skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Can you let me know more about that?

Compare the level of transparency and need for funds of OpenAI LP with the average organisation criticised by GiveWell for not being transparent about how they spend the money, not providing any metrics or trials, and/or having more money than they need to fulfil their short term goals and plenty of access to more.

> I don't think AI would have the goal "secretly unite to eliminate humanity", but I do think that most of the goals we can imagine it having can play out in very bad ways that achieve that outcome as a side-effect. There is an incentive for it always be looking for ways to maximise its power (compute, resources, money, influence), and this could happen in ways we really don't want.

Is "people might not recognise how the second order effects of pursuing a goal adversely impact humanity" a problem unique to decisions made by AI? If anything, I would have thought that in addition to actually existing, independent human intelligences' resource demands were already more competitive with human needs than a silicon-based AGI's is particularly likely to be, and demonstrably neglectful of second order effects. With those problems mostly unsolved, it's hard to see tackling the same thorny problem but with hypothetical goals of hypothetical entities would be seen as the more impactful line of research (as interesting as it undoubtedly is). Nothing wrong with intellectually curious altruism, but if you're describing yourselves as the arbiters of effectiveness...

> I'm curious - do you have a view on how we could go about reducing this risk?

I don't have an easy solution to a range of complex mostly political problems, no, and certainly wouldn't argue for investing in studying them on the grounds of other philanthropy being less effective. Generally attempts to impose bans and developing more, better weapons quicker seem to have been attempted solutions to non-AI based arms races and neither of them have a great track record. Misplaced faith in the output of current techniques we call AI as superior reasoning free from human bias rather than garbage in garbage out mathematical transformation skewed by massive unseen flaws in training sets and prone to non-obvious bugs isn't likely to be reduced by talking about allying with self-updating superintelligences...
Whether their findings are novel or not, it is clearly laden with technobabble. It seems you are the one less familiar with academic writing?
The do-it-yourself cyclotron (2010)
>If nobody will accept their laundered coins, how do they profit?

I don't think there's any evidence sanctioning Tornado Cash closes off laundering options for DPRK. Washing through privacy coins come to mind as an alternative. Very easy for DPRK's government mechanism to learn while being much more a hassle for the average American who barely has time after work/kids/training etc.

>That provides no benefit to society and causes plenty of harms. Working as intended.

Privacy definitely provides benefit to society, including not letting everyone know how much money you have to spend in your cold wallet every time you spend from your hot wallet. In fact I'd argue more violence could ensue if criminals could easily discover who had large cold wallets through lack of privacy, as many would choose to simply go on targetted knee-cap breaking operations until the key is given up.
That article actually shows %5 worse efficiency over a 5600U in a heavy single threaded workload. It's a bit apples to oranges and there's a lot more to efficiency on a laptop than heavy single core workloads.
Are you in Europe? If you’re comparing Americas/Australian to European truck designs, it’s an apples/oranges comparison.
What is incredibly annoying to me is how people that choose to eat meat take a lot of offense to peaceful animal rights activist and those videos of people eating meat in front of protesters always go viral. Truth be told it doesn't seem to me like there is much difference than having a farm or small stalls for cattle to slaughter and a farm of dogs that you slaughter. You either believe animals have emotions and empathy or you just don't care enough about certain ones.
I think people forget that debuggers used to crash the IDE as a matter of course (and they didn’t auto save as a matter of course).

VisualAge for Java, the precursor for Eclipse, was the first IDE where the debugger was stable. However the editor would just up and crash instead, which is worse. Symantec had the first generally stable IDE in VisualCAFE.

I learned to obsessively type CTRL-S on word processors in college. But that came to adulthood with me because of shit IDEs. I’ve used Jetbrains for more than 15 years. I know it saves when it loses focus. And I still hit save about ten times a day.
>But if all your friends are from all walks of life, you will naturally not be prejudiced.

I'd be careful jumping to the conclusion you did based on this premise because there are a lot of subtleties here. More generally this is known as the contact hypothesis (and related to the diversity exposure hypothesis) and there isn't that much evidence to justify the idea that exposure to multiple walks of life reduces prejudice and on the contrary there is evidence that the opposite is true.

