skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is repeating the history of AI research "safety":

1. Let us make sure our research makes the world better, not worse.

2. That's hard.

3. Instead, focus on race and gender as approved by Twitter.

4. Call (3) "safety".

5. Researchers previously focused on (1) rebrand to (3).

See the transition from (1) "safety/alignment" to (2) making sure that the prompt "doctor" generates images of women instead of just men.

People have a general sense that some science can cause harm. (See, the atom bomb.) Instead of thinking hard to prevent that, they run to "don't make Twitter angry about gender/race."
As a millennial here's my childhood experience with that:

I knocked on the door of an older lady (Silent Gen, or Greatest Gen) in my small town and negotiated to mow her lawn and the price.

An unemployed older Baby Boomer who lived halfway between us saw me and/or overheard our conversation.

As I was walking back to get my dad's push-mower & prepare it to run, this neighbor jumped on his riding lawnmower and quickly mowed the lady's lawn.

I arrived with my push mower in time to see the neighbor with the riding lawnmower accepting payment from the lady for my job.

This is not a metaphor; it's a true story. Make of it what you will...
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32295674
Another oddity is that, while the old pre-decimal system was mostly based around multiples os 12:

1/4d [farthing]

1/2d [ha'penny]

2d [tuppence]

3d [thruppence]

6d [sixpence]

12d [shilling]

240d [pound]

...and the new decimal system [obviously!] based around tens, some of the old coins retained their nicknames, post decimalisation, even though their values had changed. So, the new 5p was universally referred to as a shilling [and was still = 1/20th of the new pound] and the new 10p universally referred to as 'two-bob'.

I'm just old enough to have been starting primary school about the time decimalisation was introduced. So I can remember having lessons in how to count with the new money --although, oddly enough, I have no memory whatsoever of ever having counted pre-decimal money and having to 'un-learn' that.
The 30xx GPU surplus has arrived. The 40xx GPU shortage is just around the corner.
if the Romans were the only empire with relatively modern sailing vessels, I'm not sure lack of cannon would have hampered them.

And the inhabitants of most of the areas they'd be able to reach beyond the Mediterranean and Red Sea weren't going to sail out to meet them.

I guess a Roman conquest of the Americas would be pretty boring for archaeologists and architecture students. No Macchu Picchu or Teotihuacan, not even a Chan Chan, but the crumbling 2000 year old columns of Washington DC instead ;)
This is a very old and oft-repeated trick though.

https://github.com/blechschmidt/fakeroute

https://github.com/antifork/hopfake

https://github.com/jprenken/rickroute

https://github.com/sams-gleb/ipv4-traceroute-fake

https://github.com/job/ipv6-traceroute-faker

And so on…

I remember being a 13yo kid sitting on IRC doing exactly this for fun years ago back when IP addresses were cheap and easy to come by. But spoofing military IPs in the traceroute was more fun.
Reduction of living standards (of the population of course, not Macron's) are absolutely a bad thing.
> I wonder what kind of papers or other works come out of National Endowment for the Arts that site behind paywalls?

They do a lot of preservation work, so maybe they fund preservation-related research.
Numerous organisms regularly reproduce via cloning, including most of the oldest and largest organisms, e.g. Pando. Bacteria, many plants, and some simpler animals primarily reproduce via cloning.

Parthenogenesis is also a strategy employed as needed by fish, reptiles, and some birds.

I'm not suggesting that cloning is superior, but to call it "not a viable mechanism" is a mischaracterization.
Not at all. The disruption and reintroduction of superstition caused by the protestant revolution (eg the burning of "witches") held back science by probably a century.

And the Gutenberg press was far less important than the invention of cheap paper.
Secretive is great. I use it on my T2 and M-series Macs and feel much better with keys sitting in those machines' secure enclaves than I did back when it was just sitting in ~/.ssh/ for anything to grab.

