skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Apart from nuclear scientists I don't know a field where participants are as conscious of the risks as AI research.

Great. Now some of these researchers preceived some risk with this technology. Not human extinction level risk, but risks. So they attempted to control the technology. To be specific: OpenAI is worried about deepfakes so they engineered guard rails into their implementation. OpenAI was worried about misinformation so they did not release the bigger GPT models.

Note: I’m not arguing either way if OpenAI was right, or honest about their motivations just observing that they expressed this opinion and acted on it to guard the risk.

Got this so far? Keep this in mind because I’m going to use this information to answer your question:

> If you know that image generators are not it, then why talk about it here?

Because it is a technology which were deemed risky by some practitioners and they attempted to control it, and those attempts to control the spread of the technology failed. This does not bode well towards our ability to restrain ourselves from picking up a real black ball, if we ever come across one. And that is why it is worth talking about black balls in this context.

Note it is unlikely that a black ball event will completely blindside us. It is unlikely that someone develops a clone of pacman with improved graphics and boom that alone leads to the inevitable death of humanity. It is much more likely that when the new and dangerous tech appears on our horizon there will be people talking about the potential dangers. What remains to be answered: what can we do then? This experience has shown us that if we ever encounter a black ball technology the steps taken by OpenAI doesn’t seem to be enough.

This is why it is worth talking about black ball technologies here. I hope this answers your question?
Kalman filters are so interesting. As far as I can tell they are one of the very simplest things one can do that requires a real understanding of math.

It doesn't seem like you can just drop in a library, in the general case, or if you can, it doesn't seem to be common practice.

Usually things that need an actual understanding are either totally novel, or solved problems with existing tools.

Kalman filters are where you find out that you really did need math all along, if you're like me and don't really see math in everyday life.

I suspect there's still a way to fake your way through if you need to and have a day or two to study, but the first time you see it it really shows what you don't know.

It's like when you see non physicists talking about physics and feel amazed at how they managed to seemingly understand maxwells equations just for fun.
In the long run, we are all dead; how does a win even look like?
Even then personally I moved abroad so many times that it just doesn't make sense to use phone numbers. Not everyone stays in the same place all their life
The word I chose was comforts, not abuse.

You say they are using fewer drugs, but I don't see that. They've merely upgraded their dealers--from street hoods to doctors & pharmacists. Talking to kids today (and hearing about all of their drugs) is almost as boring as talking to my grandparents (and hearing about all of their drugs): SSRIs, ADHD meds (and how do I convince my doc to prescribe them), hormone treatments (for the trans & the old farts trying to re-live their 20s), PrEP, finasteride, dick pills (because they've already messed that up in their 20s with the hair pills), etc. From this board alone, I know more about adderall & HRT that I ever wanted to.

And I would be interested to know more about all of these self-denying agnostics you've claimed. Closest thing I have seen to what you have said "in the wild" would be ordinary status-chasing--foregoing the booze and the broads for clicks & social-climbing--which is no better, and no less material, than the comforts I've already listed.
> but this idea seems like it will have the opposite result.

that's what I was thinking and made this post to flesh out my ideas/feelings better.

> Why minimum wage, specifically?

because of what the other commenter mentioned, the race to the bottom and I figured that min wage would be the "bottom" at least for jobs that stay in my state and aren't outsourced in the near future.

Still trying to flesh out the ideas, thank you for the question.

> If you are really worth 120k+

going to trying to brainstorm a way to explain/reason why
better
You seem to know something about this, so could you tell what's the best routine?
Doing productive distributed computing for about 25 years, most of them not spent on GNU/Linux.

Nowadays, with cloud platforms making the underlying OS transparent, even less.
Sounds like the just-world fallacy.
This is the single largest investment into any company by a16z. This is just insane, especially given that Flow does not yet have a solid product.
We keep rewarding the wrong behavior ...
Well he did lend himself money from the company to buy properties he then rented back to weworks so there is that.
FYI it's one of the recurring question asked during the Q&A and I've heard Mark answer once that it's just not the business Meta is in, their business is connecting people. I thought it was an OK answer, still, how much money are they leaving on the table?
Because a cafe or public library doesn't have meeting rooms, whiteboards, monitors and other facilities that you often need. I know when I was looking for a working space whilst travelling in Seoul it served a useful purpose.

I think the future will see more people working remote and travelling around looking for nomad and WeWork style places.
Yes, they just last month installed new pipes for my AC instead of faulty pumps (never ever use AC to pump water from AC, lived in many places, this is only time i had problem with AC thanks to effin pumps, year ago 1/3 died, this june 3/3 died including the new one, I guess it had to be overvoltage), despite my very laidback approach to look/design they took their time* to make it look nicer than required, but it was still below estimated price and they didn't realy waste any time under my supervision.

