skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rust fans might complain that the static code analysis is not built in, and therefore working a "C++ job" will expose you to code that has not been properly statically analyzed, or not with an analyzer up to your personal standards. Large projects can easily sink to the lowest common denominator of usage that the programming language allows.

But in general I think most Rust fans would agree that C++ with static analysis is better than C++ without static analysis.

C++ then still has the move semantics issue of being surprising and confusing, which I think is more than an "at first" issue -- and I think actually most programmers at most projects are relative novices (or outsiders) in the programming language they're working in. If you're rusty in C++, if you're junior, if you're just stepping in from another PL to look at some C++, this is an increase on cognitive load, even if the static analyzer will catch problems.
big No on complacent appeasement here
It seems that blogs can only be assigned to a single category. What about sites that are dedicated to more than one topic?

Nonetheless, this is a really cool project!
> Not Enough Taste

Debatable...
I think HN is skewing heavily against AI and blockchain claims. I pick those to make the point below.

For what it's worth, I agree that blockchain itself is a first-generation technology and sucks relative to other things, like giant vacuum tube computers did. However, the concepts it enables (smart contracts) have as much promise as the idea of software programs running on personal computers back when most people wondered why you need them, since they do very little but play pong.

When I wrote the following article for CoinDesk in 2020, I didn't want to say "blockchain voting", I wanted to say "voting from your phone". Because there are far better decentralized byzantine-fault-tolerant systems, than blockchains. But that's what they ran with:

https://www.coindesk.com/in-defense-of-blockchain-voting

In it, I say:

For every technology we use today, there was a time it was laughably inadequate as a replacement for what came before.

And that's really, the crux of the issue. It happens slowly, and then all at once. Yes we need to listen to guys like Moxie who are skeptical, but we need to also then go and have a discussion from different perspectives, not just one specific perspective. It has even become fashionable in many liberal circles to be against the type "tech bro" typified by HN, including VCs and Web 2.0 tech bros. So before you downvote, realize that most of you would be on the receiving end of it in other echo chambers, due to this phenomenon of thinking there's only one best narrative.

People like Moxie are much more interesting and interested, because they say they' love to be proven wrong. And I am also open to substantive discussion:

https://community.intercoin.app/t/web3-moxie-signal-telegram...

I imagine it's the same with AI claims about traditional fields. Where have we heard that before? "Yes it's cute and impressive but these guys don't really understand what the experts know about chess."
Yes. The problem is that the article title has a question mark after a statement.
See https://github.com/Jai-Community/Jai-Community-Library/wiki/...

and https://github.com/Ivo-Balbaert/The_Way_to_Jai
Hrmm, I think I was expecting a different type of disagreement when you said he was wrong on facts.

I'm sure you know your stuff, and that you have a lot of experience with proteins that haven't helped with drug discovery or engineering, but it sounds like this is indeed a mismatch between predictions rather than facts.

It very well could be the case that speeding up certain problems by multiple orders of magnitude really does help with drug discovery, and this isn't factually inconsistent with the fact that solving those problems hasn't turned out to be useful so far in this area.
> and there's nothing to stop manufacturers from voiding your warranty for soft-modifying the ECU.

Wouldn’t the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act still apply?
Source is mediamatters, a left wing political advocacy organisation that poses as a fact checker. It might be true but I would find a better source before trusting the story.
Poor Elon, always the victim :(

If Elon and his fans can't see why advertisers would be concerned about his actions Twitter really is toast as a sustainable business.
Yeah, I'm a big fan of having people be people, as it's much harder to change an ossified computer model.
Right? The first link on the page is "Installing Istio on Kubernetes".

What is Istio? Why would I want to install it? Can you teach me what Kubernetes is first, and how to install that?
To be fair, the car is accelerating, just accelerating in a direction opposite from the current forward movement, resulting in a decrease of the vehicle's current speed.

Probably not what they meant in that comment though.
> [...] But companies aren't equal. How many small companies that make stuff you would see on shark tank would it take to equal the advertising spend of Coca-Cola?

It is also worth noting that the cost of customer acquisition for all of these smaller accounts is larger; it takes more effort for Twitter to scoop up buckets of pennies than it does to pick up hundred dollar bills.
There's always "Personal blogs", which is a large number of them.
> The number of times my friends have got alexa to turn the light on first time is functionally zero.

Do your friends have accents? Alexa frequently fucks up due to my South African/Zimbabwean accent. I joke that Alexa is racist. Google seems to handle it way better. Here's hoping that Mycroft does better (which I plan to switch to in the coming months).
I’ve taken to naming my lights things like Greg, The Beacons, etc.

And I added scenes so I can say “Gondor calls for aid” and the beacons will light.
Yes, nature produced intelligence while optimizing only for reproductive fitness. In other words, intelligence emerged spontaneously while solving a seemingly completely unrelated problem. That should terrify you.

