skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every conversation about art runs into this problem: you can't criticize art without someone saying that the critic simply doesn't understand the art. Maybe in some cases this is true, but I don't think that's what's happening here. It seems pretty clear that OP understands Black Mirror's point perfectly and still thinks that unrelenting pessimism devoid of nuance is a bad point—they understand what the art is saying and don't like it.
He meant the opposite, you could be paid to be a worker on MTurk but actually just be feeding it LLM output.
That “long time” is a blip on the historical timeline. Most of history is people expecting things to basically stay the same or to get worse.

We’re talking a few decades at a time in a few places scattered over a couple hundred years, maybe, if we mean the median person in that time and place.

The 20th century got a big optimism and productivity boost from finally all but ending cyclical famines, antibiotics, and vaccines, and most of the stuff since has been of far smaller consequence. We’re coming down off the brief high of Haber-Bosch and penicillin, and haven’t found another fix yet. Computers and the Internet ain’t it, so far.
Check out pangolin. You can get all the awesome of cloudflare tunnela without having your traffic sold to dat aggregators. Jims garge on youtube just did a decent video on it.
who's going to stop him? he violated the Emoluments Clause on day 2 of his first term and nobody did a thing.
Very cool! I remember using debug.exe to write directly to 0xB0000 which was mapped my Hercules Monochrome card's video buffer. Rocking dual monitors in the late 80s was pretty cool. Later running the CodeView debugger TUI in your external monochrome monitor was quite a luxury.
Making t-strings not actual strings but a different type is the genius here.

It is now be a generic expression evaluator and a template rendered!
The appendix to this is also good, and goes over things like getting linker scripts to create binaries using objdump and writing C wrappers for syscalls: https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/txt/mopb-app.html
> If a single interpolation is expensive to evaluate, it can be explicitly wrapped in a lambda in the template string literal

> https://peps.python.org/pep-0750/#approaches-to-lazy-evaluat...

Hmm, I have a feeling there's a pitfall.
Reminds me of this article from two years ago [0] and my HN comment on it. Yet another AI startup on the general trajectory of:

1) Someone runs into an interesting problem that can potentially be solved with ML/AI. They try to solve it for themselves.

2) "Hey! The model is kind of working. It's useful enough that I bet other people would pay for it."

3) They launch a paid API, SaaS startup, etc. and get a few paying customers.

4) Turns out their ML/AI method doesn't generalize so well. Reputation is everything at this level, so they hire some human workers to catch and fix the edge cases that end up badly. They tell themselves that they can also use it to train and improve the model.

5) Uh-oh, the model is underperforming, and the human worker pipeline is now some significant part of the full workflow.

6) Then someone writes an article about them using cheap human labor.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37405450
That's not the title, and it's misleading (it's a UI toolkit for go). Popular in:

2022 (181 points, 110 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31785556

2021 (43 points, 67 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28691156

Last I tried it wasn't ready for production (used Wails[0] instead).

[0]: https://wails.io/
Hmm. One thing I have noticed, and something that I discuss with my wife relatively frequently (she notices it as well), is that when I engage with "new" people in something like a professional context, the initial contact indeed often starts as "rough", not rarely unfriendly, even. And that's not just the first sentence, it's through the first few minutes or so.

But when I persist in being nice, and having an "I know you're just doing your job attitude", and depending on the situation also an "I know my problem is convoluted" attitude, then more often than not, people suddenly switch to being nice. Depending on what's appropriate, I add in that I'm not in a rush, or signal for unpleasant situations on my side that I understand that it's not the fault of the person I'm talking to (I rarely, if ever, explicitly state that one, it's just clear).

Just recently I've even had it that several people then suddenly went out of their way to help me, for example giving me "private" extensions to people who should definitely be able to help me, despite that very explicitly not the procedure they or I am supposed to follow.

I always put it down to: People with more public facing jobs have to deal with a lot of angry, dumb, and/or generally unpleasant people, and when they sense that they are now facing someone who is understanding, cooperative, and wants nothing more than for both sides to resolve an issue in a mutually friendly way, but that also understands the limitations of their positions, they jump at that opportunity.

So in some sense, this strengthens your point: Society is full of badly acting (I'm explicitly not saying "bad") people, and this fosters the initial rough response of people in public facing positions.

But on the other hand, my relative success in "turning" people to be friendly and helpful in an instant, suggests that often, people are not like that at their core, but rather are inherently friendly and helpful and have just adopted a defense mechanism.