While there is substantial evidence that people who do have friends from all walks of life are less prejudiced as you point out, that's mostly due to self-selection. People less prejudiced have less issue with befriending people from all walks of life, so we should not be surprised that they do so. However, concluding that all people need is to be exposed to diverse groups of people will reduce prejudice is unsupported by research and in fact to the extent that research exists on this, it actually points to the opposite conclusion. For example in situations where people are required to work or interact among different cultures, studies show unfortunately that those people have more negative attitudes towards that community than the general population. This phenomenon is known as negative intergroup contact:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/136843021876156...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4457726/
I don't see how blockchain devs can do any of these things. Nodes and miners run the network, not devs.
People keep bringing this up, about junior developers. But my experience as a junior was very different. I didn't have senior mentors, I learned mostly from irc and stackoverflow, in fact I worked remotely for most of my junior years, and it worked out for me. (I'm a senior staff engineer at a "unicorn" now.)
I am thinking of a future when every piece of code can be traced back to a common ancestor because everyone is using a tool like copilot and there is no identifying signature. De-anonymization is only going to become more difficult.
lol, in no way. The article has a call to action to try to get Apple to change course.

The author suggesting that indicates a total lack of comprehension to Apple’s plan and purpose/intention.

Calling for people to ask Apple to change this is like politely asking Opioid manufacturers to stop killing people. It’s profit. It has nothing to do with what’s best for the consumer.

My main point of the comment was not to explain the subtext of the article. It was to explain that the article just didn’t need to be written, and won’t change anything.
I still don't see any evidence for your claim "controlling the EU". The Nord Stream II stuff is well-known, but how does Germany getting gas from Russia let them "control the EU"? They are also far from the only EU country with big bets on energy from Russia (for example, Austria, Hungary - the latter not wanting to change a thing even now).

Dependence of European countries on Russian gas, oil (data until 2020):

Gas: https://www.statista.com/chart/26768/dependence-on-russian-g...

Oil: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1298031/dependence-on-ru...
Simple; regulators will come after if Apple refuses to do so. DMA is just one response.
The Russians had to do this (a few years ago now, don't remember when). It had never occured to the designers that the river could get to warm.
I keep one one with team viewer running so I can connect to the bluetooth devices at the house.
What do I gain from lying? I get paid $6 for each day of jury duty. It's 50 miles round trip per day. Depending on traffic that does not cover my gas. Your comment adds nothing to this discussion.
I don't find "facilitating mass money laundering" to be as compelling as the other cases, frankly.

This doesn't mean that any/all measures taken against them are automatically justified, but it's large-scale crime, and it's not in the realm of "information wants to be free", it's actual money laundering, for actual criminal cartels and actual rogue states.
There's this comment long ago about getting in contact with him that has always made me curious, but no information was proffered: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7871260

And, of course, there's this picture that was found of him:

https://zappa.brainiac.com/MelKaye.png
It’s extremely irresponsible to suggest someone use cryptocurrency in such an environment. The public ledger is a godsend for the secret police giving them evidence for retroactive prosecution and good odds de-anonymizing people, receiving funds from a notorious money laundering site could be used to persecute the journalist, statistically nobody has adequate opsec to conceal their use of these applications, and having sent them tokens would obligate them to take on additional risk converting them into something useful.

Cash is much safer because the risk is only at the time of transfer.
No one really wants to understand it, they just want to complain that Apple doesn't support it
> The development team didn’t want to – or couldn’t – do the Ops work

Most devs I've spoke to are in this camp they don't want to do any Ops work at all. They want a 9-5 job without evenings are weekends wasted by services failing. No on call rota and all that jazz just writing code that's all.
If we had such advanced AI we wouldn’t ask it to build programs, we would just tell it to do those computations directly. So instead of asking for an invoicing application, we’d just ask to generate an invoice to whatever parameters we need, and to remember the reusable data for next time.
Yes, we are using the android emulator. More info on how we do it here - https://www.wolfia.com/security. Eventually, i'll write up a detailed blog.
Repeated DUI offenders should be charged with attempted murder every time they enter a vehicle
Probably. But I don't think that is very problematic.

Browsers have become a lot more standardized. What also helps a lot is that windows is now Chromium edge instead of IE or old edge. Testing tools have also come a long way.

It's the same as building web-apps.
Uchinoko Maker: online cat illustration generator
I've ditched Spring, am using Vert.x with Java 17, reactive & functional styles, records. Seems like a completely different language.

If only project Loom will get out there so I wont be coding everything like Javascript I'd be happy. :)
Why Heroku-like pricing models are hard to build
The way to handle this situation that respects your space while minimizing conflict, is to have a second phone just for work only that they can mobile device manage to their heart's content with all their useless apps.

This means using one of your older devices for it if available, otherwise you can purchase the cheapest unlocked one sold at an outlet store and consider it a cost of doing business like clothing.
This is why imo powershell (when done right) is more powerful than bash (no matter how correctly it’s done). Powershell cmdlet names are descriptive and generally make sense as do the parameter names, additionally the guidelines for how to make powershell commands forces a certain style that once you grok it makes sense for most powershell commands.

