skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we can change our sex, we should be able to change our age.

LGBTQA+ ?
Ask HN: Thought exercise.. Elon is Evil
I don’t know if Elon Musk is evil or good or what those words even mean and that is not what I’m asking.

Is it possible that Elon is using Open AI as a place to cultivate and exploit research to enrich himself? Is there definitive proof of the opposite?
It is not embarrassing at all. :) I did not even want to comment on it initially, but then I thought I could help with it... That comment got down-voted already though.

If you do not mind me asking: is it a community? I swear I have been wanting to live in a community such as Twin Oaks Community but I am in Europe! :(
>And my reply would be that evidence is not always immediately apparent, but that doesn’t mean evidence doesn’t exist.

I agree, evidence may exist and if it does, I hope to see it.

The parent poster, in contrast, simply gave a sarcastic "Yep, case closed" and then, with no context, placed a link to the sugar scandal. Effectively, as I read it, "Yeah sure... but what about that thing with sugar?".

I'm not even arguing that the stance is wrong. Your middle paragraph, while holding a similar view, actually invites discussion around the topic. Hand-waving to an article with a sarcastic remark is just a deflection. Proposing an equivalence between two disparate situations with nothing behind it.

The other portion of my comment just suggests that you should have strong evidence (or argument that the strong evidence exists) when making strong claims, and that if you're a non-expert in the field you need to demonstrate why your non-expert opinion is equivalent to that of many experts. I'm not even sure how that is controversial, but apparently it is.
There's a world of difference between playing league casually and competitively. No one at his level of play can autopilot through a game and still win.
Reminds me of Travis Morrison, lead singer of the indie band The Dismemberment Plan who were popular in the 90s/early 2000s. After his retirement from music he became a web developer who at one point worked for the washington post and huffington post.

His girlfriend (now wife) describes the experience of being with someone who was once somewhat famous in this article [0] -- There were moments of extreme cognitive dissonance when I saw him up there. He’s a wild and expert showman on stage. As I’d watch him do things like play the keyboard by smashing it with his forehead, spit water all over the audience or writhe convulsively on the ground, I would think, “I can’t believe this is the same man who likes to go to bed at 10 o’clock and sweetly brings me coffee in bed every morning.”

[0] - https://slate.com/human-interest/2012/07/travis-morrison-and...
Hacker News has already reached maximum cynicism/outrage saturation regarding social media. It's already taken for granted here that Facebook has the entire world addicted like heroin, actively participates in mass murder and genocide, controls most human communication, thought and perception, acts as a surveillance front for the military industrial complex, is responsible for the downfall of human civilization, and is controlled by a shadowy Marxist conspiracy more powerful than any government.

I mean, they've reached comic book supervillain levels of evil as far as this forum is concerned. This kind of thing doesn't even swing the needle. "Oh, so Hitler was also a litterbug? Ed Gein also didn't wash his hands after using the bathroom? Ok..."
Modern day version of the technique is the phone falling in your face.
Wow, that CTO sounds psychopathic. Nothing in that conversation required him to shout or (pretend to) get angry. I have no respect for people that use violence, even verbal, to get their way.
in a child comment:

> Come on. Dismissing widespread problems as "not my problem, your problem" because it doesn't happen to affect you is so weak.

I think I didn't articulate my last comment well because you seem to misunderstand me.

I'm not saying it's not a problem and I'm not dismissing it at all. I'm saying it's not a problem that requires a societal or technological solution. I'm using my own experience as evidence for this. You can opt-out of all of this junk. I have; many others have. You already have all the tools you need to make this problem go away for yourself. Do you disagree? If so, what technological innovation, or societal evolution do you think would help you address this problem?
would certainly help older programmers :)
Utilitarianism can never be in conflict with your preferences whatever they may be. This is by definition.

If the utility values would conflict with your preferences, then those were not the correct utility values to begin with.
BitTorrent is so good and I am surprised that I don’t see it in more places

Using a private key for mutations is a great idea. I believe it is similar to how BitTorrent Live (undocumented) was implemented, where new content was added to a merkle tree. That is at least how RFC7574 proposed doing it
> It feels HN has become way more corporatist in the past few years

It's a bit disheartening. It makes me wonder how the HN of today would react to someone like Aaron Swartz.
Bitcoin network hashrate hits all-time high after China crypto ban
Between this and Log4j, I'm just glad it's Friday.
Is there corroboration that this actually is self-driving? I suppose we'd need Tesla's cooperation. Is it possible to replay the "AI view" of the same thing? Can any FSD beta users chime in?

I will say that two lane highways (aka offset impact at 110mph+ IF/BIG IF they aren't speeding) are pretty damn dangerous and I'd only do self-driving on them with a LOT of repeats. I think I'm getting close to the point of trusting self-driving on divided highways under good conditions, the big caveat being stopped cars/obstacles.

