skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The four techniques to stop AI from getting out are as follows:

Hash Checking inside the CPU circuit for AI like processor signatures.

Functional Units for Graph Algorithms rather than Addition/Division. That means no low level coding on high compute processors, just routines for complex functions designed by Intel or their subsidiaries.

No trickiness: Tricky work arounds for rules means that people will cheat to create AI. Expand this to NO CODING.

No Turing Complete: Thought experiment:: AI works on GPUS. Let it out to CPU code. How scary is this. Wait 3 days to figure this one out. But give the terrorists 1500 years and you'll get scared.

This is of course independent of Data Center Security, including speaker/receiver based internet that operates at the speed of sound in air and is slower than an explosive blast to clear out the AI.
See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27077320

The Boring company is essentially redesigning trains. With single-family train cars that are also very overpriced normal cars. That need to be substantially modified into very inefficient train cars to go down the tunnel.
You can, if you claim you were too scared of COVID to work.
> That is literally what racism is!

No, it is the opposite of racism. Racism is when some people are treated differently just because of their race. When you do well because you're smarter and work harder, regardless of race, then that's the opposite of racism.

> White people mostly make up the top 1%, so we should give them more opportunities because they're in the top 1% because you think they're genetically superior?

You are putting words in my mouth.

> The children of people in the top 1% are not predestined to be genetically superior.

Your argument is with Charles Darwin, not me!

If the goal is to help people in lower socio-economic brackets, then the best way to do that is to make college free, not eliminate standardized tests. I see too many deserving students accepted into good colleges decide that they can't go because they can't afford it.
Until I got to console.log('3'), started adding numbers, and got made fun of.
A talking engineer?
So when people have a safety net they don't have to settle for wage slavery?

Seems like things are working exactly as they should in a modern society. Business needs to pay a living wage to attract workers.
Those I trust that would sell me the battery I need are buying from Dyson and so out of stock. They also charge 2x for a smaller battery. I'm left with janky brands: either from amazon or from janky companies.

I've had great luck in these situations buying from a small company that filtered out which cheap brands were good products. However I already have some other reason to trust those small companies.
Some companies encourage you to to do this when you're discussing the company online. Even if you work on something totally unrelated at a company, it's a bad look if you sing the praises of a product and someone digs through your comment history and replies "Hang on, you work for the company that makes that product". Better to be upfront about any biases or caveats
My own view is that grazing animals (cows, sheep, goats) are an excellent thing to have when you have land where human-relevant nutrition won't grow. Those sheep wandering the Scottish (and Welsh, and Lake District) hillsides, eating some of the fairly few plants that will grow in that soil (and climate) is a fairly smart thing to do (given a high level of control, given the total reshaping of those landscapes caused by overgrazing in past).

Same thing with cows and goats in other parts of the world, where they (somehow) do OK munching on plants that grow where the stuff we'd eat will not (similar concerns about overgrazing, shit production and soil damage).

It's also true of small-scale poultry production, though my impression is that you need pretty high quality soil conditions and plants to grow chickens without supplementary food.

That's a far cry from anything we have now, and tends to imply a reduction in meat consumption on a level that I don't think many Americans (and perhaps quite a few Europeans) would currently endorse.
Shame the PC port was so terrible, and the developers flatly refused to fix or improve it. So much so that in the end a fan made a patch which fixed many of the issues.

If your game is so crappy that the customers have to make their own patches to fix it, then you don't deserve to be supported as a game developer.

P.S. the game also shipped with Denuvo DRM, and the fan-made patch mod also had its own DRM/piracy checks.

That's why this game will never get my money.
The article refers to two letters from leading researchers arguing against the lab escape hypothesis, one published in a Nature journal. It’s not like the media were spinning this story out of whole cloth. The whole thing was unfortunately hyper politicized from the start.
ClipData.jl Easy interaction between Excel and Julia
> There isn't an easy way today to explore or search what is contained in the Common Crawl index.

By that you mean searching the full text contents of their crawl, right?

The index is super easy to search nowadays -- in pretty much any language you can slap a few lines of code around a get request (using range requests [0] if needed), and explore a columnar representation of the index [1].

[0] https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec1...

[1] https://commoncrawl.org/2018/03/index-to-warc-files-and-urls...
It's in a very early stage, because I'm porting it from a previous Python code base, so it's not yet available. That said, I'll leave here two links for Racket software that inspire me.

1. Gemini server with tons of features, that I use personally:

https://sr.ht/~rwv/dezhemini/

2. Graphical Gopher browser:

https://github.com/erkin/gophwr
Great observation! It feels to me kind of like the 'blub' problem [0], in that these are both cases where technical folks misjudge the utility of something new (to them) because it merely makes it easy to do something, instead of making it possible to do something. And maybe that 'something' they either don't know they want, or don't realize how often they would use it if it were available, or don't appreciate that others want.

