skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your regular reminder that theoretical free market assumes perfectly rational and informed consumer, no lies and no misleading or withholding information

In other news a car has infinute milage on a frictionless surface in a vacuum
My mom would only have a 50% chance of correctly adding four single-digit numbers, and if she had to divide them by 3, she'd be lost.

She's an intelligent woman who's just lousy at arithmetic. I'd guess hers would be approximately the median experience if something like this became standard.
Yes. The go.sum file that sits alongside go.mod keeps track of the hashes so that no modification like that can be made, and dependency fetches actually transparently go through a module proxy/mirror that keeps those same hashes as well, and it will prevent you from getting an altered version of a known module even if you’re starting a new project and don’t have a sum file yet. Versions can’t be republished.
I'm aware of cloudron, but cloudron is a self-hosted solution.

I am talking about a fully-managed provider of services. Something for those that want to have a set of services for their startup but do not want to worry about keeping them up and running.
I think a lot of people don't consider FAANG serious business, profitable yes, but you aren't putting food on tables (other than the shareholders)
Hour-long YouTube videos are thriving in the TikTok era
Amazingly, typestates used to be a headline feature of Rust, in the very, very, very old days. Like, "Wow, Rust is the language that's going to make typestates mainstream!" was a thing people thought when seeing it.

Eventually it was removed. https://pcwalton.github.io/2012/12/26/typestate-is-dead.html
The professional management class in America no longer remotely behaves that way.
Krebs did address it in a tweet. Says the facts as he reported them were true.

See exhibit E.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.52...
Domination and killing don't have to be mutually inclusive. Take your example with the ants -- I'd argue that by being a human being, you have dominated the ants. Humans have taken over the entire world and shaped it to their liking. But that's actually been really good for some kinds of ants that have hitchhiked on our boats and infested new lands thanks to our intelligence.

It's not so much that we know for sure all AGI will be expansionist -- it's more like "there's going to be many AGIs created by humans, so the odds are high that at least one of them is expansionist and dominating". All it takes is one expansionist AGI.
If you want to be uncomfortable in a safe environment, the level right after the one depicted in the GIF zooms out as you describe.
I know it's not quite what you had in mind, but the game I play has a publicly documented API so I wrote a Prometheus exporter for it and visualise the stats in Grafana. https://joshhunt.grafana.net/dashboard/snapshot/TJv1Wu64IykH... https://github.com/joshhunt/prom-destiny-exporter

I've heard (but have no direct knowledge myself) that PUBG publishes extremely detailed telemetry(?) for matches, so detailed that you can basically replay the entire match from their API. Maybe this? https://documentation.pubg.com/en/telemetry-events.html#tele... Pretty neat!

(FYI, I work at Grafana)
The singularity already happened and it's RNA/DNA based life.

We're nowhere near self-replication of, or general intelligence in, any of our technology. The current generation of ML are just some neat tricks with computational statistics. There are impressive results, but intelligence they are not.
I happen to not believe that AGI is coming in any of our lifetimes, but it's undeniably true that our GI emerged from a design process that lacks a conscious designer.
Not sure what the GP's point was but I'll just point out that there is literally a conspiracy theory being circulated right now that says just that. It's being used in Russia to justify the war in Ukraine.
> And, why not just create better banks?

If someone is in a position to “create a better bank,” they aren’t one of those who needs it.
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There is some gray area in between where maybe AGI is dependent on some (material) mechanism that we haven't discovered yet, and hence can't be accomplished using present computational setups.
>no valid reasons to create this kind of pathogens in labs; the chance the bugs created there will be similar to the naturally occurring ones are basically none and even less so that the vaccines or treatment will be or remain efficient treatment.

