skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is it doesn't have to be a "gun to their head". It just needs to be a serious of emails, calls and negotiation.

I'll be they are now paying Fastly a lot closer to $10k/month than $250/month
My predictions:

1) AI stuff’s overblown. It’ll be a good tool, becoming just another of many, and probably will improve over time, but we’ll find we’re nowhere near as close to creating silicon sentience as some worry we are.

2) The real problem is letting a few megacorps raid the commons—and hell, lots of stuff that’s not really in the commons at all, basically just all of culture—then gate “their” creations behind a paywall (oh, but that they expect us to respect, because that makes sense), and these AI safety folks don’t seem to give a shit about that.
Built something similar for podcasts

https://www.podsnacks.org/
Cracking the Code: Masculine and Feminine Psychology
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Funny, I just checked and my iCloud keychain is not enabled. I've had it off for years (always?), and definitely upgraded to Sonoma when it prompted me, and it didn't re-enable it for me.

My System Settings > Passwords says "Turn on iCloud Keychain" with two buttons "Not Now" and "Enable". (No idea what why there's a button "Not Now"?)

But I don't use Keychain at all, I use a third-party password manager. At some points I'm sure Keychain has asked me if I wanted to save various passwords in Keychain and I've always said no. And it hasn't bugged me about it in a long time.

I wonder why OP's systems are turning it on when mine didn't?
Why would you oppose a decade long project you could upset at any time which ends up requiring short term energy planning? I think you meant protests in France.
In about two years time, most AI providers will realize that the EU is not worth the effort and pack up and leave. The repercussions from the AI act has not begun yet.
At this point there's enough capital and talent being pumped into the industry that debating about whether and how we can reach AGI is moot.

Enough or not, LLMs have shown that you can train an extremely advanced fascimile of intelligence just by learning to predict data generated by intelligent beings(us), and with that we've got the possibly single biggest building block done.
Yeah you have to change how lobbying works. https://www.opensecrets.org/
It may be excluded by your available budget, but the Nikon Z8 is probably the best overall camera in the world right now.

It’s a high resolution stills shooter with 20 fps! There is no mechanical shutter so it is totally silent. Eye detect, animal detect, bird, etc… all work much like with the Sony cameras.

Unlike the competition, it has a very fast sensor readout (nearly global shutter) so there is no “jelly” effect when shooting video or fast action.

The video capabilities are just crazy: 8.3K RAW at 60 fps with 12-bit color! Nobody else can do anywhere near that. Even the 4K video formats can be configured to downsample from 8K for quality directly comparable to high-end cameras used for making movies.

Every other hybrid camera “line skips”, resulting in pixelated video with a lot of noise and other artefacts.
I mean, I wasn't being facetious; I am the person I described. I code Java (the 10% of the time that I have to touch it) using Sublime Text and a terminal. Never learned an IDE. I still seem to get things done faster than the IDE people I know.

Admittedly, it was slow going for a few days when I first was asked to help with the Java codebase. I had never written Java professionally — and I had even (inconveniently) missed out on ever having to write it for school.

But, given that I was already familiar with a number of other languages and their ecosystems (including newer languages influenced by Java!), I could mostly guess what stdlib ADTs and ecosystem libraries probably exist in Java, find them with quick searching when reaching for them, and read the online auto-generated JavaDoc documentation — where and when it existed — to figure out what classes and methods I would need to use to achieve the effect I was picturing.

Once I knew the types and their methods and used them a few times, I didn't need any reference for them any more. (Though I should point out that I wasn't entirely without help; these days, even non-IDE code editors like VSCode or Sublime Text, give you some level of project-level fuzzy symbol search, constant/method/identifier auto-complete, reference/definition chasing, etc. They're just limited in their knowledge to the set of symbols they can extract from the code of the project itself — with no access to the "unreferenced" symbols that an IDE would be loading from the runtime and any project-referenced libraries.)

In learning Java this way, my only actual problem really did come down to the slap-shod nature of JavaDoc documentation! After languages like Elixir, where the docs for literally every version of every package, plus every version of the runtime itself live together on one website (hexdocs.pm) — in a uniform format, and with community conventions for providing usage examples as runnable doc-tests — Java's third-party library docs living on random websites or not even web-published at all was both painful and somewhat mystifying to me at the time.

I do understand now in retrospect, that this is mostly down to Java library authors expecting you to use an IDE... but even then, I still find the lack of care many library authors put into maintaining standardized online documentation very odd. I like to look at the API of a library package as part of comparing/contrasting it to other library packages when deciding which one I should be using — which Java's documentation ecosystem often makes nearly impossible. (Even with a Java IDE, you'd have to create a project that has all of these libraries as dependencies — which might be impossible given dependency conflicts! — just to be able to do that.)

