skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but much ambiguity is trivially handled with a minimum amount of context. "Tomorrow I'm flying from Austin to Atlanta and I need to return the rental". (Is the rental (presumably car) to be returned to Austin or Atlanta? Almost always Austin, absent some unusual arrangement. And presumably to the Austin airport rental depot, unless context says it was another location. And presumably before the flight, with enough timeframe to transfer and checkin.)

(You meant inherent ambiguity in actual words, though.)
> The best-positioned lawsuits to win, like NYTimes vs. OpenAI/MS, is actually based on violating terms of use, rather than infringing at training time.

I agree with this, but it's worth noting this does not conflict with and kind of reinforces the GP's comment about hypocrisy and "[ignoring] the law as long as you've got enough money".

The terms of use angle is better than copyright, but most likely we'll never see any precedent created that allows this argument to succeed on a large scale. If it were allowed then every ToS would simply begin to say Humans Only, Robots not Welcome or if you're a newspaper then "reading this you agree that you're a human or a search engine but will never use content for generative AI". If github could enforce site terms and conditions like that, then they could prevent everyone else from scraping regardless of individual repository software licenses, etc.

While the courts are setting up precedent for this kind of thing, they will be pressured to maintain a situation where terms and conditions are useful for corporations to punish people. Meanwhile, corporations won't be able to punish corporations for the most part, regardless of the difference in size. But larger corporations can ignore whatever rules they want, to the possible detriment of smaller ones. All of which is more or less status quo
That's what I'm really worried about.
Doesn’t load_json throw if the file doesn’t exist?
Yep, I've seen type hinting even be helpful without a type checker in python. Just as a way for devs to tell each other what they intend on passing. Even when a small percent of the hints are incorrect, having those hints there can still pay off.
> too far down to scroll

Yeah, when you can't easily scroll anymore because it's "too far" then something has gone very, very wrong.
This is wrong, Linux had plenty of momentum before RedHat specifically was purchased by IBM.

I'm sure that helped its momentum in the corporate space, where it was already very present, but the whole family of Linux was very well established in servers, firewalls (more BSD than Linux here), mobile devices, embedded hardware, etc
Free to air in UK does not mean free to the whole world.
For example BBC/Channel 4/Channel 5 are geofenced to UK only.
Watch the whole thing for yourself https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zicGxU5MfwE He talks about light for the first two things (cover the body and put it under the skin) and then switches to disinfectant. Was clearly talking about some kind of chemical to "clean the lungs" like you would clean you bathtub.
If companies could hike up their prices and still get consumers to pay them they'd already have done it. In fact, companies are constantly increasing prices as high as they possibly can up to the point where sales suffer.

They've taken advantage of recent events to prevent customers from feeling too ripped off though. When covid happened there were legit supply chain issues but even once they let up, and there were warehouse shortages because companies had so much unsold inventory, the companies continued to artificially restrict supply and blame the pandemic for higher prices.

Egg producers were busted colluding to inflate prices far higher than normal using the excuse of "bird flu" even as the largest supplier of eggs in the nation wasn't impacted at all by it (that's less of an excuse this time around though) and "inflation" is the new boogeyman companies are using to set expectations with consumers so that they can deflect blame for overcharging them, but even that only works for so long.

Nobody is going to pay $30 for a happymeal while their wages stagnate and their real earnings decline year after year.

Taxing the rich works just fine. We know it does because we used to actually do it. They'll spend billions trying to convince you that taking taxes from them is impossible and not worth trying tho. Why wouldn't they? That tactic has worked for them for a long time. Don't fall for it.
My point is that a lot of apparently "simple" services do in fact call fork internally. Just a few things I've seen:

* fork to periodically make a snapshot of server state, to avoid slowing down the main server

* spawn an external gzip to compress a log file

* spawn a handler for some file format

* spawn a daemon to actually handle some resource, which might be used by other processes too (this really should be a separate managed service, but in the anti-systemd world this is often not the case)

If everything is working fine, you'll only waste a bit of server RAM for a few seconds if you fail to kill the children alongside the parent. But the circumstances in which you want to restart the service are often not "everything is working fine".
I thought: A group working together poorly isn't smarter than the smartest person in that group.

But it's worse, A group working together poorly isn't smarter than the fastest participant in the group.
Didn't the covid significantly reduce trial times? I thought that was such a success that they continued on the same foot.
So the model thinks ahead but cannot reason about its own thinking in a real way. It is rationalizing, not rational.

My understanding is that we can’t either. We essentially make up post-hoc stories to explain our thoughts and decisions.
Though I think it is probably mostly science-fiction, this is one of the more chillingly thorough descriptions of potential AGI takeoff scenarios that I've seen. I think part of the problem is that the world you get if you go with the "Slowdown"/somewhat more aligned world is still pretty rough for humans: What's the point of our existence if we have no way to meaningfully contribute to our own world?