* Solution to "good enough" issue is called _pay per hour_ instead _pay per task/project_. Hourly payment motivates worker to make it perfect without rushing, task payment motivates him to finish ASAP regardless of delivered quality. Obviously there are exemptions, but it sums up chabuduo approach. Obviously in poor countries (e.g. China) with low hourly pay it won't make that much difference.
And yet, successful software are developed and run on Linux.
Google App Engine has so many problems and is also underinvested in at Google in my opinion.

We used it earlier on in a startup we were working on and had so many issues that I would never recommend it to anyone.

You'll be much better off using GKE or some other kubernetes variant
I don't think people realise just how bad the average corporate office is

When WeWork came along it was 10x nicer than any other office I'd worked in
To clarify, the sysctl is related to a 3rd-party kernel extension. That kernel extension is a convenient wrapper around the actual interface which is a per-thread flag that can be turned on and off.

And not one of those threads indicates that there is no Rosetta-related instructions. The first would indicate that marcan believes that M1 chips do have TSO related instructions. The second discusses the fact that Rosetta runs on non-Apple CPUs without TSO enabled, meaning that it running on Asahi linux without Asahi linux having TSO support does not show that M1 chips always run in TSO mode; but rather that Rosetta itself has no way of detecting it, so will attempt to run regardless. The third repeats what I just said.

The twitter threads provide more evidence against your points than for them.
You can follow the link to the actual journal article to get details, and then criticise based on information.

The protocol was 1 session of 5x6 reps (1d5s6r), versus 5 sessions of 1x6 (5d1s6r), with control 1d1s6r.
It's a weird world to me where someone thinks that,

return db.scan({prefix: ["userByName", {last_name: lastName}]})
.map(({key, value}) => key)
.map(namedTupleToObject)

(requiring 3 comments that I removed here for brevity, to understand)
is somehow shorter and cleaner and easier to read than,

SELECT id, first_name FROM user
WHERE last_name = $lastName

but to each his own I guess.
If by some you mean... quite a lot?

I've registered dozens of devices, since the account pairing expires after five minutes (ok, slight exaggeration).
Ad blockers were identifying Facebook content as ads by looking for the text "sponsored". For a while, Facebook was fighting this by scrambling that text in ways that would definitely have tripped up a screen reader (e.g. inserting extra hidden letters, reordering letters, etc).
>I can’t believe this degenerate can start billion dollar companies left and right

Don't know how he manages to raise money. Who in his connections would risk such huge investments? Is it some kind of money laundering or something?
“To Clean-Code or Not to Clean-Code” a Survey Among Practitioners
Interesting work in this space is being done by OpenPrivacy with their "cwtch" app. An express design goal is to minimise side-channel leakage of information.
How do you make housing better after raising $22B for your startup? Wrong answers only.
It's not a zero sum game, is it?
Ah so classic FUD, "its unknown what it can do". Why dont you spend some effort figuring out what it can actually do instead of making driveby comments with an obvious axe to grind.

You very conveniently left out the fact that pretty much anything that views untrusted content has to parse files. If parsing files is where your "security boundaries" lie, I suggest you drop your computer off at the garbage dump. Hell if your editor has a preview function it too will parse untrusted content. Basically, to do anything software has to parse untrusted content. And just by the way, /etc/passwd is not attacker controlled. If the attacker has access to your filesystem already, she really doesnt need to use kitty to do anything. And "opening" README.md will not cause kitty to parse files, unless by "opening" you mean catting without -v. In which case we are back to your mommy told you to know better but you didn't listen.

At this point its obvious you are deliberately trying to spread FUD. I am done interacting with you. Good bye.
> Why? Because I want things to be "calmer." (...) Because I want the guarantees of everything to be "calmer," and I'm more than happy to forgo any extra pay for more "calmness."

This is not a thing. There's no reason why min wage should make things calmer. If you manage to get it (and that's a big if), you'll have the same working conditions as everyone else but at a lower salary. Companies/manager don't adjust their expectations that way.

Look for companies/teams that are super chilled out in general (they exist like you said); if you go for the salary angle, you'll most likely come across weird and probably won't get the job at all.

> I'm writing this at 3 am

Because who in their right mind thinks "minimum wage people are having it great, they're the ones treated the best by their employers".
DDG offers a Tor onion address.

That's a feature I like, great for privacy and anonymity, relatively
easy to implement, and affords some resistance to bots (who will move
on to lower hanging fruit due to the connection set-up overhead)

Hope this new search engine will also offer an onion address.
You have to be careful with some of those analyses. They have a strong tendency to double count, and include things that wouldn't be taxed anyway because they're business expenses.

Incredibly frustrating and undermines the point because it allows the shills to dismiss them out of hand and lump in the real subsidies.
Would love to see someone rewrite SQLite in Rust - it's always the example I go to for full-coverage, fuzzed to hell and back, code. IMO there is nothing a new language could improve. It really is insanely stable and well tested.
> Gorilla is no longer maintained

Ah, I wasn't aware! It was heavily used a few years ago.

