skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you actually have empirical data demonstrating that scientists aren't concerned about AI, or that "most" AI safety doesn't involve scientists, or is this just your gut feeling?

Edit: for instance, here's a computer science professor and neurologist who published a book about all of the serious dangers of AI, and calling for funding safety research:

https://www.amazon.com/Human-Compatible-Artificial-Intellige...

Furthermore, AI safety programs are hiring AI researchers and computer scientists to actually do the work, so are you claiming that these people don't sincerely believe in the work they're doing?
I've been deeply interested in this issue for years, and my impression is that IQ just isn't that strong a lens of analysis. It's incredibly difficult to prove which way the causality goes.

A quick example of this: There has yet to be an IQ test (that I'm aware of) that participants can't increase their score in by studying/practicing. This implies that groups with higher IQs may just be unintentionally 'studying' for IQ tests in their education/environment, putting the ball back in the socioeconomic/environmental factors court.

The validity of IQ itself remains a hotly debated topic, let alone how that might affect the development of nations. You're much more likely to be productive as a researcher of this topic, I think, by leaving IQ out. Just like this article, and these comments.
Loads of people use it though! Forget speculation for a second.

Here's a great study on remittances:

https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/africas-grassroots-cryp...

Here's a summary of one on stablecoins:

https://www.outlookindia.com/business/-news-210105
Combined with young people being less likely to die, and therefore less likely to be vaccinated.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccination-demogr...

Looks like vaccination is roughly equivalent to being 30 years younger.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/data-revie...
"HCI" as in "human-computer interface"? Or something else.

"not possible to be both an inclusive field and a field that embraces criticism."

Hm. Over time, will the field will stop producing useful new results?

A comment from an actor, years ago: "In New York, they tell you if you suck. In LA, they don't call you back if you suck. In SF, nobody tells you that you suck. So you suck forever."
I know the difference, that's still how it works in practice
In your view, why does it not make sense? It certainly seems appealing as a universal runtime, and lives up to its claims as long as things like WASI get standardized.
lots of places still do hazing, even at the high levels.. honestly
That's good advice—I like it.

Another data point I use is that if I find myself adding a container for the sole purpose of layout, I realize that I should be using grid. That is one of the biggest wins of grid: you don't need to pollute your markup with nearly as many layout/presentation-only elements.
I think this is a great tutorial but I also think it's absolutely not needed because of how many other similar guides have already been done.

Now, I'm not trying to be arrogant about it either.

This tutorial could have been 10 times better if Josh didn't pretend like what he wrote hasn't already been done (it has been, a million times, and I don't know why you'd keep beating this dead horse over and over again) - and instead made this same exact tutorial but actually built functional layouts in the process. You know, web pages that use Flexbox.

People don't learn by clicking on fancy buttons that rearrange some boxes in a specific order. People learn by example and by visually seeing the consequence of an action (in this case, the value of a property).

No offense meant at all to the author, of course.
Maybe modern web development is just that bad
To be fair they standardized the hash map you'd have probably been taught 30 and maybe even 20 years ago in CS class. It's possible that if your professor is rather slow to catch on they are still teaching new kids bucketed hash tables like the one std::unordered_map requires.

I'd guess that while a modern class are probably taught some sort of open addressed hash map, they aren't being taught anything as exotic as Swiss Tables or F14 (Google Abseil and Facebook Folly's maps) but that's OK because standardising all the fine details of those maps would be a bad idea too.

On the other hand, the document does not tell you to use a halfway decent hash function, and many standard implementations don't provide one, so in practice many programs don't use one. The "bad hash map" performs OK with a terrible hash function, whereas the modern ones require decent hashes or their performance is miserable.
Which ones? The vague "Some TVs" screams FUD.

Past conversations about this on HN suggest that this is almost certainly a complete fabrication, not something that has actually been documented.
I couldn't figure out if the author is trying to make a point about the definition of machine, or if they're trying to make a point that the animations are misleading. Because they say the animations are misleading, but then they go into a discussion about what makes a machine a machine.

