skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't care how much fun they have with other gypsies or Pakistani housewives. I am telling you directly that I don't want that life for me. That's all. So I learned German, because it is in accordance with my own ideals and how I would like to lead my own life.
I'm pretty sure wg0 was being facetious.
Hi -- strange that didn't work. Overall, the semantic layer is designed to provide very tight guardrails and not hallucinate. You can see the agent suggest changes to the semantic layer if you give the produced answer a thumbs down.

The idea is for the system to provide answers that have close to 100% accuracy, but make it a single click for developers to to improve the semantic layer.
FTA:

> The Fix: Use a full modern programming language, with its existing testing frameworks and tooling.

I was reading the article and thinking myself "a lot of this is fixed if the pipeline is just a Python script." And really, if I was to start building a new CI/CD tool today the "user facing" portion would be a Python library that contains helper functions for interfacing with with the larger CI/CD system. Not because I like Python (I'd rather Ruby) but because it is ubiquitous and completely sufficient for describing a CI/CD pipeline.

I'm firmly of the opinion that once we start implementing "the power of real code: loops, conditionals, runtime logic, standard libraries, and more" in YAML then YAML was the wrong choice. I absolutely despise Ansible for the same reason and wish I could still write Chef cookbooks.
This, indeed. Quick addition: Apple only stores locations for up to 7 days, so I would recommend running it once per day or so if you don't need live data. If you do, be careful not to request too often (sub-30 mins) if you value your account dearly.
Most humans are aligned with this goal out of pure self-interest. The vast majority, for instance, do not want rogue AI to take over or destroy humanity, because they are part of humanity.
I'm trying to interpret this post in the best light and, regrettably, I'm failing.

Can you clarify what you think the change to society will be if we expose more people online to CSAM and normalize it?
You don’t need a warrant to target US citizens unless you are the government.
In case others gave up, it took about 2.5 minutes to load my (midsize city) hometown from OpenStreetMap. So hang in there.
My point is, it's not us alone. We will have aligned AI helping us.

As for employment, automation makes people more productive. It doesn't reduce the number of earning opportunities that exist. Quite the opposite, actually. As the amount of production increases relative to the human population, per capita GDP and income increase as well.
you would need nanosecond accurate clocks in the satellites and groundstations
I mean, the technical expertise thing is solvable, it’s just no-one wants to solve it because SaaS is extremely lucrative."
AI talks to AI in Minecraft [video]
Not necessarily. The implementation is very often more defined than the specific. If the implementation is the spec, then it means that even the smallest change in behavior may break callers.
That is simply not true. We have accountability methods employed that are themselves AI-assisted, that help us gauge the alignment of various AIs.
The phase is, as you say, (the act of) running J2K - not a property (being headless) of the J2K implementation used.
I guess that would be what we have today.
Passengers have fairly low tolerance for forces on a daily traveling mode of transport. Your average commuter wants to be able to hold a hot coffee without scalding themselves.
Solicitor General Redacted the Word "Plenary" from a SCOTUS Brief with Marker
I find it more helpful to keep in mind the autoregressive nature rather than the prediction. 'Text prediction' brings to mind that it is guessing what word would follow another word, but it is doing so much more than that. 'Autoregressive' brings to mind that it is using its previously generated output to create new output every time it comes up with another token. In that case you immediately understand that it would have to make the determination of severity after it has generated the description of the issue.
Wait, why are they calling gay people Nazis? This story is very unclear. And I can't see how it relates to CSAM and the moderators who have to see it, which is a categorically different issue to homosexuality, so different as to be completely unconflatable.
Depends on your threats.

I’m more worried about financial scams than I am anything related to government. Password managers with random passwords are an excellent guard against that threat.

If I were worried about state actor threats, any keys or passwords would be memorized.
Nowadays YouTube Music has separate accounts for artists, the music is uploaded through the same mechanisms as to any other streaming platform (by big labels or digital distributors), it does not rely on users uploading videos with music.
> Perhaps if looking at pictures of disturbing things on the internet gives you PTSD than this isn’t the kind of job for you?

Perhaps these are jobs people are forced to do because the price of labour isn't as rich as other countries, trafficked and the likes.

> I know lots of people who can and do look at horrible pictures on the internet and have been doing so for 20+ years with no ill effects.

Looking at is different to moderating. I've sen my fair share of snuff from the first iraqi having their head cut off in 2005 all the way down to: ogrish/liveleak, goatse, tubgirl, 2girls1cup shock sites.

But when you are faced with imagery of gruesome material day-in day-out on 12-hour shifts if not longer non-stop, being paid very little, it would take a toll on anyone.

I've done it, lone-wolf sysop for a adult dating website for two years and the stuff I saw was moderate but still made me feel mentally disturbed. The normality wears off very quickly.

