skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The threat may be overblown.

People like this

https://www.lesswrong.com/

have driven people into hysteria over AI safety, partially to make people think AI is better than it is, partially to distract against real threats like global warming.
Doesn’t the scientific method specifically say you can’t start with the data, you have to start with a hypothesis otherwise you are subject to all sorts of selection/hindsight biases. I mean you can start with data, but then you have to develop a hypothesis and use that to create an experiment that generates new data in order to reach a conclusion. It seems like that is the compromise the author is looking for, start with a good idea, then see if you can verify it with data.
Not too surprised… it’s a college town.

I used to live in a college town you’ve never heard of in a state you don’t think about and it had a pretty solid music scenes, decent venues, etc. and could get some of the best shows, particularly for stuff sub-mainstream.

I now live in a much larger area, that I expected to have many more amenities and the music scene is surprisingly terrible.
>I'm fine with people dying during construction _if_ we foresee the deaths.

Because that's other people dying.

>What I'm not fine with is killing people with lead/arsenic/asbestos/plastics because we didn't put new tech through it's paces before we deployed it en-mass.

Because this affects you.
Exactly, the new stuff feeds back into the old stuff and adds to the overall variety. Yesterday I listened to someone cover an Aphex Twin song on a harp.
When someone looks at the keyboard they're not thinking about the problem, they're thinking about typing. They're engaging parts of their brain to do so that touch typists do not.

This means touch typists can think WHILE TYPING, giving them a distinct advantage.
I think it's a little more nuanced than that. Java was fast enough combined with security and safety guarantees to make it worth it in a total calculation. But Go and Rust are both faster with at least as good if not better safety guarantees so you are seeing a move away. Language choice is never wholly about speed. Java filled a niche of fast enough with certain guarantees and affordances to allow it to fill certain roles.

C++ has gained a lot of affordances as well to improves safety as long as your can enforce their usage in the product so it's starting to eat into Java's market share as well. But I think long term Rust and Go will absorb more of what you would have done in Java than C++ will.
So do you know this for a fact, or are you speculating that it's racism? Have you ever been to Europe?
Why stream your events to B2
B2 offers cheap, durable, worry free storage but it's slow and not appendable. Add a low-latency appendable adapter and you have something interesting.
Navigating Web3 Compensation: A Framework Report
We should be so glad that sites like KF can even exist, where free speech is not only practiced, but the owner of the site actually stands up for their users' rights and even goes to court to fight for them when people wrongly sue and try to take things down that is not the responsibility of KF to even be policing.

You may not like the content its users choose to post, but I for one am glad sites like it exist as it gives hope that the First Amendment continues to be respected and legally tested... otherwise I fear that censorship will keep creeping up until it has gone too far.
Epistemology is a subfield of philosophy. Seems like a healthy understanding of that would be good for society right now.

> Most philosophers were/are themselves committed to one school or theory, with gaps galore.

Most scientists specialize one thing, but students of science don't. One can learn about many schools of philosophy, as well.
> you cannot know what equivalence rules the mailserver for that domain uses.

You're right in general. In my specific post, I do know the equivalence rules, because I'm administering the mail system and working with its source code, and the documentation guarantees/requires that internally its email addresses are treated entirely as case-insensitive.

What I saw was source code comments about not using `lower(x)` nor Postgres module `citext`, and instead using Unicode case folding ICU and Postgres non-deterministic collations. In the end, what surprised me wasn't about email servers in general, it was about human languages with case folding.
And often we have no idea who made a particular model and what are it's limitations.
Being able to look up stuff is important but there is also a baseline of knowledge that is really important. If I'm working with somebody in a meeting and they need to stop every 30 seconds to look up a term or concept then we aren't going to be able to collaborate effectively.
I don't have a horse in this race, but how many extra trips did it encourage vs. staying home?
We're on that stage of the flat circle again, where people think "survival of the fittest" is the best way to live, that older americans are meaningless and who cares if COVID killed them, etc.