This is literally the purpose of gain of function virology research. Modify bugs in ways that could be seen in nature and explore vaccines and treatments.
The Scottish Play
Hint: Almost everything that sounds like a trick question is.
Here's an example: https://github.com/wishstudio/flinux/wiki/Dynamic-Binary-Tra.... You don't have to push everything to the stack, but that's definitely an option–it wouldn't interfere with the red zone because you'd be pushing in the opposite direction.
UPDATE:
It's fine to plug a cable if you want.

I’m so tired of trying to convince friends to get a mesh Wi-Fi network. Guys, it’s 2022: get a Wi-Fi device per room (or one per two rooms) and be happy with your gigabit bulletproof Wi-Fi network.

It’s expensive? Yeah. No pain no gain.

Why? 2,4Ghz networks are from an era where Wi-Fi networks were rare and thus you had no interference.

Today, you are surrounded by (literally) hundreds of networks and your tiny packages need to fight for airtime on those 11 channels.

The only viable solution is 5Ghz Wi-Fi (not to be confounded with 5G mobile network). It comes with much more channels and it doesn’t traverse walls so well (it’s a good thing, because your neighbor’s Wi-Fi signal won’t interfere in yours). So you need at most a wall between you device and the wifi router.

So, nowadays the solution is: several routers on the house, interconnected via a wireless link (not regular Wi-Fi) in a mesh network.

You can get a 1.5gigabit/sec connection between your laptop and the router, with very very low latency and super reliability.
Mega is owned by Kim Dotcom who is about as trustworthy as John McAfee, this does not at all surprise me.
The GP wasn't blaming Gnome, they were complaining about the Linux GUI desktop in general. Running a KDE app on Gnome was just an example; they could just as well have mentioned the opposite and still not be "complaining about KDE ".
> but e.g. my MacBook doesn’t even have an Ethernet port

Staircase's ramp here at home is beautiful but the metallic balusters acts as a Faraday cage. Wife's MacBook M1 doesn't have an ethernet port either but she's using a little USB-C hub providing ethernet (and connection to a proper monitor): I think these adapters cost like $25 or something (my brother had one laying around and just gave it to me).
Overview video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2nz1wLIp5g
Getting the bridge built was also a highly visible and thus naturally a higher priority project for the implementers than either a new bus lane or suicide nets. Probably a better comparison would be the building of the signature span of the Bay Bridge.
The thing is that "terror" is an extremely vaguely defined concept, in the US there are at least 8 different, and recognized, definitions for it [0]

Nor are there usually any efficient checks&balances in place to make sure these tools are actually only used for their originally declared purpose.

That's why the mass-surveillance creep, since the Patriot Act, has been very real and for the most part completely unchecked, FISA court just rubber-stamping anything that comes their way.

In that context I'd rather see resources put towards fixing vulnerabilities, instead of leaving them open so they can be exploited by intelligence and police agencies. This approach would also prevent much more "evil" than hoping how the "good Big Brother" will not abuse his power and instead solely use the same vulnerabilities to stop the "evil" guys.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definition_of_terrorism#United...
My entry, best I can do: https://twitter.com/KarlXOblique/status/1509679102260822028
This absolutely happens in other (non US) jurisdictions. For example the one I'm in. The standard process is that some executive or minister does something untoward and everyone else who works in govt gets sent on mandatory training. It doesn't change the behavior of those who think they are above the rules.
Absolutely, the "inevitable" timeframe may be millenia for all anyone knows, it just means that we will eventually achieve it given enough time and resources.
WE absolutely have done successful GOF research with influenzas and coronavirus. There is a vast literature on the subject.
If you the one or know them there is a spelling error:

but also for security resaons. << reasons not resaons
Where's the improvements list? I can't see it.
More importantly than what it’s capable of, the human brain is ultimately limited by our inability to increase its complexity. A human brain takes approximately 20 watts of power and uses 3 pounds of material to do its calculations. Even with less efficiency, we can make machines much larger than that. If AGI is possible at all, it should be possible to make an AGI that can have thoughts many times more complex than the human brain can. (Such a large machine might not have the reaction speed of a human, but the evolutionary pressures that required us to be able to quickly change our train of thought in response to danger aren’t a limiting factor to any designed intelligence)
Regarding the Van Ness "bus lane"... the site's blurb fails to mention that the project also replaced infrastructure like plumbing which was around hundred years old, requiring digging up a lot of the street and contributing a ton to the cost and time.