Could you work a five days week looking at extreme obscenity imagery for $2 an hour?
So why bother posting on HN if it was inevitable?
unless you're not using the jvm (which is owned by oracle, despite being opensource), you won't have any difference between kotlin and java from a legal perspective tbh.
If you think about it, the worse is just this kind of cargo cult to do the same thing that is used to be done with paper on a computer without really understanding why you do it.

Like, on paper, you are supposed to all "sign" the same paper document to show that this is the same document/content that is agreed by everyone. And so, when you DocuSign it, people do the same thing with everyone signing the same document even with a fake "handwritten" signature....

But if you really think about it, the signature already proves the content, so you would only have to have all the parties sign individually their own "copy" and then exchange the signed pdf signed by them.
If you own a copy signed by you, and a copy signed by another person, as we have the proof of the content of each one, you know that it is the same contract that was agreed...
Undergrad is definitely not a "glorified partying program", not even at (most) state schools.

Its basically a filter on who can stick with a program for an extended period of time. You know, skills you need if you going to do a 5-7 year PhD.

It certainly doesn't prepare you for research, unless you specifically seek out certain opportunities.

Although ironically, it turns out the 4.0 GPA types may not make the best researchers - at least in experimental science. Better GPA make better grad students up to a certain point - then after a certain point (around 3.5-3.6) there is a negative correlation (except medical school where that doesn't happen). I've heard this from multiple professors.
I think its great for recruiting. This signals to the world their investment in making Devs happier (one of top two reasons mentioned was "devs were happier with Kotlin")
I pay for my own insurance (which isn't even top tier) and had a colonoscopy (with polyps removed) and it costs me around $500. I've had this procedure done multiple times, since I have a family history and have never been charged more than once for the same procedure.

The free market would help these costs. If we got rid of the insurance companies and paid directly out of pocket, the costs of this procedure would go down, because it's so common.
Interesting. I came in contact with dynamic programming as a means to implement the Viterbi algorithm in an equalizer. This relates to calculating “cost” of routes through a trellis, where you accumulate partial results corresponding to alternative routes.
I'd say he's in between — he strongly recommends that most modules be "deep."

I agree that blindly making lots of tiny things is bad, but his criteria for how to chunk modules is flawed.
More specifically, it's Betadine's sore throat gargle formulation, which is povidone-iodine. I don't know if that's any different. It's presumably safe when properly diluted. I imagine it's suggested for its antibacterial effects. All of the actions I've listed are antimicrobial to a degree, which can leave you feeling sharp and focused if not healthy otherwise. That's my best guess at least.
Scala and Groovy were big pushes for Java 7/8. Their hypes died down after that release.
> without any option to appeal.

Why would that be?

Currently content is flagged and moderators decide whether to take it down. Using AI, it's easy conceive a process where some uploaded content is preflagged requiring an appeal (otherwise it's the same as before, a pair of human eyes automatically looking at uploaded material).

Uploaders trying to publish rule-breaking content would not bother with an appeal that would reject them anyway.
We had fewer distractions, though, even if we didn't have all the world's information so close at hand. I think I'd pick that struggle again over what today's students go through. But I'm glad to have lived in both eras.
`method names that can have spaces - and dashes - in them`

Eugh, that is a turnoff. Maybe I have programmer Stockholm’s, but at least with a single connected word, I can always double click to select the token. Maybe, I might have wanted dashes at some point, but spaces seem like a step way too far.
That last bit about his wife acting different in Paris interesting to me for a different reason. I’ve noticed that certain cities seem to affect my personality in different ways. For instance in NYC I feel I’m more assertive.
Var1=test echo $var1 will fail unless you are using an external echo command, which is unlikely

the bash builtin echo will fail to see var1 because this declaration at the command level only affects subshells

So yes.
I am surprised they did not use LLMs like Claude or maybe even train their own Llama version to do this. In my experience LLMs have been very reliable in translating code.
Monorails are only really beautiful in jurisdictions that don’t require emergency walkways along the length. If a place requires that, then the visual bulk is no different from a normal railway.
Another place that clearly was seeded as part of the effort to destroy her was TMZ. Look at this article that is focused on reactions from anonymous twitter accounts, which we now know were part of an astroturf campaign:

https://www.tmz.com/2024/08/16/blake-lively-rejects-friendsh...
btw I rewatched Black Robe and it does not really deal with this theme. Still a great movie though.
As long as we live in a society of humans, there will be humans controlling millions of dollars, billions, trillions, and then yes, -illion dollar conversations do happen, sometimes randomly even. That's one of the purposes of all the country clubs, yacht clubs, galas, etc.

Business people spend their entire day talking about their business, that's literally their job. Sometimes business opportunities come from random discussions. Sometimes they are more like arranged marriages. And just like with marriages, the story that is told to the public might not be the actual story.
And, indeed, this is why we should not expect the process to stop. Nobody is rallying behind the rights of child abusers and those who traffic in child abuse material. Arguably, nor should they. The slippery slope argument only applies if the slope is slippery.

