skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> on the "it's just fancy autocomplete" and "it doesn't understand what it's saying, bro" rhetoric.

No matter what, there will always be a group of people saying that. The power and drive of the brain to convince itself that it is weaved of magical energy on a divine substrate shouldn't be underestimated. Especially when media plays so hard into that idea (the robots that lose the war because they cannot overcome love, etc.) because brains really love being told they are right.

I am almost certain that the first conscious silicon (or whatever material) will be subjected to immense suffering until a new generation that can accept the human brains banality can move things forward.
> You need a permit to buy anything other than a hunting rifle. You can't buy a gun if you have been convicted of a crime, have an alcohol or drug addiction or express a dangerous attitude.

...as opposed to the US? Do you think you can just buy a machine gun over the counter without any checks in the states?
I had a Newton. It had good ideas, but the hardware was not there. Also the price was way too high for what it offered.
They cannot comprehend an economy that is not in labor surplus, nor any remedies whose effect is not to create a labor surplus. Their political play is obvious: the economy is "overheating".
Scientists grow diamonds from scratch in 15 minutes
> When people go to sites like YouTube and Spotify, it's very difficult to find an artists best work, these sites do everything to steer listeners towards big industry music, rather than helping independents to grow.

I dunno, personally, I was introduced to some of my favorite underground artists purely through Youtube recommendations. People like Sewerslvt, The Caretaker, Ecco2k, Astrophysics, Kero Kero Bonito, and some dark ambient projects like TOWERS/TOWERS. Maybe now that AI’s out there this won’t be possible anymore but for the time being at least, I feel like music discovery on YT is pretty good.
> The battery swelling happened after the other issues (like not sitting flat on the desk).

I had 2 x86 MacBooks that had issues with batteries swelling. Not sitting flat on the desk is simply the first symptom of the problem. Once it swells up a bit more the keyboard starts to show problems.

I think the main issue with those machines was thermal management. That Intel chip got too hot and that affected the battery as well. I used mine quite intensively and they regularly ran hot even with the fans running full speed.
You have enough life experience to know the difference. Do teens? Are you confident in that? Are you a child psychologist? Do you have any? How many papers did you publish?
Do you have links yourself for those claims?
It's wild to me that people argue automated driving is great based on individual personal experience.

If I were to argue about manual driving from my personal driving, I'd be way off. I haven't had an accident in decades. Not even any close calls. If I extrapolating my accident rate out to the world, I would assume that human-driven cars are a perfectly safe technology.

In the real world, all accidents are a long-tail phenomenon. They happen pretty rarely, often under conditions that are unusual or unexpected. So somebody saying "in these last few months I hardly ever have to intervene anymore to not die", a standard that would cause a driving instructor to fail a teen driver, not only doesn't give me confidence that this technology is a-ok for road use, but suggests to me they haven't really thought about what is required for safety at global scale.
The sad part is the best way to deal with it is pretend it never happened.

Feel so defeatist but that'd the reality of being a man.
Give https://spline.com/ a try.

Wonderful tool for 3d visual design, and a good entry point into the concepts of the bigger programs like Blender IMO
I just read the article on Brave (Chromium) on Android.
> I can’t ever see a communist system coming up with an iPhone.

Soviets invented a lot of things, in terms of aviation, computers, celestial navigation in intercontinental missiles. There was also an article, which I read recently but failed to find it now, about how they revolutionized mechanical watches, and came out with their own quartz movements, without copying anyone.

Oh lastly, they did the "iPhone of sea going vehicles", the erkanoplan, and VLIW computing which led us to Itanium at some point [0].

[0]: https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-itanic-saga
Humanoid Robots That Make Robo-Butlers Feel Real
In Firefox you can go to about:profiles to easily open new windows using other profiles. I bookmark that page with a keyword for quick access. (Also see about:about for a list of other handy 'about' pages)

A more classic-style profile switcher is available via the '-P' (or '-ProfileManager') command-line switch. If FF is in your $PATH you can run:

firefox -P

The '-P' switch can also take an argument of a profile name to open it directly.

But yes, it would be nice if at least one of these options were exposed in the UI so it was more discoverable by users.
I think this is right. We routinely check the integrity of the packages and installers that we download using cryptographic hashing. OpenBSD even has a dedicated tool for this purpose.[1] It would make sense to take the same approach with curled shell scripts.

[1] http://www.openbsd.cl/papers/bsdcan-signify.html
Generally respect your commentary Dylan604

But I wouldn’t consider this pedantry. It’s an observation that humans tend to look at the world through their own personal lens. Historically societies have built languages, maps, science and cultures that places themselves at the center.

