skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the world is to be filled with innumerable discrete human level intelligences, the most plausible reason I can imagine them all secretly and flawlessly colluding to achieve the goal of destroying humanity (as opposed to poetry competitions or arguing amongst themselves like normal intelligent beings or selling ads like they were designed to do) is because their training data set is full of millenialist prophecy about AIs working together to achieve the [pretty abstract, non-obvious, detrimental in many ways] goal of destroying humanity from "AI Safety" fundraising pitches....
Another point adding on to this, is what if strong AI does reach the level of human intelligence, but is simply very slow? Such that a billion dollar machine is needed to match the thinking speed of one person? Perhaps this wouldn't be the case forever but I would say is a possibility for it at least at first.
I’m not the target audience then because I would never allow a service to just automatically update my AWS account infrastructure without allowing me to scrutinize the terraform first.
> Have you tried leaning to the left while biking in a straight line?

That is impossible. If you lean your body left while biking in a straight line, the bike will lean right to keep your center of gravity above the track.

For bike and body to be leaning left, the bike must already be in a turn. Or else, it must be in the middle of a fall.

Two-track vehicles always begin a turn with a countersteering move which induces a fall in the opposite direction. Then the steering immediately switches in the falling direction, to convert the fall into a turn.

(In the absence of wind anyway. A left turn could plausibly start without a countersteer if a gust of wind blows over the bike into a left lean; the subsequent left steer and turn will supply the compensating acceleration to prevent a fall.)

A bicycle is always countersteering. A bicycle whose steering column is locked out, prevented from turning, cannot be ridden. It will fall over.

A bicycle doesn't require a rider in order to maintain balance, either. Above a certain speed, a bicycle can correct itself. This is due to countersteering. Whenever the bicycle accidentally steers slightly to the right, it begins to fall to the left, and this provokes a left steer which prevents a fall.

A rider who doesn't understand countersteering nevertheless intuitively "bootstraps" the turn out of these small wobbles, gradually increasing the tilt and and degree of turn, through a sequence of small counter-steering maneuvers.
If they added hydraulic hybrid braking to the trains, they could capture 80% or more of the kinetic energy and reuse it to accelerate again. This would drastically cut down on heat. By way of comparison, electric batteries can capture maybe 20-25% of the kinetic energy.

Uncaptured energy is likely turned into pure heat.
I don't know anything about Texas non-compete law, but "right to work state" refers to restrictions on unionizing. It has nothing to do with non-compete clauses.
The top level comments strategy with queues seems similar, in that it isn't always possible. It requires the queues form a DAG, which is another word for partial ordering. Thus, requiring the locks form a partial ordering doesn't seem like a comparatively excessive restriction.
Web Ocho Cinco? Must be Friday afternoon.
I'm not sure what you mean by "the most outlandish route possible to smear someones name". I fail to see why me asserting that not spending the coins isn't strong evidence about Satoshi's motivations is some how a smear or trying to assign guilt?

The entire conversation started because someone pointed out that just because Satoshi said something doesn't mean it has to be true (although they made that point in a rude way.)

The vibe I am getting from your responses is: 'satoshi is a saint, everything he said has to be true, and any attempt to point out that we have little evidence about Satoshi's character is a baseless smear.'

I am sure that is an inaccurate and unfair characterization of what you are trying to see, so please correct me as to where I have it wrong.
Same, and I'm not looking back. Docker performance is stellar, everything is dev friendly, and the OS actually treats you like an adult.
Isn't that basically just an extension of credit files?
Where I live gets about 2.5x as much rain as Seattle, and I consider it a big improvement over the East Coast (of Canada). It's all relative I guess.
> Neither should Congress or anyone else confuse the hype machine’s capacity to invoke real grievances—banking access, financial consolidation, transfer network improvement, predatory lending, monetary policy—with capacity to solve them. The proper tools are known, but they aren’t found in any “white paper”. They are found on parchment, in the Constitution, vested in Congress.

What a mouthful. Some problems are technology problems (e.g. "transfer network improvement"). Not sure what Congress has to do with solving these (read: nothing). Other problems are finance problems (e.g. financial consolidation, whatever that even means). Again, Congress has no say here, as these are problems to be solved by financial institutions (banks, funds, etc.). And others (e.g. predatory lending) are policy problems; here is the only place where Congress would have a say.

> If our representatives tie themselves to blockchain with special favors, they will stand with it when the hustle grinds down, the debts come due, and full account is taken of its past as well as its promises. They should do the opposite.

Nancy Pelosi consistently beating the market[1] is a meme at this point. How about we first solve the problem of congresspeople actively trading the very markets they're supposed to police? The entire post is just a confused hodgepodge of misgivings and grievances with no rhyme or reason.

Blockchain bad, we get it.