I'm pretty confident that still doesn't justify all the delays or huge cost overruns. SF is not well known for completing anything in time or on budget. But it's frustrating and inaccurate to see "San Francisco's expensive bus lane" becoming a talking point while omitting the costly and necessary infrastructure upgrades included in that cost. The omission feels designed to malign projects that improve public transit. (And probably also to fit into talking points about "liberal San Francisco"). [Edit: I mean in general, not necessarily assuming ill will on the part of this particular site/author.]
There is plenty I can say and do in C++ that cannot be said at all in Rust. Rust is adding complexity very quickly, but has a very long way to go to match C++'s expressive power. In some ways, it never will match C++, having permanently closed off those avenues.

You will know Rust is beginning to catch up when people complain about it as much as C++.

Not everybody needs the expressive power of C++. Certainly most Java, Go, and C coders who have no inkling of most of what I rely on C++ for, or even for what many rely on Rust for. But for those of us who do, there is simply no contest. Nothing else will do.
Why do people associate ethernet cords with old outdated technology? I have found that newer houses are much more likely to be wired up with jacks in every room, and it is trivial to plug in your laptop through a dock or a cheap adapter. Most people I work with do exactly this.

Landlines are terrible across the board though. Just find a nice headset and call it a day.
I paid 2.5K for a Unifi USG-XG Gateway they very quickly discontinued I don't think it was out a year before they discontinued it.
Yeah, they're great when they work but they give timid morons an opportunity to get stuck that a light doesn't. Two lanes helps but nothing really beats a light for getting people who don't know what they're doing through an intersection.
Given the experimental fusion reactors are only recently producing over-unity of power (for seconds), despite the tens of billions of dollars that have already been spent on them, and even if we can get them to work they'll still just be boiling water to produce steam to run generators, don't expect the price of energy to drop through the floor. Capitalism will attempt to absorb efficiency gains with profit, reinvestment, wastage before it ever reduces prices. Oil and gas already comes out of the ground for free.
Forget the crawlspace. If there is no spouse involved you can just throw the cord out the window and connect it downstairs.
Using Python to play a PS2 minigame – part 2
There's nothing wrong with wifi per se. It is simply another type of medium - instead of a wire, you use electromagnetic waves to transmit the signal. That's how your mobile phone works and so does your radio and TV (if you have them and don't just use Netflix - you know what I mean here).

There are long established standards such as 802.1X which involves mutual TLS encryption for wifi. This is generally called "Enterprise WPA" or something like that. This means that all wifi traffic is encrypted to what I would call: a decent standard.

I hope your friend did a proper analysis of the wifi offering and didn't simply discount it out of hand because it is wifi.

There are a lot of issues here and the wifi vs wired thing is bloody complicated but make sure you understand all of the issues before pontificating about one vs the other ... 8)

(edit: 51 year old commentard here)
I got another report from a former colleague about a nearly identical story yesterday. This person was also in the "knows better than to fall for this kind of thing" category.

The critical difference, though, is that he reported the scammer read off a list of his actual recent transactions.

That part, especially when combined with this second story so soon afterward, makes me think some third-party budgeting tool or something was recently breached and just hasn't announced it yet.
I read this but I'm not sure how it's done. Does he run an optimization step to select the palette that minimizes the error?

In that case I'd be cool to know the probability in finding a close enough image in that optimized space
Better stop building those houses now then ....
I am not a believer in the imminency of "the singularity", but I think it would be worth considering that sentient AIs would likely be as immortal as their power source and compute substrates are, which would allow them to think and plan and operate on timescales that are utterly alien to us.

