skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“In the days of Excel 1.0 through 4.0, most people at Microsoft thought that the most common user activity was doing financial what-if scenarios, where you do things like change the inflation rate and see how this affects your profitability.

When we were designing Excel 5.0, the first major release to use serious activity-based planning, we only had to watch about five customers using the product before we realized that an enormous number of people just use Excel to keep lists. They are not entering any formulas or doing any calculation at all! We hadn’t even considered this before. Keeping lists turned out to be far more popular than any other activity with Excel. And this led us to invent a whole slew of features that make it easier to keep lists: easier sorting, automatic data entry, the AutoFilter feature which helps you see a slice of your list, and multi-user features which let several people work on the same list at the same time while Excel automatically reconciles everything.

While Excel 5 was being designed, Lotus had shipped a “new paradigm” spreadsheet called Improv. According to the press releases, Improv was a whole new generation of spreadsheet, which was going to blow away everything that existed before it. For various strange reasons, Improv was first available on the NeXT, which certainly didn’t help its sales, but a lot of smart people believed that Improv would be to NeXT as VisiCalc was to the Apple II: it would be the killer app that made people go out and buy all new hardware just to run one program.

Of course, Improv is now a footnote in history. Search for it on the web, and the only links you’ll find are from very over-organized storeroom managers who have, for some reason, made a web site with an inventory of all the stuff they have collecting dust.

Why? Because in Improv, it was almost impossible to just make lists. The Improv designers thought that people were using spreadsheets to create complicated multi-dimensional financial models. Turns out, if they asked people, they would discover that making lists was so much more common than multi-dimensional financial models, and in Improv, making lists was a downright chore, if not impossible.”

— Joel Spolsky, The Process of Designing a Product, 2009-05-09 <https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/05/09/the-process-of-des...>
Right, and that's a perspective you pick up on in a second course in linear algebra, typically. The key insight really is that the core concept is that of a vector space, rather than vectors per se. The only thing we really ask of vectors is that it be possible to apply linear functions with coefficients from your favorite field to them. Other than that, vectors themselves aren't that interesting: it's more about functions to and from vector spaces, whether it's a linear function V -> V or a morphism V -> W between two different vector spaces.

This is actually a common theme of mathematics, that the individual objects are in some sense less interesting than maps between them. And, of course, the idea that any time you have a bunch of individual mathematical objects of the same type, mathematicians are going to group them together and call it a "space" of some kind.

In fact, my previous paragraph is pretty much the basis for category theory. One almost never looks at individual members of a category other than a few, selected special objects like initial and terminal objects. A lot of algebra works in a similar way. If I could impart one important insight from all the mathematics I've read, done, and seen, it would be this idea of relations being more important than the things themselves.
Gitlab – Static passwords set during OmniAuth-based registration (CVE-2022-1162)
Advertisers, childhood attention spans, and grant funding explain the gross overhyped claims for each of the three professions you mention, respectively. The good news is that two of them have theoretical solutions.
Another possible solution is to increase population density, for example by eliminating bans on higher-density development.
Well ... Go on then! What are the other 20 that you recommend, sorted by your personal favourites?
I didn't read it as explaining why she should continue the call, just why she did continue the call. She's explaining why those things didn't immediately trigger the scam alarm. Nowhere did I see her claim to be too clever to do anything.

I found it an interesting read which details an experience which is far removed from how you expect a scam call to occur. It's interesting to read the signs which should have been alarm bells, but which were dismissed because nobody is perfect all the time.
It's OK. There are always valid criticisms of all possible package managers. It's just a hard area with gnarly trade-offs.
I think your 'commoners' framing... is not helpful here.

