skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's true there is no super AI around the corner but we have thousands of dumb bots that are controlling us already. They are only increasing.

The article does acknowledge this:

> “What scares him is our own passivity. ‘We should be worried about people who aren’t getting smart while technology gets smarter,’ Gigerenzer says. ‘The more sophisticated algorithms become, the more sophisticated people need to become… The algorithms have become better over the last ten years by sheer computational powers, by the video capabilities and other things.”
Better performance for users from those networks? I can see that it wouldn't matter for most cases, but for latency-sensitive services like VoIP or gaming, those users are going to notice that your site is faster than your competitors even if they don't know why.
> In general, 12 "is old enough to know better" when it comes to tasting the poison and playing with fire.

Funny thing is, i got a German chemistry kit as a kid in the 90s and i remember one of the instructions was to taste one of the synthesis products (I believe it was ammonium chloride or nitrate)
Looking at the modern version of that particular kit (Kosmos C2000) it doesn’t seem to have changed all that much since then either.
I think the difference is that the extent to which a city can do things with your property is governed by law. And it is not in any way similar analogy; this wasn't cleaning up an abandoned account taking up public space, this was a sudden takedown of an active account that did not violate any rules or laws.
A former coworker of mine always refused to wear a seatbelt, and to my knowledge still does. He was in a car accident and had major damage to his legs, hips, and back. Traction, several surgeries, you get the idea. Because he's too stupid to wear a seatbelt he incurred a lot of costs, both financial and psychological, for a lot of people.

> Still wildly disproportionate and an idiotic formal response to a minor bad decision.

Any interaction with the justice system has to have imprisonment at the end of the line. Not because that's the right way to do it, but because it just doesn't work otherwise. Let's imagine a scenario where a law is passed saying you cannot be imprisoned for a speeding ticket under any circumstances. As long as you don't get in an accident, you can go 150mph down the highway and you won't go to jail.

Okay so you get a ticket for an obscene amount of money. But you can't pay it, or you just don't. Do we just throw our hands up and say "shucks, you got us on that one?" Even if you have wages to garnish or property to forfeit, you'd have to take those costs into account and now for a $500 ticket you're having your car repo'd or your wages garnished by 10% for months. It doesn't seem like an oppressive socialist hellscape to me to just say "you know what, you either pay your ticket or you go to jail, and if you're going fast enough, just go straight to jail."
Also corporations will gladly poison children if it will enrich some stock-holding heir without consequence. I am not mustering up a lot of sympathy for corporations manufacturing hazardous materials for children that then get sued.

The major removal of agency for working people is by corporations and their aristocratic heir majority owners. Lawyers suing corporations for harming children are one of the things working people have to regain agency, as are laws to protect us. There is too little of it, not too much of that.
Only way we’re going to see another exploit pack like blackhole is if it’s targeting Android devices which aren’t receiving security updates.
But what advantage is there for HN or Stack Exchange going IPv6 other than general goodwill? It increases logging costs and has additional requirements and they can’t sunset ipv4 anyway so they’ll have to maintain both.

Perhaps if ipv6 had faster ipv6 transit-only networks there would be some desire on the server side, but transit is transit.
Why exclude text? Why shouldn't some spammer or like be able to get the textual content they have produced on that platform?
Hmm that’s a point to note.
Not much response from Google or anyone there. I wonder what became of "don't be evil"?
>In this same way, the GPL and like licenses are the most permissive licenses from the perspective of every eventual user

No, take for example the real world use case of distributing ZFS on Linux in binary form. Users are unable to distribute it due to conflicting copyleft licenses. Copyleft licenses limits people by creating their own exclusive ecosystems which can't be mixed.
>so why do you need to do them when you can just check YT out...?

That's kind of different as I'm talking about their not being much of a difference watching a chemical in a video and watching it in real life in terms of gaining knowledge.

I don't see anything wrong with watching videos about people exploring or going to the beach. You might even have more fun than doing those things yourself and you don't even need to leave the comfort of your house.
I've been doing scientific programming for almost 40 years. I'm still learning ways to write better code.

What I've come to realize is that there are some unique things about scientific coding, related to hyper-agile development and the use of specialized domain knowledge. But at the end of the day, good code is good code. I don't say this as an expert, but as an amateur noticing that the issues I read about resemble problems that I've experienced.

That doesn't necessarily mean we should follow the latest software development methods and tools. For one thing, the software development world doesn't even agree on those tools. For another, we're typically (ballpark guess) 10 or even 20 years behind the software world in terms of the complexity of our programs, and the size of our teams. We can safely get away with older techniques that are easier for us to learn and apply.