> Extending this idea to modules is not actually in line with how the ... community works

This is not my experience (with the community).

Packages that heavily reuse common interfaces (combinations of io.Reader|Writer|Closer|Seeker, http.Handler, http.ResponseWriter etc) tend to be more popular and recommended than packages that invent their own interfaces.

That is, unless the recommendation is just 'stick to the std', which has been a knee-jerk reaction from the community (reddit, slack) for a lot of problems, especially concerning new comers.
Reddit got a $150 million investment from Tencent.
Incredible how this guy has managed to yet again convince VCs to part with millions in cash. I don't agree with the article that he's a "visionary" or that he "revolutionized" anything, but to lose investors so much money and then follow that up by raising a pile for a similar venture is bold as brass.

I don't think anything good can come of this. A company helmed by Neumann taking over residential real estate doesn't sound like a great prospect if it succeeds, but given his track record and the eccentric way he ran We[Work] it seems likely it won't.
Ok reddit
So if you're using an accessibility tool, you're not allowed to know which content is sponsored?
Programming is better if you do 3.5 hours once a week than 30 minutes every day.
I dont remember exactly, but it's possible to create a completely anon search engine. User encrypts the query using their key and sends it to search engine, search engine now doesn't know the query, but then it encrypts its entire database using public key of user and see if hashes meet for keywords?... something like that
Wrong? Depends from which point of view? As far as I can see the system is engineered to keep money flowing between the people at the top, hiring top-execs from family friends paid a huge amount of money to do anything, kids of owners using the company as a bank machine and owners complaining with employees that there are no money. I think we should not make the mistake anymore to think the system is flawed, the system as is, is working perfectly for the people who made it
> due to telemetry

Not a CPU issue, but a network timeout one. Disconnect from ethernet/wifi, try again, report back. Circa 2016, it took 5-10 sec before it would give up on phoning-home & finally open. I put wireshark on it & timed it myself. No idea what it does now.
I know of people who are making 30% more than FAANG in finance and medical. But it should also be said that FAANG comp in Japan isn't particularly high.

For anyone curious this site provides some data: https://opensalary.jp/en/
Everything was right in that video so unclear what Apple is protecting here
Use the 'element picker' mode of uBlock Origin to just remove the parts[1] of Facebook you don't like or want.

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[1] i.e. ALL of it. :)
Back to the insults again,

Linux is working fine for those who want to use it as such. No neckbeard owes a 'fuckstain' rest of the world a god damn thing.
It such a fascinating topic and the story is far from over. VLIW (maybe not EPIC though) has tremendous power efficiency so sometimes it’s the right trade-off (say, if you can cover latencies by switching to another hyper-thread).

Micro-architecture is still a hot topic and everything is a trade-off. Next I’ll start talking about super scalar OoO stack machines …
Bernie Madoff was blessed with a similar gift
It keeps your queries out of your browser history.
If you want to avoid the bullshit and the broscience, strongerbyscience.com. Ignore the paid products, all you need are the articles and the strength training guide.
Stop demanding you be treated absolutely equally to everyone else --whilst, at the same time, also demanding you be recognised as a special snowflake.
Thats super useful!
It works and has always worked for me on Facebook
My company pays for it and I see rarely anything interesting. I'd say it is just entertaining to see it working.
On one project that supports both tup and cmake: building from scratch with tup takes 8 seconds, ninja takes 18s and "make -j" takes 22s.

If you are a heavy shell user you'll also appreciate that tup can be executed from any subdir within the project, no need to keep around extra terminal just for compiling.
Actually the only thing Linux Android has is the kernel, nothing on userspace APIs exposes them to app developers.

Any access to Linux subsystems or syscalls on Android, work as matter of luck on specific devices, or is an area Google isn't yet enforcing Android security userspace rules.
They don't need to travel across the country to need a laptop.

I have two data points for you:

The company I work for does little dev work. 99% of the people have laptops. They don't travel cross-country, mostly work in the office. But they also need to move to conference rooms, work from home, etc. We only have to handle one PC per person this way, instead of figuring how to handle their own personal PC when at home, etc. These are mostly "non IT people". Sure, you can argue they don't need the power of a desktop anyway. Which is absolutely correct.

I have a friend who does "actual dev work" working for an "actual software company". Java and C++, so they actually require powerful machines to compile (at least more than my company), etc. They used to have big-ass Xeon workstations. Those were replaced with some kind of Dell laptop [*] with a bunch of cores and RAM. He also basically never travels for work, but can now easily work from home without installing the company crap on his own PC. My friend is much happier with this arrangement.

Both companies provide multi-monitor setups with external keyboards and mice, so the comfort part of a desktop is still present when they're sitting at their desks.