(But hey, it's still better than Python's documentation ecosystem.)
/dev/null seems like a nice destination
Excellent defense of biological weapons programs. Nothing like an assumed fascism "missile gap" to commit to chasing. What if other countries start experimenting with bringing back chattel slavery? How will we compete? Shouldn't we just assume that they have already, and we're behind?

Our scum is no less nefarious than their scum.

edit: the answer is to cooperate, rather than antagonize. We realized this in the past with nukes, but the least moral people in the world think that entering agreements between state-sized powers is just a delaying tactic until you can get an advantage. Let's figure out how to relieve those people of power as if all of our lives depended on it. If other countries being prosperous is always going to be considered a threat, we're always going to be in a fight that ends in mutual destruction.
Hmm or just make it produce symbolic links by default, and then if you want, allow you to "commit" changes, which would actually move these files. Any downsides to this?

Could also have integrity checks that total number of files and their attributes didn't change after the commit

Cool project OP
i recently discovered that if i heat up milk in a waterbath (a pot of milk inside a pot of water) it also prevents boiling over. most likely because it doesn't actually bring the milk to a boil, but keeps it a few degrees below the boiling point.

in most cases i just want to have hot milk, and i don't need the milk to have actually reached the boiling point.

are there any cases where that is not enough? (assuming already pasteurized store bought milk)
I recently had my Apple Watch (Series 9, few months old) touch screen refuse to respond to touch input, and instead issue seemingly random pokes and drags until it eventually worked its way toward calling 911. After assuring the operator that it was just my nearly-new Apple Watch freaking out, I was able to dig up an Apple Support article that outlined how to hard reset it with the physical buttons, which still worked.

Apple's quality control has been getting worse every year. This is something we say every year; that's because its true every year. They started the highest coming out of the 2000s, plenty big laurels to rest on. But their (and Microsoft's) software has gotten so bad nowadays that linux desktops are starting to look stable (and don't interpret that as an endorsement of the improvements in stability of the linux desktop experience, not even close, year of the linux desktop might happen but only because everything is so shit that you might as well at least use the shit that isn't taking screenshots of your desktop or resurfacing photos you deleted five years ago).
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Then a powershell one liner would do it.
I'd look into industry trade groups and self-regulatory organizations. A few U.S. examples that come to mind are FINRA (broker-dealers), bar associations (lawyers), AMA (doctors), AICPA (accountants), etc.
link to the limiting arguments you’re referring to?
I don't agree that a missing "framework" is the whole of the problem. It just isn't that simple.

Sure, people need to use resiliency skills to cope with the stresses of life. Often times, this is an important part of what therapy for depressed people is trying to achieve.

But this isn't to say that there isn't a constellation of causes in recent decades and years that cause the world to be particularly stressful, especially for young people. It also isn't to say that we should dismiss what is occurring in the world today as "the same old stuff" without acknowledging that it may actually have unique properties worth understanding. Off the top of my head: world population is at an all-time high, global warming is becoming increasingly understood, it is increasingly acknowledged that we can no longer simply extract unlimited resources from the earth to solve all problems, the Internet has changed the way the world works that seems to speed everything up: communication, changes within social groups, larger societal shifts, economic change, etc.
I agree with this.

On (2), I would like to see companies have no rights over models trained on public data. It's very arguable they should be required to release model weights.
Leetspeak. As a kid, you should have known leetspeak.
That line of thinking ultimately leads to the conclusion that trust is impossible. If you cannot trust the Norwegian police to produce accurate information, then you must trust the media. If you can't trust the media, then you have to trust strangers on the Internet. If you can't trust strangers on the Internet, you have to trust your friends and family. But what if they're informed by the corrupt police, media, or Internet commenters? Can you even trust yourself?

Apply this logic elsewhere, and you cannot trust social institutions; for example, your local human services department when they come to warn you about your domicile being unfit for human habitation. Next, you can't trust the medical profession after you've been involuntarily committed to a mental institution after threatening the local schoolchildren (although we all know you were only warning them about the coming danger). You can't trust the state medical authority to regulate the medication that is used to treat paranoid schizophrenia. Now you're stuck in a padded room, unable to move your arms to scratch that incessant itch on your nose, pleading with your caretakers to just listen to reason, open their eyes to the truth.

