skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand that illustrations can be powerful and valuable.

I also understand from this article that nobody is willing to pay for this person's replacement, and the current freelancer quoted cannot even find it in themselves to motivate others to do this kind of work.

Are these folks becoming endangered, or are there many people available but nobody to pay a living wage? Maybe this article does something to encourage funding these positions?

Also:

> "The prospect of being among the last of her kind is one of the reasons that Tangerini, who could have retired some time ago, is still here."

If the Smithsonian was willing to replace her, I'd imagine that she's actually blocking the future of the career field, rather than helping it. My supposition is that they are not planning on hiring another full-timer.
> Also, he seems to be wrong about "manipulation of evidence" by Swedish police: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22204121

If you trust claims of a more or less random person writing a comment on this site.
What Unreleased FSD Autopilot Sees. Straight from Tesla Autopilot Website
I changed the title after that comment was posted—first to "translation of", and then to "work on" because https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22199282 argued—apparently reasonably—that she made contributions beyond translation. "Working on X" is standard English for a scholar studying something. It doesn't imply that they're adding to X itself. Harold Bloom worked on Shakespeare, but not even he would say that he contributed to Shakespeare's plays.

I'm sorry to come across as rude, mindless, and dictatorial. That's definitely not the intention. The intention is to prevent HN threads from getting stuck in local flamewar states that tend to burn like garbage fires and give off fumes rather than information. That's a big problem on a site like this—in fact it's the biggest problem on a site like this. It doesn't, alas, mean that we make every call correctly. If you read lopmotr's GP comment in isolation and without the flamewar problem in mind, it is probably fine.
Sorry. You're wrong and you're spreading SEVEN years old information, which is not true in 2020.

Telegram crypto was redone, and is now using standard primitives. You can verify it at high level at https://core.telegram.org/mtproto or low level if you'd like to check sourcecode in their github. BTW, telegram has reproducible builds since last year.

I'm tired of people repeating 7 years old meme without verification.
Does Football Bear Responsibility for a Chiefs Legend’s 1980 Murder-Suicide?
The Tesla thing probably depends on where you are. If you have a lot of people driving the high-end models, that would match up with the assertion. If you’re in a middle class area with mostly model 3s, then you might have a more reasonable experience.
These "super edge cases" are happening monthly. THAT's the problem. The examples given weren't a historical review, they're a sampling of what happened in 2019! If these were in any way rare or outside the norm, I'd feel safe ignoring them, but even in cases of absolute truth and fact (jade in your vagina does not cure anything) we get a netflix series.
Not the guy you’re responding to but I also have a chip on my shoulder about children: people won’t shut up about me having them. My wife and I made the decision to not have children but every conversation it gets brought up. We buy a two seater car: there goes any hope of having children. We go on a two week vacation: you won’t be able to do that if you have children. She quits her job: nows the perfect time to have children! It gets old REALLY quickly.

Some people don’t want children. Ever. But there’s a lot of people just like you who can’t stop talking about children in every conversation. Why?
Standardization is like a dream to me, and every time it advances I feel ecstatic. However, it's important to note that standardization must not get in the way of change. Unification does not mean that we can't, in a unified manner, continue to upgrade. At this point in time, this is especially critical to keep in mind, as USB-C is physically flawed - it often becomes loose to the point of losing connection, or even falling out entirely, over time spans as short as one year. This is unacceptable.
It’s not nice though. You can’t even guarantee what your USBC cable does.
It's wild how you've done exactly what the priests of entrepreneurship preach, and it hasn't worked for you, and people cannot accept that. You must have done something else! You must have done something wrong!
> When one does this it is clear that there will in fact be two documents regarding the interrogation and a separate PM explaining this.

Melzer claims there is only one statement/document. From the article: "We don’t know, because the first statement was directly written over in the computer program and no longer exists."
This was shown repeatedly not to work. The only troll-free forums are those with good moderators.
> Can it really be said to be a "simulation" at that point?

Nope. And even if our reality really is a "simulation" in the sense that we're just the result of a program running on a computer, that simulation is so comprehensive that I don't think it could be called a simulation at all. It's just a different layer of reality.

If you perfectly simulate something, after all, you haven't simulated it at all -- you've created the real thing.
Does it actually do that? Have you read the legislation, or are you just saying what you assume it says?
These articles describe the vTaiwan system, developed in Taiwan to build consensus.

"People compete to bring up the most nuanced statements that can win most people across" different factions.

