skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Similarly the trolley problem isn’t really about real humans in that situation, or else the correct answer would always be “do nothing”.

The correct answer in case of it being about real people, of course, is to switch immediately after the front bogey makes it through. This way, the trolley will derail and make a sharp turn before it runs over anyone, and stop.

The passengers will get shaken, but I don’t remember fatalities being reported when such things happened for real with real trams.
Can't hug children with nuclear arms level of cringe...
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>and wonder how an intelligent person can still think this, can be so absolute about it.

I wonder how people write things like this and don't realize they sound as sanctimonious as exactly whatever they are criticizing. Or, if I was to put it in your words: "how could someone intelligent post like this?"
> If you don't want "slop" then write the prompt to not generate it

It's still almost-always obviously AI generated. If not in style in the way the logic flows. AI has a place in the creative process. And it's perfect for filling content. (A lot of communications, including by important people, is content filling.) But if you're writing to persuade or explain, an AI finish undercuts the "writer's" bona fides. (Unless they're making a point about AI.)
customizability lies in its plugin and theme system, not in modifying the core source code. The goal is to give users complete control over their experience without needing to edit the underlying codebase. You can create plugins to extend functionality, design themes to change its look and feel, and tweak everything to fit your workflow, yet i do understand how important for apps to be open source, therefore i wont guarantee that happening any time soon
> When others show me AI-generated content it's not enraging because I know to skim it.

There is a canyon of difference between not liking something and being enraged by it. You’re responding to an argument which wasn’t made.
This might be missing the point, but have you visited the obvious places like realpython.com?
The jury system is not intended as a substitute for the law, it's intended as a safeguard to protect from the subjectivity of judges. Juries, like all of the legal system, are still intended to be subordinate to the legislative branch's decisions in terms of what is and isn't wrong.

Jury nullification is a weird rule that goes against the constitutional framework, but is so rarely used, at least for any important matter, that it has never really received too much scrutiny.
This is very, very bad, but not armaggeddon (probably) for most people. It does decrease our preparedness for armageddon-like disasters - imagine a more aggressive HIV-like disease, for example. If you're an academic or a federal employee, it might be the end of your career which is like a little mini apocalypse targeted only at specific walks of life.
Also from the article:

Blue Man Group, ... is not disappearing: long-running shows remain open in Boston, Las Vegas and Berlin, and a return gig is planned for Orlando, Fla. But closing the New York production, where it all began — along with another decades-old production in Chicago — is the end of a chapter.
This is the first one I picked: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Hermann_Hoppe

I'll just pick one quote: "There can be no tolerance toward democrats and communists in a libertarian social order. They will have to be physically separated and expelled from society."

Also this in relation to his book: A section of the book favoring exclusion of democrats and homosexuals from society.

This is not the kind of person that is arguing for free speech on its own merits. In fact he's asking for the opposite of free speech. He wants to choose who has the freedom to speak and who doesn't.
I think those are 2 different issues.

Searching for something, and finding it, is different from what ChatGPT / Claude does.

Google (in the good old days) is like the library. You want to search 'how to plant potatoes on Mars'. No results. Well, you split it up, maybe a book on planting potatoes, and a book about missions to Mars that describes soil composition.

Then, when you have those books you start reading, parsing, understanding, making connections, identifying what needs to be done etc.

Maybe, if you're lucky, you find a book or a web page where somebody went through the thought exercise of finding out what would be needed to make it work.

ChatGPT / Claude / ... are different in that they have the information in their corpus, and that the information they present you could actually be something that has never been written down in a book, or published on the web. That's why Google can't find it, but ChatGPT is able to present you with a satisfying answer.

Now whether the answer is correct is a different issue. Do you have the knowledge to verify this?
But in cryptography, you have a security claim that is based on the hardness of a well known mathematical probelm. So you know that breaking a certain scheme is as hard as solving that problem. If someone finds out how to solve such a problem efficiently the scheme is broken, but as long as no one has a solution the scheme is safe. Here it is not clear to me what is the hard problem that makes this scheme secure. Yes, you have light scattering in a random way, but they also showed that it is possible to train a neural network to get the data back. Why can't an attacker do the same?
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This looks interesting but unless there's a vagrant plugin to use it, I'm pretty unlikely to spend any serious time using it.
I haven’t read this particular proposed bill, but it seems obvious that something like PAFACA (the TikTok ban) should exist to cover AI and maybe other things from adversary countries, not just social media. If users have their privacy violated or worse, all their data exposed to the Internet as with DeepSeek (https://www.wiz.io/blog/wiz-research-uncovers-exposed-deepse...), the terms don’t help them since it would require going to a Chinese court. It is also hard to trust the data protections of Chinese products after services like TikTok have lied about what they do with the data.