You raise a few objectionable assertions that I think is good to contemplate:
- GoF was never banned
- The ban was NIH funding GoF
- The ban was lifted in 2017 anyways
- Is this risky? The ban on funding it doesn't mean it's risky, as per se.
- The potential pie in the eye risk are infinite, but what are the realistic risks? That really depends on the technical details of how the research is done, and where it's done.
- Compare and contrast to activities that are very dangerous and have nearly infinite catastrophic risks but we do every day: driving, flying, operating nuclear power plants, refining oil, and much much more.

All of this research came out of the desire not to be caught flat footed by the next version of SARS or MERS. Overall global research did in fact prep us for SARS-CoV-2. Vaccines "made in months" that have stood the test of efficacy and safety? Months if you ignore the years of research behind it.

Is this particular thing excessively dangerous or not? I'm not 100% sure. Most of the "this is unacceptable" seems to be coming from people who seem to have a visceral hatred of Dr Fauci and who as head of the NIH was indirectly responsible for this funding. But I don't find that a reasonable line of reasoning. One thing I know, is every scientist I know is not paid a boat load, and care deeply about what they are doing and why.

Perhaps GoF is too 'dangerous', but maybe we should also hear about how it can be made safe, how does it compare in hazardousness to other common things that are deemed 'safe' and what the benefits are.
Not to burst anyones bubble but this was written by a self taught AI engineer who is 19 years old. I mean this might be a joke (April Fools!). I mean, thats nice and all ... but who's 19 and not ultra positive about their work/life outlook.
http://rocksdb.org/
> Ries, whoever he is

The author of the book that the other poster was talking about.

> Steve Blank is credited with popularizing the term

As is Ries.

> Here he emphasizes that the MVP is about reaching sustainability for the company.

Hmm. Here's a post from him that's absolutely not about sustainability but about validating core assumptions (and not building a product): https://steveblank.com/2013/07/22/an-mvp-is-not-a-cheaper-pr...

> Ries, whoever he is, was free to make up his own definition, just as I can define the sky to be the hot molten lava deep inside the earth, but his definition does not match the usage of its originator nor is it in alignment with how (most) everyone else uses the term.

It would be very at odds with the current use of the term MVP to define what dropbox did as not an MVP.

This isn't becoming hugely productive, so I'll leave it where I started - I've had this argument before from your side, and the dropbox video is an MVP. It is not a niche view.
Hi, author here. I think there are at least two plausible ways this could happen -- one, a terrorist/anarchist deliberately does exactly what you joked about (gives the AI everything it needs to go rogue), or two, the AI is supposed to be contained but is clever enough to engineer a way out (think Ava in Ex Machina learning to invert the power flow to cause a generator shutdown). I think the only way you'd be able to be safe would be to completely airgap and immobilize the AI, and give it a killswitch, but even then it could use plausibly psychological manipulation to get a human operator to let it out.
But when your cohort was 12, were your parents on Facebook? Or were they on another platform (or no platform at all)? Facebook was the cool hen MySpace was the ew after all.
I miss Everything on MacOS
Hire NO ONE who has CNN in their job experience!!

Anyone working there has proven themselves entirely without morals or ethics. And anyone who stayed around longer than a month when the Shxtstorm of lies was going on around them is equally guilty of lacking a moral compass at all. The right thing to do would have been to quit ASAP - failing to do that is collaboration and abetting immorality by omission.
That's fantastic, I might steal that.
The study I referenced sought to "quantify how masks mitigate the direct transport of drops, which was previously unquantified." It was published in November.
Yeah unfortunately this is one of the problems, bolting on the types rarely works as well as it does for Typescript (looks quite natural to me).

In Haskell for example, writing signatures is actually both unnecessary (they will be inferrable, most of the time so it's basically only for humans to read) and a net positive (they fit well prose wise and you can use them as documentation) but that's a harder hill to climb.

I do want to note that one big advantage of specifying signatures is that now your IDE can help you when using the functions and detect when something is going wrong.

Maybe "no more trying to figure out what the input/output of a function that you didn't write is supposed to be" would be a draw?
(Speaking as an engineer who has put neural-network products in front of end users.)