[1] https://www.fineprintdata.com/post/pelosistocks
As I recall you were pretty critical of the American military in the past. It just seems like many of the folks who threw around the term “warmonger” with respect to the US when a middle eastern dictator was threatening his neighbors are now sounding the same way Bush administration people did when talking about Saddam.
Writing documents and emails and talking over a phone goes under "mental labor", it isn't very hard to imagine how most office jobs fits there etc.
Well, I can think of a few reasons: facilitating transactions with other parties on the permissionless network, promoting public verifiability of your system, utilizing the tools and utilities available for public blockchains, requiring your data to be available even after you stop paying your hosting provider, avoiding the hassle of building your own payment on-ramps, etc.
Heh. I knew I’d get downvoted.

I’ve generally been on the most productive teams in my segment of the business. The biggest differentiator seems to be that my teams had devs that knew when to ask questions and what questions to ask. This is probably the most important skill a dev can learn.

The solution to ambiguous requirements is not meetings. At least, not in the usual sense. It’s knowing who and what to ask, and occasionally meeting with customers or knowledgeable stakeholders.
The video shows the exact opposite of your claim. The bicycle is given an initial push by the experimenter. Its steering is initially pointing a bit to the left. Because of this, it begins falling to the right, and recovers by steering in that direction, away from the guardrail.

The bike seems to be initially leaning to the left, because it was induced into motion that way by the experimenter. Yet in spite of this, it recovers by tilting to the right.
> I found my current role on IRC :-)

How did that happen?
I have seen many tutorials using CloudFlare's `cfssl` as an alternative.
Or AI which no longer requires the gov't to have a willing and agreeable populace serve in its army to ensure control.
In the spirit of Asimov's Zeroth Law, I think it's time for the prequel, Web0 (since we all know zero-indexing is objectively correct). Bring back the simple purity of Usenet and BBS: everything that's old is new again ;)
You should read more about the yield curve or the bond market in general, it is a pretty clever beast.

More immediately to this thread - the 3m yield will most likely soon become what is currently the 1-2yr yield, and that without changes in the 10yr yield will close the 3m 10y spread.
IME there's plenty problems where nested locks will lead to a simpler solution than trying to avoid them. It's important to avoid when reasonably doable, but it's also not uncommon to take it too far and end up with a slower and way more complicated solution.
Singularity enthusiasts have been saying that for 20 years. Even said we'd be there by know where we're obsolete.

Will technology put some, even many, folks out of a job? Sure of course, that's been happening for hundreds of years. Think of the blacksmiths of the 19th century who drank themselves to death.

And even at the end of it all, people still love the novelty of a human doing something. People still prefer "hand scooped" ice cream enough that it's on billboards.
Really good article, and gave me several ideas to track down some gremlins that have been bugging me in a go codebase recently.
There's a whole GCam (Google Camera) modding community that manages to get image quality that's often better than what non-pixel OEM vendors offer. These ports usually work on LineageOS (and other ROMs) This site has a large collection of models and the config files generated for each device: https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/android/google-camera/ I think they link to some Telegram channels too where people share the kinds of photography they get with the modifications.
Monkeypox ix a disease. The other two are not dieaseases.

While there's a spurious correlation available, it's not this
Centralization can lead to inefficiencies and ineffectiveness (and other problems) at large scales.

It is possible to have hierarchical authority and decentralized decision-making work together over the long haul, to alleviate those obstacles, even if the two bump heads on occasion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidiarity_(Catholicism)
You should pick a library with reduced scope. And not feel any bad about it.

But that doesn't mean the kitchen sink one is useless.
Reversing in action: Golang malware used in the SolarWinds attack. Part 1
> I think most people will agree that a GAI can't be bargained with, tempted, bought or otherwise contained - We will be at its complete mercy regardless of any constraints we might think up.

Who thinks this? I don't see any evidence that this is a common belief among people who work in the hard sciences related to AI, nor do I think it sound remotely logical

It feels like some people are taking archetypes like pandora box or genies or the Alien movies or some other mythology and using them to imagine what some unconstrained power would do if unleashed. That really has no bearing on AI (least of all modern deep learning, but even if we imagine that something leads to AGI that lives within our current conception of computers)
Pretty sure you’re just making that up. That doesn’t make any sense. State laws don’t declare something is illegal anywhere. They declare they’re illegal within that state. It’s perfectly fine to do such things in other states.
I got an M1 MacBook Pro from work last year, and expecting to pay the price for being an early adopter, I set up my previous Intel-based MBP nearby in case I ran into any problems or needed to run one of my existing virtual machines. (I do varied development projects ranging from compiling kernels to building web frontends.)

In reality I have hardly turned on the Intel MBP at all since I got it. At all.