Also, there are things that we don't need, such as intuitive GUIs, seamless error recovery, installers, devops, monetization, file formats, and so forth. For a very small script, crashing is a perfectly reasonable way to handle something like bounds checking, and a language with decent error messaging will be 100x more sophisticated than anything we're likely to come up with ourselves.

I think the way to help us learn to code is to include good programming practices inline with instruction on coding. My Pascal textbook was that way. For instance variable scoping was introduced with an explanation about how to choose good scoping, such as why to avoid globals.

Refactoring might be the biggest thing: Teaching the discipline of going through old code and improving it. Human nature says that we will cut corners when we're having fun and focusing on the science and results. Also, most of us are learning this stuff on the go -- many of us were not hired to program, and our bosses may be unaware that we're doing it. So we have to circle back, and tune things up. This is how we do exploratory science anyway. My habit is, when I learn a new technique, I go back into some old code and try to apply it.

Testing is important too, but maybe in a different sense: A huge tool for testing scientific code is visualization of intermediate results.
> After WWII Ukraine made a verbal agreement not to join NATO/EU

Thanks for reminding why I try to stay away from [geo]politics/military opinions on hacker news.
You can also have fun times if they used "professionals". Electricians, and especially plumbers, are like termites. In the course of following their own imperatives, they often do serious damage to the building structure. Sometimes they also screw up their own trades, but more often they screw up something else.
The RÉSO is pretty nice, its main part connects between 6 subway stations under downtown: Lucien L'Allier, Bonaventure (with its bus and railway station), Square-Victoria, Place d'Armes, McGill and Peel. It connects directly to shopping malls, to "Centre Bell" arena and to multiple office buildings. It would be perfect to extend it and connect through Saint-Laurent station to Berri-UQÀM, the biggest station with 3 lines and tunnels to multiple university buildings.
I remember ten years ago at least some AI systems were done on loan approvals, and bam, and out came the same structural racism in financing and loans.

If the number of variables is low, then the extant bias may be cooked into the inputs and the AI result is then inevitable. For example, income will be suppressed all other variables being the same, that's an immediate loss in approval chances.

If crime maps and the like go into some risk profile on the safety of the property, well guess what, that'll be effectively racist and/or lower loan preapproval.

It doesn't have to just be that the race checkmark/dropdown becomes an input.

But you're right, the AI is a black box. Rules engines or other calculations at least can be back-traced, and maybe counter-weighted.

A great deal of structural and persistent racism comes down to housing: where you live. It doesn't take a die-hard Zillow user to know that where you live will signal things to the loan application algorithms, regardless of "race blind" applications if that is even a thing.

Thus, higher loan rate, lower maximum value, less access to various stratifications of neighborhood "eliteness". And the transaction rate/speed on housing is really low (annoyance to move, realtor fees, closing costs, PITA to shop for new/sell your old), so policy to address the bias would take a longer amount of time to actually show up in the stats than its political survival time (because so many well monied interests will lobby for its removal).

And thus, the more things change, the more it just stays the same.
As "restful events" can't exist without "trigger events" to communicate deletion, the categories aren't really separable?
> imprisonment should not be a theoretical outcome for someone wilfully choosing not to wear a seatbelt.

It isn't. You might get cited for not wearing a seatbelt and then through your own stupidity get thrown in jail but the seatbelt citation alone won't do it.

The point about seatbelts is particularly asinine because someone not wearing a seatbelt is not just endangering themselves.

In a car it is pretty easy for a person without a seatbelt to become a hundred plus pound projectile. For instance a belted driver sees something in the road and swerves to avoid it; an unbelted person in the front passenger seat unaware of the maneuver will bounce around likely interfering with the driver's control of the car. If the passenger hits their head and is knocked unconscious they're going to rag doll around the inside of the car.

A lot of people only think of head on collisions with regard to seatbelts. They don't consider (like the author) all of the non-impact events that can happen in a car and cause people to fly around the passenger compartment. Just slamming on the brakes can throw someone through a window or into the front console.
Are we headed for another AI winter? Because this sounds like a recipe for another AI winter.
We use golf tees as vent plugs. Easier to remove and replace quickly.
They repealed the law because they wanted to for a bunch of fairly legitimate reasons. Due to the political climate at the time they couldn't say they did it because "what people do with their craniums is none of the government's business" so they picked a reason that they could use.
Sure it does; your 15 person company can go out of existence just by a fight between founders. Lead engineer gets run over by a bus and didn't document his work? You're done. Lose your other customer out of the 2 that were keeping you alive? You have to fire half of your staff.