We have an expression in Germany: "How you shout into the forest, is how it sounds back."
It's useful for doing things like writing parameterized SQL queries that avoid injection attacks. Or anything that quacks like that proverbial duck, where you are going to emit some plaintext and need to validate it as it is filled.
This is exactly what it is. I kind of dig it and I'm glad I know the name now
Did all npmjs access tokens just get revoked?
Seeing some reports on twitter and everyone in my org has had their access tokens revoked.

https://x.com/joelnet/status/1910501708670943232
Without looking at his profile, my guess is: Guy is probably an Ivy Leaguer, or at least has an MBA from a prestigious school, rubs elbows with the "right" crowd, networks with the "right" sorts of folks, looks the part, talks the part, and is a smooth charmer. These guys put all their skill points into Charisma during character creation, and just ride that magic carpet to riches. Investors, when faced with these bullshitters, can't help themselves. As Mulder put it, I Want To Believe!
It's not necessary for a work of fiction to focus on diverse and realistic characters, particularly when its primary aim is to critique a specific aspect of technology. In such cases, characters often function as just means to highlight and amplify that central theme.

Take 1984. It reads like a thought experiment reflecting the author's deepest fears about the dangers of unchecked power structures. Allegedly, Orwell’s own son would have been around 40 years old in the year 1984 (I read so in Pynchon's introduction to this book in Penguin's edition. It was a great essay.)

But, 1984 also features a great protagonist and an absolutely haunting language. While many of the other characters mainly serve to convey the broader ideas, it’s him who grounds the story emotionally. His suffering, his moral collapse, and the eventual loss of his ability was so tough to read and will forever haunt me. When he breaks, it feels like a loss for all of humanity. But, what I mean is characters are not essential to make a great work. When Orwell wants to convey his ideas, the characters are sidelined and ideas take the front wheel.

I understand your perspective. I'm not a fan of many of the episodes either. I really liked the first season, but the ones that followed just didn’t live up to it. And it does not rise above a horror centered around some particular technology. But, it's them give it cultural relevance.
The $40B Startup Mystery Shaking Up Silicon Valley
> Crime in San Francisco plummeted last year at a far faster pace than in other cities of the same size

Might have just set that as the headline?
Totally understand, thanks for being a customer. I'm sorry we weren't able to make the web version as smooth as we wanted to.

We do plan to support Linux. This was probably a little bit of a blind spot for us - not realizing that anyone running a Linux desktop doesn't even have system voice tool to fall back on.
It reminds me of javascripts template literals (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...) and .nets FormattableString (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.formatta...)

The best use case I know of for these kinds of things is as a way to prevent sql injection. SQL injection is a really annoying attack because the "obvious" way to insert dynamic data into your queries is exactly the wrong way. With a template string you can present a nice API for your sql library where you just pass it "a string" but it can decompose that string into query and arguments for proper parameterization itself without the caller having to think about it.
Do what doesn't scale till it scales, right?
Another example of the idea that "treating people like objects" is evil and in fact, is the cause of most evil in the world.
Mechanical Turk exists because there is a line below which people are cheaper, even for massively parallel tasks.

If the LLM really costs less for the level of tasks that are paid for in MT right now, there sure would be a brief arbitrage period followed by the reajusting of that line I assume (of just MT shutting down if it doesn't make sense anymore)
Oh, OK. Well I don't call that a grifter, just an ordinary, garden variety, techie. Many (not all) do that; actively seek funding from militaries for their work.

E.g., just this week MS fired two people for protesting the use of Azure to power the Palestinian Genocide [1].

When people talk about the military-industrial complex, what they really should be talking about is the military-FAANG complex. AI and military intelligence are both the same sad joke.

Lenat was no different in that, so I don't think it's fair to call him a grifter. I do think it's fair to call him out on being an asshole who put money above peoples' lives.

Btw, I've released some of my free stuff under a modified GNU 3.0 with an added clause that prohibits its use for military applications. I've been told that makes it "non-free" and it seems that's a bad thing. Lenat is only one nerd in a long line of nerds that need to think very hard about the ethics of their work.

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[1] https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-protest-employees-fired...

They were protesting about this:

https://www.972mag.com/microsoft-azure-openai-israeli-army-c...
Someone posted a link in response to you, but no money actually crosses borders.

I think the best way to explain it is an example.

My contact needs to get money to his family across the world. I happen to have a cousin that I love and trust who lives there and runs a gas station. My contact gives me 10k USD + a fee and then I call my cousin and tell him to give 10k to the contact's family member if they give the right password. At the end of the year, I meet up with my cousin and I bring him some gold or other goods depending on what our deficits are to each other.
Yeah, it has five fingers
The same thing happens in China. If you want a good job, software will pay way more than hardware. Heck, you even see people from Taiwan doing software jobs in China because they at more than the hardware jobs in Taiwan that they could get.
My meta glasses can do a decent number of those, with the ideal form factor for those use cases.
I think that's against the terms of use of the Google Maps APIs, FYI. You'd have to scrape their pages and risk Google's wrath.
Away with floods! Away with workaday tidal waves!
LLVM/Clang is evolving more quickly than and is a much richer base for innovation than GCC is. LLVM spawned Rust, Swift, and Zig. The most recent GCC languages are Spark and COBOL.