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[0] They look like the XPS line, but seem somewhat thicker and don't have the XPS logo.
> I.E. Uber, Deliveroo, WeWork etc might not be the hugely valuable companies they are today if they didn’t break the rules, regardless of how morally wrong that might be.

It yet remains to be seen whether they are a "hugely valuable companies" or just smoke and mirrors for gullible investors in an era of almost free credit.
Is Kanye West a Good Designer?
Maybe real life works like D&D after all, where maxing out charisma and a few lucky rolls allow you to convince anyone of anything.
Theranos and Holmes knowingly played with peoples' health by producing unreliable test results and marketing them as reliable.

Neumann just parted some fools from their money.

I'm fully in the camp of people wondering why anyone is stupid enough to give Neumann even one cent of fresh capital for anything. But focusing the comparison between Holmes and Neumann on the amount of money they lost their investors is just plain wrong.
Hybrid Blazor than.
If you're concerned about "work life balance", you're probably the rich that would be eaten.
Regarding the pandemic in my filter bubble people said "There's no glory in prevention."
I did oversimplify their encryption scheme, but the issue is that in the end you still only need a pin to get the unencrypted data. I agree that if they'd been honest about passwords and the need for a strong one this wouldn't be as big an issue. It's because they were not honest that I don't think it's fair to expect their users (even the security nuts) to do it. Their target demographic will include whistleblowers and journalists who aren't necessarily all that tech-savvy.

The strengths and weaknesses of SGX are debatable, I may lean on the pessimistic side, but as you say it impacts the security model of Signal users and to me that means they (and new users) should be clearly informed. The first line of their privacy policy says "Signal is designed to never collect or store any sensitive information." which is demonstrably false.

As for opting out, unless something has changed they still store your data on the cloud, it's just handled differently:

https://old.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/htmzrr/psa_disablin...

I don't know what options someone has after they've already created a pin, if there's a way to remove your data from the cloud, I stopped using signal before they forced the pin (back when you could still just ignore the notice) and getting real answers to these kinds of basic questions is way more difficult than it should be. This is, again, a service targeting very vulnerable people whose lives and freedom may be on the line.

I was one of those Signal users who wanted them to move away from requiring a phone number too. That said, what I was looking for was something more like Jami. They managed to create a system with usernames and passwords but without phone numbers or accounts keeping your data in the cloud.

I'm not shitting on Signal's efforts overall. A lot of great work went into Signal and I'm pissed I still haven't found a good replacement for it, but the changes they made hurt the security and safety of the people who depend on Signal. They are a massive intelligence target and I can't blame them for anything they were forced to do, and if their goal was to subtly drive people away by raising a bunch of red flags I thank them, but if this is their best effort at communication and building trust how charitable can they expect us to be when two years later so many of their users don't have a clear idea of what's being collected and stored or what that means for their safety?
Considering that a16z is already invested in the scammy web 3.0, this is not too surprising.
“There might be pretty crystals” is an odd thing to hang a space program on.
The Ostrich Paradox: Why We Underprepare for Disasters1 [pdf]
> So if there is some rule like you suggest, discord wouldn't even exist.

Yes, exactly! Monopolies are bad and shouldn't exist, so companies that only exist to create them shouldn't exist either. Without Discord and other providers wishing to make a chat monopoly for themselves, development would be driven by need. That tends to create solutions that are much more open and less exploitative of its users.
> Avoiding debt and not taking mortgage is a legitimate financial strategy

Is it though?

I don't know about the US, but the UK simply hasn't got any protections in place to protect retired tenants from eviction.

I know in Portugal and in other parts of Europe many people enjoy these protections.

Retiring on a fixed income when your landlord is free to put up the rent 5-10%/yr during cost of living crisis, or kick you out on the street because they want their investment back isn't a fun way to live. Moving in your 70s is stressful and not fun.

Then there's just the cost. Most people simply don't have pensions that can cover a private rent, and lack the financial education and discipline to invest judiciously throughout their life to reach that point. And even if they were so inclined, there's no money left to do so after paying rent!

Since the financial crisis repayment mortgags have been as cheap as rent on a like for like home, so the security of owning your home is "free" as far as most people were concerned.

Without it being cheaper to rent, your 20% house deposit needs to grow at 6.7%/yr ABOVE the rate of house price inflation, over a 25 year term, to make investing it instead of buying property a viable alternative. In the UK, residential property has matched the stock market. So it simply wasn't a good strategy over the last 20 years.
Fastai. Updated series of lectures and notebooks for 2022. High level as well as building neural nets from scratch. Doing it at the moment and enjoying. Good as a starting point for more in depth studies.
Isn’t their business about selling ads? I thought they would be more honest.
I don't understand why people care if he manages to raise money. What am I missing? If you don't like the chances, but it's not your money, then so what?