I’ve observed that bigotry against the people who have settled the American Midwest is in vogue right now but, even so, I’ve found it rare to see such a violent and aggressive display of bigotry as GP over something as mundane as using the term “the fall” in an article.
Genuinely curious about this - in my naive and uneducated understanding it seems regular use of anything that activates reward circuity as effectively as marijuana seems like an overall "bad thing" longterm?

Anecdotally, I've noticed with friends and acquaintances that this leads to what basically comes down to a de-motivating effect, i.e. the "reward" via built-in mechanisms (like productivity, exercise, etc) gets attenuated over time as marijuana activates similar reward mechanisms very quickly and reliably via something as simple as inhaling. Basically "why bother going for a run, smoking makes me feel even better and I don't have to do anything".

I don't want to seem critical or anything of the sort, I've just seen it myself in multiple cases and it "makes sense" to me.

Your anecdote seems to counter this. Do you find the effectiveness of this strategy reduces over time?

That said it's obvious daily drinking has similar reward system impact with significantly greater overall health consequences.
Not sure I follow, mind elaborating a bit?
I don't think the author completely understands RAG, and this article is a bit disconnected and unclear to me. Google already provides a "flexible natural language query interface".

I think ironically it would be fairly trivial to build what he wants _using_ RAG.

1. Accept a natural language query, like ChatGPT et al already do

2. Ask an LLM to rephrase it in N different ways, optimized for Google searches

3. Scrape the top M pages for each of the output of 2 in parallel. You now have dozens of search results

4. Clean and vectorize all of these

5. Use either vector similarity or an LLM to return the best matching snippets for the original query from 1, constrained to stuff contained in 4.

It would take a little longer than a ChatGPT or Google response, but I can see the appeal too.
The same kind which pushes the airplane? Heck you can just use two airplanes since we are talking about a situation where costs are not a problem. Everything else is just cost optimisation.
I think the main reason people get nervous about "the public" roaming their land is the liability and the personal injury lawsuit industry in the USA. If I let someone cross my land and he trips on a tree root and breaks his leg, now I'm possibly facing a lawsuit.

Also, what are they allowed to do? Simply crossing the land is one thing. Around here many private landowners are dealing with homeless encampments that are not only a liability but a sanitary issue, as they tend to be full of litter, needles, food waste, and human waste and end up attracting vermin.
This is the big thing I’m worried about with the AI revolution. If AI is being baked into your OS, where does usable training data end and your sensitive data start? Recall is pinkie promising that it won’t record sensitive data but at the same time it’s also saying “if your application doesn’t protect it well we mayyy see it and record it, whoops”. I can bet you 120% Recall is just a way for Microsoft to collect training data on millions of users every day. It is a privacy nightmare. But I don’t think the average consumer will care. Privacy died a long time ago.
From my experience, almost no protocols have in-band signaling. No protocol I’ve ever built has in-band signaling because it’s nuts.

You always know what the next byte means because either you did a prefixed length, your protocol has stringent escaping rules, or you chose an obvious and consistent terminator like null.
I love the inclusion of DNS here, as that was a major pain point on version 5. Currently on MacOS you can only use a single network filter, which Little Snitch is, so you couldn't use an encrypted DNS service easily in addition to Little Snitch. This made it an instant purchase for me (and it works).
All I’m worried about marie is my brain. Given that you don’t have to smoke it.
So... just to summarize the state of things:

The guy running the leading AI company was previously fired by the board because they didn't think he was showing proper restraint with regard to A LOT of areas. That decision was quickly overturned. And now we have OpenAI showing that they have no qualms about deep-faking a voice actor if they don't get the proper rights.

And we're supposed to believe that OpenAI has the proper protections in place to safely bring into fruition the AI of tomorrow?
ChatGPT kinda down for anyone else?
Seems like they migrated from chat.openai.com to chatgpt.com, but for me it either doesn't load at all, or I'm able to chat without access to my account or previous chats.

Am I alone? :D
Well, the "security though obscurity" principle has been used for many years now to cover alleged extra protections granted by the mere fact of keeping a software source code closed and secret. As in: you will not find that RCE in the software if you don't have access to the source code. And this statement from Dell and the FreeBSD foundation (yeah, it's not just Dell) clearly follows that line of thought.
If you post "locked out of my account on *" almost anywhere on social media, a bunch of bots flood you with advice on who to contact to be reinstated.

From my perspective, lockouts seem to be an unchecked extortion ring run by social media employees and/or on platforms to make money... Social Media in itself has always been somewhat of a grift, and it's created all kinds of opportunities for scammers to be faceless and to coordinate activities that mislead people... It's shameful, but all part of the building story that will be epic to read when it all collapses.