One of the reasons that LLVM has been able to evolve so quickly is because of all the corporate contribution it gets.

GCC users want Clang/LLVM users to know how dumb they are for taking advantage of all the voluntary corporate investment in Clang/LLVM because, if you just used GCC instead, corporate contributions would be involuntary.

The GPL teaches us that we are not really free unless we have taken choice away from the developers and contributors who provide the code we use. This is the “fifth freedom”.

The “four freedoms” that the Free Software Foundation talks about are all provided by MIT and BSD. Those only represent “partial freedom”.

Only the GPL makes you “fully free” by providing the “fifth freedom”—-freedom to claim ownership over code other people will write in the future.

Sure, the “other people” are less free. But that is the price that needs to be paid for our freedom. Proper freedom (“full freedom”) is always rooted in the subjugation of others.
It depends on what you consider failure. If you feel popularity is the main metric then golang is successful. Outside of that metric golang is pretty bad.

The proof is in the pudding. Here’s a quote from rob pike the creator of golang:

“The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt.”

Basically in a nutshell he’s saying they dumbed down golang so it’s useable by beginners. Golang is a step backwards. A failure in language development but a success in popularity.

You dumb down a language to a point where the language is so dumbed down it hits the largest demographic. You are part of that demographic. It’s similar to the demographic that voted for trump because he’s not fakeish like all the other candidates.
For the cosy sci-fi (1) example, I found it introduced plot points too quickly, making the short passage really dense. The model eval said:

> The chapter also introduces several elements quickly (the stranger, the Syndicate, the experiments) which, while creating intrigue, risks feeling slightly rushed.

But there is no score for pacing.

https://eqbench.com/results/creative-writing-v3/deepseek-ai_...
Mayor Lurie Allows Waymo to Operate on Market St
Technically at the time of the arrest he was accused of criminal conduct, but not charged with criminal conduct. I believe he is still within the legally required timeline to be charged with criminal conduct, though he may be subject to deportation without such charges, we'll see.

Your second and third point is confused. The foundation for the government's belief they can deport Khalil is not the Alien Enemies Act (which is what I assume you mean, as there is no Alien and Seditions Act-the term "Alien and Seditions Acts" refers to four separate acts, one of which is the Alien Enemies Act), it's the Immigration and Nationality Act, the same basis Trump tried to use for Executive Order 13769. More specifically, I think they're using 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)(4)(C)(i).

That said, the government is absolutely using the Alien Enemies Act to round up people and send them to El Salvador.

>If these people don't have rights to free speech and due process then nobody does.

So this is an interesting legal question because non-citizens definitely do not have complete free speech protections, but the border of where their speech is protected vs unprotected is not entirely clear. It's not true that if they don't, nobody does - it is absolutely clear that citizens of the United States do have rights to free speech and due process. That has been established many times.
This vibes with my multiyear theory that Tesla self-driving is someone in China driving your car for you like a racing simulator. Perhaps the graphics are even game-ified so the work stays mysterious.
don't people typically say to let thoughts pass by when you're doing meditation? seems like bitter medicine to disallow yourself any fleeting thought
You're the biggest hype merchant for this technology on this entire website. Please.
It is a public company, so someone could be investing on the basis of that technology
In reality though Microsoft just added a WSL; not bad: Linux code can run on Windows now.

Also, if you want Windows to die you need to work with OEMs: I assume that most users simply use whatever OS is pre-installed.
Pre-Training GPT-4.5 [video]
Whatever the hell that is. And no. Zero runtime errors and compiles to run.
Cookies are entirely a design choice, and a lazy one at that. It is entirely possible to identify, authenticate, maintain session, and store data about a user on the server completely without cookies. *

* https://github.com/zelon88/HRCloud3/blob/master/core.php#L54...
No, the format function doesn't "arbitrarily execute code."

An f/t string is syntax not runtime.

Instead of

"Hello " + subject + "!"

you write

f"Hello {subject}!"

That subject is simple an normal code expression, but one that occurs after the opening quote of the literal and before the ending quote of the literal.

And instead of

query(["SELECT * FROM account WHERE id = ", " AND active"], [id])

you write

query(t"SELECT * FROM account WHERE id = {id} AND active")

It's a way of writing string literals that if anything makes injection less likely.
Considered making one into a headband + chinstrap for your cpap users who already use a chin strap?

Then we can replace the chin strap part regularly as it wears out.

I’ve seen a few people on the cpap forum that wear the full ecg skull cap for data recording.
> Or are you saying you'll retroactively hate a song once you figure out it was AI generated?

Can't speak for OP, but for me personally, I don't mind AI augmented content, as long as it's done well. Eg. I recently played a game called "Slay the Princess", where they very clearly used Claude to write a lot of the dialogue/narration, but that didn't detract from the experience.