Edit: It might also be an example of the curse of knowledge: what seems trivial to an expert may be a showstopper for a layperson. An expert suffering the curse would implicitly assume that everyone else has the same knowledge sufficient to make convoluted method seem trivial.

[0] http://paulgraham.com/avg.html
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge
In the United States you cannot collect unemployment if you quit without good cause, which varies by state. Most states are pretty strict, and generally "good cause" is limited to things like documented sexual harassment, domestic violence, illness, disability or caring for a family member.
What if a certain group of laws (say drug laws) was created specifically so police could target certain minorities? There isn't any particular motivation in the law to arrest more black people for marijuana use, but despite similar usage by race (2-4% difference https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brookings-now/2017/08/11/char...) arrests for Blacks happen at 3-6 times Whites. There's lots to suggest the war on drugs is racially motivated, but it criminalizes drug use and possession, not race (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_the_war_on_drugs)
> For context, I have professionally deployed Linux on USB, ever since around 2004.

Could you point to some good sources that explain in detail the whole "bootable USB" world? It seems it's always a hassle to get right, especially when preparing a Windows bootable USB.
Either you or your ex is lying. You don't get unemployment if you quit.
>They'll be taking similar stance as gnome devs and start telling users "it's not our bug", "report it to gnome devs".

I'm not sure I understand where that happened, the issue you posted is closed, and mpv has since implemented client side decorations.

>Surely zero code in client is the "simplest".

There aren't any zero code solutions, implementing xdg-decoration in the clients is more than zero lines of code. If you violate the spec and ignore the protocol requirement that the client must provide a CSD fallback then it's not a lot of code but again, you could also provide a library that allows clients to draw a prefab CSD around themselves in a very small amount of code.

>it also makes sure the decoration always works and behaves the same way in every application. It also won't stop working if the application freezes. Sure with a magical library that you managed to force on everyone at least the consistency and "not buggy" could be solved. But why is this necessary when others don't need it?

I've seen other ways those can be achieved without SSD. Implementing a good looking and good behaving SSD that works well with every app is not simple either, and it's always going to be necessary to solve that because the core problem of making good decorations is always the same.

>And I surely don't want to see, libkde-decoration.so, libgnome-decoration.so, libwhatever-decoration.so

The idea I suggested is for the library to load the relevant kde and gtk symbols with dlopen, so there would not need to be multiple libraries. This I believe is how SDL already operates under the hood for some things.
That's on my to-do list for next week. :)
If those jobs don’t produce >$15/hr, they don’t happen.
> We will end up with devices where the user has to know nothing, cannot do anything and is lazy and easily led.

Sounds like a good summary for iPhone.
Billions of dollars and years of financial planning were done based off of those unnamed forecasters.
You’d rather be collecting welfare than making $150k?
Proton Mail pretends that everything is encrypted and therefore all communication is private. Fastmail does not claim such things, but relies on more conventional mailing services plus corporate clients. All depends how paranoid you are.
Doesn't Amazon allow sellers to send freebies to people and still count as a verified purchaser?

For me, a good start would be:

- Only allow people to rate things that they bought with their own money, as evidenced by a credit card or bank account linked with their name on it.

- Only allow people to rate things after they have purchased multiple products, or after you've spent above a certain threshold (e.g. $100).

AFAICT, those are not currently requirements on Amazon and would go a long way (in my layman's imagination) towards fixing the problem.
This is because OP's comment is simply an appeal to authority without any direct evidence or reasoning. Listen to the experts. This is highly counter to the hacker ethos, and personally, I'm disappointed to see it as a top comment on HN.
Would a robotaxi in Detroit, Chicago, or Minneapolis in the winter be viable?

I'm thinking about those roads where it's nominally a two lane in each direction, but the snow banks make it a 1.5 lane in each direction (if that).

Where one doesn't start into the intersection when the light turns green - to give any cars that have the need to slide through. And likewise the ability for the robotaxi to realize "well, I've got no traction - guess I'm going to slide through this intersection and the left turn is impossible - I'm going straight through."

A robotaxi in LA, SF... ok. Pheonix - sure. But I've yet to see any examples of a self driving vehicle able to drive in winter condition roads in the midwest.
Well, they have their own explanation, but as I understand it:

- there's an epidemiology of violence: untreated violence tends to breed more violence. Fear of violence and responses to violence cause violence of their own. Either retaliation or pre-emptively carrying weapons.

- squalor tends to breed violence in the same way as it breeds disease

- this stuff often starts at school (see US "school to prison pipeline")

- A&E departments of hospitals are convenient contact points for people who've been stabbed or punched - this is an opportunity to discourage them from taking revenge or starting more fights

- also it recognises that the effectiveness of police before a crime has been committed is (rightly) pretty limited, but social services can perform other kinds of interventions.
New Issue of the Journal of the History of Ideas
At the same time, despite Russia's early start, they've now administered ~20 million doses, to a population of ~145 million, compared to ~50 million doses administered in the UK, to a population of ~67 million.