It includes an iterative process of proposing new statements on a topic, and then voting on the statements. Over time, statements are developer which more and more of the voters agree with.
I want to fully charge my phone in 1 minute. Is it possible with USB-C?
> People cannot live in a building under construction, they have to find somewhere else to live while it is being b

Incorrect. Apartments can be built on empty lots or on land currently used for things other than apartments. Yet this kind of construction still meets fierce opposition from people claiming to be preventing gentrification:

https://missionlocal.org/2019/02/how-the-developer-of-sfs-hi...

https://reason.com/video/san-francisco-mission-housing-crisi...
If I understand it correctly, when people die the state and IRS collect taxes from the estate based on the value. Since most people these days die in debt, it's most likely the property will have to be sold to cover the taxes owed by the estate.

This would mean the inheritance in many cases will be the cash left over from the property sale.
Mine would be the Fano plane mnemonic for octonion multiplication, using two curves of constant width instead of the triangle and the circle. That's got the quaternions covered with the inside curve.

It can go next to the skeletal formula for benzaldehyde on my imaginary nerd canvas.
Dude
Le-performance is always important. Helper functions can be added for readability but perf perf perf perf.
Odin's `foreign` system (FFI) is very easy to use and allows for a lot simpler build system in the process too.

I highly recommend you read the overview (https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/) and many of the Odin wrappers and bindings for more information on this topic https://github.com/odin-lang/odin-libs
I agree; if this law were put to a vote, I would vote against it. I just think it's conceivable that we hit a point where there's very little end-user benefit to additional improvements, and we achieve an equilibrium that essentially solves the given problem[0]. The catch is: we don't necessarily know in advance at what point that will actually be the case (hence the irony of the 640k line, which I'm sure sounded very sensible at the time, just as the 18.4 EB thing sounds very sensible to me now).

[0] One of the reasons that the loss of the headphone jack is so exasperating, is that's an example of an ideal universal connector; it solved the problem so well, there was little reason to improve on it, either in quality or function.
The end of the dream. The start of the resistance
How is this on topic in the slightest?
Oh man, I have the same memory. Back in ‘92 or ‘93, in addition to the “^]” telnet trick, our local dial up gopher could launch vi sessions for sending emails which they hadn’t thought to lock down to prevent it from executing “sh”. Poking around in those university systems was my first exposure to Unix and I’d say pretty directly influenced my career path.

So, thanks telnet!
No, the people of CA have surrendered their ability to make these decisions to the State in exchange for certain benefits. The people in CA cannot, for instance, allow workers from London to freely immigrate despite their shared interests and mutual benefit.

I'm not making a value judgement on that claim -- just pointing out that it's no different than if two or more countries were to subvert their provinces/cities/communities/etc's wishes and allow for freedom of movement in pursuit of some benefit.
We had the 30 pin dock connector on iPods and iPhones for eleven years and now lightning for eight.

Forcing people to throw away most of a decade's worth of already purchased cables and accessories does seem like an odd way to cut down on ewaste given the fact that Apple already switched the chargers themselves to USB-C.

I guess my lightning compatible alarm clock/docking station can go live on a nice farm with my long gone 30 pin alarm clock/dock, where they can both run and play.
This happens, do you have a question or comment about it?
> Before, around 2010-2012, people who disagreed would usually leave it at that and walk away respectfully.

Bruh you have clearly never been to usenet lol
Maybe I'm missing something, but I can see how this would apply to a platform providing end-to-end encryption and how restricting that is a bad thing. What's to stop someone from using, e.g. PGP in an email? Isn't that outside the scope of this?
The implications are rather ominous. It's difficult not to read "it's an engineered virus" into sentences like "similarity of novel inserts in the 2019- nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag is unlikely to be fortuitous" and "our findings suggest unconventional evolution of 2019-nCoV" - quoted directly from their conclusory paragraph.
I also use it, and it works, but this tells us nothing about its actual security.

Security people are also subject to fads and fashion just like web developers or indeed any other technical group. Many will endorse the primitives developed for example by Dan Bernstein without understanding anything about how they actually work, or having read and understood papers describing their security. Just because he has some hacker "street cred" (arguably well deserved) as the developer of qmail, etc.
You can get a reasonable estimate by taking the wholesale price of the thing you're analyzing, dividing by an average price of electricity for industrial use (like, around US$60/MWh, in the quaint non-SI units traditionally used in the trade), and multiplying that by some fudge factor like 20% to account for the fact that much of the cost of things is due to non-energy inputs like raw materials, skilled labor, and interest. This gives a result correct to within a factor of 3 for the vast majority of goods and services, while using LCA numbers from a quarter century ago did not. In this case the result is 2.3 MJ per watt (peak) of low-cost solar panels using €0.17/Wp from PVXchange and SolarServer. That's almost an order of magnitude lower than the 22 MJ/W you used in the article (assuming 16% efficiency; with 21% efficiency it's 16.7 MJ/W. I'm not sure which one your original number was for.) So I think you may have gotten within an order of magnitude, but only just.