We all know what happened last time these ideologies reared their ugly heads.
another boring pitch for innovation that really just means “let us drive down wages”. get a new idea
Is it really random or just a random set of prerecorded locations? After about 20 or so images I stopped seeing pictures so I refreshed the page - and got a location I had seen previously, which should be impossible.
Found a mailing list ("marketing") service that allowed you to sign up with a +, but any 'unsubscribe' was a link to a URL with your email in it, with the + sign in it, and... the unsubscribe page could magically never find your address to unsubscribe you. I submitted this as a bug report to the service, and was brushed aside. At that time, I also had a couple friends who worked there, and tried to run it up the flagpole there, and I was told about half the folks there didn't understand the problem, and the other half didn't really care, because the + trick was seen as very niche. So I started reporting all the newsletters I got as 'spam' - well after I'd tried to unsubscribe.
I don't get it. Maybe they should have taken into account the possibility of a purchase when drawing up the contract?
If there's anything I've learned from the conflict in Ukraine, as well as 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, it is that small-explosives drone usage has become a first-class citizen weaponry / tactic against ground troops. There's a daily stream of footage from Ukraine, where you see Russian ground troops getting bombed by DIY drones dropping grenades / mortar rounds / etc.

Drones are also becoming invaluable tools as forward observers for artillery and mortar fire.

I'm in the National Guard, and I feel that in any modern combat - we'd just be sitting ducks.
When the US and the UK razed Dresden with 2000 bombers, it resulted in ≈25,000 deaths.
Why not both…
Well Protestant and Catholics learned to live together in Germany. Took 30 years but they got there. I do not see why not Palestinians and Jewish can’t do the same.
> The problem is that russia is carrying out conventional warfare tactics against a civilian population rather than an opposing army.

What does it do to the opposing army then? And what does that army do in the meantime?
You do. not. FUCK. with. ITAR. The penalties are very steep. When you get caught, intentional violations can have jail time attached for the responsible parties (ie. intentional data breaches would fall on the CISO or closest equivalent). If there is one thing the US government takes very seriously, it's military and defense. They have, and will, fine a company that doesn't get it's shit together into the ground.
This exact URL is also in the description of the video.
Your blog has an article "Comparing the 10 most popular messaging apps in the world." that ends with yours. But I'm pretty sure Wire and Matrix are more popular so this is unfortunately slightly wrong. Maybe you could dedicate a section to your app, with a title like "How does X compare to these popular options"?

This comparison is also missing the top number one feature of Signal and Telegram for me: their apps are open source. This is, in my opinion, the main thing that needs to be solved in messaging and I've managed to avoid any of the widespread closed ones so far.
If more people are willing to buy the product for a lower price and due to better economies of scale / amortized cost of development the margins also improve then of course they may lower the price.
It seems like most MTAs just append it for you quietly, as someone who has chased ghosts through way too many smtp logs.
Perfectly hard-boiled eggs via steaming method on induction cooktops
Fallujah and Mosul (post occupation, but they provided artillery and air support, so...)
Stable Diffusion: Is Video Coming Soon?
There's two sides to this though:

> Are good executive coaches good CEOs? No

No, but what do executive coaches do / contribute to a CEO's day-to-day & are they good at executing on that specific domain in their own lives/careers - yes.

In the same vein:

1. are development bloggers knowledgeable about the subjects they write about but less talented at executing on those topics efficiently.

OR

2. are development bloggers both knowledgeable and effective in their chosen subject & also excellent time managers (prolific in both blogging and developing)

OR

3. are they bad

I think all 3 of the above are possible (though the 2nd is extremely rare, & the 3rd is likely pretty common).
> One of the reason's Apple has such a big lead, according to all the discussion I've seen here on HackerNews is that it's because Apple is on a newer chip process (5nm) whereas everyone is behind, and that if the competition was on a better process the differences wouldn't be as stark.