It’s also a danger for America or others to share competitive AI tech with China, which will reduce technology or economy advantages and also since AI will end up in military applications. But maybe it’s too late to stop that. They already have many GPUs and the weights from several models.

The propaganda in DeepSeek (https://www.promptfoo.dev/blog/deepseek-censorship/) also shows the danger these products can pose, and I bet the CCP will force these companies to inject their viewpoints on many topics where it’s harder to detect. But this gets more complicated because we have to consider if this is a free speech issue.
There isn't an expectation or claim that search engines answer anything. They just find things or don't find things.
Rest assured, I'm pretty sure among the easiest ways to make yourself the target of surveillance is to do anything interesting at all involving technology. All serious AI researchers, for example, should assume that they are the victims of this.
> The article is great right until it gets into the perl code.
> My brain just turns off and my eyes want to cross.

Really? That's a remarkably readable Perl code, actually.
He has received a salary for working on AI since 2000 (having the title "research fellow"). In contrast, he didn't start publishing his Harry Potter fan-fiction till 2010. I seem to recall his publishing a few sci-fi short stories before then, but his non-fiction public written output has always greatly exceeded his fiction output until a few years ago after he became semi-retired due to chronic health problems.

>He’s basically a PR person for OpenAI and Anthropic

How in the world did you arrive at that belief? If it was up to him, OpenAI and Anthropic would be shut down tomorrow and their assets returned to shareholders.

Since 2004 or so, he has been of the view that most research in AI is dangerous and counterproductive and he has not been shy about saying so at length in public, e.g., getting a piece published in Time Magazine a few years ago opining that the US government should shut down all AI labs and start pressuring China and other countries to shut down the labs there.
1) I have ~7 cards (all from China and Sandisk, solely because Sandisk has a website where you can verify the card is genuine) that are in daily 24/7 use for 6-8 years with no issues (mounted in rw mode)
2) ...
4) that's true for any storage media

If you ever tried running uSD card in SDR104 mode, you'd notice that they tend to heat up way more than in lower speed interface modes. So for longetivity, I guess it's better to run them at HS mode (which is just 50MHz), or at least lower the SDR104 bus frequency from 200MHz to something lower.
Another key difference is the motivation for making it--I wouldn't make slop for myself for the clicks.
Looks really cool with a lot of information. Can someone who knows more than I detail out what the practical use cases of something like this would be?
Yeah, my bad. Funny how I managed to forget it. That was a big part of my life :) It was still a thing when I went to art college.

And then years later I'd go to see Kyiv Art Academy final year exhibition, and it was still socialistic realism, but now instead of workers and farmers they have saints. For some reason it became very religious... Or maybe I just fell on bad years.
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You’re a little early to come to this conclusion and dictators don’t require a political coalition, they just reward loyalty and eliminate opposition ruthlessly. You’re still playing a game Trump doesn’t want to play (democracy).

Hitler was also perceived as a worthless clown who could be easily manipulated by other interests when first elected. But he was cunning enough to eliminate all opposition and start a world war. Putin and Xi (who Trump admires and looks up to) are very similar.

Trump could easily start a dynastic takeover of the republican party, there is more than one Trump (Ivanka, Baron, etc). There are many reasons to be fearful at this juncture, especially if you live in the US.
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> "Everyone has a clear sex, even those with disorders"

I don't think most scientists would agree with you:

https://www.nature.com/news/polopoly_fs/1.16943!/menu/main/t...
The founding fathers wanted to prevent tyranny of the majority when it came to individual rights. And they created a very specific system for doing that: specific rights that could be vindicated in the judicial branch. What they didn’t do was empower an unelected, unappointed bureaucracy to have any role in that. And they certainly did not extend that concept to government policies of general application—the “guns versus butter” tradeoffs that governments must make. If a candidate wins the election promising more guns and less butter, the only job of the civil service is to make that happen.

And there hasn’t been any material change since the 18th century. There were fierce debates over policies back in the 1700s, including some of the same debates we’re having today, like over tariffs. The federal government already had thousands of employees even during Jefferson’s time in 1802. Nobody imagined that those employees would have anything more than a ministerial role carrying out the agenda of the elected President.