> the animations are misleading.

Ok, why are the animations misleading? Are they representing a process that does not occur?

> Let's go from the start. Why isn't the cell run by molecular machines like the animations suggest? Well, first we need to come up with some criteria to distinguish machines from non-machines.

Wait, what? No, we don't first need to define what we mean by machine. I just want to know why the animation is misleading as an approximate model. Does the animation represent the interactions occurring in the cell or not?

> I also know that many machines have bendy parts, and that some machines have multi-functional parts.

Ok, further digging into what people think about when they talk about a machine. I still just want to know if the thing in the video is misleading, as accused.

> the structure of proteins isn't hard and rigid like we see in the animations. They're actually more like "dense liquids" that constantly jiggle around inside the cell.

But do they do what is shown in the video? Maybe just in a less rigid manner? It's just a model! In the ted talk there's another video of some process and you can see it's all liquid. Can we focus on the animation and why it's misleading?

> This is already strike one for the machine metaphor because, if my bike jiggled this much I wouldn't be able to go very far.

Well yeah, it wouldn't work very well as a bicycle, but a jiggly machine wouldn't be a bicycle, it would be something else. Doesn't mean it's not a machine. And we're still not talking about the accusation of misleading videos.

> Proteins almost never have one shape, they have a bunch of different configurations that they shift between.

But for the model in the video, for that particular protein shape, does it represent the interactions that are occurring? Does the Helicase process the DNA strands? Does the DNA wrap around Histones?

> It is finally dawning on us that the cell is not a machine.

No, there was an accusation made that was not backed up aside from an elaborate side argument about whether the cell is machine-like. Obviously the animations don't completely represent reality. They're just models after all. Simplified for presentation and communication of a particular concept. I still don't know if the interactions in the animation are false or not. Or if the author is really calling them misleading because they're more rigid than in real life, and they don't represent the full complexity of every possible protein type.
WASM is also useful for distributing a single binary blob that runs on different Operating Systems and CPU architectures, instead of 'stamping out' NxM native executables. This area overlaps more with Java and .NET (but with more/different language options) than 'an alternative to JS in the browser'.

For instance I have a C++ shader compiler which includes some massive 3rd party libraries (glslangValidator, SPIRVTools and SPIRVCross) which takes forever to compile, so distributing in source code form is not really an option, and the only alternative is to ship precompiled binaries for each supported OS/CPU combination. Currently I do this via GH Actions, which kinda works, but just building a single WASM blob and shipping that to users (who then would need to install one of the WASM runtimes though) sounds kinda interesting.

PS: WASM may also be useful as universal plugin format. For instance the new Microsoft flight sim uses WASM instead of scripting or native DLLs for modding:

https://docs.flightsimulator.com/html/Programming_Tools/WASM...
Each vaccination dose lowered your odds of going to hospital and then your odds of needing ICU care if you were in hospital and then of dying if you were in ICU. From a public health perspective the vaccine is a solution to China having a much higher death rate than a country without vaccination but with much higher health care capacity.
I don't want to disparage your colleague; but the way you describe it, it looks more like an her issue than a handwriting issue.
Reminds me of an old site I used to frequent in the late 1990s:

https://web.archive.org/web/19991129033212/http://www.wannal...

Back then, it had a lot of very interesting info to learn about several subjects. I yearn for that internet.
All good!

All good points and I'm super curious to see how it plays out :-) For what it's worth, I hope you're right and non crypto FinServs can improve as a result of alpha leakage.
It differs for each tenants. Preferably there should be no limit for the number of orgs/tenants. The traffic for each tenant is also varying but it's safe to consider 500req/s.
can you show me a product with roughly 200 million users and 200k daily transactions that has a value of $0 to back up your logic?
The Mitrokhin Archive gives multiple examples of spies who became spies by rejecting their former ideology and doing a 180 degree turn. You think that those people changed, while in reality this is textbook method used by russians. Cambrige five did the same thing, they supposedly rejected their old ways. But it was all a lie.