Current AI research largely isn't focused on general intelligence, but the possibility remains that it could still spontaneously emerge from it. We can't even quantify how likely that is because we don't understand intelligence, so whatever intuition you have about this likelihood it's completely meaningless and not based on any meaningful data. We're in uncharted waters.
> The only art in that room was watching that crowd accept that wretched noise as performance, simply because the person making it happened to be on stage.

You cannot fathom that other people might have different responses to it?

I like noise. Not everyday, but I do go to concerts of it. Next you will reveal to me that the sensations and feelings I get to experience are just a construct and I am inflicting this only because it's on stage?
Nobody becomes a billionaire off salary. Generally speaking, billionaires come to be billionaires because they created something that has value in the billions.

Someone who has created their own worth saying that there are people being paid salaries without creating enough value to justify said salaries is not tone deaf. I bet most billionaires - at the very least, the self made ones, which is most of them in the US - have a better sense of value than most other people.

The comment isn’t about making too much money. It’s about being given too much money in exchange for what is produced.
>so none of them have to do any of this stuff to survive

They aren't doing those things to survive but for extra profit. That said TV ads is the reason their prices have dropped so much and can block them by simply not connecting them to the internet. You still get a superior dumb monitor for their cost.
Yes, you're right of course. That's what I get for commenting while not fully awake :)
The most aggrivating thing about EA "longtermism" AI Safety stuff is that is takes the oxygen out of the room for actual AI safety research.

Using ML for object detection, object tracking, or prediction on an L2-L5 driver assistant system? AI safety research sounds like a capability you'd really want.

Using ML for object detection, object tracking, or prediction on an industrial robot that is going to work alongside humans or could cost $$$ when it fails? AI safety research sounds like a capability you'd really want.

Using classifiers or any form of optimization for algorithmic trading? AI safety research sounds like a capability you'd really want.

Building decision support systems to optimize resource allocation (in an emergency, in a data center, in a portfolio, ...)? AI safety research sounds like a capability you'd really want.

Hell, want to use an LLM as part of a customer service chatbot? You probably don't want it to be hurling racial slurs at your customers. AI safety research sounds like a capability you'd really want.

Unfortunately, now "AI Safety" no longer means "building real world ML systems for real world problems with bounds on their behavior" and instead means... idk, something really stupid EA longtermism nonsense.
European Parliament hit by 'sophisticated' cyber attack
> Functionally - I don't see much difference between a misbehaving control module and a driver having a stroke.

There’s a huge difference: one can be reasonably prevented. Unfortunately we can’t reliably prevent people from having strokes.
Actually as someone who has filed FOIA requests, the default response is the public records I requested within the statutory time period.
Have you tried setting location exceptions for your iPad? It works well for me. I use it to avoid notifications when I leave my laptop bag at home (rarely a real problem).
>Your comment is dangerous

Your comment is nonsense.
Thanks. Strange, not sure why. Lots of people are managing to see it fine, but there's obviously something not quite right somewhere...
If you tried that nestle would sue you for not killing enough new mothers.
Assigning to RwLock is trivial, so if nobody was able to do that, then shared^mutable limitation was a red herring, and your issue wasn't with thread safety at all. HN-comment-based blind debugging of your program is getting pretty far from the topic of the thread and TFA…

The next most common footgun C-style expectations get you in Rust is self-referential structs, when you create a new object and then take (temporary scope-bound) references to inside of it, and try to store them long-term in unrestricted scope. That is a thing safe Rust doesn't guarantee without Rc/Arc, regardless whether it's thread-safe or not (moves can trivially invalidate such structs in single-threaded code too).
That generator noise is very common in Ukrainian towns nowadays and fuel is not a problem any more. Getting a generator is a problem.
I once made a rules engine for Magic the Gathering in python. As a design problem it is quite interesting since the key thing about MtG is that the pieces of the game can override the game rules. After reading about CLOS a few years later it seems I reinvented some of the main ideas (like cleanly re-entrant method combinators, cleanly overriding functionality of other objects in a way that can be reverted) using python's dynamiticity (especially descriptors which let you override what obj.[accesor] means).
Uber's founders got plenty rich.
> Most of the natives were nomadic.

Prior to the horse they were not nomadic, the prairies don't support a nomadic way of life without some animal you can ride, and the prairies didn't have one that can be tamed, so it is clear they were not nomads. The natives didn't have access to the types of building materials that would result in permanent structures, which means there is limited evidence for archeologists to work with, but there is enough about what life was like before the horse to know it wasn't nomadic.