This is analogous to the police's use of genealogy and DNA data to narrow searches for murderers, who they then collected evidence on by other means. There's is risk there, but (at least in the US) you aren't going to find a lot of supporters of the anonymity of serial killers and child abusers.

There are counter-arguments to be made. Germany is skittish about mass data collection and analysis because of their perception that it enabled the Nazi war machine to micro-target their victims. The US has no such cultural narrative.
It might have induced 'disgust', but no, two men kissing didn't give 1980s Christian moms actual PTSD.
But they are talking about gzipping base64 encoded data though.
I like the idea of aggregation but I prefer to open a dashboard once a week. I only want info in my face if I need to react to it. For example a downtime alert. I think "checking your sales" can become a procasination vector.
>no one is paying the actual cost of AI

what do you mean by this?
Looking Glass: 3D spatial memories, beyond the headset
That’s a completely different question though. Horses were banned from railroads too.

You tried to establish self driving cars as a threat to human driven cars using horses as an example.

Highways were invented for cars. Horses were never allowed there.

There’s no comparable proposal for self driving cars.
Minutes of a Meeting Held at Gear Ratio on Tuesday 13 June 78 [pdf]
To me, its my app, i made the input, I paid for the tokens generated so now they belong to me. I feel like its that simple like going to grocery store and paying for groceries then they belong to you. You chose them, you paid for them so its yours.
I regular look at years old emails to check for things like who I was insured with for something or what SKU to reorder for a part. I like to backup with Google takeout for a "no brain" backup.
I think partially it was because it was so cheap. In the late 90s I had an apartment a block from the lake in the Lakeview neighborhood in the Chicago north side and it cost $400 a month. Before that I lived out in the Chicago suburbs and my apartment was $800 a month.
The methods we have for aligning AIs are poor, and rely on the AI's being less cognitively-capable than people in certain critical skills, so the AIs you refer to as "aligned" won't keep up as the unaligned AIs start to exceed human capability in these critical skills (such as the skill of devising plans that can withstand determined opposition).

You can reply that AI researchers are smart and want to survive, so they are likely to invent alignment techniques that are better than the (deplorably inadequate) techniques that have been discussed and published so far, and I will reply that counting on their inventing these techniques in time is an unacceptable risk when the survival of humanity is at stake -- particularly as the outfit (namely the Machine Intelligence Research Institute) with the most years of experience in looking for an actually-adequate alignment technique has given up and declared that humanity's only chance is if frontier AI research is shut down because at the rate that AI capabilities are progressing, it is very unlikely that anyone is going to devise an adequate alignment technique in time.

It is fucked-up that frontier AI research has not been banned already.
I still see stuff in Spanish on my phone and have not yet figured out how to reset it. Talking about Google updates like calendar, weather
Seems to align to the study 5 years ago that said the same: On impact and volcanism across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aay5055
I don't mean to trivialize traumatic experiences but I think many modern people, especially the pampered members of the professional-managerial class, have become too disconnected from reality. Anyone who has hunted or butchered animals is well aware of the fragility of life. This doesn't damage our concept of normal life.
What could possibly be better than being sued by Amazon for some nitpicky naming Issue ?

That’s the kind of David vs. Goliath publicity one could only dream of …
What a Christmas cash scheme from the Great Depression tells us about money
Yeah, they were going to shut down but it doesn't cost them anything to keep it running and avoids a lot of liability on devices that can't do voLTE/voNR (for 911/government/legacy). I would imagine it's also a small revenue stream from international roamers on their network.

They had good spectrum planning so it fits in their guard bands in 1900mhz without fucking up LTE or NR deployments. That or since Neville retired (the CTO for most of their history) they stopped beating deadlines.
The solution to most social media problems in general is:

`select * from posts where author_id in @follow_ids order by date desc`

At least 90% of the ills of social media are caused by using algorithms to prioritize content and determine what you're shown. Before these were introduced, you just wouldn't see these types of things unless you chose to follow someone who chose to post it, and you didn't have people deliberately creating so much garbage trying to game "engagement".
A lot of people are very against "gadgetbahns" which are unorthodox means of transportation that are often quite expensive. But I love these unique vehicles! And it is very satisfying when one of them actually works out in an economical sense.
a lot of the really functional stuff has happened from 17 onwards (though probably present as preview features since 17 perhaps?)