KGB made whole fake right wing organizations to fish out real right wingers in Russia.

On a side note, it is quite clear that UK conservatives are on GRU / FSB leash. UK is now cutting military expenses due to Brexit.
Someone in Moscow probably received a medal for that.
I think it’s overly generous to say that GPT-3 can “do” any of those things. It can generate stochastic nonsense that can be shoehorned into the approximate shape of those things.
The troubling assumption here is that every site has or depends on ads and cares about rankings.

>> "Why would anyone implement it?"

Because your assumption is wrong.
Never.

I had a horrible manager who just wrote a list of vague complaints in his crap hand writing.

Later on he just took a picture of his notes, I swear the worst hand writing I've ever seen, and emailed it to me.

As a bonus this company expected employees to work multiple nights, and even though some of the directors did, my manager never did so.

Now change the title to personal information, like for example when you need to get your tire changed, and maybe I'll understand. But as far as at work, when you may need to share that information later, I have to disagree.
I will be adding various OPML files at some point.
Thanks! I'll check them out!
Similarly, "Developers rebuilding something that works perfectly fine because producing a new solution looks better than maintaining the existing one on their manager's resume."

Rebuilding it using HotNewTech is a win/win solution.
Teaching people to distrust experts is what got us COVID. Do not recommend.
As the Ox Plows
> Have you considered how much time, money and emotional energy you spend sticking it to the government?

Yes. Hardly worth the effort these days.

The real enemies of freedom these days are private corporations.
> Extra cost (both in design and manufacture), new potential point of failure (both for manufacture and in the field)

"But the BOM" is a tired trope in any discussion about "why can't it do X?". My money would be where my mouth is. But HW manufacturers routinely make design decisions that are simple negatives.

Motherboard manufacturers, in particular. Mobo marketing is focused on colors and flashy effects instead of on quality of production and actual function, beyond a bare minimum of tech specification. AFAICT the products are indistinguishable as no attempt is made to stand out.

> when the CPU failing was already a single point of failure for the machine

… and so is the RAM, the disk, the GPU, the northbridge, the southbridge, the eastbridge…

That's not a valid rationale for "let's a adopt a fundamentally flawed design".

> Have you actually seen one of these that noticably bogs down the fan-driving firmware/drivers and causing issues?

"Fan-driving firmware" is essentially the suggestion. It's what I haven't got.

> I've had fan failures. I've had plenty of hardware controlled fans go full apeshit 100% power to the point of being not merely a nuisance, but a problem (audio, vibration, wear+tear, ...).

No; in my current rigs 10 year lifespan, the fans have been run continuously at 100%, and no fan failures.

The noise, of course, is a nuisance. That's why I'm looking for something that can control the fans in response to temperature, such that the fans can be driven at a temperature-appropriate RPM.

But without doing that in userspace, where the controller might just "die" or effectively die, for any number of reasons, outlined earlier.

> But I don't think I've seen so much as a blog post about the CPU getting so starved that it can't spin up the CPU fans.

I couldn't find any posts reasoning about anything. Either it's not a problem, or just nobody is thinking.

> and that extra hardware or engineering for a minor improvement to a "purely theoretical" failure mode doesn't sound like it'd pay for itself.

Yeah, I was just trying to learn before attempting, literally, "IDK, try it and see if you trip the critical temp cutoff."

Yeah, no doubt the various hardware safeties will save you (although it might put some undue stress on stuff to be at >100℃…) but it might also leave you with a rather hard-to-debug situation if you start experiencing stalls or shutdowns.

