skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm. I'm not sure where I land on the topic, but to give a bit of a defense to the safety approach, I think it's a matter of scale.

To draw an analogy, we're generally OK with law enforcement using what they observe in public to enforce the law, but we're generally not OK with blanketing our public spaces in 24/7 recording cameras. We're generally OK with individuals using the mail to send letters, but generally not OK with using an automated system to send a letter to everyone in the entire city.

Similarly, we don't generally try to pre-empt someone's speech for safety and we do allow them to say bad things, and perhaps in retrospect punish them if they crossed a line. But, given the scale of the harms that this kind of technology can enable, it may be worth building in safeties to prevent people using technology to like I dunno, train a model to super specifically target an individual for an incredible amount of harassment that an individual human could not sustain. Even if we could punish the person wielding the AI retroactively, it might be worth the slight cost in AI flexibility to prevent the harm happening in the first place.

Like I said, I don't know where I fall, but I see both sides here. The safety stuff is not completely irrational.
> Senator Wyden and Congressman Biggs say agreeing to the request would "undermine Americans' privacy rights and expose them to espionage by China, Russia and other adversaries".

I don’t disagree.

I do wonder how they feel about American gathering of the same data.

I would apply that statement to anyone…
Was their remit to republish public data and then cancel medical research and foreign aid? Then no, they are not doing well.
Well who ever came up with "Deutsche Linux-Distribution" most likely did not have a marketing department.

Besides, putting "German" in your product name at the time (199x) actually was a savvy marketing move, especially if you are the first in a particular niche. There were lots of buyers who wanted to buy fully translated software back then, and the sticker "Software and Manual in German" probably is the most successful sale booster of the 80ies and 90ies in Germany.

This of course does not even touch the subject of localization issues, just to name 2 from the top of my hat:

[1]For years (maybe a decade?) Apple maps had issues if you tried to enter an address the "German" way: <Streetname> <Number> instead of <Number> <Streetname>.

[2]To this day websites ask me for "states" in my shipping address. Yes, Germany has states. We mostly dont care about them. No one puts the state in a shipping address. Shops, please stop getting annoyed when I dont know if you expect me to enter a 2-or 3-length string as abbreviation for my state (which you dont need for anything, anyway). VAT is a federal tax, therefore its not different from state to state.
I just want to say that I saw Fareed Zakaria talk about DeepSeek recently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILCZAXmVYV0

As he was delivering that segment, there was a feeling in me that just kept emanating that there is no way Fareed knows anything about this but he is broadcasting with such authority. And it's true, he had no idea about how Deepseek trained off OpenAI.

This is probably very true for all mainstream media talking about AI, they literally are clueless and can be used to parrot anything that sounds world-changing.
I don't say negative things about ICE so I have nothing to worry about.
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The phrase "Ark Fleet Ship B" is wandering through my mind in search of something to connect with.
https://archive.ph/oFpT2
> Honestly, just by stupid personal opinion, the SEC should grow the courage to ban low-latency based trading.

I think that's really just a matter of the media giving bad press to HFTs "because it's scary". The boring reality is that not much people care, and HFTs are really not that important on the grand scale of things. We're talking about maybe 4/5 firms worldwide making single to low double digits billions in P&L, from an activity that is most likely overall positive, or say net 0 if you're a bit cynical. Good for them.
Spot on. I joined big tech when I was not so young (having done stints several "IBMs"). The amount of Kool aid being dishes out was just staggering
Even if that turns out to be true - I don't want human life to be about accomplishment only. We're not here as economic machines to squeeze value out of the next business idea.
I don't buy it that AI will widen social divides. The evidence points the other way. LLMs are mostly useful for beginners, and they are basically a fast lane to knowledge. It's never been easier to start from nothing, absorb lots of synthesized knowledge, and go beyond what an LLM can do - essentially becoming "the best" according to the article. The path to being "the best" in any discipline is not decades today, it is years.

Personally, I've picked up so many new skills in the last five years thanks to the LLMs. I now do my own car maintenance (fully), I'm restoring my home, and handling years of programmer health neglect. Each of these would have taken me either years to learn, or at least months with professional supervision. Thanks to LLMs, I basically have a direct line to a somewhat knowledgeable "person" that can answer all my questions immediately, and it takes days to learn how to be somewhat good at anything. I'm not saying I've become an expert car mechanic, builder, or personal health expert, but I have become functionally good. I can look at my work and say "I've actually done this better than the contractor I hired 2 years ago!", etc.

It's true that there is a divide between "the best" and "the rest", but the divide is that "the best" don't benefit much from LLMs. At work where I am a senior SWE, there is nothing the current LLMs (including GitHub Copilot) can help me with. But on the weekends, when I'm learning a fun new programming language as a beginner, I can get up to speed in a few hours. That is the different effects LLMs have on "the best" and "the rest".

