy, not speech.

You do not have a right to put me in porn of your choosing. And I, as the victim, should be given maximal ability to annihilate those images, get cooperation from those who host them or make them findable, and to seek damages from anyone who makes them of me.
And they are usually addictive. Almost every person I know who smokes says they derive little pleasure they once did, but are addicted to nicotine and can’t stop. And as a non-smoker, it doesn’t look fun, but I trust it was at one point in their life - I guess.
Haha, I remember I sent him a hate email about this and he replied with something like "No, I haven't changed, YOU changed..." hahaha
Yeah I think I’ve seen that movie three or four times and I never made the connection between the name and smoking cigarettes. Figured it was all the oil they had, and engines they could run with it.
You could say the same about Western countries. They could've said no, put in restrictions to lower their profits and improve their conditions. They are richer, so they're more capable of doing all those same things than a poor developing country like China used to be.
Contextually of dimension even exists within a specific scientific theory. In relativity, the direction you call time might contain some component of the direction I call space. This implies notions like simultaneity are not well defined in a universal context.
I can just imagine the meeting of the people who created the 11 page how to use this website pdf. Awful.
Completely different beast. Raspberry pis are full blown computers. Arduinos are microcontrollers with a little supporting circuitry. Even a pi zero beats a standard arduino out of the water.
Only if you miss the open enrollment period, and even then, you still have Medicare regardless.

It seems reasonable not to let people over 65 wait until they have cancer before purchasing supplemental insurance.
Sure, Google does that with a one-time fee of $20. You don't need to gouge the people who add value to your platform repeatedly. Apple is already doing that with their 30% which is more than enough to pay for all of their expenses. Their app store is an absolute cash cow, they're fine.
After going through all the pain now I am stuck at the last step where I need to find 20 unique testers before they will allow me to go to production!
Yeah, that's true.

I was thinking more about the "at risk" populations that are very resilient to smoking interventions, which are what the seventh-grade propaganda campaigns that I sat through and are talked about in the article are trying to capture and influence. There are still 20-30M adult smokers in the US, and cigarette sales are pretty stable. Smoking is still considered "a problem" by smoking interventionists, but they're not doing a great job at finally stamping it out, because they need harsher methods than learning campaigns and well-intentioned propaganda.

Edit: I had removed "predictably, this doesn't work" from my original comment before you commented for the exact reason that you commented. To a degree, it does work, on people who typically follow rules, when it's combined with taxes and bans that make it a crime to smoke.
And yet, in my own personal music collection, I have a number of recordings that were produced before the '80s that have very boomy bass.

I think the non-bass-heavy nature of much of '80s music is more about fashion than anything else.
The US also has the Alien Tort Act from 1789 [0] (one of our oldest acts) that gives Federal Courts jurisdiction in violations of law abroad.

It de facto allow foreign nationals to sue parties with sufficient ties to the US (most black money ends up in the US in some way) in Federal Courts for human rights violations committed outside the United States

We also have the Magnitsky Act that allows US sanctions on foreign politicians found to have been corrupt (and it's named after the accountant who Jamison Firestone hired to manage his Russian business and who was assassinated for his investigations into corruption and malfeasance)

There are a slew of additional laws, acts, and precedents that allow the DoJ to step in (or allow foreign nationals to push the DoJ to step in) if bad practices arise.

Unsurprisingly, both China and Russia have been very vocally opposed to both acts, as it makes laundering ill gotten gains much harder.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_Tort_Statute
Society has spent literal decades being convinced to put their trust in everything computers do. We're now at the point that, in general, that trust is there and isn't misplaced.

However, now that computers can plausibly do certain tasks that they couldn't before via LLMs, society has to learn that this is an area of computing that can't be trusted. That might be easy for more advanced users who already don't trust what corporations are doing with technology[0], but for most people this is going to be a tall order.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/6wbgy2L.jpeg
Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to clean up your Gmail inbox locally
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My motivation for building this was to address the trouble of mass unsubscribing from unwanted emails and deleting bulk emails while ensuring privacy and control over the process. With this Chrome extension, emails are not sent to any external servers. All calls to the Gmail API happen locally on your device.

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You can apply this do many Governments, banks and insurance websites.

Last example I witnessed: my home insurance forced me to re-register in their website due to some (clearly half-assed) migration. The way to force that was giving you a login form with user/password but no clickable "Submit/Login" button! And then a mini (like 50px tall) banner at the top of the page telling you that you had to recreate the account.
In high school around 1976 we got a talk by the swim team coach, telling us the horrors of various drugs, going into his wide personal experience with them and why we shouldn't follow his example. He told us that if we ever had any questions he was there for us, and gave us all his personal phone number.

So me and some buddies got a hold of some peyote and were more than a little afraid of it. We probably would have tossed it but we had a better idea. We called Coach and asked his advice. He gave us detailed preparation instructions. We followed them and got a bit sick, but not altered. Maybe it wasn't even peyote.

I'm not sure that this approach was just more nuanced than "just say no" or closer to "just do it".