… and it's only in desktops that this problem seems to exist. On every laptop I've owned, fan control is in response to temp. (And not handled in userspace, although I presume I could download any of the various fan control programs and have it be that way, but the point is that the HW is, out of the box, doing the sane thing.)
Database of nearly 500M WhatsApp users’ mobile phones is up for sale
> I could call the lamp next to the couch several different things depending on the context.

Or just call it dude :) https://reddit.com/r/tumblr/comments/548b3p/everything_is_du...
Perhaps I would add also these distributions are high dimensional. Although being slightly above average is not difficult (unlikely to get paid doing it), if you can find a handful of non correlated features at which you are above average, you can be easily be the top few percent in your sub field (ie likely to be paid handsomely for your expertise)
One of the previous titles for this video was "The US Government Sells Human Poop".
I hope so... Su Zhu, Do Kwon and SBF being free are a very negative reinforcement for the entire ecosystem. It is absolutely unfair.
>Are the authoritarians the people that want to ensure public discourse is censored to try to create their vision of an ideal society?

No, people coming together collectively pressure organizations to make changes is the free market solution. Authoritarians censor with the law.

>Or the people who just want everybody to be able to freely and openly express themselves?

You are more than able to freely and openly express yourself. There are thousands of websites and social media sites you can use, or you can just plain go outside and say whatever you want (for the most part). Businesses have always had the ability to decide what happens on their property (for the most part). It's fine for activists to try and pressure Twitter to make changes and if you don't like those changes, you can become a customer of a different vendor that will let you use whatever racial slurs you want. They are out there. Twitter is also able to not make changes and face the consequences of that.

Stop confusing 'censorship' with moderation.
> But I don't feel inspired when I see extraordinary. I feel disappointed, jealous.

These are the words of a young person who was trained to see everyone else's success as an implicit criticism of their own ability and effort. It is not the author's fault. A mentally healthy person, when shown a display of excellence, is impressed, energized, and motivated.

I have never thought that "participation trophies" do any damage to young people. Young people are smart and know that participation trophies are bullshit. What actually hurt young people was the constant reinforcement that "anyone can do anything/anyone can be the best". The corollary of "anyone can be the best" is "if you are not the best, then something is wrong with you/you're not trying hard enough". Not everyone can be the best; many people have genetic and network-based advantages that will guarantee them better results at a skill than 99% of their competitors.

Young people have very little free time. The time they spend actually focused on their responsibilities is constantly overshadowed by fear and anxiety about The Future (grades, college, etc.) The remaining time they have is spent on their phones and computers, which is the only reliable way to make the fear and anxiety turn off for a few minutes. When they do have free time for extracurriculars, they're in sports playing against future D1 athletes and having metrics and social status tracked against them, or in theater getting cast as extras while the good roles go to the handsome kids, or in music listening to the musicians' kids and the international students play like professionals.

If you want to be okay with not being extraordinary, you need a lot of free time to get properly bored, and a social network with which to practice your hobby completely free from the judgement of The System. Practicing to try to beat a rival school headed by a college-bound athlete is stressful, but practicing to try and impress your friends at pickup soccer purely for fun is not.
I'm surprised the author didn't mention the Lobster programming language when evaluating a successor language:

https://github.com/aardappel/lobster

The language seems to be exactly what he was looking for - a high-performance high-level language specifically designed for video games.
Last time I went to the vet it was 'Murphy'. The assistant called for 'Murphy' and 3 of the 4 or 5 owners there got up.
It wasn’t clear to me: is the debug info wrong or is it just missing because stuff is getting optimized out? Both?