Once the horse came many became nomadic as the horse allowed a nomadic lifestyle that wasn't possible. It wasn't long after the horse those that Europeans wiped the natives out (small pox and the like also wipes out a lot of natives and their culture). There is reason to believe that if the Europeans had brought the horse and then left the nomadic way of life was on the verge of causing a collapse of the Bison population, which would have force major changes (most like a return to farming settlements, but massive starvation followed by some form of culture population control - or something else on these lines that you can think up)

The switch to a nomadic way of life (which was directly caused by the arrival of Europeans) cause the loss of knowledge about the older ways of life. We have to make a lot of guesses, but if you know what to look for some things become clear.

Note that we talk about natives as if they are one culture, but that is not true. There were many different cultures with different ways of life. Some adopted nomadic ways of life more than others. The horse allowed the nomads to out compete those who tried to retain the old ways, so those who didn't adopt the horse either died out (starved, assimilated) or had to move to areas that horse didn't do as well in.
Musk has a history of not being trustworthy. The smart thing to do here is to wait and see if he changes his mind on a whim.
> EDIT: I'm currently going through old youtube videos trying to find interesting "on the street" conversations and it's absolutely shocking how close the argument for Independence and Brexit are. I am not sure it's consistent to be pro-brexit and anti-scotland independence.

Of course, the reverse also applies. It's odd to come to the conclusion "well I wanted to stay in the EU because I actually believed the experts about the value of trade more than I believed the politicians glibly dismissing all the complicated bits with the words "Project Fear", so now that Brexit happened and was a bit of a disaster I've decided that what we really need is to lose much deeper and more significant trade relationships and place our faith in politicians glibly dismissing all the complicated bits with the words 'Project Fear'".
Doubtful.

There are tons and tons and tons of things that HN type crowds like to think are good predictors of something but are really way below the noise floor.

There's way lower hanging fruit, like buying access to ALPRs data for "problem" stretches of road. IDK if insurance companies have openly admitted to doing that yet but the ALPR data sellers market as though it's a use case their customers have...
One example: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
"Large Language Model Professors HATE Him!"

https://truthinadvertising.org/articles/sidebar-ad-language-...
Plenty of instances are using Patreon for this. Seems to be working well for them, though the huge explosion in users over the past few weeks might change that.

Here's the Mastodon.art one for example (they have two other crowdfunding services as well, linked on their about page): https://www.patreon.com/mastodonart

I think it's going to be OK. People who migrate to Mastodon are the kind of people who understand why it's good to contribute to your instance if you can afford to do so.
Yes, but like Guns, germs and steel it contains data even though the model is flawed, so is an interesting read in any case :)

I think the key point of the book is that unless there is a massive transfer of people from place to place the power of historical institutions can carry over generations and generations.

Is quality of institutions the one truth to explain it all? No, but I find it pretty hard to argue against that it is a relevant factor in historical evolution of polities regarding their quality of administration and general expectations of life outcomes of their populations.

My intent was not to sell the book as "the one truth", sorry.
pre 2008 models are your best option, a bunch of privacy violating electronics have been mandated in the US since then. Many of them have confirmed backdoors

if it wasn't for these regulations I think there would be a huge market for "dumb" cars that just have the essentials without a bunch of added stuff. Same goes for TVs, I' love to buy a dumb flat screen TV

at this point seems like corporations are using dystopian sci-fi for ideas and inspiration rather than as something to avoid. Stuff like this a few years ago was literally parody material, now it's actually happening
This is a highly editorialized title. Perhaps we should link to the original source instead: https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/18/1063487/meta-lar... "Why Meta’s latest large language model survived only three days online"
I thought it was very cool how gVisor is multi-backend (their “sentry” implemented vie either ptrace or kvm), which is pretty unusual with instrumentation tools.

We could maybe have shared this logic to intercept syscalls and redirect them to user space code serving as the kernel. That is, we could have shared the Reverie layer. We saw ourselves as headed towards an in-guest binary instrumentation model (like rr’s syscall buffer). And so one factor is that Rust is a better fit than Go for injecting code into guest processes.

Regarding the actual gVisor user space kernel.. we could have started with that and forked it to start adding determinism features to that kernel. At first glance that would seem to save on implementation work, but “implement futexes deterministically” is a pretty different requirement than “implement futexes”, so it’s not clear how much savings could have been had.

We could still have a go at reusing their kvm setup to implement a Reverie backend. But there’s some impedance matching to do across the FFI there, with the Reverie API relying on Rusts async concurrency mode and Tokio. Hopefully we could cleanly manage separate thread pools for the go threads taking syscalls vs the Tokio thread pool hosting Reverie handler tasks. Or maybe it would be possible to reuse their solution without delivering each syscall to Go code.
> He's supposed to agree with you, or not express an opinion?

Wow, not sure what to say if that's what you think are the only options. I didn't see the original response to the parent commenter, but this quote in the article, "It’s no longer possible to have some fun by casually misusing it. Happy?" doesn't bode well.