I hope we're wrong about a lot of this, and AGI turns out to either be impossible, or much less useful than we think it will be. I hope we end up in a world where humans' value increases, instead of decreasing. At a minimum, if AGI is possible, I hope we can imbue it with ethics that allow it to make decisions that value other sentient life.

Do I think this will actually happen in two years, let alone five or ten or fifty? Not really. I think it is wildly optimistic to assume we can get there from here - where "here" is LLM technology, mostly. But five years ago, I thought the idea of LLMs themselves working as well as they do at speaking conversational English was essentially fiction - so really, anything is possible, or at least worth considering.

"May you live in interesting times" is a curse for a reason.
That would be either OneDrive or for the real l337 adminz: B:\

Git is for Linux and other cancers.
It's a Goods tariff

They don't (directly) impact service imports like games, VFX, or outsourced software.

Edit: I'm wrong. This article is about tabletop games, not video games. Maybe a title change in HN would be helpful?
Usually you would do it in your main function, or a code path starting from there. Executing code with non-local side effects during import is generally frowned upon. Maybe it's fine for a project-local module that won't be shared, but it's a bad habit and can make it had to track down.
It’s more reasonable to say that the idea of intellectual property is challenging for nonlawyers because of the difficulty in understanding ownership not as one thing, but as a bundle of various elements of control, exclusion, obligation, or entitlement, even some of which spring into existence out of nowhere.

In other words, the challenge is not to understand “what exactly is being owned,” and instead, to understand “what exactly being owned is.”
I’m a 90s kid (born in 1989), and I remember the days of the anti-trust lawsuit, “Internet Exploder,” the Slashdot Borg icon, and resentment from Mac users, WordPerfect users, Netscape users, and others who strongly disliked the Microsoft monopoly.

Still, there’s something about Microsoft of that era. Bill Gates was “one of us,” a passionate nerd. This was an era where nerds like Jobs, Woz, and Gates ruled. The 1990s and the 2000s felt exciting, and it felt like technology was making the world a better place.

I must admit, even though I was firmly in the Jobs and Woz camp in the 2000s, I also fondly remember Windows 2000, Visual Studio 6, and pre-ribbon Microsoft Office. Contrary to Steve Jobs’ opinion, I believe Microsoft has occasionally exhibited great taste :). For better or for worse, the 1990s was peak Microsoft.

Something happened in the 2010s. It seems like the tech industry has become just like any other industry that has gotten entrenched, and today’s tech leaders simply don’t inspire me like how the leaders of previous eras did. Today’s Web media companies are far scarier than 1990’s Microsoft ever was.

Then again, I was a mere child in the 1990s, and I became an adult in the 2010s, and so I could be looking at the 1990s through childhood memories.
Well, Teslas do have "Full Self Driving". It's not actually fully self driving and that doesn't even seem to be on the horizon but it doesn't appear to be stopping Tesla supporters.
He's a high level technical fellow as far as I know but he's also 83. I suspect his involvement these days, if any, is purely advisory to a limited group of core NT kernel and RDOS engineers.
If you're offended by private institutions judging applicants on their written communication skills, wait until you find out how American companies filter job applications. You'll be shocked when you learn how that proverbial sausage is made.
The NSA agrees, accessibility is everything to them: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/apple-admits-to-...
>to a raciness in load_json where it's checked for file existence with an if and then carrying on as if the file is certainly there...

Explain the issue with load_json to me more. From my reading it checks if the file exists, then raises an error if it does not. How is that carrying on as if the file is certainly there?
+1 for the 6502 kit. It’s the perfect project. I think the full 8-bit computer is kind of daunting. The 6502 is just big enough to be a fun medium size project. Plus there is a perfect extension project with the video card if you want to add that on.
I'd almost think he was trying to get rejected in order to capitalize on some sort of anti-education "founders don't need degrees" thing.
Scandinavia has its problems too, but they're doing a lot better than we are in many measures that aren't "number of billionaires getting richer while the rest of the population gets poorer every year."

People there are happier, healthier, and better educated than they are here.
I think this has already been happening. I've thought about this for years since living in China where they from the earliest days had conceived of their internet as "China's Internet".

The next piece that concerned me was GDPR which required EU citizens data to be processed in the EU. This is similar to laws in China.

The US has also brought up various bills similar to this, and I wouldn't be surprised if in the future "citizen data" is supposedly not to leave a specific country.

This of course benefits huge corporations who can handle this infrastructure but is quite difficult for smaller companies.
It's a rhetorical example. Suppose you need to create an avatar of your character. Why does it follow that it's not beneficial to have an AI help generate the avatar?