I know in the past I had some difficulty in C++ on x64 because variables were getting optimized out (so depending on where you were in the function the variable literally didn’t exist anymore).
„being somewhere to the right of the bell curve peak but not too far down. He says this is the sweet spot where you get the most fun and enjoyment“

So true. So, so true.
It's not purely generated brown noise. [1] Motel AC noise, [2] Clothes Dryer Sound, [3][4] Airplane Cabin, and occasionally [5] "Spaceship" cabin noise. I found generated brown noise is too boring for me. Rain and waves are okay too, but not my go to if I have these other options. I enjoy "spaceship" cabin noise mostly for sleep. I sometimes EQ the audio as well and turn up the bass and reduce the treble. Playing light instrumental music at the same time sounds pleasant to me as well.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdhL-XuKLY

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCVWDHJN288

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co7KgV2edvI

[4] https://youtu.be/OCCUgcb4LvE?t=2306

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpvznAiKblU
Very cool. I made something kinda similar a while back but never got around to publishing it. I think mine is overly complicated and I never got around to writing a tutorial but you can check it out here:

blurdle.cc
Java’s GraalVM can do plenty of languages, on top of running managed ones much faster. I don’t see novelty here.
Users are trained to put in their email. Making them choose a username increases friction if the username is non-public (i.e. it's not instagram). Ideally, using SSO speeds the whole thing up, but if not, then it's better to just use email.
> Looking for a one liner I paste in my JavaScript console to enable good "from:"
Last.fm was maybe the only music player that had a genuine social component - you were actually motivated to follow people there, unlike Spotify or anything else. Glad to see they are still around but sad at the same time they were not able to make a mega commercial success. Hope their time will come
Okay sure but in that case the dealer/manufacturer is willing to _lie_. I.e. to claim that your actions caused it without any proof. At that point everything is a bit out the window. They could simply make up any justification to deny your claim if they're willing to lie. I don't really see what's so special about the ECU in this case.
Indeeed, I share it with as many colleagues as possible. I consider myself one of those insane engineers lol. So it helps show that perspective!
Permanence is my concern with the indie blog hosting services mentioned here (bearblog, prose.sh, nicheless.blog)

Also, because you already have a lot of the content, maybe you don't need a blog? what about a "digital garden" ?

What is a digital garden? -> https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history

Tools (easy options included) -> https://github.com/MaggieAppleton/digital-gardeners

If you have your content in a note-taking app like obsidian, there is even simple tutorials on how to freely publish it with all those precious "multiple tags per category", all in one go.
I hope Last.FM never goes away; I've been tracking my scrobbles since 2005
Cryptocurrency is a token like Chuck E Cheese coins or Beer Garden tickets - they are only fungible in certain venues that explicitly support them. Obviously, even if 4x Beer Garden tickets are equal to a dollar, their purchasing power is not the same. Beer tokens buy one thing, and to be meaningfully fungible in other contexts they need to be liquid first. Cryptocurrency (even stablecoins) operate on the same principles. They will always be inferior to the dollar purely on the virtue that they rely on the value of $USD to exist.

Even the peer-to-peer usage is primarily driven by enthusiasts and spot-traders. Cryptocurrency's only future is being treated like ERC-20 Pokemon cards.
The BIG ONE that solved so many of my problems was finding geysers.

If you see 4 blocks of Neutronium, there's a geyser on it. Set an emergency-priority task on it, and it will reveal what it is.

Found a Natural Gas geyser? Awesome! Your energy problems are mostly solved!
Lastcord (last.fm on discord) is the place to be if you miss last.fm groups
From Twitter to Mastodon: What Happens When Journalists Flock Platforms
>People increasingly expect to be able to react completely instinctively to stimuli

This is a good framing, and one that fits a cluster of related behaviors and emerging cultural norms I've witnessed. One of these is hardly original: the tendency to speak about what one "feels" versus what one "thinks". We should be careful, because "I feel" is often used as a synonym of "I think", but I am increasingly under the impression that American culture has become more accepting of unarticulated, unreasoned, stream-of-consciousness thought.

But this is now ratcheting up a notch. Not only is this kind of impulsive speech acceptable in the workplace (no big deal, in and of itself), there is now an emerging social norm such that we may no longer expect more. That, I think, is detrimental.
Well, it made flexbox finally click for this old hand, so thanks Josh.