Docker and VMware Fusion both have Apple Silicon support, and even in "tech preview" status they are both rock solid. Docker gets kudos for supporting emulated x86 containers, though I rarely use them.

I was able to easily rebuild almost all of my virtual machines; thanks to the Raspberry Pi, almost all of the packages I use were already available for arm64, though Ubuntu 16.04 was a little challenging to get running.

I also had to spend an afternoon updating my CI scripts to cross-compile my Docker containers, but this mostly involves switching to `docker buildx build`.

Rosetta is flawless, including for userland drivers for USB and Bluetooth devices, but virtually all of my apps were rebuilt native very quickly. (Curious to see what, if anything, is running under translation, I just discovered that WhatsApp, the #1 Social Networking app in the App Store, still ships Intel-only.)
Makes me wonder if we can do something more productive with the heat.

They mention energy generation, but what about heat pumps and water heaters for the above ground buildings? Probably cost prohibitive, but wouldn't it be neat if the waste heat from the brakes ended warming a building or hot water heater?
That's great! (I mean, not the stuff about the laptop display, but the rest of it.)

It really sucks that the things you describe doing are out of reach for most people. The vast majority of smartphone owners wouldn't know where to start repairing a PCB. The stuff around the house is cool too, but how many people have reasonable/affordable access to a 3D printer? Probably not many. I just wish all of this was more accessible. The kinds of people who would benefit most financially from being able to repair their stuff are often the people who won't have access to the tools required to do it.
NASA forms independent team to study unexplained UFO sightings
You seem to copy and paste this fake fact about 'King Henry's Little Black Book"' all over the thread.

> Blacklist comes from King Henry's "Little Black Book" which was a list of his political enemies.

While the term Blacklist does not originate from colonialism, it seems to have first been used in the 1639 tragedy "The Unnatural Combat" by Philip Massinger.

Not only did I not find any evidences supporting your fun "fact" about "King Henry and his enemies", the name Henry was quite popular as far as kings go, but non of them even lived in the 17th century according to this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rulers_named_Henry

Back to the term - while blacklist _origin_ has nothing to do with racism, it's counterpart, "white list" was first used in the mid 19th century (not sure where it was first used exactly) - while the people who made these terms popular in the 20th century perhaps were not racist, they also were also did not think about how black people would feel about labeling white with "allow" and black with "reject", and I while I can't hold it against them since it might have been different times, the fact that some people are trying so hard to keep using these words, despite being triggering toward some people is hard for me to understand without making cynical assumptions about their motives.

Could it be that you're basing your historical knowledge on this ad? I'd love be wrong on this one.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/how-wann...
My first task at my current job I had to port our local dev environment to M1, out of necessity. Docker was relatively straightforward but I ran into a hell of sorts trying to get deps to compile on my aarch64 container, especially for stale projects like leveldb and eleveldb.

In short it was painful but once you get over the attrition of compiling (mainly C) deps it's smooth sailing from there on out.
part 2 is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRqTrq11ebg
If anyone doesn't want to deal with hosting Nextcloud, Cryptpad.fr is a free option and in my experience the only issue is it's a bit slow and doesn't work nearly as well on mobile devices as G Suite
US oil companies don't invest in new supply because you can't model a 10y return on your projects when the government could ban/heavily tax them sometime over those next 10 years.

So yes, a Democratic admin that cancels projects and talks about windfall tax on oil company profits does disincentivize new supply and raise the cost of oil/gas.

The net result may be even worse greenhouse gas emissions as poor countries turn to coal as a cheaper alternative to Oil.

The energy transition needs to be responsibly managed... a cold cutover will backfire in a huge way, as I'm sure we'll see in November
> I am curious though, other that one brief mention, why didn't you touch on the early hardware reliability issues at all?

I guess because they likely didn't have anything to do with the architecture? Or were there really reliability issues that were a result of the architecture, instead of physical/electrical hardware issues?
Well, if you compare react and angular2+, react has less stuff, and is less complex. But on the opposite side, a function that tries to do too much (like lodash pick function) look simple at first glance, but is actually complex.
More companies I am glad I’ll never work for.
Until it has been fixed in hardware I think it could be mitigated in software a bit, but at a cost. A PAC signature can include also a 64-bit "context" value, which you could make unique per pointer (like a nonce).

However, context values are not something that is supported by any C ABI: the PAC extension contains also instructions that hardcode the context value to zero, and I would guess that those are what the kernel is using currently.
To make use of context values, I suppose you would have to use a new ABI that stores effectively 128-bit pointers, and which also creates the random nonces/keys/whatyoucallthem to store in them.
Agreed - Microsoft's ability to stream anything that runs on XBox vs Stadia's Linux requirement means XBox Cloud's selection is miles ahead.