If bash has something like that I’m still missing it.

Obviously the brevity of bash can be its own power.
Why People Hate Zuck
Unity shareholders would get 49% of the combined company, if they don't screw up the merger a game tech + ad tech combination might be worth than either alone
We also did without anesthesia for thousands of years. This is not a great argument against something.
I've had that happen with math teaching material a couple of times. One time I was dissatisfied with how I presented the definition of implication so I googled. The top link was to a discussion where the person answering linked to me. Like DJM, I found it a little unsettling.
I miss XMPP :(
Most malware is packed and/or obfuscated. I'd imagine this defeats fingerprinting relatively handily since the binary is rewritten. I'm sure this technique is used to catch particularly dumb adversaries, but against anyone with a hint of operational security it wouldn't work at all. Moreover, what's stopping a determined adversary from rewriting the binary with a signature that matches another person? Using this as a targeting method would have a lot of collateral damage.
You're completely lost, after looking at the last 50 years of rates, at the chances of it falling to 2021 lows? We're talking probabilities here and I'm confident the probability is very low.
Intel is in an even better position now than last month, being handed $billions ($tens of billions?) of US tax dollars to fund building new fabs, which they would have had to build anyway. That will free up money to use in undercutting chip pricing, helping to bury AMD again.
If you're at a company that doesn't have a Platform team, but that still struggles with wanting centralized guardrails and best practices, and a consistent set of patterns across services and teams, the answer to this question might be a developer experience platform like what we're building at Coherence (I'm a cofounder). In this case, someone else writes the terraform, and you just tell us how to map it onto your code. This lets us give you nice things like a dashboard to manage deployments, cloud IDEs, branch preview environments, etc. while still giving your dev/devops folks total control and visibility, since it runs in your own cloud...

Would love anyone interested to give it a spin at withcoherence.com and please feel free to ping hn@withcoherence.com with any feedback or issues!
As someone who does lots of home renovation solar is not even close to in the same league as other types of work. Speaking as someone who has put in new circuits into a live panel.

First off you need roofing skills, which 99% of homeowners have no idea how to do safely, often needs specialized equipment, and you run the risk of falling off and basically paralyzing yourself for life. Then you have the issue of having run conduit correctly, grounding everything to code, having disconnects installed in the right places, which is going to vary from state to state and even city to city based on what the laws are.

If you don't electrocute yourself, and manage to not fall off the roof and die, and somehow connect everything correctly, there is approximately 0% chance the local utility agrees to connect your system without a licensed electrician who is willing to vouch for the work you did.
The semantics of standard CI/CD providers are in practice very ill-suited to more advanced Infrastructure-as-Code use cases (triggering other stacks based on changes, multi-repo workflows, etc.), so building on top of them would add a lot of complexity. I don't want to go too much into it.

Overall, if your setup works for you and you're happy with it - keep using it!

We've seen a lot of companies (many now our customers :) ) try to build their own on top of existing systems (GitHub, Gitlab, Jenkins, etc.) and waste a ton of time and engineering resources, while ultimately not achieving anything that works well.

What Spacelift does is it gives you a bunch of much better-suited building blocks which let you build your required workflow very quickly.

And it obviously does integrate very deeply with your VCS provider - Commits, Pull Requests, Comments, etc. - everything is supported and customizable using - amongst others - Push Policies[0].

[0]: https://docs.spacelift.io/concepts/policy/git-push-policy
It's a classic physics post.

If you have studied classical (Langrangian) mechanics, then everything said in this article would make sense. But then, you would also be aware of Noether's theorem.

Currently doing research in physics, and I have to say that a lot of books / articles have this kind of approach: they don't give enough details such that the subject in question would be approachable by a novice (let's say having studied analysis), but not enough details either to be appreciated by an expert in the subject.
One of the best intro videos I've seen. Great pacing and music. Will try to steal some essence of it when I attempt mine.
I run Docker on M1. Definitely idling. It must be one of the containers. Try running Docker stats to find out which.
I guess I didn’t do my homework searching for it. I’m ashame I’ve polluted crates.io with a soon to be deprecated project…
The irony of you saying I'm cherry picking, then doing it yourself looking for an out isn't lost on me. Given you picked the one area where the US started it's agency as an actual consumer-safety oriented one (a rarity), and a centralized one, is a good topic to look at:

"The FDA historically developed as a consumer protection agency, whereas the regulations from the European Commission arose out of a need to harmonize inter-state commercial interests while preserving national “autonomy.” Thus, whereas the FDA has the advantages of centralization and common rules, the European Union regulates medical drug and device approvals through a network of centralized and decentralized agencies throughout its member states." - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452302X1...