And yes, the only way to describe what you’re seeing among federal employees today is a religion. I’m in DC. Some people—and again to be clear it’s a minority—are literally crying over changes in government policies related to immigration, defriending people based on who they voted for, etc. These are not detached professionals who deserve the public trust. They’re religious nuts who believe they have the moral high ground and that gives them the right to override the constitutional design.
At ~175lbs and ~15yo I carried 270 pounds of furs in three stacked packs, like a voyager, with the shoulder straps and a tumpline or forehead strap. For about ten seconds of stumbling around.
Thanks for the feedback! I actually went into more detail about the project's reasoning and how it compares to lima/tart in another comment.

Interestingly, we left out the screenshot and exec features from this initial release so the CLI wouldn’t get too cluttered. We’re rolling out another update next week that will let you request screenshots programmatically, stream the VNC session in your browser via noVNC, run commands remotely over SSH, add clipboard support (finally!), and more.

As for cloning, you can indeed clone a running VM. However, suspending a VM isn’t supported in this release yet, even though it’s possible with the Apple Virtualization.framework. I’ll open an issue to track that work. Thanks again for the suggestions!
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This guy reads Doctorow.
Actually I'd suggest the law analogy illustrates the problem with your approach.

"You agree on the principle that I am Innocent until proved Guilty right?" Sure. "And I haven't been proved guilty, have I, so therefore I'm innocent right?" And that's why we need a trial, "But it makes no sense to try the innocent".
it's not about getting people to "work for free", it's about enabling people to create freely. The reason verified tools need to be open source is to ensure transparency and trust for users who install them, and for me to label them as verified, not to impose a one-sided standard. Users should know what a plugin does before they integrate it into their workspace. That said, nothing stops developers from making private or commercial plugins if they choose to, it will still be available on the app's plugin list but it won't be labeled as verified
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Check out this previous discussion of Sniffnet:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35991811
I typically test around 90-100wpm.
Write pseudorandom data to the whole card with a fixed seed.

Read back data and compare against the same pseudorandom data with a same fixed seed.

Or just make a random data file the size of SD card and write/read back compare, if you don't care about having to store the big file and also testing for potential local disk corruption at the same time.
I don’t assume that I can know anything about another person’s experience of the world. But from the outside, I agree that some communities seem full of deeply aggrieved and unhappy people who seem intent on dragging others into their miserable worldview.

But lots of non-gender-related online communities also look like that to me: some political groups, antiwork, etc.

I see some people, especially young people, treat depression as a kind of virtue. Like “the world is shit and if you aren’t miserable it’s because you just haven’t woken up to reality”. And then they find groups online to reinforce that, and the depression meme spreads. I would want to protect my kids from that too.
Diskettes inside the book as I recall.

We were running Oregon Pascal on a PDP/11-44 (later upgraded to a VAX 11/780) that cost thousands. To have access to Pascal for $49 was too good to be true. Kept thinking it had to be deficient somehow, but it wasn't.

The paradigm shift was underway right in front of us.
I use LLMs to shorten my verbose email writing style. It’s AI anti-slop and I presume people like it.
Coverage: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/19/the-madness-of... (no I am not “liberal”)
What’s wrong referring to the relevant sex characteristics? Why change language for the exceptional and small population? A man who gives birth is still the mother even if they take a social role of a father later in the child’s development.
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What's the pricing of a human in $$$ per million tokens?
Using high bandwidth PCIe 5 SSDs in databases
The gap between the efficiency displayed here and that which can be found in ex. postgres/mysql is insane.
So why don't prompt engineers get copyright on 100 images they effortlessly generate?
Peak winds in a tropical storm are isolated to a very small zone near the center. In Hurricane Camille, the peak winds were in a region only a bit larger than a very large tornado.
You’re arguing it’s a rhetorical misstep and at the same time suggesting it need not be called out. Huge pet peeve of mine is when these little flourishes derail an entire discussion because they aren’t really true but get the sympathetic individuals involved all riled up. If the device isn’t positively contributing it should be identified and dismissed.
> Actually I'd suggest the law analogy illustrates the problem with your approach. "You agree on the principle that I am Innocent until proved Guilty right?" Sure. "And I haven't been proved guilty, have I, so therefore I'm innocent right?" And that's why we need a trial, "But it makes no sense to try the innocent".

Your statement makes no sense. The semantic analysis is the trial. The optimization is the sentencing. The compiler is making a false assumption during trial and then proceeding with sentencing as if the code was guilty when the evidence clearly pointed otherwise.

(I'm not about to digress into a random quibble about an analogy so this is my last comment on that.)
It fell apart a bit after Korolev died.
Wealth inequality and the resurgence of fascism pressing it's monied thumb on the Overton window.
That's an excellent way to put it. Personally, it allowed me to get excellent grades despite my post-concussion syndrome. It's miserable, but optimising your learning can really let you punch above your weight.