I just wish there were something as clean as Secretive for using generic PC TPMs or YubiKeys in place of a Secure Enclave under Windows and Linux. Currently have a Linux laptop halfway through setting that up and it's messy in comparison.
By a number of measures China was more advanced than most of the West after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Why the West Rules for Now goes into this in a fair bit of detail. But Europe spiked up again and, once the industrial revolution hit, the growth essentially made everything that went before look like a flatline by comparison.
> What is most scarce in our society that prevents a post-scarcity society?

Nothing. We could have had post-scarcity society since 1950s at least (Haber Bosch process means enough food for everybody, everything else is optional and/or could be achieved by redistribution). Yet we refused to do it cause we value marginal improvements in our comfort more than survival and lack of serious suffering of others. We're already making things scarce on purpose (see NFTs and art in general). People want things that are scarce even if that's the only property of these things, and they value these desires enough to deny other people resources they need to live.

Thinking that this will somehow change in the future just because of some new technology making more stuff non-scarce is naive. We'll invent something that doesn't exist yet just so that we can have it while others can't. There will never be post-scarcity as long as people are people.
We’re sliding into opinions but using C, Python, Rust in each interop had some cost but I did it and got a lot of benefits of using existing good software. Yes C lacks dev ergonomics, but meson + ninja gave a very neat experience..
Educational games. Hear me out. The way we teach us basically how we did it 500 years ago. This is stupid, boring and not scalable. We dont have enough teachers, attention span is short, education is costly. So we need something that scales, is fun and involves all types of media plus gamifies education. Think Skyrim or GTA meets MS Encarta
Im going to piss my pants from laughter if it turns out to be those cute twitter NAFO dog accounts trolling russians for the last couple of months.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultures/nafo-north-atlantic-...
Yeah, agree on the instruction set part - however they are moving the abstraction level to a point where there should be more room for optimization. I don't know enough about the technology to make any judgement - I just know a really smart guy who works there. Hopefully it turns into something cool :-)
Not Finnish, but in Turkish (another language without gendered pronouns) I'd use something like "o ne dedi bu ne dedi" (what did that say, what did this say)

I'd guess Finnish has more than one demonstrative pronoun, too :)
Or it would motivate them to simply refuse to comment so they can't be accused of lying.
Former librarian here, now at a tech co. This is exactly the domain of information science, and its a salutary tale in two industries talking past one another. Librarians have deep training in the science, philosophy and psychology of information storage and retrieval. Most of the time you think of things like Dewey numbers on library books buts its much more than that. At the dawn of the second internet age (circa 1991, think gopher, WAIS, Archie and a nascent thing called the web) there was a boatload of discussion around what this Internet thing would mean for information.

Then, the tech bros arrived and after a few abortive attempts to catalog things for themselves (webrings, portals, yahoo) the industry collectively shrugged and decided to ignore the problem, assuming that a search engine would always be able to pluck your favorite needle out of the haystack.

Except that, today, it cant. Intranets are essentially corporate graveyards of content. The public web is a webring of 7 or 8 megasites that vacuum up all searches and make it all but impossible to break out of their domain. That article you read in 2005 about XYZ? Forget it, you're never finding that with Google.
> With Moore's law dead

Jim Keller: Moore’s Law is Not Dead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIG9ztQw2Gc
Things are improving in the US. Energy.gov just released the IT Scaling playbook for Govt digital services
Back when I was in grad school, PhD theses were indispensable for actually learning my way around a topic.

The academic literature itself (even review papers) was way too terse and (I believe, semi-intentionally) obfuscatory.
If you have a nice runway (plenty of cash), you can be a success at it. Just work as much as you are able to. Pick something that is doable for you, and do it. Dont set yourself up for failure by picking too large of a goal.

If you dont have a long runway, then no.
Installing and running Node.js bin scripts
>So this whole random idea of overpopulation is alarmism over nothing.