You're responding to the specific example, not the general argument. Unless your counter is that whatever humanity is doing that AI is helping is probably stupid and shouldn't be done anyway.
I’m sure the best independent Star Wars movie would be infinitely better than what Disney has been shoveling out for the last couple decades.
Backwards compatibility works differently there, and legalese has not exactly evolved naturally.
> and DBOS lets you write worklflows as code instead of explicit DAGs

To clarify, Hatchet supports both DAGs and workflows as code: see https://docs.hatchet.run/home/child-spawning and https://docs.hatchet.run/home/durable-execution
A Gnu/Linux phone with Android in a container using WayDroid or AnBox gives you the best of both worlds.
Yeah, I get that there are startups trying to do it. But I work with Cursor quite a bit… there is no way I would trust an LLM code agent to take high-level direction and issue a PR on anything but the most trivial bug fix.
Neighbors a 99 tiny home community
Yup this tracks with what I have seen as well. Most devs who use this daily are usually junior devs or javascript devs who both write sloppy questionable code.
democracy is bad but its still better than more autocratic systems because it encourages change which keeps succession well-oiled and also acts as a vent for tyranny to curtail its worst excesses. This applies as much to politics as it does a school board.
He's a Googler, he's talking about Google.
There is a small amount of time between the `if` and the `with` where another process can delete the file, hence causing a race condition. Attempting to open the file and catching any exceptions raised is generally safer.
OneDrive? Look at mister corporate moneybags here. Sharepoint!
Mail it to me and I will take care of it for you ;)

Kidding, of course. Here's what I recommend:

The single best thing you can do for your machine is get a SATA SSD into it. That will 10x the performance of your system for most tasks immediately. After that, max out your RAM at 16GB DDR3.

Assuming a 500GB SSD, you can do both of these things using new parts for less than $100, and if you get used parts, for less than $50.

A system with a 2nd-gen i5 or especially i7, 16GB RAM, and 500GB SSD storage will be fast enoug for essentially every modern computing task that isn't modern gaming, graphic design, video editing, or complex programming (it'll be good enough for simple coding tasks). You can do whatever else you want.

As far as batteries, my recommendations are twofold: Get the highest-wattage charger you can (probably a 170watt for the T520, I think) and the largest battery possible. New ones are available on eBay. You want the "extended life" models. They're not great, but they should get you a few hours of usage. Depending on what you get and where it's from, it's another $20-$50.
I’d say priorities and values are pretty different, but there can be some overlap. But the problem is, folks don’t give it the required amount of nuance, and simply loop in all the horrible things the other party does and stands for with the values of that person, and it’s usually not accurate.
I don't follow your analogy. Is the "specialized tool" the AI or the way that it returns "problematic" results? Because I'm not saying the system is bad for using negative stereotypes. I'm saying the system is bad because it removes natural variety from the results making them misleading. The reliance on stereotypes are just one example of this phenomenon with another example being "suave English spy" only returning Daniel Craig.
Depends on how toxic the culture is in your workplace. This could have been an opportunity to "work" on another JIRA task showing 600% improvement over AI generated code.
Submitting a form repeatedly by hammering enter and having a new HTML fragment rendered on the server deliver the next frame, obviously.
The Russians invaded with exterminations lists.

People in occupied territories are not safe from the Russians. Rather they became cannon fodder.

Surrender was and is probably not an option for Ukraine. Without Western support, what might an industrialized nation do if cornered with no options -- I don't want to know.

Regardless, if Ukraine wants to fight for freedom, you really think we shouldn't enable them? Or is freedom of no value to you?
Interesting: they got Omega to sponsor the time display.
I think you’re right, and they’ve found their useful idiot in Trump.

As for Trump himself, I think he truly believes the rest of the world is taking advantage of the US and tariffs are a way of setting things right. My guess is that in his view, the country (or at the least the rich people he cares about) will benefit from all this.
Generally speaking, it reduces the cost of welfare programs by replacing complex need-specific bureaucracies with a simple blanket payment. Food stamps go away, for example, assuming a large enough payment. Similar for low-income housing, government cheese, Medicaid, etc. (Again, depending on the payment.)

So the total cost to government is lower, but probably not enough that the costs of the program are covered. Beyond that, it’s a wealth redistribution program. Wealthy and/or high-income earners pay more tax so that low-income earners get a net benefit.

The argument in favor is that the wealthy paying more tax is a net positive to society, because $3000 is worth more to someone earning $20K/yr than it is to someone earning $500K per year.
Don't try to reason with this population collapse nonsense. This has always been about racists fearing that "not enough" white westerners are being born, or about industrialists wanting infinite growth. For some prominent technocrats it's both.
What if instead of "a suit and makeup", you consider it what it actually is?

A clown costume.
I don't think most people consciously or explicitly aim to only vote for the guy they relate to. The people they relate to will just naturally be more understandable to them and better match their expectations of what a competent manager looks like.