Also, you can fit Anki into parts of your day where "proper" learning is more difficult. I used to do it on the bus to and from school, where it was far to loud - and I was often too tired - to learn through other means.

The alternative was scrolling through HN... I did that a lot, too.
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I'm pretty sure that there are still people around who believe that to some degree.
kitty is very close, which is impressive when you remember that the vast majority of the work is done by one guy (Kovid Goyal).

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues — 0.239% vs 0.137%

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues — 0.729% vs 0.317%

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/graphs/contributors
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The key modifier here being "in your experience". Perhaps for others, other methods are more effective.
Sorry, I should have been more specific when I said "headless" because there are a couple of different interpretations:

- Headless software (can run without a GUI): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headless_software

- Headless computer (can run without a monitory nor input devices): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headless_computer

macOS has VNC built in so it can run as a "headless computer" but you cannot run it without the GUI. So you end up paying a massive memory and disk storage tax for running any CLI tools.
Let's see how you can do it with a mouse-driven desktop:)
There is no big fear. Meta reported quarterly results this week. Read the transcript of conf call with analysts. More educational than guardian fluff.
For what it's worth rust has made all integer arithmetic well-defined unless you explicitly opt in to the alternative on a case by case basis. Opting into the alternative is not something I've seen people having to do for performance.

Specifically in release builds it's defined to be 2s complement arithmetic. In debug builds it's defined to panic (in non rust speak that is basically throw an exception) on overflows, and the language theoretically reserves the right to change the behavior on release builds to do the same, but that hasn't been done because the exception route does actually incur a non-negligible performance penalty.
Those account for a number half the size of trans populations. Are you saying trans is also exceedingly rare and irrelevant, yet they are under attack?
> I agree that this is bad, but we've already had state mandated lists of forbidden words for years, and this is a reaction to those less explicitly defined rules.

One issue is that this power exists.

Another then is what it is used for.

If you have a gun and you use it to and only to prevent, oh, bank robbery say, that's fine. If you use it to rob someone, not fine.

Government has enormous power, and now that power is being used for evil and for darkness, and that's the problem.
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I had to fight with Cox (Fiber to the home) to be able to use my own router, if I wanted unlimited data for free.

To my understanding this is partially for them to push their crowdsourced WiFi, and maybe an easier way to sell you an all-in-one security/internet/TV package.

When I explained that I would just their device as a passthrough, and that it would be a waste to have the device here, she removed it from my account.

Now, what I don't know is HOW they check whether I'm using their device. MAC? Easily copied. Them sending some commands that only their devices can respond to? Yea, that's a bigger problem.
“The whole idea is that if we limit the emergence of epidemics where they are likely to happen, we end up with fewer pandemics after these epidemics spread worldwide”

I realize I’m arguing against a negative but has that actually been accomplished? I don’t argue that they (I assume) probably help with things like Ebola outbreaks but that’s almost certainly never going to become a pandemic.
And what? tumpy is set to make those same
co- religion members, illegal, again!
my point is that it's America that is sliping, relative to what it was, and that China has real advantages that will insulate it from almost anything that anybody can do.
And let me be personal for a moment, in that amongst other heritage, my paternal grandmother was of Mongol origin, and it very very difficult to read about the banning of teaching Mongolian, and then there are many other sub-groups there in China, suffering a slow forced dissalusion. But that is ongoing, everywhere, like say the undermining(unintentional pun) of the Sami, the last semi nomadic indiginous population in Europe,
who made the greavous mistake of spending the last 15000 years living on top of valuable minerals.
That is so not the point. The point of 2+2=5 is that white science is bad and needs to be dismantled because it’s structurally racist.
I feel like at this point we have to separate LLMs and reasoning models too.

I can see the argument against chatGPT4 reasoning.

The reasoning models though I think get into some confusing language but I don't know what else you would call it.

If you say a car is not "running" the way a human runs, you are not incorrect even though a car can "outrun" any human obviously in terms of moving speed on the ground.

To say since a car can't run , it can't move though is obviously completely absurd.
The decision to keep Hollow closed source isn’t about restricting users, it’s about ensuring stability while maximizing customization through plugins and themes. you can extend it freely using the plugin system, much like how browsers allow extensions without requiring users to alter their source code.

I understand concerns about long term sustainability and rug pulls. Unlike subscription based models or cloud locked apps, Hollow is 100% local, and the app remains fully usable regardless of future updates. The goal is to foster a plugin driven ecosystem rather than requiring contributors to maintain the core software.

And Thanks for trying out Hollow, really glad to hear you find it promising.