Whether the reason was made to justify the existence of some parasites doesn't change the fact that it's a real reason. A company that's been in business for over a century isn't going to go out in a year, and worst case someone will have the knowledge and certs to keep the ship running.
Hi, the author here! This is a misrepresentation of my argument. I'm not interested in locking you in at all, I'm actually arguing for the opposite. It doesn't even have to be JSON.
This article points out that pretty traditional chemistry sets are still available:

https://www.homesciencetools.com/product/thames-kosmos-chem-...

https://www.brightminds.co.uk/products/chem-lab-c3000-chemis...
And why shouldn't they have right to remove such content? Clearly it wasn't following intent of the site. And the user didn't really lose anything, as they still have the originals. Which in no way have been affected.
> The courts had decided that if a twelve-year-old wondered what cobalt chloride tasted like, was stupid enough to find out, and poison himself in the process, the manufacturer of the Chemistry set was at fault.

There are ways to ingest something without being “stupid”, like a spill accidentally contaminating a food surface like a kitchen table or counter.

Also, how many kids jokingly made their siblings eat sand or some other thing they weren’t supposed to eat? As a parent, I appreciate things being marketed to kids to be as non-lethal as possible.

This is a classic fallacy: “nothing bad happened to me, so if someone else gets hurt they must be stupid”.

This reminds me of memes decrying modern safety rules showing kids in the 50s riding in the front seats of cars without seatbelts.

It’s not always about the chances of an accident happening, it’s about the minor chance of an accident causing catastrophic results.
> having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity

> marked by sorrow or melancholy

> pitifully inferior or inadequate

> absurd, laughable

seems accurate enough a word to describe the emotional argument.
Eh, I didn't think of using a screw as a plug. Brilliant!
Yes and no. For example, if you reorder two commits, the new child commit will never have conflicts even if the parent had conflicts. That's because the changes from both original commits still apply afterwards. Similarly, if you rebase a commit and it results on conflicts, you can then rebase it back and the conflicts will go away. See the demo at https://asciinema.org/a/HqYA9SL2tzarPAErpYs684GGR
It eliminates NAT traversal for peers that are also IPv6. I think the most relevant consumer usecase is probably gaming.
Do kids there have good chemistry sets?
I use Intellij and it really does its level best to bring code insight to dynamic languages.

But I fully agree wrt types. Even if I'm not using an IDE, types, or type hints a la Python, help me understand what's going on far better.

I once heavily refactored a hand-rolled build tool written entirely in Python that read and write JSON. Everyone was terrified of touching it.

Introducing Pydantic to replace dicts of dicts of dicts with dicts of App instances that had Environments immediately made the code far easier to understand.

Then introducing type annotations and mypy completed the transition of a business critical tool from one everyone previously approached in what I called a "special forces" manner (get in, achieve your very narrow goal, get out before anyone notices you) to something where code flow was easily understandable.

Immediately, the tool received a lot of attention and refactoring. Something like 20% of it was dead code, amd there was some functionality that, had it been used, would've corrupted the build state or just flat out died.

And it was simply adding types that made this obvious, and made the code accessible to people who wanted to refactor it fearlessly.

(Unit tests were entirely absent, but without the understanding of the code that types brought, how would you even start?)
One of the most important things I keep in mind is that Americans account for fewer than 1/20th of human beings. Whatever attributes, good or bad, ascribed to the people in that place at that time, if they are somehow unique, are not generally applicable to human beings or human nature or those traits would not likely be unique to 3.x% of people.

As the US is comprised of hundreds of millions of people, it is likely whatever special unique circumstances have arisen there are circumstantial; that is, nurture and not nature. It's probably the result of some (written or unwritten) policy or tradition that is, by definition, local or temporary.
PDAs existed before smart phones. There's an inflection point, and it's happening now.

GPU-powered applications are going to eat Hollywood, music production, literally every form of entertainment. Everything a person watches or listens to. Kids will be making their own Star Wars films from their bedrooms. Every creative industry will be upended.

I don't like the term "metaverse", but there are a number of spatial computing trends that are undeniably evolving at a rapid clip. Volumetrics, photogrammetry, 3D SLAM warehousing. Pose correction, relighting -- photography, telepresence, video games -- everything is going to change.

And it goes without saying that deep learning is only getting started.

GPUs are the next big thing.
I don't play golf. But I have lots of machine screws!
The Flynn Effect is about how general intelligence is generally trending upward. In the good old days, people were significantly dumber than they are now.

This holds up in all quantiles. The smartest kids today are much smarter than the smartest kids a few decades ago, and this is apparent in the difficulty level of academic competitions.
As the “humanities tecnologist” in question, I'd say that looking at technology as a result of and embedded in human history and culture can be quite interesting and you might even learn something from it. But of course, you could also read and relate to the argument on its own merits?
You'll get a syntax error if you try to run that - braces need spaces.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21186724/why-is-whitespa...