Realistically, no democracy can really depend on widespread familiarity with the hard skills of civic & political management. It just gets really technical and complicated, voters naturally have to reason about what little they understand, and you understand what you relate to.

I'm not trying to make the point that voting for the reality TV show candidate is good, my point is that the problems with reality TV show candidates are in their blindspot but there are other bad leaders that will fit in your own blindspot.

edit: sorry I just realized that you already made this point in one of your earlier comments! And yes, I personally agree with much of what you say.
I think it also really limits the AI to the context of human discourse which means it's hamstrung by our imagination, interests and knowledge. This is not where an AGI needs to go, it shouldn't copy and paste what we think. It should think on its own.

But I view LLMs not as a path to AGI on their own. I think they're really great at being text engines and for human interfacing but there will need to be other models for the actual thinking. Instead of having just one model (the LLM) doing everything, I think there will be a hive of different more specific purpose models and the LLM will be how they communicate with us. That solves so many problems that we currently have by using LLMs for things they were never meant to do.
I’ve read enough pseudo-intellectual Internet comments that I tend to subconsciously apply a slight negative bias to posts that appear to try too hard to project an air of authority via confidence. It isn’t always the best heuristic, as it leaves out the small set of competent and well-marketed people. But it certainly deflates my expectations around LLM output.
> So you are okay with exploiting people for labour, often in inhumane conditions just so you can buy some unnecessary junk for cheaper?

Do you think that better wages and working conditions in underdeveloped countries are a goal (or even just side-effect) of Trumps policies? How is that achieved?

> Manufacturing capability is extremely important for military. US may be the most advanced, but a $10m rocket will not beat 10,000 $1000 drones.

I don't see a coordinated effort to expand the domestic arms industry that is pushing for those tariffs.

If your narrative is that tariffs are driven by military strategy, then you have to show how those military-industrial concerns drove political decisionmaking- because all I see right now is the president preferring tariffs over taxes for ideological reasons...
How many of them ended up as Cannon fodder in Ukraine?
How was the Alpha a bad bet? x86-64 didn't exist yet, and the architecture was pretty solid technologically. It died because DEC died, not the other way around.
I find that feeding in a bunch of context can help you refactor, add tests to a low coverage application pretty quickly, etc in brownfield apps.
It just seems like the only things we should be importing from across the globe are things that absolutely cannot be produced domestically. For example, I've heard that coffee beans only grow in certain climates, so that would be a commodity that makes sense to import.

Pretty much everything else, including this supposed Tunisian olive oil, just sound like luxury goods to me, and should be priced accordingly.
>People are entitled to the fruits of their labour and control of their intellectual property.

No they aren't, intellectual property is a legal fiction and ideas belong to all of humanity. Humanity did fine without intellectual property for thousands of years, it's a relatively recent creation.
If you haven’t read Lawrence Lessig’s Free Culture, I highly recommend it for addressing some of these issues. It’s vintage now but all the arguments are still relevant. Lessig was one of the drivers of the Creative Commons licenses.
The issue though it’s very tricky to compare these things. We have very high wealth inequality, and very low house affordability and complicated medical insurance. This all contributes to lower quality of life in the end. And what’s even more important Americans now live worse than Americans in 90s. And this is a problem, and globalism might played some role in it.
Is there something you have to enable? I have vertical tabs enabled and nothing happens when I drag one tab over another, no visual cue, nothing.
That's all well and good, but be truthful in your presentation.
None of us write programs from first principles, it's all based on code we've read before. If I was going to write a BASIC interpreter I'd read up on the basics of interpreters, literature which would include sample code, and look at other interpreters' code.

No matter where you think the code came from, the impact of Microsoft BASIC was huge, and they were first to the market.
I still have a cassette tape with Microsoft Basic for the Interact computer. It's got an 8080.
Won't it throw the same "FileNotFound" exception in that case? The issue being bothering to check if it exists in the first place I suppose.
Well even arbalesters get slaughtered by Paladins, unless we are able to push them behind a wall or a corner with only a very tiny attack area for the Paladins.
Sitting here at supper, I just watched one of my cats use some pretty strong language with one of my other cats. It was some very measured chattering to let him know she didn’t enjoy his presence. Chickens most definitely have a language - the egg song, the danger song, the rooster call, the check-in with each other, the check-in with the farmer. My point being, animals all around us use language if we are willing to accept that it is different from our own.
And run a bunch of iteration, and mash the results together maybe?
It's really just about giving yourself enough time to think before you respond. That's the entire difference between a reaction and a response. You can use dialectical and cognitive behavioral therapies to help develop the tolerance to do that. Mindfulness and meditative practices like those in zen buddhism have proven helpful to me as well.
Perhaps you're taking an extreme interpretation of my using the word "logic" and instead you could use "wise mind" or even just "considered thought" as the response in lieu of an emotional one.