Congrats, you cherry picked the outlier. And I'd argue based on the fact that we actually allow endless Pharma advertising and doctor lobbying, and the EU generally forbids it, that we still come up short comparatively.
is there a way to know for sure if something was generated by it?
I see, i was vaguely aware of them but not to the extent described here. Sadly it seems you need to configure the OS for them - might work for something like a server under your control, but it isn't something you can rely on in general use.

I tried to use posix_memalign + madvice MADV_HUGEPAGE to allocate the memory for use in the test program (if i understood the documentation correctly, the "transparent huge page support" that madvice relies on doesn't need any system setup) but didn't see any difference from just using malloc (perhaps the advice was ignored). Either way, both were much slower than just statically allocating the data like in the test program.
This outcome was as obvious as it was inevitable.

There is no mechanism in crypto to reject incoming funds, and all the top addresses are public.

Anyone could easily send the top 100,000 wallets “tainted” crypto.
What's the context? "Poisoning the well" by associating these addresses with Tornado.cash?
Who buys an automatic Ferrari?
I wouldn't think it would extend beyond the boundaries of a single biological entity. As far as we know, cells need to be in very close communication with each other in order to produce what we call consciousness. They do this by releasing chemical signals into their surrounding environment that then modify surface structures of other cells which then triggers some process within those other cells. It's not clear that consciousness could be shared via other means. I'm open to being proven wrong by ventures like Neuralink though.
I have infinite free SMS per month and I uses less than 1 a month. In Europe everyone uses WhatsApp.
I meant the controller that manages the NAND cells, I assumed it would be called NVMe controller. Essentially the IC that the "NVMe controller" in your image talks to.
Thanks. That is good to know!
anyone who equates "crypto" with "Proof of Work" shows automatically their ignorance or dishonesty when arguing.

Ethereum will switch to PoS next month, and there will be hundreds of thousands of nodes around the world, in aggregate they will run on a fraction of the energy consumed by the millions of video game consoles while idling.

By all means, complain about Proof of Work all you want but get off the high horse. Those "bashing crypto" and talk about "the waste it creates" are usually so covered in privilege they can't even be bothered to actually go to put the numbers in perspective.
No they don't neither do the Dells, these do not have negative inertia because IBM patented that.

And yes, there are DIY TrackPoint keyboards, I have a TEX Shinobi.
I didn't knew this one and are surprised at how well it works https://www.todesktop.com/
There are some Zuckerberg emails exposed as part of some subpoena process where he describes why Unity was a valuable asset to build Meta's AR/VR business. He goes on a lengthy argument about why owning Unity will create a value flywheel that could accelerate Meta's business by doubling down on Unity's engine as a core technology for building games and other AR/VR experiences: https://sriramk.com/memos/zuck-unity.pdf

We don't know what would have been the outcome since this never happened, but he saw Unity as a valuable core technology, so is reasonable to assume (whether you like Zuck or not) that Meta would have probably invested some serious money in making Unity (the engine) better.

Now that we are past that, we are looking at a company that can't grow its game engine business anymore, so they have started to invest in app/game monetization. But likely at the expense of being less focused on improving the game engine.

So the logic here is that Unity under Zuck (who is ironically the king of ad revenue models) would likely have thrived as a game engine. Instead, Unity as an independent company is now seen as nothing else than adware leverage.
> Plaintiff Rose drove the Ferrari slowly home and pulled into the driveway of his residence at approximately 10 miles per hour in first gear. When he attempted to press the brake pedal nothing happened. Plaintiff Rose’s 2020 Vehicle continued moving forward into his yard with Plaintiff Rose continually trying to press the brakes but the brakes would not engage. Plaintiff Rose frantically released his seat belt, opened the driver’s side door and jumped out of the moving vehicle just before it entered the 20-foot-deep pond behind his residence and sunk to the bottom.”

This sounds like a case where the handbrake could have helped a lot. When I still owned cars they had to be cable operated precisely to have a backup against hydraulic failure. Perhaps this is no longer the case.

But stopping a car going 10mph with a handbrake doesn't seem far-fetched.
Are you suggesting the right thing would have been to refuse and risk going to jail?
Flash is a shining example of the concept, “Faster than Possible”.

When all of the vendors have a similar product, you chose based on feature set and cost (not all costs are monetary). When only one vendor has an interesting feature set, you need to ask yourself why, and it it’s too good to be true.
We are not hiring at the moment. However, feel free to connect with me at naren@wolfia.com. I might be able to help with a referral, if you are interested.