Social media pushed NFTs, Crypto, Influencer Culture, and all kinds of other "Fake It Till You Make It" schemes, we can really do without it and go back to independent web communities, it will be painful for a little while of course, but far better than just getting 30 views on a post promoting your business because you didn't pay them money for more views... Social Media has always kind of been extortion in a way, they want your time and money for returning very little entertainment/business value.
I'll even acknowledge his dad was worse than he is, and my great-grandfather worse still. But all those generations until my brother died defending the belief that they were fine and everyone else was the problem.

I think change is possible for anyone, but they have to want it (and the more change that's needed, the bigger the desire has to be). And I've realized there isn't anything I can do to make my dad want to change.
That $10K a year figure never made any sense. Let's say it was true -- you could hire out your Tesla for 10 hours per day while you weren't using it. Sure it's making you $10K/year, but you're putting 100,000 miles per year on your car and it wears out after 3 years rather than after 20 years. Having a way to monetize depreciation may be useful in some cases, but it certainly isn't making you money.

I believe that million-mile electric cars are quite possible, but 2021 Tesla's certainly weren't that.
> libc++ string is smaller

modern 64bit cpus has no less than 32bytes cacheline
Ah well, "Investigating - We're experiencing an elevated level of errors affecting ChatGPT and are currently looking into the issue." [0]

[0] https://status.openai.com/
> Has it changed?

a-yup, sure has. I've seen it.

Wages are stagnant and meth is everywhere. The smart ones left to chase jobs and the remainder who aren't hitting the pipe regularly are deep into MLMs. Everyone -- like, everyone -- drives trucks, and will probably never be able to retire because of it.[1]

The remainder are getting older, more religious, more conservative, and more reactionary, and that translates to terrible schools and poorly maintained roads. The educated folks coming back from college look at that and, even if they can get jobs in town, aren't keen to live there.

[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/americans-love-affair-with...
"The design is open source and can be used freely for non commercial purposes."

The site's text matches the license, IMO. I'm not sure why the other guy said otherwise.
They've already done wetwork in Canada, with no consequences. We need to come down on this kind of thing like a ton of bricks, or the wetwork will be next; and if you have nation-states doing wetwork on your territory, you have nothing left.
>> Interesting to know that the solvespace folks wanted to try integrating manifold.

It was just me. It might fix our remaining issues with meshes.

>> Feel free to open an issue or discussion if needed

I have an open issue for Solvespace here:
https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace/issues/1371

It's a low priority though.
I'm replying to the person who shared link on BBC website about tax raids on BBC office by Indian authorities
> I'm very excited to get one of these and install Linux on it.

If there ever was a time for Linux to really compete with Windows, that time would be now when Windows will break software compatibility to a large degree.

That really was Windows' big killer feature.
Are you willing to die on this hill? I remember an HN post a while ago where both Microsoft and Google said something like 65% of the bugs in C code were related to memory (un)safety.
UK is literally still a monarchy mostly, a limited one, but still a kingdom, no surprise there. No one says it was "stolen from common people", because they have always owned it.

UK people still pay land tax to baron families from ancient times in many places, London included. AFAIR the whole House of Lords is created to protect their rights.

You may say it's unfair, but I'm not sure it's productive. Good thing nowadays you can emigrate relatively easily.
Because a human can understand from first principles, while current AIs are lazy and don't unless pressed. See for example, suggesting creating bleach smoothies, etc.
Lots of things are possible, but the person I replied to seems to think that driving, flying, meat, and electricity are the problem. If you could magically convince every person in every country to eliminate those, you'd get:

Road Transport: 11.9%
Aviation: 1.9%
Livestock: 5.8%
Building Electrical: 17.5%

These numbers are taken from the chart I linked above, and that's aggressively rounding up in favor of their argument. I'm including things like trucks delivering food, all flights for any purpose, chicken and pork in addition to beef, and commercial buildings in addition to residential. Add it all up and it only comes to 37.1% of the total. In other words, the most charitable interpretation of their statements and it hits 1/3 of the problem.

And again, that's assuming you got every person in every country to conform. It's absurd to believe this will happen, and I don't hear anyone knowledgeable saying that eliminating 1/3 of the problem is sufficient.
I think there is a fairly straightforward answer to this question. It is always acceptable to evade law enforcement for anything related to laws restricting human rights as outlined in either the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, or the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
That is an issue. There is a number of projects that the Wikimedia Foundation want to do or be involved in, because they align with the mission. These all costs money, but are frequently of little interest to anyone not involved directly. There is absolutely no way to fund these, which leads to the foundation pushing for donations via Wikipedia, because that's the only thing enough people actually care about.

For the most part Wikimedia could kill off everything but English, Germany, French, Russian and a handful of other wikis and most people would be just as happy.