On the other hand, I hate it when I open a youtube video and the script is 100% chatgpt slop.

Music -- a lot of it is already made using software. If I enjoy listening to it, I don't care how it was made.

What about you?
I love the audio when you connect a star, and the attention to detail.
This particular consent decree would a give judge binding control to enforce whatever the White House says.

The ADA is, in important contrast to this situation, a law.
Republicans, however, will face consequences in a year and a half.
I think I saw a black and white photograph of your micro mouse in British magazine back then. I used to subscribe to “Your Computer” to feed my ZX Spectrum habit.
GP are wrong about which law applies, but they are applying that law correctly.

The ePrivacy Directive requires consent to read or write from the user's terminal device, except when strictly required for the functionality the user requested. Unlike GDPR, it does not allow a different Legal Basis. It must be consent, or strictly functionally necessary. Nothing else.

The passage of GDPR did impact the ePrivacy Directive in that it updated the definition of "consent." The ePD doesn't have one; it referenced the definition in the DPD, which was replaced by GDPR. This is why people blame the GDPR for cookie banners, although really it's incidental.
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
wrong post :facepalm:
Thanks. We're EEG, not ECG. We only show a few studies on the website, however there is over a decade of research in slow-wave enhancement, which is what our stimulation protocol is based upon.
How did this one slip through the net? The guy didn't have enough money to pay the bribe?
That website is not authoritative and should not be given more credence than your median tech blog.
As I said: it gives a judge binding control, not the White House.
IMO, yes. You are storing data you don't need to store, and adding a (small) fingerprint to the user's persistent profile with your site - so don't store it. Losing the ability to run A/B tests is not a big deal.
Don't forget string.Template:

import string
t = string.Template("foo $bar")
t.substitute(bar="bar")
I think you mean EEG, not ECG.

Our first product won't be focused on CPAP users, but we're based in Sydney, Australia, which is the home of ResMed, so have a few contacts there. It's not an area we'd look at going into on our own.
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A new progressivism embracing construction over obstruction must find new allegories for technology and the future
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WTF? Somebody needs to touch some !@#@%^ grass. Like roll around in it for hours, maybe smoke some (legal) weed before hand.

It's sci-fi entertainment, for crying out Louis, not a political or philosophy movement.

Get over it, get outside, and go hug a tree.
Wait, I wasn't supposed to be using f strings in SQL queries?!
(don't @ me)
Xi said that American suppliers couldn’t even ask for discounts, so that’s the end that. China has been looking at dumping these smaller industries for a while, they don’t innovate much, and there are better things to invest the capital and workers on.
Not very upbeat actually. The episode drops several reminders that the simulated people can't die, by accident or choice. After they tire of life, they are trapped in an eternity of boredom and madness.
.format is also nice because you can have more complex subexpressions broken over multiple lines instead of having complex expressions inside the {}.
> people preparing an event and the pictures should be online the next day

They can use a different platform, print the pictures on paper, there are a million ways to deal with these kind of issues.

An earthquake could strike and the event might need to be postponed.

If nobody's life or health is at risk, it is not urgent enough to sacrifice someone else's health for it.
i was very happy when that arch-chroot + pacstrap simplified my arch setup not having to run those mounts (i remember doin the same setup process for arch for centos/rhel just to not use anaconda and removing bloat, or rather installing what i wanted)

for btrfs, if you use a consistent volume mapping on your systems, its pretty easy. in arch setup i typically enable ssh and have a pretty simple set of bashisms for target device, compression, and mount points. then its copy-pasta since its a boiler plate for when i need to recover or fresh install

not glanced at manjaro so not familiar with its install-methods
Why not spend the money? That is a 20 year runway.

It isn't a law of nature that the endowment must always grow. It serves the institution, not the other way around.
What is the point if not to spend it when it matters?
Crystal 1.16.0
A library can't capture interpolated variables
I mean, it's just doing STT, it's not trying to run inference on a frontier model, and if you have to connect to a remote datacenter vs your own machine that could add latency that slows down the experience. There are also tradeoffs in deployment in terms of latency vs throughput that doesn't occur on your local machine that only ever is doing STT on one thing at a time.

I'm skeptical of the claim that local is literally faster, but it's not impossible in the way you suggest.
It’s doomer fuel, just like how most AI doomer always reference Skynet to scare people. Most lack the practical imagination because it is often complex, so they let Hollywood do most of the work for them.
I was warned and then suspended from MTurk around a decade ago while testing a workflow for audio transcription that worked a little too well. Not sure if the policies are more flexible today, but there was a lot of low hanging fruit back then.
You need a lot more than one reference though. At minimum I think you need 8 correspondences to solve for the camera’s pose. Things like airplanes could work if you had enough of them, but then the imagery in all your cameras would have to be shutter synced, which is impractical with a bunch of web cams