It sure doesn't help that every Tesla post on HN has comments that seem like obvious astroturfs. It's like jalopnik in the comments.

Transparency is a must. The new NHTSA head doesn't help, we do need someone to hold Tesla's claim to the light, but appointing someone with publicly posted anti-Tesla screeds? That doesn't help anything.

Self driving could save tens of thousands of lives (perhaps hundreds of thousands worldwide) each year and be a legitimate boon to the economy. NHTSA needs a dedicated group of government officials with legit industry and software experience to test, regulate, and analyze incidents. Plus it would be apocalypse to one of my less favorite sectors in the world: the auto insurance industry.

NHTSA should have immediate delivery of Self-Driving accidents with all the footage and any recorder information immediately uploaded to government servers with an active software harness to replay the logs. And it's not like this would be occaisionally tested, even with high-quality theoretical self driving, there will be daily accidents to replay from every significant vendor.
First Look at Turborepo [video]
A ryzen 9 is slower single core but faster multi core performance than an m1, but of course its TDP is higher so battery life will be significantly different.

If you care about having 20 hours of battery life instead of 8-10, the m1 is definitely going to win that. But from a pure performance perspective there are chips on the market faster than the m1 in the laptop sphere from AMD already.

If you get an zephyrus with an AMD cpu and a dedicated GPU you will pay less than the macbook pro and be more performant, in exchange for a hotter laptop with lower battery life. But that's just a tradeoff, not necessarily a win one way or another. I've never needed 20 hours of battery life and I don't prioritize it. 8-10 is enough for me. I'd rather have the faster machine.

And I can change the SSD or RAM myself without expecting it to make itself implode later in its lifespan because its all in one package as the apple silicon is.
> So why do the editors of all these journals keep feeding off the ML == AI meme?

Your comment is a good example of AI meaning whatever we haven't solved yet.

Playing chess well is AI until we have programs that can regularly defeat professionals, then it suddenly doesn't count.

Accurately labeling the contents of a photo is AI until we have services that do this for anyone, and then it's not AI anymore.

Pretty soon self-driving cars will also not count as AI, because we'll have solved self-driving and therefore it's not hard enough anymore.
It's used by Elasticsearch, so possible you could exploit the log aggregation service even if the app-level logging library isn't vulnerable, but you'd need a way to make sure the first-level logging doesn't interpret the format string.
Re: Invent and Reinvention
Sometimes I fall asleep with my hands on the keyboard and wake up soon after to find jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj... in my editor
Delphi was great! First programming language I used at my first job.

I have some hobby projects that are still used to this day written in Delphi. I haven't really updated them too much. Too much work to rewrite it. Some critical faults that have emerged overtime. Not really delphi faults. I used Paradox for the database. Which was terrible choice even back then. I recently had it complain about the length of the path to the table.

In another app, for some odd reason I can't remember, I developed a custom a plugin system, using dll com plugins.

As time went on, microsoft limited access to the windows registry. So now I have user running into problems with the install. The program installs, just can't find the plugins because it doesn't have registry access. At least that's my limited understanding of what is going on.

And I think you can't write Delphi apps for the windows app store.
But Delphi was very strait forward and simple to write apps.
Fantastic! And comparing it to Python, much easier to find bugs.
Tangential but an interesting linkage in the recent Economist [0] between the regions where political prisoners were relocated to Stalin's gulags and the relatively high "human capital" thereabouts.

[0] https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/12/04/how-regi...
wow, that's quite the coefficient on that exponential lol
This is just napping, which many people do. It's about alertness (or lack of, if you nap to long) - http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/naps/

What you need for this if it's real is your fitbit to wake you at the exact time, or perhaps something that measure muscle tension or brain waves.
He said in this article he's already earned $5 million.
GV Partner, Tyson Clark Dies of Vaccine Complications
He was only 43 and pretty fit.
They underestimated Richard Stallman
If they were losing a hundred million in revenue before their best employees were poached then we should thank Microsoft for saving these people‘s careers.
What about 'Assembly.Load(bytes)' or 'Assembly.LoadFrom'?
while (age > 26)
--age;

Don't try this until you're older, kids.
Explicit error handling isn't the complaint—3 vertical lines of error handling after every function call is. Rust, for instance, started this way and eventually introduced the `try!` macro and finally the `?` operator. It's still explicit, it just doesn't fill your screen with unuseful boilerplate.
Obviously one hopes these things don’t happen, but that’s an impressive and transparent write up that came out quickly.
Living life. It's an important project. Think small rather than big. Volunteer in your community. Hang out with family and friends. Garden. Barter. Reduce dependence. It will make a larger impact than other projects. YMMV.
I've seen dozen of tutorials trying to explain quaternions in multiple analogies and methods. But finally after this tutorial I can finally conclude that I'm dumb.
spaCy makes lots of money. from https://explosion.ai/about
"In August 2021, we sold 5% of Explosion to SignalFire for $6 million. Employees are given a stake in Explosion using a virtual share bonus program."
Daniel Lemire has an excellent blogpost + paper of this technique you describe, except using the 64-bit multiplier circuit of CPUs.

https://lemire.me/blog/2019/06/06/nearly-divisionless-random...