(The link here doubles as an explanation and as a warning to anyone thinking about getting a forkbomb tattoo.)
I was making a joke because some basic info like name, DOB and address are enough to get into a bank account if the password was forgotten, especially if you know the answer to security questions like "What is the name of the street you grew up on?"
Aside from the restriction to non-online sales pointed out by another commenter, no, 50% peroxide is not high enough for rocket fuel. Armadillo Aerospace failed in large part because they couldn't get peroxide.
>You are ignoring tons of labors saving you time

Please elaborate.

I mean, the market is exactly how we price that time value. Whether I pay for basic labor or decide to do it myself is exactly based on the price I place on my free time minus how much I value learning something new minus the risk of a bad contractor. If you're not advocating the basic market pricing principles we already operate under, I'm not sure what you're advocating. Are you saying Tom Brady should pay his landscaper $175,000/hour simply because that's what the market has priced Tom Brady's personal economic differential value at?

I'd be curious how you'd expect that to happen in practice. Even though you don't come outright and say it, it's beginning to come across as a Marxist ideal of "to each according to his ability", which I'm sure you already understand all the problems that poses. In the end, all it seems like you're saying is to factor in the externalities to get at a fair market price. If that's the case, I already said we agree. But the same point can be said with a lot more brevity.
A simple AI is merely an algorithm to generate the if statements. It wouldn’t be surprising if the final model could be reduced to 20 or so “ifs”, literally.
Have you instead tried thinking that instead of people getting dumber that life is getting more complicated and that we have little tolerance for injury?

Jump back 50 years and the number of people with crippling injuries really skyrockets. Many more people had missing fingers, legs, or arms back then.
Sure it is, because the language of Open Policy Agent, called Rego, is a Datalog variant. I find a researcher’s failure to mention this concerning.
> The userspace ABI is stable and intended not to cause anything targeting it to become a derived work.

> the only thing forcing modules to be GPLv2-compatible is the rate of change of the kernel mode ABI making it impractical to target it via cleanroom methods.

What is licensed is a specific source code version, not the history of previous versions. For a specific revision, there is no meaning to "more stable".

What makes userspace programs non-derived work is the syscall exception: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/LICENSES/excep...
Software written in the way you suggest will fail in the real world, where, to beat a dead horse, "sœur" indisputably does contain the letter "o."

You seem to be arguing that the way Unicode treats language is the Right Answer, but that simply isn't the case. Real people speaking real human languages in the real world do not care whether the œ ligature is implemented in a character set or in the font or even what those terms mean. What they do care about is that they searched for "Lettre à ma sœur.docx" and your software failed to show them "Lettre à ma soeur.docx"

I choose not to write software that way. The right thing to do when dealing with human language depends on context, which is ambiguous. Unicode is a just a tool - indeed, one that might be helpful in the case of some ligatures by using NFKD - and nothing more. It certainly isn't an arbiter of what constitutes a character in a human language.

Have a great night.
The fact that those Kosmos sets are on sale today largely pulls the rug out from under the author's argument.

https://www.homesciencetools.com/product/thames-kosmos-chem-...

https://www.brightminds.co.uk/products/chem-lab-c3000-chemis...

There is something interesting here, but i think it's far more about parents' and shops' changing attitudes towards risk than regulators'.
What does SCO mean? Couldn't find it in Wikipedia or lists of abbreviations. I think it is/was a company...
> It isn't. You might get cited for not wearing a seatbelt and then through your own stupidity get thrown in jail but the seatbelt citation alone won't do it.

Yeah, but you're classing "not wearing a seatbelt" as "your own stupidity" in that line of reasoning. If someone persistently and willfuly attempts to drive without wearing a seatbelt (and, obviously, the legal system is aware of it) then the outcome is going to be imprisonment sooner or later.

The fact that nobody is stupid enough to throw away their lives over seatbelts doesn't change the logical progression of what would happen to someone if they tried.
The best way currently is to just add -patent to the search.
Yes. The same is about these mobile game clones - the ones that will be better than original(on something), will last longer. The bigger issue is that mobile market is way faster and attention span of newer generation is also shorter, so everything is not as dramatic picture, as this article is painting. Also, I can only see this article as free advertisment to Wordle - on top of the mobile ads, that they have spammed and they much better than the "useful idiots" understand, that their time for Wordle is limited.
Considering the complexity of Fortnite and the rate it gets content updates, it really isn’t very buggy at all, certainly not more so than other similar games (ex. I play a lot of Overwatch and despite the game not changing in two years it still has bugs showing up constantly)
I hate to be deceptive, but I was thinking that even if they are not EU residents (or residents of another entity that has similar laws, e.g. UK), then they might be able to fake residency for the purposes of using data laws to exfiltrate the videos. They might have to take the dishonesty further and say that they appear in all the videos.