It's a reason, but far from the only reason.

Go back and look at the comparisons between Intel and AMD's x86 cores vs. Apple's Firestorm big core at the M1 release.

Apple devoted much more die size to decode, execution units, the ability to reorder instructions, and cache, for instance.

>What really defines Apple’s Firestorm CPU core from other designs in the industry is just the sheer width of the microarchitecture. Featuring an 8-wide decode block, Apple’s Firestorm is by far the current widest commercialized design in the industry.

Other contemporary designs such as AMD’s Zen(1 through 3) and Intel’s µarch’s, x86 CPUs today still only feature a 4-wide decoder designs (Intel is 1+3)...

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-de...

>On the Integer side, whose in-flight instructions and renaming physical register file capacity we estimate at around 354 entries, we find at least 7 execution ports for actual arithmetic operations. These include 4 simple ALUs capable of ADD instructions, 2 complex units which feature also MUL (multiply) capabilities, and what appears to be a dedicated integer division unit.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-de...

>A +-630 deep Reorder Buffer is an immensely huge out-of-order window for Apple’s new core, as it vastly outclasses any other design in the industry. Intel’s Sunny Cove and Willow Cove cores are the second-most “deep” OOO designs out there with a 352 ROB structure, while AMD’s newest Zen3 core makes due with 256 entries, and recent Arm designs such as the Cortex-X1 feature a 224 structure.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-de...

>On the cache hierarchy side of things, we’ve known for a long time that Apple’s designs are monstrous, and the A14 Firestorm cores continue this trend. Last year we had speculated that the A13 had 128KB L1 Instruction cache, similar to the 128KB L1 Data cache for which we can test for, however following Darwin kernel source dumps Apple has confirmed that it’s actually a massive 192KB instruction cache. That’s absolutely enormous and is 3x larger than the competing Arm designs, and 6x larger than current x86 designs

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-de...

Of course since AMD and Intel sell chips directly, holding down die size was directly linked to the amount of profit they could make per wafer. Now that there's more competition, we've seen them do things like radically expand cache sizes.
The commenter at the top of the tree was implying a degree of unsafety in their premise that was sufficient to overpower other possible statistical causes. In the current discussion, this is a very close equivalent to stating that the vaccine caused extra deaths. To keep to the metaphor, the statement that the sun is hotter is already a huge claim in need of evidence rather than a starting premise.

If we accept that as a premise, it becomes difficult to explain why for instance the Canadian life expectancy increased in 2021 as another commenter noted, despite being society that is similar in many ways but with a higher vaccination rate.

>Terribly boring, wouldn’t you agree? But often the boring data is the correct data, or in other words: averages tend to represent a trend better than outliers.

I agree with this advice, hence the need to look at countries outside of the US and to consider the US's traditional life expectancy woes compared to other developed or OECD countries.
> I suspect a lot of AI artwork will end up looking kinda same-y after a while

There is a definitely "look" to MidJourney pieces, that once you've seen a bunch, they're somewhat easy to pick out.
Most universities have their negotiated Facilities and Administrative (F&A) rates posted online via their Sponsored Research Office. For example, Harvard charges a 68% indirect rate and Stanford about 58%. The public R1 institutions I’ve done business with charge 40-50%.

This doesn’t paint the whole picture though as sometimes additional overhead costs (eg. healthcare benefits) can be budgeted as Fringe Benefits for personnel working directly on the project. In that situation, the F&A rate would stack on top of those costs.
Pretty sure during the 2016 election the mantra of anti-globalism was the war cry of the winning party.
Hackers target politicians with fake news website
Why? Inadequately “technical”?
Wikipedia says it was used against insurgents when conventional munitions didn't have the desired effect. White phosphorus is not recognized as a chemical weapon under the Chemical Weapons Convention.
Here's my thoughts from Twitter a while back and judging by the comments I'm reading, hopefully they'll be valuable/interesting here too:

From an "art" perspective DALL-E, Imagen, Midjourney bring little if anything new to the table...Not to say they aren't incredible, but "making art with words" has been well-explored for a century: Duchamp's "Unhappy Ready-made" in 1919 is one example, Moholy-Nagy's "Telephone Picture" https://www.moma.org/collection/works/147626 is another. Indeed are these AIs any different from conceptual artists outsourcing their work to other humans? I don't think so. What I _am_ seeing from various conversations, though, is that they are game-changers when it comes to inspiring people to create, and to read and think about art history and philosophy. And that has to be a good thing.
Smartphone repair law proposed by EU; opposed by Apple-backed trade group
The first Apple designed chip to see production was the A4 released all the way back in 2010. So it would have been in design stages some years before that. I find it hard to believe industry insiders didn't have some inkling what Apple was trying to pull some vertical integration move during all that.

All the normies would have been given ideas by the A7, the first 64 bit design. I think that's when the iPhone benchmarks really started pulling well ahead. It's not like Apple didn't telegraph their move almost a decade in advance. I'm not sure what you're suggesting.
IME it's the latter, but not because they are lazy, but because email validation is hard. The lazy regex was in the late 90's early 00's when any email that didn't end in .com, .edu or .net failed!
If you want to argue against the modern music industry I'm right there with you, but (as just one example) I can't imagine movies of the last 50 years without synthesizers. Also, some of my favorite guitar players of all time also use synthesizers heavily in their music to create additional textures.
Just about every successful C/C++ project uses flags or intrinsics or whatever to some degree. It’s not unusual or particularly problematic. Linux famously uses a bunch of GCC stuff (though I gather that’s in decline) and non-standard defaults like ‘-fno-strict-aliasing’.

And the extensions in the article are for the most part in the GHC2021 standard. So it’s more like, this is in C++20.

Younger languages like Rust or Kotlin or something have less pressure for mechanisms like this because you have to get to a certain point in the language lifecycle before the tradeoff tilts from “let’s do a breaking change at a point release” to “let’s flag in the new behavior”, but if (as I expect) e.g. Rust lasts as long as C++ or Haskell, it will be be bedazzled with all kinds of flags and extensions and stuff too, how else do you grow a language for 40 years?
Nvidia does their main chip fab in Taiwan AFAIK, along with a large number of other companies. It's one of the reasons tensions over Taiwan are worrying. China could blockade or invade Taiwan and start a "shortage" far worse than anything we've seen recently if they decided it was necessary/worthwhile.
Its a local train making many stops, the technology of the train makes no difference to how long it would take to do the schedule. I imagine almost no one rides the full length, they'd take an express train instead.
I write in order to understand and solidify a concept in my mind and so that I don’t have to remember it next time I face a similar problem. I used to do so publicly but I mostly write privately now.
Neopets says hackers had access to its systems for 18 months
>But anything in the unknown harms category is fundamentally unquantifiable

The "unknown harms" exist in workplace deaths. In fact many of them come from such factors. It's not just things like "asbestos is bad to work with, you need a face mask and other protection" or "construction debris might fall, workers need to wear a hard hat" and such, but also things like materials breaking under unforseen circumstances, unforseen disasters like earthquakes and fires while on the job, and more...
As a visitor the 9 euro ticket was amazing. In combination with Google transit navigation, frequent reliable service and transit stops that displayed accurate time until the next bus/train, it made getting round the cities almost frictionless. Normally I avoid transit in new cities due to the hassle of figuring it out, paying for tickets etc, but in this case I used it all over Munich and Berlin for 2 months. Too bad it ended today - now need to learn how regular tickets work.

One thing I heard was though is that most of the additional transit trips were not replacing car trips but were trips that would not otherwise have been taken at all. Which is not a bad thing in itself, but it would have been nice to displace more car usage.
I think it’s really early.