Wikimedia absolutely suck at telling people why they need the money. Technically the budget is completely transparent, it's just communicated extremely poorly.
Another jarvis – this one might be useful for you
sup people, rolling out my overworked yet somehow unoptimized pet project – Jarvis.

It basically connects to telegram so that via voice, image or text you are be able to quickly add up to your notion, send emails or create calendar events.

Ive been using it for idea logging, reading list agreggation (w/ automatic clustering) and few more things.

Im mostly looking for feedback, in any direction (marketing, price, OS, strategy)

You are able to run it via BYOK so virtually free (i just charge for hosting and reinvesting in credits). Also currenty it is using GPT4o + Llama 3 in a plan and resolve fashion.

lmk
I don't disagree on the overall principle of avoiding the establishment of de-facto extraterritoriality, but it should be said that environmental pollution is not a localized problem. The Earth is a connected system, and what happens in India or China will eventually affect Europe and America (in the form of polluted air/water making its way here, or climate change provoked by emissions), and viceversa.

Environmental issues are inevitably global, and countries should talk about them and find global agreements that are fair and enforced by everyone. We can't just hide behind "my backyard, my rules".
Rash (https://rash-lang.org/) and Oil (https://www.oilshell.org/release/latest/doc/ysh-tour.html) come to mind. Xonsh, too, as mentioned. Powershell too.

Most high-level languages have packages that implement DSLs for running and connecting subprocesses. Python has both `subprocess` in stdlib and things like plumbum (https://plumbum.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html) or fabric as 3rd party packages. Scala has a little DSL ("echo 1" #| "cat" !) for this in stdlib. How lightweight the syntax is depends on how DSL-friendly the language is, so things like Ruby or Raku might be your best bets.
I'm interested to read more about the "personal property liability" thing in the US. I have never heard anyone explain why your example would expose you to liability. There are other things I can imagine, like unfenced swimming pools or open sinkholes that you knew about, but tree roots and general features of the land? Maybe there's a long history of case law about this.
https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/pastweek
It's about modal editing and the editing commands/paradigm inherent in that.
I've noticed the same anti-EV bias in articles, especially from "eco-focus" news sources that publish articles that are mainly favorable to fossil fuel companies.

I believe this pushback is happening because EVs are stripping revenue from significant parts of the automotive world, primarily dealer repair shops and the fuel industry.
"Transformers Represent Belief State Geometry in their Residual Stream":

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gTZ2SxesbHckJ3CkF/transforme...

Basically finding that transformers don't just store a world-model as in "what does the world that produce the observed inputs look like?", they store a "Mixed-State Presentation", basically a weighted set of possible worlds that produce the observed inputs.
Complicatred: The hatred we feel for complication.
For way less than that you can get a 16gb/8vCPU ARM in Hetzner [1], and since it's for a analytics service, it doesn't matter it's not hosted close to your users.

[1]: https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/
try the new alternatives

[0] https://github.com/raphamorim/rio

[1] https://github.com/contour-terminal/contour
The biggest grifts here are the VC’s and megacorps looking to make billions without a damn to the consequences.

Yann, unlike Geoff Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, is a consequence of

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair

The greatest prank these $-focused people ever pulled on you is that the $ agnostic scientists and researchers who never pursued fortunes are the grifters…

FFS Kokotajlo was giving up 85% of his wealth just for the potential to criticize OpenAI and Scott Alexander just gives his blog proceeds away to research https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/acx-grants-results
I had major slow down in wexterm on my MBA. I didn't really look into it because the terminal is something I want to install and forget about, so the solution may be trivial. But it was so laggy as to be unusable.
Only the ancient GPLv2 bash is actually ubiquitous and you might as well just target POSIX's sh if that's the argument.
Ya, I understand that. That’s why I said 2x S3
Simple idea cuts cargo ship emissions by 17.3% in first trials
ASCII: American Standard Code for Information Infiltration
Despite the quirky title, quite the piece of work on ASCII and codes ...
DNSBomb
I think your impression has merit and labeling people as 'sick' or 'broken' or any of the diagnoses in psychology literature, that imply just about the same, can keep people stuck identifying with their afflictions. And that there's some great value in religion that we've not found a good replacement for.

I also believe that one can go without facing deeply traumatic events for an entire life and seem to many on the outside to be doing much better than one who goes the difficult path of deconstructing oneself and their family history.

And I think our unhappiness and that of our children is well explained by our late-stage-capitalist, individualistic cultures and the rise of technology that profits from (ill-)serving our social needs.

'It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.' - Jiddu Krishnamurti
It works well here in Sweden: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam
The list of "Reasons for Estrangement" in that first article is sorely lacking in anything that acknowledges the parent might be at fault.