I get that in the post-Twitter world it can be heart to differentiate between valid criticism and toxic bad-faith arguments, but lets not pretend that it's impossible to acknowledge criticism in a way that doesn't immediately try to dismiss it, even if you may not agree in the end.
Would love to know the answer (if there is one) to this
Faster, don't know. Simpler, I didn't even think about it. However I'm doing it now. Thanks.
they also found that going to sleep later correlated with higher morning alertness

I always found this to be true for myself--if I got 6 hours of sleep I'd be much more alert in the morning than if I got 8.
The not so secret subtext of this angst between Musk and advertisers is that Tesla doesn't advertise, yet has experienced the most growth and is the most valuable of all automotive firms.

Other firms, certainly must question the value and efficacy of their advertising budget, a real threat to the advertisement industry, not "brand safety."

I'd bet if Tesla did advertise; advertisement agencies wouldn't recommend their other clients pull their money from Twitter so hastily.

This is a case of biting the hand that doesn't feed them.
Windows sure does get easier to game on if you disable all the useless shit nobody needs, like the antivirus, the backup service, the accessibility features, device driver updates, the Japanese language, etc. (/s)

And then there's all the utility programs removed, like Paint 3D and Calculator and that thing that lets you view SMS on your desktop. It's not like those impact performance at all - they're just trying to reclaim every last byte of disk space.

They even disable the Xbox game overlay. I guess they just assume none of your games will be from the Microsoft store.

This is not a system designed for gaming. This is a system only suitable for gaming. It is incompatible with a great deal of Windows software (why would you disable Unix socket support?), and a great deal of non-gaming workflows, and disables most of the security measures on the system (even UAC dialogs - any program asking for admin gets it automatically). The only kind of person I can think of that wouldn't regret installing this is someone dual-booting to use Windows for gaming and Linux for everything else.
And it has worked out pretty well for him and his companies, and I’d argue the employees as well, who know of this reputation, willingly sign up for it, and have been rewarded with lucrative stock.

It remains to be seen if that can continue with his old and new companies, of course.
It's really unnerving when people repeat that "too dynamic" remark when there is widely known counterexamples. Fortunately it seems now people stopped denying the problem with the faster cpython project. IIRC, I think the roadmap for 3.12 or 3.13 already has some form of lightweight JIT.
I disagree on that, I think they fully support Russia and Putin, meaning at this point in time Russian imperialism, and the money is just an excuse that is palatable.l to the public. These same politicians will praise and push for increases military spending that is two orders of magnitude higher, for no definite strategic purpose. The only reason for them to complain about the money right now is because they are trying to support Russia without saying they are supporting Russia.
We’re talking about the length of history, there’s no intersection.
Superb effort!

It was a bit unsettling to play because as a human you were expecting to get crushed any moment but somehow I salvaged a draw on move 116. I've played thousands of games versus computer opponents (and tens of thousands versus humans).

Rating estimates were off by 200 points, probably because I was too cautious. Real FIDE 2300 - estimate 2100. Maybe I am getting too old :)

If the engine really becomes more human like it will be a big step forward.

EDIT: 2nd game (after registering) was broken UI wise - could not move pawns 2 spots and many legal moves were not allowed, so I had to resign
I think the article is absolutely clear about it but also I think people will (are! in this very thread) ignore that part and make enormous messes that will hurt real users and someone else will have to clean up.

I’m not sure how to fix this but I’m also tired of pretending it’s not a chronic problem.
Black Friday deals: Why bigger discounts may come next month
Are there other products that were traditionally a one-time purchase that transitioned to subscription model successfully besides software? You can at least make the case that an online service requires an on-going cost.
The Topology of Chaos, https://www.amazon.com/Topology-Chaos-Alice-Stretch-Squeezel...

is a good modern book on it.

It is a fun problem because it stems from continuous diff eq but the answers come from topological analysis around the fixed sets, and the ways fixed sets can change as continuous parameters change.
SBF's status doesn't make these stories any less newsworthy.
Faster than the LuaJIT's interpreter... with the JIT disabled. would've been nice to make that more clear.
The best measure? Ditch the password. It can be reset anyway, it can be stolen, it's just unnecessary complexity, it doesn't provide any security.

You can prove ownership of the email? You can log in - worst case, after a password reset. So why have a password?

email: ______________ [Log in]

The "Log in" button results in a "Check your inbox and click the link in the email that we just sent you" page.

Source: https://appear.in/ used this flow from the very beginning, before it was destroyed in a trademark dispute. EDIT: now it is https://whereby.com/user/login
Not if you want to avoid itunes or icloud.
How old are you? Because larger screens become really nice as your eyes go bad. And I don't need the full size of a laptop for things I'd want to do on a tablet.