But my guess is that the market for “programmatically created good enough images quickly” is larger than the market for “inspired, perfected hand drawn digital images”.
The only ones supporting DALLE/Stable Diffusion is going to 'kill' human-made art are tasteless nerds that can't differentiate the Guernica from the last Avengers movie poster.

Also funny how everyone reduces art to painting or even worse digital illustration. Talk about 'AI killing art' once the computers create something superior (not a matter of 'subjectivity') to Amore e Psiche.
Over 1k iOS apps found exposing hardcoded AWS credentials
I'd recommend a free coding puzzle game called Code E.D. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/code-ed/9mxsdnp6d777

It's essentially a puzzle game but you beat it by writing some code. It uses LUA a popular language for gamers (is used primarily in Roblox).
This guardian article is demonstrable nonsense. Professor Römer is either ignorant, or is intentionally gaslighting Bush.

Gog and Magog are well-known figures mentioned in both the Hebrew Bible and the Quran. Playing dumb because it's not also in the Old Testament is not a good look for someone who's supposedly an expert.

This article is a silly hit piece written to fool people who are totally ignorant of religious history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gog_and_Magog

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Yajuj-and-Majuj
And I guess most homes are cheaply built and with insufficient insulation.
Legally speaking, "retaliation" can only occur if your employer treats you less favorably after you report discriminatory practices.

The company is allowed to treat you less favorably or even fire you for any other (non-protected) reason, including your general opinions. In this case, protesting a deal with Israel is an opinion not a protected action, so there's really no question of retaliation.

If I disagree (whether publicly or privately) with my company's product strategy or who they choose to do business with, they are absolutely allowed to fire me.
What I believe: Email is good enough in many cases.
> we can't easily distinguish between works produced with vs. without it

If you've played with any of these tools for 5-10 minutes, you'll know what to look for to quickly identify purely generated images.

Have a look at some of these people https://thispersondoesnotexist.com

After flicking through 10 or so of these, you'll start to become more sensitive to the subtle inconsistencies in symmetry, colors, and the unnatural way high contrast transitions take place, etc, and it's the same with anything that comes out of any of these art generating tools. With time, those particular aberrations can be smoothed over, but I think it's kind of like how when we saw Jurassic Park in 1995, lots of people were blown away about the realism of the dinosaurs, but when you watch it now, they just seem like plastic toy figures. Over time, we've become more sensitive to recognizing computer generated animations. Subtle issues with lighting, hair, shadows, etc. When new technology comes out, it takes some time to recognize how to spot these quirks, but over time it becomes pretty obvious.

I see some amazing artists using midjourney etc, and then clipping together fragments and painting over them using classic digital art tooling, with some astounding results. As with any artistic tooling technology, the real winners are going to be the artists that learn to embrace the tech.
19th century art form revived to make tactile science graphics for blind people
Instant Stable Diffusion on Kubernetes
OTOH, it is a nicely hidden subsidy for the train operators. Because for every ticket sold, they get to claim a certain amount from the federal government. Luckily it is capped (per ticket) otherwise who knows what they would claim

Some say it is also most beneficial to richer people as they could afford train tickets but get then for the same low price and government subsidized as everyone else. Not sure I can buy that argument, richer people pay the vast amount of Germany’s federal budget via ridiculously high income tax.

From an economic perspective the 9 Euro ticket was a disaster. A popular one, though.
Except to an artist, none of this is new or surprising. I've seen a common theme where in people purely in tech underestimate the range of topics already explored in art and philosophy. These things have been discussed for well over a century:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32676006
It's a common myth that Canada is not a good fit for train, yes it is large and low density at a country level but it has pockets of very high density.

Almost half of Canadian population is within the Windsor-Quebec City corridor (which includes Toronto and Montreal), which is just about 1100 km. You can definitely have a viable train considering the millions of people that live there and the many dozens of daily short flights that happen in that corridor.