Underpopulation is what I was referring to. Some countries have extremely low birth rates, and stabilizing them is important.
I work for one now, it's very challenging

* very cash heavy(EDA tools, IP license, engineer wage, fab money,etc)
* very challenging technically(balance of computation, power, size,etc)
* lots of work needed on the software side(compiler,SDK,optimized libs,etc)

It is in a totally different world comparing to MVP or the lean startup concept.

Hardware(circuit board related) startup is already challenging(cash heavy, logistic challenges,etc), chip startup is 100x more. The later is about more than one hundred people with hundreds of millions investment to just get started.
The South (which means southeast in US parlance) would be cardboard houses in the middle of a literal swamp. The houses in the middle of a literal desert are in the Southwest.
On my ThinkPad X1 Nano, GNOME under Fedora 35 and 36 offer the ability to use the fingerprint sensor for login and sudo in the Settings app. Pretty nice.
Kanji are fun to learn, because they are constructive to some degree, and actually pictorial to some degree.

If you can imagine a language where 2k+ emoji are used as parts of words, with all the combination rules which emoji have, that would give you some idea.

But it does tax your memory (nothing compared to Chinese, though!), and takes time when writing by hand. Typing is significantly easier because a reasonable IME gives you variants to choose from when you type the pronunciation.
OCR has come a long way, so much that visually interpreting a PDF is about as error-prom as parsing XML output from Microsoft in non-microsoft software.
Yes, 6G network, which is kind of odd considering that 5G did not even rolled out yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6G_(network)
Locks by and large are intended to keep petty criminals that do things like drill and smash doors or check if doors are unlocked from breaking into your house.

Sure, this lock isn't the most amazing security, but almost ALL consumer grades locks in homes today are this bad or much worse, in many cases (looking at you, Defiant...).

Also, if you're worried about criminals picking your lock, they're significantly more sophisticated than most criminals. In addition, it requires a special tool beyond just standard picks to get in (a thin, long shim), which limits your attack surface a bit.
US Govt – Scaling IT Modernization Playbook (2022, PDF)
Non-tech DIY in general is becoming lost. There is so much knowledge available on YouTube but so many of my younger friends just pay people $hundreds to do very simple, quick things. I’m not talking about transmission replacement, but ridiculously simple things like fixing a leaking toilet and changing motor oil.
There actually aren't any official qualifications to be an engineer unless you are talking about 'licensed engineers' of which only 20% of all engineers are. Please correct me if I'm wrong and post the official qualifications.

That being said, a physics degree is more than enough to work in most engineering positions. Elon being the leader is probably the most important part of the SpaceX and Tesla engineering teams and shares the credit with everyone else when a good product ships.
> and presumably NYC can't pursue as many people now that they've cut down the size and efficacy of the police force

Source? NY has the highest number of police per capita in the US. And from their own stats [0] they're only expecting a tiny increase in uniform officers in 2022 vs 2021 (+23) after a slightly larger dip from 2020 to 2021 (-551, out of 36,461).

The only ones who have cut the "efficacy" of the police force is the police force themselves with their bullshit "go slow"/"work stops"/"slowdown". Not to mention this isn't even an issue the police should be handling. Your comment makes no sense.

Had you read the article you would have seen:

> Police often turn a blind eye, amid allegations that they illegally park their personal cars and harassed a cyclist who reported them.

So the police are already busy not doing their jobs (surprise!)

> But a significant amount of illegal parking by wealthy operators is officially sanctioned – and even subsidized. Under a controversial New York City policy called the stipulated fine program, corporations among the city’s biggest parking offenders may prepay their tickets for a hefty discount, if they agree not to contest the fines.

And they are not only fine with it but they give discounts to the corporations. It's just the the cost of doing business.

Honestly this is a pretty bad article focusing entirely too much on silly weed trucks while hiding the more obscene practices (not ticketing and giving discounts) deeper in the article. Even going as far as to call out the fact the weed trucks aren't even selling gummies, which has what to do with parking fines?