e.g. sealed classes are effectively sum types for java; records are effectively product types, and switch expressions now can do pattern matching at the record field level, with added guards. streams give you a mechanism for tail recursion with tail-call optimisation, etc. there's a nice little section on dev.java "moving to functional" (or something like that).
That's not what i'm talking about though. The point is that for spam detection, LLMs are up against other probabilistic measures. No-one sane is detecting spam with if-then's. You simply do not have the luxury of rigid reliability.
There is a direct line between the KKK, American Nazi Party, and Republicans and "moderate" Democrats who are just over the past few years aging (dying) out of office. The ideology of the latter is going strong. But I appreciate the insult; it's the kind of hysterical mischaracterization that tends to come out when one is close to prescribing the proper corrective action to right-wing malfeasance.
Where do you see pattern matching in Kotlin?
https://archive.is/Y3roS
I am on Sequoia 15.3. If I can do anything to help, let me know.
> There at some stand was boxes of old used post cards and 100 year old family photos. Photos of people posed on a porch in their Sunday best. Or just mundanely standing around a car not everyone looking at the camera.

> I'm not sure what the value of it all is if it just gets lugged around to various flea markets and sold piecemeal for $1 each.

I purchase, scan, and resell those kinds of things. I'd love to have a centralized, public repository in which to store the data. As our tech gets better at extracting data from that material more and more interesting applications could be developed. Imagine being able to find 100+ year old photos of your ancestors via facial recognition and extracted metadata searches.

I wish I could come up with a non-profit business model that worked for preserving that kind of stuff. I would love to gather up the historical ephemera that's being lost, catalog it via manual and automated processes, and make it available to the public. (Yes, I am aware there are privacy concerns. It's a pie-in-the-sky idea. I just hate to see all of the previously captured and curated effort that went into ephemera cast to the winds.)
Generally these are only used in test methods, which is fine. I've never seen anyone use them outside that.
The point is that you don't know which one will stick. Even people who are desensitized will remember certain things, a person's facial expression or a certain sound or something like that, and you can't predict which one will stick with you.
Good lord, Alaska would have been so much cheaper
> Last week, we started building signwith.co/

And this week the product’s launched? That doesn’t inspire confidence in what’s supposed to be a legal matter, and trust seems to be the #1 thing you need in this business if the tech is so trivial. Putting signatures on PDFs is free, if I can’t trust your ability to resolve legal disputes I’ll use free instead of paying you whatever your idea of cheap is.
This is so cool! What a wonderful project. The art was great and the audio too!

Feedback: I played through the cat scene and initially thought it was okay to wait 7 minutes before it opened (that felt reasonable). I was confused until the explicit instruction to convince the robot to let me in.
this article might win an award
While I heartily agree with limiting complexity as a ground rule, the example given is not a great one.

First, it’s more about repetition/poor design than complexity. Second, creating a separate service class for applying a discount is adding unnecessary complexity. You’ll end up with a pile of DiscountService, TaxService, ShippingCostsService, and so on, and they will be sewn together like patchwork. It seems to be a common pattern in Java but surely there are better ways?
I have often wondered what would happen if social product orgs required all dev and product team members to temporarily rotate through moderation a couple times a year.
> $0.45/file capped at $50/dev/month

wow. this is really expensive... especially given core of this technology is open source and target customers can set it up themselves self-hosted
Ha! Great minds!
Thanks for sharing, I’ll take a look at your project.
I looked on github for similar repos before I (re)started on this but couldn’t find anything
Microfiche are amazing, that's what I remember most.
The route is surprisingly Z-shaped mostly due to geography, since the Ardennes lie on the direct line. Also the development of the rail network in either country took no account of the other country.
Thank you for the feedback!

Getting to speak any time is super interesting feedback, you're the first one to suggest that. It would be really cool if you could even interrupt them! Super mind-bending for me to think of how I'd handle that with prompting and scoring. Thank you for this!!

Yang Li is divisive. You are not alone :-) If it helps, she disappears for quite a while after the intro.
XState – State machines for state management in JavaScript
Thanks for sharing and making a fix.
an Enum of Arrays would be an enum where each enumerator was a product of each possible enumerator. there would be N^M enumerators where N is the length of the array and M is the number of enumerators. for example, if the original type was enum { red, green } then the enum of array[3] would have to be an enum containing the 8 enumerators:

{ red-red-red, red-red-green, red-green-red, red-green-green ... green-green-green }

so that's essentially completely useless. i think the exact same problem would occur with array-of-tagged-union to tagged-union-to-array "transformation".

you can't just say "hey: arrays and structs and unions are words and if you can do array of struct and struct of array and enum is also a similar word, then why not enum-of-array?".

while tfa talks about "batches" of items with the same tag, and the advantages therein, that isn't something captured by the example given, at least without extending the EoA to a variable sized array of EoA and something else to track the number of items in a "run" (as in RLE).

this is better thought of as a data-structure problem than a type theory.
Maybe the solution is that Facebook shouldn't exist. It solves both the problem of distribution and the problem of moderation.
If you use AI-generated code, what's your liability exposure?