One thing amazing about the 2020s is just the moral decay compared to past times.

People said AI was a bubble in the 1970s but in the very beginning the people involved were clear about the limitations of what they were doing and what problems that had to be overcome.

Now there is blind faith that if you add enough neurons it can do anything, Godel, Turing and all the rest of theoretical computer science be damned…

In the 1960s the creator of the ELIZA program knew it appeared smart by taking advantage of the human instinct to see intelligence in another. It’s like the way you see a face in mars or in the cut stem of a leaf, or how g.w. Bush said he saw Vladimir Putin’s soul in his eyes.

Today people embarrass themselves by writing blog posts everyday about how ‘I can’t believe how GPT-3 almost gets the right answer…’ and have very little insight into how they are getting played.
They are often used interchangeably in religious contexts, but belief has a wider usage outside of that domain.

Faith implies belief without requiring any evidence. But belief can be conditional on evidence.
While there is something to this, and antialiased fonts and CJKV rendering are particularly beneficial, I mostly don't agree about necessarily using more memory (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30872388). We're talking about orders of magnitude more memory than the screen contents.

As for JS, on most pages the only benefit of those megabytes of JavaScript is that I need to use uBlock Origin and/or Reader Mode to read what I'm actually interested in, the page jumps around at random while I'm trying to read it, Twitter tries to extort me into logging in, DoubleClick and reCaptcha can fingerprint my GPU, etc. Also, a megabyte of minified JS might reasonably compile down into a megabyte of bytecode or 4 MiB of native code, not 64 MiB or 128 MiB. JS's execution model is kind of inherently memory-hungry, though.

64 MiB is for one tab.
Are those some common Golang anti-patterns?
>> How exactly does your brain do route planning?

That is not the kind of explanation that is needed in AI systems. When people talk about "explainable AI", they literally just mean systems that can answer the kind of question that a human would be able to answer.

That's because a question that a human cannot answer is very likely to have an answer that a human will either not be able to understand, or will have to work very hard to understand... which is no better than no explanation
I think the NPM organization is completely aware just how dangerous this all is, and is eager to hide it. For example, if you look up an NPM package, it'll list its direct dependencies. But, there's no acknowledgement whatsoever of all the stuff that comes along for the ride.

I'd love to have a well-supported ranking of NPM packages in terms of their dependencies (and their dependencies' dependencies, etc). Knowing the breadth of immediate dependencies, PLUS the depth of the total dependency tree, would give you some inkling of just how much you're taking for granted when you start using a package.
i'm not worried about it big brother keeps us safe and happy he helps me so i can't ever be wrong
Might want to check out js8call, great for emergencies. Great propagation, supports async communications, as well as bouncing through nodes (every client can be a repeater). Bandwidth isn't great, but it can be a robust way to get a message across a decent chunk of the planet with minimal power.
Best Buy had it last week, and it appears that earlier today, Amazon was offering the same discount as well.
> I think ordering on amazon has become a little like getting your car towed.

Apparently especially in Ontario…

https://www.thedrive.com/news/44749/inside-the-tow-truck-maf...
Haha, thanks. My first thought is that it was because I posted my own work, but last time I checked that's not explicitly disallowed? idk, I'm not really too worried about it though
Is there a non-YT version? Not willing to sit through half a minute of ads.
"Allow direct messages from server members" is a setting you can control. You can toggle it per server, and also set the default for new servers you join. This is more control than the IRC protocol offers - you can globally ignore all private messages there, or permit them. (You can also block individual users, of course, which you could also do with IRC). Private message spam is also a thing on IRC (though there it tends to be the "lonely women in your area" sort rather than crypto).