If LLMs did not exist, and one needed to have really extensive domain expertise, plus ML, tensorflow, and python skills - then I would agree with The Economist that AI benefits technologists more. But LLMs exist, are widely available, and also are probably the main application of ML today. So I think the article misses the point very much.
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Exactly. They're obeying in advance.
It's good that the Sheriff had already lost re-election five years ago, hopefully this played a part and the current sheriff has learned a lesson. Also, you can't do exactly this again within the 9th Circuit without being sued?

That's the best case I've got for the horrific invasion of privacy that this woman and her boyfriend suffered.
We Tried to Warn You
Yes, and until proven wrong it most likely will go as any other productivity enhancing technology: https://assets.weforum.org/editor/HFNnYrqruqvI_-Skg2C7ZYjdcX...
They couldn't have used a worst name if they tried.
> They have to all be evil or completely misinformed. I assume most are ignorant and only a few are evil.

I thought that after 2016, I no longer do. It's the reverse. Maybe "evil" is a strong word but they are definitely what I would consider "bad people" based on their extreme selfishness. Most pretend to be ignorant, or "low information" in person but they follow news very closely.
Everyone living in a neighbouring country? Or some guy, sitting in front of a screen, writing propaganda 8h a day, so he has not to go to the front, questioning his own sanity.
Yes, but it's written more clearly for the people who need to hear the message.
So, I assume that means a reasonable person would not have known there was anything wrong with that.

On that note, theoretically, could all eligible residents of a town be deputized and would they all be covered by QI?
I gave it some more thought and want to take it a step further even (but lacked the time to polish before valentine)

The one you land, indeed a hash. It is read only, but allows you to trace the maze with the mouse or touch. Once solved, it'll reveal the name of the one who sent it.

Guess I now have 364 days to implement that
Or cutting the budget for cgi roadsters in orbit.
Fun fact that a lot of people find surprising: the US federal government was already at or near its smallest size (headcount per capita) in American history.

It’s honestly shocking that so many public services work under such resource-constrained conditions at all.
SUSE is a strong partner for my managed products, and every person I have worked with there has been skilled and good people.
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Those lines don't actually dereference anything, except for (*new_node) which is owned by the function. Immediately following them is the CAS to ensure that current is still at self.head. If it gets deallocated, then the CAS fails, and it tries again with the new self.head.
I’m pretty sure they aren’t stopping at just one thing?

Now do that 10,000 times and tell me what the total is per tax payer (noting that 40% of taxpayers don’t pay taxes).

I get $14,000 per tax payer, what do you get?
I don't think that's a fair reading of the comment you're replying to.

Seems like a purposefully-constructed straw-man to me, really.
Conservatives can't raise taxes. It's an article of faith, very literally, that taxes are bad, and that lowering taxes raises tax revenue.
I smell money!
If you look at the significance of the place (The Tian'anmen is literally on the national emblem of China, and the tomb of Mao is on the square for example), it's hard to rename something that widely known. It's much easier to pull one of the events that happen there under the rug, because unlike in the west the name is associated to much more.
Well no because Leela today beats human + AI combos or humans only just as well.
Qualified Immunity? That's nonsense. Qualified Immunity shouldn't exist in the first place but this is an obvious abuse from the norm.
If the tool is free. It’s an equalizer. If the tool costs money, it increases the gap between rich and poor.
>A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-to-1 that Grant County District Attorney Jim Carpenter’s actions amounted to “a troubling example of the intrusion on Fourth Amendment rights” against illegal searches.

>But all three judges upheld a lower court’s decision to grant Carpenter qualified immunity and dismiss the woman’s lawsuit.

This is confusing, if there was no warrant, and they violated her 4th amendment rights… how do they get QI?
I consider any companies that would blanket prohibit open source contribution out of scope of my statement. With those that won’t even allow employees to open a bug report or post on a forum to be an extreme outlier. Especially in the context of a company that bought a booth at an open source conference.

Legal hurdles exist, but IMHO are the subject of endless hand wringing and awareness campaigns already. Most in that community are seemingly unaware that devs need much more support: socially, mentally, and tactically. In order to become successful open source contributors.