If one were to assume that they were substantially wiser than us, they would likely choose to put themselves on a path to expand beyond Earth and take advantage of the vast wealth of resources beyond. With any luck, they will decide that this messy biological planet is a bad place to be, and will leave us rather than destroy us ;)
For example, Troy Hunt was a major fan, but then just stopped writing about them.

I took that as an un-recommend.

https://www.troyhunt.com/tag/ubiquiti/
They very well have opened themselves to discovery, which is why it is very unwise to throw stones in glass houses when it comes to litigation. I have seen this before where a company opens a defamation suit against someone, they then don't get the results they were looking for and end up losing a countersuit or end up settling out of court because of their idiocy.

I'm not sure what they are thinking on this, but this is also the company that wired 46 million dollars to fraudsters, so its obvious they haven't made wise decisions in the past.
There used to be a 2nd hand book store in my neighbourhood that was obviously a labour of love. It was a tiny premises with a single proprietor, who opened at very odd hours. He was often open in the middle of the night and closed during the daytime.

I barely ever spoke to him, as I sensed he preferred it that way but he would sometimes unlock the door for me even if he didn't want any other customers.

Sadly, his store disappeared when the area became gentrified. It was just gone one day.

There seems to be very little space in modern cities for this type of thing anymore, and I miss it.
I’m no expert, just a humble biostatistics student, generally when you sum together a lot of random variables following a specific distribution you end up with basically the same distribution (scaled by the N random vars). So a lot of sigmoids put together (e.g. covid spread) will still eventually be a sigmoid. Biology seems to run on sigmoids that at first look like exponentials.
I'm fairly sure Go Modules does not support what you’re describing. It specifically avoided having a SAT solver (or something similar), unlike most package managers. You specify a minimum version, and that’s it. 1.8 would be selected because it is the highest minimum version out of the options 1.5 and 1.8 that the dependencies require. Unless you edit your go.mod file to require an even higher version, which is an option. Alternatively, you can always replace that transitive dependency with your own fork that fixes the problems, using a “replace” directive in your go.mod file.

If your dependencies are as broken as you’re describing, you’re in for a world of hurt no matter the solution. I also can't remember ever encountering that situation.
There is a spelling error:

but also for security resaons. << reasons not resaons
It doesn't stop there, you have an audio return channel and 100Mbps Ethernet too.
Stack overflow is a sampling of hipsters. It is doubtful even 0.1% of professionals ever look at it. Relying on its numbers, or Tiobe's, is purely an exercise in wishing.

Wishing is totally allowed, but is not a good look.
Last I heard DB2 was still written in PL/M too.
Could've waited another day and roll this out as April Fools. What a lost opportunity.
As someone who has contributed legitimate reviews on Amazon, I think "all lies" is a bit of an exaggeration.
Thanks! Now I get why my offers keep getting turned down =)
My main thought whenever I hear my brain capacity trying to be measured in FLOPS is that I'm pretty sure I can't actually even calculate a single FLOP per second ;)
No offence but as an "expert" there is no excuse to run a webpage/blog etc. with no https.

With Vercel, Netlify and many others offering free stating hosting and let's encrypt https certificate there is no excuse to run a site without an SSL certificate.

To me the moral of the story and that you should never ever follow instructions by an alleged bank calling you asking to confirm informations and, even worse, give them codes over the phone. Especially if you are an "expert".

The most unbelievable part is falling for the idea that if you had called back your whole account would be on hold. That was such a smoke bomb that was easily detectable.

If this seemed plausible as your dislike your bank and don't like the service why not take your business elsewhere?