If the numbers you were using were correct, then just the energy input for the solar panels would have cost more than the wholesale price for the modules.
Yikes, if that happened at your workplace I hope you talked to HR about it. That’s a “joke” in the form of a death threat.
You mean there's a way to establish yourself as an arcane code wizard and make yourself irreplaceable? Sign me up!
GPUs don't have dedicated matrix hardware anymore, making it questionable whether you really need to convert your GA structures to matrices first. [1] finds that quaternions are faster than matrices on modern hardware; I find that questionable, but it at least shows that they are comparable.

1: https://tech.metail.com/performance-quaternions-gpu/
Instagram accounts, YouTube channels and Tiktok accounts
A mathematical formulation of the tax code? (2019)
Yeah having 2 ecosystems where some stuff depends on GC and some stuff doesn't is always going to be a turnoff to me. Glad that Odin and Zig made the decision to not.
Evolutionary enslavement. With the ability of a task to be bargained down to a very small payment by the elimination of local monopolies most of the developed world people would find the price too low to bother with - as I have observed.
Good thing cars can not be assembled by gig workers as the hourly wage would plummet.
That said, there are some mines in Australia that are creating trucks that can be driven by an AI to haul loads from the pits on a well delineated road = analogous to a Gig worker the AI works for a few volts - a true slave?
Would a country limit foreign gig or AI workers? They may at some point do this if there are hordes of people fired and their jobs gigged or AI'd.
This will unfold over the next few years, a lot like autonomous cars/truck will replace some (but not all) drivers.
A cynical person would say that this is because the stated targets weren't actually the targets, just like with this act. (Stated targets: sex traffickers, real targets: tech companies offering e2e encryption)
That's not a novel phrase, and it's also at least partially a peace treaty between worldviews with fundamental differences.
Indeed, it was Zeronet. Thank you for reminding me!
My PhD advisor was a stickler for citing original sources. Really, really original sources. He made me cite some papers written by Lagrange in the 17th century in French, when neither he nor I nor nearly anyone else who would ever read my dissertation could speak French.

I got to the point where I needed to cite an original source for the quaternion equations, so I cited the bridge.

He got the message.
>In his recent book, Human Compatible, Russell lays out his thesis in the form of three “principles of beneficial machines,” echoing Isaac Asimov’s three laws of robotics from 1942, but with less naivete.

It is a recent trend to brush off Isaac Asimov's laws without an actual critique. Which betrays a lack of concrete thought in the matter.

It's not that Asimov's laws are flawless, but that countering them seems easier than it really is. I have seen various bad, hand-wave dismissals but I can't recall any careful critiques.

I have the new book, Human Compatible, and I buy Russell's argument but note that his rules are much more abstract, and therefore it is perhaps harder to counter.
Sharply curtail the ability of companies to pour money into politics. Revoke the "Citizens United" decision that means that corporations are "people" whenever it pleases them to be so, especially for purposes like pouring a lot of money into a reactionary politician who stirs up a lot of hate and makes lots of regulatory decisions in the favor of corporations.

Limit how many media outlets any one entity can own. When all the news and all the entertainment is owned by a giant inhuman corporation whose bottom line is solely profit, they can and will act much more in their interest than in the interest of any of the individual humans that make up this corporation, never mind the humans they provide news and entertainent to.

If you have a shitload of tech money, move the fuck out of Expensive Tech City, stop giving your money to landlords, start giving it to organizations and politicians who are working to put back the barriers to this sort of thing that corporations have been relentlessly campaigning against for their entire lifespan. If you run a tech company that's making obscene profits then start sinking some of that into that sort of stuff, fuck "increasing shareholder value", have your accountants figure out creative ways to stiff your VC if you've got that to deal with instead of finding creative ways to pay less taxes. Give money to unions, unions work to make shit better for every worker, and right now part of why people are so easy to stir up is because they are broke and afraid of the fact that they are one financial crisis away from homelessness/death/etc.

Oh also I guess yeah stop trying to make another goddamn Zuckerfortune by relentlessly promoting whatever creates "engagement" in your new social media site and not giving two shits about the fact that nothing gets people to keep coming back to spend time on your hellsite like an intense argument, because all you care is how long they're there looking at the ads you've parasitized all around their human-to-human communications. Social sites are not helping but this shit has been building since before "social media" was even a thing anyone said.
Quite an improvement. However, i feel like that the tweet also displays the (sometimes emotional) feelings toward exceptions that a large part of the C++ community has.

Herb Sutter made an excellent presentation about this "fragmentation" of the community and steps towards fixing this split:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARYP83yNAWk
There definitely is something to fix, and it has nothing to do with free speech. Something about text communications makes people much more aggressive than they would be face to face. People wouldn’t say half the things they say online if they had to say them out loud.