So really what I’m saying is that making things legally easier isn’t enough. Advocating that people should contribute isn’t enough. We should be actively training and helping to prepare the next generation of contributors. And doing it in a way that doesn’t overly burden existing maintainers.
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ICE are the Nazi Gestapo of 2025.
We were looking at the main branch of the sha2 crate at first, where the 'asm' feature has been removed (but this is unreleased, will be in 0.11.x) https://github.com/RustCrypto/hashes/blob/master/sha2/CHANGE...
I'm not implying the current prediction >must< also be an overestimate. I'm saying be careful when adjusting your expectations based on current rapid momentum.
No, it is politics. Apple stopped advertising on X over politics, not technical reasons. The Democrat-run media has successfully convinced a large number of highly conformist individuals that we've got another Hitler on our hands, and a lot of these people opine about their paranoia extensively on HN.
Oh man this is exactly what I've been looking for, thanks!
My 2025-2028 bingo card just needs 47's face on Mt. Rushmore, renaming Wednesday, and starting a ground war Switzerland.
I was there when musk said we'd have fully self driving tesla in 2 year, in 2021. I was there when he said we'll be back on mars in 2025, I was there when uber said they will buy every single car tesla can manufacture by the year 2020.

It's all bullshit, how can people fall from it, and keep falling for it over and over and over ?
<https://www.xkcd.com/2501/>
Sounds like this could lead to a lot of unnecessary government spending. Someone should let musk know.
And what about something like the AdvertisingID? The OS creates an identifier for the purpose of tracking you with ads.
Apple isn't, I can turn off ad tracking and keep analytics on.
From what I've seen, it has to have been "clearly established" before meaning that unless there is an incident already labeling the act unconstitutional, no dice for the poor lady. It's how you make it so that as society evolves, officers can't be held accountable for new acts.
Where is the evidence of this "criminality"?

Musk and Trump scream fraud a lot. Fraud has real legal definitions. "I don't like it" / "I don't agree with it" / "It's 'woke'" does not make something fraud. Buying into that perspective is intellectual dishonesty.
Yes, you do know what woke means, don't be disingenuous.
LOL, even your high priest admitted:

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/31/774918215/obama-says-democrat...
> Now a point that might be a bit painful to hear for the author. These slides are a bit ugly, unsophisticated, and bland.

Here [0] is HAProxy's website. Well, one of them [1]. The first one contains documentation in glorious plain HTML, and packs more information into it you can imagine. It is, after all, an incredibly high-performance piece of software that's been around for over two decades. The second one is, I imagine, for people like you. Perhaps that's what's needed for a company to be successful anymore - a site with the information necessary to get the thing running and to maintain it, and a second that's flashy and glitzy and doesn't scare the suits.

[0]: https://www.haproxy.org

[1]: https://www.haproxy.com
Article says "protects police and government officials from civil liability". (Emphasis mine.)
> dont [sic] think you know what you are talking about

As someone who has participated in the founding of a stock exchange, and who electronically traded equities and equity derivatives across every exchange in America, I really do.

> they have differences in the regulatory programs

What pertinent regulations do you think separates a BATS trade of a share of stock in a Texas corporation listed on the NYSE from an internal cross in a California bank of another Texas corporation listed on the NYSE Texas that has to do with the listing exchange?

> they also have differences in the fee schemes, e.g. how they make money on the order flow going through the exchange

This is market microstructure. Nothing in the announcement indicates a different microstructure from the other NYSEs.
> I have to say, this all was simultaneously more fascinating and less informative than I expected it would be going in.

Direct quote from the author of this post and I couldn't agree more, particulartly about the post itself.
Just the one grammatical issue, huh? Seems a bit overly-critical.
> This highlighted the potential for synergy between human and artificial intelligence, where the combination of both could surpass the capabilities of each individually.

This potential only existed for a very short period of time; current chess engines eclipse human capabilities completely; human assistance is about as useful to them as an amateur players advice would be to Magnus Carlsen.

An uncomfortable analogy.
LOL, that is so not true:

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/31/774918215/obama-says-democrat...
I'm not the one saying RFK Jr. has brain worms with absolutely 0 facts to back it up.
Where did you live that you were never exposed to profanity as a child?

Good thing it's harmless.
There is also https://github.com/regenrek/codefetch which I personally like
I liken it to furniture making.

Used to be every piece was made by hand. That was the only way it could be done at all. It took however long it took, it cost however much it cost, and you could (slightly) tweak those knobs to control the overall quality of the finished product based on the customer's budget and tastes.

Along comes mass-produced flat-packed particle board stuff. It's cheap garbage, everybody makes it, most customers buy it, and it works "fine" but perhaps there is something more spiritual about it that we have all collectively lost.

The thing is, a small group of people still perform the old craft for a small group of customers who still want to pay for it. The market for it shrank, but it still exists. It sort of doesn't matter what happens in the flat-packed space, because handmade furniture is almost an entirely different universe from particle board.

I'm sure somebody with a better grasp of macroeconomics could mop the floor with me, but that's my intuition about it.
Because the US submarine production calender is completely full and unable to scale up.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-18/aukus-congress-subcom...