This really feels like a social problem, not a technical one; and not one specific to Discord, though it sounds like you have encountered some particularly bad communities there.
> there would be more of an emphasis on formal logic, developing proofs, etc

Which is exactly what a CS program from a reputed university is. We never once touched assembly. Heck most classes involved no coding at all.
ncdu when you don't have x
Doesn’t seem to be usable on mobile, can’t tell if that’s a limitation of the component itself or just the website.
How about getting safe compiler?
The Fed has been consistently wrong over last decade in many of their policy, and their credibility is on the line.

The reason home prices are not on line with fundamentals is - well there is just too much liquidity. Money is looking for places to go and there are not many. Except stocks. And then the next bet is real estate. They printed way too much for too long. Interest rate is at historic low, there is way too much savings, and in this inflationary environment, real estate is an excellent leveraged asset. No wonder even institutions are now buying, in fact one in every 3 SFHs in US are now owned by institutions.

Oh yeah, the same Dallas Fed chairman did not see the whole inflation thing coming either.

Yes, it is different this time.
I thought this was going to be about Stripe's investment in Fast Checkout
I don't think anyone does video to steering wheel in one network. But they do create a 3d model of the environment from sensors and do planning on top of that. So there is the explanation - what the car thought it saw.
The home office's checks there were quietly discontinued a short while after they were rolled out - a short while after the Windrush scandal broke. Regardless, identifying bank accounts possessed by illegal immigrants is probably a use case about as legitimate as anything about controlling immigration is.

(I tend to think the home office is terrible and inhumane and that in general immigration policies are terrible and inhumane, but the above is in the context of those)

Regardless, there is no such thing as people "disqualified from banking". The CMA9 banks (who are required to offer basic bank accounts) have fairly limited leeway to decline accounts to someone (though having defrauded that particular bank is one valid reason why)
Our intelligence isn't task specific, but that doesn't mean it can solve any problem. It's actually full of biases and very optimized for our survival (vs being a general problem solver). It's ok to talk about more or less narrow/general tasks/intelligence. But what threshold of generality is "general"?

And the problem is that once people assert this "absolute" level of generality, they assume it can do anything, including make itself more intelligent.
I don't have a problem with spending money on it. How do you find out whether it's tractable? By trying to do it.

What I object to is the certainty of the article. The author is an optimist, which is fine. And there has been some progress made, which increases the feelings of optimism. But I don't think it's warranted at this time to make the optimistic assumptions that the article makes.
I have many pages. Helps you stand out if someone wants to dive deep and helps with keyword filtering.
> C++ is mature, there's a difference. It's definitely not "long in the tooth" as it still has plenty of modern features & niceties and is getting more all the time.

C is mature. C++ drinks and sleeps around, but that hardly makes it mature.
If there's a reticulum somebody's going to make a syndev whose sole purpose is to spew crap into it. Then somebody else is going to make an Artificial Inanity system to plant misinformation in the enemy’s reticules. And then that praxis is going to leak to the commercial sector and spread to the Rampant Orphan Botnet Ecologies. Never mind.
These are (sometimes) good solutions for highly specific high value offerings, but that still leaves some 95% of the rest of the internet to cover ;)
It's useful for statements like "Firefox 2.0 got 82/100 on the Acid3 test" to have truth-values that don't change over time. The Acid3 test is an important part of the history of the Web, and rewriting history is repugnant.
Rust is literally the most beloved language in SO's developer survey and has been for several years running.

In my own experience, it's allowed me to write software that pretty much doesn't have bugs, and I say this as a 25 year veteran of being an engineer. The extra bits of complexity that are in the language allow me, the developer, to not have to write code to deal with that complexity in my own projects. It's handled for me.

Rust's primary competition is C and C++. It compares favorable on the overwhelming majority of axes against either. Not every one, but most.
His Twitter thread is a mishmash of the zaniest conspiracy theories imaginable and plenty of concerning paranoia (the government is flying drones around his property to shut him up, "spooks" fired bullets through his mailbox, his vehicles were hacked, Hunter Biden funded labs in Ukraine to create pandemic viruses, and on and on) along with tons of promotion for his own book "The Truth About Wuhan - How I uncovered the biggest lie in history." He seems to have a psychology degree and a public health PhD and was a mid-level manager,
who likely wouldn't have any insight at all into the research activities of the lab..