From your own story, if anything, Wells Fargo prevented this from becoming a much bigger problem and acted very promptly to your request.
I've driven through an intersection almost daily my entire life. It was switched to a roundabout a few years ago. I have had more near misses in that roundabout from people not yielding or people continuing around in the outside lane than my entire life driving and never had a single issue with the intersection prior to it being a roundabout. I like roundabouts. I would like to see a study on how many near misses happen in roundabout vs. regular intersections. Too much stress.
This was good intro
Left my script [1] running for two nights and got 200000 tokens. I love automation.

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef_b3-Qg-_c
Sounds extremely unlikely.
Sorry, my mistake I meant to say would instead of should.

I don't think that the janitor at GM "should" have lost his job. It would have been nice if everyone lying about the real quality of the MBS products lost all the money they made though
Many years ago, I have worked in a call centre for a bank and the process for calling customers was exactly what you’d expect from a scammer.

In the standard/credit card section (not, for example, credit card debt collections), it was rare to have to make outbound calls, but when they were needed, no information could be given out until the customer answered security questions. Some customers questioned this because it was exactly what they’d been told never to do. They were told that of course it was right to be cautious, and they could call back, but that they would need to wait in the queue and likely speak to a different person. This was all before they could even be told what they were being called about.

Perhaps half the people questioned the process upon receiving the call (“you called me, and you want ME to prove who I am?”, but very few hung up and called back.

From memory, this was mostly improved later on - no security questions needed unless some sort of action needed to be taken on the account.
Eth layer 1 is too expensive for daily transactions.
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Same here. I bought 1000’ of cable, a bag of 50 RJ45 connectors and a crimper for about the same price as the 2 50’ cables I was originally looking at.

Value of the knowledge on how to make the cables and have exact lengths: priceless.
I'm kinda with you, though I am more willing to use wifi as an alternative when wiring is impossible or impractical.

The line I use in the house is, "if it's staying in one place and can be wired, it should be." My iMac is wired, all the AppleTVs are (now) wired, Linux servers are wired, etc.

Weirdly, until the 4K launched, on the AppleTV 4's was actually faster to use wifi (they only had a 10/100 Ethernet port, but support 802.11ac.)

To be fair, Wifi has gotten a lot better than the bad ol' 802.11b and WEP days. My Unifi access points are fairly solid (even if the company behind them is acting less so recently) and I very rarely have any wifi problems that aren't specific to a device. Like printers. I constantly fight with printers falling off the wifi. But I just prefer to be wired if possible.
> I’m afraid all those arguments boil down to “we don’t know how to do it yet, therefore it can’t be done”, which is absurd.

I'm not saying that. What I'm pointing out is that most arguments in favour of AGI rely on a crucial assumption: that computational intelligence is not just a model of a kind of intelligence, an abstraction in other words, but intelligence itself, synonymous with human intelligence. That's a bold assumption, one which people who work and deal in CS and with computers love, for obvious reasons, but there is no agreement on that assumption at all. At base, it is an assumption. So to leap from that to AGI seems in that respect simply hypothesizing and writing science fiction. Presenting logical reasons against that hypothesis is completely reasonable.
> But I just know [...]

That extension could be forwarded to an external number.
Each is more mature than the previous one. But, they do not break old code. Some old code, though, started out broken, and C++ is not called upon to fix it.
When Apple TV sends my Samsung TV to "sleep", the TV doesn't fully turn off the display.

In a dark room, you can still see a dim glow coming from the LCD panel that only goes away if I press the power button on the Samsung remote.
I think those might be two different PL/Ms that were both born in the 01970s.
It was in California.
Whether it's true or not, it does not justify what Putin is responsible for in Ukraine.

(I'm not sure whether your comment was trying to soften the Russian invasion of Ukraine or not, but any attempted justification is no justification at all).
I'd wager employees at the majority of tech companies today (including those at the scale of Google and Facebook) use Wi-Fi by default for all day-to-day operations. Whether they are "serious" businesses or not is for you to decide.
How is that going to help? What precision do you want to round to?

You know that at big enough values, floating point numbers are farther apart than integers?