[0] https://council.nyc.gov/budget/wp-content/uploads/sites/54/2...
I think that specific quote is actually ambiguous, as 'research' doesn't make a clear separation between the actual investigation and evidence vs the researcher's presentation of them. I think your characterization (about advocating that some research itself should not be done) is not actually what the document says.

So far as I can see, it's focused on _publication_ of particular _content_ (read: text) describing research.

> In some cases, however, potential harms to the populations studied may outweigh the benefit of publication.

> editors reserve the right to request modifications to (or correct or otherwise amend post-publication), and in severe cases refuse publication of (or retract post-publication)

So far as I can see, they're not advocating for new restrictions on what research ethically can be done, but they're saying that publication can on its own cause harms. And they seem to be focused on how findings are framed and communicated, rather than the objective content of the findings, with the implication that a suitably written article using respectful language would be considered publishable.

> authors should use inclusive, respectful, non-stigmatizing language in their submitted manuscripts.

> Biomedical studies should not conflate genetic ancestry (a biological construct) and race/ethnicity (sociopolitical constructs)

> Authors should use the terms sex (biological attribute) and gender (shaped by social and cultural circumstances) carefully in order to avoid confusing both terms.

So far as I can tell, e.g. one could study sex-linked difference in brain development, and find that one group is faster/more accurate/whatever on some task with subjects in an lab conditions, and so long as one (a) consistently distinguishes whether one is referring to sex or gender and (b) uses respectful and non-stigmatizing language, it would not be found to be unpublishable on these ethical grounds. But if in a conclusion section after having looked at sex differences, one throws out a broad gender stereotype "..and this validates the common belief that women are terrible at X", editors are entirely within their rights to insist on a modification.

This seems entirely reasonable, and is a kind of natural cover-your-ass stance for the modern era, where if they let through some great, ground-breaking research with a single racist or misogynist or homophobic statement tacked in somewhere, inevitably that part will be trotted out by trolls and politicians insisting that their weird stance is backed by science because of one line in a Nature article they didn't actually read.
I was waiting for it! Thank you. I knew the most educated, elite among us would arise. All hail Esperanto. Duly elected leader of the post industrial, constructed languages =)
> The two have nothing to do with each other.

The commonality is the politicians who hand out that money. Politicians who operate on behalf of their donor class and not on behalf of the American people.
O&O's software is what software should be. I've deployed ShutUp10 on every PC in my household and keep it updated. I tried AppBuster and it actually worked! I was able to remove a host of Microsoft trash apps and "non-removable" crap like XBox apps and services.

I did notice that certain apps couldn't be removed due to being in use. I rebooted and was able to remove those apps. Also, AppBuster doesn't seem to run in Safe Mode as it hung while scanning for apps.
Also, local startups will win the war for top talent too.

Some people like to work remote and some like to work in office.

One thing that doesn't work well (usually), is hybrid where a team is a mix of remote and in office.

In the end, I could see some companies or groups in companies going full remote, and some being fully on site, and individual devs migrate to wherever they are happy.

One benefit of covid is it created a giant social experiment where we got a chance to taste what full remote work companies would be like, and now it is no longer something theoretical. As someone who went full remote way before covid, this is great as now their is more opportunity to stay fully remote where I am most happy.
Ask HN: Windows laptop recommendations for my student niece?
I am trying to help my brother find the right laptop for his daughter. Her school sent out some basic requirements which are:

- PC with Windows
- At least 8GB memory
- At least 200GB storage
- processor that can handle video conferences (they claim some weaker processors can't handle video meetings), ideally with built-in webcam

I'm a Mac user and I don't know much about Windows machines so don't really know where to start. All I know is that there are many laptops that fit the bill specs-wise, but many are cheap with crappy screens and poor overall performance.

I think they're willing to spend $1,000-$1,500.