PM, public forum, real names on Facebook, it doesn’t matter. Something inherent to text communications makes people more toxic than they would be in person. It’s not a free speech issue.
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Strong encryption and decentralization is the only effective way to keep these power-hungry leeches in check.
Normal is below noob!

No matter what you do, for anything you put effort into, you are probably above average at it, when you include not just everyone who tries it but also everyone who hasn't even tried.

You can be the worst person at your job and still do a job worth getting paid for.
Your logic is flawed and/or the statement misleading.

While storing more than a single bit with bit error rate >= 50% does require at least some error modeling, it does not mean profound implications on information theory¹.

Yes, normal SSDs would not have raw bit error rate anywhere near 90%. Still, I recall tales of flash media approaching raw 90% error rate - mostly shitty SD cards making use of the not-completely-trashed sectors of scrap high-capacity chips with heaps of ECC.

¹ unless you really do mean general (theoretical) 90% error correction, which would indeed imply things such as P = NP and P != NP, yet it cannot be applied as an argument on specific real-world errors.
Yeah I've been online since ~92 and have been saying approximately the same thing as well. Back then you hop onto IRC and you're generally talking with academics and programmers from around the world. Browse any web directories and it's extremely information-rich.

There was a real technical or situational hurdle to even be present on the net back then, and I think most users had a sense of wonder and perhaps respect for the platform they were privileged to even get a glimpse into and partake in. Maybe? Today the amount of low-effort/low-value thoughtless vitriol makes up a much much larger percentage of the communication and web content than "back in the day". Spend but a few moments and you will encounter some flamebait/sensationalistic noise. It used to be a lot harder to be subjected to such stuff. Tragedy of the internet commons, or something.
Scientists publish claim to have discovered HIV genes in coronavirus RNA
yeah, tell me something new smirking face emoji
"I've worked in this industry for a while, helping people immigrate to Canada"

You still working in this? Would like to have a chat if possible.
I can't speak for Odin but Zig (also a niche language) is compatible with all C libraries so the ecosystem side is very good.
FCC plans to take action over wireless Real-Time location data disclosures
Unfortunately, I don't think it's as simple as "just go back to smaller groups". For companies, more users = more revenue, there isn't realy much incentive to not try and pull in as many people as possible. And then for most normal users, if they here about some big site, they're inclined to join that so they don't miss out on the the funny tik tok memes/all of their friends being on instagram/etc. For them, what benefit is there to a smaller site where you can't get as many followers or where your friends/favorite celebrity isn't a member.

I agree with you that size is one of the main contributing factors to the problem, I just don't think smaller sites is a practical solution for the public at large. That being said, if you don't care about "fixing" the public problem, then you're right on the money. If you personally don't want to experience toxicity, get off the big sites, it's that easy. I just don't see that being a fix for the average teenager/college student/boomer
The resolution doesn't require any specific connector and the implementation would be from a European Commission directive that could be updated as technology evolves.
I don't think anything has beat the designs of Clay or V, but they aren't really usable. Then again zig intentionally breaks on windows text files so I couldn't say it is widely usable either.
> The only thing worse than the "evil" genie giving us exactly what we ask for is the genie that decides its inferences about our actual intents/wants/needs/motivations based purely on our behaviors matter more than what we intentionally express as our intents/wants/needs/motivations.

It's not worse.

> a date rapist

A rapist shares 99+% of definitions and values with you as a fellow human being. AI won't (unless you somehow program them in). Rapist has his evil motivations, but won't suddenly invent a virus that kills the whole human species because you asked him to stop neighbor kids trampling your garden. AI might. If you tell it not to kill anybody it might destroy our civilization to prevent us from killing ourselves with global warming. Why not - it only makes sense.

Simplest way to ensure safety for the maximum number of human beings is to anesthetize everybody and put them on life support till their natural death. Perfect record is possible - you might cure addicts and prevent crimes and wars. If you specify people have to be awake as often as they usually are - it can keep them awake but restrained. You want people to have freedom of movement? Ok - you just released the whole prison population :) Keeping criminals in prison is OK? Then it may make everybody a criminal for a quick fix. Or just drug everybody to WANT to be restrained. And so on, and so on.

There's infinite number of possible courses of action that we discard without consciously thinking about them because of our assumptions. You have to put these assumptions in the AI, each and every one of them, and they are very subtle and invisible for us most of the time. And they often border on philosophy and morality, and defining them is political by definition.

It's probably impossible to code all our values and assumptions in by hand. That's a much bigger problem for safe general AI than a post-factum explanations that rub your morality the wrong way.

> Asimov's Three Laws

Are self-contradictory and useless for anything except literature.