The 64x64 bit multiplier outputs a 128-bit output in ARM and x86. You see the 64-bit number as a fixed-point integer between 0 and 1 (that is to say: 0xFFFFFFFF as a 32-bit number is .9999999...). Multiply by the 64-bit version, bit-shift the result down and bam, you've got a high-speed, low-bias result.

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So you can see the 64-bit number is a number between 0 and .999999...., that number is multiplied with "6" or whatever you care about (assuming you want to make a dice roll from 0 to 5), and the results are in the top 64-bits of the 128-bit number the multiplier circuit created.

Getting you slightly less bias, and losing the unnecessary int->float and float->int conversion.

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A bit of the cutting edge, but I gave it a few experiments and it clearly worked. I was working on an SIMD-version of this technique a couple of years back and it definitely works.

You can also SIMD-ify the integer->float conversion with some smart AND / OR instructions. (See the "toFloats" routine here: https://github.com/dragontamer/AESRand/blob/master/AESRand_P...)

Oh right, and you can also use the AES circuits to make random numbers, but that actually was really difficult for me to figure out just right (!!!). AES round function is surprisingly bad at shuffling bits around, but with enough effort I got something working (passes 8TB+ of PractRand tests and other statistical tests)
No, this requests: https://github.com/psf/requests
fucking lol. I think it'd suck for us have our SWE salaries crash down to non-tech levels. Making $140k after 10 years of experience at Google, oof. Tech VC's drained, how will I start my dog therapist app? But yeah, massive net benefit to society. Housing returning to normal levels, cities with blended cultures of white/blue collar and art workers.
The complexity that AWS has to deal with is astounding. Sure having your main production network and a management network is common. But making sure all of it scales and doesn't bring down the other is what I think they are dealing with here.

It must have been crazy hard to troubleshoot when you are flying blind because all your monitoring is unresponsive. Clearly more isolation with clearly delineated information exchange points are needed.
What does psychosis actually refer to? I've heard the term but am not familiar with its official meaning
I'm from Canada, so I'm somewhat aware of winter, yes.

Technology will always arrive at different times at different places. Your area probably got high speed internet and electricity later than cities, and it'll get AEVs later as well. As any technology, it'll target areas with highest benefit:cost ratios first, then incrementally expand. Nothing particularly notable about that and when thinking about the overall development, a 5-10 year difference between tech being available in Toronto vs Yukon is not relevant. I mean, it sucks for people wanting the tech, but that's about it.

Driving in pseudo-lanes is probably much easier than what Tesla's FSD can already do (detect, keep track of, and plan around, dozens of cars and pedestrians), the reason you'll see it last is less tech challenge, but that getting it to work in a city is much more valuable.
I guarantee that someone out there can recommend a substance which achieves that effect
It looks like auto highbeam assist turned of and it might have caused a weird vision bug
This is the first time I'm hearing 3 months. Pfizer themselves said 6-12 months a few months ago[1], and have said 18 months as recently as Sept 30[2]. To be off by a factor of 6 in such a short time is, as I said, a PR disaster.

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/Health/booster-shot-12-months-provide...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/video/2021/09/30/pfizer-biontech-vaccin...
TM?
I think this should not be flagged as dupe. Sonatype is the company managing Maven Central, just like Github does for NPM. This is the link I would share to convince people they need to do something now, along with the yesterday submission from a startup blog with a good tech write-up.
One concern I could see in e-sports vs traditional (and I don't follow e-sports closely, so maybe I'm wrong) is that the games being played change regularly. Do the skills of a top player of one generation of games tend to translate well to coaching top players for the next generation of games, or would any such coach look more like Ted Lasso?
This is probably real, although I'm not certain this can often happen.

Still, bees with their hard-coded set of neurons have surprising cognitive abilities: explore, memorize position of food source (angle and distance from the hive) and communicate the information to their peers.

Also, keep knowledge of absolute direction based on the sun or polarization pattern of even a small patch of blue sky, and use that information even many hours later, compensating for the change of the sun position in the sky.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waggle_dance
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee#Navigation,_communicatio...