All you wanted to do was alert the world to the alarming fact that the United States obviously staged evidence that someone intentionally cut an undersea communications cable to Svalbard, Norway on the 7th of January, 2022.
Which in those days was absolutely staggering. But I think they were looking for similar patterns in historical data to current data, not trying to fit current data into a set of predefined patterns or algos from historical data.
No reason to think their nuclear arsenal is in any better shape than the rest of their armaments. (Or are they going to buy nukes from the Norks, too?)
If war happens in few years, I really wonder how markets would react to this? Algos might go crazy. It would probably create chip supply chain problems bigger than covid.
See my other comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40485970

I upgraded from a D800 to a Z8 and it blew my mind.
Indeed. A CRT and noise making floppy disks are higher on my point of view for amiga fidelity than bettzr than cycle perfect emulation.
Good luck getting any other countries to give up their nukes, with that attitude.
I don't think that's the root problem. I think C programmers don't believe C is a problem. New software is started every day on C. There's no excuse for that and no financial incentive to do it.

If the engineers actually admitted that C is not a safe languages for shipping software, then we could at the very least freeze the existing code and write everything _new_ in a same language. But we don't. Engineers still go starting brand new greenfield projects in C which is just insane.
I've heard people talk about Rewind as being the equivalent for macOS:

https://www.rewind.ai/
C99 did that.

void f(int len, char s[len]);
void g(float m[static 16]);

The first one is for variable-length arrays, the second one for fixed-length. TCC even implements array bounds-checking.

But because a lot of people were stuck using C89 for several decades (due to old compilers), and the syntax isn't that great, nobody even knows they exist.

Personally, I think Dennis Ritchie's[a] proposed syntax[b] was much better:

void f(char s[?]);

[a] The creator of C.

[b] https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/vararray.html
Thank you for the kind words! Even though I'm a Jetbrains all products pack user myself, totally agree with you that it's still useful to have API references alongside your main editor/IDE. If there's enough interest I'd love to build a VSCode plugin for Docland.
That was my first thought, too. Nice, tiny language with generators? Neat!
So in countries were the government doesn't attempt to protect you you'll keep not being protected
Seriously, you have to be so detached from reality to think iCloud Keychain sync is an issue at all, you just have to believe Apple put a backdoor their own TPM chip so they could decrypt your Keychain with a software update without human interaction.

If you’re this distrustful of Apple, your logic should say to not use local Keychain at all. You either trust Apple’s hardware backed E2EE or you don’t trust anything from Apple at all, there’s no picking and choosing when it comes to this sort of thing.

I bet privacy researchers at Apple are facepalming reading these threads thinking people can run their own crypto better than they can.
Taking notes, taking notes, taking notes. Notepad as an external memory is just an amazing game changer for this. Doesn't even need to be deep, just a running tally of what you're thinking to get it to somewhere that you can reference it instead of running it on a loop in your short term memory. Makes fading in and out of it so much easier. I treat it like a conversation with myself half the time and the other half the time like I'm writing a reference book for someone else. Its worked well for fresh code, code to be, and analyzing existing code made by someone else. Cannot recommend it enough.
> Or that they can “come clean” by putting fine print under prices explaining why they are ending prices in 9. Which would create a major distraction messing with any sale.

Why would they do that? That might lessen their sales if people knew of the effect, as a nocebo.
VBA macro in the original excel file.
I don't understand this. Why does it matter if you're calling an unknown function? Why would an unknown function be unable to get the length? All you would need to do is to change the behavior of SIZEOF to make it aware of dynamically allocated arrays.
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They knew about depression in the 17th century but called it by different names such as "melancholia". And they thought it was caused by an imbalance in the humours rather than something in the brain.
> Rule: whenever someone prefaces a question with “genuine question” it’s actually a troll

That’s a very cynical take.
And 13f's only show their long positions on that day, delayed by up to 45 days. And from my understanding intraday was primarily what medallion did, 1 day to 2 weeks. No high frequency, no long term.
> resurfacing photos you deleted five years ago

Yikes. That seems so wrong.I havent had this happen. For me the final straw was Windows Defender sending files to be analyzed, without letting you audit which files have been sent over.
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Yeah IMO a good outcome would be that training on data you don’t own or license should require release of the model. Is allowed, doesn’t get you something you exclusively own.

Bonus points if existing rights assignments aren’t enough to count as a grant of permission for AI training.
When was the last time you worked in a public school then?
Yeah, sure, lets take a technology where the main challenge is obstructionism by NIMBYs who bought in to too much FUD, and judge it by a state notorious for enabling NIMBYism.
Lessons from Formally Verified Deployed Software Systems
Artificial intelligence and the skill premium
This article is 15 years old now, and nothing has changed:

https://digitalmars.com/articles/C-biggest-mistake.html

(and of course the problem wasn't new 15 years ago either.)

It wasn't fixed then. It won't be fixed now.