Doesn't seem like an entirely trustworthy person..
According to Lancet (some time back, after a half-day long search for actual science data online) the carcinogenicity of second-hand smoke particles was so low as to be immeasurable.

It's also claimed SHS causes cardiovascular problems. Perhaps ... lots of things can do that, like food and lack of exercise. Accounted-for in studies?

Personally, I always smoke outdoors, where my SHS mixes with the exhaust of the gasoline and diesel vehicles driving by. They haven't been outlawed yet. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOx#Health_and_environment_eff...]
> The mere fact that evolution happened to stumble upon generalized strong intelligence is evidence to me that strong AI is possible.

That took about a billion years. If you're saying that we will achieve AGI in no more than a billion years of trying, I would generally agree.

But let's be optimists. Let's suppose that artificial intelligences can evolve on the order of a 1,000,000 times faster than biological intelligence; i.e. about 1 generation per hour.

That means we'd expect AGI in about 1000 years. Okay, lets up the scale : ten million times faster? One generation every 6 minutes? (Even at Google compute scale I doubt they can retrain GPT in less than 6 minutes). That would mean we still have about 100 years.

Also, evolution had quite a bit of parallelism going for it - basically the entire planet was a laboratory for evolving biological intelligence. I appreciate the scale of modern internet companies, but they don't consume the same amount of energy as combined photosynthesis of the entire planet. Evolution used a LOT of energy to get where it is.
I believe he is referencing this:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10652127/Hunter-Bid...
How large can these networks be in practice?

I know a major issue with most mesh protocols is that when the network is both big and dynamic configuration traffic will start to swamp data traffic.

Another issue in most mesh protocols is susceptibility to Sybil, flooding, cache pollution, and other denial of service attacks by well-resourced adversaries. It's really hard to create a distributed permissionless system that can't easily be attacked in those sorts of ways. Proof of work and similar schemes are really the only ways we've found so far and those are expensive and cumbersome.

Any mesh network used by dissidents is going to be targeted for denial of service attacks.
>Given that that extends well beyond individual behaviour (Wheat futures[1] are currently bonkers), this raises the question if the claim that "capitalism is the optimal way to allocate resources" is really true at least for the current version of capitalism.

It works, if the good in question is not needed to satisfy a basic human need. It also works, when the good in question can be produced so that everyone has enough.

It doesn't work, if there is a sudden temporary loss of production capacity or if the production capacity can never catch up to demand (think how we can't make more land, it's already there).
> - Apple: When you start an Airplay stream on your phone directed at an Apple TV, the Apple TV doesn't send a switch input command.

I have almost the opposite problem. Any time I turn on my TV and receiver to use another device (often my Nintendo Switch), the Apple TV somehow wakes up and then switches my receiver's input to itself. (My receiver is my HDMI switcher and has a single HDMI output to my TV.) This is a very annoying problem, and is the only reason I still need to have the receiver's remote nearby.

Another unrelated but incredibly annoying problem I have with this whole setup is that it's essentially impossible to play music through my receiver with my AppleTV without the TV being on. Turning off the TV will, of course, turn off the receiver too.
Rental vacancy rates remain near all time lows, construction is still expensive, the population is growing, and most cities are doing little zoning-wise to improve their housing supply. This bubble has a ways to go.
> Not willing to sit through half a minute of ads.

Then don’t:

• https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

• https://sponsor.ajay.app/
Unexpectedly, searching the generic word `Everything` find exactly what I was looking for.
How does go deal with the diamond dependency issue when transitively you've a dep on the same package via two different paths?
100%. Here’s a book of interviews of elderly psychonauts.

https://books.google.nl/books?id=wL5G8s3xpxwC&lpg=PR11&ots=w...