Related: I did a Ph.D. in mobile robotics inspired from short range navigation in bees, based on biologists' reports of systematic experiments on what elements bees uses to find their way.
Woah! On the surface they seem so cool and collected. I'd never have guessed that a volcano of passion dwelt within the insectile breast.

It's like that spider vegetarian philosopher from Cenotaph Road.
> I don’t know if Elon Musk is evil or good or what those words even mean and that is not what I’m asking.

Probably shouldn't word your title like that then.

> Is it possible that Elon is using Open AI as a place to cultivate and exploit research to enrich himself?

Sure, anything's possible. This is a practice held by every member of FAANG and just about every Fortune 500 company. Funding nonprofits who write up product-affirming reports and conduct research that tangentially assists your business is just table stakes at the top of the ladder. With OpenAI, at least the public gets a little bit of kickback.

> Is there definitive proof of the opposite?

What would that look like? Them publishing a report where they officially denounce their founders and run a scorched-earth policy on everyone who's ever made money? Your question lacks context and detail, so the best answer I can give you is "maybe" on all accounts.
When I was in college I had about 10 hours of free time a day.
A circa 1950 15-inch floor model Atlas drill press. Passed down to me by the son of the original owner. Simple and robust.

My 1987 Porsche 911. The design and build quality is visible and tactile. Air-cooled, simple, albeit not effortless to maintain. I'll never part with it.
I think you misinterpreted me a bit. I don't believe CF's benchmark was designed to be misleading or biased. I think the benchmark had a perfectly reasonable setup and was actually representative of one relevant use case -- the case of an app that just returns a response without a lot of processing. I think Fastly's criticisms of the benchmark are surprisingly weak compared to the strong language they are couched in, and the strong language itself is what I refer to as "mud-slinging".

My point about benchmarks in general was that unless your application is extremely similar to the one tested -- which is unlikely -- then these numbers don't really tell you much about how your own app will perform. This is a criticism I have of every benchmark that attempts to compare performance between very different technologies. I don't think it makes such benchmarks unethical, just not very useful.
The use of the anger was very manipulative. I find it interesting that it was then the beginning of a long partnership. They worked together at several startups for the next few years. I'm not clear that anger was the only way to establish whether the devops guy was getting the work done correctly, but I've certainly met a few managers who seem to think the strategic use of anger is useful. At the same time, what I've seen more commonly is the unstrategic use of anger, where people rage, rage, rage, for no purpose and no gain. It's amazing to me how often I've seen unhinged behavior in people who are in top leadership positions. I wrote of one extreme case in How To Destroy A Tech Startup:

https://www.amazon.com/Destroy-Tech-Startup-Three-Steps-eboo...
I suppose that's tied to people believing that you have some kind of midas touch for turning capital into profit. As long as the people with the capital believe that about you, they will back you with their capital and then have your back.
>This requires leadership; however, and the hard truth is this has not historically seemed to be Python's strong suit--the Python maintainers seem unable to drive out big, necessary changes like this (which is certainly not to say that leadership is easy or that I could do better, particularly when Python is so established in many respects).

I just want to point out that while I agree with this, the reason it also clear - lack of manpower. Somehow, despite Python being one of the top 3 most widely used programming languages, most of the critical infrastructure is maintained by very very few people, usually in their spare time.
Afaik AWS and GCP refuse visa gift cards, although it's been a while since I tried. Wouldn't surprise me to hear Oracle is the same.
Programming is nice but for geometry you want a constraint solver.
Apollo, Amazon’s Deployment Engine (2014)
Tesla's Elon Musk says he is 'thinking of quitting' his jobs
I don't think this article is that biased. This kind of lifestyle is pretty common for top streamers, and I'd argue it's about far more than just not knowing how to run their lives.
Personal/financial success issue:

Trying to figure out my life. I work a job I'm starting to hate because it's dead-end, but it pays well for what it is. Mentally exhausting though.

I haven't had time anymore to find something else, and to make it worse, it's not tech-related (in a broad sense, not just FAANG).

I'm kind of stuck where I am for a bit, but it pays the bills. I don't want extravagant, I just want a small place, far out of the way. Not into the "Van Life" thing though.
I'm not sure it's mental health issues so much as "got away with being a bad person to work with and then couldn't anymore".

Looking in from the outside, it seems like he kept more or less succeeding (financially, in the eyes of friends/family, etc), while doing dodgier things and insulting more people, which spurred him to keep going along as before. Eventually he flew too close to the sun.
There was a leak of Twitch data recently, so we know that top twitch-ers earn megabucks. The real business is, of course, Twitch itself.
Unfortunately that's not even correct for complex numbers: i is a square root of -1, and -i is the other. Complex numbers are really nice in that every non-zero complex number has two square roots, three cube roots, four fourth roots, etc.

A better definitional statement is the other way around: i has the property that i^2 = -1.