C is valued for not changing. C is valued for backwards compatibility with the most obscure platforms with unmaintained compilers.

The C userbase is self-selected to like C exactly the way it is.
From what I understood, it's a protocol for exposing a tree of files for synchronization and concurrent editing, similar to WebDAV.
Am I right in thinking this means they are using RAG to inject this rather than directly training the model on the source?
> - Not allowing the new team to talk to the KSP 1 developers

Why... would anyone do that? <cynic>In case they ask how much monies the previous crew got out in the end?</cynic>
Related:

CompCert – Formally-verified C compiler - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27648735 - June 2021 (123 comments)

CompCert C a formally verified optimizing compiler for a large subset of C99 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27644356 - June 2021 (1 comment)

CompCert – A formally verified C compiler - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18968125 - Jan 2019 (57 comments)

Closing the Gap – The Formally Verified Optimizing Compiler CompCert [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13046449 - Nov 2016 (10 comments)

CompCert: A formally verified optimizing C compiler - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9130934 - March 2015 (62 comments)

CompCert - Compilers you can formally trust - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2619650 - June 2011 (28 comments)
It would be....surprising if this was done client side and not serverside.
> But does every agent have to be completely separate or could this kind of process land somewhere in sub-surface level processing within a single model?

Some agents won't be LLMs.

Wolfram Alpha (now with ChatGPT) is close to this type of system.
After everything I've seen in the time since Altman's ouster then reinstatement at OpenAI, I would definitely admit I was wrong in my original assessment of the board's actions. While I still think how they went about it was both naive and very poorly executed, everything I've read online (both from the board members but, more importantly, from others in-the-know at OpenAI) makes me believe their action was warranted, especially given the stated function of the OpenAI board.

I've never met Sam Altman, but the last "straw" for me was the recent Scarlett Johansson brouhaha. While I think it's pretty clear they wanted their AI system to evoke Johansson's persona in the movie, OpenAI would have at least had some level of plausible deniability if it weren't for Altman's 3-letter "her" tweet. It's like he just couldn't help himself - it seemed the embodiment of these "tech boy-princes" who, despite all their often lauded "genius", just seem incapable of shutting TFU.

I honestly don't mean to solely dump on Altman (see also Musk, Andreessen, etc.), it's just that he's obviously a focus of this article. But everything I've heard about nearly every other tech billionaire makes me think I absolutely do not want them independently in charge of humanity's future with AI.
Congress can delegate decisions to expert bodies, and often does. But Congress is also quite comfortable simply legislating a solution, which may be ill-informed or with ulterior intent.

Speaking of planes, Congress took a direct role in the design specifications of the F-35 to the detriment of that program. Notably, they required a common airframe that could support VTOL, despite objections from the Army, Navy, and Air Force (the USMC wanted it and lobbied for it). This greatly added to the complexity and cost of the program.
I used to use a lot of random services while at work, and then I found Jitsi (browser based) and honestly I’m astounded it hasn’t taken over because of its simplicity or ability to just handle anything thrown at it.
This still doesn't contain the word "gambling". Instead, it says that they can terminate your account at any moment, for any reason, no matter what your business type is, which is the opposite of "trust".
Pedantic note: This appears to be a text file that was improperly converted to HTML. The body contains text in angle brackets that is not visible when viewing in a web browser, mainly the <ASP> mark for the Association of Shareware Professionals. You can properly see the original text by viewing the page source.
Maybe the next feature they can work on is allowing multiple people to speak simultaneously
> then gate “their” creations behind a paywall (oh, but that they expect us to respect, because that makes sense), and these AI safety folks don’t seem to give a shit about that.

I downvoted your comment for this statement, given that's a specific worry discussed at length in this article.
"daddy" is a kinship term, or familial title. It's a noun, and a mode of address, but it isn't a name, technically or otherwise. There are a few posts in this very thread about children realizing that "daddy" isn't just their father, but anyone's.

Much like when you refer to a doctor as "doc", or a professor as "professor".

To prove the point, there are people who have more than one person in their lives whom they call "Dad" or whatever variation. Raised by a gay couple, or close enough to a stepfather to think of him in those terms. Most of us only have one "Dad", but this isn't universal, and we all know that everyone has one, whether they refer to him that way, or even know him at all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-trawling_device

https://news.mongabay.com/2023/07/mud-muck-and-death-cambodi...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8823369/Gree...

https://www.huckmag.com/article/paolo-fanciulli-the-italian-...
As if they'd ever vote for things that would annoy the handful of corporations providing the datacenters they live in. Do you really want to hand that much power to Amazon (or Microsoft, or Google)?