We have a natural experiment between countries that waited for standard clinical trials before beginning mass vaccinations, and countries that didn't. It's too early to take the "final score" [accurate, globally accepted final death tolls by country probably won't be available for a year if not years] to see who handled the pandemic best, from beginning to end, but right now it doesn't seem like vaccinating first made for a lasting lead in the vaccination race.
Looking at the chart, it has exactly the appearance I would expect. Re-employment after some kind of sudden downtrend would display the same behavior as fuel prices at retail gas stations I would think. That is to say a steep change followed by a slow movement in the other direction.
Most millionaires don't get that way and stay that way by YOLO'ing it all on meme stocks.
It's because a lot of economists are as dumb as rocks. People like Larry Summers predicted a million new jobs because they are viewing the stimulus plan through the narrow and misleading lens of "output gap" and can't figure out other reasons people can't or don't work like limited mobility, housing crisis, and child care.
There is a lot of truth to that, but it only applies where a local retailer stocks what you are interested in. There are a lot of parts that can't be got locally. There are a lot of hobbies that can't support a local store.
This was a prepared food supplier that serviced a major fast food chain.

It's work in a hot environment where you have to wear pretty significant PPE all day. Very uncomfortable, manual labor.
Considering the bug report has lots of examples of why they need SSD or at least some other solution (libgtk doesn't work for all the use cases, e.g. vulkan, libdecoration doesn't look "native"), also including constructive feedback, but the gnome devs close it with reply "Enough spam for today. Locking the issue.", I consider them to be quite the jerks indeed.
> I'm saying that mosts nuts (almonds, walnuts, cashews, etc.) are not consumed purely for their calorific value.

Most food isn’t consumed purely for its caloric value, but the calorie density of nuts means that they are often a major source of calories as consumed.

> Nuts are primarily used to add flavouring to a meal based on (say) rice

Arguably, preference for the flavor is a result of them being used for a long time to add additional fat and protein calories to a meal based on rice. They don’t have to be the major component to be significant that way, since rice has little protein and less fat and is far less calorie dense than nuts are.

> or as snacks rather than full meals.

Snacks tend to be eaten largely to fill a caloric demand (not necessarily need, as it can be in people habituated to surplus) and a nut-based snack may be a bigger calorie chunk than a “full meal” of less calorie dense foods the same person eats.
Engineer says Sales Person overstated features...

Isn’t this the norm in any company? It’s always a struggle to keep a lid on sales promises!
If they haven't achieved full self driving, how could they know, and hence claim, to have the necessary hardware?
Let me know where you are! I know 5 - 10 people locally on unemployment looking for jobs >$13 / hr, 25hrs / week! They'd LOVE a good job with $20/hr, full time, and benefits. There is absolutely no such thing anywhere else in the USA, the people where you live are so lucky! I'm in a second tier West Coast city and anywhere with a help needed sign still up is offering ~$11/hr.
Watching it now. How so?
> Water, like money, circulates

I'm not an expert in this area but I have strong doubts that this argument is useful in this case.

Let's think of an example. Two people are die because of dehydration. Luckily they happen to find a full 1 liter water bottle.

One of the them quickly grabs it and drinks it all. Then she tells the utterly shocked other person: "Don't you worry, water, like money, circulates. You see, I will eventually pee out this water and it will evaporate and it will become rain and so on".

My point is, that the amount of usable water matters. If you have X liters of waters from wells, rivers and so on each year that you can access, it won't be any more just because there is a water cycle.
It’s not at that point yet, but now more than ever as a hard working professional you are carrying others on your back. Massively inflating asset prices are like stealing money out of your pocket if you aren’t fully invested and leveraged. If the shame of living on welfare ever disappear, and safe poor neighborhoods are in high supply, watch men drop out. It’s already happening among millennials
This does not appear to be a very charitable interpretation of the above comment.
While I don't work with Racket much now, I will be eternally grateful for the concepts it taught, functional programming, recursion through the little schemer, how to design programs and break them up into small chunks, and writing tests. Gradual typing allowed me to make my programs more robust, and the type checking built into typed Racket helped catch errors without having to run a separate utility like mypy.