Appreciate any guidance you can provide. Thank you!
<tangent>

TIL that Gary Oldman improvised his delivery of that line -- in this short clip[0], he says he was fooling around, doing it that way as a joke, and the director kept it:

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZfqez5qmuA

</tangent>
>Titan's of CNC and Haas both have great youtube channels addressing training because of exactly this.

I would love to get into aerospace manufacturing. Any chance a code monkey can make the switch? What is the entry level pathway like?
"This is leaning heavily on the assumption that your personality is primarily a product of your genetics"

Not really. If you allow that it is even 1% due to genetics, that better parenting compounds over generations. And there is a lot of evidence that it is much more than 1%. I too experienced numerous traumatic events by the time I was 12 and was then prone towards neuroticism for decades after. I still submit I'd be a much better parent to a clone than someone who has half my dna.
For those who prefer text, the original report the podcast is based on was pretty interesting: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/08/14/business/work... or https://archive.ph/Bejv1
Certainly. I think we can point to the fossil fuel industry misdirection on greenhouse gases and the anti-nuke movement.
The mRNA Vaccine Patent Fight Expands
Not surprising but this bit was interesting:

"... the accounts were meant to appear like real people and used AI-generated profile pictures".

It sounds like using AI for covert influence operations is the norm now.
Maybe I should have added: 'for higher lifeforms'.
> processing and where the improvement opportunities lie without working there or having an in.

This isn't institutionally crazy.

It's an old, old, story. Lots of people feel like they can come in from the outside to a complex domain, apply some "generic" techniques etc, and make changes with huge positive impact. They usually wrong, usually enough that many people feel safe just ignoring the possibility.

Chance of success is much higher by building capability internally for the techniques with people who already understand the domain well. This however runs into both internal politics and moribund institutions so can be a real challenge.
I know you probably should request at least 80 eur/h as a freelance but finding a company willing to go for that out of nowhere is impossible. You need really good network to be able to do this. Chance of a company offering a random dude from the internet those rates is near zero. They can hire two cheap devs for that and profit much more, even if those developers will do worse job than you. A lot also depends on the stack you work in. .NET is not as hot as React f.e.
Whatever comment you linked to seems to be deleted. Can you summarize?
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That is by design. A person with complete knowlege is a liability. Workers should be replacable with minimal disruption. It's also less intellectual property to take with you when you leave.
Well, they both have vices, and offer plenty of opportunities to leak memory or blood, so I guess there's that.
I’m guessing google docs is the next most common, and then probably libre office.
Fun fact: if your laptop has an IR camera, you can also use face recognition for that purpose.
If you don't actually know, and haven't actually tried Rust? Yeah, maybe.

Do you have something you'd like to offer the discussion?
Sure, but if it can't be done in a lab, it can't be done in a factory.
Interactive visualizations/simulations go a really far way towards helping students learn complex topics. Gamification is tough because you need a human to effectively react to a student's particular shortcomings and help them reframe problems.
After this setup. What happens when you SSH onto your Mac and run sudo?
"That's very nice but can you email me a copy in Microsoft Word DOCX format please?"
I've been exploring Encarta 96 on a Windows 95 VM I've been curating for active nostalgia and I gotta say it's pretty awesome. I feel like we are missing out on some magic from those days. Even the intro screen still gives me goosebumps
Regardless of the source of the problem, the end result is the same: not enough people. Cloning treats that symptom even if it doesn't address the source. But yes, you're left with a new problem: who will raise these new people? If it came down to it, the state. Or the state would assign children to couples.
If you’re not dividing greater than 2^23 numbers then can’t you just use the FP divide ? I’m sure I’ve done this in CUDA many years back.. Worked a treat :)
If you are then you have my sympathies..
NumWorks is not open source. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28344087
Reminds me of when I started noticing adults in cars delivering newspaper instead of kids in bicycles around the time of the last recession
I TA'ed at a tech camp a while back, and there was a 12 year old from Mexico city that had astonishingly good English. I asked him how he was so good at it and he just answered "Skyrim".

So yeah, kids soak up a lot of info through games.