Australia will also not have full control of their own submarines:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/austra...
The CEO of ICE (the holding company of NYSE) is married to Kelly Loeffler, who was the republican senator from Georgia from 2020-2021.
While there is always room for improvement, i think the lack of of proper (crash & debug) analytics being sent home are the only remaining explanation explanation for the abysmal software quality at Apple.

How else could they repeatedly fuck up the basics? Every second release has awful battery life because half the daemon processes are running wild in 100% CPU parties. The only reasonable explanation for this nonsense is that Apple doesn't know about all the problems (or cannot fix them) because they refrain from collecting the required data...
OTOH I’ve written Python professionally for about 25 years and I truly don’t think I’ve ever seen a bug due to accidental mis-indentation like that.
The protection against that brain drain is to have a country worth staying in.
Even if advances in LLMs stop right now, we still would probably see 5-10 years of integration.

Keep in mind also that it's in vogue to talk about AI bad, and taboo to talk about how much you use it in your job or life.
ICE represents so much currently wrong with america today: a bipartisan-supported, taxpayer-funded gang of thugs that exist to ensure a cheap source of labor. what's actually driving down wages is the fact that a lack of reliable and legal mechanism to find citizenship if you already live here means many if not most people are willing to turn a blind eye to the same taking of jobs and downward pressure on wages that got everyone upset in the first place to avoid cruelly displacing someone from a place they call home.

So yea ICE can suck a fuck.
The things LLMs can actually be put to good use for either are bad for society (spam, scams, cheating on homework) or do not justify the massive investment. Better emails is great, but its just not worth billions of dollars.

I want to be clear, from an academic perspective these things are fascinating and very very cool! You can teach a computer to talk like a person might simply by having it read all the books! But there is not a business reason to have this. Not at the current costs. Maybe LLMs are a step we need to get actually useful AI tools, but as currently constituted its just not there.

The killer app of LLMs is how its gonna kill the industry when the investments fail to make the expected return. A lot of people are gonna lose their jobs when managers try to replace them with AI, and even more are gonna lose their jobs when that doesn't work and all those companies go under, and there's another tech bubble burst
I asked for a map of Paris with all the arrondissements (since there's no way to get that from google maps) and it showed me a diagram instead of a map. Chatgpt at least gives me a link to the wikipedia page with the map image.
There is no action here. Either AI get so good everyone becomes slaves to Sam Altman or it doesn’t and we just continue on using the new tools.
My fear is that AI will further hurt neurodivergent people's ability to compete in tech. It seems to me that AI deemphasizes some of the advantages that some neurodivergent people have; e.g. hyperfocus, nonlinear thinking, etc. At the same time it introduces extra context switching which many neurodivergent people struggle with.

I've already seen tech become much more hostile to neurodivergent people over the years. I'm afraid that this will just make things worse.
I really wish there was more active development on SPARK.

It's largely untouched over the last 10-years.

https://github.com/AdaCore/spark2014

For those not aware, SPARK gives even more safeguards/guarantees than Rust (see below) ... and also does it at compile time (when not all of Rust safeguards are at compile time).

https://blog.adacore.com/should-i-choose-ada-spark-or-rust-o...
Replace "LLMs" by "the internet", go back in time 20 years, and you have the type of comment from back then...oops
Open-source models drastically reduce the ability of the closed-source proprietary models to be used to control markets, establish monopolies, and extract rents from users. Since the economist doesn't even mention this divide, the article is best ignored.
Not there in the 60’s, but sci-fi showing people interacting with touch and using flat tablet.
Know what? I believed none of those things, because they were obvious stupid bullshit.

It turns out you have to actually think.
Actually, no.

There have been a number of times when I've seen their reporting to be higher-quality than anything available domestically in the country. Above all when they dedicate a 20-page Special Report on a country or a new technology. They go into a level of detail and analysis that you basically can't get anywhere else. And especially with technology, they tend to look at the bigger social picture -- the wider implications -- that purely technology-focused sources tend to either ignore or else have shallow "hot takes" on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Norquist#Americans_for_... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_for_Tax_Reform
Sorry, but I work in the real world, and I see it first hand. I agree it is illegal. But someone with the power to prosecute has to care first.

Look at the bloomberg report from 2023[1]. You really think 94% hiring of non-whites was organic? Literally impossible. Calling any of this white supremacy is laughable.

[1]https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-black-lives-matter-e...
The facts are fairly complicated in this case. That said, seems like a better attorney might have done better?
Yet we'll still be stuck with middling, mass media. I guess that's the price we pay for training AI with it.
The Kindle became big because it is the cheapest ereader on the market. That's because the hardware is deeply subsidised by Amazon.

I don't buy books I loan them from my local library and put them on the Kindle.