The community isn't the largest, but you can still get an answer to the questions that you have, and having a GUI built in the standard library (which is rare amongst Schemes) allowed me to do some pretty cool things like implement Conways game of life https://gitlab.com/diegocrespo/conways-game-of-life/-/tree/m....
He owns Tesla stock. Possibly also on Tesla’s payroll.
I think in this case it’s worth pointing out that monthly unemployment numbers are historically very uncertain and the subsequent revisions to the initial number are often pretty substantial.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/jobs-report-growth-unem...
I know I wouldn't work for Walmart even for $20/hr because their benefits are notoriously bad. You can compete with free money by offering a better total package than just money. Never mind the opportunity cost of working for Walmart instead of starting your own business, educating yourself, etc. etc.
None of the jobs you listed give a consistent $20 salary. None of them give a consistent $15 salary.

$20 hour inconsistent gig work isn't the same as a $20 salaried job.
I thought this when I first learned about the idea, but the name doesn't give away the true nature of, at least, most implementations... It's like 'mining requires less energy', and not that the tokens aren't mined at all.

Of course, theoretically you could've an initial distribution defined and shared without effort, but what really happens is a points system that makes it easier for people to... uh... mine, but it's obviously still the same awful idea.
The problem here is similar to Netflix & a lot of other SaaS's billing as opposed to the functionality they provide.

Mighty could have a sweet list of use cases but how do they justify month billing for every minute that you do not use it?
> Dogecoin, a meme and joke, went from a quarter of a cent last year to 66 cents today.

Initially, from what I read about Dogecoin, I thought Dogecoin was an inflationary junk coin since it produces 5billion tokens per year. However, in considering the total supply, this is a lesser inflationary rate (not CPI--just creation) than the USD since this works out to around 4% anually.

I do still think Doge is a poor currency, but I don't see it being much worse (I cringe writing this knowing I'll be blown up) than fiat dollars other than major acceptance.

Either way I completely agree. Something is wrong.
It’s getting to that point, absolutely. You live one time, and are spending it paying for others. This is out of control
Fascinating work, thank you for sharing. Here's a link to the full paper:

https://orbi.uliege.be/bitstream/2268/247255/1/Gross%20et%20...
Idk where you get your data, but that slice of earners you mention pays maybe 20% of the taxes In This country, tops (assuming you mean USA).

https://taxfoundation.org/summary-of-the-latest-federal-inco...
Yeah one of my friends said a unemployment is basically the equivalent of $20/hr for her, but she would work for something similar for the benefits.
The math here is simple. Economy = vaccination rate. People aren’t getting vaccinated so we can’t return to business as usual. People who claim it’s about incentives like wages or unemployment pay are imposing their agenda on the facts. It’s all about vaccinations at this point. We vaccinate everyone or get stagflation.
Wow, okay. People making 150-350k are doing just fine. The majority of people making under that amount are not looting, rioting, and collecting welfare. They are also hard working people, who are earning far less than the value they create for shareholders. You want to talk about a sucker's bet? How about working 39 hours a week for a mega corporation that earns billions in profit, but still won't pay you enough that you have to turn to the state for healthcare and food subsidies.
That reminds me - when I was younger I had trouble remembering how to spell definitely vs defiantly and would often get it wrong on my papers. So, I spent some time trying to think of a situation where it would not matter. I came up with the following: "My dad said I can't go to the party to night, but I'm [definitely/defiantly] going anyway.".
From August 2020.
One of my relatives suffers from migraines and they are seriously debilitating with sensitivity to light and intense nausea. There are strong meds that can help prevent them but they always intrinsically knew that certain foods were a trigger for them. It seems over the years that the connection between migraines and nutrition has been strengthening. I could not access the journal but I would have loved to know what their conclusions and recommendations were. Especially the part related to diet modification.
> Trust is eroding, but every time we try and use an Amazon competitor we come crawling back. When do viable alternatives emerge?

Out of curiosity, why do you come back to Amazon? Is it the delivery speed, price, or something else?
There are only 180 splits. For this demo we use a file.

For more serious stuff we use postgresql.
I mean sure IOS is hassle free and all that, but on IOS you're also a computational serf, computing at the whims of your apple overlords.

I've thought one member of my family to setup their own wireless access point. And they can reliably solve most 'the internet does not work' problems on their own now. This member used to confuse the explorer.exe window with a picture of an explorer.exe window in internet explorer, with predictable results (at the time)...

I'd rather live in the latter world than the former, time will tell if more people agree with me.
I don't completely agree with all of the points but I am really glad that there are sensible critics of Clojure who don't position it as a perfect language.

I have been working exclusively with Clojure for over 2 years now and I came from mostly C# background and I still want to pull my hair out every time I have to fix a bug which wouldn't have happened in a language with a good compiler. Same goes for asynchronous programming, which I think is generally lagging behind by many years in JVM world.

Another issue I have is the lack of choice in quality third party libraries. A lot of them are created as wrappers over Java libraries and then abandoned and those that aren't usually lack in documentation and depth.
What metro area is this? I know people looking for work who would be delighted for $20/hour.
72k workers is not "staggering" by any means.