I have a powerful gaming PC, but use streaming as a console replacement for games not on PC. I've used Stadia and XBox for streaming and while I prefer Stadia's tech, I spend 99% of my time on XBox due to game library (particularly MLB the Show).
Agreed that the current (incorrect) web3 narrative is that all decentralization is good. There will be use cases where it’s good and use cases where it’s bad. The process to a valuable endpoint will involve a lot of duds and failed companies.
> This is only a heuristic, but are there any tools that examine metrics like that?

Use a code coverage tool to see what call paths are getting exercised.
Implementing strace in Rust
You misunderstand.

We've being doing genetics for decades. Molecular biology without mutant studies wouldn't exist. It's the foundation of the field.

All this is is a difference in scale. But it is a very crude tool; really understanding gene function involves studying it in relevant contexts. Looking at cells in tissue culture can give you some ideas or hints about how it functions, but the critical insight might require certain cell types or gene regulatory environments.

What data like these do is inform hypothesis generation and refine the interpretation of genomic data. It is important work, but does not replace doing actual biology.

What you're talking about is essentially saying we just invented molecular biology. Which is obviously not the case.
This is pretty cool. 50 million lines of code is quite a large corpus to work off of.

I'm surprised by some of them. For example, go vet nominally catches misuses of mutexes, so it's surprising that even a few of those slipped through. I wonder if those situations are a bit more complicated than the example.

Obviously, the ideal outcome is that static analysis can help eliminate as many issues as possible, by restricting the language, discouraging bad patterns, or giving the programmer more tools to detect bugs. gVisor, for example, has a really interesting tool called checklocks:

https://github.com/google/gvisor/tree/master/tools/checklock...

While it definitely has some caveats, ideas like these should help Go programs achieve a greater degree of robustness. Obviously, this class of error would be effectively prevented by borrow checking, but I suppose if you want programming language tradeoffs more tilted towards robustness, Rust already has a lot of that covered.
Agree with the sibling that people make insane gambles all the time.

But beyond that, I don't think your premise holds true. People do often start companies because they believe in (or even have a passion for) the thing their company will be doing. But people often just start companies because they believe those companies can make them money. That doesn't mean that the thing the company does is going to be good and sustainable over the longer term. Just that there's some money to be made, even if it's on the backs of speculators and gamblers that don't provide much value to the ecosystem.
Her "decline"? "it all came crashing down"?

I'm not at all a fanboy of Sandberg or FB, but your analogy is a bit, shall we say, "flawed."

If you think her tenure at FB was built on lies like Holmes' was, then please specify how. You just don't like FB, ok, I don't either.
The nice thing about living in a world of free people is that is a choice a person can make.
Yeah I’m around the same time on the clock and when I’m asked how to be successful in your career my primary advice is being successful in your work is neither necessary nor sufficient to become successful in your career. The only thing that matters is being perceived as successful.
Sweden and Finland should join NATO, and America should leave. Europe’s security is their problem, not ours.
I also learned electronics first, but in a much more amateurish way. As a kid I loved electronics magazines and building projects from them. My dream was a Z-80 kit, but even much simpler kits were too expensive for me. I ended up making a make-believe computer with a few logic gates, decade counters and flip flops. That was my "computer", which taught me digital logic. Not a lot of power, but for a 10-11 old it could compute the stuff I wanted, and I eventually learned digital logic.

I never got the Z-80 kit but I eventually got a computer with DOS, which had QBasic, where I learned to code by modding GORILLA.BAS and NIBBLES.BAS. What a weird language, there was AND and OR, but not NOR, XOR, NAND and others...
Does it matter what an absolute value is versus a percentage of employees laid off?
Not really. Just you don't know what you don't know. You're not going to get a reliable feel for someone's motivations unless you actually know them and spend a bit of time talking to them about what they're doing. A "cofounder wanted" post on HN doesn't remotely cut it.
> That's with no rider on the bike.

That's irrelevant; bicycles countersteer to keep stable, without a rider present (above a certain speed).

If the riderless experiment were repeated with a bike whose steering is locked out, it would fall down rather quick.
>> Erlang: solves the problem, but the actor formulation is too awkward for all but Erlang-specific use-cases.

Err? I mean, it requires rethinking a bunch of the lessons you learn when concurrency is hard and expensive and to be minimized, sure. But when concurrency is easy and cheap and to be embraced, a bunch of things become a lot easier and more natural to write.

My go to example, from a production system, was a complicated task scheduling system (with user and hardware interrupts to handle). Sure, we could have written it using threads and a priority queue or something...instead we just had one Erlang process per task, with interrupts routed to that process as messages (and linked timer processes that fired messages to those processes for the scheduled stuff, essentially just another type of interrupt/message). Super simple to write, super simple to reason about, never had any sort of race condition or locking issues, across years of development and production use.
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